Want to know how to raise your Testosterone? Don’t miss this video! In it I discuss a recent meta-analysis (summary of 6 interventional studies) showing that low-fat, higher fiber diets lead to lower testosterone levels (and lower estrogen levels in women, along with a higher rate of anovulation/menstrual irregularities)! You know, low-fat, high fiber diets like a plant-based diet that’s claimed to be “healthy” for humans these days… No thanks. I’ll keep eating my organs, meat, and animal fat an...
Apr 16, 2021•26 min
This episode is a bit different than my usual content. My friend, and former crossfit luminary, Sevan Matossian came on to interview me! We talk about my life, and many of the formative experiences that shaped who I am today. No punches were pulled in this episode and I spoke as authentically as possible about challenges, failure, and a few things I am proud of. I also talk about relationships, why I am still single, if I ever want kids, what I am doing in Costa Rica and other random but persona...
Apr 13, 2021•2 hr 45 min
Chances are you or someone you know has had trouble conceiving… Over the last few decades, rates of both female and male infertility are rising at a striking pace… What’s causing this and how do we correct it? Find out in this week’s episode of Controversial Thoughts, available everywhere! And join us @heartandsoilsupplements this month for our 30 day #AnimalBased challenge, at #AnimalBased30.com. This is what #theremembering is all about!...
Apr 09, 2021•15 min
Christopher’s work has been translated into over twenty languages, and featured just about everywhere, including Netflix, HBO, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Portland Comedy Festival, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan E...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 47 min
The weight loss paradigm is all wrong! Rather than focusing on weight loss to “get healthy” (and simply limiting calories without any change in food quality, aka weight watchers), you should be improving the quality of your foods to get healthy with weight loss following naturally. Listen to this week’s edition of Controversial Thoughts for my breakdown of how I think you should be eating in order to achieve health and weight loss, simultaneously. And join us this month for the #AnimalBased30 by...
Apr 02, 2021•14 min
Dr. Will Cole, leading functional-medicine expert, consults people around the world via webcam and locally in Pittsburgh. He specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing health programs for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, and brain problems. Time stamps: 0:11:35 - Podcast begins 0:12:30 - What is "intuitive eating?" 0:16:05 - Fasting is a byproduct of metabolic flexibility 0:17:55 - Fasting is bui...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Do you drink San Pellegrino? Gerolsteiner? Tap water? Do you know what’s in your water? You need to listen to this podcast! This was a fun rabbit hole to go down after one of my clients brought the possibility of Uranium in mineral waters to my attention. Guess what? San P, and Gerolsteiner have a significant amount of this element= no bueno. But the story gets even more complex when we try to find water that doesn’t have a ton of toxins, yet retains the beneficial components of mineral water (m...
Mar 26, 2021•23 min
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, seven-time New York Times best-selling author and internationally recognized expert on nutrition and natural healing. He specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. Dr. Fuhrman is the President of the Nutritional Research Foundation and on the faculty of Northern Arizona University, Health Sciences division. Time stamps: 0:10:39 Podcast begins 0:11:54 Dr. Joel Fuhrman's story 0:17:39 Question for Dr. Joel ...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Acne, eczema, psoriasis, vitiligo, all have their roots in inflammation and inappropriate immune system activation, but they are rarely discussed in the context of food… And yet the foods you eat are very likely to be triggering your skin issues! In this Controversial Thoughts video, I begin to look at just a bit of the research regarding this and discuss a few very interesting studies in dogs looking at standard diet (much the like the standard American diet) vs a species-appropriate diet… Gues...
Mar 19, 2021•19 min
20 years ago, Dr. Gundry decided to prevent health issues. He retired as a cardiologist to teach patients how to eat, guiding them on how to get ahead of the problem, not fixing it after the fact. He shifted towards a more proactive approach to health through food and diet changes. Dr. Gundry has successfully treated tens of thousands of patients suffering from autoimmune disorders, diabetes, leaky gut syndrome, heart disease, and neurodegenerative diseases with a protocol that detoxes the cells...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 12 min
I said COVID twice in the title, and vaccine once. I’m pretty sure this video will get censored! Vaccine thoughts: Apparent benefits but many have side effects with the second dose. I hope it’s safe for the sake of my parents... I won’t get it because I’ve already had COVID, it was mild, and I am metabolically healthy… Here’s hoping there’s not a vaccine mandate. I think that’s a bad idea… Long COVID: Looks like dysautonomia, could there be an underlying immune component? I think so… Autoimmune ...
