We want to do a quick introduction this week as we kick off a series that we hope will educate our listeners on the benefits of medical cannabis for many conditions vs. the standard of care. We’ve partnered up with a great company called Surterra Wellness and you all may have already seen us share about this on social media. We have seen the benefits of cannabis in a lot of people we know who have suffered from a range of issues including PTSD, anxiety, post partum depression, traumatic brain injury, and the list can go on forever. So we really want to demystify this and hopefully shed a lot more light on a very misunderstood subject. And this week we kick it off with Dr. Nicholas Bottaro.

Ali Miller is an Integrative dietitian and founder of Naturally Nourished, a functional medicine private practice. She is also the author of Naturally Nourished: Food-as-Medicine for Optimal Health cookbook, Reset, Restore, Renew: Real Food Detox program, and the anti-anxiety diet. Through corporate outreach and as a public figure, Ali addresses nutrition misconceptions and myths, clarifying the extensive amount of confusing and conflicting information that often saturates the media. She also teaches a really awesome food as medicine virtual ketosis class that educates both patients and regular people, as well as healthcare practitioners. Ali is currently working on the Anti-anxiety diet cook book and we are really excited for that one, as well as having her on the show today!

Katie Kimball, the national voice of healthy kids cooking, is a blogger, former teacher, and mom of 4 kids who founded the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse. Her blog, Kitchen Stewardship helps families stay healthy without going crazy, and she has 8 published cookbooks.

This week’s guest is Marcus Aurelius Anderson. While preparing to deploy with the U.S. Army, Marcus suffered a severe spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His life was turned upside down, and after dying twice on the operating table, he was told he would never be able to walk or use his hands again. Days

This week’s guest is a lifetime natural competitive bodybuilder. He started his Keto Savage site, YouTube channel and podcast to help motivate and educate others about the importance of following your passions and getting the results you want. He wakes up early, he works his butt off and he sees results. His message is that he is no different than you, any success he has experienced this far is attainable for anybody willing to put in the work. He hopes to empower those who crave intensity, dedication, discipline, hard work, and sacrifice. He is more than a friend, he is a brother. And today we are going to dissect his life to reverse engineer how to create a resilient human being. Welcome to the show Robert Orion Sikes.

This weeks guest received his Bachelor of Science in exercise science and Master of Science in Exercise Physiology from BYU. He then got his PHD in Bioenergetics from East Carolina University. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders, and now he is back at BYU where he runs the Laboratory of Obesity and Metabolism. His research focus is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that mediate the disruption that causes and accompanies metabolic disorders, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. Driven by his academic training, he is currently exploring the contrasting roles of insulin and ketones as key drivers of metabolic function. He frequently publishes his research in peer-reviewed journals and presents at international science meetings. I will add that in my personal opinion, if you want to find out more about insulin’s many roles, you need to follow this man on social media! He is always sharing interesting research and it’s not always about insulin only. He is also a family man and a fellow comic book fan, welcome to the show, Dr. Benjamin Bikman.

We are extremely excited to speak to this week’s guest. She is a registered nutritionist, farmer, butcher, hunter, and she lives the kind of life we hope to emulate in the coming years. She is all about nose to tale ancestral nutrition, she is an unschooler, hopelessly devoted mama and wife, and she seems to have drank from the fountain of youth! Welcome to the show, Tara aka @SlowDownFarmstead.