Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G goes into pesticide usage in the U.S and how the excessive spraying of our lawns can potentially be making adults, children, and pets sick. He talks about some stunning data showing that pesticides can be brought into the home where it is concentrated over time. He also contests the antiquated approach of "the dose makes the poison" statement. If you or anyone in your neighborhood is using lawn chemicals this is a must listen.

Guest Segment: Rodney Habib, the most influential pet health voice in the world joins the show to drop some incredible gems. He teaches us what the top factors are that are shortening the life of our pets and how to help them live longer. We learn about how dry dog food is not good for pet health, how lawn chemicals make them sick, and how flea and tick collars are potentially dangerous. If you have a pet this is everything you ever needed to listen to and more.

Guest bio: Rodney Habib is one of the most influential pet health leaders in the world. He’s a filmmaker, multiple award-winning blogger, sought-after public speaker, founder of Planet Paws - the world’s largest pet health page on Facebook - and more importantly, a pet parent. His honest and no-nonsense take on pet health and massive social media presence has gained him worldwide recognition. His 2017 documentary on the canine cancer epidemic The Dog Cancer Series accelerated his influencer status, leading to viral videos capturing more than 530 million views, then eventually achieving the status of most popular pet health food page on Facebook with 3.6 million followers.

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G goes into cell phone addiction through the lens of anxiety. Cell phones may be a root cause of daily anxiety that no one is talking about. We go over the research on this plus Dr. G's solutions to breaking cell phone addiction.

Guest segment: Manoj Dias, a renowned meditation teacher drops in to talk about mindfulness and what it truly means to be fully present. He speaks about having a relationship with the body such that we can feel and work with emotions we deem as negative. He also teaches us how to identify where you body holds trauma and how to move through it. A super necessary show to give us perspective on having a deeper relationship with ourselves.

Guest bio: Since first being introduced to the magic of meditation decades ago and embarking on his own journey to become a teacher, Manoj Dias has helped thousands of people to embrace stillness of mind and body, enabling them to live fearlessly on the path to a happier and more meaningful life. His teaching and practice is informed by Buddhist philosophy, psychology and social justice principles, with an emphasis on creating access to true wellbeing. After training under renowned teachers Dr Miles Neale, Channa Dassanayaka and Joe Loizzo, Manoj has based himself between the US and Australia, teaching meditation and mindfulness across both continents. Manoj is the co-founder and VP of Mindfulness at Open, a mind, body, breath studio based in California. He previously founded A-SPACE, Australia’s first drop-in meditation studio and co-founded the Australian/New Zealand arm of EVRYMAN, a men’s emotional intelligence movement.

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Knowledge bomb: Dr. G talks about his approach to healing everything from small cuts to prepping for a surgery.

Special guest segment: James and Dahlia go into conscious living. From conscious partnership to raising empowered children. They are passionate

about the power of food and have taught their daughter how to love healthy eating. As nutritionists they emphasize the importance of organic food over conventional and speak about why. Additionally, we learn about how pesticides are used in community housing, schools, and parks and how to stop the spraying that is making us, our children and pets sick. An awesome episode full of gems from 2 passionate minds.

Guest bio: James Marin, RD, EN is an Integrative Registered Dietitian and Environmental Nutritionist who specializes in using whole plant-foods as a form of medical nutrition therapy. Together with his wife, they co-founded their private practice Married to Health to support patients looking for the best of all healing modalities in order to support true and integrative healing. James loves to combine his knowledge of food and the environment to help his patients prevent and reverse diseases related to the gut. His approach takes into account family history, stress, nutrition habits, lifestyle, and environment to come up with a tailored approach for each of his patients."

Dahlia Marin, RDN is a Plant Based Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, who has used food as medicine on a whole food plant based diet for the past 10 years to overcome pre-diabetes, PCOS, GI issues, obesity, and Hashimoto’s Hypothyroidism, and have a healthy plant-based pregnancy. She is passionate about healing the gut, as it is a key to healing the entire body. She uses her own health story and clinical experience working with clients from a multitude of backgrounds and health conditions to get to the root of what ails them, helping to find true healing and well-being.

