Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Podcast Intro:

What you eat makes you who you are. That is a general thought we all share. However, in today's fast-paced society, where food preparation takes less time while sacrificing quality, how does this affect us in the long run? Join Dr. Grant Antoine and Hilary Keiser to discuss how food intakes, environmental factors, and your microbiome status contribute to curable illnesses through minor lifestyle changes.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• Gut health and how Viome can help you get started on your health journey.
• Understanding your Viome scores, food recommendations, and supplements.
• How microbiome impacts your cardiovascular, nervous, and endocrine system
• How knowing your microbiome status could foster and build your health and restore balance
• How you can use food as medicine with the aid of your microbiome

Links/CTA:

• "Have You Tested Your Microbiome?" Full Video Episode here
• Watch: Cate on Microbiome, Ayurveda, Chronic Inflammation, Dysbiosis, Nitric Oxide, & Terrain Theory
• Studies
  • Does the brain have a microbiome?
  • Depression, Anxiety, IBS and Type 2 Diabetes
  • Gut microbiome activity predicts risk of type 2 diabetes and metformin control in a large human cohort
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Highlights:

• Cate talks about her study on Ayurveda
• Cate shares about her dad getting diagnosed with stomach cancer and sent him viome kit
• Cate talks about the terrain theory versus germ theory
• Cate talks about how indigenous people utilize urine in traditional healing

Timestamps:

• [04:30] Connections between the gut, the microbiome, and all health systems
• [8:11] Modern Medicine
• [10:13] Finding the balance
• [12:45] Personalized Medicine
• [19:20] How diagnostic are the tools in terms of what medicine should be using
• [23:05] Measuring the microbiome
• [28:37] Does the brain have a microbiome?
• [33:57] As the microbiome becomes healthier, is that something that you need to take supplements for as long as you want to feel good?
• [38:05] How different groups of people invest versus spend money

Quotes:

• If you align with the wrong products that don't work, you are doing everybody, including yourself, a disservice.
• Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are traditional approaches that are generally gut forward.
• Not all microbes can create a good rate. There's a very specific genus and species we can look and see that do the work.
• We used to think about the CSF and the brain environment. The cranium was enclosed and sterile and like nothing was getting through the blood-brain barrier. But then we look at autopsy results for Alzheimer's patients, we see viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc.

Guest: Dr. Grant Antoine and Hilary Keiser

Dr. Grant Antoine is a naturopathic doctor passionate about patient empowerment and education.

He brings this passion to Viome where he believes­­ the marriage of technology, systems biology, and the human microbiome provides individuals with an unprecedented resource of practical and actionable health insights.

The accessibility of the Viome platform also provides the means to impact the health of many more individuals than could ever be possible through traditional, clinical practice.

At Viome Dr. Antoine is involved in clinical trial design and the development of nutritional and supplement interventions for Viome's user recommendations and efficacy studies.

Dr. Antoine holds a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Texas at Dallas and later attended Bastyr University of California where he earned his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree. He attended naturopathic residency at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute at the University of California, Irvine where his training focused on integrative primary care.

Hilary is a biochemist turned biohacker. Her passion for wellness extends beyond hacking her own health to using artificial intelligence to improve the health of thousands. As a Clinical Nutritionist at Viome, she has worked to train the AI platform to make precision nutrition recommendations. She believes that Viome's precision nutrition program can truly slow the progression of the disease and may someday make illness obsolete. Hilary holds a Bachelor's in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Hartford and a Masters in Biochemistry from San Diego State University. She is an avid yoga practitioner, snowboarder, food lover, and at-home fermentation enthusiast.

Success is not something that suddenly appears in your life. It is something you work hard on, and dedicate your life to. How you see success also depends on what your views are and how you see your life.

