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• How do phthalates end up in your yogurt?

• What does bioaccumulation mean and why does it matter for your hormones?

• Which yogurt brands actually test clean?

0:00 - Introduction

1:13 - The Lawsuit Details: What's Actually Happening

2:39 - False Advertising vs Poisoning Claims

3:28 - What Are Phthalates & Why They Matter

4:24 - Health Effects: Testosterone, Fertility & Metabolism

6:41 - The Real Problem: It's Not Just Chobani

7:32 - Dosage Question: How Worried Should You Be?

9:35 - Cumulative Exposure & Low-Dose Effects

10:20 - Where Contamination Actually Comes From

11:31 - Who Should Be Most Concerned

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Episode Description:

Kids today can’t sit still without a screen. Their days are packed from morning to night, every game has rules, every moment has a goal, and the second boredom hits, the phone swoops in.

In This Episode:

• Why kids have lost the ability to entertain themselves

• How constant stimulation leads to anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of failure

• Why boredom is essential for creativity and nervous system regulation

• How to design your home and habits to invite more play — without turning your kitchen into a jungle gym

• The difference between toys that entertain and toys that teach imagination

• How rigid upbringings or lack of play can block self-expression as adults

• Why play strengthens relationships, community, and emotional connection

• One simple way to bring more play into your day — starting right now

Key Takeaways:

✅ When play disappears, so does curiosity, creativity, and confidence

✅ Adults who suppress play often feel disconnected, anxious, or creatively blocked

✅ Play isn’t childish — it’s medicine for your nervous system

✅ You can rewire your stress response through small, daily moments of joy and play

✅ The most powerful form of healing sometimes looks like laughter, movement, and imagination

Episode description:

In This Episode:

• The 3 safest prenatal vitamins of 2025 — and why they passed Dr. G’s strict criteria

• The 25 brands that failed, including Ritual, Needed, Garden of Life, and others

• Why folate (not folic acid) is critical for your baby’s brain and spinal development

• How a common gene variant (found in 40% of women) changes how your body absorbs vitamins

• The most overlooked nutrients in prenatals — choline, DHA, iodine, and iron

• What to look for in a certificate of analysis and how to verify third-party testing

• How low-quality formulas can quietly harm your baby’s brain, thyroid, and nervous system

Key Takeaways:

✅ Only two brands met the highest standards of transparency and bioavailability.

✅ Synthetic vitamins like folic acid and cyanocobalamin (B12) may be ineffective for women with common gene variants.

✅ Look for methylated forms of B-vitamins, bioavailable choline, and algae-based DHA.

✅ Demand transparency — if a company won’t share testing data, it doesn’t deserve your trust.

Resources:

🧠 Download Dr. G’s Product Review List — every clean, tested, and verified brand reviewed to date

👉 https://drchristiangonzalez.com/best-brands-form-2/

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In This Episode:

• The 2 safest prenatal vitamins of 2025 — and why they passed Dr. G’s strict criteria

• The 25 brands that failed, including Ritual, Needed, Garden of Life, and others

• Why folate (not folic acid) is critical for your baby’s brain and spinal development

• How a common gene variant (found in 40% of women) changes how your body absorbs vitamins

• The most overlooked nutrients in prenatals — choline, DHA, iodine, and iron

• What to look for in a certificate of analysis and how to verify third-party testing

• How low-quality formulas can quietly harm your baby’s brain, thyroid, and nervous system

Key Takeaways:

✅ Only two brands met the highest standards of transparency and bioavailability.

✅ Synthetic vitamins like folic acid and cyanocobalamin (B12) may be ineffective for women with common gene variants.

✅ Look for methylated forms of B-vitamins, bioavailable choline, and algae-based DHA.

✅ Demand transparency — if a company won’t share testing data, it doesn’t deserve your trust.

Resources:

🧠 Download Dr. G’s Product Review List — every clean, tested, and verified brand reviewed to date

👉 https://drchristiangonzalez.com/best-brands-form-2/

Timestamps:

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Episode Description:

If you sat with hundreds of people as they were dying, what do you think they’d say mattered most?

Catherine Duncan has been at the bedside for hundreds of final moments and what she’s witnessed might completely change how you see life, healing, and peace.

