Everything in moderation... We hear it so often, that most people have accepted it as true, especially in the field of nutrition. The problem is that this slogan only works... until it doesn't. In this episode, my guest and I discuss an emerging field of science known as nutrigenomics, or genetic-specific nutrition, which can allow us to use our genetic information to inform our dietary choices for better brain health, digestion, and lower inflammation, hopefully allowing us to break free of the "everything in moderation" slogan.

Shownotes at: https://livedamnwell.com/nutrigenomics/

My guest today is Bob Miller, a Traditional Naturopath specializing in the field of genetic-specific nutrition. He earned his traditional naturopathic degree from Trinity School of Natural Health and is board certified through the ANMA. In 1993, he opened the Tree of Life practice and he has served as a traditional naturopath for 27 years. For the past several years, he has been engaged exclusively with functional nutritional genetic variants and related research, specializing in nutritional support for those with chronic Lyme disease.

In this episode we cover

• What Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are, how they influence our health, and how we can use them to inform our dietary choices
• What oxidative stress is and why it's at the core of most chronic diseases
• How our genes influence our ability to process and eliminate plant antinutrients, handle fermented foods, and convert vitamins into their active forms
• Why bone broth may lower inflammation in one person but increase it in another
• What glutathione is and why it's crucial to our ability to fight infections and fight inflammation

Shownotes at https://livedamnwell.com/nutrigenomics/

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Find Bob Miller at www.tolhealth.com

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

My guest today is Dr. Aaron Tressler, doctor of Chiropractic, Owner of In8Life, President of the Chiropractic Fellowship of Pennsylvania, author, and podcast host. Dr. Tressler's passion for natural health and healing extends back to childhood. Growing up, he suffered with chronic gastrointestinal issues, allergies and sinus problems. His struggles through sports injuries and back pain led him to his first chiropractic experience his senior year at Greensburg Salem High School. And then witnessing his father die from heart disease at age 50, he vowed to never allow this to happen to him and was determined to find an answer. Chiropractic care not only corrected his pain, but also his sickness, and he knew if it could change his life, it would also change the life of thousands of others.

In this episode, we cover:

• How dysfunction of the nervous system is connected to the gastrointestinal (GI) system, digestion, and more
• Why "boosting" your immune system is the wrong way of going about long term health
• Why Dr. Tressler believes in our "innate" ability to heal from many diseases
• Why a severe case of COVID-19 may not be Russian Roulette. Although genetics can play a role in risk of developing severe COVID-19, we might not be looking at ALL of the lifestyle risk factors combined, such as sleep, stress, micronutrient status, metabolic health, and environmental toxins. According to the CDC, 94% of COVID-19 deaths had at least one underlying health condition, many of which are lifestyle based

Shownotes at: https://livedamnwell.com/tressler/

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Links to Dr. Tressler

• www.in8life.com
• @in8life
• www.makingpittsburghhealthy.com
• Free Mini Course: The Naturally Pain Free Workshop - https://www.thepainfreeway.com/

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REFERENCES

1. CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
2. *Correction: Doctors receive ~24 hours of nutrition education, but only 40 US med schools require the minimum 25 hours recommended by the National Academy of Sciences (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430660/)
3. Epidemiology of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32790106/)

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

Diet. Exercise. And... That's pretty much it.

Unfortunately, the mainstream view of health is often limited by nutrition and fitness.

While those two are without a doubt important, there's much more to health than how much you move and how much you put in your mouth.

In this Jungle Talk, I talk about the health effects of light exposure, a forgotten pillar of health.

In this episode, I discuss:

• How light causes cancer––but likely not in the way you're thinking
• How different frequencies of light have different effects on health
• How sunlight is a major control center of our immune health and circadian rhythm and how to reap the full benefits of the sunlight safely
• Using artificial light to simulate the light our hunter gatherer ancestors were exposed to

Shownotes at https://livedamnwell.com/lightandhealth

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References and Resources

• Association of Vitamin D Status and Other Clinical Characteristics With COVID-19 Test Results
• Vitamin D Deficiency- An Ignored Epidemic
• Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Associated Risk Factors in the US Population (2011-2012)
• Optimal Vitamin D Supplementation Levels for Cardiovascular Disease Protection
• Role of epithelial nitric oxide in airway viral infection
• Artificial Light at Night and Cancer: Global Study
• Bright Light Therapy: Seasonal Affective Disorder and Beyond

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

Do you struggle to sleep? You're not alone. In fact, 35-40% of Americans struggle with their sleep. The usual quick fix? Popping melatonin and sleep pills––and subsequently becoming dependent on them to sleep at all! My guest presents a totally novel, root-cause approach to enhancing deep sleep by targeting the gut microbiome.

