The Nate Peterman Show

What if the reason you're still sick isn't that you haven't found the right treatment - but that nobody has asked the right questions yet?

Daisy Ilchovska is an MSc-educated Nutritional Therapist, NLP Coach, published researcher, and author of Lyme in the Limelight. She works with some of the most complex chronic illness cases in the world - Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, mycotoxin illness, Long COVID, and hormonal dysfunction - through her online clinic, Optimal Health Nutrition. She didn't come at this from a textbook. She got sick at 26 with three autoimmune diseases, was told she'd need chemotherapy-like medication for the rest of her life, threw out the playbook, applied functional medicine, and nearly all her symptoms disappeared. Then she got Lyme disease. Multiple false negatives. Doctors told her repeatedly it wasn't Lyme. She went to Germany for treatment. It took two more years to fully recover. And then she wrote the book.

In this conversation, we go places most health podcasts won't.

And full disclosure - this one is personal. I found out last year, after years of mysterious symptoms and a trip all the way to NIH where they researched me for three days, that I had Lyme disease. Multiple strands. High Strep A. Elevated EBV. And a rare genetic mutation called TBK1 - a mutation so rare I was one of only four people in the world documented to have it at the time. So this wasn't just an interview. It was two people who've lived it, sitting down and going deep.

We talk about why chronic Lyme disease has almost nothing to do with killing the bacteria and why most people treating it are attacking the wrong target. Daisy breaks down why doxycycline is mechanistically flawed for chronic Lyme, what the medical system consistently misses, and why Lyme disease behaves less like a simple bacterial infection and more like ten diseases happening at the same time. We get into mycotoxins, the gut-immune connection, nervous system retraining, and why doing the right things one at a time almost never works.

Then we go even further. Daisy shares what it was like to think she had ALS. We talk about the Chernobyl connection she didn't realize was in her own timeline until she wrote her book. We get into perimenopause, hormonal shifts, and the autoimmune reactivation that most women are never warned about. And we end with one of the most practical pieces of advice in the episode - what to do right now whether you're chronically ill or completely healthy.

This episode covers:

• Why chronic Lyme is not a simple bacterial infection - and what it actually is
• Four false negatives and how Daisy finally confirmed her own diagnosis
• Why doxycycline is mechanistically the wrong tool for chronic Lyme
• The gut-immune connection and why you can't fight Lyme with a destroyed microbiome
• Mycotoxins, heavy metals, and the environmental factors driving the autoimmune epidemic
• Nervous system retraining - DNRS, Gupta, Primal Trust - and why it moves the mark

• Perimenopause, hormonal shifts, and dormant infections that unlock at life transitions
• Coffee enemas, fasting, infrared saunas, and what actually helps vs. what doesn't
• The one thing Daisy tells every chronically ill client to do before anything else

Daisy is not for everyone. But if you've been dismissed by doctors, told your tests are normal, and quietly wondering if this is just your life now — this conversation will give you a framework, a direction, and a reason to keep looking.

Connect with Daisy Ilchovska:
Website: https://optimalhealthnutrition.co.uk
Instagram (Lyme): https://www.instagram.com/the.lyme.nutritionist
Instagram (Wellness): https://www.instagram.com/optimalhealthnutrition
Book - Lyme in the Limelight: Available on Amazon

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What if the reason you're not seeing results has nothing to do with your effort, your discipline, or your diet but the actual tools you're using?

Dr. John Jaquish is a PhD research professor, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and one of the most contrarian voices in health and performance today. He invented OsteoStrong — the most effective bone density building medical technology in the world, now partnered with Tony Robbins and deployed in 300 clinics across 15 countries. He invented X3, a variable resistance training system used by NBA players, NFL athletes, and Olympians that builds muscle faster than conventional weightlifting with a fraction of the joint risk. And now he's turning his attention to testosterone and hormone optimization with a completely different approach than anything mainstream medicine is offering.

In this conversation, we go places most health podcasts won't.

We talk about why the vast majority of people get absolutely nothing out of conventional fitness - not because they're lazy, but because the stimulus is fundamentally wrong. John breaks down the genetics of tendon layout, why 23 % of people cannot grow muscle lifting regular weights, and why the training advice most influencers are selling only works for genetic outliers who never needed it in the first place.

