▶ 647: Rethinking Retirement with Cambpell Gerrish and Caroline Brecker
Imagine having a meaningful, rewarding career that spanned 20 or 30 years, or perhaps several different careers over 30 or 40 years, each contributing to a wealth of diverse experiences and hard-earne
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▶ 646: Hypopressive Training - Deep Core Strength with Trista Zinn
When most people think about a strong core, we usually picture six-pack muscles. While that's part of the story, there's much more to it. The deeper core muscles, like the transverse abdominis, multif
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▶ 645: How to Become Panic Proof with Dr. Nicole Cain
Stress, anxiety, and overwhelm are issues many of us face daily. But the real challenge is knowing what to do when you're wired but exhausted, when worries keep you from being productive, and worst of
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▶ 644: Get to Know Your Body with Gil Hedley
Pop quiz: how many bones in your body can you name? How many muscles? Do you know the difference between tendons, ligaments, and fascia? We are all walking around with a supercomputer between our ears
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▶ 643: Mindfulness for Busy People with Willem Kuyken
What if you were more present in your life—at work, at home, with the people and projects that mean the most to you? What if you spent less time ruminating about the past and worrying about the future
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▶ 642: The Health Benefits of Muscle with Dan van den Hoek
When you think about healthspan and longevity, your first thought probably isn’t “muscle” - but it should be. Here are just some of the benefits of muscle strength and mass, particularly as you age: i
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▶ 641: Understanding Fiber and Gut Health with Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
Fiber is often overlooked in discussions about diet, weight loss, and immunity, but it shouldn’t be. Fiber is essential for digestive health, improving gut motility, and regulating bowel movements. It
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▶ 640: Understanding Chronic Pain with Dr. David Clarke
Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions worldwide, with conditions like gastrointestinal issues, back pain, and migraine topping the list. In many cases, psychological factors play a significant rol
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▶ 639: Weight Loss Bankruptcy with Lucas Rockwood
The iconic brand Tupperware filed for bankruptcy this week, burdened with over $1.2 billion of debt. They’ve reached a point of no return, where digging out is virtually impossible. In many ways, this
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▶ 638: Brain Talk with Dr. Jesse Rissman
Neuroscience might be the final frontier when it comes to the human body. There is still so much to be discovered and understood about memory, attention, and how we learn. My guest on this week’s podc
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▶ 637: Telomeres and Aging with Dr. Richard Allsopp
You know how old you are, but do you know your biological age? Meaning, are your body and brain younger or older than your chronological years? For anyone interested in slowing down aging and preventi
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▶ 636: Understanding Sleep with Dr. Ketema Paul
Sleep is as vital for life as food, water, and breathing, but knowing its importance doesn’t necessarily provide you with the tools to improve it. What if you toss and turn and can’t sleep until late?
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▶ 635: Understanding the Gut Microbiome with Dr. Gregor Reid
Inside your gastrointestinal tract there are trillions of microbes, about 3 lbs in total, and in terms of absolute numbers, you have more microbial cells than human cells. This collection of bacteria,
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▶ 634: How to Become Hyper Efficient with Dr. Mithu Storoni
The way we work has changed more in the past four years than it has in the past 20. An estimated 43 percent of Americans are now working at least partially from home, artificial intelligence is making
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▶ 633: How to Thrive in Menopause with Dr. Liz Lyster
Despite the obvious fact that every woman will experience menopause, support and education on the topic remains embarrassingly sparse. Worse still, misinterpreted studies have left many fearful of hor
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▶ 632: Regenerative Medicine for Your Joints with Professor Paul Lee
The joint pain market is fraught with wild claims, fringe treatments, and scary interventions. At the same time, whether you’ve got hip, knee, or back pain, there are some truly remarkable mainstream
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▶ 631: Mental Health in Later Life with Dr. Helen Lavretsky
According to the WHO at least 14 percent of people over 60 have a mental health disorder with depression and anxiety on the top of the list. Loneliness, isolation, chronic pain, and diminished health
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▶ 630: Reversing Insulin Resistance with Dr. Morgan Nolte
In middle age and beyond, your metabolism changes. It’s easier to gain weight - particularly around your midsection - and it’s very hard to lose it. The same foods that kept you lean when young sudden
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▶ 629: Living with IBS & Crohn's Disease with Dane Johnson
Digestive health issues can make every day a challenge, put strain on personal relationships, and even become life threatening if advanced and untreated. My guest on this week’s podcast suffered from
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▶ 628: Finding Love in Middle Age with Evan Marc Katz
No one wants to die alone, and yet according to Pew Research, 29% of people aged 50 to 64 are single. That number jumps to 36% for those over 65. Dating is a minefield at any age, but how do you start
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▶ 627: Learning to Grieve with Christina Rasmussen
If you’re lucky enough to live a long life, you’ll inevitably be challenged by loss - the loss of family, friends, potentially even your spouse. Despite the obvious inevitability of loss, most people
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▶ 626: Anxious Attachment with Jessica Baum
Much of how we interact with the world comes from early experiences from our childhood, with our family, and in our community. Attachment styles are psychological models for understanding the ways in
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▶ 625: High Performance Life with Derin McMains
The world of professional athletes and the concept of your body being your business, with its performance directly linked to your paycheck is completely outside of anything most of us have experienced
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▶ 624: Transcendental Meditation and Consciousness with Tony Nader
Transcendental meditation is arguably the most popular meditation technique in the world, and the TM organization has funded the bulk of published literature on meditation worldwide. This is in no sma
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▶ 623: The Amazing World of Fungi with Arturo Casadevall
Fungi have played an important role both in culinary and medicinal traditions for 1000s of years, but these magical living organisms are often overlooked - both for good and bad - when it comes to the
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▶ 622: Virtual Reality for Brain Health with Amir Bozorgzadeh
When I was eleven years old, my grandmother predicted the demise of the personal computer. “Staring at the screen will ruin your eyes,” she proclaimed. The same story is repeated with all new technolo
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▶ 621: The Future of Love with Roanne van Voorst
Technology is accelerating at a blistering pace with obvious innovations in the devices we have in our pockets, in our homes, and in our cars. Less visible are the changes that are happening in love,
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▶ 620: Train Your Brain with Ben Rein
One of the biggest challenges that comes with aging is cognitive decline. You lose your keys, you can’t remember the neighbor’s name, and your brain seems to putter along instead of humming like it us
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▶ 619: ASMR Brain Tingles with Craig Richard
Bob Ross was a popular PBS painting instructor in the 80s and 90s, but little did he know that decades later, he’d develop a cult following of people who simply wanted to hear his voice. Why? Because
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▶ 618: Methylation, Epigenetics & Longevity with Steve Horvath
Kane Tanaka of Japan died in 2022 at the age of 119. Lucile Randon of France died in 2023 at 118. Jiroemon Kimura of Japan died in 2023 at 116, the oldest male ever. What did these people have in comm
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▶ 617: The Power of Wonder with Monica Parker
Finland has been dubbed the happiest country in the world, but in reality Finns are content, not overwhelmed with joy. They have a high GDP per capita, good healthcare, low corruption, and a decent am
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▶ 616: Rethinking Pain with Dr. Amy Baxter
If you’re struggling with chronic pain and trying to find help, you’ve probably noticed that the pain management industry is a big minefield with hardcore drugs on one end of the spectrum and question
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▶ 615: 12 Steps and Yoga with Nikki Myers
In the 1980s, Nancy Reagan coined the term, “Just say no!” and spearheaded the social aspect of the so-called war on drugs. It didn’t work, nor have any of the dozens of public, private, and internati
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▶ 614: Injuries Happen - Stay Positive with Dr. Ariele Foster
Injuries can derail your best healthy lifestyle plans, and if you’re not careful, they can lead to deconditioning and loss of function. But here’s what you need to understand and accept: everyone with
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▶ 613: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Sleep with Dr. Sujay Kansagr
Most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night, and we need good sleep quality as well, which means cycling through light, deep, and REM phases. While sleeping is the most natural of all huma
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▶ 612: Stem Cells for Healing with Christian Drapeau
In regenerative medicine and longevity, it’s difficult to separate signal from noise. The search for the fountain of youth is a story as old as humanity, and while we’re all clearly aging, there are s
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▶ 611: Getting Started with Meditation with Ann Swanson
If you’re interested in meditation and have downloaded an app or purchased a book, yet fail to consistently follow through, this week’s podcast is for you. We’ll discuss meditation for average people
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▶ 610: Understanding Attachments Styles with Thais Gibson
The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our relationships. While most people would probably agree with that statement, they would also admit that their relationships are often troubl
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▶ 609: Why Everyone Can and Should Learn Anatomy with Justin Cottle
Health education is lacking in most school systems, to the extent that most high school graduates can’t name 10 muscles in their own bodies. Anatomical learning has historically been seen as boring, c
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▶ 608: The Importance of Community & Fitness with Greg Drach
I’m an introvert. In my private life, I don’t talk much and am mostly in my head. But since the forced isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve come to re-appreciate the power of community. Every sing
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▶ 607: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind with Dr. Georgia Ede
There is no such thing as a perfect human diet because we are all unique and have unique objectives. The bodybuilder eats to build mass, the dieter plans meals to lose weight, while others use food to
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▶ 606: The Future of Longevity Medicine with Dr. Charles Brenner
“I don’t know the meaning of life, but I know the purpose of life: to survive and procreate.” This quote was from a biologist on the podcast eight years ago, and it stuck with me because if he’s right
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▶ 605: Stem Cells & The Future of Healing with Dr. Jeffrey M. Gross
You’ve got a bum knee or wonky hip. Your doctor says you’re a candidate for a joint replacement, and your insurance has approved the procedure - but you’re not sure if you’re ready for that. You know
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▶ 604: The Future of Arthritis Treatments with Dr. Tonia Vincent
Osteoarthritis, the wear and tear inflammation of your joints, is so common that some research suggests half of us over the age of 65 will be affected. You’ve probably heard that movement is medicine,
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▶ 603: Mindful Weight Loss with Nagina Abdullah
The top New Year's resolutions involve weight loss and fitness. In my industry, January is boom time and February is gloom time as most people have given up on their New Year energy by Valentine’s Day
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▶ 602: How to Have a Sober Year with Rachel Hechtman
Alcohol is involved in 28 percent of all fatal car accidents, 37 percent of all violent crime, and is responsible for an unknown number of mental and emotional health challenges. On the flip side, it
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▶ 601: Your Calorie Math is Wrong with Lucas Rockwood
If weight loss is one of your New Year’s resolutions, you’re probably as frustrated and confused as the rest of us with all the conflicting advice and extreme approaches being touted as a forever solu
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▶ 600: How to Choose Healthy Skincare Products with Marcel Voss
Many people are worried that their favorite deodorant is going to cause them an early death, but when it comes down to it, we’re more worried that we’re going to smell like death. This conundrum perfe
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▶ 599: Women’s Sexual Health with Dr. Lori Brotto
Sexual health requires collaboration and alignment between partners. Many couples get stuck and the resulting conflicts commonly escalate to breakups. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a professor a
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▶ 598: Preventative Health Breakthrough with Dr. Hari Mani
Cynicism is a huge problem in health care, both from patients and providers. Patients are frustrated their doctors have so little time during visits and that they’re most-likely going to leave with no
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▶ 597: The Rise of Ayahuasca in Mental Health Treatment with Dr. Simon
Mental health is a huge and growing problem, and psychedelic medicine is suddenly on a fast track toward legalization. Ayahuasca is a traditional medicine used in the Amazon for hundreds of years as p
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▶ 596: The Busy Brain Cure with Dr. Romie Mushtaq
No matter how comfortable or challenging your life is, chances are you suffer from poor concentration, stress, anxiety, or overwhelm with some consistency. Left unchecked, your busy brain can lead to
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▶ 595: Overcoming Eating Disorders with Ruth Micallef
Mental health challenges are often suffered in silence, behind closed doors. That is perhaps most true of eating disorders which affect people of all ages and backgrounds and range from anorexia and b
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▶ 594: Understanding Your Fascia with David Lesondak
Think of your muscles like ground beef, and fascia like plastic wrap that creates a scaffolding like structure in, around, and through the muscle. Fascia is one of the most abundant connective tissues
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▶ 593: Understanding Hormones Peptide Therapy with Kyle Gillett
Everyone ages differently, Some age gracefully, others fall off a cliff when it comes to health. For everyone, hormones are usually an issue: menopause for women, andropause for men. Both mainstream a
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▶ 592: How to Stop Binge Eating with Sarah Dosanjh
We’ve all had the experience of opening a new pint of ice cream fully intending to just have a spoonful, and then 10 minutes later, the container is empty and you’re unsure why. Binge moments are part
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▶ 591: Psoriasis: Heal Your Skin with Dayna Hrovath
Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition affecting as many as three percent of the population. While prescription medicine and creams can relieve symptoms in the short term, long-term solutions often requ
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▶ 590: How to Run Pain-Free with Hilary McCloy
MDMA, better known as the party drug ecstasy, has been legalized in Australia and will soon be approved in The United States for use in psychotherapy. While much of the research pushing for legalizati
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▶ 589: How to Run Pain-Free with Hilary McCloy
Running is an amazing way to build cardiorespiratory fitness, it’s accessible to just about anyone, and you can start right now. The problem? An estimated 80 percent of runners get injured each year,
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▶ 588: From Suffering to Growth with Dr. Julia DiGangi
What if your greatest pain in life was not the terrible things that happen to you, but instead the confusion and disjunction between your mind and body? Our bodies are wired for survival, but we all h
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▶ 587: The Truth About Aging with Stephen Kritchevsky
Longevity is having a moment on social media right now with Silicon Valley paying teenage boys to have blood transfusions, experimental peptide injections, and all the predictable skin lasers and fill
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▶ 586: Bounce Back from Burnout with Dr. Neha Sangwan
Do you feel burned out? My guest on this week's podcast, Dr. Neha Sangwan, defines burnout as exhaustion, ineffectiveness, and cynicism. Once that trifecta occurs, you’re in trouble - and most of us h
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▶ 585: How to Experience Life Like a Billionaire with Bridget Hilton &
Most of us have a bucket list of things we’ll do once we grow up, after the kids move out, once we’ve retired… or someday. The problem with someday is that we don’t know when or if it will ever come,
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▶ 584: Healing Your Hips with Mehmet Gem
Hip pain ranges from minor pinching felt during squats to excruciating pain that causes you to limp or even need the support of a cane. Like all joint injuries, the process of diagnosing and treating
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▶ 583: Pelvic Floor Health with Clare Bourne
Pelvic floor problems affect an estimated 40 percent of the population. Common symptoms include incontinence, prolapse, premature ejaculation, and irregular bowel movements. Your pelvic floor is a mus
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▶ 582: Improve Your Public Speaking with Ben Crosby
Public speaking and communication skills are crucial for every aspect of life. Whether you’re negotiating a promotion at work or advocating for yourself with your doctor, the better you can express yo
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▶ 581: Are You Under-Muscled with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
When most people think about getting in shape, their first priority is usually fat loss - and for good reason. Excess adipose tissue can, in many cases, contribute to or exacerbate dozens of other hea
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▶ 580: Microdosing Psilocybin with Cori Sue Morris
Psilocybin mushrooms (aka magic mushrooms) are being studied and used for their therapeutic and mental health benefits. These powerful substances have a long history of use in various cultures around
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▶ 579: Why Are Allergies on the Rise with Theresa MacPhail
Food allergies are a common and growing problem. To complicate things further, food allergy tests have a fifty percent false positive rate and most general practitioner doctors have just two weeks of
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▶ 578: How to Be a Free Thinker with Patrick Fagan
If you have a phone or computer, you could start a media company right now and publish and share whatever you like. On one hand, this is amazing and democratizes what was previously reserved for a han
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▶ 577: Male Sexual Health - Fact vs Fiction About ED with Dr. Anne Truo
Erectile dysfunction is often a canary in the coalmine for metabolic health problems, and it might be just the motivation some men need to make some changes. Like all things related to health, restori
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▶ 576: How to Quit Sugar with Dr. Andrea Grayson
Give a baby an ice cream cone and watch his eye brain light up with pleasure. The desire for sweet is hard-wired into us, but our access to sweet is unprecedented and problematic. Sugary and starchy f
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▶ 575: Is Your Immune System Broken with Dr Gary Kaplan
Do you get sick easily? Do you catch every cold and flu that comes through town? This could be due to a depleted immune system or even chronic immune deficiency. This is more common than most people r
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▶ 574: Special Q&A Episode with Lucas Rockwood
Lucas answers a handful of relevant listen questions on food, fitness, yoga, and movement. Join the conversation! What vitamins does Lucas take? Is yoga enough? Why 1 gram of protein per lbs of body
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▶ 573: Carnivore Diet Controversy with Lucas Rockwood
The carnivore diet is one of the most requested and controversial topics on the podcast in the past year, and I’ve had a number of guests on including a medical doctor and heart surgeon. While I do no
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▶ 572: How to Push Past Mental Walls with Joanna Grover
All of us want to change something: our job, our relationship, our waistline, or even our career. We wake up thinking about it and fall asleep wondering “what if.” For some unknown reason, we never se
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▶ 571: Genomic Medicine with Jo Bhakdi
Cancer is the number two cause of death worldwide, and despite 100s of billions invested, there is still no cure, only treatments. The treatments we do have such as chemotherapy, radiation, and surger
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▶ 570: The Science of Trauma Recovery with Jamie Mustard
Some medical professionals feel it’s more accurate to classify post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a neural injury (PTSI) – not a disorder. Dr. Eugene Lipov developed a local anesthesia treatment
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▶ 569: Surviving & Thriving With Long COVID with James Jackson
Millions of people around the world are suffering from long COVID, an umbrella term for chronic symptoms that might include fatigue, vertigo, POTS, and cognitive impairment. While it’s not uncommon fo
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▶ 568: How to Prioritize Self Care with Taylor Elyse Morrison
People often lament that they prioritize others’ needs above their own, and they don’t know how to put themselves first. I believe most of us are mostly selfish, so I don’t think the problem is puttin
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▶ 567: Fix Your Feet with Dr. Emily Splichal
Do you have painful feet, bunions, hammertoes, or collapsed arches? If you’ve visited a podiatrist, you most likely ended up with some orthotic inserts and were sent on your way. Hopefully, those inse
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▶ 566: How to Fight Misinformation with Sander van der Linden
It’s more difficult than ever to separate fact from journalistic or political fiction. The idea of “relative truth” has permeated almost every discussion, making it challenging to get straight answers
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▶ 565: Longevity Secrets from the Mother of Holistic Medicine with Dr.
