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If you haven’t spent time in Asia, you probably have never seen or experienced these fruits, but if you have spent a lot of time there, you are likely going to be familiar with the smell, sight, and even taste of the durian and jackfruit. There are hundreds of different volatile compounds coming off of the durian, which gives it its unique taste and smell. There are many health benefits to eating the durian fruit, such as helping your gut microbiome and providing good bacteria for digestion. It does not raise or spike blood sugar even though it contains a rich amount of sugars, and has even been found to lower cholesterol.

Durian 1:00
Chemical composition of durian 4:38
Health benefits 6:33
Jackfruit 13:40
Antibacterial properties 17:06

“Durian actually helps to reduce oxidative stress because of these polyphenols that regulate biosignaling mechanisms related to oxidative stress. So it increases the amount of the molecules in the body that actually quench these free radicals, so that free radicals are not occurring in as high of an amount as they were before.” 11:49

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Dr. Deanna Minich is a nutrition researcher, educator, and functional medicine and trained clinician with a unique approach to nutrition that combines physiology and psychology. She has served on the Institute of Functional Medicine’s advisory board and curriculum committee in addition to being a faculty member, teaching nutrition for the advanced practice module for environmental health. She currently serves on the board of directors for the American Nutrition Association and is President of the American College of Nutrition. Her academic background is in Nutritional Science, including a master’s degree in human nutrition and dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a PhD in medical sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In conjunction with her academic degrees and extensive teaching experience at the University of Lovell, she is a fellow at the American College of Nutrition and a certified nutrition specialist. Dr. Minich has over 20 years of experience working in both the food and dietary supplement industries, is the Vice President of Scientific Affairs for Organic India, serves as advisor for various food, academic, and health organizations, and has more than 40 published scientific articles in journals such as Nutrients: Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, and Nutrition Reviews. She teaches for the graduate program in human nutrition and functional medicine at the University of Western States. She is the author of 6 books on nutrition, wellness, and psychology, and is passionate about helping others to live well using therapeutic lifestyle changes.

About phytonutrients 2:30
Tips on “Eating the Rainbow” 9:07
Eating organic veggies and produce 18:04
The importance of good bacteria on the surface of organically grown vegetables 25:15
Specific foods or color palettes to focus on 30:46

“The benefits I think it was for mortality and chronic disease in various formats, I’d have to look back at this study, but essentially there was a lower risk with the organic foods and if you did not eat organic, but you still had these fruits and vegetables, it’s like you had no additional benefit.” 19:03

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Today we are talking about hunting plants in the Great Basin Desert of the American West. I love taking my truck and driving around this desert where you rarely see other people, and being alone where I can really think and study many of the unique plants found out here. You can find plants that contain flavonoids, which are a class of molecules that have a lot of oxygen around them, and when you look at the scientific literature on flavonoids, they’re really good regulators of biosignaling. There are various plants in the West that have amazing attributes, which have been shown to provide positive benefits to people throughout history.

The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine 1:53
Navajo Green Thread and flavonoids 4:46
Ephedrine Evidensis 8:24
Mesquite plant 12:00
Bidens Pilosa 14:35
Juniper 15:56

“Of those 600,000 species of plants on the Earth, less than 5% of them have been studied for their bioactive compounds, and that’s particularly true, the understudy of bioactive compounds in plants in the Great Basin Desert.” 3:07

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Kimberly Snyder is a spiritual guide and meditation teacher, nutritionist, and holistic wellness expert, and the 3 time New York Times bestselling author of 5 previous books, including Radical Beauty, which she co-authored with Deepak Chopra. Her highly anticipated new book, You Are More Than You Think You Are: Practical Enlightenment for Everyday Life is being published on Jan 25, 2022. She hosts the top rated Feel Good podcast, which airs on the PodcastOne network. She is the founder of Solluna, a holistic lifestyle brand that offers wellness products, digital courses, practical enlightenment meditation, and The Solluna Circle. She has been featured in dozens of national and international media outlets including Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Doctor Oz Show, Ellen, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Elle, and Vogue. Kimberly lives in the mountains outside of Los Angeles and Hawaii with her husband and sons.