Dahlia is a pioneer when it comes to treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and/or Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) as she focuses on addressing root causes of these diseases, with the goal to add variety to the diet, not take it away."

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Knowledge bomb: Dr. G talks about the 2 most important times in the day for overall mental and physical optimization. He speaks about the science of sunrise and sunset and how it is evolutionarily essential for healing.

Special guest: Dr. Ashley De Luna joins the show to talk about mental health, the gut and brain connection and parasites. How are they all connected and how do we optimize our health based on these essential factors for health and wellness.

Dr. Ashley de Luna, ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor, craniosacral therapist, yoga instructor, and educator. Her path to medicine began as a curiosity of the true healing capabilities of the human body. She had always known that she wanted to be a doctor and began exploring the different specialties of medicine early on in her education in hopes of finding where she fit in. The more that she discovered these separate areas of specialty, the more she realized that the body must be looked at as a whole. Naturopathic medicine honors the intricate connections of the body as a system with a deep understanding of the innate ability to heal. Dr. de Luna, ND honors individual expressions of imbalance and uses individualized treatments to stimulate the healing mechanisms of the body.

Her practice focuses on women’s health, gut health, mental health, and hormone balancing. She has obtained additional training in functional neurology, developmental disorders, visceral manipulation, and mind-body medicine.

Her mission is to help you understand what YOUR body needs. Her passion is to help show you what your body is capable of.

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Knowledge bomb: Independent investigation find toxic pesticides in Hummus.

Product review: The best and worst hummus brands to get.

Special guest: Dr. Molly Maloof joins the show as a leading medical expert on psychedelic medicine. She talks to us about the state of psychedelics in science and what they are being used for. She covers ketamine, MDMA, Psilocybin, and others. We learn about how these medicines are leading the way in alleviating conditions like depression, PTSD, and anxiety. An incredible convo with a top notch expert.

Guest bio: Dr. Molly Maloof is passionate about extending healthspan through her medical practice, personal brand, and educational endeavors. Dr. Molly provides health optimization and personalized medicine to high achieving entrepreneurs, investors, and technology executives in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She is a lecturer within the Wellness Department of the Medical School at Stanford University where she created a course entitled, "Live Better Longer: Extending Healthspan to Lengthen Lifespan." Since 2012, she has also worked as an advisor or consultant to more than 45 companies in the digital health, consumer health, and biotechnology industries needing help with clinical strategy, product development, clinical research and scientific marketing. Molly Maloof is on the frontier of personalized medicine, digital health technologies, biofeedback assisted lifestyle interventions, and scientifically-based wellness products and services. She is working on patents for a stealth psychedelic pharmaceutical company and is the cofounder of the supplement company Adaptive/IQ. She co-hosts the Psychedelic News Hour every Friday at 11:30 PT within the Psychedelic Clubhouse (which she & her cohost founded) on the app Clubhouse. She is writing a book on biohacking for women with Harper Wave Books.

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G’s myth buster show. Questions include:

Is swimming after eating bad?

Is soy bad for you because it mimics estrogen?

Vitamin D has no effect on Covid?

YOU HAVE to drink your smoothie after blending fast or nutrients deplete?

Protein is a must within 30 minutes of a workout, must eat carbs before a workout?

Diet sodas are more healthy?

Fruit sugar..fine or avoid?

Shouldnt eat mushrooms if worried about mold or candida?

Soaking veggies in baking soda and water helps reduce pesticides?

Organic foods contain higher levels of heavy metals than non organic?

Is it true most diseases are heridary ex cancer?

USDA organic label is not trust worthy?

Eating carbs and protein together is toxic?

Lectins are bad for you?

Red wine is good for you?

Walking barefoot in cold will get you sick?

ACV help with hypochlorhydria?

Absorb chemicals in skin in 20 seconds?

There is no need to detox that is why do we have a liver?

Vegetables will not detox you only fruit?

Melatonin at night will help melatonin production?

Silver fillings are bad?

Kombucha health enhancer or high sugar?

