Dr. Tommy Wood has a biochemistry degree from the University of Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from the University of Oslo. He’s currently a research assistant professor at the University of Washington and conducts research focusing on ways to increase resilience and treat injury in the developing brain. He is engaged in an ongoing effort to use the knowledge he has acquired to help people make sense of the world of health knowi...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Jamie Metzl is a leading technology and healthcare futurist, geopolitical expert, novelist, entrepreneur, and media commentator. He has been described as “the original COVID-19 whistleblower” as he was among first to call for a full investigation into pandemic origins in early 2020. Jamie holds a Ph.D. from Oxford, a JD from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He’s served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, Senate Foreig...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 84
We pick up where we left off last week with an American chemist, autism researcher and the founder and director of the Great Plains Laboratory, Dr. William Shaw, PhD. Dr. Shaw is an icon in the world of functional medicine and a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide. He is the stepfather of a child with autism and has helped thousands of patients and medical practitioners to successfully improve the lives of people with autism, AD(H)D, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, bipolar disorder, chroni...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Dr. William Shaw, PhD, is an American chemist, autism researcher and the founder and director of the Great Plains Laboratory. He is an icon in the world of functional medicine and a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide. He is the stepfather of a child with autism and has helped thousands of patients and medical practitioners to successfully improve the lives of people with autism, AD(H)D, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, bipolar disorder, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, immune def...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Dr Sindeep Bhana is the Head of Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolism in Internal Medicine at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and furthered his studies in the UK. Dr. Bhana is also the CEO of the Centre for Medical Excellence in Melrose Arch and a fellow of the College of Physicians. In 2004, he received a gold medal from the University of the Witwatersrand for teaching excellence. Dr Bhana is also raising thyroid health awareness worldwide and has...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Dr. Leo Galland is a pioneer in studying the impact of intestinal microbes (the gut microbiome) and intestinal permeability (“leaky gut”) on health and disease. He has received international recognition for developing innovative nutritional therapies to treat autoimmune, inflammatory, allergic, infectious and gastrointestinal disorders and has described his work in numerous scientific articles and textbook chapters. Dr. Galland is a graduate of Harvard University and New York University School o...
Nov 09, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Steve Stavs chats with Brian and Christal from SaunaSpace in this fun yet highly informative Instagram Live. SaunaSpace’s saunas are a non-invasive way to kickstart your body’s most beneficial processes. This happens in two ways: light therapy (phototherapy) and heat therapy (sauna). They're Steve Stavs number one overall biohack and one of our favourite partners. Get 10% OFF HERE: https://madetothrive.co.za/special-deals/saunaspace/ Unlike the traditional methods, near-infrared (NIR) light work...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Marc is a French-American father of four children who has spent his career in the world of tech and biotech. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, as well as a masters in Economics and Business from ESSEC. He has deep experience in innovation and complex systems, working for Cisco, Booz Allen and Air Liquide. A seasoned strategy consultant trained in the scientific method with experience in Automotive, Biotech and Energy, Marc is a regular lecturer and keynote speaker at leading business schools and corp...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Brandy Gillmore is a world-renowned mind/body/energy expert who was able to heal herself from being disabled in a wheelchair using only the power of her mind. Through her journey, Brandy discovered the science behind what the mind is capable of and then created her own healing modality. She has also been able to show others how to use the power of the minds to get incredible, tangible healing results. Brandy has a PhD in Natural Medicine, and has also given a mind-alerting TEDx talk called “Coul...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Nick Hudson is an actuary with broad international experience in finance, who has settled into a career as a private equity investor. He is a man of wide-ranging interests—an avid reader of canonical literature, a classical music aficionado, and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist. He has been invited to speak on various topics including epistemology, corporate governance, investment management, and more recently, the Covid 19 pandemic. Nick is the founder and chairman of Pandemics Data and An...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Dr. John Demartini is a person of wide knowledge and learning, as well as a world-renowned human behavior expert. He has over four decades of research across multiple disciplines. His work has been described by students as the "most comprehensive body of work", "an extensive library of wisdom" and "wisdom of the highest and most valuable order”. Dr Demartini's mission and vision are to share knowledge and wisdom that empowers you to become a master of your own life and destiny. He's an internati...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Our guest today, Dr. Paul Clayton , brings the proof that you are what you eat. A few episodes ago (episode 71) The Made To Thrive Show did the water episode, and today’s episode will definitely be known as the food episode. Dr. Paul Clayton is a clinical pharmacologist and pharmaco-nutritionist. His passion is to obsess about food, nutrition and health, collating science updates, analysis, opinion and advice about diet and health on his website https://drpaulclayton.eu . He is also the author o...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Dr. Cory is a KAATSU advocate. He’s in his mid-30s, married, has a couple of kids, a couple of dogs and because he chose to put his family first, his exercise and training suffered. Then he found KAATSU and was able to sustain his physical and training goals in a fraction of the time. He was so amazed with the system but couldn’t believe there was no downside. So he travelled to Japan to meet the inventor, Dr. Sato, and he found out the only sacrifice one makes by using KAATSU is that the more K...
