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9:10 - Natasha's Background

10:15 - The Familial Connection

12:05 - GAPS Protocol Effect On Autism Symptoms

14:00 - Development In Children

23:40 - Recovery At Any Age

26:00 - Autoimmunity "Mimicry Phenomenon"

28:45 - Toxins Anchoring In The Body

30:05 - Inflammation & Collagen

33:45 - Developing Antibodies

39:55 - The Immune System & The Gut Wall

40:45 - Removing Toxicity

42:05 - Is There A "Memory" Of Antibodies In The Immune System

43:45 - Where Is The Immune System?

46:35 - Collagen And Glyphosate

49:25 - Quality Meat And Produce

51:55 - Monocultures

54:05 - Farmer's Market

1:00:00 - Vegetarianism/Veganism

1:04:25 - Microbes And Plant Fiber

1:06:30 - Absorption In The Intestines

1:07:55 - Cell Regeneration

1:09:45 - Plant And Fat From Plants

1:13:05 - Fermentation

1:13:55 - Why Do We Eat Plants?

1:15:00 - GAPS Patients

1:17:35 - Meat Stock

1:20:45 - Bone Broth 

1:23:10 - Living Without Plants

1:27:30 - Fasting

1:28:15 - Removal Of Toxic Foods

1:29:05 - Food Cravings

1:37:05 - Loma Linda & Indigenous Cultural Diets

1:42:35 - Longevity

1:44:25 - The Theory Of Entropy

1:47:15 - The Research Into The Life Force

1:48:15 - The Moment Of Death

1:51:25 - Stem Cells

1:56:05 - Healing

1:58:45 - Cancer

2:00:05 - Heavy Metals And Fungal Overgrowth

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10:25 - Glen Matten's Personal Story

12:00 - Antioxidants

14:40 - What Are The Beneficial Plant Compounds?

15:20 - Phytonutrients

20:45 - How We Benefit From Plant Foods

22:30 - Hormetic Stress

24:15 - Xenohormesis

27:00 - The Carnivore Debate

29:45 - Olive Oil, Cocoa Flavonoids, Red Wine And Coffee

31:15 - Blue Zones

32:00 - Being A Dietary Agnostic

33:40 - Plants As Signaling Molecules

35:00 - What Are Sirtuins?

40:00 - What The 7 Sirtuins Are Responsible For

42:20 - The Connection Between Fasting And Sirtuin Activation

46:35 - Antioxidants While Fasting

48:45 - Sirtuin Activation

53:50 - The Difference Between Fasting And Sirtuin Activation

1:00:50 - The First 7 Days Of The Sirtfood Diet

1:05:10 - Gaining Muscle

1:10:15 - Leucine

1:12:45 -PI3 Kinase, AMPK, MTor

1:19:20 - Home Gardens

1:20:05 - Wine

1:24:25 - Dry Farming

1:25:05 - Chocolate & Cocoa

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1:32:00 - A Diet Of Inclusion

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8:10 - Sally's Background

10:55 - Mis-Education

13:00 - Sally's Health History

15:45 - SIBO

16:40 - What Are Oxalates?

20:45 - Oxalic Acid And Calcium

22:25 - Soluble And Crystalline Oxalate

24:50 - Quantities And Types Of Oxalates In Foods 

28:10 - Cooking And Soaking

32:10 - What Happens After We Eat Oxalates?

33:10 - Acute Poisoning

34:40 - Unexplained Early Death Related To Oxalate

35:00 - Sticky Tissues

35:05 - Kidney Stones

38:25 - Oxalate Build Up In Kidneys And Elsewhere 

40:25 - How Oxalate Effects Calcium Levels And Parathyroid 

42:40 - Osteopenia And Osteoporosis

43:05 - "The River Of Perfection"

45:10 - The Problem With Blood Testing

47:15 - How Do You Avoid And Prevent Reoccurring Kidney Stones?

52:35 - Oxalate Absorption Rate

54:25 - Dissolving Crystals

57:00 - Clearing Oxalates

57:50 - Carnivore Diet And Oxalate Dumping

1:00:35 - Testing The Urine

1:01:55 - Cloudy Urine

1:07:30 - Clearing Illness

1:09:20 - Fibromyalgia

1:12:05 - The Activation Of The Immune System

1:13:25 - Breaking Down Scar Tissue

1:14:30 - Is There An Approach To Remove Oxalates Safely?

1:17:20 - Seasonality Of Oxalate Consumption

1:19:55 - Mechanically Damage To Cells

1:21:20 - Percentage Of Oxalate Absorption

1:22:00 - Berries

1:24:50 - Organic Foods

1:25:45 - Errors In Nutritional Publishing

1:27:20 - The Dream Study Involving Oxalates

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6:25 - What Treatments Does Rachel Personally Use?

7:45 - Dermal Rolling/Facial Stimulation

10:15 - Collagen

13:10 - Mixing & Matching Your Supplements

14:45 - What Products Does Skin Truly Need?