Then we get into the stuff that makes this conversation unforgettable. John opens up about rupturing a testicle during a rugby hit at 28 and how that forced him onto TRT and taught him everything mainstream medicine gets wrong about testosterone. He breaks down why stable blood levels aren't the goal, why fast acting testosterone mirrors your body's natural circadian rhythm and eliminates the side effects, and why Gen Z men in their 20s now have the testosterone levels of a 70-year-old in the 1950s. And he gets brutally honest about the supplement industry, the bulking delusion, and why your government has never had any incentive to tell you what actually builds health.

This episode covers:

• Why most people get zero results from conventional weightlifting and the science behind why
• Variable resistance training, West Side Barbell, and how X3 was built
• The genetics of tendon layout and why some people are born spring-loaded
• Why cardio does not build cardiovascular health the way you think it does
• The protein problem - why 50 grams a day is destroying your results and what to actually do
• Testosterone, TRT, and why stable blood levels are the cause of the problems not the solution
• Fast acting testosterone - how mimicking your body's circadian rhythm eliminates side effects
• Why Gen Z men have the testosterone of a 70-year-old from the 1950s
• Essential amino acids vs. whey protein - why 82 % of whey goes straight through you
• The bulking delusion and why calories don't build muscle - protein does
• Why your government has never been incentivized to tell you what actually works
• The fast comparison game - X3 or barbell, cardio or strength, carnivore or keto, fasted or fed

John Jaquish has been called wrong by everyone. He's also been proven right by the results. This conversation will challenge everything you think you know about building muscle, optimizing hormones, and what it actually takes to perform at your highest level.

Connect with Dr. John Jaquish:
Website: https://www.jaquishbiomedical.com
X3 Bar: https://www.x3bar.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjaquish
Book: Weightlifting Is a Waste of Time: Available on Amazon

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What if the thing holding most leaders back isn't a lack of knowledge but an environment that was never built to bring out the best in anyone?

Haris Memisevic is an elite coach educator for the Football Association of Wales and Boys Technical Director at Virginia Revolution Soccer Club. He has spent his career building high-performance environments that develop technically gifted players, empower coaches, and create pathways that transform potential into performance. But what he's learned goes far beyond the soccer field - it's about human behavior, leadership identity, and what it actually takes to help people reach levels they didn't believe were possible.

In this conversation, we go places most podcasts won't.

And full disclosure - Haris has been my best friend since eighth grade. He's also the godfather to my son. So this one is different. It's personal, it's honest, and it goes deeper than any formal interview could.

We talk about why development is not about information - it's about environment. Why most organizations get that completely wrong. And why the coaches, leaders, and parents who think they're helping are often the ones doing the most damage without realizing it.

Then we get into the stuff that makes this conversation stick. Haris opens up about the season that shaped him most as a leader - the one where he learned that being a good person and being a good leader are not always the same thing. He breaks down what it actually costs a team when a leader chooses comfort over clarity. And he gets surprisingly honest about authenticity, accountability, and why his three non-negotiables - authenticity, discipline in the details, and don't bullshit me - are the foundation of everything he builds.

This episode covers:

• Why development is about environment, not information and what that means practically
• The most dangerous type of coach: the one who hasn't killed the player in them yet
• Being a good person vs. being a good leader and why you can't always be both at the same time
• Daily rituals and non-negotiables that hold when everything gets tense
• What body language tells you about a player or coach that their words never will
• Why authenticity is disappearing and what we lose when people stop showing up as themselves
• What parents consistently get wrong about their kids' development
• Why kids are easier to teach than adults and what that reveals about ego and humility
• The fast comparison game environment or information, trust or fear, comfortable or challenged

Haris is 30 years old, coaching across two continents, and still going to bed every night afraid he doesn't know enough. That's not a cliché. That's the standard. And this conversation will show you exactly what it looks like when someone lives it.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haris-memisevic-4364b7191
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialharismemisevic

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What if the thing keeping you from loving yourself isn't a lack of effort but a belief that you have to earn something that was never actually missing?

Dr. Nicholas Howland is a board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, author, speaker, and host of the Naked Patient podcast. He has spent his career transforming how people look on the outside - while quietly doing the deepest work of his life on the inside. Excommunicated from his faith twice. Divorced. Rebuilt from scratch. His memoir, The Atheist's Prayer, is about what happens when everything that defined you falls apart and you have to find out who you actually are without any of it.

In this conversation, we go places most podcasts won't.