Most people are much more concerned with the quality of their life than the quantity. We hope to stay healthy, lucid, mobile, and engaged until our final days. How exactly to increase your chances of
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▶ 564: What’s Wrong with Menopause with Dr. Mary Clare Haver
The average woman will spend one third of her life in menopause, and yet the public discourse and medical advice around this life stage is sorely lacking. Will hormone replacement therapy give you can
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▶ 563: Non-Surgical Options for Injury with Dr. Jeremy Alland
Have you ever felt excited about a new form of exercise, only to get sore muscles and then joint pain as soon as you start to see results? You take a couple days off, try ice and painkillers, but the
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▶ 562: Overcome Work-related Anxiety with Morra Aarons-Mele
Work can be one of the greatest sources of meaning and purpose in life; but it can also be a huge source of chronic stress and anxiety. Perhaps you’re tasked with more responsibilities than one person
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▶ 561: How to Build a Healthy Brain with Kimberly Wilson
When you’re struggling with poor mental health, depression, anxiety, or low self esteem and you want to actively change your mindset, it’s difficult to know where to start. Should you consider therapy
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▶ 560: Why I’m So Effing Hungry with Dr. Amy Shah
By 2035, it’s estimated that half the world’s population will be overweight. At the same time, we’ll likely continue to live longer and longer which means the financial cost and even more tragic loss
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▶ 559: Fix Your Sleep with Russel Foster
The assault on our sleep really only began in earnest 75 years ago as the world became flooded with light, stimuli, shift work, and birthed the concept of a 24/7 world. Today, we're wired and tired, o
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▶ 558: Hip & Knee Replacements with Dr. Jonathan Hull
There are over 400,000 hip replacement operations performed each year in the USA alone. While our modern healthcare systems struggle to produce positive outcomes in some areas, in others - joint repla
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▶ 557: Buy Back Your Time with Dan Martell
Are you familiar with the concept of being time poor? This is when you have your life more or less figured out, but you don’t have a spare minute in your schedule. Since time is your greatest asset, a
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▶ 556: How Expectations Impact Outcomes with David Robson
Have you ever noticed that many cold and flu remedies contain little more than honey and water? Have you ever gone to the doctor feeling ill and felt significantly better almost straight away? The pla
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▶ 555: Lateral Thinking for Innovative Solutions with Paul Sloane
There’s a saying: “If you want a new idea, read a history book.” That might be true 95 percent of the time, but for the remaining five percent of the time, particularly when looking for problem-solvin
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▶ 554: Tinnitus, Hearing Loss & Auditory Health with Dr. Craig Kasper
An estimated 15 to 20 percent of the population will suffer from tinnitus at some point in their lives and hearing loss affects an even greater number. Yet so few of us take action and seek out medica
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▶ 553: High Performance Life with Dr. Erik Korem
Modern health trackers collect an amazing quantity of data daily, but most of it is descriptive, not actionable. Maybe your smart watch tells you that your sleep quality is poor, but do you know how t
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▶ 552: How to Fix Your Body - Relieve Pain with Rick Olderman
Our traditional healthcare systems offer amazing options for acute pain and injury, but for long-term, chronic, and subclinical pain, you’re mostly on your own. It’s more common than not for someone w
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▶ 551: How to Live a Happy Life with Dr. Marc Schulz
In 1938 the Harvard Study of Adult Development began. It followed the lives of 268 Harvard students and 456 inner city kids in Boston, and remains the largest, longest study of its kind, gathering dat
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▶ 550: Beat Back Cancer Naturally with Dr. Dominic Brandy
For some forms of cancer, allopathic medical interventions are extremely effective; but for many cancers, outcomes are mixed and confusing. Like all things health, it’s clear that diet and lifestyle
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▶ 549: Improve Your Attention Span with Dr. Gloria Mark
When people brag about their 80-hour work weeks, I have to wonder, are they really working for 80 hours? Or are they starting, browsing social media, and then stopping and starting eight times in a ro
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▶ 548: How to Calm Your Mind with Chris Bailey
When it comes to personal growth and development, most of us immediately think of productivity. How can we be more efficient and more effective with the limited time we have on this planet? On my best
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▶ 547: How to Build a Marriage that Will Survive Prison with Sibil Fox
How would you feel if your spouse was incarcerated for 21 years? Would you stay or would you go? Would you even consider staying in the relationship? My guests on this week’s podcast are a couple who
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▶ 546: Improve Your Gut Health with Robynne Chutkan, MD
Your gastrointestinal tract contains around three pounds of microbes - some good and some bad. When your gut is healthy, the bad bugs are kept in check, and the good bugs serve as internal workhorses
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▶ 545: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety with Dr. Chloe Carmichael
What if physical and emotional pain, depression, and even anxiety were all adaptive? Meaning these negative feelings are designed to protect us from harm and ensure our survival. Anxiety can be viewed
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▶ 544: Eat for Your Brain with Dr. Annie Fenn
Almost everyone is familiar with the concept of a heart-healthy diet, and most of us have heard of anti-cancer and other major disease-prevention diets. But what about eating foods to protect your bra
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▶ 543: Long COVID: Rebuilding Your Body with Dr. Oz Garcia
Tens of millions of people around the world are suffering linger, sometime debilitating symptoms from their past COVID infections. Symptoms range from POTs and hypocapnia to chronic fatigue and impair
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▶ 542: Better Sleep, Better Health with Aric Prather
If you regularly sleep less than six hours a night, you are four times more likely to catch a cold than someone who sleeps longer. But you’re not alone. Around 30 percent of the population suffer from
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▶ 541: Mindfulness for Pain Relief with Christiane Wolf, MD
Chronic pain can be debilitating, so we often look for ways to mask or medicate the symptoms. Unfortunately, the medical approach to pain management can sometimes lead to even worse problems. There is
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▶ 540: How to Have Your Fittest Year Ever with Kathleen Trotter
What would 2023 look like if it became your healthiest year ever? What would you need to add to your life? What might you consider reducing or removing? And the hardest question of all: which lifestyl
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▶ 539: Back Pain - Know Your Options with Dr. Ardavan Aslie
Many people take a hardline stance when it comes to health: they either trust mainstream, allopathic medicine and mainstream medical doctors, or they are committed to natural and alternative healing p
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▶ 538: How to Eat Clean with Brian Gryn
If you search online to learn about health and fitness, you’ll find hundreds of thousands of articles and videos, making it difficult to know where to start. Meanwhile your social media feed is likely
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▶ 537: Yoga for Arthritis with Ann Swanson
Arthritis in the knees, hips, or wrists is extremely common, particularly in the second half of life. If you’re feeling pain and inflammation in your joints, the natural impulse is to reduce your move
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▶ 536: The Future Can be Great with Ari Wallach
If you could meet anyone from history, who would you meet? There’s a saying that you should never meet your heroes because you’d be disappointed–at best. Envisioning the future of human progress in a
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▶ 535: Menopause Bootcamp with Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD
The average life expectancy 100 years ago was around 53 or 54 years whereas the average life where I live today is over 80 - this is a radical change. When the average person is adding three decades t
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▶ 534: How to Fix Gas & Bloating with Dr. Megan Rossi
Did you know your body contains just as many bacteria cells as human cells–about 30 trillion in total? Around 3 lbs of those little buggers live in your gastrointestinal tract, and just as our planet’
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▶ 533: How to Rehab Your Feet with Christopher Ioannou
Christopher McDougal’s 2009 book, Born to Run, brought minimal footwear and the importance of healthy feet to the forefront of fitness conversations internationally. At the time, there were just a cou
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▶ 532: Psychedelics as Medicine? with Matt Zemon
Various psychedelic drugs have been used for thousands of years by people all over the world, primarily in spiritual ceremonies and for medicinal purposes. In 1938 Albert Hoffman discovered LSD, and i
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▶ 531: Fix Your Feet with Tea Nguyen
Bunions, hammertoes, and the wide array of foot ailments can be easy to hide inside shoes, but that doesn’t make them easy to live with. What might start as achy feet can quickly turn into a real heal
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▶ 530: The Truth About Reverse Aging with Morgan Levine PhD
How long do you want to live? How healthy do you want to be in your later years? For many podcast listeners, healthspan is more important than lifespan, but it’s difficult to figure out what–if anythi
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▶ 529: Living with Addiction with Dr. Cali Estes
When you hear the word addict, it may conjure up images of alcoholics stumbling out of bars late at night, or of bleary eyed celebrities being admitted to rehab. But addiction comes in many forms and
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▶ 528: How to Banish Productivity Guilt with Madeleine Dore
I’m a productivity junkie in recovery. I’ve read just about every productivity and habit change book you can think of. From time blocking and “inbox zero”, to nootropics, I’ve tried almost everything.
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▶ 527: How to Set Boundaries with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
Overwork and overwhelm are huge problems in today’s society, yet they are highly revered in many cultures. From the story of Elon Musk sleeping in the Tesla factory, to the parents so committed to the
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▶ 526: Fascia, Pain & Recovery with Douglas Bertram
Our own bodies are a source of infinite learning and mystery. Most of us are familiar with our skin, our hair, muscles, and teeth; but did you know that you have an internal latticework of connective
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▶ 525: Can You Slow Down Skin Aging? with Dr. Shyamalar Gunatheesan
If you walk into any pharmacy, the anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, anti-cellulite creams and potions are everywhere. But does any of this stuff actually work? Most products are simply marketing gimmicks, bu
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▶ 524: A Pain-Free Future with Vinny Crispino
We all experience aches and pains at times, sometimes even serious injuries. But what happens when your pain doesn’t go away for months, years, or even a decade or more? What happens when you’re depen
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▶ 523: Finding Peak Performance with Wylie McGraw
It’s hard enough to figure out what you really want to accomplish in a year, let alone in your lifetime, and once you do figure it out, how do you actually show up as the best version of yourself? Per
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▶ 522: Women’s Hormonal Health with Dr. Anna Cabeca
At what age should we consider hormone replacement therapy? Why is PCOS so common? Why is it that women often struggle with ketogenic diets more than men? Our hormones play such an important role in h
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▶ 521: Could a 12-hour walk change your life? with Colin O’Brady
Ever felt stuck in a rut with your job, your relationship, or maybe even the city you’re living in? You know what you’re doing isn’t what you want, but you’re unsure how to break your current pattern?