On your path to success, you may encounter problems that you can either solve on your own or have someone to help you with. There is nothing wrong with asking for help. Let other people help you and you will end up learning a lot from them. In this episode, Cate Stillman together with our guests, Brett Larkin and Katie Silcox, will be discussing about the path to success. Don't miss out!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to build a community and choose the right platform
• How everyone has their own definition of what success is
• How important it is to invest in oneself

Links/CTA:

• Time for Yogidetox! Coming April...check out here >>> https://yogidetox.com/
• Free Workshops!  
• Katie Silcox Shakti School
• Brett Larkin's Blog
• Brett Larkin IG: @larkinyogatv
• Brett Larkin YT: @brettlarkinyoga
• Brett Larkin Yoga Uplifted

Highlights:

• Cate shares to us her skills that she learned and its growth
• Cate discusses how figuring out on your own is a myth
• Cate highlights that we were all looking for self-knowledge ideas

Timestamps:

• [00:42] Introduction 
• [03:49] Start from nothing stories 
• [06:32] Misconceptions about how a business runs that supports a person in lifestyle
• [11:27] Learning with the Right Mentors
• [14:36] Community Guide What It’s Become
• [16:34] Choosing the right platform
• [18:19] Building a Community
• [22:41] Changes Brought by the COVID-19 Situation
• [29:24] What is Success?
• [37:19] Mentorship 
• [42:22] Financial Success
• [46:37] Investing in self-development, wellness wisdom, business wisdom, and spiritual development
• [58:47] Closing Remarks

Quotes:

[Brett Larkin]

•  “People just tell you what they want, and you're able to just go and make it.” 
• “Get into action and start forming that community, even if you think it's small. Because these people are attracted to your energy, and they're going to tell you and guide you.”
• “You don't have to figure it out alone. If you think you have to figure it out alone, you're missing the point, right? You're gonna co-create with your audience. It's this beautiful dynamic dance between the two of you.”
• “It's not just what you're going to learn, it's the people you're going to need and the contacts you're going to make.”
• “There is always darkness. The darkness never goes away.”
• “Darkness looks different at every stage of business. You get wiser. With the right mentors in the right mindset, you learn not to focus on it anymore.”

[Katie Silcox]

• “Just start where you are, even if it means you're teaching to five people at the local basement of your church.”
• “Learn a modality that helps people down, regulate and balance their nervous system and put a button on the internet where people can send you money.”
• “When we uncover the subconscious, we really do need a mentor because our mind does such a good job at covering up that stuff for good reason. And, you know, we could talk at length about why we do that.”
• “To really look to your community and uplift one another as a double goddess power kind of vibe is a super important thing to remember too, as an entrepreneur, especially as a woman,”
• “If you can find that spark of life inside of you, that brings you joy and figure out a way to share that with other people, the money comes.”
• “This mentality of abundance is so important, there actually is no competition.”

Guest BIO: Katie Silcox

Katie Silcox, M.A. is the New York Times Best-Selling Author of the book Healthy, Happy, Sexy - Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women. Holding a Master’s Degree in Hinduism and the Ayurveda Sciences, Katie is an internationally-recognized teacher, mentor to women, and inspirer of hearts and minds. She is renowned for her depth of study, her ability to present the complexities of ancient wisdom in a practical, life-affirming manner, as well as her unique capacity to distill the teachings with southern-belle humor and grace.

Her signature teaching style is known as Body Yantra™, incorporating Tantric vinyasa, restorative yoga, dance, sound, breath, emotion processing, manifestation technology, holistic biomechanics, and structural trauma-release methods.

Katie was named one of San Francisco's Best Yoga Teachers by Common Ground Magazine in 2009, one of "70 Yogis Changing the World" by Origin Magazine in 2014, and one of "100 Trailblazers in Yoga and Ayurveda" by Spirituality and Health Magazine in 2015. Katie has written extensively on the topics of yoga, Ayurveda, sexuality, herbalism, and women’s health in such publications as Yoga Journal, Common Ground Magazine, and Origin Magazine. Her best-selling book has been translated into multiple languages around the globe.

