Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

By Brian Sanders - Filmmaker of Food Lies & Health Coach

Alternative Health Medicine

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Peak Human is a 13 part audio series covering all aspects of health and nutrition. It is produced ad-free to support the documentary 'Food Lies' currently being crowdfunded on Indiegogo.

World renowned doctors, researchers, and journalists are interviewed as we find out what is the true human diet that we should all be eating to live an optimally and be free of chronic disease.

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Part 121 - Marty Kendall on...

04.14.2021

We’re back with Marty Kendall, my nutrient density brother from another mother! I’ve been following his work since we recorded our first episode 2.5 years ago and he’s always doing something interesting and informative. We cover a very interesting “scandal” ...

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04.14.2021 Part 121 - Marty Kendall on Protein Confusion, Flawed Rodent Research, Nutrient Density, Satiety, and Insulin We’re back with Marty Kendall, my nutrient density brother from another mother! I’ve been following his work since we recorded our first episode 2.5 years ago and he’s always doing something interesting and informative. We cover a very interesting “scandal” ...
03.31.2021 Part 120 - The Datoga, Chagga, and Transition to Village & City Living in Africa - Our Experience in Tanzania & Uganda (w/ Mary Ruddick, CNC) Here we are at the end of the 4 part Africa series with my amazing friend Mary Ruddick. If you haven’t listened to the previous 3, I’d suggest going back and starting at the beginning. I’d really recommend doing this ...
03.24.2021 Part 119 - The Batwa (Pygmies) of Uganda - What We Learned From Our Time with Them (w/ Mary Ruddick, CNC) Hello my friends, it’s time for another episode with the wonderful Mary Ruddick on our journey through Africa. This episode we make it over to Uganda and travel 10 hours to the Bwindi impenetrable forest to visit the Batwa tribe, ...
03.17.2021 Part 118 - Rob Stuart on Complete Skin Health - Reversing Eczema, Psoriasis, Dermatitis and More w/ Diet & Lifestyle Hi there, everyone! This is your host Brian Sanders founder of http://Sapien.org, http://NoseToTail.org, and creator of the upcoming Food Lies film! We’re back with a little break from the episodes with Mary on our trip to Africa for an awesome ...
03.12.2021 Part 117 - The Hadza of Tanzania - What We Learned From Our Time with Them (w/ Mary Ruddick, CNC) Hello friends, we’re back for another African adventure. I implore you to watch the youtube version of this interview on the Food Lies youtube channel. I spent a very long time adding in all the photos and videos that we ...
03.10.2021 Part 116 - The Maasai of Tanzania - What We Learned From Our Time with Them (w/ Mary Ruddick, CNC) Welcome back from the break everyone and welcome to season 9 of the Peak Human podcast! I’m Brian Sanders and I’m back from Africa with some stories! What an epic journey! I went there with Mary Ruddick, her boyfriend Drako ...
02.05.2021 Part 115 - Dr. Cate Shanahan & Tucker Goodrich on the True Cause of Disease and How We Know This Today is a special show that I really enjoyed with 2 guests - Dr. Cate Shanahan and Tucker Goodrich. I had Tucker on years ago for episode 20 and he laid out the entire case against seed oils which was ...
01.28.2021 Part 114 - Kyle Mamounis, PhD on Extreme Diet Experiments, the Cause of Metabolic Disease & Insulin Resistance, and the Problem with Nutrition Science We jump in the weeds pretty quick but it gets better as it goes on. This is an interesting one with a scientist who’s studying mice and looking at how different fats affect disease. Kyle was on a mission to ...
01.20.2021 Part 113 - Ben Pakulski on How to Overcome Your Genetics (and Past), the Most Efficient Way to Build Muscle, and How to Eat Welcome back everyone! I’m Brian Sanders and this is Peak Human - the podcast where you start back at episode 1! I met Ben at our Toronto MeatUp in 2019 and really like him - maybe it’s because he eats ...
01.13.2021 Part 112 - Judy Cho, NTP on Healing the Gut with Animal Based Diets Welcome back to show everyone, I hope everyone is doing well, and I hope everyone is starting back at episode 1 to make sure to catch all the great info. This is supposed to be an audio series on health ...
