Most of us have a deep desire to live long and to also live well. And we're blessed to be living in a time where we have access to some of the most cutting edge tools and knowledge ever to radically extend our lifespan. And today I have the pleasure to speak with a true visionary of health and wellness and a pioneer and holistic longevity.

Ann Louise Gittleman is one of the world's foremost experts in functional and integrative medicine. She's an award winning New York Times bestselling author of over 35 books on health and nutrition, covering issues such as diet detox, women's health, men's health, perimenopause, menopause, beauty, and the environment.

Ann Louise holds an MS in nutrition education from Columbia University, has the title of Certified Nutrition Specialist from the American College of Nutrition and a PhD in holistic nutrition. She has also served as the chief nutritionist of pediatric clinic at Bellevue Hospital. As the former director of nutrition at the Pritikin longevity center in Santa Monica, California, she has won numerous awards, including the American Medical Writers Association award for excellence.

Ann Louise first revolutionized diet and detox with her hugely successful Fat Flush series. And she is living proof that getting older does not have to mean slowing down or living life on the sidelines. And then her highly anticipated new book, Radical Longevity, the powerful plant will sharpen your brains, strengthening your body and reverse the symptoms of aging.

She reveals her radical principles for ageless aging and the best kept secrets for expanding our youth span. As she says, "Our biology is not destined to be our biography.)

• Zinc 45-50mg/day
• Vitamin D, at least 70-80mg/day
• Vitamin C, between 5g-15g/day
• Vitality C - 1 scoop provides 4g Vitamin C
• Using high doses of vitamin C with lysine and proline is very important as anti-cancer, anti-viral, anti-flu protocol
• Helps to build collagen
• Quercetin, antioxidant that helps with anti-inflammatory

• Most prevalent dysbiosis in gut = yeast and candida
• First step to a healthy gut is to get rid of the candida
• Homeopathics
• Prebiotics/Probiotics (not more than 10b cfu)
• Oregano
• Fermented foods
• Use probiotics with caution, particularly if you have an autoimmune disease (anything more than 10 billion cfu is too much)
• Dr. Ohhira probiotics

• Book: Radical Longevity
• To boost metabolism, you need energy
• Most important thing you can do = Take Apple Cider Vinegar, 2 tsp in 8oz of water, 3 times a day (between meals or with meals)
• Hemp seed oil - 1-2 tbsp/day does wonders for your metabolism, skin and sex drive

• Key ingredient = ACV
• ACV bath 2 cups ACV in full tup of water - energized and rejuvenating
• Dilute in water for face mask - really good for the skin and hair
• Our skin has a natural 5.5 pH, try to keep skin products at that pH

• Lithium in a micro-dose 5-8mg per day
• Can actually stop Alzheimers and reverse memory loss
• If you do nothing else, Love Lithium

• Pay attention to the pots and pans, aluminum and iron
• You can also kill food enzymes if you're using high and dry heat
• Ann Louise's recommendations on non-toxic cookware:
• Romertopf cookware
• Infrared head element in clay that has so many health benefits
• Waterless cooking utensils, SaladMaster

• Hemp seed oil
• Forbidden because it's an Omega-6
• Pine nut oil - great for ulcers, GERD
• Siberian pine nut oil
• Sesame seed oil

• "Respect aging as a privilege and age with power, grace, guts and beauty"
• Gratitude and Hope
• Masaru Emoto - Japanese researcher on crystals and water
• Give blood regularly at least oncer per year to maintain healthy iron levels
• Ferritin blood test
• "Super-agers" have the lowest amount of iron in their blood stream
• Adopt the habits of "super-agers" - people that live 100 years or longer
• Gratitude
• Social connections
• Sense of purpose
• Exercise
• Low iron levels
• Eat mostly plant based diet (fish, chicken, beef, beans, barley, etc)

• ACV
• Redox signaling molecules

• Affirmations - we are what we speak, bless everyone with words
• Ann Louise's website
• Book: Radical Longevity

New technologies are coming in the near future that will push the boundaries of what we understand to be human and that will radically change what it means to be human. Cybernetic and biomedical technologies such as cloning, genetic engineering and nanotechnology are just a few of those and could make life better for everyone.

What this could mean is the elimination of most diseases, babies free of genetic defects, the creation of non-human sentient beings that may have legal rights and the possibility of near immortality.