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▶ 520: Finding Focus with Michael Balchan
What does it mean to live your best life? What does it mean to self-actualize? It’s easy to fall into the trap of chasing status, titles, or physical property; but isn’t what really matters to you bas
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▶ 519: Middle Age Fitness & Beyond with Anthony Balduzzi
Have you noticed many leading voices in the fitness industry are single and are able to spend 2-3 hours per day working out? No matter how organized you are, if you have kids and a career (that isn’t
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▶ 518: If Your Mouth Could Talk with Dr Kami Hoss
Periodontal disease is correlated with just about every type of illness and disease. Sometimes it’s a canary in the coal mine for something wrong, but sometimes, it can even be the source of the probl
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▶ 517: Finding Fitness Not Fanaticism with Mike Nelson
Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and underestimate what we can accomplish in the next five years. With health and fitness, most of us focus so much on the short term that we do
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▶ 516: High Performance Life with Marc Bubbs
When it comes to health and fitness, one of the biggest challenges in the digital age is information overload. Whether you’re excited about running or cycling, ketogenic diets or intermittent fasting,
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▶ 515: How To Handle Diabetes with Dr. Mark Heyman
You’ve no-doubt had a period of time in your life where your health was the first thing you thought of when you woke up, and the last thing on your mind before bed. Perhaps you had a virus, a severe i
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▶ 514: Risks of Mental Health Misdiagnosis with Sarah Fay
For an elementary school student with severe ADHD, who’s at risk of getting expelled for behavior problems, a proper mental health diagnosis can mean the difference between success or failure with tra
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▶ 513: Lasting Change: Eating & Exercise with Michelle Segar
New habit formation is so challenging. Not only do most of us struggle to establish new routines, we often rebel against our own best interest and go in the other direction. When we fall off a new die
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▶ 512: Special Episode: Questions Show with Lucas Rockwood
Is yoga enough for real fitness? Is there such a thing as non-religious meditations? What do you do if your chiropractor tells you your spine is misaligned? Lucas Rockwood fields common questions from
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▶ 511: Is Now the Best of Times? with Lucas Rockwood
Haven you heard that environmental collapse is going to end life on earth in just 8 years? Do you think that World War III is looming? Are robots going to take over while we humans fight over NFTs in
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▶ 510: Fitness After 40 with Mark Lewis
Most anti-aging techniques are dubious at best. The hard truth is we’re all getting older, but at the same time, most people can quite literally get fitter every year for a decade or more. For non-ath
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▶ 509: Your Brain on Food with Dr. Uma Naidoo
You know that feeling when you order food that looks great but makes you feel like crap? Maybe it’s deep fried or sugar-ladden. It tastes great, but an hour later, you regret it. Now what if that happ
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▶ 508: The Science of Sleep with Devin Burke
Most people get an average of six-and-a-half hours of sleep each night while needing seven to nine hours. This chronic, endemic sleep deprivation contributes to hormonal imbalances, car accidents, and
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▶ 507: Revive Your Hormones with Sonya Jensen
Hormones affect your attention, libido, fertility, and lean muscle mass. So much of how we experience the world is determined by these complex chemicals sloshing around inside us–and they are under at
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▶ 506: Eat to Beat Depression with Dr. Drew Ramsey
280 million people have depression worldwide, and 700,000 people will die of suicide this year. The problem is getting worse, not better, and while mental health awareness is at an all time high, conv
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▶ 505: Genius Foods with Max Lugavere
How do you navigate the challenges of optimal nutrition while simultaneously considering budget, ethics, and the environment? Grass-fed beef might be a nutritional powerhouse, but how can we justify t
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▶ 504: Hyperbaric Medicine with Dr. Scott Sherr
Hyperbaric chambers use pressure, and in some cases concentrated oxygen, to treat a wide variety of injuries and ailments. You’ve no doubt heard of high-level athletes using these treatments to speed
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▶ 503: No More Crash & Burn Diets with Susan Peirce Thompson PhD
Food is so much more than energy. It’s culture, tradition, family, comfort, indulgence, guilt, and pleasure all in one. To add to the complexity, certain foods are even addicting. Today, food abundanc
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▶ 502: Ideal Diet for Your Genetics with Dr. Yael Joffe
What if your genetic code could tell you what form of exercise would be best for you, based on your ability to build muscle, endure physical stress, and recover? What if you knew which foods would be
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▶ 501: Harness the Voice in Your Head with Ethan Kross
We speak an estimated 50,000 words to ourselves, in our head, every single day. That’s the same amount of information as you’d find in most paperback books. We have positive, negative, and instructive
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▶ 500: Can Meat Fix Your Heart with Dr. Philip Ovadia
It’s hard enough to navigate our modern food system if your goal is general health, but what if you’re trying to prevent or reverse heart disease? What if you have early warning signs like elevated tr
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▶ 499: The Truth about PTSD with Dr. Michael S. Scheeringa
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder first appeared in the DSM-3 in 1980, and was clinically defined as exposure to an actual or threat of death, serious injury, or sexual violence. Today, clinicians and po
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▶ 498: Breaking Food Addiction with Dr. Vera Tarman
People often say things like, “I'm addicted to chocolate” or “I can’t live without ice cream.” And sometimes it’s true. Modern food is processed, packaged and concentrated in ways that light up our do
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▶ 497: Wearable Tech - Measure, Track, Improve with Rob ter Horst
Expensive watches have been a status symbol for centuries, but now, weird-looking bands have replaced the bingy Rolexes. Instead of signaling wealth, these new gizmos signal a keen interest and commit
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▶ 496: Mindful Intimacy with Jessica Graham
Mindfulness gets bundled with everything from golf to gardening these days, but one place it might make the most sense is often overlooked: intimacy. For meaning, connection, and even anatomical funct
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▶ 495: Swole Planet with Ryan Andrews
Imagine you are in charge of the weekly grocery shopping for a family of four, and each week, you get a new assignment. Week one, you’re asked to buy the healthiest possible food for your family. Week
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▶ 494: Onions, Inflation & Family Farms with Shay Myers
When most people think about a family farm, they think of a wooden house in the middle of a field with a few chickens, a couple of cows, and some corn and tomatoes growing. These days, that is more li
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▶ 493: 2021 Holiday Food & Fitness Survival Guide with Lucas Rockwood
Holiday season is here, and we’re entering a four week period where our behavior is often bipolar. The last two weeks of December are a food and drink debauchery, and the first two weeks of January ar
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▶ 492: Life After Prison with Jesse Crosson
There are 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States, and another four million on parole or probation. When you factor in families of inmates, prison employees, and infrastructure, we’re tal
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▶ 491: Food to Fight Cancer with Chris Wark
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, but modern medicine has only made small improvements in healing protocols in the past thirty years. Here’s cancer treatment history at a glance:
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▶ 490: Irrelationships A Way Out of Dysfunction with Grant H. Brenner
Around 20% of people have reported a major breakdown in one or more relationships during the pandemic. This includes romantic couples, but also work, family, and friend relationships strained by dista
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▶ 489: Core & Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation with Trista Zinn
If you have a weak or damaged pelvic floor, it can cause incontinence, prolapse, and back pain. Did you assume this only affects postpartum women or the elderly? Nope, pelvic floor dysfunction is now
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▶ 488: How to De-Escalate Conflicts with Doug Noll
1000s of air rage incidents have been logged just in the past year alone where people lose it mid-flight. They scream, become violent, and cause such a ruckus that they have to be duct taped to their
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▶ 487: How to Fight Bloated Belly with Edison de Mello, MD, PhD
If you eat the wrong thing, do you get bloated? Constipated? Stomach pains often start off as a nuisance, but as the months and years go by, they can become chronic and even turn into serious physical
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▶ 486: High Libido Diet with Christine DeLozier
We all know that a healthy, whole food diet can help with fat loss, energy, and digestions; but it can also increase your libido and sexual health. On this week’s podcast, we’ll talk about science-bas
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▶ 485: Sexual Health & Longevity with Dr. Amy Killen
If you have stomach problems or allergies, you probably have a doctor you can call. But if things are not working in the bedroom, who do you call then? What if you lose desire or are having trouble wi
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▶ 484: Rise of Radical Beliefs with Lucas Rockwood
You’ve probably noticed the media right now is filled with polarizing voices, rage, and vitriol; but have you noticed that these extreme views are not your own? Have you noticed that hardly anyone you
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▶ 483: Happy Gut, Happy Brain with Jimmy St. Louis
Did you receive a CRP (C-reactive protein) test during your last blood test? Since recent research correlates systemic inflammation with dozens of diseases and illnesses, cooling this internal flame h
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▶ 482: Kids Brains on Sports with Dr. Julie Stamm
When I was 11 years old, I face-planted snow sledding and gave myself two black eyes and a slight concussion. I remember being sleepy, dizzy, and struggling to concentrate for a few days. Luckily, I o
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▶ 481: Save Your Brain with Titus Chiu
Millions of people experience traumatic brain injuries (TBI) each year, and an estimated 5-6% of those people experience long-term issues. If you break your arm, the path to recovery is pretty obvious
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▶ 480: How to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence with Marc Brackett
IQ Tests remain the best method (albeit flawed) to assess intelligence. More difficult to measure, but perhaps more interesting, is Emotional Intelligence (EQ). How does someone rank in terms of self-
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▶ 479: Demystifying Diabetes with Jody Stanislaw
I wore a continuous blood glucose monitor for a month and learned that certain fruits (mangos in my case) sent myblood sugar soaring, and even more surprising, my 3 am glucose levels often dropped so
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▶ 478: The Gut Immune Connection with Emeran Mayer
The Gut Immune Connection with Emeran Mayer There are an estimated 100 trillion bacteria in your gut right now that weigh 2-3 lbs. If you were to spread them out, they would cover the surface of an en
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▶ 477: The Obesity Pandemic with Dr. Linda Anegawa
The Obesity Pandemic Dr. Linda Anegawa ---------- Hundreds of years ago, a portly belly was a sign of wealth. The royals ate and rank more than their fill while the serfs starved and toiled on the lan
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▶ 476: Porn Addiction Pandemic with Joshua Shea
Porn Addiction Pandemic by Joshua Shea ------------------ The book, Fifty Shades of Grey, is not just a bestseller, it’s one of the top 100 best sellers in history - and it’s not because it’s well wri
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▶ 475: How to Recover from Exercise with Dr. Andy Galpin
How to Recover from Exercise with Dr. Andy Galpin --------------------------- Has this ever happened to you? You’re on a roll with a new exercise routine. You’re going to yoga or the gym every day. Yo
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▶ 474: The Future of the Quantified Self Movement
The Future of the Quantified Self Movement with Dr. Michael Snyder ---------------- What if a $50 smart watch could give you early warning signs for illness, infection, and even disease? Prevention co
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▶ 473: How to Control Your Fear with Dr. Amy Silver
How to Control Your Fearwith Dr. Amy Silver ---------------------------Humans are hard-wired to fear anything that puts us in harm’s way. But what do you do when fear keeps you from taking the necessa
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▶ 472: An Introduction to Mindfulness with Dr. Shauna Shapiro
An Introduction to Mindfulness Dr. Shauna Shapiro ----------- Where were you when you learned that U.S. president #45 was elected? Do you remember the day when Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed? How ab
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▶ 471: Brain Health Matters with Dr. Dale Bredesen
Brain Health Matters Dr. Dale Bredesen ------------- The FDA approved a new Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, and it’s estimated to cost medicare $57 billion per year. In the wake of the approval, three FDA
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▶ 470: Meditation & Neurofeedback with Ariel Garten
Meditation & Neurofeedback with Ariel Garten --------------------You’re probably tried meditation apps, but have you tried measuring your brain wave states during your meditation practice? Meditation
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▶ 469: Exploring the Hathapradipika with Dr. Jim Mallinson
Exploring the Hathapradipika Dr. Jim Mallinson -------------- Most yoga teachers cite the Yoga Sutras as the original source of modern practices, but the Hathapradipika is a much more relevant text th
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▶ 468: Dangers of Modern Medicine with Dr. Robert Pearl
Dangers Modern Medicine with Dr. Robert Pearl -------------------- How much would you spend to feel healthy and energized? If you were truly sick, you’d probably spend everything you had to feel well
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▶ 467: Sleep it Off with Stella Loichot
Sleep it Off with Stella Loichot ---- If you sleep badly, it can create a metabolic storm that leads to elevated stress hormones, food cravings, and increased fat storage. Poor sleep makes it very dif
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▶ 466: Improve Your Posture with Matt Hsu
Improve Your Posture with Matt Hsu -------------------- Do you have a hunchback? Have high heeled shoes led to shortened hip flexors? Postural imbalances can sneak up on you in a matter of months as y
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▶ 465: Does Yoga Work for Weight Loss with Lucas Rockwood
Does Yoga Work for Weight Loss? with Lucas Rockwood Does yoga actually help with weight loss? Does it burn more calories than running or gym workouts? Summer is here, and I’ve been getting loads of we
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▶ 464: Self-Care for Pain & Injuries with Dr. Dan Ginader
Self-Care for Pain & Injuries with Dr. Dan Ginader -------- Have you ever gotten obsessed with a new diet or exercise routine? Enthusiasm is rare, so when you’re feeling it, you naturally want to go a
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▶ 463: Magnesium, a Love Story with Dr. Carolyn Dean
Magnesium, a Love Storywith Dr. Carolyn Dean-----------------Magnesium is a favorite among yoga students due to its crucial role in nervous system health and as a muscle relaxant. Magnesium is everywh
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▶ 462: The Power of Dreams with Charlie Morley
The Power of Dreamswith Charlie Morley ------------------- Did you know that you have four-to-six dream cycles per night totaling about two hours? If you’re like me, you almost never remember your dre
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▶ 461: What Comes Next? Q&As Galore with Lucas Rockwood
What Comes Next? Q&As Galore with Lucas Rockwood--------------Will you ever go back to the office? Will kids ever take in-person school seriously again? And what will the bounce-back look like this su
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▶ 460: Rethinking Physical Pain with Aaron Kubal
Rethinking Physical Pain with Aaron Kubal ------------- Have you ever experienced chronic back or knee pain? An estimated 80% of people have a major pain episode at some point in their lives, and it o
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▶ 459: Making sense of Food with Robb Wolf
Making Sense of Food with Robb Wolf -------- You step into your local health food store, and the confusion begins. Keto, Paleo, low fat, high fat. It’s all so overwhelming. One approach lowers your ch
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▶ 458: Tendencies, Habits & Change with Gretchen Rubin
Tendencies, Habits & Change with Gretchen Rubin ---------------------------- Every few months a new productivity book hits the shelves, and of course, I read it. I’m a sucker for personal growth hacks
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▶ 457: Hope is a Verb with Amy Downs
Hope is a Verb with Amy Downs ------------- Amy was buried under the rubble of the Oklahoma City Federal Building during the 1995 attack. Fully conscious but completely incapacitated, she waited nearl
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▶ 456: Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization with with Michael Rintala, D
Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization Michael Rintala, D.CHave back pain? If you ask a yoga teacher, they will give you three stretches. If you go to a physiotherapist, they will give you three Bosu Bal
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▶ 455: Healing Trauma, Sexuality & Boundaries with Kimberly Johnson
Healing Trauma, Sexuality & Boundaries with Kimberly Johnson -------- Past traumas often haunt us emotionally and sometimes even manifest as physical pain or illnesses. Acute childhood trauma, for exa
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▶ 454: Proactive Personal Health Care with Dr. Doug Pucci
Proactive Personal Health Care with Dr. Doug Pucci----------- I went to the doctor to get routine blood work and was sent home with a prescription for benzodiazepines. I specifically said I didn’t wan
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▶ 453: Surviving the Mental Health Pandemic with Guy Winch
Surviving the Mental Health Pandemic with Guy Winch ---------------------- Suicide ideation is rampant among youth, divorce rates are skyrocketing, and the state of mental health, on a global scale, h
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▶ 452: How to Find Your Purpose with Ashley Stahl
How to Find Your Purpose with Ashley Stahl ----------------- Kyle invested his life savings into a health resort overlooking the sea. I told him it was a terrible idea, and I was wrong. Right up until
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▶ 451: Breakup Bootcamp with Amy Chan
Breakup Bootcamp with Amy Chan --------------------------- What is love? If you ask 100 people, you’ll get 100 different answers; and yet here we are, desperately needing love all the time. It shouldn
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▶ 450: 7 Steps to Self Confidence with David Nurse
7 Steps to Self Confidence with David Nurse ---------------- You’re on fire. Every decision, every conversation, and even the way your body moves feels like green lights today. When you’re grounded in
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▶ 449: Healthy Skin as You Age with Dr. Shadi Kourosh
Healthy Skin as You Age with Dr. Shadi Kourosh --------------------------- “You look old, Dad,” my nine year old told me. He was teasing me, of course, but it’s true. I have less hair, more wrinkles,
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▶ 448: Turn Adversity into Advantage with Doug Bopst
Turn Adversity into Advantage with Doug Bopst --------------- “I took the deal… and the last thing I did was snort a few hundred milligrams of oxy,” says Doug. This was right before he started a 90-da
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▶ 447: Psychological Flexibility with Steven Hayes PhD
Psychological Flexibility with Steven Hayes, PhD ------------------------- The rate of change has accelerated 2-5x in the past year. The job change you were thinking about someday is now your top prio
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▶ 446: Thoughts on the End of Life with Charles Garfield
Thoughts on the End of Lifewith Charles Garfield---------Death and loss are inevitable, nobody was prepared for this. COVID-19 has taken the lives of millions of people around the world, mostly older
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▶ 445: Get to Know Your Testosterone with Dr. Tracy Gapin
Get to Know Your Testosterone by Dr. Tracy Gapin ----------- Testosterone levels in modern men are lower than any time in recorded history. This causes low libido, low energy, and a lack of lean muscl
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▶ 444: In Search of Mastery with Michael Gervais
In Search of Mastery with Michael Gervais ----------- What does it mean to self actualize? To become your personal best at whatever it is you do? For most of us, these questions conjure up images such
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▶ 443: Get To Know Your Genes with Dr Yael Joffe
Get To Know Your Genes with Dr. Yael Joffe ------- Have you done a DNA test to discover your true ancestry? Tens of millions of people give up their genetic information in exchange for a fun pie graph
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▶ 442: Fantastic Fungi with Eugenia Bone
Fantastic Fungi with Eugenia Bone ---------------------- It’s mushroom season in Cataluña, so the markets are filled with orange, white, and even jet black “setas” that are almost all wild harvested.