Katie has sipped from the honey of many globally-known teachers, including a decade-long guru-disciple relationship in the Himalayan lineage-based Sri-Vidya Tantra.

Today, she works solely with the inner guru of her own heart.

Guest BIO: Brett Larkin

Brett Larkin is the founder of her award-winning YouTube channel, Uplifted™️ Online Yoga 200 Hour and 300/500 Hour Teacher Training, a successful entrepreneur, and sought-after online business consultant. ... She's taught yoga in studios and at Silicon Valley's hottest companies.

Further background information on Brett can be found by visiting: here

Podcast Intro:

Meditation helps you be in a state of relaxation. It helps you release the tension that you are feeling. It can bring you awareness and pulsation to your surroundings. When it comes to meditation, you should know what meditation posture you would be doing. It can be sitting, lying, standing, and walking.

There are various types of brainwave states. Beta is defined as an old patterning mind. Meanwhile, theta focuses on a person’s awake state but not particularly you. In this podcast, Cate will share the process of meditation and the different types of brainwave states.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What is the Process of Meditation
• How’s the Experience of Meditation
• What the Brainwave States is and its Types

Links/CTA:

• Check out all our workshops and courses in yogahealer.com
• Upcoming Workshop: Yogidetox 2022
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Highlights:

• Cate shares all about her love language.
• Cate introduces the process of meditation
• Cate talks about her own experience when she was pregnant.
• Cate enumerates and explains the different types of brainwave states.
• Cate talks about how sleep deprivation can result in adrenaline addiction
• Cate emphasizes how meditation is not about getting insights and thoughts.

Timestamps:

• [3:10] Love Languages
• [4:38] Introduction
• [7:36] Meditation Posture
• [8:45] Ah Breaths
• [10:01] Meditation Practice
• [26:40] What Happens in a Meditation Practice
• [28:54] Body Thrive and Breath Body Practices
• [31:11] Delta as Deep Sleep Healing
• [34:42] Sleep Deprivation and Adrenaline Addiction
• [37:32] Oxygenation Process
• [39:02] How Survival Instincts are Driven by Adrenaline
• [39:45] Guilt Complex on Religions
• [42:01] Coming Back after a Long Break from Meditation
• [44:47] Final Remarks

Quotes:

• “Keep allowing yourself to relax and be aware of the sensations.”
• “Nothing else needs to matter right now. There's no need to do this right. There's no doing it wrong. There's simply the outside coming in and the inside moving out.”
• “Allow your awareness to be at the boundary of your skin.”
• “When humans don't hit deep sleep for long enough, it causes dementia.”
• “What's hard about sleep deprivation is that it triggers adrenaline addiction”
• “If we're sleep-deprived, the mind and body are in an adrenaline addiction cycle where it's producing cortisol in greater quantities at the wrong times of the day.”
• “You're not meditating to have insights and thoughts. That's a different practice.”

Podcast Intro:

Practitioners of alternative medicine and holistic healers have long debated the efficacy of our current approach to wellbeing, and the disparity has confused the general populace about the various procedures. One of those controversial methods is the use of Urine as a treatment for various diseases. Cate discusses the health benefits of inhaling snorts and using pee for better health and mental clarity. She also talks about how Urine has been used by Yogi practitioners for thousands of years and how it helps the Olfactory System.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Olfactory Health Affects Longevity and Quality of life.
• How Olfactory Function serves as your first line of defense against pathogens and foreign bodies entering your system.
• How urine rejuvenates Sianna and is effective in reversing toxicity.

Links/CTA:

• Check out Yogahealer.com Free Workshops!
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Highlights:

• Cate talks about certain medications that are administered to the body through nasal drug delivery.
• Cate talks about early yoga focusing on pranayama and meditation.
• Cate talks about using urine to naturally heal the body and enforce a state of repair of its normal state and function.
• Cate talks about how Yoga is more focused on health, rather than enlightenment.