All of these technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our culture, to our health and our democratic political systems.

When humans become more than human - "post-human" or "transhuman" - these new technologies will require new answers for questions, such as: What limits should we place on the freedom of individuals to control their own bodies? Who should own genes or other living things? And which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary and which forbidden?

Democracies must assess and respond to these possibilities now and recognize the tremendous opportunities as well as the dangers, in order to actively decide what kind of society we want for ourselves and our children.

My guest today has devoted his life and career to pondering and answering these questions. James Hughes Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a bioethicist and sociologist who serves as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Dr.. Hughes holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago, and is author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future.

• Concerns: The issues we face with the emergence of these new technologies
• Trends: increasing control over our bodies, brains and reproduction
• The moral questions around controlling the brain

• Book: Citizen Cyborg
• Bioluddism (bioconservatism) vs. libertarian transhumanism (techno progressivism)
• How being positive about these technological futures and not being anxious about social change is correlated with other social attitudes, particularly gender roles

• 1600-1700: aspirations of healing the sick, raising the dead, achieving enlightenment, etc.
• Religious views and transhumanistic views

• Buddhism discusses the idea of transcending the human condition
• Meta-ethical question: Why do we believe that any particular argument for right and wrong is the right argument?

• Buddhism = the rejection of a centralized self, we are verbs, not nouns
• Debate of patterns in authentic personality
• "The self is something real, but it's not a real thing. It's a vision"
• Artificial intelligence may completely lose the thread of the illusion of "self"

• Concerns and questions about people having "superpowers"

• The inclusion of plant medicine, MDMA, ketamine, LSD and DMT in enhancements
• Creating lasting changes in open-mindedness, reduces fear response, increasing our sense of connection
• Article: Tripping Our Way to Social Democracy

• Top 10 things that give a being moral personhood
• John Locke: Enlightened Thinker (We're just our memories)
• Moral personhood in animals as the next big debate
• Cognitive enhancements of great apes
• Mainstreaming the bioethics conversation in the political space
• Terri Shiavo case issue
• Zeke Emanuel and pandemic drugs
• CRISPR gene editing method

Research has found that the three leading causes of death—heart disease, cancer, and stroke—are caused predominantly by poor nutrition. While genetic factors do have an impact, it is possible to either accelerate disease processes or reverse them, through food choices. And water is an essential part of that. The water we consume has a profound impact on our immune system, our performance, our wellbeing and all over health.

Today I am talking to an expert on water. Elisabeth Muhr is a passionate advocate for improving global drinking water and an acknowledged expert in hydrobiology. She graduated from Vienna’s University of Environmental Engineering in Environmental Engineering and Ecology, and was a visiting lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona teaching “Ecology Applied to Landscape Architecture.” Additionally, the Austrian Tyrolian Government tapped her expertise to evaluate the ecological impact of hydropower plants and the influence of highways on ecology and human well-being.

Elisabeth is also the Co-Founder of Hallstein Water, a company renown for producing the highest quality drinking water in the world, emanating from an artesian aquifer, 700 ft deep in a layer of rock beneath the Dachstein mountain in Austria. It is the only water not pumped, filtered or treated, neither chemically nor mechanically.

In this discussion, you'll hear...

- The history of Hallstein Water...05:55

- Why marketing and packaging of water is so confusing ad often purposefully misleading...10:05

-Debunking common beliefs on so called "healthy" water...13:00

• Reverse osmosis machines
• Ionization machines
• Alkaline water and babies

-The quality, or lack thereof, of our tap water...17:40

• Infrastructure problem leads to asbestos being found in tap water
• 2% of tap water is consumed
• 98% is used
• Some big name brands selling filtered tap water as bottled wate

- The 8 core parameters of good water quality...21:30

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Today, I'm speaking with a visionary in the fields of holistic beauty and wellness. Nadine Artemis is an aromacologist, and has been a green beauty botanical formulator for over 25 years. She has pioneered the Beyond Organic luxury skincare, and wellness brand Living Libations, a company that provides the highest integrity botanical products for outer end, inner beauty and balance. Her line of essential oil serums and elixirs has culled a following around the globe.