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▶ 441: Happy Pessimist with Mattias Lundberg
Happy Pessimist with Mattias Lundberg --------- Has your life been turned upside down in 2020? How are you feeling? Positive thinking and optimism are often considered one and the same, but you can be
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▶ 440: Overcome Fear with Kristen Ulmer
Overcome Fear with Kristen Ulmer Extreme skiing is defined by an ever-present risk of death. It’s a sport that demands a deep relationship and acceptance of fear. An avalanche can bury you, a deadly f
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▶ 439: Mindfulness Addiction with Dr. Jud Brewer
Mindfulness a Solution for Addiction? Dr. Jud Brewer ------ If we define addiction as continued behavior despite adverse consequences, we all have cause for concern. Perhaps you’re up so late watching
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▶ 438: Respiratory Therapy with Joe Lewis
Respiratory Therapy with Joe Lewis If you’re interested in pranayama and breathwork, there is so much more to discover than simply “oxygenation.” As a student of yoga breathing for over a decade, ther
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▶ 437: CBD for Pain & Sleep with Mary Clifton
CBD for Pain & Sleep with Mary Clifton Marijuana is quickly becoming legal or at least decriminalized in most states. Billions of dollars of previously criminal revenue is suddenly on-the-books and ta
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▶ 314: Deep Dive into Knee Pain
Have you ever seen a yoga student, runner, or CrossFitter with weird crisscrossed tape on their knees? Have you ever experienced knee pain that kept you from doing your favorite activities? Aside from
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▶ 313: The Mobility Method | Find Freedom in Your Body
Your tight hamstrings, stiff hips, and locked up spine are not going to find freedom on their own—you have to train for mobility. When your body is tight, it affects everything, from your standing and
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▶ 312: Barefoot Strong
My balance has always been terrible. It didn't matter if I was on a skateboard, a balance beam, or in tree pose in yoga; I've always found it incredibly challenging to stay steady. Some people are jus
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▶ 311: Confidence: Build & Develop It
My six-year-old son will approach the person behind the counter at the grocery store and ask, “Do you have anything for kids?” At the doctor’s office, he’ll ask, “Do you have any candies?” He doesn’t
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▶ 310: Mitochondria: Key to Health and Longevity
If you go to any convenient store, you'll see dozens of energy products including bars, drinks, and snacks. Most products are loaded with sugar or caffeine—or both. In the short term, they'll certai
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▶ 309: How to Develop an At-Home Practice
Back in 2002, when I couldn’t make it to a studio, I would play an old cassette tape and practice to that in my bedroom, hotel room, or even outdoors wherever I was. At-home practice has always been p
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▶ 308: Eating for Brain Power
Most health and diet books focus on reducing your waistline but neglect the most mission critical part of your entire body: your brain. The 3 lbs, watery, fatty mass between your ears needs to be fe
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▶ 307: Natural Birth Control
Following the advice of parents, counselors, and health care providers, millions of women take hormonal birth control starting in their teenager years to avoid unwanted pregnancies, regulate their per
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▶ 306: Stiff After Stretching, Yoga Problems & Vegan Pitfalls
You’ve got questions, and I’ve got answers…. join me for this week’s Yoga Talk Show special “Q&A Show” where I do my best to help listeners. On this week’s show, we cover: my recommending reading list
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▶ 305: Balance Your Hormones
When we think about toxins in our food and environment, most people assume the risk is cancer, and that's true; but the more immediate risk is often hormonal imbalance. Common addictives in foods an
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▶ 304: Your Weakness is Your Superpower
Here is one of my favorite interview questions: What did you get in trouble for most when you were 12 years old? The answer often reveals more about who someone really is than an hour-long conversat
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▶ 303: Push Beyond Your Limits
Colin was on the beach in Thailand and decided to try Fire Poi (fire dancing). A few minutes later, he got tangled up, caught on fire, and burned 25% of his body so badly he was bedridden for months.
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▶ 302: Save the Planet One Person At-a-Time
The world’s bulging landfills mirror our bulging waistlines; and the toxic chemicals we pour down our drains end up in our water supplies, food systems, and eventually into our own bodies. Environment
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▶ 301: THE FLEXIBILITY SHOW
Have you ever heard someone say, “Flexibility doesn’t matter!” or “Stretching makes you weak!” For some reason, the misinformation about flexibility training is rampant, and many students are confused
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▶ 300: Sleep Better, Perform Better, Live Better
Meet the man who top Athletes like, Cristiano Ronaldo, consult with to make sure they get optimal sleep: Nick Littlehales. Sleep quality makes a huge difference in optimal sports performance and overa
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▶ 299: Everything I Know About Weight Loss
The world is getting fat at an alarming rate. Two in three adults are overweight or obese, and excess weight is correlated with every degenerative illness across the board. While some overweight peopl
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▶ 298: Uncontrolled Sweating, Zevia & Muscle Cramps – Special Q&A Show!
LISTENER QUESTIONS! Is borage oil any good? What do you do with heart rate variability data? My kid is sweating like crazy, what do I do? How do I get started on a vegan diet? Are oats any good for br
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▶ 297: How to Get Stuff Done
Have you ever heard someone say, I'm an idea person... I like to start new things, but I'm not the person who finishes them? You know who does finish things? Winners. Starting is not hard, or intere
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▶ 296: How to Heal from Brain Drain
It's Friday night. You're home late from work and desperate to sleep, and yet you can't. You're tired but wired, overworked but over-stimulated. Cortisol has been pumping through your veins all week,
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▶ 295: Magnesium: Top Mineral for Yoga Students
Many people think mineral deficiencies only occur in the developing world where food is scarce; but the reality is that most people are deficient in at least a few vitamins or minerals. Our soils are
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▶ 294: The End of Alzheimer’s
Do you have a friend or family member losing their short-term memory, losing their mental edge, and just generally slowing down in terms of brain function? If so, this week's Yoga Talk Show delivers
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▶ 293: Unlock Your Happy Brain Chemicals
I just want to be happy... is something you've probably said one thousand times. You want to be happy at work, at home, with your partner and friends—but what does that mean? You've no-doubt felt h
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▶ 292: My Untold Story: Yoga, Drugs & Alcohol
It was Christmas 2001. I was 23 years old, and I woke up in the back of ambulance after convulsing in a grand mal seizure in front of my parents. I'd managed to wobble through the previous 3 years in
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▶ 291: Push to Your Limit & Beyond
During the World Financial Crisis of 2008, James Lawrence's mortgage business went belly-up, and he started running, cycling and swimming. He channelled his pain and struggle into training, and became
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▶ 290: Lab-Grown Clean Meat & the Future of Food
At age 23, I was overweight, drinking too much and smoking constantly. I was stuck in life and wanted a new one, so I finally got up the courage to attend a 10-day meditation retreat just before my 24
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▶ 289: Why Touch Matters in Everything
You probably know that infants that don't receive enough cuddles, hugs, and physical affection suffer from all kinds of developmental problems—the first two years are the most critical, and this is wh
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▶ 288: Why We're Depressed & What to Do About It?
I've spent most my career researching, studying and teaching physical health and wellness only to realize that mental health is the big elephant in the room. In many cases, diet and exercise help, of
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▶ 287: Wellness Insider Best Of
After interviewing hundreds of health experts, you learn dozens of industry insights that would otherwise be impossible to gather. Our guest on this week's Yoga Talk Show is a veteran podcaster and we
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▶ 286: How to Love Your Body
One of the best ways to love your body is to stop poisoning it with excess sugar, starch and carbohydrates. This sounds obvious, but it's actually a huge challenge. Excess sugar is everywhere and with
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▶ 285: Laughing for Healing
Why do so many yoga and meditation teachers talk in the third person, add in huge pauses between words, and hold awkward eye contact while teaching? Where did this caricature of a spiritual person c
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▶ 284: Finding Strength in Pain
Can you imagine if your mother died of a sudden brain aneurysm, your young husband died of a heart attack, and then your father-in-law passed away from cancer all in the span of 9 years? This is Amy M
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▶ 283: Better than Before
At one of my first personal growth and development retreats, I wrote down my goals to build a huge health and wellness center with yoga, a restaurant, diet programs, and more. Financially, I wanted it
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▶ 282: Become More Productive
I'm often praised for my productivity. I have two kids, three businesses, 28 staff, and a hectic travel schedule. So how do I manage to get it all done? To be honest, I'm not sure I do. Work-life bala
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▶ 281: Meditation for Skeptics
I can't meditate, is one of the most common phrases I hear in the yoga studio. Students somehow feel that since they cannot sit still or calm their mind, they are unable to practice meditation—but t
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▶ 280: Mobility Training
There are two types of people who say that flexibility doesn't matter. The first group is stiff as a board and want an excuse for their lack of mobility. The second group consists of people who have a
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▶ 279: The Problem with Nice Guys
Nice Guy Syndrome is when men try so hard to be liked and helpful that they end up miserable and alone. The people-pleasing, caretaker role is something that initially sounds great but often leads to
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▶ 278: Changing Habits
Your habits around food, exercise and lifestyle largely dictate your health. What do you eat for breakfast? What is a fun night out for you and your friends? How often do you get outdoors, run, cycl
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▶ 277: Detox Your Body & Life
Did you know that newborn babies are born with 200+ chemical toxins in their bodies? Or that polar bears often have off-the-charts levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) despite living in remo
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▶ 276: Find Your Cozy Place
Danish people regularly score as the happiest people in the world, but it's a small, flat, wet country; taxes are ridiculously high, and the weather is generally bad. So what's going on? What do the D
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▶ 275: The People's Pharmacy
Did you know that chili pepper and mustard can help with muscle cramps? Did you know that your acid blocking digestive aids could actually make your problem worse over time? We all have unprecedented
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▶ 274: The Power of Self-Awareness
Do you know yourself? Really? Do you know what makes you tick and what drives you... what lights you up and what dims your fired? Self-awareness doesn't come naturally, like all forms of intelligence,
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▶ 273: Discover Wild Food & Weeds
It's easy to get excited about the newly-imported Brazilian berry with crazy-high antioxidant levels; but what about the weeds and wild foods growing your backyard? When it comes to micronutrients, th
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▶ 272: Unlocking the Secrets of Fascia
Did you know that your muscles would be a bloody pile of melted, soft-serve ice cream if not for fascia? This web of connective tissues literally hold your body together—and most of us aren't really e
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▶ 271: What Darwin Got Wrong
How did our planet form? How did life begin? Most of us have no idea how to explain this foundational, existential question. Evolutionists say that all life has stemmed from a series of random mutatio
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▶ 270: Change Your Life w/The 5 Second Rule
What if what’s keeping you from achieving your goals and building the life you truly desire came down to your constant, nagging habit of procrastination? What if you had a simple tool to reverse your
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▶ 269: The Body-Eye Connection
Did you know that your “vision” and your “eyesight” are not the same thing? Did you know that your eye health can impact your mental and emotional health as well? Most of us are familiar with seasonal
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▶ 268: Can Mindfulness Make You Younger?
Your body responds to the stress of a busy morning with the same biochemical responses it would have if a tiger pounced on you in the jungle. Intellectually, these two events are completely different,
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▶ 267: Sleep Like a Baby
Poor sleep can cause hormonal imbalances, weight gain, impair your immune system, reduce your mental clarity, and contribute to dozens of other health problems. Sleep is a huge sticking point for your
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▶ 266: Never Binge Eat Again
Why do some people suffer from overwhelming food cravings, multiple times per week—and others never have cravings at all? Why do some of us feel addicted and out-of-control with food while others coul
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▶ 265: Brain Training & Brain Mastery
Did you know that your morning coffee blocks alpha brain waves states and that your evening glass of red wine encourages it? Did you know that the blue light from your cell phone affects both your hor
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▶ 264: Meditating with the Taliban
Politically, the world is more polarized and terrorized than ever before. Even the wealthiest countries in the world are experiencing record levels of terror and violent attacks—so what do we do? Can
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▶ 263: My 15 Year Vegan Blood Tests Revealed
When I turned 24, I started this weird experiment eating just plant foods. I'm a chronic over-committer, and here I am 15 years later, still eating 100% plant-based. This is a complicated path that's
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▶ 262: How to Balance Your Blood Sugar
As health seekers, we obsess over the micro-changes in our food and fitness routines. Micro changes are fun and interesting, but it's much wiser to first address the big elephants in the room. One of
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▶ 261: Learn to Breathe
Breathing for health can be learned in quickly and its benefits experienced in as little as 10 minutes, and yet this practice is all but lost from most modern yoga classes. Yoga that should revolve ar
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▶ 260: A Way Out of Back Pain
80% of people will suffer from back pain at some point in their life, often debilitating pain, but most problems are undiagnosed, self-diagnosed, and it can be chronic. So what do you do? For better o
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▶ 259: Reducetarian: Save the Planet with Your Food Choices
Everyone is familiar with vegetarians, vegans, and macrobiotics... but what about reducetarians? This new movement focuses less on hard-line extremes, and instead, encourages any and all steps toward
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▶ 258: Beautiful Skin, Naturally: How to
When you're a teenager, you get acne. As you age, you get wrinkles, sun spots, and sagging skin. No matter what age you are, your skin is probably something you think about each morning when you wake
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▶ 257: Reset Your Brain for a Pain-Free Life
80% of the opioid drugs in the world are consumed in the United States, and addiction, abuse, and even death are commonplace across all demographics in society. Why such growth in abuse? One word: pai
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▶ 256: Organics, Aquaponics & Hydroponics
What does organic labeling really mean? If I ask five Yoga Talk Show listeners, I'll get five different answers. And new growing methods stack complexity on complexity with hydroponics and aquaponic
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▶ 255: Test Your Genes, Understand Your Body
In 1990, the Human Genome Project began, and by 2003, roughly 20,000 human genes had been sequenced. This is exciting, but it's also just the first step. How can we use this data to understand human h
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▶ 254: How Big is Your But?
Hypnotherapy has been around since the 1950's, yet most people still think of it as a party trick. In reality, there is mounds of data to support the power of mind over body when in a suggestible, alp
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▶ 253: Multiple Sclerosis: Surviving & Thriving
What if your immune system went haywire and starting attacking your body's nervous system affecting your vision, your sensations, your mobility, or other bodily functions? Auto-immune conditions are e
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▶ 252: Can Ice & Cold Heal Your Body & Mind?
If given the opportunity, would you climb Mt. Kilamanjaro in nothing but your shorts and sneakers? Would you trust a stuntman-turned-breathing guru with you life? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll
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▶ 251: The Telomere Effect: Cell Aging, Stress & Mind-Body Practices
Science has linked meditation with longevity through the study of telomeres, the chromosomal caps that are an indication of cell health. By mitigating our stress response specifically, research indica
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▶ 250: Breathing: a Forgotten Art Rediscovered
In almost every yoga class, the teacher will emphasize the importance of breath—but what does that really mean and why does it matter? If you ask, you'll likely hear that you're adding oxygen to your
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▶ 249: Time Management Secrets
You wake up in the morning with the best of intentions, but soon, you're lost in Facebook and email. You wanted to do 30-minutes of exercise before work, but you end up a reading CNN.com instead. At w
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▶ 248: How to Get Your Blood Tested
If you go to your doctor for a routine checkup, he or she will usually run very limited blood tests because of cost considerations and limited health insurance coverage. For anyone interested in optim
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▶ 247: Life Without Trash?
Is it possible to live a life without trash? Could you reduce your waste by 50%? 75% or More? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet the founder of the Zero Waste movement, Bea Johnson who claim
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▶ 246: Can Kids Learn Mindfulness?
Children around the world are suffering from learning, development, and behavioral problems at record rates. Mindfulness can be taught as a secular way to train the mind and body to assist our youth.
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▶ 245: Great Sex & Great Relationships
When most people think of health and wellness, sex is not usually top-of-mind, but it should be. Most couples have bad sex rarely, and most want to have great sex all the time. What's gone wrong? We a
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▶ 244: The Adrenal-Thyroid Revolution
About once or twice a week, I'm completely exhausted and yet I can't fall asleep until one or two in the morning. This wired and tired feeling is common among most busy people, and while we often bl
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▶ 243: Plant-Based Weight Lifting
There is a myth that weight lifting makes you big and muscle-y. More than any time in history, medical doctors and fitness experts are recommending weight training as one of the best ways to improve y
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▶ 242: HeartMath: How to Listen to & Train Your Heart
Most people assume that a healthy heart is beating slowly and steadily. The truth is a healthy heart is agile, highly variable, and changing with every inhale and exhale. The measurement of your real-
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▶ 241: Secular Meditation
Almost every style of meditation I've learned has been presented as secular, but very quickly there is a Hindu chant, a photo of some old guru with a beard, or some other paraphernalia that looks an
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▶ 240: Marijuana as Medicine w/out Getting High
Marijuana is being decriminalized and even legalized in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world very quickly—and for good reason. The law enforcement costs are many billions of dollars ann
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▶ 239: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Have you heard of fecal implants? This is when the fecal matter from someone with healthy gut bacteria is transferred to the gut of someone with gut dysbiosis—and it works. While this sounds extreme,
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▶ 238: Why Slow Medicine is the Future
Your typical doctor's visit is less than 7 minutes long. It doesn't matter if you have a broken bone, a tonsil infection, or pancreatic cancer, most of the time you're in and out faster than seems pos
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▶ 237: Less Stuff, More Happy: Living Minimal
The things you, own end up owning you... – Tyler Durden (Fight Club). Often times the things we work so hard for end up taking more than the give, the bleed us more than they feed us. It might be th
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▶ 236: A Way from Darkness: Addiction & Yoga
Addiction take many different forms and affects just about everyone either directly or with one degree of separation. While addict conjures up images of heroin and cocaine, the reality is that peopl
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▶ 235: Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs
Many yoga students explore traditional Indian medicine, Ayurveda, but neglect to study Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). While they have many similarities, TCM offers some herbs, techniques, and app
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▶ 234: Love Your Brain Yoga
The World Health Organization estimates that traumatic brain injuries will be the 3rd leading cause of death and disability by 2020, but many people are still unaware of this condition impacting milli
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▶ 233: Happy Feet: How to Heal Your Messed Up Toes
Do your feet hurt? Do you have hammer toe, overlapping toes, corns, or bunions? Without even realizing it, most people wear footwear that leads to poor posture, muscle imbalances, and chronic foot pro
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▶ 232: One Breath – Freediving & Beyond
Breathing has always been an integral part of yoga practices, but for many years, it was mostly forgotten or taught as an aside to asana practice. Just in the past few years, breathwork has come back
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▶ 231: Finding Happiness with Technology
If you've ever completed goal-setting activities, no doubt happiness appeared on the top of your list. And yet, what is happiness? Really? Do you have a way to measure it? Do you have tools to achie
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▶ 230: Don't Believe in Vitamins? Listen to this...