We talk about why self-love isn't something you create through mantras and retreats - it's something you uncover, because it was never actually gone. Nicholas breaks down what it was like growing up inside the Mormon faith, what it gave him, what it cost him, and what two excommunications taught him about identity, community, and the danger of building your entire self on something outside of you.

Then we get into the stuff that makes this conversation unforgettable. Nicholas opens up about his divorce, the collapse of his identity, and what it actually looks like to rebuild yourself when the faith, the marriage, and the version of you that everyone knew are all gone at the same time. We dig into plastic surgery and the uncomfortable truth he tells his own patients - that no procedure will fix what's actually broken. And we get surprisingly real about what it means to stop waiting for permission to love yourself.

This episode covers:

• Why self-love is intrinsic and why all the mantras are designed to remember it, not create it
• Growing up Mormon - the community, the certainty, and what happens when it stops being enough
• Two excommunications and what they revealed about identity and belonging
• Divorce, collapse, and rebuilding an identity from the ground up
• What a plastic surgeon tells his patients that's terrible for business but true
• The Atheist's Prayer - writing a memoir of gratitude without a faith to lean on
• Permission vs. worthiness and why you don't actually need either
• The fast comparison game - therapy or plastic surgery, perform or exist, and more
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Nicholas is not for everyone. But if you've been waiting for permission to feel worthy or building your identity on something outside yourself and quietly wondering what happens if it disappears - this conversation will challenge you in exactly the right way.

Connect with Dr. Nicholas Howland:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnicholashowlandBook - The Atheist's Prayer: https://a.co/d/0hiaUwmqPodcast: Naked Patient

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What if reality isn't something that happens to you - but something that forms around you?

Ra of Earth - performance and consciousness educator, former gym owner, and human capacity expansion coach - has spent two decades going deeper into human psychology and consciousness than most people are willing to go. From playing hockey in Detroit, to building multiple gyms in Los Angeles, to guiding ambitious leaders through nervous system regulation, breath, movement, and conscious awareness - Ra has lived the full arc: physical mastery, inner collapse, and conscious rebuilding.

In this conversation, we go places most podcasts won't.

We talk about why most people aren't actually in control of their lives - they're just running on conditioning they've never questioned. Ra breaks down how to gamify your psychology as a skill set, how emotions like anger and shame are directional signals rather than problems to suppress, and why the physical body is the doorway to everything deeper - not the other way around.

Then we get into the stuff that makes this conversation unforgettable. Ra opens up about his week-long meditation retreat at Mount Shasta - no psychedelics - and what he encountered when he astral projected into the earth. We dig into the Mandela effect, 9-11, the manufactured nature of history, and why pattern recognition matters more than having the right answers. And we get surprisingly real about fatherhood - the identity loss, the triggers it surfaces, co-sleeping, circumcision, and what both Nate and Ra discovered about themselves in those first raw months of being a dad.

This episode covers:

• Whether the average person is truly in control - or just conditioned
• Emotional transmutation - turning anger, shame, and grief into directional signals
• The meditation practice Ra started at 19 and how it rewired his reality
• Mount Shasta: the week-long retreat and what he encountered inside the earth
• The Mandela effect, 9-11, and why history is told by the winners
• Fatherhood - identity loss, patience, co-sleeping, and the transformation nobody warns you about
• Death, heaven, hell, and what happens when we leave this dimension
• The fast comparison game - gym floor vs. meditation room, logic vs. intuition, and more

Ra is not for everyone. But if you've been chasing external success while quietly sensing that something deeper is missing - this conversation will challenge you in exactly the right way.

Connect with Ra of Earth:Website: raofearth.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ra_of_earth

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What if everything you're doing to get healthy is actually making you sicker?

Troy Casey - known as the Certified Health Nut - has spent 30 years going deeper into human health than almost anyone in the wellness space. From modeling for Versace in Milan, to living with Indigenous tribes in the Amazon as a medicine hunter, to burning himself out building a 1.9 million-follower platform, Troy has lived the full arc: peak performance, collapse, and conscious rebuilding.

In this conversation, we go places most health podcasts won't.

We talk about why hustle culture and biohacking are just Yang dressed up as self-improvement and why the most rebellious health move you can make right now is to slow down. Troy opens up about his own burnout after six years of grinding, what brought him back to a 10-day Vipassana silence retreat, and why he believes the practice of receiving is more powerful than any protocol.