Sep 21, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 73
“The World’s Greatest Formulator”, “The Ingredientologist” ,Biohacktivitst, and Keto Authority. Shawn Wells is a product formulator and expert in the fields of performance nutrition, longevity, fitness and supplementation. As a teen and young adult, Shawn faced and overcame significant obstacles with his own health— morbid obesity to anorexia, depression, autoimmune conditions (Epstein-Barr, Fibromyalgia, Hashimoto's and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), two cervical discs replacements, and a type of b...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Victor Sagalovsky is a Russian born, polymath scientist, expert in water and health pioneer. Victor received a multidisciplinary education from Loyola University in Chicago, Rome, San Francisco State University and the University of Hawaii. In 2018, he co-founded Litewater Scientific which is dedicated to the research, development and production of deuterium depleted water. Victor does not believe in anti-ageing, he believes in pro-youthing. He is the author of Gold: Catalyst of Radiant Health, ...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Dr Thomas (Tom) E. Levy is a board-certified cardiologist and a bar-certified attorney. After practicing adult cardiology for 15 years, he began to research the enormous toxicity associated with much dental work, as well as the pronounced ability of properly administered vitamin C to neutralize this toxicity. He has now written 13 books, with several addressing the wide-ranging properties of vitamin C in neutralizing all toxins and resolving most infections, as well as its vital role in the effe...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Made To Thrive is on a mission to bring the healthcare revolution of coaching to clients here in South Africa as well as anyone anywhere around the world. So today on the Made To Thrive show we changed the focus from outside guests to inside the Made To Thrive circle with a roundtable discussion between your host Steve Stavs and health coaches Ricky Schoch and Kim Anderssen. It is a deep dive into the how, what, why and who’s of health coaching from people who are not only coaches but have also ...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 69
Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, human connection, and decision making. Jon specializes in applying the latest research to transform the ways companies approach marketing, sales, consumer engagement, and culture. His clients range from Fortune 500 brands, like Microsoft, Google, AB-InBev, and Samsung, to startups. He is also a Springbok fan. :) More than a decade ago, Jon founded The Influencers Dinner, a secret dining experience for industry leaders rangi...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 68
Leanne Manas is a South African TV presenter for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). She has been the host of its flagship show Morning Live since 2004. She has also worked on radio with Radio Algoa, Jacaranda FM, SAfm and East Coast Radio. She was also appointed a Goodwill Ambassador by the UN Nations Refugee Agency in 2019. She recently joined Steve on InstagramLive to discuss the trauma and stress of the past pandemic year and the power of one’s mindset to not only overcome but...