Full disclosure. I am one of the biggest fans, and the wonderful thing about Living Libations is it's a company that is a women-led operation. It's celebrated for its forward thinking culture and philosophy, including a de-centralized and self-organizing management method, as well as an established record of embracing fair trade and ethical farming and harvesting practices.

Nadine is also a speaker educator and the author of the books, Holistic Dental Care, as well as the book, Renegade Beauty. The concept of Renegade Beauty focuses on an ethical alternative to costly cosmetics, problematic pharmaceuticals and environment eroding chemicals.

Nadine's mission is to inspire people to rethink conventional notions of beauty and wellness. And she is someone whose knowledge and products have uplifted my life over the last year.

-The importance of pheromones in armpit care...03:30

• Poetic Hip deodorant
• Pheromone communication system

-Damaging affects of conventional skin care products...10:20

• Work with the body's microbiome
• Gut microbiome
• Mouth microbiome
• Skin microbiome
• Modern skin care disrupts and mutates the human ecosystem
• Good bacteria on skin = natural beautician

-Nadine's suggested skin care routine...14:45

• Clean water source
• Wash with oil
• Best Skin Ever
• Dewdab products
• True organic virgin olive oil, jojoba oil or organic virgin coconut oil
• Organic hemp cloth
• Clean water rinse
• Best Skin Ever or Olive oil as moisturizer
• Always include neck area too
• Healthy diet
• Nature and sun exposure

-How long it takes to detoxify and rebalance the skin...19:15

• Typically 48 hours - 30 days
• Significant cystic acne relief
• 96% of the time, no detox phase
• 4-5% of the time, 1-2 week detox phase

-Best DIY skin detox methods...22:30

• Turning on your protective genes
• Natural extracts = botanical antibiotics
• Active ingredients
• Sun exposure
• Classic Dewdab
• Jewel Dewdab

-Importance of sun exposure to overall health and resilience...26:20

• Concerns with Melasma
• Oxybenzine in chemical sunscreen is not carcinogenic until its exposed to sunlight
• 1920s - heliotherapy to cure variety of diseases
• Sun exposure health benefits
• Reduces breast cancer risk by 50% with a body that is sufficient in vitamin D, alone
• 80-90% of adults are vitamin D deficient

-Water soluble vs. fat soluble vitamin D products...32:35

• Chemical reactions
• Issues with sunscreen = blocks UVB rays
• Roles of UVB and UVA rays
• Direct correlation between vitamin D levels and severity of COVID-19 illness
• dminder app
• Melanin based sunscreen system - again, working with the body

-Connection between skin health and gut...38:20

• Blackheads could be from constipation
• Acne around chin could be an issue with digestion and liver function
• Daily probiotic enzymes
• Clear gut = clear skin
• What is our skin trying to communicate to us?

-The important role of the dental microbiome...40:05

• Living libations dental hygiene product line
• Connection between dental microbiome and cognitive health
• Keys for healthy dental microbiome:
• 8 step mouth care on Nadine's website
• Baking soda and apple cider vinegar vs. commercial products
• Dental microbiome affects our gut and our brain

-Nadine's best practices...43:55

• Taking the time to meditate
• Connect with Nadine:
• Livinglibations.com
• Instagram
• Free consultations

Living Libations website

Nadine's books

• Renegade Beauty
• Holistic Dental Care

Social media:

• Nadine's Instagram
• Living Libations Instagram
• Living Libations Facebook

As a culture, we are obsessed with penises. Our society often associates the phallus with social power and worth. And the pervasive focus on the phallus has a greater and potentially more negative impact on a plethora of issues, such as the self worth of women and men and gender equality, than many realize.

Today I am talking to an expert on all things penis.

Emily Willingham is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons From the Animal Penis. Her writing has also been published in the New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and many others. She has a PhD in biological sciences and a BA in English literature, both from The University of Texas at Austin.

In Phallacy, Emily Willingham explores animal genitalia while also delving into the social and cultural significance of penises as symbols of power and identity. She challenges the notion that the penis makes the man and the fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power.