About her book and how it came about 2:18
It’s about helping others instead of self interest 9:06
Advice for people in the interim period about meditation 14:00
Feeling your true self 21:36
You are magnetic 29:10
Last things to know about her book 33:58

“I was always a fan of Eckhart Tolle, and I would read these books and it was like, ‘Go beyond thought, the power of now’ and I loved his philosophy, but then I was like, ‘How do I really live this in daily life?’ So it was important to me to really add practices of how we know we’re out of our head and into our gut, and into our heart. And how we start to live so much more from that and there’s so much power in that, and we tend to make less mistakes.” 8:17

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Today we’re talking about Omega-3, and we’re going to talk about its discovery, its health benefits, Omega-3 deficiency and how that’s a problem, how it works in the body, and what to look for in an Omega-3 supplement. Studies have shown taking Omega-3 fatty acids can reduce the risk of developing coronary artery disease, heart attack, and stroke. It can help decrease symptoms of depression and helps people who suffer from bipolar disorder, and has even been shown to raise a young child’s IQ by more than 3.5 points. It has even been shown to reduce deterioration of the brain in the elderly, such as dementia and Alzheimers. Omega-3 can reduce the pain that women experience with PMS and can improve an individual’s focus when they struggle with ADHD.

The discovery of Omega-3 1:04
The health benefits and clinical studies 3:17
Heart health 3:37
Cognitive function 6:26
PMS 8:20
ADHD 10:02
Cancer, anxiety, and vision 12:48
Reducing inflammation 13:45

“If you get it as a supplement, or eating seafood, it’s one of the most important nutrients that you need to get in the body for proper function of the metabolism to make sure these millions of chemical reactions that go on in the body every single second are functioning properly.” 3:22

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Reed Davis, board certified holistic healthcare practitioner and certified nutritional therapist is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and the FDN Certification Course with over 3000 graduates in 50 countries. Reed served as the Health Director at a wellness center in Southern California for over 10 years and with over 10,000 clients is known as one of the most experienced clinicians in the world. He serves on the advisory board of the American Natural Wellness Coaches board and the American Association of Natural Wellness Coaches. Reed lives in the US and when not teaching the FDN Certification Course and helping his graduates build their private practices, he is usually found gardening or riding motorcycles.

Metabolic health and metabolic chaos 1:34
What they look at when testing 9:11
Reed’s core tenets around diet 12:35
The importance of rest and sleep for overall health 20:24
Exercise 24:37
Stress 30:24
Supplementation 37:07

“We’ve learned through all of this looking upstream not to pick on one thing, not to give a diagnosis. “It’s irritable bowel.” Because as soon as you focus on that one thing, you are ignoring the other 10, or 15, or more things that are going on, that that person would also have to correct to get the outcomes that they came in looking for, including correcting that IBS or hyperthyroidism, or whatever it is. You never really get rid of it if you don’t fix all of the things going on around it.” 4:25

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I had the pleasure of speaking with Vivica Menegaz, who is a holistic practitioner who specializes in helping women heal their hormones and lose weight through the use of a therapeutic diet with lifestyle and mindset. Originally from Italy, Vivica has always been around food both through her family of restaurateurs and in her early career as a food photographer. In her late 30s she finally discovered nutrition, her true vocation. Vivica runs a web based practice, specialized in therapeutic diets for healing. She is a creator of the Healing Foods Method, a 4 month one-on-one course to transform health and lifestyle with focus on metabolism and endocrine rebalancing. The program has been extremely successful, helping many people reclaim their lives and health. Vivica is the author of 4 cookbooks.