Then we get into the stuff that goes viral for a reason. Troy breaks down urine therapy - what it actually is, where it comes from, and why the people most repulsed by it will swallow a pharmaceutical with 30 side effects without flinching. We also dig into plant medicines: ayahuasca, psilocybin, ibogaine — the difference between ceremonial use and trend-chasing, and what Indigenous traditions understand about consciousness that the Western world is only beginning to grasp.

This episode covers:

• Yin vs. Yang - and what a "yanged out" person looks like in real life
• Why the wellness industry is one of the biggest Yang offenders
• Troy's burnout story and the return to Vipassana
• Urine therapy: the history, the case for it, and the real question it raises about health conditioning
• Psychedelics: intentional use vs. trauma tourism
• Clean air, clean water, clean soil — and where to actually start
• Flow over force as a daily practice, not just a philosophy

Troy is not for everyone. But if you've been optimizing yourself into exhaustion and wondering why you still feel like something's missing - this conversation will challenge you in the right way.

Connect with Troy:Website: certifiedhealthnut.comCommunity: certifiedhealthnut.com/the-real-ones (7 days free)Book: #RippedAt50: A Journey to Self Love

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

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In this episode, Nate sits down with Miguel Batista - founder of CFS Recovery and someone who went from completely bedridden and dismissed by doctors to running an international coaching company with zero symptoms.

Miguel didn't learn this from a textbook. He lived it. And now he's helped hundreds of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID, and fibromyalgia get their lives back using nervous system retraining - a approach the traditional medical system almost never offers.

Topics include:

• What chronic fatigue syndrome actually is (and who it hits hardest)
• Why high performers are the most at risk
• How the medical system consistently fails these patients
• The nervous system "glitch" behind CFS, fibromyalgia, and long COVID
• Visualization, identity, and rebuilding from zero
• The one decision that made Miguel's recovery - and his mission - possible

If you or someone you love has been told "your tests are fine" while your body tells you otherwise, this episode could change everything.

Free resource for listeners: CFSrecovery.co/Nate

In this episode, Nate sits down with identity coach Daniel Schuler - a man who's worked with over 1,000 people across every walk of life, from 11-year-olds to 73-year-olds, military personnel, nine-figure executives, and professional athletes. Daniel's work is simple on the surface and devastating underneath: he breaks the false narratives keeping people stuck and rebuilds identity from the ground up.

They go deep on why the self-help industry is actually making people worse, where false beliefs are born (spoiler: before age 10), and what it really takes to change - not your circumstances, but yourself.

Topics include:

• Why your problems aren't about discipline or motivation
• How false narratives form in childhood
• Victim vs. victimhood - and the difference that changes everything
• Verbal abuse, relationships, and the psychology of staying
• Identity in athletics, entertainment, and network marketing
• Faith as a framework for lasting transformation

If you've ever felt stuck, like no amount of information or coaching actually moves the needle - this episode is the one you didn't know you needed.

In this episode, Nate Peterman sits down with Sam Thompson - filmmaker, creative director, and founder of Akta Media - to explore what it really means to build a creative business without losing your soul in the process.

Sam brings a Christ-centered perspective to storytelling, agency life, and the growing tension between human craft and artificial intelligence. They dig into burnout, legacy, faith-driven ambition, and what happens when you walk away from a career in the States to start over with a newborn and a renewed sense of purpose.

Topics include:

• Building a creative agency from scratch
• Faith, ambition, and the tension between them
• AI as a tool - and the creatives who'll get left behind
• Fatherhood, legacy, and redefining success
• Moving countries and what it costs you professionally

Whether you're a creator, entrepreneur, or someone navigating the gap between ambition and meaning - this one's worth your time.

Connect with Sam Thompson:

https://www.instagram.com/__sammythompson/

sammythompson.com.au

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In this episode, Nate Peterman sits down with functional medicine practitioner Dr. Torrie Thompson to explore the deeper causes of chronic illness and Lyme disease.

They discuss the differences between conventional and functional medicine, why healing often takes time, and how lifestyle, the nervous system, and prevention all play a role in long-term health.

Topics include:

• Lyme disease and chronic infections
• Functional medicine vs modern medicine
• Gut health and the nervous system
• Prevention vs treatment
• Longevity and true health

This episode offers practical insight for anyone navigating chronic illness or looking to take control of their health.

Connect with Dr. Torrie Thompson:

https://www.drtorriethompson.com/

https://www.instagram.com/drtorriethompson/

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