Water bottles are just tap water?

Microwaves kill nutrients?

Special guest segment: Dr. Natasha Beck joins the show to teach us how to empower our children in eating a healthier diet. She drops some tips on how to work with the psychology of a child and their relationship around food. Dr. Beck also speaks about the biggest threats to our children’s health. For anyone with children or planning to have children, this show is a must listen.

Guest bio: Dr. Natasha Beck MPH, Psy.D is a parenting expert and founder of Dr. Organic Mommy, an online resource focused on pregnancy, parenting, and non-toxic living. With 50K loyal and engaged followers who look to her for real-world advice on raising children, Natasha is now known as @dr.organicmommy. She holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, specializing in pediatric neuropsychology, and a Master’s in Public Health, specializing in child and family health. She is also certified in leadership education in neurodevelopmental disabilities from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She serves on the boards of the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) Foundation, Baby2Baby Angel Board, and the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

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Knowledge bomb: Dr. G explores the research on environmental hormonal disruptors that are leading to infertility, drops in sex hormones, miscarriages and the shrinking of penises.

Special guest: Dr. Michael Goran joins the show to talk about his new book Sugarproof and how sugar is effecting our children’s health. He goes into sugar addiction and how the industry has created the normalization of sugar laden foods. He also goes into tips on how to detox our children from sugar. If you have kids this is a must!

Guest bio: Dr. Michael I. Goran, Ph.D. is the Program Director for Diabetes and Obesity Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and The Saban Research Institute Professor of Pediatrics & Atkins Endowed Chair in Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

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Did you know an independent investigation found a known carcinogen (cancer causing chemical) at elevated levels in certain hand sanitizers. Find out if the one you use is on the list Episode #102 of Heal Thy Self. Link in bio to all platforms.

Knowledge Bomb: Benzene, a chemical with no safe level was found in hand sanitizer. What is it and how does it effect our health?

Product Review: Which ones were safe? Which do we avoid? Which hand sanitizers are my personal picks?

Special guest: @clearlightsaunas founder Dr. Duncan joins to talk about the benefits of sauna therapy, living in the moment and peace with death. Little bit of science, little bit of spirituality, lots of good info.

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Knowledge bomb: Investigation finds heavy metal lead in popular fiber powders.

Product review: Which fiber powders to avoid and which are safe.

Special guest segment: Dr. Amy Shah joins the show to teach us what are the main factors behind fatigue. Why are we so tired and how do we start addressing that? She goes into each of her major categories to consider and teaches us how to intervene. One of our favorite interviews yet.

Guest bio: Dr. Shah graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University's world renowned school of nutrition. She went on to receive her Medical Doctorate with Distinction. With training from Cornell, Harvard and Columbia - She helps busy people transform their health using cutting edge nutritional and medical science. Her proven techniques to heal inflammation utilize the power of the microbiome to help digestion, obtain natural hormone balance and heal food sensitivities. She is a well known expert on intermittent fasting for women.

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Knowledge bomb: Forest bathing. What are the evidenced based benefits of immersion in nature?

Special guest segment: Jessica Assaf, founder of Prima, tells us about her story as a teenage non toxic cosmetics advocate. She explains where her passion for education, informed consent and empowerment came from. As the Co-Founder of the top CBD/ functional botanical company she has created a platform to teach us what transparent and high quality organizations should strive for.

Guest bio: Jessica Assaf is the Co-Founder and Chief Education Officer of Prima, a Santa Monica-based B Corp making best-in-class skincare, therapeutic body care and supplements with CBD and functionally innovative botanical ingredients. A graduate of Harvard Business School, award-winning entrepreneur and activist on a mission to use business to improve health, Jessica has been a leading advocate for safe products, corporate accountability, consumer wellness and female empowerment since the age of 15. With a portfolio of nationally recognized work in the beauty and cannabis industries, she is uniquely positioned to provide the CBD industry with the strong feminine leadership it so deserves. In addition to being the co-founder of Prima, Jessica is also the creator of Cannabis Feminist, a female-powered cannabis community, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.

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