What if everything you’ve been taught about nutrition and health was wrong? And by following old school principles, you actually have a higher chance of developing chronic diseases? Brian Sanders, health advocate and filmmaker of Food Lies, has been questioning our current food system after his parents passed away at a young age. Despite following the nutritional guidelines and doing everything they thought was right, they still ended up getting sick and dying from preventable diseases. Brian se...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 112
What does it really take to optimize your sleep? Should you pop some melatonin and hope it gives you a good night’s rest? Or can you simply wear a black-out blindfold and hope for the best? Matteo Franceschetti, the founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, which is a high-tech mattress that helps you optimize your sleep using your own biometrics, comes on the show to share exactly what it takes to improve your sleep. You’ll discover the key ingredients for better sleep, what you should be tracking to see...
Sep 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 111
Andy Mant, the CEO and founder of BLUblox, which are blue light blocking glasses that have actually been tested, comes on the show to discuss how different types of light affect your health and the research behind how this is possible. Andy’s shares his extensive knowledge on the topic, what you can do to mitigate unnatural light exposure to improve your health, and how these lights affect your sleep, weight, blood glucose levels and more. Dr. Gustin and Andy also discuss common household items ...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 110
In this podcast episode, Dr. Anthony Gustin sits down with Anya Fernald, co-founder and CEO of the largest regenerative farming operation in the United States, Belcampo, to see her take on why this is a better way to raise meat sustainably. Anya has an incredible background that ranges from growing up on a dairy farm in Bavaria to eventually traveling and living in Greece and other parts of Europe to learn more about how they cook, bake, and raise animals. It was this insider’s look that made he...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 109
If you’ve ever struggled to reach your goals, this podcast episode is here to help. As David Nurse, a motivational speaker, optimization coach, and best-selling author, talks about in this episode, your mindset could be behind why you’re not achieving the goals you set out for yourself. And it’s not just you. David works with professional NBA players and sees that they face the same struggles. Despite having all of the athletic ability in the world, many still battle with negative self-talk, imp...
Aug 24, 2020•48 min•Ep. 108
As you’ll hear about in this episode, roughly 90 million Americans are unknowingly living in a prediabetic state and up to 70% of them will end up being diabetic if they don’t address it starting today. That’s why Josh Clemente, a founding partner at Levels Health, and his team are actively working to change that outcome by offering a continuous glucose monitor that is accessible even if you don’t have diagnosed blood sugar issues. Because, as Josh explains, testing your fasting blood glucose an...
Aug 17, 2020•57 min•Ep. 107
Todd White, a serial entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and founder and CEO of Dry Farm Wines, shares the biohacking strategies that had the most profound impact on his life and the ones he continues to practice today. When you tune into this episode, you’ll learn all about what he uses to improve his mental performance and attract a life of abundance, how he sets up his body for longevity and disease prevention, and what’s been the hardest part of this journey. Todd also gets into other topics such...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 106
Dr. Paul Saladino, a classically trained physician and functional medicine practitioner, comes back on the show to share what it’s been like following a carnivore diet for over two years now. When you tune into this episode, you’ll hear more about what he usually eats during a typical day, what he’s done differently since he first started following this diet, and what his lab work looks like as a result. Dr. Saladino and Dr. Anthony Gustin also chat about other topics like why vegetable oils are...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 105
Chris Irvin, The Ketologist and Education Manager at Perfect Keto, and Dr. Anthony Gustin sit down for the eighth time to answer questions from their listeners and online community in this episode. This time, you’ll hear all about supplements like melatonin, CBD, creatine, and immunity boosting options, and whether or not you should consider taking them. Chris and Dr. Gustin also chat about a topic that raises a lot of eyebrows -- whether or not you need to lather on sunscreen. You may be surpri...
Jul 27, 2020•56 min•Ep. 104
Dr. Cate Shanahan, a board-certified family physician who specializes in reversing chronic diseases and best-selling author, comes back on the show to dive deeper into how these eight vegetable oils are destroying our health. In this episode, Dr. Shanahan goes on to suggest that the negative outcomes coming from the Coronavirus pandemic could have been avoided had we eliminated vegetable oils from our diets five years ago. Not only that, Dr. Shanahan shows that other health conditions, such as t...