01.06.2021 Part 111 - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on Living Long & Strong with Muscle Mass, Protein, and Not Believing The Meat Myths! Dr. Lyon practices muscle-centric medicine which focuses on the most important organ in the body! She received her doctorate in osteopathic medicine from the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board-certified in family medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree ...
12.30.2020 Part 110 - Robb Wolf on Freedom, Censorship, Germ vs. Terrain, Protein & Lifespan, Seed Oils, Seafood, and Electrolytes This interview has been a long time coming. I’ve always loved everything Robb has been doing over the years. He’s been doing great work in this space far before I had a clue about health. It was a treat to ...
12.23.2020 (SAPIEN) Dr. Gary Rants - Follow up on Pandemic Clinical Experience This is a short episode I did with Dr. Gary - we do these in between episodes on the SAPIEN podcast. Please subscribe to SAPIEN as well as Peak Human! We have guests live in our studio with 4 cameras ...
12.17.2020 The True Nature of Disease Down to the Mitochondrial Level and the Complex Orchestra of Crucial Vitamins & Minerals Morley Robbins is the creator of The Root Cause Protocol. Morley (aka. “Magnesium Man”) is one of the foremost experts on Magnesium’s role in the body, and the delicate dance Magnesium plays with Iron, Copper, and Calcium. In 2012, Morley ...
12.09.2020 Part 108 - Michael Crawford, PhD on Seafood and Human Evolution, Mental Health, and Magical DHA Hello, hello everyone, it’s time for another great guest on the Peak Human podcast. I’m Brian Sanders the founder of Sapien.org, NoseToTail.org, and creator of the Food Lies film that I continue to work on daily while I do these ...
12.02.2020 Part 107 - Dr. Jason Fung on the New Cancer Paradigm & What You Can Do To Prevent It Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist. graduated from the University of Toronto and completed his residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He’s a world-leading expert on intermittent fasting and low ...
11.18.2020 Part 106 - Dr. Sean O’Mara on the Most Important (and Little Known) Marker of Health, the Key to Strong Leadership, and How to Look Like a Model in 7 Days We're back for round 2 with the one and only Dr. Sean O'Mara! We get into much greater detail than last time on things like visceral fat, physical markers of disease that track better than certain blood markers, the importance ...
11.11.2020 Part 105 - Nose to Tail Eating, Omega 6 to Omega 3 Ratio, PUFA Problems, Fatty Beef Snacks, and Beef Tallow Body Care Hello beautiful people, welcome back. This episode is a special one and I won’t do a whole intro. I’ll just let you know there’s 3 different interviews starting with one of the original grass fed, grass finished ranchers in America ...
10.28.2020 Part 104 - Max Lugavere on Using Acute Stress to Fight Chronic Stress This is a Sapien podcast preview episode - subscribe to the Sapien podcast on your podcast app and watch the video version from our new studio on the Food Lies youtube channel. The new products are live on NoseToTail.org GET ...
10.21.2020 Part 103 - Kiran Krishnan on the Immune Health, Herd Immunity, Viral Exposure, Microbiome, Gut Health, and More! Kiran Krishnan is a Research Microbiologist who has been involved in the nutrition industry for the past 17 years. His early work involved hands-on Research and Development in the fields of molecular medicine and microbiology at the University of Iowa. ...
10.14.2020 Part 102 - Joel Salatin on Regenerative Ag, Forest Fires, Immunity Secrets, Fake Meat, and Wasting Plant Foods Joel F. Salatin (born February 24, 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm ...
10.07.2020 Part 101 - Michael Rose, PhD Can Humans live until 200? Does Aging Stop? Dr. Michael Rose is one of the world’s leading scientists in aging, biological immortality, and human evolution. He is Director and Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. He has been doing ...
09.30.2020 Part 100 - Dr. Steven Lin on Proving the Superiority of Native Animal-Based Diets Using Modern Science & Dental Health Dr. Steven Lin is a world leading functional dentist, TEDx speaker and author of the International #1 Amazon Best Selling Book, The Dental Diet. As a passionate preventative, whole health-advocate, Dr. Lin focuses on the understanding of dental disease through ...
09.23.2020 Part 99 - Leigh Broadhurst, PhD on How to Feed Your Brain and How Our Brains Doubled in Size Dr. C. Leigh Broadhurst is a research geochemist and physical chemist with the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is an expert on polyunsaturated fatty acid physical chemistry and ...
