Join Doctor V as he sits down with a leading genetic expert to discuss the incredible potential of understanding our DNA for optimal health, longevity, and well-being. Discover how genetic testing can reveal red flags, help solve chronic health problems, and lead to personalized wellness strategies. Don't miss this fascinating conversation packed with valuable insights and practical tips for taking control of your health through the power of genetics.

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• The power of genetics in solving health problems
• Different types of people who can benefit from genetic testing
• The DNA way: Making genetic information accessible
• How sleep and environmental health affect our well-being
• Remembering our roots: The role of DNA in modern health challenges

Join Dr. Kien Vuu as he sits down with Brad and Maggie Jones, who share their incredible journey of healing from cancer through fasting and other lifestyle changes. They discuss the importance of self-advocacy, gratitude, and love in the face of adversity. Learn about the fasting protocols they followed and how it played a vital role in their recovery. Don't miss this inspiring episode filled with valuable insights into optimizing health!

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• Brad and Maggie's cancer journey
• The role of fasting in cancer recovery
• Building a strong support system and self-advocacy
• The importance of gratitude and love
• Diet and lifestyle changes
• Their fasting protocol and diet today

Join Dr. Kien Vuu (Doctor V) in an inspiring and insightful conversation with Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS and a global healthcare leader. They dive deep into the secrets of longevity, the future of healthcare innovation, and how you can maximize your healthspan. Be prepared for an empowering and transformative experience!

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• Hal Wolf's journey in healthcare innovation
• The future of personalized medicine
• Top strategies for longevity and healthspan
• The power of mindset and lifestyle on health
• The role of technology in healthcare
• Impactful innovations in healthcare

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Discover how to unlock your body's full potential with Dave Asprey, the Father of Biohacking, in this eye-opening episode of the Thrive Today Podcast. Dave shares his secrets to upgrading your body, from the importance of trace minerals and vitamin dAche to optimizing your workouts. Learn about anti-nutrients found in everyday foods and how to avoid them, as well as valuable life hacks for improved strength, energy, and brain function. Plus, get the inside scoop on Upgrade Labs and the upcoming 9th Annual Biohacking Conference in Orlando.

Keynotes:

• Importance of trace minerals
• Vitamin DAKE and optimized workouts
• Anti-nutrients in everyday foods
• Oxalates and phytic acid
• Dave Asprey's personal experiences with biohacking
• The role of minerals and vitamin dAche in bone density
• Upgrade Labs and its expansion plans
• The 9th Annual Biohacking Conference in Orlando
• Dave Asprey's best medicine
• Exploring the spiritual side of human life at the conference

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In this interview, Dr. Aviva Romm speaks with Dr. Isabella Wentz about her new book, The Adrenal Transformation Protocol. Dr. Wentz discusses her 360-degree approach to healing the thyroid and adrenals, which involves addressing the root causes of dysfunction, implementing dietary and lifestyle changes, and incorporating targeted supplements. She also shares her personal journey with thyroid and adrenal issues and how it inspired her to become a functional medicine practitioner. Whether you're struggling with fatigue, weight gain, or other symptoms related to thyroid or adrenal dysfunction, this interview is packed with valuable information to help you feel your best.

Key points:

• Dr. Isabella Wentz's personal journey with thyroid and adrenal issues
• The 360-degree approach to healing thyroid and adrenal dysfunction
• Addressing root causes of dysfunction
• Implementing dietary and lifestyle changes
• Incorporating targeted supplements
• The Adrenal Transformation Protocol
• Focusing on revitalizing and finding joy in life
• Rebuilding resilience and addressing past traumas
• How to find out more about Dr. Wentz and her work
• Dr. Wentz's best medicine: nature

Feeling stressed at work? In this interview, urologist and wellness expert Dr. Diana Londono shares practical tips on managing stress and avoiding burnout in any career. Learn the importance of awareness, self-care, mindset, and finding balance in life. Discover how gratitude and seeking help and support can improve your well-being. Watch now for stress management tips that can help you thrive at work.

Key points:

• Dr. Diana Londongio's background
• The prevalence of burnout in the medical field
• How chronic stress can manifest physically
• The importance of self-care in preventing burnout
• The role of mindset in managing stress
• How to create a plan for managing stress
• The power of writing down your goals and dreams
• The importance of finding balance in life
• Using gratitude to shift your mindset
• Seeking help and support to manage stress
• Conclusion and where to find Dr. Londongio

Thrive State

• Thrive State is a state of being. It's an energy you feel in yourself, a frequency in your body, and that vibration goes out, and other people feel. 