Timestamps:

• [02:18] The Olfactory System
• [04:57] The Job of the Sinuses
• [06:21] Origin of the Term “Sinus”
• [07:07] The Turbines of the Body 
• [09:30] Drug Bioavailability through the Nose
• [10:52] How Pranayama led to a Science around Olfactory Care 
• [12:19] How Yogi’s have been using Urine in their Practice
• [14:55] How Urine Restores SInus Microbiome
• [17:56] The Huffing Experience 
• [20:47] The Review of Importance of Urine in the Treatment of Disease
• [24:13] Understanding why Urine has been used in Yogi for Thousands of Years

Quotes:

• “Olfactory dysfunction was an independent risk factor for death, stronger than several common causes of death such as heart failure, lung disease and cancer, indicating that this evolutionarily ancient special sense may signal a key mechanism that affects human longevity.”
• “If you want to optimize your brain, short term and long term, you'll want a strong olfactory network.”
• “Huffing pee feels like it pumps nitric oxide and gas form through the olfactory network is gentler than snorting and seems to have a less aggressive but equally effective role as bad biofilm remover and nitric oxide optimizer.
•  “When you snort, you buff out the entire olfactory apparatus, from the nostril wall to a factory bulb to olfactory nerve to the rest of your brain and body.”
• “If you're not in a group that has the habits you want, your ability to have those habits will be greatly challenged and delayed. So it's much faster, easier, and way more fun to be in a group that's evolving their habits together.”
• “Pee restores functional nasal sinus microbiome, which optimizes the olfactory network and relaxes the emotions.”
• “As you rewire yourself, intuitive alignment returns. It's like moving up in video game levels, relying on skills previously earned.”
• “If you want a window to monitor brain health, olfactory is your system. Huffing is the gentlest, but like snorting, it's pretty advanced for modern disease to humans. You have to experience it to validate it or dismiss it.”

Guest: Cate Stillman

Since 2001, Cate Stillman has been educating audiences on how to achieve health and wellness with yoga and Ayurveda. She is the host of the Yogahealer Real Thrive Show, a weekly podcast that features dozens of industry leaders. She spends part of her time in Idaho's border country and part of it in Mexico.

Podcast Intro:

There's more and more literature coming out of the scientific community around inflammation. The more someone feels like they don't know why it happened to them, why that gland or tissue organ system went diseased, or understanding what systems are involved, can be even scarier than it may need to be.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What’s the Vata type shape?
• How the nervous system goes towards an adrenaline state?
• What happens with the job of the kidneys?
• What’s beautiful about Ayurveda?
• What’s Pitta?
• What’s Kapha?

Links/CTA:

• Focus on how you want to feel next - Take our Body Goals Assessment
• Body Thrive™: Uplevel Your Body & Your Life with the 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga
• Know more about Yogahealer

Highlights:

• Cate explains that the thing that’s happening to Vata is because we have the exposed nervous system, and the VUCA world naturally has negative stressors on the mind. So it's going to negatively stress the mind.
• The whole physiology is trying to smartly evolve. And so it's not going regenerative. Cells that are going mutation are degenerative.

Timestamps:

• [00:46] Introduction
• [05:09] Vata type
• [09:07] The thing that usually affected by the emotional body
• [13:42] Kidneys are chemists
• [16:43] Ayurveda
• [18:07] Oxidation
• [18:47] Recognizing the part of the VUCA culture
• [20:17] Pitta
• [35:17] Kapha

Quotes:

• “From the Vata perspective, there's all this massive change affecting the nervous systems, affecting the emotional body. And so it's destabilizing to someone who's naturally going to go out of balance towards instability. “
• “Any situation where you feel like there's no possible action to take can be a negative stressor.”
• “The yogi's got this connection of energy production and insight which requires the rest and digest function, that is also important for Pitta to do what it is designed to do.”
• “Anything that has to do with hyperacidity goes right in the Pitta category.”