In short: Emily Willingham thinks it's time to put the human penis into perspective ... for the sake of all of humanity.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Book: Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis
• Anthropologist, Wednesday Martin
• Roman beliefs of the male role
• Penis trees and plants

• The human penis is not so spectacular in comparison to some animals
• Dr. Emily breaks down the vast diversity of penises in the animal kingdom

• Witches would gain more power by eating a man's penis
• The glamour of penises stems from witches and fairy tales

• The truth behind the roles the penis and vagina play in evolutionary biology
• The sexism of the female cycle
• YouTube of pink plastic gloves on SharTtank
• How menstruation was viewed as something unclean and shameful

• The narrative imposed on women is completely contradictory to how women were biologically wired
• Book: The Pleasure Gap by Catherine Roland

• Sexual politics + building roles around penises
• Socioculturally and psychologically, we need an intentional language shift

• Biology does not support binary gender roles

• The fall has come as men send pictures of their penises rather than their faces
• We should focus on the brain, not the penis

• Shifting the language will create a cultural shift and acceptance
• Constraint in our culture about how boys and men are allowed to express themselves
• Parental support in gender identification

• Humans don't have super large penises relative to the animal kingdom
• "Small dick" vs "Big dick" attitudes

• Being published later this year: The Tailored Brain
• Micro-dosing, Ketamine, pets and companionship
• Uplifting others allows us to uplift ourselves as well

• Non-negotiable daily walks with her partner
• Twitter: @ejwillingham

How can we unlock the champion in ourselves? How can we optimize human performance mentally, emotionally, and physically? This is the quest of all peak performers. And my guest today is not only a peak performer himself, but is a sought after expert in self-transformation and personal mastery, Shayamal Vallabhjee is a South African sports scientist and performance coach.

He's the author of five books on sports science and motivation, a TEDx speaker and Men's Health Trainer Of The Year. He has two decades of on field experience with olympians and championship winning teams, works with athletes and executives to unlock their potential mentally, physically, and emotionally.

He has also spent three years of his life as a monk and in his new book ''Breathe, Believe, Balance'' he shares his combined knowledge and experience from the world of science, spirituality and psychology. His dream is to touch the lives of a million children by making sports an equal opportunity platform, devoid of politics, religion, race, gender, or social economic basis.

03:21 Becoming a sports scientist, psychologist and high performance coach in apartheid-era South Africa

06:26 The unseen effects of discrimination

08:00 Studying ancestral wisdom

10:35 ''We can't trust the sources of supplementation we are getting''

12:11 Lessons learned from a monastic life and the bedrock of learning

22:52 Daily routine including fasting, breath work and meditation

27:00 By observing nature we gain wisdom

28:03 ESP and ''The Secret Life of Trees''

30:22 Using the five natural elements as supplements

33:33 Breath work for different energy types. It's not a ''one size fits all'' prescription and why you should never eat when you're angry

36:25 Rice, wheat and corn are behind most of our illnesses

39:20 A new theory around flow states

44:30 Helping peak performers who fear listening to intuition and how to measure it

50:30 Shayamal's practices

Breathe, Believe, Balance by Shayamal Vallabhjee

Recreating ourselves and following our true calling and bringing meaning to the world and having success and fun along the way is something many of us are looking to do. Especially during these times of uncertainty we're collectively going through a present. How do we find out what we truly want and what the world needs, or maybe is missing? How do we go about becoming successful creators, elevating ourselves and those around us by our mission?

My guest today knows a lot about that. He has been rightfully called a modern day Renaissance man. Abel James is a New York Times best-selling author, known amongst others for his book, The Wild Food Diet. He's also a top 10 app developer, award-winning talk show host and serial entrepreneur. And he has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in health and fitness. He's the host of the award-winning Fat Burning Man show rated an Apple number one health podcast in eight countries with over 50 million downloads.

And as a coach to the coaches, Abel has worked with thousands of people across the world to optimize performance, mindset, health and longevity. Abel is also a musician and has toured North America and Europe. And on top of that he's also a poet. His new book of irreverent poetry, Designer Babies Still Get Scabies, is a number one international bestseller in humor.