Many health fanatics claim that they, don't believe in supplements, as if micronutrients were a belief system or a religion—but they are not. They are foundational to our health, an essential part o
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▶ 229: The Placebo Effect: How Suggestible Are You?
Have you heard of sham surgeries? In 2002, 180 people with osteoarthritis of the knee joined a double-blind study. Some patients underwent real arthroscopic surgery and a placebo group simply had a sk
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▶ 228: Back Pain: Surgery or No Surgery?
Back pain affects an estimated 80% of the population at some point in life, and yet most conditions are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. To complicate matters, most people have hard line ideas about treat
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▶ 227: Special Edition: Listener Q&A
Over 1 million people have listened to the Yoga Talk Show since its inception, and it's you the listeners I have to thank for all the support and growth over the years. To say thanks and deep-dive i
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▶ 226: Neurogenic Yoga for Stress, Trauma & Tension Release
Almost everyone who practices yoga has experienced and emotional release or even a breakthrough in class—it just happens. But what if there were a way to actively encourage that type of release with m
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▶ 225: Inflammation: Kryptonite for Your Health
Chronic inflammation is a precursor to a myriad of diseases and illness, and the foods and lifestyle choices we're making are largely at fault. Perhaps the biggest challenge with inflammation is you c
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▶ 224: Does Ethical, Eco-Friendly Protein Exist?
By 2050, we'll have 9 billion people on the planet, and we cannot feed them with chicken, pigs, cows, wheat, soy, and corn. The food system that got us to where we are today is now destroying our plan
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▶ 223: Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises [TRE]
How many people do you know who live stress-free lives without any tension or trauma? Let me guess: none! Stress, tension and even soft trauma are part of all our lives, and the tools most of us hav
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▶ 222: Developing Your Own At-Home Practice
Advanced yoga students come in all shapes and sizes around the world, but the one thing they all share in common is a commitment to self-practice. In order to achieve mastery at any skill whether yoga
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▶ 221: Ouch, My Back Hurts
It's estimated that 80% of the population will suffer from back pain at some point in their life—and most people are left frustrated and confused about how to actually heal. Should you take medication
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▶ 220: Heart Rate Variability from Your Phone
The benefits of yoga practice are at least 50% nervous system related; and yet, most of the yoga world has completely forgotten your body's electrical system. The nervous system effects of yoga are wh
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▶ 219: Getting Started with Traditional Chinese Medicine
USA Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps made headlines this year with his black and blue marks all over this back during his races. Wonder what that was? It's a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) techniqu
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▶ 218: Is Your Gut Health the Problem?
What is your Gut IQ? Is your gut a genius or a fool? Your gut is home to over 3lbs of bacteria, both good and bad. Your gastrointestinal health is crucial for the digestion and absorption of nutrien
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▶ 217: The Big Protein Question
In any health conversation, one of the most-common things discussed is: “So where do you get your protein?” This is not a bad question, but it’s not exactly the right question either. Protein is a rea
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▶ 216: Hypopressive Exercises for Core Strength & Rehab
Have you ever sneezed and accidentally peed your pants? Have you (or someone you know) suffered from a distended abdomen after pregnancy? Did you know that many women, even women who have never given
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▶ 215: Where Are All the Guys in Yoga?
Many yoga teachers will tell you that their class is for everyone - all sizes, ages, backgrounds, and genders - and yet the actual students that turn up to class tell a different story. They tend to b
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▶ 214: Corrective Exercise
We often think of “exercise” as the yoga class after work, the morning job, or a weightlifting session. But there are many more ways to exercise, and one way often overlooked is Corrective Exercise, o
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▶ 213: Minimal Footwear for the Modern Yoga Student
Yoga students invest hours on functional flexibility, strength, and mobility, but the moment they leave the studio, most lace up restrictive footwear. Modern shoes squish your toes, damage your arches
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▶ 212: Warrior Style Yoga with a Former Navy Seal
You might think of yoga and the military as polar opposites, but the rigor of military training and a dedicated yoga practice actually have a lot in common. According to former Seal Commander, Mark Di
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▶ 211: Lucid Dream Yoga
We spend a third of our lives asleep, but most people treat sleep and dream states like second rate citizens of consciousness, always given the back seat to waking states. On this week’s Yoga Talk Sho
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▶ 210: Demystifying Core Strength
Dr. Sarah Ellis Duvall is a physiotherapist specializing in core work, pelvic floor, functional movement, and injury prevention and healing. A former division I athlete, Dr. Duvall has been working wi
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▶ 209: Flexibility Training Demystified
When it comes to flexibility, most people fall into 3 main categories: those who have always been flexible and think it's no big deal (dancers, gymnasts, random outliers); those who have always been s
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▶ 208: Have Modern Mothers Lost Their Way?
Kimberly Johnson is a yoga teacher trainer, Rolfer, women’s health care advocate, mother, and doula. Much of her most recent work focuses on postpartum care. She's the author of the soon-to-be release
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▶ 207: Integrating Essential Oils Into Your Health Plan
Dr. Eric L. Zielinski (“Dr. Z”) is a natural health care provider, chiropractor and researcher with the intent to educate, inspire and challenge people to live their potential. He earned his Doctor of
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▶ 206: Sustainable Eating for You & the Planet
Pop environmental wisdom teaches that a vegetarian diet is the most sustainable way of eating for the planet, but is this always true? What about in areas where crops are impossible to grow, but where
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▶ 205: Happiness vs. Intelligence
Most people claim “happiness” is one of their top priorities in life, but how many of us really take time to define what that means? Is it free time? Is it friends and family? Is it financial success?
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▶ 204: Magic Mushroom Medicine
We´ve been talking about the Future of Food and what our main food sources will be as the population increases, are mushrooms one of them? Are they important and can they benefit our health and well b
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▶ 203: The Dangers & Benefits of Breathing
Breathing has never been more popular in yoga, fitness, and mindfulness circles—but unfortunately, most people lump all breathing into one category assuming that it's all good. The reality is that dif
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▶ 202: Sleep Hygiene: Engineering Better Rest
You know you should sleep 7 to 8 hours per night, but do you really sleep that much? And when you do, is the quality of your sleep any good? Modern life makes pillow-time a huge challenge. Your cell p
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▶ 201: Choose Your Own Life Adventure
We all want to live a life of adventure, purpose, and meaning - but that’s easier said than done. With each passing year, our lives get more full, more stressful, and in many cases, more complicated.
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▶ 200: Hot & Cold Therapy for Yoga Students
If you want to start an argument among yoga students, justmention the phrase hot yoga. Love it or hate it, Hot Yoga hasspread across the globe faster than any other style—and there aresolid health b
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▶ 199: Home Grown Mushrooms
Many of us go to great lengths and great expense to obtain organic and locally-grown foods, but the leftovers including stems, rinds, peels, and grounds are usually throw in the garbage. What a waste!
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▶ 198: Breathe, Perform & Recover
Could mood be the #1 determining variable in performance and recovery from training? What impact does reduced breathing versus accelerated breathing have on your oxygen and carbon dioxide levels—and
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▶ 197: The Vegan, Veg & Paleo Debate
Food has become religion with missionaries telling you to drink kale smoothies, eat bacon, avoid chicken, and take pills and potions galore. Vegetarian, vegan, raw food, paleo, Atkins... there are so
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▶ 196: The Death of Bread
You already know wheat is inflammatory, high glycemic, and allergenic for many people, but did you know that bread can affect your brain as well? Sad but true: something as ubiquitous as your morning
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▶ 195: Mysteries of the Brain, Secrets of the Heart
Is your inner voice critical, self-defeating, and ruminating all day long? Our modern world is more knowledge-based than action-based, but what do you do when your inner voice is your worst enemy? How
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▶ 194: The Science of Mind Over Body
Why is it that larger pills are more effective than smaller ones at treating illness? How could it be that longer doctor’s visits are correlated with faster patient recovery? How much of alternative h
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▶ 193: 10% Happier with Meditation
Meditation has been shown to reduce stress, increase focus, and lower blood pressure, but when there are so many different types of meditation techniques, how do you decide which one is right for you?
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▶ 192: Buteyko Breathing - Is C02 Your Friend?
Discover this little-known, Russian breathing technique for regulating stress, combating asthma, balancing your nervous system, and improving sleep. Yoga teachers often treat carbon dioxide like it’s
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▶ 191: Nerd Fitness
Believe it or not, lifting weights and throwing kettlebells around can help improve your yoga practice (yup, you read that correctly). On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, Lucas Rockwood and fitness profess
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▶ 190: The Science of Stress vs. Yoga on Your Brain
Both “meditation” and “yoga” are buzz words in pop health circles, but both are actually categories of mind-body practices - not specific practices. Not all mind-body practices are the same, and the s
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▶ 189: A Life of Adventure
How many people are lucky enough to turn what they love most in life into their career? On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, you’ll meet career rock climber, Conrad Anker, who has done just that. Anker has
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▶ 188: Power Posing for Confidence
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an important meeting or speaking engagement paralyzed with anxiety or nervousness? If so, you’re not alone. Social Psychologist, Amy Cuddy, discovered tha
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▶ 187: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Corporate giants like Coca-Cola, Kraft, and Kellogg’s dominate the food and beverage industries, but they are optimized for profit, not for our health. To make their foods more palatable and profitabl
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▶ 186: Habits of a Happy Brain
When you experience happiness, your brain releases dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and/or endorphin. The curious things is that our brain doesn’t release a happy chemical without very particular (and o
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▶ 185: How to Poo Like a Magic Unicorn
Have you seen the viral Youtube video where a unicorn poops rainbow ice cream and a prince lectures on bowel health? It’s ridiculous but also very relevant. Yoga students talk about their bowel moveme
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▶ 184: No Grain, No Pain
Wheat-related digestive problems are something you’ve probably heard of before, but less commonly known is the effect that long-term gluten exposure has on your entire body. Guest speaker, Dr. Peter O
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▶ 183: Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
Every year, millions of people resolve to lose 10lbs in the new year. They starve themselves for two weeks, join a new gym, lose a few pounds—but then gain it all back in February when their motivatio
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▶ 182: What I Learned in 2015
The Yoga Talk Show is 3 years old, and I feel like we're just getting started. 2015 was an amazing year with over 50 guests with topics spanning from hormonal health to barefooted running. I've learne
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▶ 181: How Not to Die
Your body is hard-wired for survival, but our modern world throws continuous health challenges our way. I wish things became easier with time and age, but for most people, the journey toward health be
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▶ 180: Medicinal Mushroom Superfoods
This week’s yoga talk show explores medicinal mushrooms; not the hallucinogenic kind, the type that boost your immune system! Tero Isokauppila, co-founder of Four Sigma Foods, a medicinal mushroom sup
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▶ 179: Surviving the Holidays
Popular health advice around the holidays usually includes such nonsense as doing squats before you pig-out, taking charcoal capsules after you drink too much, and going to the gym twice per day in an
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▶ 178: Heal Your Shoulders with Yoga
Whether you’ve hurt your shoulder doing yoga or perhaps you’ve come to yoga to heal, Dr. Ariele Foster shares her knowledge about how the practice can help you recover from rotator cuff injuries and o
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▶ 177: Lucid Dreaming
Dream states are more than just random fantasy. Dreaming can be incredibly healing and is believed to be an essential part of all restful sleep. Robert Waggoner, a leading authority on lucid dreaming,
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▶ 176: Yoga Student, Measure Thyself
On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, you’ll meet biohacker, Ben Greenfield, who teaches you how functional exercise, nutrition, and the balance between performance and health can help you improve your yoga
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▶ 175: 4x4 Balanced Breathing
When we practice yogic breathing, we can either up-regulate, down-regulate or balance our nervous system. In different situations, all three can be valuable, but for whatever reason, balanced breathin
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▶ 174: Live Dirty, Eat Clean – Microbiome
“ The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for your soul to reside in.” - B. K. S. IyengarYour gut health is vitally important for your immune system, digestion, and even your mood. On this wee
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▶ 173: Heart Rate Variability, Breathing and Yoga
You’ve probably measured your heart rate while exercising with a chest strap or a wrist device - but have you ever measured your heart rate variability (HRV)? It’s fascinating stuff for yoga students.
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▶ 172: Getting Started with Handstands
If you’re excited about inversions, and handstands in particular, than you’re going to love this week’s Yoga Talk Show. Ryan Hurst, Program Director and co-founder of GMB Fitness, shares his tips for
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▶ 171: Psychologist’s Tips for Beating Anxiety & Worry
In an attempt to lead the healthiest life possible, food and movement often become the main focus - but you must also address your mental and emotional health, particularly as you age. More and more r
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▶ 170: Breathing Instead of Medicating
Yoga is unique and powerful as a mind-body fitness modality in that it can restore balance to the body's electrical system (aka your nervous system) - and breathing is the secret key that makes it all
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▶ 169: “Lucky Fish” Cures for Anemia?
When most people think about world hunger and poverty, they often think of Vitamin A deficiency impacting vision or distended abdomens from protein deficiency in developing countries. Oddly, a much bi
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▶ 168: The Brain Fog Fix
Negative lifestyle habits and poor food choices can impact the neural messengers that keep you energized, calm, focused, optimistic, and inspired. In many ways, our modern world undermines our brain h
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▶ 167: Psycho Path Free Living
Jackson MacKenzie is the co-founder of PsychopathFree.com, an online support community that reaches millions of abuse survivors each month. Driven by personal experience, his mission is to spread awar
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▶ 166: Food & Flexibility
For some strange reason, many yoga students overlook the importance of diet on their yoga practice—and this is a huge mistake. You are what you eat, is a phrase everyone has heard, but in yoga, it's
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▶ 165: Bone Broth Miracle?
Nutrition is such an important topic, and no matter where we find ourselves on our health journey,we are constantly looking for ways to feel better, live longer, and generally lead healthier, happier
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▶ 164: Anxiety - Friend or Foe?
This week, we take a close look at the brain mechanisms of emotion and memory. With as many as 25% of adult women taking some form of antidepressants, emotional health has become a huge problem in the
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▶ 163: Breathing Secrets of the Ice Man
Can breathing unlock your inner power, strengthen your body, and boost your immune system? Wim Hof (aka the “Ice Man”) on this week’s Yoga Talk Show says, yes. Wim also says you’ll sleep better, impro
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▶ 162: Flexibility Training - Nerves, Muscles & Soft Tissues
Some people seem to be naturally flexible while others struggle with even the most basic poses—but this need not be. In this bonus episode, Lucas explains the difference between flexibility training a
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▶ 161: Stoned - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana has always been a polarizing topic, clouded in controversy, and it can be challenging to distinguish the real medical benefits from the stoner myths. On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, D
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▶ 160: At-Home Kombucha Brewing
Ever heard of kombucha? Kombucha is a fermented tea loaded with beneficial bacteria, activated micronutrients, and if you like sour - it tastes amazing. Traditionally, it’s made with black tea and sug
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▶ 159: How to Heal Your Messed Up Feet & Toes
Modern footwear leaves most people’s feet deformed by the time they reach adulthood, and these abnormalities lead to all kinds of movement problems, pain and cascading injuries.For yoga students, stif
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▶ 158: Are You Getting Enough Protein?
If you’re a vegan or a vegetarian, chances are someone has already asked you where you’re getting your protein from, or if you’re getting enough of it. We know many yoga students and teachers are expl
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▶ 157: The People's History of Hot Yoga
Modern Hot Yoga practice originated from a teacher named, Bishnu Gosh, in Calcutta, India, though it’s probably best-known today from one of Gosh’s most influential (and notorious) students, Bikram Ch
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▶ 156: BONUS EPISODE - Box Breathing
Just to mix things up a little at The Yoga Talk Show, this week, Lucas will lead you through a guided yoga breathing exercises called, Box Breathing. Box breathing is an easy-to-learn and highly effe
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▶ 155: Woman Dives 90 Meters in One Breath
As a yoga student, you’ve no-doubt heard of pranayama (yogic breathing practices), but you’ve probably had very little experience practicing it. Yoga breath work is mostly a “lost art” today partly du
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▶ 154: Meet the Grandmother of Yoga, Indra Devi
Yoga teaching was dominated by men until Russian-born, Indra Devi, came to Los Angeles in 1947 and quietly changed the direction of modern yoga forever. Devi was not only the first woman to break thro
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▶ 153: Is Your Thyroid Broken?
