The Primal Podcast

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About half of Dr. David Unwin's patients who chose a low-carb diet reversed their type 2 diabetes. He explains how to reverse diabetes and fatty liver naturally.

Dr David Unwin is a UK family doctor and winner of the NHS Innovator of the Year award for his work with diabetes patients. I sat down with him to talk about how carbs turn into fat in your liver, why your insulin stops working, and the food changes that can turn it around, even if you've been told diabetes is for life.

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Dr. David Brownstein is a global expert in iodine. Based on clinical experience with 8,000 patients, over 97% are iodine deficient.

Iodine deficiency can cause glandular problems like ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, and thyroid cancer, Hashimoto’s, and hypothyroidism. And you can’t get enough iodine from the diet.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Hidden Iodine Deficiency: Why almost everyone is low in iodine and how it slows down your metabolism and thyroid.
• Toxic Blockers: How common household chemicals like fluoride and bromide push iodine out of your body.
• Glandular Healing: How iodine can help reverse painful issues like fibrocystic breast disease naturally.
• Iodine and Salt: Why unrefined salt is actually essential for helping your body process iodine safely.
• Lugol’s iodine: How to properly test your iodine levels and use simple tools like Lugol's solution to heal.

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We are told that high cholesterol and LDL cause heart disease; this is not the case. We have lowered saturated fat and cholesterol drastically, yet heart disease is still the number one killer worldwide.

Dr Ovadia, a board-certified heart surgeon, will discuss how to fix your heart, the truth about cholesterol as a risk marker, and how insulin resistance drives plaque in the arteries. In this episode, we explain:

• The Statin Trap: Why cholesterol-lowering drugs can increase insulin resistance and cause long-term harm to your health.
• The Real Enemy: How processed foods and industrial seed oils drive the arterial inflammation that leads to heart attacks.
• Insulin Resistance: The hidden, underlying root cause of heart disease that standard tests usually miss.
• Protective Fats: Why natural animal fats do not cause heart failure and why real meat acts as medicine for your body.
• Reversing Plaque: How switching your diet and fixing your metabolism can clear your arteries and restore your heart.

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Dr Bright is a thyroid doctor who has decades of experience treating hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s with diet and iodine.

In this episode, she will explain how to naturally heal your thyroid, the foods to avoid, how to take iodine, and the role of NDT in low thyroid. Dr Bright’s book: https://amzn.to/4gjYo26

Thyroid markers to test:

- TSH (Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone): A brain hormone that signals your thyroid gland to produce more or less thyroid hormone.

- Free T4 (Free Thyroxine): The main storage hormone produced by your thyroid that is active, unbound, and available for your body to use.

- Free T3 (Free Triiodothyronine): The highly active form of the thyroid hormone that directly controls your metabolism and cellular energy production.

- TPOAb (Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies): An autoimmune marker used to detect if your immune system is mistakenly attacking your thyroid gland.

- TgAb (Thyroglobulin Antibodies): An antibody marker tested alongside TPOAb to help identify autoimmune thyroid conditions like Hashimoto's or Graves' disease.

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Dr Jason Fung is an expert in treating type 2 diabetes and obesity with science. He will explain why it’s not about calories; it’s about insulin and cortisol. Both are important for reducing blood sugar and insulin levels.

In this episode, we reveal:

• The Calorie Myth: Why eating less just slows down your metabolism and leaves you trapped.
• Fat Storage Mode: How high insulin levels physically lock your fat cells so your body cannot burn them for fuel.
• Reversing Diabetes: Why type 2 diabetes is a dietary disease that can be reversed, not a life sentence.
• Food Order Secrets: How changing the order of the foods on your plate alters how your hormones react.
• Fasting for Freedom: Simple, no-cost fasting methods that reset your body and lower your insulin naturally.

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Glycine deficiency can cause inflammation and poor sleep, according to Dr. Joel Brind. Dr Joel Brind is an expert in glycine and will discuss how glycine deficiency can cause inflammation, aches and pain, and poor sleep.

He will discuss the science behind glycine, its effects on metabolic pathways, and the appropriate glycine dose.

In this episode, we reveal:

• Deep Sleep Magic: How glycine tells your brain it is time to drop into a deep, restful sleep.Stopping Pain: The truth about why your body swells and how to turn off chronic inflammation.
• Anti-Aging Secrets: How this simple nutrient slows down the aging process to keep you feeling young.
• Blood Sugar Help: The surprising way glycine protects your body from metabolic crashes and diabetes.
• Everyday Sources: Where to find glycine and exactly how much you need to take.

