Episode Highlights With Aaron

• His own amazing story with adoption and using functional medicine to help his children
• How he was able to use these techniques to help his daughter who they were told would never walk or talk or even crawl
• Fascinating therapies he learned about for his daughter that are helpful to many of his other patients
• More reasons to avoid processed foods and vegetable oils and how these foods can affect the brain
• His foundational principles of health that are important before considering more advanced methods
• The real data on omega-3 and omega-6 balance
• What happens when we consume too much omega-6 and how this affects the brain
• Why vegetable oils are partially plasticized and how these integrate into the cell membranes and hormones
• Why women actually need more protein per pound of bodyweight than men
• The average American is dehydrated and how this impacts health on many levels
• How trace minerals can improve health
• What peptides are and how he uses them with his children and with patients
• How peptides can tell hormones what to do
• Insulin was the first peptide we started using at large scale
• Why being hypermobile in kids comes with a 400% increase in chance of spectrum disorders and what to learn from this
• How the body is electric and how to support your body's electrical system
• The science of meditation and how it physically improves health in a profound way

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Hartman - website
• Eidon trace minerals
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl