Niklas Gustafson: Hungry for Change

Can falling back in love with life change how your body heals?

Dean Hall has worked as a licensed therapist for over 30 years. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 2007 and then lymphoma in 2012. Everyone told him to "fight cancer," but he says it wasn't a fair fight, and he was losing. So he made a radical choice: he stopped fighting cancer and started loving life.

That choice took him into cold, wild water. In 2014, with active leukemia and lymphoma, he became the first person to swim the full 187 miles of Oregon's Willamette River. Later he swam Ireland's River Shannon too. When he finally went back for the blood work he'd been putting off, his doctor said he couldn't find any sign of the leukemia. We get into why Dean traded fear for joy, what cold moving water, sunlight and nature did for him, what he learned about purpose and resilience, and the story he tells in his book, The Wild Cure.

If you want the full story on cold water, nature, and Dean's unlikely path through cancer, watch the full episode: "He swam away from cancer | Dean Hall" here on Hungry for Change.

Follow Dean on his socials:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deanhallofficial/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanhallthewildcureway/Web: https://www.thewildcureway.com/Book (The Wild Cure): https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Cure-Death-Oregons-Longest/dp/1960626000

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A biologist who says cancer was never genetic. A heart surgeon who says most of his operations never had to happen. Ten experts, one pattern none of them planned to admit.

For three years on Hungry for Change I've sat across from doctors, surgeons and scientists and asked them the same question: why are we actually getting sick? Not the answer on the food pyramid. The real one.

This is the best of those conversations. The ten moments I couldn't stop thinking about once the cameras were off, pulled from three years of episodes into one.

New here? This is the fastest way in. Watch the ten below, then follow whichever one gets under your skin into the full conversation. Every episode is linked.

Fair warning: a few of these contradict something you've believed your whole life. That's the point.

Timestamps below. Full episodes linked underneath each. Subscribe if you'd rather hear it from the people doing the work than the ones selling you the product.

Clint Phillips started out as a chiropractor, built it into a healthcare company he sold for $460 million, and along the way ended up treating some of the most powerful people alive.

He'd seen the system work at the highest level money can buy.Then his own family needed it, and it fell apart on him. The waiting. The confusion. The bureaucracy. A parent trying to get the right help while everything moved at its own pace, watching the same system that served world leaders leave the people he loved stuck in line.

That's when healthcare stopped being a business to him. Medici is what he built next: whole-body assessments and real data, made to catch what's coming years before it becomes a crisis.

Then there's Dr. Gabi, the AI doctor he built to give people health guidance that isn't paid by anyone to keep them sick.

Which is where the title stops being hypothetical, Clint made the thing. Whether it should ever replace the doctor across the desk from you is the conversation. What we got into:

— Whether AI ends up replacing your doctor, or doing the opposite and giving you one with the time to actually listen.

— What a 30-second facial scan can read off your face before a single symptom shows.

— Why we feel worse than ever with more doctors, more drugs and more technology than any generation before us.

— Who actually profits when you stay sick, and why prevention is a terrible business model.

— Peptides, microplastics and the longevity tools worth your attention

— How much your body can do on its own, before anyone prescribes anything.

The question underneath the whole conversation with Clint Phillips: why do we wait until the body is already breaking down before we start paying attention?

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clint-phillips/

Web: https://clintphillips.com/Medici: https://medi.ci/

Dr. Gabi: https://drgabi.com/

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Most people over 50 are told to expect some kind of decline: less energy, more weight, more medication, less strength, and eventually, a smaller life.

But Anita Breeze is 67. She takes no medications, hikes every day, and in her mid-50s, after years of obesity, prediabetes, and chronic inflammation, she completely changed her health with a meat-based carnivore diet.

So the question is not just how she did it. The real question is how much of what we call aging is actually the result of years of eating the wrong food.

This conversation is bigger than food. It’s about shame, food addiction, feeling invisible as we age and the belief that after a certain point, change is no longer possible.

By the end of this episode, you may look at aging very differently.

00:00 Intro & guest presentation

00:50 What health REALLY means 

03:41 Who is Anita?

06:41 Her childhood and the diet that broke her

09:40 The moment she knew she had to stop

12:50 Why your relationship with food is broken

18:16 Every single diet she tried (and failed)

19:40 When weight loss stopped being about looking good

33:07 Carnivore vs Lion Diet: the difference nobody explains

35:20 The Lion Diet, finally explained

43:16 From skeptic to full carnivore

44:56 Cravings, addiction & finally feeling full

46:44 What aging really means to her now

1:03:55 What Anita is building next

1:05:13 Goodbyes

Don’t forget to follow Anita Breeze on her socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketogenic.woman/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@KetogenicWoman 

Web: https://ketogenicwoman.com/ 

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Most people eat food without ever facing what it cost.

