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 77 - JP Sears on Food ...

04.01.2020

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 ...

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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 ...
03.04.2020 Part 71 - Allan Savory on How to Save the World Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa at the University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the ...
02.26.2020 Part 70 - Dr. Tommy Wood on How to Maintain a Healthy Brain and Body Into Old Age & Crush Life in the Present Holy smokes were coming in strong with season 6. This one with Dr. Tommy Wood is pretty special. We also have the legendary Allan Savory next week. Get ready now by watching his world famous TED talk on YouTube. Dr. ...
02.19.2020 Part 69 - Mark Schatzker on the Hidden Secrets of Which Foods Are Killing You Hi there friends. This is Brian Sanders who’s name and photo is now featured on the cover of this podcast. I’m the guy who’s making the Food Lies film which has taken up much of the last 2 years of ...
02.12.2020 Part 68 - Dr. Ben Bikman, Dr. Jaime Seeman, and Dr. Aseem Malhotra Give a Health Masterclass Hey, hey, how is everyone doing out there? Spectacular I assume. Not many updates this week. I’m just working away on the Food Lies film and the new interviews we got. You can still support it on Indiegogo by clicking ...
02.05.2020 Part 67 - John & Molly from The Biggest Little Farm on Feeding the World with Regenerative Practices Hello there beautiful people, I’m just getting back from an extraordinary weekend at the Metabolic Health Summit. I’d highly recommend it next year and I believe they have some super discounted tickets on sale now. I don’t know how much ...
01.29.2020 Part 66 - David Montgomery, PhD on The Foundation of Human & Environmental Health - The Soil: Regenerative Farming & Growing a Revolution Hello there, we’re back for Season 6! I can’t wait to kick this off and I’m really sorry it took so long to arrive. I had a million things going on working on the Food Lies film back home in ...
12.19.2019 Part 65 - Mike Mutzel, MS Proves the Safety & Effectiveness of Ketogenic Carnivore Diets, Fasting, Metabolism, Autophagy & More Welcome Back! I'm about to takeoff to Hawaii to work on the Food Lies film with the amazing Director, Jay. I got to do this podcast in person with the very awesome Mike Mutzel AKA Metabolic Mike. We ran outside ...
12.10.2019 Part 64 - Did James Wilks Get Anything Right Against Chris Kresser? With Paul Saladino MD Alright everyone, I’m fired up about this one! Dr. Paul Saladino was up in LA yesterday and we recorded some gold here. We spent the weekend digging through studies to give the much needed rebuttal to the “debate” between James ...
12.04.2019 Part 63 - Gabe Brown on the Little Known Truth About Cows, Crops, the Environment, and Our Future Hello, hello good people, I hope you all had a joyous Thanksgiving. I certainly did with some friends up in Seattle for a SAPIEN style dinner, finishing the Game Changers DEBUNKED film, having the awesome Meat-Up and film viewing, hanging ...
11.20.2019 Part 62 - Dr. Jaime Seeman on Body Composition, Hormones, Thyroid, Women’s Health, and Meat Hey, hey, we’re back. Let’s get straight to it. I gotta get back to working on the Game Changers DEBUNKED film. Please support that on http://Indiegogo.com/projects/gamechangers-debunked or click through the show notes. Just to make sure, I want to let ...
11.13.2019 Part 61 - Dr. Joan Ifland on How to Conquer Food Addiction, and the Behavioral, Emotional, and Mental Component of Eating Hello everyone, welcome back to the time of week where I get to share another fantastic guest with you. I try to get all kinds of thought leaders and experts covering a wide variety of topics that pertain to your ...
11.05.2019 Part 60 - Dr. Ted Naiman on Weight Loss, Health, and Fitness SOLVED: The P:E Diet Hello, hello beautiful people, how great is it to be alive and well in 2019? I’m Brian Sanders and this is Peak Human where I talk to the leading experts around the world about all things health, food, exercise, food ...
10.30.2019 Part 59 - Ken Berry, MD on Why You Shouldn’t Take Advice From a Fat Doctor, Fatty Meat Keto, and Egyptian Mummies Hello. We’re back. I’m Brian Sanders and I’m excited to share another great episode with you lovely people. Dr. Ken Berry is the author of the great book “Lies My Doctor Told Me,” he’s a speaker, he’s got an awesome ...
10.23.2019 Part 58 - Dr. Cate Shanahan on the True Human Diet, Why Athletes Fail on Vegan Diets, and Bringing Nose to Tail Animal Foods to the NBA Hello there Sapien Tribe! That’s right, we’re a tribe now. This is very fitting to me and we have a lot of great people leading the way. I’m going to make pages for each of them on http://Sapien.org I’m talking ...
10.16.2019 Part 57 - Dr. Ben Bikman on the Secret Tool for Burning Fat, How to Eat Protein Properly, and Metabolism Mysteries Explained Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls. Season 5 is here. I took a short break to collect some more interviews and put out a few episodes of the new SAPIEN podcast. You can check that out on youtube ...