In this episode, you will learn about the Microbiome. Cate will talk about how it identifies sickness in a person. She will also share the importance of microbiomes and how it affects your overall health.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why Animals don’t get COVID-19
• Why COVID-19 will never be eradicated
• How to have a Healthy Microbiome
• What causes Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
• How the Microbiome can be used to Identify Sickness

Links/CTA:

• Check out our FREE Workshops!

Highlights:

• Cate shares details about Terrain Theory
• Cate recalls a study about the ratio of Human Cells to Bacteria
• Cate shares her experiences with different types of stresses
• Cate talks about how the colon gets chronic diseases
• Cate shares what happens to the brain if the body has too much food and less exercise
• Cate asks why do humans get sick from COVID-19 but not animals
• Cate talks about how Healthy Bacteria thrives

Timestamps:

• [00:44] Terrain Theory
• [03:29] What is the Terrain?
• [06:06] Eubiosis vs. Dysbiosis
• [08:20] What does harmony mean?
• [12:10] Negative Stressors and Positive Stressors
• [15:32] The Diversification of Virus
• [20:06] Antibiotic Consumption
• [22:25] What affects Dysbiosis?
• [26:44] How do cells know the Circadian Rhythm?
• [27:59] Microbiome in Ayurveda
• [33:16] The Main Factor for a Healthy Microbiome

Quotes:

• “The healthier you are, the more your body adapts.” [03:26] 
• “The health of your microbiome determines your susceptibility. The health of your microbiome determines how much inflammation you have.” [04:42] 
• “The negative thinking pattern in the mind is going to generate systemic inflammation as well, which you want to start to understand will take out the good guys. The good microbiome cannot live in a negative mind.” [28:11]

Podcast Intro:

Scientism has taken over medicine to the point where most of us aren't even aware of it. When seeking research and validation, we must keep in mind that what we currently refer to as science is the study of disease, not human optimization. People that study consciousness look at physiology from a practical standpoint to see what it can do. There are studies in allopathic medicine that focus on chronic disease, but not in a way that tries to look at the big picture of how humans can be healthy. But rather on how they can produce highly specialized, highly individualized medications to combat the consequences of chronic inflammation.

Roman Sieler is a medical anthropologist, wrote a book on marma points, and studied with a yoga sitting Master. Being accepted as a student by a noted guru of the Siddha tradition, Roman was afforded the unique chance to explore a topic shrouded in mystery: the vital spots known as marma in the ayurvedic tradition and as varmam spots among Siddha physicians of South India.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Relevance of Ayurveda and other "alternative" healthcare methods today: ancient solutions to modern challenges?
• Siddha medicine: still flying under the radar, but waiting to be discovered?
• Mercury and other controversial therapeutic agents of Indian medicines
• Global spread and relevance of medical emancipation: people taking their health into their own hands
• What drew Roman to study Indian medicine?
• What did Roman notice about the accumulation of practices over time?
• What is the effect of breathing through the mouth in yoga?
• How did the guru reveal the discovery of the Marmas?
• How did Indian astrologers have such insightful knowledge about Star alignments and astrological kinds of confluences?
• How does a person's body have to be able to do certain things to practice medicine?
• Where is Roman going next, and why?

Links/CTA:

• Journey Into The Power Of Personal Thrive - Enroll now in Cate's Living Ayurveda Class
• Roman Sieler's Book: Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India
• Roman Sieler's Article: Intertwined
• Roman Sieler's Article: Patient Agency Revisited: “Healing the Hidden” in South India

Highlights:

• Cate talks about the subtler channels of the body
• Cate tells about what's happening in allopathic medicine
• Cate shares about Body Thrive

Timestamps:

•  Marma points (13:47-14:43)
•  The relation of the brain to the Ajna Chakra and Sahasrara (17:48-19:30)
•  Other ways that you can feel Prana (22:14-23:56)
•  Strengthening Practices (28:01-31:14)

Quotes:

• "Life is about being well or unwell. And most of the time, we struggle between these polls. Different cultures deal with these issues in different ways. And that is very intriguing."
• "If you're in the mama practice, you have to look after your own body, you have to look after your own marma points and your planning system because this product system is what allows you to establish a connection to the patient and the patient is not just a number, a name on paper, or a symptom, but the patient is also pranic system."
• "I feel that what is close to my heart is empowering patients. Let's empower people to their own lives, health, and disease to be clever enough to lead lives that lead not to that drastic, severe diseases and lifestyle problems."