Mar 12, 2021•22 min
You live in a zoo… Don’t believe me? Look around you… Synthetic food, separation from nature-> chronic disease rates skyrocketing, rates of obesity, depression and general unhappiness rising rapidly… The same things happen to wild animals when they are placed into zoos! In this week’s podcast (Fundamental Health, available on Apple Podcasts, YouTube) @dranthonygustin and I dive back into our Africa adventures with some of the last hunter-gatherers left on the planet, the Hadza. This is part 2 of...
Mar 09, 2021•2 hr 17 min
Oooo guys! This is a good one, and it’s going to ruffle some keto-feathers… There is a tendency within nutritional circles to fall prey to reductionist thinking… We know sugar is bad, right? Therefore any foods (not matter how evolutionarily consistent) that contain sucrose, or the evil-fructose are bad for you, too, right? Not so fast seabass! These apparent evolutionary inconsistencies have always puzzled me and caused me to wonder about how foods like honey or fruit might be different than pu...
Mar 05, 2021•34 min
This is the third AMA podcast I’ve done and it was a fun one! Time stamps with questions I answer in this one are below. If you have questions for future AMAs send them to [email protected] ! Time Stamps: 0:11:08 Ask Me Anything! 0:13:21 What are the best labs to get done? 0:21:49 How do we most effectively share the animal-based lifestyle with friends and family? 0:24:34 Is a plant-based diet more financially sustainable than an animal-based diet? 0:27:03 Zach Bush, Tetrahydrate, an...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Short answer: yes! Just because your blood calcium levels are within normal doesn’t mean you don’t need calcium in your diet. How can you get this? If you tolerate dairy that’s a good option, but for most, I believe calcium from bones as MCHA (microcrystalline hydroxyapatite) is the best option. That’s why we made our Bone Matrix supplement at Heart & Soil. In this video, I discuss evidence for benefits of MCHA, if you should worry about calcium and heart attacks, and a bunch more. Do you have a...
Feb 26, 2021•19 min
I’m back from Africa - what a trip it was! I got to spend multiple days hunting, eating, living, dancing, and adventuring with the Hadza of Tanzania… In this week’s podcast episode (Fundamental Health, available at heartandsoil.co, Apple podcasts, and YouTube), @dranthonygustin and I sat down to answer many of your questions about our trip and share some of our biggest takeaways… We discuss how the Hadza eat, what they don’t eat, how healthy they are, how happy they are, salt?, hunting, eating b...
Feb 22, 2021•2 hr 18 min
It’s good to be back in the US. My trip to Tanzania to hunt with the Hadza was amazing, and the meals I shared with them were incredible… The meat we had hunted in the bush earlier that day, along with honey and baobab we had found along the way- truly radical… Ironically, It was much harder to always get good food in “civilization” and this was the hardest part of the trip… In this edition of Controversial Thoughts, I share a bit about these struggles and the “creep” of processed foods into our...
Feb 19, 2021•13 min
Mansal Denton "Little Beaver" is the founder of Sacred Hunting, host of the Mansal Denton Podcast, and the subject of an upcoming documentary BELOW THE DROP exploring our relationship to life and death through hunting. Feeling insecure in early life, he chased a woman to Europe, which led him to prison. Struggling with shame and confusion of what it meant to be a man, he found his calling with the sacred art of hunting. He now desires to share this practice with more men. His indigenous name com...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Dr. Steven Lin is a world leading functional dentist, TEDx speaker and author of the International #1 Amazon Best Selling Book, The Dental Diet . As a passionate preventative, whole health-advocate, Dr. Lin focuses on the understanding of dental disease through nutritional principles. His work has highlighted that crooked teeth and the orthodontia epidemic are diet based problems and the need for public health policy to prevent braces in the next generation of children. Timestamps: 0:08:13 How d...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 25 min
I thought it would be appropriate to do this week's Controversial Thoughts video on how I eat #AnimalBased while traveling... I brought all the necessities: stainless steel skillet, induction burner, a jar of liver (yes that is correct... Jar. Of. Liver.), and I've got a bunch of desiccated organ supplements from @heartandsoilsupplements for the rest of the trip including Beef Organs, Gut & Digestion, and Histamine & Immune... Africa, here I come! #theremembering
Feb 05, 2021•14 min
Dr. Josh Axe, founder of Ancient Nutrition and DrAxe.com , is a certified doctor of natural medicine (DNM), doctor of chiropractic (DC) and clinical nutritionist (CNS) with a passion to help people get healthy by empowering them to use nutrition to fuel their health. He is the bestselling author of KETO DIET , Eat Dirt , and COLLAGEN DIET , and author of the upcoming book Ancient Remedies (Feb 2). Dr. Axe founded the natural health website DrAxe.com , one of the top natural health website in the...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 3 min
I got COVID, and it’s been very mild. I believe this is because I am metabolically healthy and the data supports this conclusion. And yet, the media isn’t speaking about this. Madness!