The land. The animal. The blood. The death. The responsibility.

In this episode, I sit down with Mansal Denton, founder of Sacred Hunting and Real Provisions, for a conversation about the part of nutrition modern life keeps hidden.

This is not just about hunting.

It is about what happens when food becomes too clean on the outside, toxic on the inside, too packaged, too distant from the reality that something had to die so we could live.

Mansal has spent years helping people reconnect with wild, ethically sourced, nutrient-dense food. And in this conversation, we talk about what hunting reveals, what supermarkets hide and why facing where your food comes from may change the way you see meat, health, and nature altogether.

Timestamps: 

00:00 Intro01:05 What does health actually mean?

01:43 Raised by two PhDs: Mansal's unusual upbringing

04:10 From prison at 19 to sacred hunter

08:20 Can you really respect an animal you kill?

12:44 What changes when your food comes from your own hands

15:41 Why our connection to food is completely broken

20:36 What watching an animal die reveals about you

25:10 The hypocrisy of eating meat but refusing to kill

28:22 How to truly honor a hunted animal

31:25 Nose to tail: wasting nothing

44:44 What spiritual connection to food really means

52:44 The Instagram lie about "ancestral" living

55:26 Can you connect to food you didn't hunt yourself?

56:19 Why ethical food doesn't exist

59:50 The lies behind today's food system

1:05:13 Mansel's upcoming projects (Real Provisions & Telos)

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Real provisions: https://www.instagram.com/realprovisions/ 

Sacred Hunting: https://www.instagram.com/sacredhunting/

Website: https://realprovisions.com/

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Heart disease usually starts long before the chest pain.

That’s what Dr. Philip Ovadia learned after performing over 3,000 heart surgeries.

Most people arrive at the operating table thinking it was bad luck, bad genes, or something that came out of nowhere.

But the signs were there for years.

Today we get into what people miss, why “normal” tests can still leave you in danger, what cholesterol does and doesn’t tell you, and how to stay off a heart surgeon’s table in the first place.

Make sure to check Dr. Ovadia’s socials: 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ovadiahearthealth

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifixhearts/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixhearts

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LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/philip-ovadia-heart-health/

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Stay-off-Operating-Table-Metabolic/dp/1737818205/

Appearances: https://ifixhearts.com/podcasts-and-videos/

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What if one of the biggest mistakes in modern nutrition is that we focus on what to eat, but ignore what has to be done to food first?

Because for most of human history, people didn’t just find food. They transformed it. And that may be one of the missing pieces in the health conversation now.

In this episode, Dr. Bill Schindler breaks down how humans made food safer, more digestible, and more nutrient-dense, and why many modern debates completely miss that layer.

We get into ancestral diets, plant toxins, nose-to-tail eating and the question that makes this whole conversation hard to forget: are we overlooking the very thing that made food work for humans in the first place?

Want to join Bill's Ancestral Table (online community)?: https://modernstoneage.circle.so/feed

Interested in Bill's Traditional Food Ways study program? Check it out here: UCC Class: Food Heritage in Action: Turning Tradition into Sustainable Enterprise: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/food-heritage/

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You can eat well, train hard, take supplements, and still feel off if your body is out of sync with light, sleep, and time.

In this episode I sit down with Daniel White, a Registered Nutritionist focused on sleep science and circadian biology, and Jai Kapoor, an AI and tech executive who spent years battling autoimmune psoriasis before rebuilding his life around circadian rhythm and becoming psoriasis-free.

We break down what living “in rhythm” actually means, and why ignoring it quietly disrupts everything from energy to inflammation.

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Web page: https://www.inrhythm.earth/lifestyle

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I’m usually the one asking the questions. Today I’m the one on the spot.

Valentina takes over and asks me about the opinions I’m known for, the ones I’ve softened, and the ones I’ve doubled down on.

We go through the real timeline: what pushed me into animal-based, what didn’t work at first, what finally clicked, and what I think is quietly wrecking people’s health right now without them even noticing.

If you want the “why” behind everything, this is the episode.

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Most people don’t have a fitness problem. They have a metabolism problem.

Coach Bronson lost 70 pounds and learned the hard way why training harder can still leave you stuck.

This episode is about what “metabolic freedom” actually looks like, and the changes that flip everything.

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