Guest BIO: Roman Sieler

Roman has a PhD in medical anthropology. This is probably the logical outcome of the fact that he has always been fascinated by different cultures, especially India, and its diverse heritage of history and knowledge and issues related to health and well-being. After some experience in development cooperation in health, Roman has been employed as a lecturer and researcher at different institutions in Germany and India. As part of this, he conducted in-depth and long-term research on Indian medicine: Ayurveda and the lesser-known Siddha and Unani medicines.

Being accepted as a student by a noted guru of the Siddha tradition, Roman was afforded the unique chance to explore a topic shrouded in mystery: the vital spots. Known as marma in the ayurvedic tradition and as varmam spots among Siddha physicians of South India, these spots are vital body centers through which life force, known as prana, flows. Crucial to life, any impairment to the integrity of the prana system and vital spots is likely to result in far-reaching consequences on all levels of physical and psycho-spiritual health. By manually manipulating these vital spots, physicians may address an equally wide-ranging set of ailments. Especially in South India, however, related skills moreover bleed into martial arts practices, as these spots can heal and harm. For this reason, practice and transmission of the vital spot knowledge is usually kept under tight wraps and is not normally revealed to outsiders. Roman's book "Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India" (Oxford University Press, 2015) reflects this and analyzes secrecy and health as related aspects.

Wishing to be more actively engaged in health and the topics he is enthusiastic about, Roman is currently enrolled in an alternative and complementary healthcare course, aspiring to become a naturopathic practitioner.

Studying health vs. disease

Marma points

• What does he use. 
• What practices does he do 
• What were the biggest

In any case, we should refrain from interpreting healing practices in too narrow a definition and from avoiding problematic, western dichotomies, such as ‘science’ vs. ‘arts’, or even ‘healing’ vs. ‘fighting’, both in South Asia and in Asia in general.

Podcast Intro:

Anything in nature ferments, but people who ferment food are unaware that urine ferments as well. Fermentation of fruits, vegetables, urine, and breast milk is often thought to be harmful. When urine ferments, does it get more powerful? 

There's a lot of debate as to why the fermentation of aged urine becomes much more powerful and fresher. The discovery of this medicinal magic that is your own urine is the foundation for health and optimal leaving, the savior of humanity. 

 In this episode with Harry Matadeen, he will share the benefits of drinking aged urine and studies attempting to support this discovery of the century. Stay tuned as Harry shares with us the whys and hows of using our own perfect medicine and how to stay healthy for the rest of our lives.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How do negative ions serve as a magnet to pull disease out of the body?
• What are the different types of aged urine?
• Can aged urine burn mucosal membranes?
• What are the misconceptions around what's in your blood?
• How can you create the inner vibration?
• Why do we pee it out if the body wouldn't retain it?
• How does the microbiome make human cells healthier?
• Does Aged Urine restore the beautiful balance of the brain hemispheres?

Links/CTA:

• FREE UPCYCLE YOUR PEE WORKSHOP
• Watch: Urine Therapy & Ayurveda Workshop with Cate Stillman
• Holistic Health with Harry
• IG: @holistichealthwithharry
• YT Channel: HolisticHealthWithHarry

Highlights:

• Cate shares her dream related to the conversation she has with Harry
• Cate tells about the Ultra Plasma filtrate
• Cate shares her thoughts about why we pee it out if the body wouldn't retain it?