09.18.2019 Part 56 - Nina Teicholz on Meat, Butter, Bread, Cholesterol, and Fat: How Did We Get Them So Wrong? Hello, hello healthy people. Have you been eating a sapien diet recently? Are you feeling better than ever? Or is it just me? Many people are probably doing it without even realizing it. It’s basically just a high animal food, ...
09.12.2019 Part 55 - Dr. Anthony Jay on Decoding your DNA, Avoiding Male Feminization, and Epigenetics Hey everyone out there in podcast land, we’re back for another great episode. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Anthony Jay this week. He’s probably best known for his book Estrogeneration where he explores how all the nasty ...
09.06.2019 Part 54 - Chris Masterjohn, PhD Questions Carnivore Alright everyone, we’re back, Brian Sanders here with another episode of Peak Human where I talk to the leading experts around the world about health, nutrition, exercise, and how to live a long and healthy life. I’m a bit behind ...
08.28.2019 Part 53 - Dr. Sara Place on The Real Impact of Beef on the Environment Hey hey, what’s going on healthy friends? Is everyone eating densely and moving intensely? People have been saying I should make shirts or stickers for that phrase. Anyone want to help design that? I want it to look really cool. ...
08.21.2019 Part 52 - Dr. Zsofia Clemens on How to Cure Almost Any Modern Disease Without Medicine Alright, we’re back! We got Dr. Zsofia Clemens from Paleomedicina in Hungary. They’re doing groundbreaking stuff over there curing all types of diseases mainstream medicine believes are incurable. And you know what - they use zero medications. Their whole thing ...
08.14.2019 Part 51 - Vinnie Tortorich on Fat: a Documentary and Where We Went Wrong in Nutrition & Health We got Vinnie Tortorich in the house for some not nutrition talk, his film FAT, my film Food Lies, and the crazy world that is our little health space we occupy. We actually almost made Food Lies together before we ...
08.08.2019 Part 50 - Fredrik the Sami Reindeer Herder Live From the Arctic Circle Live, from the arctic circle, please welcome Fredrik Prost. This is such an interesting episode. One day I’m watching epic nature shows from NatGeo about a group of people subsisting in the freezing arctic tundra on nothing but reindeer and ...
07.31.2019 Part 49 - How to Lose Half Your Body Size, Conquer Food Addiction, Fix Your Skin, Gain Libido, and More Are you guys ready for this? This episode is 7 months in the making and has a ton of interesting takeaways. We have ex-679 pound Jeff, a fruitarian college wrestler, and a woman who no joke looks like a completely ...
07.24.2019 Part 48 - Dr. Gary Shlifer on The Flawed Medical System, Nutrition Dogma, and Solutions Through Ancestral Principles And we’re back from Canada with amazing footage in hand. The film tour was a huge success. I posted a bunch of stuff from Tara’s farm on Instagram that you have to check out I’m @food.lies and she is @slowdownfarmstead. ...
07.18.2019 Part 47 - The Great Meat Debate w/ Mark Sisson, Dr. Paul Saladino, & Dr. Shawn Baker Ohhh man we have a special one today, everyone. I didn’t want to release this as a podcast but hey, why not? I had some of the superheroes of meat eating in one film studio, so I had to take ...
07.11.2019 Part 46 - Alyse Parker (RawAlignment) on Going From Vegan Celebrity to an Animal Based Diet Hey Hey welcome back. Thanks for listening and thanks for all the kind words about this podcast. I get tons of messages and emails weekly and the stories of change are inspiring. It helps to keep me going and put ...
07.04.2019 Part 45 - Miki Ben-Dor, PhD on The Humans Eating Fatty Meat For All of History Alright we have a special episode today. We’re lucky to hear all about Miki’s new paper looking at the complete story of our dietary past and humans being high-trophic level carnivores. He gave me a sneak peak at this awesome ...
06.27.2019 Part 44 - Keith Baar, PhD on How to Live Long & Live Strong Aaand we’re back! Season 4 is coming in hot with some great guests and some more interesting formats. I have some special episodes coming up like the meat-eating heroes panel that we filmed for Food Lies with Mark Sisson, Dr. ...
05.30.2019 Part 43 - Dr. Dale Bredesen and the End of Alzheimer’s, How YOU Can Prevent it, and Hope for All Degenerative Diseases This is an interview I’ve been looking forward to for years. Dr. Dale Bredesen is shaking up the medical world by showing that Alzheimer’s actually can be prevented, treated, and sometimes even reversed. This is really important to me because ...
05.23.2019 Part 42 - Abel James the Fat Burning Man on Ancestral Eating, Optimal Living, and Diet Wars Hello again, my friends. Welcome back, I’m Brian Sanders and this the podcast that you just turned on and don’t need a reminder on what it’s called. But maybe you need a reminder of my name because I didn't put ...