Environmental toxins, genetically modified food, chronic stress, and the rise in autoimmune conditions have all contributed to an explosion of thyroid problems. Dr. Will Cole joins Lucas on this week’
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▶ 152: Eating Clean & Quitting Sugar
People use the term eat clean in different ways, but what does a healthy diet entail? One of the biggest challenges many people face is reducing their sugar intake. Sugar in all its forms, not just
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▶ 151: Healing Herbs for Yoga Students
Over-the-counter drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen are cheap, easy to obtain and provide instant pain relief - but they are more of a coverup than a cure. For these reasons, it’s no surprise that yoga
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▶ 150: Ayurveda 101 - Discover Yoga's Ancient Sister Science
Ayurveda, often referred to as traditional Indian medicine, offers us a truly holistic look at health and wellness. From understanding your own personal constitution to the food you eat and the energi
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▶ 149: Lift Like a Girl (strong!)
Everyone from trainers to medical doctors is touting the benefits of lifting, not just for cosmetic reasons, but for metabolic health, hormonal health, bone density, and more. Nia Shanks joins to Luca
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▶ 148: The Art & Science of Better Sleep
Poor sleep quality has reached critical mass, and the problem seems to be getting worse with our modern lifestyles. Whether it’s stress, anxiety or diet-related, millions are struggling each night. In
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▶ 147: Life on the Run
Running and injuries go hand-in-hand, but it’s such a fundamental, functional movement practice - and so good for you - there must be a way to spend your “life on the run.” On this week’s Yoga Talk Sh
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▶ 146: Can the Moringa Tree Stop World Hunger?
Moringa is known as the “miracle tree” due to its many healing properties. With over 92 macro and mirco-nutrients, nearly every part of the tree can be used to heal and sustain life. This week, Lucas
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▶ 145: How to Cool Your Body's Inflammation
Pop health losing weight advise tells us to, eat less and exercise more - but research has shown this rarely works. This week, Lucas and Dr. Lori Shemek deep dive into the research around inflammati
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▶ 144: How to Feng Shui Your Home
The art of Feng shui was developed in China over 3,000 years ago, and it’s based on the notion that what's happening in our homes is essentially a reflection of what’s going on inside us. The idea is
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▶ 143: Getting Rejected 100x in a Row - On Purpose!
Fear is one of the most powerful motivators on the planet. Unfortunately, it usually motivates us to play small, hide in our own shell, and avoid the awkward and personally challenging situations need
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▶ 142: “Best of 2014“ Special Edition
The Yoga Talk Show had over 200,000 listeners in 2014, and we’ve had the pleasure of hosting a number of amazing experts. From best-selling authors and medical doctors to yoga misfits and mind-body re
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▶ 141: Juice Your Way Back to Health
We all know green juice is good for you, but you can take it much deeper and actually “reboot” your health and detoxify your body. This week, Lucas Rockwood talks with Joe Cross about juicing for heal
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▶ 140: Primal Posture for Pain-Free Living
Back pain is pandemic, and it’s one of the top reasons people come to yoga class. In this week’s Yoga Talk Show episode, Lucas Rockwood and Esther Gokhale discuss how primal posture can help with chro
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▶ 139: Scoliosis & Yoga
Do you have an irregular spinal curve? This week, Lucas Rockwood and Deborah Wolk talk about holistic healing and yoga. Deborah Wolk has been teaching students with scoliosis and other back conditions
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▶ 138: Are Crickets the New Chicken?
Chocolate-covered ants and other novelty foods have been around for ages, but is anyone moving beyond the novelty foods and taking a deeper look at the real nutritional benefits of edible insects? Thi
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▶ 137: Can We Feed the World on Plants?
This week, Lucas Rockwood and Dr. Thomas Campbell discuss food, nutrition and the health of our planet. Dr. Campbell is the co-author of, The China Study, an extremely influential and highly-debated b
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▶ 136: The “Fat Yogi” - Body Image & Yoga
If you hang out on social media, it’s easy to get caught up in the seeming importance of the outward appearance of yoga. It’s easy to develop ideals of what a yoga body should look like when in realit
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▶ 135: How to Hydrate Your Connective Tissues
When you feel stiffness, pain, and aches in your body, it can often be caused by connective tissue dehydration, a little-known, extremely-common condition that’s no good for yoga students. Join Lucas
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▶ 134: Functional Anatomy
Want to learn more about functional anatomy, yoga, movement, and how all this impacts your range of motion and flexibility? Join Lucas Rockwood & Dr. Andreo Spina as they dive deep into soft tissue wo
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▶ 133: The Food Babe Attacks!
Ready to find out the scary truth about the food industry? In today’s episode, Vani Hari (aka The Food Babe) talks about why it’s so important that we investigate what we eat. Vani is a food journal
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▶ 132: How to Live “On Purpose”
Do you struggle to find significance in you life? Meaning in your work? Purpose in your day-to-day routines? Living a life of purpose is something I think we all strive for, but it’s easier said than
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▶ 131: Becoming a Supple Leopard
Are you as supple a leopard or as bendy as a tortoise? The “supple leopard” himself, Kelly Starrett, joins YOGABODY for an insightful class on the importance of listening to your body whether practici
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▶ 130: Broccoli - The DNA Whisperer
Can broccoli “talk” to your DNA? Listen and find out more about epigenetics, candida and GMO food with special guest, Tom Malterre. Tom is a certified nutritionist who travels throughout the United St
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▶ 129: Handstands & Flexibility Tips from an Acrobat
Listen and learn all about acrobatics, inversions, hand-balancing and flexibility. This week’s guest, Andralyn Zayn, grew up as a competitive gymnast worked and trained with, The Underground Circus, i
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▶ 128: Yoga TuneUp - Alignment & Functional Anatomy
Learn the importance of functional anatomy, correctives exercises and self-treating your body. Jill Miller is the co-founder of TuneUp Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise format Y
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▶ 127: Human Performance
Mark McClusky is the author of the new book, FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, and the Editor at WIRED.com in San Francisco. Prior to his work at WIRED, Mark was an editor at Mobile PC magazine, Editor in Chi
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▶ 126: Ayurveda, Food & Yoga
Rich Goldstein has been practicing yoga since 1981 and teaching Kundalini yoga since 2001. In 2000 Rich partnered with the founders of Yoga Yoga and has overseen the growth of the business from one yo
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▶ 125: Raw Food for Real People
Nomi Shannon has been eating raw for over 25 years and still going strong at age 70. She is an award winning author and world renowned coach. Her best-selling book, The Raw Gourmet, has sold over 250,
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▶ 124: Overcoming Life's Challenges With Yoga
Suzanne Bryant is a former journalist from New York City and became a certified yoga teacher in 2000 with Alan Finger of Ista Yoga. Suzanne has a Masters in Spiritual Psychology and Nutrition, and is
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▶ 123: The Power of Raw Food
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Angela Stokes-Monarch is a raw food-ist with an inspiring story about how starting a plant-based diet changed he
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▶ 122: Yoga Anatomy for the Rest of Us
LeslieKaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the traditionof T.K.V.Desikachar.He is an internationally recognizedspecialist with thirtyfiveyears’experience in the fields of yoga, breathanatomy and bo
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▶ 121: Practical Steps for Back Pain Treatment
Dr. Vaughan Dabbs holds a Doctorate of Chiropractic and specializes in diversified and flexion-distraction techniques, muscle and joint rehabilitation and in treating low back, whiplash and sports inj
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▶ 120: Getting Started with At-Home Yoga Practice
Esther Ekhart and her partner Bas started creating short, free Yoga videos for YouTube in 2008 while living in Ireland. The videos became very popular very quickly with over 20 million views and count
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▶ 119: Is Technology to Blame for Your Back Pain?
Eric Goodman is a Doctor of Chiropractic and also holds a degree in Health Sciences and Physiology.Dr. Goodman is the creator of Foundation Training, a system where he combines his experiences as a st
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▶ 118: Learn How Yoga Keeps Runners Injury Free
Van is the founder of Mind-Body Fitness, Inc., a Canadian company that has been teaching advanced health and fitness techniques to clients like the Canadian National Snowboard Team, Olympic athletes
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▶ 117: Need More Mojo? Discover 8 Foods that Increase Libido…
Judy Gaman is an award winning author and public speaker. She has influenced and entertained audiences of all sizes, and her books can be found on the shelves at most national book chains as well as o
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▶ 116: Getting Started With Essential Oils
Sarah Lobisco is a naturopathic doctor who speaks professionally on integrative medical topics, has several journal publications, and is a candidate for postdoctoral certification in functional medici
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▶ 115: Are You Eating Enough Protein?
Dr. John Douillard, DC has written and produced numerous health and fitness books, CDs, and DVDs. He has been teaching and lecturing internationally for 25 years and publishes a free wellness video-ne
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▶ 114: The Secret of the Vagus Nerve & Yoga
Rolf is certified by David Swenson to teach Ashtanga Yoga. He’s also certified at the 500hr level witih Embodyoga. Rolf has studied also studied with Ana Forrest, Dharma Mettra, Beryl Bender Birch, Ti
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▶ 113: Can Kids REALLY Learn Yoga?
Stephanie Johnson is a primary school teacher and yoga teacher in Sydney Australia and the founder of an organization called, That Yoga Feeling.Last year, Stephanie took the plunge, took leave from he
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▶ 112: How to Practice Yoga at Work
Jen Kluczkowski is an 800-Hour Certified Jivamutki Yoga teacher, the co-founder and yoga director of Yoga Means Business, a new concept that brings yoga to the workplace. Her organization has been fea
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▶ 111: The Truth About Genetics & Athletic Performance
David Epstein is an investigative reporter who has won numerous awards including the Society of Professional Journalists 2010 Deadline Club Award, Time Inc.’s Henry R. Luce Award for public service, a
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▶ 110: How Important Is Core Strength in Yoga
Jenni Rawlings is a highly-experienced yoga teacher and the founder of the first dedicated yoga store in the U.S. called, Drishti in Santa Barbara. She's done extensive training with a particular emph
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▶ 109: Yoga Should be Accessible to Everyone Because of its Priceless H
Peggy Kwisuk Hong has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 2001 and is certified as an Intermediate Junior II teacher by the Iyengar Yoga National Association. She lives in Detroit where she founded, taug
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▶ 108: How to Serve 2 Million Meals on a Daily Basis & Change the World
Paul Rodney Turner, the “Food Yogi” is the international director of Food for Life and the co-founder of Food for Life Global, the world headquarters for the charity. Food for Life is the largest plan
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▶ 107: Learn How To Grow Your Own Food in Your Own Home
Gary and Valerie are the cofounders of the Grow Your Own Food Summit. Gary Heine is the co-founder of Heine Brothers’ Coffee an importer and roaster of organic, fair-trade coffee with distribution in
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▶ 106: How To Live Life on the Wild Side & Release The Primitive You
Daniel Vitalis is a Health, Nutrition, and Personal Development Strategist. He encourages people to “ReWild Themselves”.He is the creator of FindASpring.com, a great resource to help people find fresh
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▶ 105: Yoga Handstands: All the Tips, Tricks & Techniques You Ever Want
David Kyle has developed a wonderful yoga practice and will teach you all he knows about handstands and inversions. David is a professional yoga teacher and trainer who lives and works in Puerto Rico.
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▶ 104: How-To Get Smooth, Toned, Cellulite Free Legs, Naturally
Many people join yoga to get fit and toned but a large portion also do it to get rid of cellulite. Joey Atlas is an expert in reversing the causes of cellulite. Joey is the author of a bestseller on A
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▶ 103: Meatonomics - When a $5 Big Mac Really Costs $13
David Simon is a lawyer and advocate for sustainable consumption. He's the author of the book, Meatonomics, a book about the economic impact the meat, fish, egg and dairy industry is having on our eco
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▶ 102: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian, Eliminate Vitamin & Mineral Defi
Have you ever wondered why some people look and feel great on a plant-based diet long term while most people end up quitting? Trevor Justice has dedicated a large portion of his life promoting a healt
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▶ 101: Happy Belly, Good bugs vs. Bad bugs & Your Guts Health
Donna Gates, writer of The Body Ecology Diet speaks about how to restore and maintain the important inner ecology your body needs to function properly and to eliminate or control the symptoms that r
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▶ 100: Yoga for Golfers - Improved Performance on the Green
Roger Fredericks is golf instructor who's worked on flexibility with over 20,000 golfers and 60+ Tour Players, which include such Hall of Famers as Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus. In th
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▶ 99: Sprouting For Life, Energy & Welness w/ The Sproutman
Steve Meyerowitz is considered the “sproutman” He began teaching indoor gardening and sprouting in New York, he’s the author of Sprouts the Miracle Food, Sproutman’s Kitchen Garden Cookbook, andWheatg
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▶ 98: Mind-Body Weight Loss w/ Out Dieting - Jon Gabriel
Jon Gabriel was a Wal Street trader that weighed over 400 pounds until he began researching everything he could about the hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters and chemical massagers that cause weight
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▶ 97: Low-Sugar Juice Secrets w/Tina Leigh, Raw Food Chef
Tina Leigh is wellness counselor, yoga teacher, therapeutic chef. Having contended with her own health challenges, she is deeply empathetic and resonates with others who are on their journey to whole
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▶ 96: Emotional affirmations meet fitness and yoga through the work of
Erin is the creator of Shrink Session, a fitness program available in gyms across the country—and an at-home version is available on demand.Erin is the featured trainer in the popular fitness app, PUM
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▶ 95: Stunning view into your health and nutrition, Food Matters the fi
Laurentine ten Bosch and James Colquhoun are nutritionists become filmmakers that felt compelled to share the real world story of food and nutrition. Today Food Matters has launched FMTV where you can
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▶ 94: Are Edible Insects the Future of Food For Yoga Freaks?