Timestamps:

• Alkalinity and Negative Ions (13:55-14:54)
• Snorting Aged urine (20:07- 20:42)
• Amniotic Fluid (30:01-31:14)
• Harry’s first discovery of urine therapy (44:41-45:28)

Quotes:

• “I found that my concentration for meditation became very extreme with aged urine. It's a superpower of concentration. The more concentration you have, the better your meditation.”
• “The more you start with the aged and reactivate your consciousness, the more your life has changed or dies anyway over time because you're starting to experience a different consciousness. So that will change you. People sometimes need a reason but you just gotta try it.”
• “Consciousness knows not to harm you with the aged and fresh urine, because it's you. And it's more powerful. It is a cleanser. They're freeing bad, whilst leaving everything good, which goes in line with nature.”
• “They don't tell us lies about small things. The big things that matter are all lies and opposites. And this urine therapy is one of the biggest lies out there and it's deliberate to keep us abreast especially in these times because it can really help keep people alive and thriving.”
• “This aged urine really calms you down so it's a great shield of armor for life because we all get stressed here in reality. It makes that concentration perfect for deep meditation.”

Guest Bio: Harry Matadeen

34 years old biohacker and half-nature healer.

In clinical research settings around the world, renewed investigations are taking place on the use of psychedelic substances for treating illnesses such as addiction, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.  The microdosing community swears by it, claiming that it has increased creativity, energy, and a sense of well-being, as well as reduced depression levels.

However, despite the rise in popularity of microdosing in recent years, there was little scientific data to back up the claims made by microdosers. Although official research into the use of psychedelics to treat mental health disorders is still in its early stages, growing evidence suggests that these drugs may benefit some people with certain symptoms, especially when other treatments have failed.

In this episode, Todd Caldecott, medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda for 25 years, talks about emerging research on psychedelics for therapeutic purposes as adjuncts to psychotherapy, counseling for mental illness, or treatments for chronic diseases. Todd has been using psychedelics for roughly 20 years in his practice. And, for the most part, it's to help with the ego dissolving process, and one of the compounds he utilizes the most is a treatment that contains magic mushrooms. Now that psychedelics are marking their way from the street to the clinic, from PTSD to palliative care, it’s not inconceivable that many studies will emerge in the near future.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Psychedelics approach facilitates the ego dissolution process
• The emotional and rational differences between men vs. women
• Why Plant medicines have more profound healing properties than conventional medicines
• How Psychedelics experience can improve neuroplasticity, neuroregeneration, and cognitive enhancement

Links/CTA:

• Take Cate’s Free Ayurveda Starter Course
• Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine
• Love, Death, and Magic Mushrooms by Tod Caldecott
• Microdosing LSD - Citizen Data

Highlights:

• Cate ran a study about psychedelics having an effect on autoimmune disease
• Cate shares her excitement about Todd’s research on Ayurveda and Psychedelics 
• Cate explains the correlation between the legalization of plant medicine and the rise of pharmaceuticals.

Timestamps:

• 02:15 - Facilitating the “Ego Dissolution State” 
• 14:52 - Psychedelics as “Appetite Suppressant”
• 17:15 - Brain Patterns on Psychedelics in Men vs. Women
• 23:06 - Ego Dissolution Experience
• 25:52 - Recreating the World through Imagination
• 32:25 - Legality of Plant Medicine
• 37:51 - Developing the Microdose Extract
• 47:29 - Evolution of Human Culture

Quotes:

• “A lot of our problems can be rooted from having hard boundaries of our ego, and we lose the flexibility and flow in our life. We identify too much with the external, not so much with the internal flowing process.”
• “If you have a difficult time with boundaries generally, then it can manifest anywhere on that spectrum from a psychosocial, emotional, all the way down to a more physical expression.”
• “Once those boundaries of individuation dissolve, we find that we have all these interconnections with the natural world. And we begin to see patterns that weren’t evident previously, regardless if we see them in our individual reality.“
• “We begin to see patterns that we weren’t able to see before because we’re so locked into this very individualistic perspective. So it’s a very healthy experience to have this sort of ego transcendent state.”  
• “As we get older, we see and learn how the world works. Our ego gets consolidated within the tamasic experience or perception. That’s why the psychedelics can be helpful for it to return us back to that childlike state of just pure imagination, where we see that the veil of reality can get ripped away, and we can see that there are depths to the reality that we weren’t even aware of.”