Dr. Stasha Gominak is a neurologist and researcher who was the first to explain the link between vitamin D deficiency, sleep disorders and the abnormal intestinal microbiome. She is also the creator of the RightSleep® technique, a simple and safe protocol to reinstate a normal microbiome and to improve all sleep disorders

Check out the shownotes at: livedamnwell.com/deepsleep

In this episode we cover

• The different stages of sleep and why sleep is so important for every aspect of health
• Why getting 10 hours of sleep doesn't matter, if you aren't going into Deep Sleep
• How raising vitamin D levels can improve sleep in the short term but set you up for a B vitamin deficiency
• What "sleep switches" are
• How vitamin D, the B vitamins, the gut microbiome affect your sleep
• Dr. Gominak's protocol to recover deep sleep

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Link to Dr. Stasha Gominak

• www.drgominak.com

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

Are you looking forward to growing old?

For most people, I can imagine the answer is likely a resounding no. In fact, only around 40% of Americans are looking forward to old age (https://www.statista.com/chart/17019/looking-forward-to-old-age/).

I was recently in Costa Rica (thus "Jungle Talks"), where I met a pretty remarkable man who made me look forward to old age. Why? Well, I was close to Nicoya which is a well known Blue Zone––a hotspot of longevity, with a disproportionate amount of healthy centenarians. Though this humble cacao farmer I met doesn't technically qualify as a centenarian (he's 93 years old), he's pretty damn close.

As a friend and I stepped onto his property, a frail-looking, fairly short elderly man greeted us with a machete in hand. I immediately saw that he was mentally sharp, as he cracked joke after joke with an aliveness in his voice which is often absent from elderly people.

Though his age in itself is impressive, his physical health was equally, if not more impressive. So naturally, we asked him his secrets to a long, healthy, and fulfilling life.

For scientific references and resources check out the shownotes at: https://livedamnwell.com/defy-aging

In this episode I cover:

• What this Costa Rican man does to support his longevity from diet and sleep to mindset and community
• What the long-lived Blue Zone populations have in common
• Why a rice and beans diet isn't the be all end all
• How emotions influence gene expression
• What does the scientific research say about anti-aging and longevity practices?

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References

• Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
• Which is the Most Reasonable Anti-aging Strategy: Meta-analysis
• Nutrition and longevity - From mechanisms to uncertainties
• The Influence of Social Hierarchy on Primate Health
• Decreasing Lean Body Mass with Age: Challenges and Opportunities for Novel Therapies
• Human longevity is associated with regular sleep patterns, maintenance of slow wave sleep, and favorable lipid profile

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

We often hear the word superfood thrown around, whether or not it actually is "super" (kale, I'm looking at you).

In today's episode, my guest Catharine Arnston, CEO of EnergyBits and speaker, sheds light on a little known food which I believe does indeed deserve the title of superfood. Packed with B vitamins, vitamin A, iron, and chlorophyll, chlorella and spirulina are two amazing plant foods which are some of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, other than organ meats of course.

After Catharine's sister was diagnosed with cancer, Catharine searched for dietary interventions to help strengthen her sister's immune system while she underwent chemo (she's now fully recovered). Through her intensive deep dive into the scientific literature, she came across two foods endorsed by the United Nations and NASA as the most nutrient-dense foods. Years later she founded EnergyBits, a third party tested, sustainable, organic, and carbon-negative company which sought to make algae available to as many people as possible.

So, regardless of whether you're Paleo, Keto, Vegan, or still following the Standard American Diet (SAD), these two types of algae can be very beneficial for anyone looking to upgrade their nutrition, athletic performance, sleep, and immunity.

In this episode we cover

- A battle with cancer and Catharine's search for a nutritional intervention

- Why the United Nations and NASA endorse spirulina and chlorella as the most nutrient-dense foods and the answer to world hunger

- Why most Americans are NOT getting the micronutrients we used to get from food just a few decades ago...

- How Spirulina and Chlorella are being studied as a nutritional strategy to lessen severe cases of COVID-19 and treat patients

- How EnergyBits Spirulina and Chlorella can fit into nearly anyone's lifestyle to improve their health

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Links to Catharine Arnston and EnergyBits

- https://www.energybits.com

- Social media: @energybits

Studies Referenced

• Studies Referenced in podcast
• Effects of spirulina on weight loss and blood lipids: a review
• Prospective options of algae-derived nutraceuticals as supplements to combat COVID-19 and human coronavirus diseases
• Potential of Chlorella as a Dietary Supplement to Promote Human Health
• A randomized study to establish the effects of spirulina in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients
• Role of Spirulina in the Control of Glycemia and Lipidemia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
• Light-harvesting chlorophyll pigments enable mammalian mitochondria to capture photonic energy and produce ATP
• Spirulina in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Human Applications

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

A Japanese therapy developed in the 1980s... It significantly boosts your immune system. It's used to treat anxiety and depression. It's anticancer. The best part is––it's 100% free. What am I talking about? Forest Bathing. And no, it probably doesn't mean what you think it means.

My guest today is Dr. Bartlett Hackenmiller, board-certified physician in integrative medicine and obstetrics and gynecology and author of The Outdoor Adventurer's Guide to Forest Bathing. Dr. Hackenmiller speaks speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of autism, cancer, integrative medicine and nature therapy, emphasizing the powerful science-backed benefits of connecting with nature to reduce stress, improve mental health, and as a much-needed antidote to our busy, stress-ridden modern world.