05.16.2019 Part 41 - Dr. Frank Mitloehner Dismantles Every Myth You’ve Ever Heard about Cows, Methane, Climate Change, Animal Welfare, The Environment, Meat Eating, and More You guys are in for a treat. Dr. Frank Mitloehner is about to destroy every argument every anti-meat propaganda spewing know-it-all has ever let slip from their quinoa-loving lips. I’d list them all to get you fired up, but it ...
05.10.2019 Part 40 - Paul Saladino, MD: Animal Food vs. Plant Food, The Conclusion We’re back for the conclusion of this mighty animal vs. plant food discussion. Paul is a beast on this science and I think it’s really interesting to think about this in a whole new way than most of the mainstream ...
05.02.2019 Part 39 - Paul Saladino, MD on Everything You Thought You Knew About Food Might Be Wrong Wow. Get ready for this one, everyone. Paul and I have been talking constantly for weeks and we have something special for you. This is a 2 part, 4 hour series that covers everything you can imagine on plant and ...
04.25.2019 Part 38 - Chris Bell on Family, Addiction, Carnivore, Life, & Documentaries Welcome back everyone, I’m Brian Sanders and I’m the founder of Sapien.org and the filmmaker behind the feature-length documentary Food Lies. Today we have fellow filmmaker and neighbor of mine, Chris Bell. We’re making similar films and have a lot ...
04.18.2019 Part 37 - Sally Norton, MPH on Oxalates, Plants Hurting Your Health, and Never Eating Spinach Again Sally Norton has a degree in nutrition from Cornell University and a Masters of Public Health from the UNiversity of North Carolina. She managed a five-year, National Institute of Health-funded program at the UNC Medical School. She’s a nutrition consultant, ...
04.11.2019 Part 36 - Dr. Mark Cucuzzella & Zach Bitter on Fat Adapted Running, Fine Tuning Your Body, and Helping the Community Today we have a double header with 2 great figures as well as athletes in the low carb community. Zach Bitter is the 100 mile American record holder and 12 hour world record holder for ultramarathons. He hosts the Human ...
04.03.2019 Part 35 - Dr. Thomas Seyfried on Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, More Effective Therapies, and Treating it Without Toxicity Dr. Thomas Seyfried is a Professor of Biology at Boston College, and received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. He then worked as an assistant professor in the neurology department at the Yale school of ...
03.27.2019 Part 34 - Dave Feldman on a New Way to Look at Cholesterol, Increasing Health Markers with Fat, and Lowering LDL with a Bad Diet Dave Feldman is a senior software engineer, lipid and cholesterol investigator, and self-experimenter. He’s done a ton of tests on himself over the past 4 years that are making huge waves in the nutrition world. He’s helping the world rethink ...
03.20.2019 Part 33 - Mark Sisson on Metabolic Flexibility, Ancestral Health, and How to Live Long & Drop Dead Today I’m talking to the legendary Mark Sisson. For many people, including myself, he’s the person who got them interested in ancestral health and sent them down a path of feeling great, losing weight, curing problems they didn’t even know ...
03.13.2019 Part 32 - Stephan Guyenet, PhD on the Brain Controlling Body Fatness, Your Food Environment, and Low Carb Controversy Today we’re talking to Stephan Guyenet who has a degree in biochemistry and a PhD in neuroscience. He’s spent over 12 years in the neuroscience research world studying neurodegenerative disease and the neuroscience of body fatness. He wrote a great ...
03.06.2019 Part 31 - Dr. Jeff Volek on Carb Intolerance, Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, and Personalized Nutrition I talk to a lot of great people on this podcast but this may be the man who really knows this stuff at the deepest level and most qualified to talk about fat adaptation and ketogenic diets & therapies. He ...
02.27.2019 Part 30 - Dr. Tro on the Psychology of Obesity, Losing 150 Pounds (and how to do the same), and Not Even Knowing Why He Was Fat Welcome back, everyone. I’m working hard to make each episode very informative and get great guests that bring something unique to the table. I go for quality over quantity. I love having guests with new messages and insights that we ...
02.20.2019 Part 29 - Dr. Gary Fettke on the History of the Anti-meat Agenda, Disinformation, and Being Silenced by his Medical Board Season 3 is in full swing with worldwide leaders in their field talking about the latest science of nutrition and health. To catch people up I’m Brian Sanders and I’ve quit my job and dedicated my life to studying health ...
02.14.2019 Part 28 - Dr Ryan Lowery on the Benefits of Being Fat Adapted, Life Extension, and Positivity Aaaaand we’re back! Thanks for waiting patiently for season 3. We have an all-star lineup of guests and many interviews already in the can ready to be released. To catch people up I’m Brian Sanders and I’ve quit my job ...
12.19.2018 Part 27 - Sally Fallon Morell on the Wise Traditions of our Ancestors & Weston A. Price Sally Fallon Morell is the director and co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She’s spent the last 20 years doing amazing work to promote the wise traditions of our ancestors and their farming, preparation, and consumption of foods. She’s ...

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