02:54 Abel's backstory and growing up in a wacky health world

06:46 Crawling out of rock bottom

09:33 The ancestral way of eating and fueling your body

12:29 Strategic feeding patterns

15:20 Intermittent fasting windows

18:54 What Abel's spiritual work looks like

24:30 The inspiration behind Abel's book ''Designer Babies Still get Scabies''

27:50 The dark side of social media: shadow banning and paying to reach your own audience

33:00 Online censorship, the value of data and making grocery money from blockchain

38:45 Why brain implants won't save us, according to Abel and why he says not to wait for tech to save you

42:00 Combining creativity with making money

46:40 Abel's tools to develop creative craft

49:31 Using music to upgrade your brain

54:15 Abel's practices

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Designer Babies Still Get Scabies Abel's latest book

We're living through challenging times right now, in the midst of a global pandemic and the daily bad news and headlines it brings. And some of us are struggling daily with fighting repetitive or intrusive negative thoughts and feeling like powerless victims of our circumstances in our own mind. The truth is we all deal with a mess in our mind at some point in our life or other. And that's nothing to be ashamed of .

How we deal with that mess is the difference between having a healthy mind and body or living from an unhealthy baseline of constant anxiety and depression. The good news is, we can clean up our mental mess and get out of the loop of toxic thoughts and behaviors.

And my guest today will explain exactly how to do this. Dr. Caroline Leaf is a world renowned neuroscientist, international speaker and bestselling author who has been studying the brain for 38 years.

Dr. Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology.

And since the early 1980s, she has researched the mind brain connection, the nature of mental health and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study neuroplasticity and how the brain can change with directed mind input and she has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals with traumatic brain injury, learning disabilities, autism, dementia and issues like anxiety and depression.

Dr. Leaf's YouTube videos, podcasts and TV episodes have reached millions globally. And in her latest book, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: Five Simple Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress and Toxic Thinking, she provides us with a plan backed by clinical research to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts. All this so we can change our mind to change our brain and build a healthy, new neural network, which allows us to change our lives and live them to the fullest.

03:25 The mind and brain are not the same

05:30 Traumatic brain injuries and the success of directed mind input

09:35 A detailed explanation on how the mind and brain differ

23:18 Managing your mind through difficult times

27:75 ''If you have a terrible childhood you are going to be mentally ill.''

29:00 Your messy mind is on the front line

31:45 You must look at behavior with the ''why?''

33:30 Depression and anxiety are normal human conditions

40:00 Why we need a mind management system

51:30 The ''neurocycle'' program and how it positively effects our mind and brain

55:00 ''The worst patient often gets better quicker because of the mind''

57:00 The 5 simple steps of the neurocycle

1:05.55 Dr. Leaf's Practices

COVID-19 has shaken the world for over a year now, affecting millions in a devastating way and affecting the entire human family in ways we could not have fathomed before all this started. For many of us, this is the biggest crisis we have faced in our lifetimes. In a world that feels completely uncertain, we feel out of balance, vulnerable and suffer from anxiety and fear. I want to invite you all to get back into balance and remind you that you can take control of your health and boost your immune system and wellbeing. And my guest today will talk about exactly that, how we can boost our immune system to combat COVID-19.

Dr. Roger Seheult is a multidisciplinary medical doctor, as well as the co-founder of MedCram, a medical education platform with the mission to demistify medical concepts for people worldwide. Dr. Seheult is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine and Allied Health at Loma Linda University.

He is quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine.

His current practice is in Banning, California where he is a critical care physician, pulmonologist, and sleep physician at Beaver Medical Group. He was formerly the Director for Intensive Care Services at San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital. He lectures routinely across the country at conferences and for medical, PA, and RT societies. In his pulmonary and critical care work, Dr. Roger takes care of patients in the hospital, many of whom suffer from COVID-19.

03:10 The different phases of COVID-19

06:42 The innate immune system, the connection between Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19

14:05 Getting Vitamin D naturally vs. supplements

17:45 Not all Vitamin D's are equal. What should I take?

19:45 Link between COVID-19 positivity and Vitamin D

22:00 Megadosing Vitamin D

24:45 Quercetin & zinc studies

28:09 Cytokine storm inhibitors

29:40 Herbs, compounds and contrast therapy to boost the immune system

36:46 Contrast therapy and its effects on the body

41:23 The Spanish Flu: looking at remedies that were successfuly applied then and how we can implement them today

47:25 The importance of early intervention and clean nutrition

57:45 What long-haul COVID patients can do to help alleviate their symptoms

1:03:00 Dr. Seheult's personal experience with COVID-19 vaccinations and side effects

1:09:15 The latest research and treatments and why it is important to look at the different factors impacting international data

1:16:22 Trials around diet and lifestyle

1:20:00 Dr. Seheult's practices

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