After decades working in trauma hospitals and hospice care, Catherine has seen people find profound clarity just minutes before death. Fear disappears, light fills the room, and what truly matters finally comes into focus.

The biggest lesson?

You don’t have to wait until the end to access that kind of peace.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• Why years of meditation and self-care can still leave you feeling empty

• How unprocessed trauma hides in the body and quietly drives your choices

• The simple shift that reconnects you to something real — your heart, body, and spirit

• Why manifestation often fails when it lives only in your head

• How feeling elevated emotions like love and gratitude actually changes your energy, health, and life

• What Catherine has seen at the bedside — moments that defy logic and reveal the truth of who we are

Why This Conversation Matters

This episode isn’t about death - it’s about life.

It’s about learning from those who’ve already walked to the edge, so you can wake up now, not someday.

If you’ve been searching for meaning, peace, or connection, this might be the most important conversation you hear this year.

Find Catherine Duncan here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catherineduncanmabcc/?hl=en

Website: https://www.catherineduncan.org/

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro

2:20 – Why Self-Care Still Leaves People Feeling Empty

5:28 – Working as a Chaplain with Dying Patients

8:37 – How Common Is the Drop Into Expanded Consciousness Before Death

11:04 – What Happens After Death: Heaven, Hell, and Energy

28:57 – Leaving Corporate Job to Pursue Spiritual Path

33:04 – Working With Energy and Boundaries

58:49 – Shadow Side of Manifestation

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The Cookware That’s Secretly Poisoning Your Food

Not all cookware is created equal. After months of investigating 21 major cookware brands, Dr. Christian Gonzalez uncovered a truth the industry doesn’t want you to know:

only one passed his strict standards for safety, transparency, and purity.

Most companies, including billion-dollar icons like Le Creuset, Caraway, All-Clad, HexClad, and GreenPan - either ignored requests for safety data, relied on toxic PFAs coatings, or hid behind influencer marketing.

In this episode, Dr. G exposes which brands are quietly contaminating your food, the dangerous materials to avoid, and how to choose cookware that protects your brain, hormones, and nervous system.

To get the full updated product list, visit:

👉 https://drchristiangonzalez.com/best-brands-form-2/

• The #1 safest cookware brand of 2025

• The 20 toxic brands to avoid

• Why “eco,” “green,” and “nonstick” pans still leach forever chemicals (PFAs)

• How cheap cookware releases heavy metals like lead, nickel, and cadmium into your food

• The cookware materials that are actually safe and non-reactive

• How to identify real transparency vs. marketing hype

Every company was asked to provide:

• Full material list — aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, titanium, or copper

• PFAs/PFOA-free verification and lab documentation

• Third-party testing for heavy metals, lead, cadmium, and glyphosate

• Certificates of Analysis for every product line

• GMP or ISO-certified manufacturing facilities

• Sustainability data — recyclable materials and eco-friendly packaging💬

💬Final Thoughts

You cook every day—so you’re exposed every day.

If a company can’t provide independent safety data, they don’t deserve a place in your kitchen.

Dr. G’s only Doctor-Approved Cookware of 2025 is Our Place, combining clean materials, sustainable design, and full transparency.

Protect your health and support brands that protect you.

👉 Watch the full investigation: The Best & Worst Cookware of 2025

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Episode Description:

Have you ever noticed that talking about your trauma sometimes makes you feel worse?

That’s because talking only trims the branches—it doesn’t touch the roots.

In this week’s episode, Dr. Christian Gonzalez sits down with Anna Runkle, creator of the viral movement The Crappy Childhood Fairy, to explore why traditional talk therapy often fails to heal trauma — and what actually does.

Anna shares how, after years of therapy that left her feeling worse, she discovered one simple, daily nervous system practice that changed everything.

Within two weeks, her PTSD symptoms were gone — and her life was never the same.

What We Cover

• Hidden signs of trauma most people miss including disorientation, clumsiness, and feeling “off” for no reason

• Why talking about trauma can backfire, and how to create space for real emotional processing

• Emotional flashbacks explained and how preverbal trauma silently shapes adult choices in love, work, and life

• Nervous system regulation techniques that bring rapid relief and help you reconnect to yourself

• Anna’s expressive writing method that helped her clear PTSD in two weeks

• How trauma-driven decisions shape entire lives — from partners to careers — and how to break the cycle

• The surprising power of simple movement for emotional regulation

• A practical boundary phrase that shuts down conflict without drama

• Talking ≠ healing. Over-talking about trauma can keep the nervous system dysregulated.