Guest: Todd Caldecott

Todd Caldecott has been a medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda for 25 years and is a registered professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. He is the director of the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine which provides online and in-person training in herbal medicine, Ayurveda, and holistic nutrition for aspiring clinicians. Todd is author of several books including Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life, Food As Medicine, and is editor of Ayurveda in Nepal. In 2014 he was the Visiting Mitchell Scholar at Bastyr University. For more information see https://toddcaldecott.com/clinic

Most of us believe that eating three meals a day with a few snacks is the typical, healthy way to eat. But that is not always the case. Human bodies and minds developed to function well in circumstances where food was only available intermittently. In the primitive era, when we examine our ancestors' eating habits, we can see that intermittent fasting was common—but eating three meals a day was not. In fact, Dr. Mark Mattson, a well-known neuroscientist, demonstrates that intermittent fasting is not only normal but also beneficial to our health.

 Intermittent fasting has become increasingly fashionable in recent years, and scientists have been studying its long-term implications on physical health. In this episode, Dr. Mark Mattson joins us to talk about his studies on metabolic switching, calorie restriction, and the cognitive benefits of intermittent fasting. He also provides information for physicians and parents, as well as practical guidance on how to follow an intermittent fasting eating pattern.

• What is intermittent fasting?
• How does intermittent fasting affect the body and brain?
• What can someone expect to experience when they adopt an intermittent fasting eating pattern?

• The Intermittent Fasting Revolution by Mark P. Mattson
• Diabetes in Control - Mark Mattson

• Obesity impairs cognition and increases the risk for some psychiatric disorders and dementias.
• Maternal and paternal obesity predisposes offspring to poor cognitive outcomes by epigenetic molecular mechanisms.
• Neural signaling pathways that evolved to bolster cognition in settings of food insecurity can be stimulated by intermittent fasting and exercise to support the cognitive health of current and future generations.
• Metabolic switching stimulates neural signaling pathways that bolster cognition.

• 02:48 - 03:15 - Cultural Evolution and Human Brains Size Changes in the last 10,000 Years
• 04:29 - 05:04 - Food over Consumption
• 38:28 - 40:41 - How Pharmaceutical Drugs are Advertised and Perceived by the General Public

• “Similar to exercise, intermittent fasting takes time to adapt so that you'll actually feel very good. Many people, if they get in shape, they'll feel really good as long as they keep exercising. If they stop, their mood will start to go down.”
•  “Physical exercise and intermittent fasting have similar effects on the brain and body. Obviously, exercise has a more beneficial effect on your muscles and cardiovascular system. Then, from the standpoint of the brain, those intermittent fasting and exercise, improve learning and memory and protect the brain against dysfunction during aging”
• “Based on many studies, fasting for 16 hours is enough to engage or stimulate cells to go into this stress resistance, conserve resources mode. So people have breakfast, lunch and dinner and a snack. They're not fasting for 16 hours because the only time they're not eating is when they're sleeping.”

Guest Bio: Mark Mattson

Mark Mattson is the former Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging and is now on the faculty of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research has advanced an understanding of the cellular signaling mechanisms that control the formation and plasticity of neuronal networks in the brain, and cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders. His research has also elucidated how the brain responds adaptively to challenges such as fasting and exercise, and he has used that information to develop novel interventions to promote optimal brain function throughout life. Dr. Mattson is among the most highly cited neuroscientists in the world with more than 900 publications and 180,000 citations. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received many awards including the Metropolitan Life Foundation Medical Research Award and the Alzheimer’s Association Zenith Award.