15:50 - Blue Light's Effect On Skin

17:15 - Do I Need A Morning And Nighttime Routine?

19:45 - Outdated Recommendations From Clinicians

25:05 - Wearing Sunscreen

26:45 - What About Sun Exposure For Vitamin D?

29:00 - Supplements For Oxidative Stress

29:50 - Better Sunscreen Products

32:05 - Retinol

36:35 - Retinoid Reaction Phase

36:45 - Skin Cell Turn Over 

41:30 - Puffiness In The Face And Under-eye Bags

47:40 - Self Lymphatic Drainage

48:30 - Measuring Inner Age

49:55 - Improving Neck Skin; Tightening And Smoothing

53:45 - Surgical Interventions

54:35 - Debunking The "Natural" Movement

57:20 - Injectables

58:10 - Dermal Fillers

1:01:50 - Biohacking Resources To Protect Your Skin

1:09:45 - Venus Treatments

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1:11:00 - The Future Of Anti-Aging Technology

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8:45 - Dr. Jacoby's Background

10:45 - What Are Our Nerves?

15:55 - The Biochemical Pathway For The Autonomic Nervous System

16:45 - Is The Damage Mechanical Or In The Electrical Signaling

18:20 - Polyol Pathway

18:55 - Maillard Reaction (Advanced Glycation End-Products)

20:45 - Asymmetric Dimethylarginine

22:40 - MS And Alzheimer's Connection To Sugar

26:45 - Differences In Opinion On Sugars Effect On Nerves

28:20 - The Way Sugar Damages The Heart

30:40 - Autism

34:45 - COVID19 And Sugar

35:50 - Pregnancy And Glucose

39:25 - Metformin

40:35 - Poly-Pharmacy

43:00 - Berberine

47:15 - High Carb Low Fat

49:40 - Can We Live On Just Fat?

55:20 - Competition Of Vitamin C And Glucose In The Body (Ascorbate Competition Theory)

1:00:35 - Fruit

1:02:20 - Damage To The Olfactory Nerve

1:04:40 - Gallbladder Diet

1:08:45 - The Benefits Of Wine On Arteries

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1:11:05 - The Vagus Nerve

1:15:00 - Medicinal Signaling Cells

1:16:40 - Dietary Recommendations

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8:10 - The Importance Of The History Of The Keto Movement And Other Topics

9:30 - Investigating The Salt-Hypertension Hypothesis

13:05 - The Way Doctors Treat Patients

15:05 - The Mistake In Obesity Research

16:15 - Recapping The History: Are We Looking For Causation Or Correlation?

17:40 - Pathological Science

19:55 - Constitutional Hypothesis Of Obesity

22:50 - What Our Genes Determine

26:20 - Genotypes And Phenotypes

29:45 - Metabolic Fitness Vs. Body Size

32:40 - Transitioning From A Traditional Diet To A Western Diet

33:05 - The Pima Indigenous Tribe

36:35 - What Does Insulin Do?

41:30 - Rising Insulin In The Morning

42:10 - Insulin Resistance

42:40 - Insulin As Fuel Partitioning

45:00 - Blood Glucose Content Throughout The Day

47:15 - The Conversion Of Carbs To Fat

50:55 - The Storage Of Fat Vs Carbohydrate

51:40 - The Glucose Fatty Acid Cycle

53:00 - The Insulin-Carb Hypothesis

55:00 - The Reason We Gain Weight

57:30 - The Fat Tissue In Obese People

58:40 - "Some Of Us Fatten Easily, And Some Of Us Don't"

1:01:25 - Insulin Dysregulation

1:02:45 - Starving The Fat Cells Of Fat

1:05:00 - HFLC VS HCLF

1:09:25 - Transitioning Out Of Low Fat Diets

1:10:50 - Misconceptions About Fat And Insulin

1:19:25 - Measuring Insulin And Fatty Acids In The Blood

1:21:00 - Hormonal Dysregulation Of Fat Storage

1:22:40 - Hormones Vs. Excess Energy Intake

1:26:00 - Hormones And Enzymes Responding To The Types Of Food You Eat

1:26:45 - The Dichotomy Inside The Obesity Discussion

1:33:10 - A Hack For A Plateau In A HFLC Diet

1:35:50 - The Other Side Of The Hack

1:37:25 - The Downside Of Insulin Therapies On T1D

1:39:30 - Vintage Fats & The Idea Of Food As Medicine

1:42:05 - What Will It Take For Society To Change?

1:42:45 - Doctors Burning Out In The Current Medical System

1:43:25 - The Plant-Based Argument 

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9:15 - Dr. Collin's Background

12:10 - Diet And Cancer

17:10 - Living With Cancer Vs Killing It

18:10 - Metabolism Of Cancer 

21:40 - The Correlation Of Depression In African Americans And Poor Health Metrics 

23:30 - What Is Deuterium?