In this episode we cover

• What is Shinrin Yoku and how––as an OBGYN––Dr. Bartlett Hackenmiller first stumbled upon it
• What are Phytoncides and how do they improve our health?
• How spending time in nature upregulates Natural killer cell activity––the cells responsible for anticancer regulation
• How you can implement "Forest Bathing" into your life

Shownotes at livedamnwell.com/forestbathing

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Links to Dr. Bartlett Hackenmiller

Website: integrativeinitiative.com

Facebook@integrativeinitiative | Instagram @docsuzy

Book: A Friend Like John: Understanding Autism

Book: The Outdoor Adventurer's Guide to Forest Bathing

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

Looking into the past gives us a lens through which to view our present, especially in terms of what humans "should" be eating as a species. But looking into the past is not a panacea––in other words, it's not as simple as: let's just eat what our Paleolithic ancestors ate. Dr. Schindler joins me on the podcast to discuss two critical questions to ask ourselves: What foods were we designed to obtain? What foods were we designed to digest?

Dr. Bill Schindler is the founder and director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab, an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and the costar of the National Geographic series, The Great Human Race, Curiosity Stream’s, The Modern Stone Age Family and Wired Magazine’s series, Basic Instinct and Food Science. He is a food archaeologist, primitive technologist and chef. Bill travels the world documenting traditional food ways and works to draw inspiration from the deep archaeological record, diverse ethnographic record, and modern culinary world to create food solutions that are relevant, meaningful, and accessible today. His work specifically focuses on HOW we should eat instead of simply the type of food we should eat for optimal health. Bill is a strong advocate of traditional foodways and is constantly seeking new ways to incorporate lessons learned from his research into the diets of modern humans including his own family. Bill resides with his wife and three teenaged children in Maryland.

Check out the shownotes at livedamnwell.com/eatlikeahuman

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In this episode we cover

• How do we tackle the complex problem of: what should humans eat for optimal health?
• Is the Paleo diet even relevant?
• How for the first time in human history humans can be both obese and malnourished at the same time
• How genetics affect the way we should eat?

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• Links to Dr. Schindler
• Check out his online courses at www.eatlikeahuman.com
• Social media @drbillschindler

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

Is being a vegan better morally? For the environment? For human health? Or are there actually problems with omitting animal foods from our diet as well as over-consuming plant foods? Brian Sanders shares his insights into these questions and the main problems with the popular claims supporting a vegan diet. If you have yet to listen to part 1 of our conversation, I recommend you give that a listen.

Check out the shownotes at https://livedamnwell.com/sapien2/

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In this episode we cover:

- The morality, environmental impact, and health effects of consuming animal products compared to plant foods

- The documentary Game Changers

- The problem with bioavailability of plant foods and plant defense systems: "anti-nutrients"

- The problems with scientific studies on vegan and plant-based diets

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LINKS AND SOURCES

Links to Brian

• Sapien.org
• nosetotail.org
• Find his film "*Food Lies"* on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and Twitter

Dairy is 32,000 Times more Ethical than Almond Milk?

- https://www.carnivoreisvegan.com/ethics-dairy-vs-almond-milk/

"25 times more sentient beings die to produce a kilo of protein from wheat than a kilo of protein from beef. Thanks to monocultures, mice plagues and our modern farming systems, a hell of a lot of small animals die to produce wheat"

• https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/eating-vegan-the-big-picture/news-story/4945cb421c44440be96e3646c9ed942d?fbclid=IwAR2j1Go45PRtoN43vaBlMN5adaBZu3ElQNRPhBkQf5KHo9oudVrrvyQ2yME

The deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession

-https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.

Fat is bad. Grains are good. Meat is bad. Plants are good. Science is science––it's pretty clear cut and we should never question its validity... right? In this interview Brian Sanders and I discuss the problems with blindly following what we refer to as "The Science", especially as it relates to nutrition, the vilification of animal foods, and the pandemic.

Brian Sanders is the filmmaker behind the feature-length documentary Food Lies and host of the Peak Human podcast. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and then turned to technology and sold an app company. He’s used his technical background and love for fitness & nutrition to also work as a Health Coach and be the co-founder of the health, media, and technology company SAPIEN.

Check out the shownotes at https://livedamnwell.com/sapien1/

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In part 1 we cover:

- Why you should be ultimately skeptical of what Brian and I refer to as "ThE SciEnCe"

- Why you should always seek out dissenting opinions, and why news reporting has come to be so biased regarding nutrition, the pandemic, and science in general

- How animal foods and fats came to be vilified

- How anthropological research shows that humans aren't really progressing, with thinner skulls, underdeveloped jaws, and skyrocketing chronic disease etc.

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- Links to Brian

- Sapien.org

- nosetotail.org

- Search *Food Lies* on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and Twitter

- American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) Studies Showing lockdowns are ineffective

- https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/

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NOT medical advice; not intended to treat, cure or diagnose; this video is merely for educational purposes. YOU are responsible for YOU.