Vivica’s journey 1:41
Awareness about toxic cleaning products 9:27
Diet and Keto 21:20
Trauma and holistic wellness 34:12
How to identify damaging trauma 39:54
Somatic exercise 47:47

“What I found especially at the beginning of the ketogenic diet when I started doing it is that it's an incredibly powerful tool to reverse metabolic damage and to reverse insulin resistance. If you think about it, we live in a nation where sugar is the number one commodity, and so there is a lot of metabolic damage and there is a lot of inflammation aside from a lot of toxicity.” 22:17

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Dean Ornish, MD, is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventative Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, and the author of 6 books, all national best sellers. He received the Outstanding Young Alumnus award from the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Public Hero award from the University of California Berkeley. He was recognized as a Time 100 innovator by Life Magazine as one of the 50 most influential members of his generation, by People Magazine as one of the most interesting people of the year, and by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s 7 most powerful teachers. We discuss the Ornish diet and how even though you can’t change your genes, you CAN change your gene expression and altar various health issues you are currently or may experience in the future.

Becoming one of the pioneers in preventative health care 1:28
The Ornish Diet 8:17
Fitonutrients and changing gene expression 14:05
How spending time with our family and friends helps prevent bad health issues 19:35

“We want to try and avoid infection with the virus, but because this virus is so good at infecting people, it’s really important for us to say, ‘OK, what can we do to help reduce the likelihood and severity of those symptoms if we do get infected?’ Diet is one. Reaching out and spending time with your family and friends, and loved ones is another, and exercise also. People that are sedentary are more likely to get moderate to severe Covid. Those who are under chronic emotional stress are more likely to get it, so there’s a lot we can do to empower ourselves.” 18:44

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Today we talk about metabolism, how to accurately define metabolism, signs our metabolic health might be in trouble, and things we can do about it. A lot of times we think metabolism refers to fat digestion or how quickly we can get rid of food. Often we’ll say, ‘Well, that person can eat more because they have a faster metabolism than I do. That’s a flaw because metabolism refers to the sum total of chemical reactions the body performs every single second. The body works tandemly as a system where you have chemical reactions in cells and in cellular networks, in organs, organ systems, and in the entire body that help to propel it to do amazing things. 7 things we can do to improve metabolic health: good nutrition, effective exercise, good sleep, focus on gut health, take advantage of science based supplements, take time each day for meditation and mindfulness, and cultivate and have warm social interactions.

Biosignaling reactions and controlling metabolism 2:27
The food we eat now is different than it used to be 4:37
Pollution 9:29
Defining metabolic syndrome 13:00
We need to eat REAL food 20:30
Caloric restriction 21:15
Exercise and sleep 22:00
Science based supplementation 24:56

“We need to eat the rainbow as they say because the different colors of fruits and vegetables means that there’s different types of phytonutrients in those foods, because they are absorbing light at different wavelengths, that’s why they’re different colors. The reason they’re absorbing light at different wavelengths is because their chemical structures are different. So diversity is really good.” 20:47

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Max Gomez was in therapy when he thought of the idea for Breathwrk, an app that helps users to harness the power of their breath to achieve both relaxed and activated states. Max graduated from USC in Neuroscience and serves as Breathwrk’s co-founder and CEO. He often struggled with anxiety, but found that after working on his breathing he was able to greatly reduce the stress he often felt, which led him to start his company. Max shares some interesting information about the effects mouth breathing vs nose breathing can have on your health and even facial bone structure, and then how breathing can be one of the most powerful tools for pain management.

His journey from being healthy and starting a company 1:20
The science behind breathing 11:05
HRV (Heart Rate Variability) 16:59
ADHD and focus 18:15
Breathing through your nose correlates with better bone structure and intelligence 21:39
Breathing and pain management 27:01
The Breathwrk app 29:31
The future of breath science 33:14
Find out more 34:35

“Basically what he was diaphragmatic breathing, and then slowly elongating my exhale and I remember being on his couch and it was the first time in months that I actually felt like my anxiety at the moment was starting to decrease. My heart rate was lowering, my blood pressure was lowering, I felt more calm, and I felt in control for the first time of my mind and my body in such a long time.” 4:21

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