Jul 20, 2020•54 min•Ep. 103
Dr. Jack Wolfson started out as most traditional cardiologists do -- he went through several years of training and started working with patients in his practice. But, despite using what he was taught, he found that his treatments weren’t as effective as they should be. On top of that, his wife opened his eyes to a possibility that he had never considered: what he was taught wasn’t going to fix the problem and only led to prolonging poor heart health. Dr. Wolfson followed this path and realized t...
Jul 13, 2020•51 min•Ep. 102
Licensed Registered Dietician Nutritionist Diana Rodgers is here to prove that a plant-based diet may not be the answer to better nutrition and a better environment and she shows what is instead in this podcast episode with Dr. Anthony Gustin. When you tune in, you’ll hear Diana’s case for a higher quality of nutrition, environmental impact, animal welfare, and sustainability through eating a diet that contains meat. Diana also discusses why meat isn’t the reason behind global warming and skyroc...
Jul 06, 2020•57 min•Ep. 101
You may be working out and thinking that you’re doing a good thing for your physical health but if you’re not considering things like your range of motion and joint health, you could be doing a huge disservice to your body. As Dr. Ryan DeBell points out in this podcast episode with Dr. Anthony Gustin, many people don’t realize just how variable their anatomy is. And without considering this, you could be doing popular exercises like squats and overhead lifts incorrectly for your specific body. O...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 100
Dr. Anthony Gustin sits down with Chris Irvin, Perfect Keto’s Education Manager and The Ketologist, for another Q&A to tackle some more great questions from their listeners. But this Q&A is a little different from the other six since it covers more of a hybrid style where Dr. Gustin answers questions and shares his latest experiment with Chris Irvin. Dr. Gustin and Chris are experimenting with adding more carbs into their diets to see how they feel and what effects (if any) it has on the...
Jun 22, 2020•56 min•Ep. 99
Mansal Denton isn’t your stereotypical hunter. As you’ll hear about in this episode with Mansal and Dr. Anthony Gustin, he’s not going out to hunt for the thrill of it and he doesn’t treat it like a sport. Instead, Mansal believes in ethical hunting, practicing mindfulness while out there, and tapping into the emotions that come up before, during, and after the hunt. Mansal’s approach resembles that of many indigenous people and Native Americans. And that’s exactly what you’ll hear more about wh...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 98
Dr. Will Cole, a leading functional medicine practitioner and author of two incredible books, was one of the first guests to appear on this podcast. This time around, Dr. Gustin and Dr. Cole will be chatting about some topics from his latest book, The Inflammation Spectrum , to discuss all things related to inflammation. So you’ll learn what inflammation is, why it’s not a bad thing, and what happens when things go wrong. Dr. Cole also shares what you can do to combat inflammation and how this a...
Jun 08, 2020•56 min•Ep. 97
Dr. Greg Kelly, a naturopathic physician (N.D.), has written and published numerous articles on natural medicine and nutrition, he has more than 30 journal articles indexed on PubMed, and he’s contributed to three chapters in the Textbook of Natural Medicine. He’s also the author of the book Shape Shift and he’s the past editor of the Alternative Medicine Review. On top of that, Dr. Kelly has been an instructor at the University of Bridgeport in the College of Naturopathic Medicine and he’s now ...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 96
Will Harris, a sixth generation farmer, followed in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather, his great-grandfather, his grandfather, and his father before him. He also went to school for agriculture and he implemented everything he was taught there on his family’s farm. But after 20+ years of doing this on his family’s farm, White Oaks Pastures, he had a gut instinct that this wasn’t the way to run things, despite everything he had been taught in school. He followed his instincts and radica...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 95
After working as an actress on Broadway for over 10 years, Emily Fletcher found herself sick, struggling with insomnia, and in a constant stressed out state. It wasn’t until she tapped into meditation that she finally found some relief. As you’ll hear about in this episode with Dr. Anthony Gustin, this seemingly simple practice turned out to be transformative for Emily, a leading expert in meditation now. She was able to heal her body, sleep through the night, and so much more. After seeing thes...
May 18, 2020•57 min•Ep. 94
Dr. Nicole Rivera is unlike most doctors out there. Instead of taking one course and broadly applying it to her patients, she continues to learn and get certified in many different disciplines so she can combine a bit of each to help her patients heal. So she takes an integrative approach that really makes her stand out as a functional medicine practitioner. As Dr. Rivera shares with Dr. Anthony Gustin in this episode, she faced her own health struggles that most doctors failed to help her solve...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 93
Vivica Menegaz, a nutritionist and holistic practitioner, comes on the show to share her experience with moving through traumas and shifting to a better mental health mindset using alternative medicines. These medicines aren’t your typical treatments but they are ones that are growing in popularity due to their effectiveness. If the title of this podcast hasn’t given it away yet, Vivica is going to share her journey with using substances like psychedelic mushrooms, MDMA, and ayahuasca to heal th...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 92
With this Covid pandemic still in full swing, Dr. Anthony Gustin and Dr. Michael Ruscio, a best-selling author and Doctor of Natural Medicine, wanted to share a side that’s rarely talked about: combating viruses through improving gut health. In this episode, Dr. Ruscio shares some incredible research on how certain viruses already respond to probiotics and how your gut health can leave you vulnerable or protected from viruses. Dr. Ruscio and Dr. Gustin also chat about their thoughts on the curre...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 91
Kelly LeVeque, a holistic nutritionist, is well-known for the work she does with celebrities like Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Molly Sims, Chelsea Handler, Emmy Rossum, and so many more. For these A-list clients, Kelly helps them get into shape for roles in a healthy, sustainable way. But that’s not all she’s up to. She’s also authored two best-selling books, Body Love and Body Love Every Day , which brings her simple framework to everyday readers. What’s great about Kelly’s approach is that s...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 90
Ben Greenfield, a biohacker, performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, professional speaker, and New York Times best-selling author, is a returning guest of this podcast. In his first episode, he dove into how to biohack health by sharing what he does to improve his performance and his overall health using his top principles. Dr. Anthony Gustin and Ben Greenfield take things a step further in today’s episode by getting into a number of different topics ...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 89
As a thirteenth generation farmer who grew up foraging mushrooms and other wild foods on his family’s farm, Tero Isokauppila’s passion and curiosity for improving health started at an early age. He went on to pursue a degree in Chemistry, Business, and a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition at Cornell University and later published two best-selling books, Healing Mushrooms and Santa Sold Shrooms . He also founded a company you may have heard of called Four Sigmatic. As you’ll learn about in this...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 88
If you’ve ever tried to lose weight by tracking your calories and struggled, you’re not alone. This weight loss “tool” rarely works. And oftentimes there’s a big discrepancy in how many calories you’re supposed to eat versus what you actually should be eating. So the question is, is there a better way to track your food intake that actually gets results? As you’ll hear about in this podcast episode with science writer and researcher Raphael Sirtoli, there is definitely a better, more effective a...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 87
She’s a self-proclaimed “Meathead Hippie”, a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, trainer, coach, writer, and creator who realized she could use food and movement to heal from the inside out. But it wasn’t until she started doing a deep dive into emotional awareness that she found her true self. And that’s exactly what Emily Schromm comes on the show to talk about with Dr. Anthony Gustin. While this is a topic that’s not often talked about, it should be for a number of different reasons, as you’ll ...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 86
Max Lugavere, the New York Times best-selling author of Genius Foods , has come on the show before to talk about what it takes to feed your mind and optimize brain function. Since that episode, Max has authored another book, The Genius Life , which covers everything else you should focus on to improve your health beyond just nutrition. And that’s exactly what Max comes on the podcast to chat about with Dr. Anthony Gustin. Max and Dr. Gustin get into the broader picture of health to see how your ...
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 85
If you’re a regular listener of this podcast, you’ve heard Dr. Anthony Gustin talk about how cancer may come from a metabolic origin with other guests on the show. Since this topic was extensively covered already, this episode with author and science writer Travis Christofferson takes the conversation further. So you’ll hear more about treating cancer with supplemental theories, but that’s just the beginning of what Dr. Anthony Gustin and Travis get into. While diving into this research, Travis ...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 84
After seeing five different doctors, Dr. Becky Campbell, a Functional Medicine practitioner specializing in thyroid health and histamine intolerances, was diagnosed with thyroid issues. Despite this diagnosis and treating it, many other symptoms still remained. So Dr. Campbell kept digging to uncover the root cause of these issues. She discovered a histamine intolerance was to blame. In this podcast episode, Dr. Campbell shares her journey along with what a histamine intolerance is and why so ma...
Mar 02, 2020•56 min•Ep. 83
