Alter Life

Your habits shape your identity more than you realize. In this episode, I’m sharing four simple yet powerful daily habits that have been transforming my energy, mindset, and overall well-being—plus a bonus habit at the end that’s been a total game-changer.

🔹 The mindset shift that makes habits stick for life
 🔹 How small, daily actions create massive transformation
 🔹 A simple practice to build resilience & mental toughness
 🔹 The underrated habit that boosts energy & clarity
 🔹 Why most people overcomplicate health—this keeps it simple

⚡ Challenge of the Week: Pick ONE habit from this episode and commit to it for the next 7 days. Which one will you choose? Let me know!

🎧 Listen now & comment with your biggest takeaway!

👉 Subscribe & Share: If this episode resonated, pass it on to someone who needs it.

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

Key Takeaways:

• Victimhood is a mindset, not just a circumstance—you may not control what happens, but you control your response.
• The brain is wired to reinforce victim identity through confirmation bias, fear patterns, and social validation.
• Society profits from keeping people feeling powerless—media, politics, and even healthcare thrive on dependency.
• Shifting out of victimhood doesn’t mean ignoring real struggles—it means reclaiming your power to respond.
• Changing your self-talk, media diet, and daily actions can shift your identity from victim to creator.

ACTION STEP 🔥 What's ONE THING that you can do to start shifting out of victim mindset and into freedom, empowerment, and creativity?

Drop a comment, send a DM (@drbenjaminalter), or shoot me an email ([email protected]).

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

Your health isn’t just shaped by what’s on your plate—it’s influenced by everything you consume. Food, media, conversations, and environments all impact your mind, body, and energy. In this episode, we explore:

• The hidden diet beyond food— how what you consume impacts your body and mind
  
  
• How mainstream & alternative media shape your thoughts & stress levels
  
  
• The daily conversations and your environment impact your nervous system
  
  
• Simple shifts to clean up your mental, physical & energetic “diet”

🔥 Mini-Challenge: What’s ONE thing you’ll change in your daily “diet” in the week ahead?

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

Welcome to a NEW podcast! But sorta the same...

• Why I’m rebranding the podcast from Alter Your Health to Alter Life
• How this shift reflects a bigger conversation about thriving in body, mind, and life
• The limiting beliefs I had to break through to fully step into this new direction
• Why health isn’t just about biochemistry or biomarkers—it’s about alignment
• What you can expect from future episodes—new topics, perspectives, and deeper conversations
• How this podcast will challenge conventional thinking and inspire real transformation

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

In this episode, we explore an often-overlooked yet powerful ingredient in daily nutrition—your mindset. We dive into the fascinating research of Dr. Ellen Langer on perception and healing, uncovering how your beliefs about food can shape your metabolic health, digestion, and overall well-being.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How your mindset impacts digestion, metabolism, and long-term health outcomes.
• Insights from Dr. Ellen Langer's research on perception and its role in healing.
• Why being too rigid with nutrition tracking can backfire—and how a relaxed approach can be more effective.
• The connection between stress, food choices, and metabolic health.
• Practical strategies to reframe your relationship with food for better results.
• Real-world examples and observations from working with clients.

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

In this episode we explore how our "material world" influences the manifestation of TMS/MindBody Syndrome. Interestingly, the very symptoms that one experiences is influenced not only by one's own personal experiences, but also subconsciously through collective and cultural influences. This leads to the infinite expression of TMS symptoms that one may experience at any given time.

Since your belief system is also a factor of the world in which you live, it can be difficult to break free from the mythology of physical symptoms resulting from physical causes. This is especially true when navigating the medical system (both conventional and alternative) as well as simply going about daily life in relationships with friends, family, and the general public.

Healing TMS means breaking free from the belief system from which TMS is bred, seeing the holes in the materialistic logic so that you can embrace the truth of the multidimensional mindbody phenomenon.

Hopefully you can start to get a glimpse of freedom from TMS - it's closer than you might think!

For more support in your healing, check out the TMS Free Life Program (https://www.alter.health/tms-free-life) or 1-1 coaching with Dr. Ben (https://www.alter.health/mind-body-coaching) 

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

Are your symptoms a manifestation of Tension Myositis Syndrome?

This is a question that you might be asking yourself, especially when seeking the truth behind your experience of health and dis-ease.

The short answer to your question is YES... probably so!

However, "TMS" is not a "real" medical diagnosis. Medical diagnoses exist for the primary purpose of billing insurance... and secondarily so that medical providers can communicate in a common universal language, albeit reductionistic and narrow-minded.

In this episode we unpack the hallmark signs of TMS and how it is of primary importance to accept this "diagnosis" in order to final find freedom from the chronic and insidious symptoms. 

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

In this episode, Dr. Ben explains the science of how symptoms of tension myositis syndrome come to manifest in the body/mind.

Some of these ideas are theories that have been explored through Dr. Sarno's work. Dr. Ben also brings his personal experience and understanding to the conversation that expands more into the realm of "metaphysical."

You can learn more about how I support individuals in healing TMS at https://www.alter.health/tms-free-life 

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

We're starting a new podcast series focusing on Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)!

In this first episode we'll dive into phenomenon of TMS, also known as the MindBody syndrome, as described by Dr. Sarno. We'll talk about Dr. Sarno's discoveries, and my modern interpretations and experience with TMS.

You can learn more about my in depth TMS Healing at https://www.alter.health/tms-free-life 

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products

After a LONG hiatus, I'm back for a special episode of Alter Your Health.

In this episode, I/Dr. Ben share...

• How I healed from a "chronic illness"
• The insights and learnings from the healing process
• Updates from Alter Health and what's ahead in 2025
• The future of the Podcast (?)
• The latest from the new venture, Vis Foods
• + more

Some links referenced:

• Breathwork practice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVchZ8D15Ec
• TMS Free Life Program - https://www.alter.health/tms-free-life
• GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterYourHealth for $10 off)

Links to  more good stuff

- Work With Me - www.alter.health
- GREEN FORCE! - www.visfoods.co (use the code AlterLife for $10 off)
- Check out my favorite products - www.alter.health/products