09.16.2020 Part 98 - Mary Ruddick, CNC Part 2 - Gut Microbiome, Finding a Healing Diet, Mental Illness, Plant vs. Animal Foods, Holobiome, and More! Wow what a response to the first part with Mary! I’m so glad everyone enjoyed her as much as I did. So much more great stuff in our part 2. Stick around until the end - everything she has to ...
09.09.2020 Part 97 - Mary Ruddick, CNC (Sherlock Holmes of Health) on Reversing Disease, Debunking Blue Zones, Lifelong Health, and Ancestral Eating We’re back for season 8 of the podcast. I took an unannounced break to work on the Food Lies film and make sure I’m getting top quality episodes and guests. I really don’t want to just crank these out each ...
08.12.2020 Part 96 - Dr. Paul Saladino on PUFAs, Insulin Resistance, Visceral Fat, and Longevity Hey hey everybody, hope you're ready for another information dense episode. We have Dr. Paul Saladino back on to dive deep on how insulin resistance develops. This is a perfect follow up to Dr. Ben Bikman on the last episode ...
08.05.2020 Part 95 - Dr. Ben Bikman on The Root Cause of Chronic Disease and What to Do About It Hello everyone! Welcome back. Today we have everyone’s favorite Dr. Ben Bikman for another engaging discussion. My name is Brian Sanders and I’m creating the Food Lies film which we’re actively working on daily. I’ve been doing social media, youtube ...
07.29.2020 Part 94 - Rob Tuncks on Plant Foods Causing More Deaths, Why Are We Told to Eat 80% Plant Foods, and Is It Possible to Feed the World? Food/population graph mentioned in the episode: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqqlf9jjqrwjnie/food_population.jpg?dl=0 Hello my friends, we’re back at it with another super interesting episode. I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the much anticipated Food Lies film. You can follow along with the progress as well ...
07.22.2020 Part 93 - Dr. Mindy Pelz on the Ultimate Superpower: Immune Health and How to Increase it w/ Food, Fasting, and the Gut Microbiome Hey everyone, welcome back. I have a great one this week. Dr. Mindy and I had a really fun discussion while she also dispensed a lot of useful info. We covered the science and benefits of fasting in great detail ...
07.15.2020 Part 92 - Glenn Livingston, PhD on Binge Eating, the Reptilian Brain, and Mastering Your Relationship with Food Hi friends, thanks for joining me for another episode of Peak Human, I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the much anticipated Food Lies film. You can follow along with the progress as well as get daily valuable content on the ...
07.08.2020 Part 91 - Briana Pobiner, PhD on Meat-Eating Throughout Human History Hey there everyone, I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. Los Angeles tried to cancel it by closing all the beaches, the one place that would assumably be safe to spend some time outdoors with friends ...
06.30.2020 Part 90 - Aviaja Hauptmann, PhD on Traditional Inuit Animal-Based Diets & Fighting the Plant-Based Agenda That’s Killing Her People Well hello again Sapien people. I’m really excited about this episode. I feel like I’ve found another gem from the far reaches of the globe. Aviaja is of Inuit descent and was born in Greenland where she continues to do ...
06.23.2020 Part 89 - Dr. Brian Lenzkes on The Future of Medicine, Aligning Incentives, and Fixing the Broken Healthcare (Sickcare) System Hello everyone, we’re here with another fresh episode of Peak Human, hot off the press. I’ve been recording these each week and posting them within a few days to make sure they’re current and relevant. For those of you who ...
06.17.2020 Part 88 - Dr. Phil Maffetone on the Overfat Pandemic, Improving Your Immune System, and the Benefits of Running on Fat Hello again beautiful people! I hope everyone is doing well. Since I can’t ask how you’re doing, I’ll just skip straight to myself. I’m getting loaded with vitamin D daily and chowing down on Nose to Tail meat like it’s ...
06.09.2020 Part 87 - Dr. Bill Schindler on Meat & Human Evolution, Should Humans Eat Dairy or Grains, and the Real Story of Food Processing Hello everyone, welcome back. I’ve been getting a lot of questions on dairy, grains, food processing, and what humans evolved to eat. This is a very nuanced topic so I wanted to do a thorough podcast with probably the best ...
06.02.2020 Part 86 - Cate Shanahan, MD on Unlocking Your Body’s Fat Burning Potential, Sinister Seed Oils, and Corona Thoughts Hey, hey! How’s everyone doing? We’re living in some strange times. I really hope we find a way to end racism in the US and the world and I hope justice is served for that horrible police officer. I’m here ...