• Regulation first, insight second. Healing begins when the body feels safe.

• Old patterns drive new problems. Many adult struggles are rooted in unconscious trauma responses.

• Healing can start fast. You don’t need years of suffering to feel relief — the right tools can shift things quickly.

• Connection is the goal. Regulating your nervous system opens the door to deeper relationships and real belonging.

About the Guest

Anna Runkle, known online as The Crappy Childhood Fairy, is a bestselling author, trauma educator, and creator of one of the internet’s fastest-growing trauma-healing communities. Her approach to recovery focuses on nervous system healing, emotional regulation, and practical, self-guided tools for real-world transformation.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crappychildhoodfairy/?hl=en

Website: https://crappychildhoodfairy.com/

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro

1:16 – Rapid Fire

4:59 – The Origin of “Crappy Childhood Fairy” and Growing Up in a Commune

7:06 – Why Healing Doesn’t Have to Get Worse Before It Gets Better

12:20 – How Childhood Trauma Shapes Adult Life Decisions

21:00 – Emotional Flashbacks: The Hidden Force Behind Sudden Anxiety

25:26 – The Turning Point: A Violent Attack and Failed Therapy

30:43 – Expressive Writing: How a Simple Practice Can Heal PTSD

43:07 – Breaking Trauma-Driven Cycles in Work, Money, and Relationships

53:10 – Movement as Medicine: The Fastest Way to Regulate the Nervous System

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Have you ever caught yourself saying “yes” when every part of you wanted to say “no”?

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0:00 - Intro

1:46 - Rapid Fire

4:50 - The One Boundary That Changes Everything for Fawners

6:17 - Why Traditional Therapy Failed to Heal Fawning Patterns

11:42 - Fawning Explained: Appease or Caretake to Lessen Harm

15:24 - Self-Abandonment: When Being Helpful Becomes Self-Betrayal

21:00 - How Fawning Shows Up in Adult Relationships

30:10 - "What Do I Want?" Learning to Tune Into Your Own Needs

34:01 - The Fawner's Superpower: Reading the Room and Nervous Systems

39:23 - Self-Gaslighting and Toxic Positivity: What Keeps Fawning Intact

43:57 - The Anger Underneath: Why All Fawners Are Angry

48:14 - Finding Your Voice: Breaking Free from Performance Mode

52:03 - Why Setting Boundaries Feels Life-Threatening

55:55 - Healing Fawning: What Authentic Expression Actually Feels Like

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We spend years teaching kids how to read, write, and memorize facts. But almost no one teaches them how to feel.

This week on Heal Thy Self, Dr. G sits down with Dr. Lori Woodley, a counselor, author, and nonprofit founder who has spent 30 years working with kids, families, and schools. Her message is simple but life-changing: the most important skill we can teach kids isn’t math or grammar. It’s emotional intelligence.

Because here’s the truth:

If a child can’t name their feelings, they can’t regulate them.

If they can’t regulate their emotions, they can’t build confidence.

And without confidence, they grow up wearing masks, hiding their fear, doubting their worth, and drifting through life without direction.

In this conversation, Lori shares powerful insights for parents, educators, and anyone healing their inner child:

This isn’t just a parenting conversation. It’s about building the kind of emotional literacy that shapes resilient kids, healthier families, and even stronger communities.

If you’ve ever wished your child or even your inner child had more confidence, resilience, and self-trust, this episode could change everything.

👉 Listen now and learn how to raise (and become) emotionally intelligent humans.

0:00 - Introduction
2:07 - Rapid Fire
8:32 - The 2018 Study That Broke Thyroid Care
14:18 - The Essential Thyroid Panel Your Doctor Should Order
25:14 - The One Symptom That Screams Thyroid Problem
28:16 - Hidden Drivers
34:17 - Foods That Trigger Thyroid Inflammation
40:05 - The Thyroid-Fertility Crisis No One Talks About
44:48 - What It Really Feels Like When Your Thyroid Comes Back Online
49:40 - Best Bang-for-Buck Thyroid Interventions