Jan 29, 2021•14 min
Mary Ruddick is a seasoned medical nutritionist who specializes in metabolic, immune, and nervous system disorders. She is the Director of Nutrition for CaptainSoup.com, Enable Your Healing, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program, and she currently travels the globe studying traditional diets and seeing patients online via her private practice. Time Stamps: 0:11:16 Mary's Dream Penthouse 0:13:09 Mary on the hippo turf 0:16:13 The lion hunt (No lions were harmed in the making of this podc...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 46 min
Dr. O'Mara works with business executives, professional performers and athletes motivated to improve outcomes through innovative techniques of clinical enhancement. Dr. O’Mara is a partner within an innovative medical startup in Minneapolis MN called Lantu which optimizes health. Dr. O’Mara enjoys speaking with audiences about the dramatic changes within the healthcare system immediately ahead following the inevitable reversal of chronic disease and the considerable advantages which it will brin...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Animal-based vs Keto vs Paleo Though at first glance an #Animalbased diet may look like a ketogenic or paleo diet, there are some key differences. Though a paleo diet includes meat, this type of eating forgets about the incredible nutrient richness found in organs like liver, heart, kidney, etc. A paleo diet also leaves in nuts/seeds/and leafy greens which don't really provide any unique nutrients but do lead to a lot of gas 💨, bloating, and digestive issues for many people. These are full of a...
Jan 15, 2021•18 min
Dr. Knobbe began his practice of ophthalmology in 1994, after completing his residency training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1997 and has remained board-certified since then. Eye physician and surgeon, Chris A. Knobbe, MD, had been in practice nearly 20 years when, in 2013, he asked himself the question, “Could macular degeneration be a ‘Westernized disease’? Could AMD be a disease that ...
Jan 11, 2021•2 hr 20 min
What could be more controversial than suggesting that coffee might not be the elixir of life it’s cracked up to be?
Jan 08, 2021•34 min
Lucy Mailing, Ph.D. received her Bachelor’s in Biology from Kalamazoo College and her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois, where her dissertation research focused on the effects of diet and exercise on the gut microbiome in states of health and disease. Lucy has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles related to the microbiome and health and was named an Emerging Leader in Nutritional Sciences by the American Society for Nutrition in 2017. Lucy has also served a...
Jan 04, 2021•2 hr 14 min
Happy New Year to all! I’m not a drinker, but I know there are many who will be enjoying alcohol to celebrate the end of this crazy year, and the beginning of one we all hope will be a bit better than 2020. If you’re going to imbibe at New Years or any other time, what’s the least toxic sauce to consume? Find out in this Controversial Thoughts video along with why alcohol causes a hangover and what you can do to mitigate it prior and ameliorate it once it’s besieged you. Hint: these answers may ...
Dec 30, 2020•26 min
Find part 1 of this podcast with James, here. Dr. James DiNicolantonio, is a Doctor of Pharmacy and a cardiovascular research scientist. A well-respected and internationally known scientist and an expert on health and nutrition, he has contributed extensively to health policy and has testified in front of the Canadian Senate regarding the harms of added sugars. He serves as the associate editor of the British Medical Journal’s Open Heart, a journal published in partnership with the British Cardi...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 5 min