05.27.2020 Part 85 - Stu Philips, PhD on How to Lose Fat While Gaining Muscle, How Much Protein to Eat, and Busting Protein Myths Welcome back, everyone! I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend and got a chance to soak up some sun, get some vitamin D, see friends and family, and eat some glorious meats. I know I did. If you're ...
05.20.2020 Part 84 - Dr. Paul Mason on Fiber Myths, Gluten, Lectins, Salt, Blood Pressure, Carnivore, Microbiome, and COVID Hi again everyone, another week has begun! We’ve slipped into season 7 without a break in the action. There’s no time for a pause, there’s so many interesting people to talk to. If you're new to this podcast, I’m Brian ...
05.12.2020 Part 83 - Ivor Cummins on Vitamin D, the Immune System, Severe COVID Cases, and Locking People in Their Homes Hey there friends, hope everyone is well. I’m on a vitamin D roll over here with another great guest talking about how it is a central part of almost every system in our body, including (and maybe most importantly these ...
05.06.2020 Part 82 - Dr. Joel Gould on Vitamin D, Sunlight, the Immune System, and Coronavirus Hello, hello! What a beautiful day it is to be alive and well. I hope everyone is getting outside and getting some sun each day if they live someplace where that is possible. If not, at least getting outdoors and ...
04.28.2020 Part 81 - Dr. Michael Eades on What Humans Evolved to Eat & What Happens When You Stray From That Welcome back everyone! Thanks for tuning in and I hope you are putting your health first during this time. In case anyone is wondering, I'm working on the Food Lies film daily and we’re still trying to get it out ...
04.22.2020 Part 80 - Dr. Nadir Ali on Why Plant Sterols Are Bad, LDL Can Be Good, and ApoE4 Does Not Mean You’ll Get Alzheimer’s Hello, hello my healthy friends! Here’s some news for you - I don’t have Sars-CoV-2. I did the antibody test at Evolve Healthcare with Dr. Gary who co-founded Sapien with me. He has some tests if anyone is nearby. I ...
04.14.2020 Part 79 - Dr. Sean O’Mara MD, JD on Measuring True Health, Visceral Fat, and Are All Calories Created Equal? Hey everyone out there in quarantine land, how’s everyone doing? Hopefully you’re holding strong and eating nutrient dense Sapien foods instead of ordering takeout. And going for walks in the sun and doing workouts in your living room. This is ...
04.08.2020 Part 78 - Chris Knobbe, MD on Vegetable Oils: The Hidden Killer Hello again my friends, hope you continue to stay healthy and sane in these tumultuous times. I did another livestream with a health professional and just uploaded it to youtube. This time it was with an ICU nurse working in ...
04.01.2020 Part 77 - JP Sears on Food Religion, Plant Medicine, Awakening, Humor, Health, and Happiness Hello friends. Hope everyone is faring well in these challenging times. Hopefully this episode lightens the mood and lifts people’s spirits a bit. My guest today is JP Sears who’s a super funny guy and a popular comedian touring the ...
03.27.2020 Part 76 - Pulmonary doctor treating COVID on the front lines in NYC - Dr. Lina Miyakawa Hey everyone, we got a special episode here. My friend Dr. Lina Miyakawa is with us today live from New York City. She’s a pulmonary ICU specialist and is treating coronavirus cases in Mt. Sinai hospital in Manhattan. She went ...
03.25.2020 Part 75 - Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Our Absurd Obsession with LDL, Hospitals Required to Serve Junk Food, and Banning Sugar Hello, hello everyone! I hope everyone is staying safe and properly sequestering themselves in their own homes. The big thing I’m focusing on and I hope other people are as well, is keeping myself healthy and productive. We can make ...
03.17.2020 Part 74 - Full Coronavirus (COVID-19) Actionable Advice & Info w/ Dr. Katelyn Kalstein & Dr. Gary Shlifer Special episode on the Coronavirus COVID-19 with actionable advice and full info download. Dr. Katelyn Kalstein is a Naturopathic Doctor and new member of Evolve Healthcare Find her at http://instagram.com/drkalstein Dr. Gary Shlifer is the Founder of Evolve Healthcare and ...
03.11.2020 Part 73 - Alex Leaf, MS, CISSN on Some New Ideas on Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and the Carnivore Diet Hello good people, we have a fun one today covering a lot of things. We covered so much we didn’t even get to all the stuff I initially wanted to talk to Alex about. He had 2 good blog posts ...

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