Aug 03, 2021•50 min•Ep. 67
Dr. Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in the bridging of science and spirit, and a pioneer in the new biology movement. A stem cell biologist, best selling author of “The Biology of Belief” and winner of the 2009 Goi Peace Award in honour of his scientific contribution to world harmony, he was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and later performed groundbreaking stem-cell research at Stanford University. In 1982, Dr. Lipton began examining the p...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 66
Richard Sutton is “a South African legend with an International following”. He is an adviser on stress management and adaptability to industry leaders, top athletes and Olympic teams. He is widely regarded as an expert in the field of genetics and their role in resilience and human performance. Richard has been a post-graduate lecturer in the areas of performance, health and athlete development for almost two decades at leading universities.He has authored two incredible books on stress and resi...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 65
Mic Mann is the CO-CEO of SingularityU South Africa, the SA Chapter of Singularity University (SU). SU focuses on global learning and innovation communities aiming to use the exponential growth of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), to address the world’s most pressing problems. SingularityU South Africa takes that mission to a local stage with the mission of building an empowered network of globally connected change makers across the African continent who are able to implemen...
Jul 13, 2021•50 min•Ep. 64
Niraj Naik, The Renegade Pharmacist, is on a mission to improve health and well-being on a global scale. He posits an interesting thought experiment – what if the billions of coca-colas and cigarettes consumed a day were replaced with the habit of breathwork? Naik believes it would be revolutionary. A certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert, Naik’s story is like so many in the health and wellness space. Disillusioned with his observations that all the prescription drugs...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 63
Today is a bit different on The Made To Thrive Show. In this special episode we share a recent interview Steve Stavs did on Radio Caxton, a local South African station. Steve joined “The Coaching Hour” show with host Paul Rotherham and co-host Marika Grove to discuss the basics of what is biohacking as well as offering the opportunity to get to know a little about Steve himself. This is a great episode for anyone out there who isn’t sure what the term biohacking even means, as well as the amateu...
Jun 29, 2021•50 min•Ep. 62
Dr Ela Manga is a medical doctor in Muldersdrift specializing in bringing mindfulness back into medicine and using various integrative techniques in her daily practice. She uses modern medicine as a framework but focuses on looking at the root causes of illness rather than focusing on treating symptoms. Dr Ela Manga recognizes the need for health coaches as her approach is to treat her patients as partners in order to sustain wellness. Dr Ela has created an integrative approach to mental, physic...
Jun 22, 2021•58 min•Ep. 61
Dr. Riaz Motara is doing things a little differently. Not only is Dr. Motara a cardiologist with 20 plus years experience, he founded the first woman’s heart clinic in Africa and is the only functional medicine trained cardiologist in South Africa who focuses on cardiac-endocrinology. But six years ago Dr. Motara was faced with a problem – his waiting list for patients was too long and his time too limited. So he founded KardioFit, which is already Africa’s largest digital health company, with t...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 60
Dr. Jack is back!. He is the world-respected neurosurgeon and CEO of Optimized Life and Kruse Longevity Center. Dr. Kruse’s focus is on the foundations of how we work. Using science he explains the deep connection between thermodynamics in biology and the processing of energy and information. Dr. Jack reveals how there are diseases all around the world and they all come back to - light, water, and magnetism. Dr. Kruse’s research has been published in respected dental and medical journals and his...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 59
Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac is the founder of Kresser Institute, the creator of ChrisKresser.com , and the New York Times best selling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health, and has trained over 1,500 practitioners and health coaches around the world in his unique approach. Chris was named one of the 100 most influential people in health and fitness by Greatist.com , an...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 58
Patrick McKeown is a pioneer in his field and a renowned breath expert, and has just authored another book called “The Breathing Cure” He is passionately motivated to teach people how to breathe correctly. He has been on the Made to Thrive show before and we are honored to have him back as his knowledge and passion are so valuable. Patrick is a world- renowned author and breathing practitioner who was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, before completing his clinical training in the Buteyko B...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 57
“Brittany Biohacker,” or Bio B, is a Canadian (via South Africa) registered holistic nutritionist who is passionate about everything from biohacking to lifestyle habits and nutrient dense food. Like so many, Brittany came to taking ownership for her own health, by biohacking her own series of health crises. She battled years of health battles including leaky gut syndrome, Candida, parasites, gut dysbiosis and hormonal imbalances that had not responded to traditional medical interventions. Anothe...
May 18, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 56