Ger Van Der Wal is one of the biggest proponents of eating bugs, insects and things that will normally make your skin crawl. He’s the founder of Deli Bugs and online shop where you can try some cricke
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▶ 93: The Yoga Of Sleep, Mindful Sleep & Mindful Dreams with Dr. Rubin
Rubin Naiman, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in integrative sleep and dream medicine. He is director of Circadian Health Associates, an organization that provides information, goods and s
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▶ 92: “This Ain’t Your Mamas Yoga”, Yoga Blacksheep, Diamond Dallas Pag
After horrible back injuries Diamond Dallas Page went from pro wrestler to passionate yoga teacher. Page’s mission it to make yoga available for the “regular guy” and his book, DVDs and education do j
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▶ 91: Turn the world into a giant food forest, Howard Jacobson’s ultima
Howard Jacobson, PhD, is an online marketing consultant, health educator, and ecological gardener from Durham, N.C. He earned a Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Health Studies degrees from Templ
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▶ 90: Healthy Heart & Diet – Joel Kahn – Salt
Medical Doctor, Joel Kahn is a leading authority in heart disease prevention and reversal. He's the author of the soon-to-be released book called, The Holistic Heart Book. You may have also seen him o
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▶ 89: Working Happier – Stella Grizont – Meal Timing
Stella Grizont is the founder and CEO of Woopaah, a company that focused on The Science of Happiness, hacks and skills to flourish. She creates immersive play experiences for people at work to feel
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▶ 88: Flow States of Consciousness – Steven Kotler – Making Soup
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and co-founder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include the non-fiction works The Rise o
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▶ 87: Animal Rights Activism – Jasmin Singer – MSM
Jasmin Singer is the co-founder and director of, Our Hen House, a non-profit animal rights activist organization as well as an extremely popular podcast by the same name. Jasmin also has a really amaz
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▶ 86: Learn To Dance – Karen X – Oats
Karen X rose to notoriety after one of her YouTube videos went viral. In that video Karen taught herself to dance in a year. Now she’s on a mission to encourage people to practice something for 100 da
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▶ 85: Everyday Paleo – Sarah Fragoso – Soy Beans
Sarah Fragoso, best-selling author of EVERY DAY PALEO, author of the Every Day Paleo Family Cookbook as well as Everyday Paleo Around the World: Italian Cuisine and the soon to be released Everyday Pa
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▶ 84: Bio Hacking – Dave Asprey – Raw Food Sweeteners
Dave Asprey is a biohacker who has spent more than $300K on weird pills, science experiments, at-home quantified self gizmos, and extreme brain training sessions. Perhaps best known for his Bulletpro
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▶ 83: Calorie Myth – Jonathan Bailor – Alcohol
After 10 years of research, analyzing over 1,300 studies, and garnering endorsements by top doctors from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Yale, and UCLA, Jonathan Bailor is a nutrition and exerc
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▶ 82: Why Supplements – The Caltons – Protein Powders
The Caltons are among the world's leading experts on the topics of weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. Their high success rate working with adults and children to achie
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▶ 81: The Virgin Diet – JJ Virgin – Fruit Juice
JJ Virgin is a fitness and nutrition expert, a speaker and media personality. She has over 25 years experience and is the author of The NY Times bestseller The Virgin Diet: Drop 7 Foods, Lose 7 Pounds
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▶ 80: Meditation – Emily Fletcher - Stevia
Emily Fletcher is a mediation teacher with extensive training in Vedic meditation, she had a 10-year career on Broadway including roles Chicago, The Producers, A Chorus Line and many other shows. She
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▶ 79: Improved Walking - Jonathan FitzGordon - Sprouts
Jonathan has been practicing yoga since 1995 and has been teaching since 2000, having studied with some of the yoga community’s leading teachers. He owned and operated the Yoga Center of Brooklyn from
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▶ 78: BurstFIT - Deep Sleep - Goals & Support - Dr. Axe - About MSG
Dr. Axe’s calling to natural health and medicine came when he was a child and saw his mother battle an illness. He has since founded the Exodus Health Center one of America’s largest wellness clinics
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▶ 77: Weight Loss & Healing – Katrina Love Senn – Aspartame
Katrina struggles through her teenage years with her body, weight and self-image. She admits to dieting from very young and very unsuccessfully. Katrina delves into how she changed her life after a fr
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▶ 76: Super Shrink Me – Ike Allen – Reverse Vegetarianism
In episode 76 Lucas speaks with Ike Allen, founder of Avaiya, filmmaker, philosopher and creator of Super Shrink Me, a film where Ike eats junk food for 30 days and he does just fine. In our Q & A we
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▶ 75: Body Worker & Yoga Teacher - Kimberly Johnson - Milk
Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show. Your one-stop destination for all things yoga, health and wellness.
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▶ 74: Myth Busting Nutrition - Yuri Elkaim - Protein
Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show. Your one-stop destination for all things yoga, health and wellness.
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▶ 73: Amazon Healer - Nick Polizzi - Water & Hydration
Lucas: Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show, your one-stop destination for all things yoga, health and wellness. So hello and welcome, everyone. This is Lucas Rockwood, and I'm here today with Nick Polizzi,
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▶ EPISODE 64: Flat Stomach, Scoliosis & Estrogenic Foods
▶ EPISODE 63: Flexibility Tips, Caffeine & When to Rest?
▶ EPISODE 62: What the Heck is Reverse Vegetarianism?
▶ EPISODE 60: Nutritional Supplements & Upset Stomach?
▶ EPISODE 45: To Stretch or Rest (that is the question)?
▶ EPISODE 28: Food Dehydrator, Alpha Music & The Eastern Arts
▶ EPISODE 27: What to eat and drink for breakfast?
▶ EPISODE 26: Week Knees, High Blood Pressure & Sitting Properly
▶ EPISODE 19: Pregnancy, Hamstring Stretches & Epilepsy
▶ EPISODE 18: Quit Coffee but Still Stiff, What’s Up?
▶ EPISODE 12: New Diet, Challenging Poses & Toe Openers
▶ EPISODE 10: Yoga Electrolytes, Detoxifying your Body & Farting in Cla
▶ EPISODE 9: Mucus, HIIT Training & The Key to Flexibility
▶ EPISODE 8: Yoga Pose Tips, Tricks & Suggestions
▶ EPISODE 7: Numb Hands, Stretch Supplement & Flexibility Exercises
▶ EPISODE 6: Losing & Gaining Weight, The Flamenco Pose and Non-Organic
▶ EPISODE 4: Recipes, Alkaline Blood & Lopsided Body
▶ 436: Reflexology & Energy Balance with Helen Chin Lui
Reflexology & Energy Balance with Helen Chin Lui Set and setting are often overlooked when it comes to healing. Set refers to your mindset going in, and setting refers to the environment in which the
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▶ 435: The Power of Pessimism - COVID-19 Survival
The Power of Pessimism - COVID-19 Survival with Lucas Rockwood ----- What if this COVID-19 crisis lasts another six months? Or another two years? Our work and lifestyles are being radically redefined,
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▶ 434: Understanding Your Bloodwork with Todd Strong
Understanding Your Bloodwork with Todd Strong When was the last time you went to your doctor for a checkup? Did you make any requests or did you just let them do their thing and trust they’d let you k
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▶ 433: Reverse Aging with Lifelong “Play” with Stephen Jepson
Reverse Aging with Lifelong “Play” with Stephen Jepson ----------------------------------------------- Aging starts with the loss of lean muscle and mobility. Next, you notice you’re not sharp as you
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▶ 432: Sex Robots & Vegan Meat with Jenny Kleeman
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat Jenny Kleeman -------------- Disruptive technology has defined our generation and captured our collection imagination. I haven’t owned a television or a landline phone since th
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▶ 431: How to Succeed with Yoga & Fitness At Homewith Lucas Rockwood
How to Succeed with Yoga & Fitness At Home with Lucas Rockwood COVID-19 has forced and inspired hundreds of millions of people to start at-home yoga practices and exercise routines - this is amazing!
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▶ 430: Is Personality Permanent with Benjamin Hardy
Is Personality Permanent? with Benjamin Hardy Have you ever taken an online personality test? Myers-Briggs, Kolbe or the “Big 5”? If you have, you no-doubt read the results with both pleasure and unea
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▶ 429: Fast, Feast, Repeat with Gin Stephens
Fast, Feast, Repeat with Gin Stephens -------------- When we think of dieting and weight loss, the first thing that comes to mind is calorie counting, portion control, and a list of “good” and “bad” f
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▶ 428: But What if Your Workplace is Toxic? with Robert Glazer
But What if Your Workplace is Toxic? with Robert Glazer --------------- I had an office job that was so boring, I used to photocopy my face while guzzling free office coffee and snacking on breath min
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▶ 427: 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back with Esther Gokhale
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back with Esther Gokhale ---------------- Office chairs were always bad news for spinal health, but now most people are working hunched over a laptop on their coach - and many o
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▶ 426: The Importance of Friendship with Lydia Denworth
The Importance of Friendship with Lydia Denworth----------------I spent six weeks in March and April of this year in a fairly strict lockdown in Barcelona, and then two weeks in May completely housebo
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▶ 425: The Science of Sin with Dr. Jack Lewis
The Science of Sin with Dr. Jack Lewis The seven deadly sins are: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. Religious or not, most of us would like to avoid these behaviors, but modern tec
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▶ 424: The Joy of Movement with Kelly McGonigal
The Joy of Movement with Kelly McGonigal ------------------- Many of us chase happiness in life but happy states are fleeting anomalies largely out of our control. If you’re experiencing true joy righ
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▶ 423: The Meritocracy Trap: How the Myth Feeds Inequality with with Da
The Meritocracy Trap: How the Myth Feeds Inequality with Daniel Markovits ------------------- Every year I live outside the U.S. I’m able to better understand my culture simply due to my physical dist
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▶ 422: The Strength Therapist with Sam Spinelli
The Strength Therapist Sam Spinelli -------- Of all the muscles in your body, your heart muscle gets the most attention - and for good reason. Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause
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▶ 421: How to Change Your Mind with Jon Venus
How to Change Your Mind with Jon Venus -------------------------------------- “If it bleeds it leads” has always informed mass media, but for the past few years, the new thesis goes like this. “The mo
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▶ 420: Neurodharma with Rick Hanson
Meditation can reduce cortisol, increase telomere length, improve concentration, and foster feelings of unity. But it’s also very, very hard to practice consistently. Stillness is a serious challenge.
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▶ 419: The Story of a Mouth Breather with James Nestor
What do snoring, crooked teeth, and mouth breathing have in common? All these conditions can indicate or even predict a whole series of chronic health problems down the road. James Nestor began his st
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▶ 418: The Power of Ritual with Casper Ter Kuile
The Power of Ritual with Casper Ter Kuile ------------------------------ After just five swipes of your newsfeed, and you’ll immediately see ideology and groupthink dominate just about every conversat
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▶ 417: Time Off with John Fitch
Time Off with John Fitch ----------------- “You can have anything you want in life, but you can’t have everything.” Most of our biggest dreams are totally unsustainable, but they come with a price. Wa
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▶ 416: The Children of the Future Jay Belsky, PhD
The Children of the Future Jay Belsky, PhD ----------- “I don’t know the meaning of life, but I know the purpose of life. It is to create more life.” - Jay Belsky We’re cavemen pretending to be academ
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▶ 415: Detox Your Thoughts with Andrea Bonior
Detox Your Thoughts with Andrea Bonior --------- The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the news for months as a quiet crisis, one of mental health, has spread even faster and further. Depression, anxiet
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▶ 414: How to Control Your Attention with Nir Eyal
How to Control Your Attention with Nir Eyal ---------------- How is it possible that with social distancing, telecommuting, and almost zero social events right now, you can still go an entire day and
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▶ 413: Understanding Madness with Susannah Cahalan
Understanding Madnesswith Susannah Cahalan --------------------------Susannah was an ambitious young adult starting an exciting life in New York City when she began having seizures, experiencing a bo
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▶ 412: Men with Meaning & Purpose with Connor Beaton
Men with Meaning & Purposewith Connor Beaton--------What do you call a man who cannot perform, provide, and protect? Many people would call him a loser. It’s true that men have it easier in some areas
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▶ 411: Heart Rate Variability Simplified Marco Altini
Heart Rate Variability Simplified Marco Altini------------- “I know my body!” is something I hear from yoga students constantly. Sometimes they want to keep practicing and shouldn’t (due to injury or
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▶ 410: Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple With Lucas R
Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple With Lucas Rockwood “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye Mental and emotional stress were at historic highs pre-C
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▶ 409: Losing it All in COVID-19
Losing it All in COVID-19with Lucas Rockwood--------------Greetings from Barcelona. We’re nearly 2 months into COVID-19 lockdown, and instead of our usual expert interviews, I thought I’d share my exp
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▶ 408: The Pleasure Gap - Women’s Inequality in the Bedroom
The Pleasure Gap - Women’s Inequality in the Bedroom Katherine Rowland----------------------“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.” - Hunter S. Thompson Most of us are high
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▶ 407: Adversity into Advantage with Laura Huang
Adversity into AdvantageLaura Huang ----------------------------As I get older, I appreciate the struggles of my past almost as much as the successes, and here’s my question for you: What if your grea
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▶ 406: How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis
How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis ----------------- I ran out of laundry detergent last week and couldn’t motivate myself to walk 20 steps to the store to buy more. Why? I can le
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▶ 405: Premature with Sarah Digregorio
Premature Sarah Digregorio----------------- Once a month I have to tell a pregnant yoga student that she cannot practice in our studio, cannot hang upside down in the Yoga Trapeze, or practice long-ho
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▶ 404: The New Science of Self Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufm
The New Science of Self Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ---------------------------When I feel frustrated with my place in the world, it’s often because I feel I’m not living up to my full
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▶ 403: How to Overcome COVID-19 Anxiety with Dr. David Carbonell
You’re stuck at home, your economic future is uncertain, and it’s difficult to plan more than one day at a time. To make things even more challenging, the people and activities that bring you the most
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▶ 402: Yoga for All Bodies with Jivana Heyman
I once had a yoga student with a prosthetic leg. I didn’t realize until I attempted to push her heel to the floor in Downward Dog. I assumed that she wanted to simply blend into class and that’s why s
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▶ 401: Perfectly Hidden Depression with Dr. Margaret Rutherford
A close friend lost her husband tragically and suddenly, but she was back in the office just two weeks later. She shed a few tears that first month, but mostly, it was Beth as usual. She didn’t fall b
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▶ 400: Become a Conflict Master with Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler
Do you have a talky coworker who never gives you space to share your ideas? Do you have a neighbor who does home repairs at 2 am? Or a spouse that never follows through with their shared housework? We
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▶ 399: The Power of Thank You’ with Nancy Davis Kho
My piano lessons were a dark, 45-minute drive from home. Mom and I left home at 6:30 am on Tuesday mornings to get there before school. “Luke is really good at this,” Ms. McGill said after my third le
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▶ 398: Better Your Relationship with Maya Diamond
“I’m not sure if you feel things the way I do,” she said. “I feel everything.” I was twenty-one, she was twenty-three. The window looked out at a brick wall in my Lower East Side apartment. “I have em
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▶ 397: 13 Years Training Yoga Teachers with Lucas Rockwood
I always wanted to be a writer. Kerouac, Hemmingway, and Carver were my heros. Later it was playwrights Kushner, Ibsen, and Chekov. I’d drag home backpacks full of books from the public library, and I
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▶ 396: Our Mental Health Crisis Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD
The three largest mental health facilities in the USA are Rickers, Cooks Country and LA Twin Towers Jails. The mentally ill have literally been relegated to prisons since there are so few public resou
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▶ You Are What Your Grandparents Ate with Judith Finlayson
Two mice are genetically identical, but one ends up obese and yellow and the other ends up mousy brown and healthy as expected. What’s the difference? The mutated mouse’s mother was undernourished dur
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▶ How to Climb Mt Everest Without Leaving the United States with Jesse
I have a challenge for you. Take a pencil to paper and map out your past five years on a line graph with peaks being the great experiences and valleys being the lows. I’d be willing to guess you have
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▶ 393: The Intelligence Trap with David Robson
Steve Jobs had genius-level intelligence and built one of the largest and most influential companies in the world. This is impressive, but at the same time that Apple was achieving success, Jobs denie
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▶ 392: Turn Your Health Passion into a Business with John Berardi
I started moonlighting as a yoga teacher and nutritional coach in my 20s while I still kept my day job. I didn’t know if I could turn my passion into a career, so I dipped my toe into the water to see
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▶ 391: The Rabbit Effect with Dr. Kelli Harding
Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It’s worse for you than obesity. And you’re much more likely to suffer from dementia, he
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▶ 390: How to Break Bad Habits with Wendy Wood
You could still smoke indoors when I moved to Spain in 2009. Thankfully, it was banned in 2010 as part of an on-going anti-tobacco campaign that has since failed miserably. Fifteen years ago, 32% of p
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▶ 389: How to Live Forever with David Sinclair, PH.D.
I’ve set a personal goal to live to be 122, and I specifically chose this number because it seems like a stretch but also totally within the realm of reasonable given my age and the advances in scienc
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▶ 388: Being Ketotarian with Dr. Will Cole
When you’re fasting, your body undergoes rapid healing that is very well-documented and exciting, but it’s also extremely impractical. When you spend a few days without eating, you’re weak, tired, han
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▶ 387: Neuroscience and Leadership with Dr. Tara Swart
My worst fear with aging is losing my cognitive abilities, forgetting my kids’ names, and just becoming an old fool. It’s easy to assume that the brain will go along with the body, but there’s pretty
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▶ 386: Your Brain on Birth Control with Sarah E. Hill, PhD
Hormonal birth control has been directly correlated with weight gain, mental health problems, and decreased libido—not exactly an ideal mix when it comes to sexuality. But what are you supposed to do?
