Judson is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author of the book, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal your Mind. He has combined his expertise in mindfulness, habit, and behavioral change, and neuroscience to create practical tools to help unwind anxiety. The interview offers several ways to uncover what triggers anxiety and how to identify and break these anxiety habits using a variety of methods, including mindfulness and reward-based learning.

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Today’s guest is Dr. Steven Gundry, the New York Times bestselling author of several books and the Director of the International Heart and Lung Institute in Palm Springs, California. He’s also the Founder and Director of the Center for Restorative Medicine. The book we discuss today is The Gut-Brain Paradox: Improve Your Mood, Clear Brain Fog, and Reverse Disease by Healing Your Microbiome. 

In this conversation, Dr. Gundry discusses the profound connection between the gut and the brain, emphasizing how gut bacteria influence our thoughts, feelings, and overall health. He shares the importance of the microbiome and explains how leaky gut can lead to numerous mental and physical health conditions. He shares practical advice on how we can improve gut health through diet and lifestyle changes. He also delves into dietary recommendations, emphasizing the importance of personalized nutrition and the role of specific foods in managing inflammation and autoimmune responses. There are so many rich takeaways in this interview.

Resource: Gundrymd.com 

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Welcome to a weekly special edition of Untangle, Meditation Mondays. We’re taking this time to share meditations from our sister app, Meditation Studio. We know that life gets messy and, when it does, Meditation is here to help us find a sense of calm and inner peace. Whether you’re facing daily work or relationship stress, unexpected challenges, or just want to improve focus, we hope meditation Monday’s will be your go to for a weekly guided meditation treat. And if you’re craving more…which I always do…the Meditation Studio app offers over 800 expert-guided meditations from over 70 of the world’s top meditation experts.

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Our encore episode guest today is Leah Weiss. Leah Weiss is a Ph.D., MSW, researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author of the book, How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind. Leah is also the co-founder of a company focused on workplace health called Skylyte. She’s best known for her teaching at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her groundbreaking work with Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program (conceived by the Dalai Lama). She’s an expert in workplace anxiety, burnout, resilience and offers a multitude of ways to support our mental health. Leah shares several practical tools for finding our purpose AND aligning our goals and values so that we can live our best life.

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Welcome to another great encore edition of Untangle.

Our guest is Dr. Molly Maloof. She is the author of a book called The Spark Factor. The Secret to Supercharging Energy, Becoming Resilient, and Feeling Better Than Ever. In this interview, she shares her research and insights on the key pillars of women’s health and wellbeing. I found this to be like an encyclopedia chock full of information and data related to our brains, gut, mental and physical health. She’s passionate about biohacking, lifestyle interventions, personalized medicine, and optimizing performance. It’s a rich look at how we manage our own health so we don’t have to rely on the healthcare system to ‘fix us’ when something goes wrong.

Resource: Drmolly.co

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Today's guest is Dr. Drew Ramsey, a Psychiatrist and expert in nutrition and mental health. He’s also the author of the book, Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind. In this interview, Drew discusses the importance of mental fitness— and shares why our mental health is such a crucial part of our overall health. He delves into the connection between self awareness and mental fitness, as well as the powerful impact that lifestyle changes can have, including those related to nutrition, sleep, movement and our connection to others. He believes, as do many of our guests, that personalized nutrition is essential for addressing individual needs and body types. There’s a lot more here…from neuroplasticity to the gut microbiome and its’ impact on brain health to managing inflammation. I think you’ll get a lot from his wisdom. 

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Chapters

00:00

Introduction to Mental Fitness

02:59

Understanding Mental Health and Unhealth

05:58

The Role of Medication vs. Lifestyle Changes

09:08

The Nine Tenets of Mental Fitness

11:59

The Importance of Nutrition in Mental Health

15:00

Self-Awareness and Its Role in Mental Fitness

18:04

Exploring the Mediterranean Diet and Its Benefits

32:45

Understanding Alcohol Consumption and Mental Health

35:56

The Importance of Personalized Nutrition

39:05

Movement: A Key to Mental Fitness

43:23

The Role of Sleep in Mental Health

46:34

Connection in a Hyper-Connected World

51:21

Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life

55:50

Drew's Personal Routine for Mental Fitness

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Very excited to encore one of our listeners favorite episodes. This one is hosted by Muse cofounder, Ariel Garten. 

She asks…Could “energy healing” be real? Do phenomena like manifestation really work? If it does, could we possibly understand how? Her guest, Dr. Shamini Jain, is a scientist, and clinician at UCSD, and shares her amazing studies of the biofield, and the evidence she and other colleagues have that demonstrates that this might all be more real than we thought. 

As always, we’re Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband dedicated to unlocking your brains potential. Check out choosemuse.com and use code untangle15 for your discount. 

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Welcome to a weekly special edition of Untangle, Meditation Mondays. We’re taking this time to share meditations from our sister app, Meditation Studio. We know that life gets messy and, when it does, Meditation is here to help us find a sense of calm and inner peace. Whether you’re facing daily work or relationship stress, unexpected challenges, or just want to improve focus, we hope meditation Monday’s will be your go to for a weekly guided meditation treat. And if you’re craving more…which I always do…the Meditation Studio app offers over 800 expert-guided meditations from over 70 of the world’s top meditation experts.

And best of all, you can now unlock 30 days of Meditation Studio for free at choosemuse.com/meditationstudio.

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 In this conversation, Tim Spector, Doctor, Professor and Author, discusses his journey into nutrition, sparked by his own personal health scare. He emphasizes the importance of gut microbes and the essential need for personalized nutrition. We’re all different…so one size does not fit all. He discusses the role of sugar, fats, and alcohol in our diets, and his belief on the limited effectiveness of supplements when compared to whole foods. 

His cookbook is called Food for Life which he created with his science and nutrition company, Zoe. In this discussion he shares the six principles he believes are most important for us to understand…beginning with the need to eat at least 30 plants a week. There’s lot’s in here. The role of fermented foods. The need to focus on food quality over calories and the critical importance of looking at food as medicine 

A very rich conversation on the impact of nutrition on our overall health and wellbeing.

As always, we’re Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband dedicated to unlocking your brains potential. Check us out at choosemuse.com and use code Untangle15 for your discount.

We’re here, just like you…to learn, grow, share and connect. We hope you enjoy this episode

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Today’s encore episode is with the always popular Dr. Rick Hanson — a Psychologist and NY Times Best Selling author of several books, including the book we discuss in this interview “Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence." He shares how we can hardwire our brains for happiness using practices that help us cultivate and experience the good in our lives while reducing our natural negativity biases. He shares why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings, negative feelings rather than to bask in the warmth of being appreciated or positive feelings. The negative stuff is like velcro…it sticks to us. But it doesn’t have to. He says we can build our inner strengths and capacity to override the brains habit of defaulting to pessimism. He suggests a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. 

As always, we’re Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband dedicated to unlocking your brains potential AND Meditation Studio the five star app. Unlock 30 days of Meditation Studio for free at choosemuse.com/meditationstudio. 

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