It turns out that belly fat is not a sign that you lack willpower. It is a sign that your stress levels and insulin are out of balance.

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I sat down with holistic doctor Sten Ekberg to explain why standard calorie counting fails and how to fix your metabolism for good. If you want to lose belly fat without feeling hungry all day, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, we reveal:

• Insulin Resistance: Why high stress and rising insulin force your body to store stubborn fat around your stomach.
• Sugar Cravings: How blood sugar crashes trick your brain into wanting food even when you are full.
• The Calorie Trap: Why eating less and doing endless cardio just slows down your metabolism and causes belly fat and visceral fat.
• Smart Fasting: How simple meal timing lowers your insulin levels so your body can burn stored fat for energy.
• Metabolic Reset: Practical ways to fix your health so you can lose the weight and keep it off naturally without suffering.

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Is your "healthy" supplement routine actually causing mineral imbalances? Today, we are joined by Morley Robbins, creator of the Root Cause Protocol, to expose the systemic mineral dysregulation that is driving modern chronic illness.

While many focus on iron levels, Morley reveals why the real "mineral disaster" lies in copper deficiency, magnesium depletion, and the vital role of bioavailable iodine. We break down how iron toxicity and copper dysregulation sabotage your mitochondria and lead to the exhaustion, metabolic issues, and health crises we see today.

In This Episode, We Reveal:

• The Root Cause Protocol: Why modern health issues are often rooted in mineral metabolism rather than just "bad genes."
• The Iron-Copper Connection: The critical role of ceruloplasmin and why simple iron supplementation may be causing more harm than good.
• The Magnesium Gap: Why 90% of the population is deficient and how it impacts cellular energy production.
• Iodine Deficiency: Why this essential trace element is the "missing link" for thyroid and adrenal health.

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Dr. Anthony Chaffee is a doctor and an expert in nutrition and its effects on the brain. In this episode, Dr. Chaffee will explain how sugar can damage the brain and cause brain-related diseases, from dementia and Alzheimer’s, to lack of focus and mental health issues. Dr. Chaffee explains how all carbohydrates are sugar, even bread, rice, and pasta, and the effects of fructose and glucose on brain metabolism. Dr. Chaffee explains the science of how our brain runs better on ketones and the science of ketosis. 

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How sugar damages the brain: Why extra sugar ages your body from the inside out and tears up your arteries.
• Fixing your metabolism: How dropping carbs and moving toward a meat-based diet gives your mitochondria a massive upgrade.
• The truth about animal fats: Why your brain desperately needs saturated fats and Vitamin B12 to repair itself and function properly.
• Diet and mental health: The surprising link between processed carbs, seed oils, and conditions like ADHD or severe depression.
• The 30-day carb-free challenge: What actually happens to your focus, energy, and mood when your body fully adapts to burning fat for fuel.

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Is your "healthy" grass-fed beef and pasture-raised chicken actually driving inflammation? In this eye-opening episode, regenerative farmer David Boatright (Fed from the Farm) exposes the massive gap between corporate food labeling and true nutritional quality.

From chemical interventions like meat gassing to the regulatory loopholes of "organic" marketing, David breaks down the health consequences of factory farming and provides a practical framework for sourcing nutrient-dense, species-appropriate food that supports long-term metabolic health.

In This Episode, We Reveal:

• The Meat Gassing Illusion: How major corporations use carbon monoxide to mask spoilage and manipulate meat color.
• The Pasture-Raised Deception: Why the majority of supermarket "pasture-raised" poultry never steps foot outside.
• The Vegetarian-Fed Chicken Myth: The biological reality of why omnivorous birds require animal protein to yield nutrient-dense eggs.
• Chemical Interventions in Poultry: What happens to your gut microbiome when you ingest chicken processed in chlorine baths.
• Hormonal Cascades in Dairy: The medical and endocrine implications of rBST and growth hormones in conventional milk.
• The Raw Milk Landscape: An objective analysis of the immunological benefits, enzymatic activity, and actual safety profiles of unpasteurized dairy.
• The Alpha-Gal Epidemic: How the Lone Star tick triggers a life-altering mammalian meat allergy and its connection to immune health.