• When we are told by the world that we are not loved, we start covering it up with pain and trauma and adopt being somebody else. We give our body stress signals—and when we feel stressed out, we don’t sleep well, eat well, move well, and connect well. This stressful signal goes to our cells, and information will go up, and our immune system will go down.

• Thrive State is about the basic tenets of how to be a good human being. The Thrive State book is all the research about the fact that how we live our life is medicine.

• The thrive state vibration is about giving love.

How we live our life is Medicine

• Blue Zones are areas where people are living the longest because the ways they live life actually give them life.

• Translating sociological data to biochemistry and molecular biology of ourselves.

Achieving higher vibration

• Every single choice we make changes the vibrational energy of our being. And that vibrational energy does not only affect the people around us; it affects every single cell in our body. 

• We live our lives by remembering to make choices that create a beautiful life. We just need to understand that every single choice leads to an action or habit that leads to the vibration that we give to ourselves and the people around us. 

Navigating Information Overload

• There is a hyperbole of information out there. Finding yourself and space for yourself is very important. Take a pause. When you’re still, you activate the parasympathetic system. If you trust your intuition on the information out there, you’re gonna feel it and sense it, And with that, you can slowly take tiny steps to each and every choice that you make every day.

Happiness, Health and Well-being

• Hedonic happiness is the pleasure that you get from things. You get the things that make you happy, so you continue to uplevel that for you to continue to be happy.

• Eudaimonic happiness is the feeling you have when you are connected with something bigger. That is the happiness associated with purpose. 

• The things that put people in a stressful state are the programming and ego. When ego is always thriving, you are always looking to serve yourself, chasing success. You go to surviving mode. But when you are just yourself and telling your body you’re good, not stressed out, and enough, you are turning off the survival mode. You turn the thrive state signals.

Recovery and Technology

• Technology is good but there’s limitations and limiting circumstances, like money.

• They're good for identifying trends but not necessarily accurate.

• Best to ask yourself how you feel. Technology is not necessary to get you to your optimal self.

Work Culture, Sleep and Health

• Sleep is not for the weak–we all need it.

• We need to get a good night's sleep to be in the best state.

• If you want to have a good work culture, rest you people.

Start with the basics

• Start with one, with the easiest thing for you.

• For me, the most important thing is rediscovering who I really am. 

• There is love in every single moment. Continue working on all those different layers of trauma and old conditioning and the more you do that work, the more you will be aware that you are in control of choices that you make.

• Breathwork has been transformative in unpacking the love vibration.

• Advice from the Future Kien: You are nothing but love. Everything you think you have to do or achieve, you don't have to. Recognize the abundant amount of love you have in your life.

Show notes:

• Creating Awareness When Making Choices

• • The reality is that relationships that are closed are the most intimate. It doesn't have to be romantic. It can be like a close friendship or business partnership.

  • Most people go into victim mode, and they start fighting and blaming each other for hurting.

  • The beautiful thing about a relationship is that it gives you a chance to look at that blind spot to heal.

  • As you go through that, take it as a gift to transform and heal. The benefit is that you become more aware and more conscientious of yourself.

• The struggle from being hurt is a gift—to rediscover you and the love that has always been there in you and never left.

• • We have this love vibration, and every single trauma or condition we have just form another layer of the onion. And that vibration of love is also the vibration that speaks to our DNA at an epigenetic level that gives us health, longevity, and performance.

  • Every chronic emotion that is not love is a human condition.

• Starting the Healing Process

• • Getting out there is actually healing yourself—going into your wound and facing it, processing and releasing the attachment.

• Sources of Trauma

• • For the avoiding personality: TWe he family environment. When you are not feeling safe expressing your emotion or even just neglected, you can't deal with this emotion, you just shut down or distract yourself.

  • For anxiety: abuse, when the other is not there for you, being alone, abandoned, and criticized, trying to get someone's attention, needing parent's approval, presence, love, and all different needs like being seen, heard, and validated, to become safe and to survive.

• Patterns Observed

• • It's more prevalent for men to be avoidant and women to be anxious.

  • The biggest thing to this is the emotional process, not the intellectual. To actually process that trauma and pain that comes out is to emotionally learning how to feel it and process it. 

• Dealing with Trigerred Criticism

• • Lean into the opposite direction of the avoidant that triggers and shuts down.

  • Let each other know and take a break.

  • Communicate, express, and if it is too much, take a break.

Bryan’s Best Medicine: My wife. For a relationship to work, there should be love and growth, and you can surpass all those things.

Show notes:

• Uncertainty to Resilience

• • Yes, you can make it through it. If you come to a difficult situation, look for the lesson. Your mindset will look for what it wants to see. So have a lens in life that would allow you to see the magic.