27:40 - The Deuterium Component Of Food

29:20 - Making Energy From Food With Nanomotors

35:25 - Levels Of Deuterium In Water And Ice Over Time

37:35 - Origins Of Mitochondria 

39:55 - Deuterium And The Microbiome

41:30 - Difference Between Hydrogen In Food Vs Water

45:50 - The Weight Of Energy

47:50 - What Are Our True Water Needs?

55:30 - The Cooling Nature Of Water

57:30 - The Body's Use Of Water

58:30 - Cellular Communication

1:00:00 - How Is Deuterium Measured, And What Should Our Levels Be?

1:04:10 - The Average Deuterium Levels And How To Deplete It Appropriately

1:06:30 - The Center For Deuterium Depletion

1:08:00 - The Relationship Of Deuterium To All Parts Of Society

1:11:45 - The Ketogenic Diet

1:11:50 - The Deuterium Depleted Diet

1:19:35 - Oxygenated Water

1:22:20 - Managing Deuterium Levels With Light Therapy

1:25:50 - Deuterium Depleted Water Protocol

1:29:30 - Metabolism With Breathing Exercise

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1:35:00 - Metformin And Berberine

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8:10 - Dr. Lustig's Background

10:10 - What Is Processed Food?

12:40 - The Nova System (Classes Of Processing)

14:45 - Class 4 Ultra Processed Food 

16:50 - The Diet Debate

18:20 - Leaky Gut

19:25 - Could The Microbiome Adapt To Processed Food?

23:55 - What's Better: Quality Food Or Fasting? 

28:10 - NAFLD

29:40 - Liver Fat & Metabolic Disease

32:40 - Visceral Fat And Clinical Depression

34:40 - Burning Liver Fat With Fasting

37:20 - Which Comes First: Insulin Resistance Or Weight Gain?

42:40 - Overproducing Insulin And Blocking Leptin

43:50 - The Role Of Personal Responsibility

46:10 - De Novo Lipogenesis With Carb Intake

46:55 - The Role Of Choline 

47:55 - Is Over-Processing Food A Moral Hazard

50:30 - Health Insurance 

51:10 - The Immoral Hazard

51:50 - Commercialization Of Organics And Whole Food

54:05 - Pesticides 

54:45 - Labeling Processed Foods As Toxic 

57:45 - The Real Disease; The 8 Pathologies

1:00:35 - Low Fiber High Sugar 

1:01:20 - Fixing The Problem 

1:03:20 - Research With Fiber And CGM

1:04:35 - UCSF Soda Ban

1:06:40 - Expanding The Soda Ban 

1:07:45 - GRAS List 

1:10:15 - Removing Items From The GRAS List

1:11:40 - Addictive Food

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8:40 - Will's Background

12:30 - The Controversy 

15:25 - The Problems With Intuitive Eating

19:10 - The Insulin Resistance Inflammation Spectrum

23:50 - Can You Intuitively Eat Processed Foods?

25:00 - Who Is Intuitive Eating/Fasting For?

27:40 - Gaining Metabolic Flexibility

29:05 - Healthy Control And Food Peace

30:50 - The Evolution Of Fasting In Culture

31:20 - How Does Fasting Become Intuitive?

34:00 - Using Food And Fasting As A Mindfulness Practice

36:25 - Teaching Intuitiveness

39:00 - Fasting In Spiritual Tradition

41:00 - What Is Required For Change In Our Culture?

46:00 - Transparency In Industry

46:35 - Plant-Based Vs Animal Inclusive Diets And Food Labeling

54:00 - Nutritional Ketosis

55:25 - Being Able To Pivot And Being Comfortable In Evolving

57:45 - The Power Of The Microbiome

59:40 - Intestinal Gluconeogenesis

1:03:00 - Tea

1:07:30 - Tea's Effect On Insulin

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7:30 - Dr. Whals' Story

11:30 - Multiple Sclerosis

14:15 - Myelin and Mitochondria

15:05 - Myelin Dysfunction

15:50 - Mitochondrial Strain In Autoimmune Diseases

17:35 - Supplement Support

20:30 - Electrical Stimulation For Muscle Growth

23:40 - Muscle Atrophy In MS

24:05 - The Shift Of Metabolism 

24:50 - Diseases Of Insulin In MS Patients

27:20 - Insulin Sensitivity In Astronauts

29:20 - Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Devices

30:05 - E-Stim In Athletes

31:45 - E-Stim In Bed Ridden Patients

32:50 - Recovery With The Paleo Diet And Lifestyle

40:25 - Clinical Trials On The Diet Protocol

47:05 - Healing The Myelin

49:40 - Remineralizing Teeth

52:00 - The Timeline Of Accepting New Concepts In Science

55:15 - Proving The Wahls Protocol

56:50 - The Early Adopters 

57:45 - The Importance Of Being Strict For The First 100 Days

59:10 - Accidently Triggering New Autoimmune Disease

1:02:40 - Working As A Family

1:03:00 - Terry's Current Protocol

1:05:05 - Longevity Genes