  • Everything happens for us, not to us.

  • No one else can control our minds. They can control our circumstances. But only we can control how we react. But if we surrender and live in the moment, we can always have resources for that moment.

  • It's okay not to be optimistic all the time. It's a process. Don't be discouraged.

• Shifting from Conventional Medicine: Breast Cancer and Crohn's Disease

• • I went to study medicine with a clear mission of changing from the inside out. But I got breast cancer while in medical school. This experience gave me the best practical lessons that I pursued in my career.

  • I knew diet had something to do with Crohn's Disease.

  • It's not about choosing from one polar opposite to another. It's about using these as toolboxes where we can get different tools to help our patients. Our goal is not just to slap a label and let patients walk out with prescriptions. Our goal is to find out WHY so we can reverse it.

  • One of the core components of genius is curiosity AND humility. We're taught in medical school to have certainty and absolutes, but the truth is everything we do is filled with uncertainty. Embracing that uncertainty with curiosity allows us to open up to possibility and to learn.

• Advising how much testing a patient should do

• • I've learned over time with experience how to use gut intuition: Listen to your patient. Labs are usually to confirm a theory. Testing is secondary. Do a great history.

  • You want to have a doctor that listens to you, that creates a safe space that feels collaborative, and gives you hope. 

  • A great free test is a visual acuity.

• Finding a doctor with a different perspective

• • We need more doctors who are excited about going deeper. We need to engage more physicians to be more excited about helping patients.

  • Find a doctor who will listen to you, who is curious and humble.

  • Medical gaslighting is like when a doctor tells you all your labs are normal and are afraid to say they don't know what's wrong.

• Find more about Doctor/Patient film at doctorpatient.com

Dr. Jill's Best Medicine: Love is at the core of all healing. Expressing love to myself and my patients is the secret sauce to healing.

Show notes

• Bringing in Mindfulness Practice into NBA

• It's taken time. It in itself was a journey for me.

• Meditation has been in the world of basketball since Phil Jackson introduced it. But this generation has changed from that generation. They need to trust me more than anything else. I had to be what I want to present myself as. And it really takes time.

• When we want to do something that represents us, all we can do is plan the seed. We can't force the seed to grow. Let it grow on its own. When the time comes, it will ask for more sunshine and water.

• Patience plays a role in trying to really show who you are. 

• Why did people embrace mindfulness practice

• Challenges make us re-evaluate our lives but also new beginnings.

• Welcome to the NOW.

• This anchor phrase signals to begin with the mindfulness practice.

• But what does the NOW mean? Being present. Just notice. The court or NBA space is madness, so it is really important to be able to find peace and time for stillness. This allows one to remember where you are and to be grounded.

• How to Welcome the NOW: Find that sliver of space and stillness of time by focusing on one thing. Capture this moment from whatever things that get jarry and hold it.

• Medical science behind being present

• The Default Mode Network is the brain's autopilot survival mode that constantly looks for what's wrong. When you're not paying attention, you are constantly reacting to what's outside. But when you work on awareness, you can walk out of this autopilot mode.

• People who are always in autopilot mode are in a stress state, which increases cortisol and inflammation and lowers the immune system. This slows down healing. But people who can turn off their DMN can slow things down and be in the NOW can tap into their flow state better. It's like living life with the breaks on.

• The beautiful thing about stepping back and finding that space of groundedness is that it allows you to remember where and who you are despite whatever's around you.

• Some additional hacks for grounding: associating smell, mantra

• Erwin’s ultimate favorite: Be like water. (by Bruce Lee)

• Being the Godfather of Gratitude

• I think I grew up with already a sense of gratitude because, being raised up in the Philippines, you get to see the difference between what it is like to have and not have. Empathy can be powered by a sense of gratitude. 

• Asking WHY you are grateful is a way to hold yourself accountable for the gratitude you have.

• Gratitude in the longevity space has been seen to lead to lower markers of inflammation.

• Gratitude is a state, and they are energetically connected to your other states. It also helps quiet down the DMN.

• There is no other negative polarity within the gratitude state—you can't be grateful and ungrateful simultaneously.

• Some Gratitude Practices

• Gratitude letter

• Before fully waking up, put your right hand over your heart and your left hand over your right and do some deep breathing. Take a moment to say how grateful you are to have another day to wake up, breathe and have the chance to make an impact.

• Gratitude Gang was initially a pub house club that was turned into an NFT and now into a 501(c)3 to help rebuild schools in the Philippines and provide mental health services for kids affected by the typhoon.

• Grasshopper Project helps mentor next-generation leaders and changemakers.

Erwin's Best Medicine: Gratitude.