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▶ 385: Binaural Beats & Meditation with Cory Allen
I had a rough year in 2006. It was the year I opened my first yoga studio. I should have been on cloud nine, but I wasn’t ready for all that responsibility and all that stress. I had a staff of 12, hu
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▶ 384: Tiny Habits that Lead to Big Change with Dr. BJ Fogg
I wanted to run a marathon this year. The truth is, I hardly ever run, but like any good mid-life crisis man, I wanted to tackle that goal to prove to myself I still could do hard things. Sounds great
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▶ 383: The Nocturnal Brain With Dr. Guy Leschziner
You close your blackout curtains, flip your phone to airplane mode, and crawl into bed with all the best intentions to get 7.5 hours of sleep—and then your monkey mind starts peeling bananas. Work dea
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▶ 382: The State of the Heart With Haider Warraich
I said goodbye to my grandfather when I was 8 years old. He had his first heart attack, and my mom was convinced he didn’t have long to live. Turns out he had many, many years ahead of him. Unfortunat
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▶ 381: A Year Spent Growing & Foraging Your Own Food with Rob Greenfiel
Would you survive if you had to grow or forage your own food for an entire year? Would you eat roadkill, wild yam, coconuts, and acorn grubs? Rob Greenfield is finishing up 365 days straight growing a
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▶ 380: CO2 is Your Friend with Dr. Artour Rahkimov
“Inhale fresh, life-giving oxygen… exhale toxic, dead carbon dioxide,” said my yoga teacher. I’ve heard some variation of this hundreds of times in classes. Oxygen is good, carbon dioxide is bad. In w
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▶ 379: Know Your Nerves: Polyvagal Theory with Deb Dana
People often compare the human body to a car, but this is a bad analogy (unless it’s a Tesla) because your body doesn’t contain a combustion engine. You’re electric, my friend, and your nerves are in
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▶ 378: Kids Sleep, Parents Sleep - We All Need to Sleep! with Craig Can
My second child has black circles under his eyes in all his photos from birth to age four. He slept as little as possible and willed himself through most days with all the angst and irritability of an
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▶ 377: Medical-Industrial Complex with Mike Magee, MD
The American life expectancy is currently 79, which sounds great until you realize that is the 26th in line worldwide. Despite being one of the most developed and wealthy nations in the world, the US
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▶ 376: A Life Less Stressed with Dr. Ron Ehrlich
I live in Spain where the average life expectancy just hit 83 years—number three in the world, less than one percentage of a point behind Switzerland and Japan. Foreigners often hypothesize that the r
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▶ 375: Crohn’s & Colitis - Surviving & Thriving with Dane Johnson
Imagine a mosquito bites your arm. You scratch the bump and it grows big and red and doesn’t go away for months. You’d be panicked, right? Now, imagine that the red inflamed area is inside your gut, y
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▶ 374: How to Find Work You Love Doing with Evan Carmichael
More than 80% of people are dissatisfied with their work, and yet work is where we spend the majority of our waking hours. People say things like “Do what you love and the money will follow” and “Foll
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▶ 373: Finding the Body-Positive, Sex-Positive You with Dr. Jenn Gunsau
One in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college in America*, so there are literally tens of millions of victims living every day with guilt, shame, pain, trauma, and baggage. How
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▶ 372: The Sexy Brain – Intimacy & Health with Dr. Lindsey Berkson
Just as an infant requires physical touch to ensure healthy development, every adult requires intimacy and connection to be mentally and physically healthy... and yet many of us are left lacking. A li
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▶ 371: Communication in Relationships with Sonya Jensen
Any relationship crisis is usually coupled with a communication breakdown. Your needs are not being met, so you shut down. You’re upset about something, but instead of voicing it, you bottle it up. Yo
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▶ 370: The Neuroscience of Addiction with Judith Grisel, PHD
You don’t manage to leave the office until 8 pm. Traffic is terrible, so it takes you an hour to get home. One of your relatives is sick and has been texting you all day, but you haven’t had a moment
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▶ 369: How to Lead a Simple Life Now With Gary Collins
The pursuit of health, wealth, and relationships drive 99% of our action, but just how important are each of these to you personally? How much time are you willing to invest and what are you willing t
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▶ 368: Exaholic – Breaking Your Addiction to an Ex Love with Dr. Lisa M
How many of your exes are you connected to on Facebook? How often do you find yourself dredging up past emotional head trash from lost love? For most people, the answer is “too often.” We live in an e
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▶ 367: A Home that Loves You with Lily Bernheimer
Your home and workspace affect your mood, your sleep, your productivity, and your feeling of belonging, but how much time have you spent to make them truly serve you? For most of us, we’re stuck worki
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▶ 366: How God (and Big Ideas) Change Your Brain with Mark Robert Walda
Whether you’re a devout believer or a staunch atheist, the research is clear: prayer works. Here’s what also works: introspective time, mindfulness, positive focus, and big ideas. Science has proven t
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▶ 365: Birth Control Pill - Risk vs Reward with Dr. Jolene Brighten
Many women start hormonal birth control in their teens and continue for years or even decades. This can be a responsible decision, but most people don’t realize the long-term side effects and risks in
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▶ 364: Bottle of Lies - Generic Drug Dangers with Katherine Eban
Did you know that 80 percent of generic drugs are manufactured in India or China, thousands of miles from the US FDA inspectors? When it comes to oversight, manufacturing safety, and transparency, it’
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▶ 363: Improve Your Memory with Nelson Dellis
I used to say, “I’m bad with names!” It wasn’t until my late 30s that I realized this was just an excuse for not learning how to remember names. Turns out, it’s not that hard. I’m not amazing, but I’m
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▶ 362: Do You Drink Too Much? with Annie Grace
That glass of red wine after dinner soon turns into two or three. On Friday and Saturday, two or three often turns into a bottle or two. After a decade or more of drinking, it’s not uncommon to clock
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▶ 361: The 3100 Mile Foot Race with Sanjay Rawal
When you think of a spiritual seeker, you probably conjure up images of shaved heads, orange robes, dark meditation halls, and gongs. But sitting in silence is not the only way to mediate. You can als
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▶ 360: Undo It with Dr. Dean Ornish
Real health is more than just food and exercise. The key elements we often overlook are love, support, community, and stress management. These factors are so much more difficult to manage but potentia
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▶ 359: How to Live Your Authentic Life with Philip McKernan
Your social media feed is filled with the curated lives of a bunch of strangers who you “follow” for no obvious reason. They are better-looking than you, their lunch looks tastier, their prose is so w
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▶ 358: Toxins Make You: Sicker, Fatter & Poorer With Dr. Leonardo Trasa
From the melting ice caps to dying marine reefs and depleted fish populations, we’re facing some big challenges right now, but very few people flip the lens to look at their own bodies to ask: “How ar
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▶ 357: Healthy Sex, Happy Relationship with Dr. Stephen Snyder
The two big reasons marriages fail are sex and money. While finances are by no means easy, you can always go get another job, cut back, add on, or get creative. These creative solutions rarely play ou
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▶ 356: Can Mold in Your House Harm Your Health? with Dr. Ann Shippy
I had nosebleed nearly every single day in 1988. It would usually happen midday, and while I got pretty good at predicting it, I still remember bleeding on some very important textbooks, my Iowa Basic
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▶ 355: Mind Detox: Clean Out Your Headtrash with Sandy Newbigging
“Change the way you think about things, and the things you think about will change.” This cliche sums up 80 percent of modern personal development, but it’s about as useful as marital advice that sugg
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▶ 354: Straight White Teeth with Dr. Steven Lin
Your dental health is very often the proverbial canary in the coal mine, meaning that periodontal disease is often a red flag that systemic problems exist which could be very serious. Proper brushing
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▶ 353: Inner Peace, Global Peace with Stephen Fulder
I signed up for my first 12-day meditation retreat in 2001, and then I dropped out two weeks before the start date. I never drop out of anything. Eighteen months later, I signed up again. This time, I
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▶ 352: Stop Thinking About Drinking with Belle Robertson
I love everything that’s bad for me, and alcohol certainly falls under that umbrella. It’s a love-hate relationship really, and I don’t drink anymore. At this stage of my life, it’s just not worth it.
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▶ 351: Mindful Leadership & Emotional Intelligence with Marc Lesser
Have you ever driven from your house to the office and were unable to remember anything about the drive? Have you lost track of days and even weeks when stress and frustration turned your brain to mus
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▶ 350: Demystifying Men, Women & Polarity With Dr. John Gray
I spent my first 27 years of life convinced that men and women were exactly the same except for the obvious anatomical differences and a boatload of socialization. After a big relationship breakup, I
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▶ 349: The Wisdom of Old People with John Leland
The average life expectancy is nearly 83 years where I live. People are living healthier, wealthier, and longer lives than ever before, but what the heck do you do in that last third portion of your l
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▶ 348: Yoga for Arthritis with Dr. Steffany Moonaz
After the age of 40, there is less space between your spinal vertebrae than when you were 20. This steady degeneration of tissues happens predictably but can be exacerbated by weight, high stress, ext
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▶ 347: No Impact Man - Save the Planet with Colin Beavan
Environmental activist, Colin Beavan, and his family decided to make a bold statement: they’d spend an entire year living as close to “zero impact” as possible in the heart of New York City. They’d di
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▶ 346: Stay Strong, Middle Age & Beyond - Why Muscle Matters
When we think of strength and muscle mass, we typically imagine physique-obsessed bodybuilders staring at themselves in the mirror and clanking weights around in the gym. But what if there is more to
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This no-nonsense health and wellness show features best-selling authors and thought leaders in nutrition, mental health, relationships, and self-improvement. Each episode also includes listener Q&A. H
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▶ 345: How to Succeed with People: Leadership & Charisma
Group dynamics fascinate me. Why does one person take on the leadership role almost immediately without any need for introduction or approval? How did that one person decide he was the joker? And why
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▶ 344: Goldilocks Zone for Protein with Stephan Cabral
Most people believe that carbs give you energy, fat makes you fat, and protein builds muscles - but this is not how the body works. In fact, we metabolize macronutrients very differently - often count
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▶ 343: Narcissist Survival Guide with Dr. Ramani Durva-Sula
Open up Instagram right now, and start counting the number of narcissists in your feed today. How many? Three, ten, fifty? Is there anyone real in your feed? Narcissistic personalities have always ex
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▶ 342: Traditional vs. Alternative Medicine with Dr. Thomas Cowan
Modern medicine's best thinking pales in comparison to the wisdom of our bodies. The best science only has a very rudimentary understanding of the dynamic and complex organism we inhabit, and yet we'r
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▶ 341: Sugar is the Devil with Sarah Wilson
By the end of the 1700s, the average American consumed four teaspoons of sugar a day. One hundred years later, that number had risen to eighteen teaspoons. Today, we're consuming 22 teaspoons (93 gram
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▶ 340: Emotional Agility with Susan David,PhD
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche What in your inner world enables you to fully show up in the outer world? What is more important: What you have or how you fee
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▶ 339: One Plant-Based Meal Per Day with Suzy Amis Cameron
When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the internet will explode with searches for the best diets, which yield all kinds of good, bad, and absurd advice for getting healthy and fit. Vegeta
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▶ 338: Broadcasting Happiness with Michelle Gieland
Positive thinking is great, but how do you handle yourself when your spouse is in a funk or your boss is negative every minute of the working day? With all the best intentions for the day, many of us
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▶ 337: Cultivating Clarity with Jamie Smart
As the saying goes, “You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything.” However, figuring out exactly what you want is often difficult, as it means compromise, sacrifice, and har
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▶ 336: Addicted to Exercise, Fasting Timing & Veggie Kids
What if you become so focused on exercise and healthy living that it becomes an unhealthy obsession? What if you're a parent and eat a balanced diet but struggle to feed your kids well? What if yoga i
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▶ 335: Mental Fitness for the Modern Mind with Kasper van der Meulen
Most people know more about Game of Thrones than they do about their own digestive system. They know how many nuclear warheads are in North Korea, but they don't know their Vitamin D levels or their f
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▶ 334: Learn New Skills, Overcome Fears, Become a Hero with Josh Kaufma
After your first yoga class, your hamstrings will hurt like hell. After your first day snowboarding, your wrists will ache and your bum will be bruised. After your first week struggling to play Knocki
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▶ 333: The Power of Pleasure with Xanet Pailet
Xanet Pailet was in a marriage with zero physical intimacy for more than 15 years. Most people don't go that long, but many do wait years before they openly address these issues; however, by then, per
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▶ 332: How to Achieve Deep, Restful Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski
I struggled with chronic sleep deprivation for more than a decade. During that time, I’d fall asleep in the barber’s chair. If I was talking on the phone while in bed, I’d pass out in the middle of th
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▶ 331: Mental Illness: A Global Health Crisis with Mark Lukach
Mark Lukach's wife spent nearly two months in total in psychiatric wards during three different bipolar episodes. Mental illness appeared seemingly out of nowhere with suicidal thoughts, delusions, an
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▶ 330: Radical Metabolism
Have you ever heard someone blame their weight gain on a 'slow metabolism?' It sounds logical, but what does it mean exactly? What is considered 'slow?' When we talk about metabolic health, it's impor
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▶ 329: Improve Your Balance, Improve Your Life
If you can balance well, your yoga practice is more fun, you’re faster and nimbler, and you might even live longer. Sound far-fetched? Check it out: falls are the second leading cause of accidental or
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▶ 328: How to Create a Breakthrough
Everyone has some area of their life where they feel totally stuck, and it usually falls into one of three categories: health, wealthy, or relationships. It's very rare that all three of those areas o
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▶ 327: The Truth About CBD (nonpsychoactive marijuana) for Health
A little girl named Charlotte was having as many as 300 seizures a week, some lasting as long as 30 minutes. Her body was frail, her health was suffering, and her parents were at their wits' end. Afte
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▶ 326: The Food, Vitamins & Blood Test Episode
Recently, my friend returned from a family member's funeral 8 lbs heavier and asked, What's going on? Weight gain from stress can be clinically explained by a few different mechanisms. There is emot
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▶ 325: Too old to stretch? Xylitol got you down?
I receive questions from listeners every day. On this week's Q&A show, I'll answer a few of them, with topics ranging from flexibility for seniors and what technically breaks a fast to Xylitol and Vit
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▶ 324: Demystifying the Pelvic Floor
People joke that they 'laughed so hard they peed their pants.' However, this is a real problem called stress incontinence—a symptom of pelvic floor dysfunction. The pelvic floor is a complex group of
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▶ 323: The Truth About Hypnotherapy
A stage hypnotist convinced my friend Burton that he was an undercover spy and needed to find a clue hidden in the forest. There were 600 people in the audience, but Burton was all in. He raced off th
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▶ 322: Estrogeneration
Think of your body as a three-legged stool with an electrical body (your nervous system), a bacterial body (your microbiome), and a chemical body (your endocrine system). These three legs are largely
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▶ 321: Why Relationships are So Hard
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships; and yet, for most of us, being in relationship is hard. Most of us find it challenging enough to get our own lives in order
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▶ 320: Movement as Medicine
This concept of a pill for an ill has led hundreds of millions of Americans to take prescription medications every single day. Antidepressants for mood, opioids for pain, and proton pump inhibitors
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▶ 319: Why You Are Only One Percent Human
There are more than 10 times as many microbe cells in your body as human cells, but interestingly, we're exposed to our first bacteria at birth—and from there, the process begins. While two humans are
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▶ 318: Yoga Breathing Lesson: Water, Whiskey, Coffee
I feel I’ve let you down. I’ve hosted pretty much every renowned breathing expert in the world on this podcast, and yet most of my listeners are still not sure exactly how yoga breathing works. On thi
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▶ 317: Understanding Arousal
During the summer between 8th and 9th grade, I watched my classmate Jeff go from about 125 lbs to 180 lbs in six weeks. This scrawny, video game nerd turned into a force to be reckoned with through a
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▶ 316: How to Trigger ASMR Brain Tingles
Have you ever used a scalp massager made of long, thin wires? For most people, it causes quite the sensation, sending tingles from the back of their neck down their spine. Or maybe you have this react
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▶ 315: Chronic pain: Is it all in the brain?
Chronic pain—the most common of which is back pain and digestive pain—affects as many as one in four people. Pain plays a crucial role in the body as a clear sign that something is injured, diseased,
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▶ 413: Understanding Madness with Susannah Cahalan
Understanding Madnesswith Susannah Cahalan --------------------------Susannah was an ambitious young adult starting an exciting life in New York City when she began having seizures, experiencing a bo
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▶ 412: Men with Meaning & Purpose with Connor Beaton
Men with Meaning & Purposewith Connor Beaton--------What do you call a man who cannot perform, provide, and protect? Many people would call him a loser. It’s true that men have it easier in some areas
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▶ 411: Heart Rate Variability Simplified Marco Altini
Heart Rate Variability Simplified Marco Altini------------- “I know my body!” is something I hear from yoga students constantly. Sometimes they want to keep practicing and shouldn’t (due to injury or
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▶ 410: Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple With Lucas R
Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple With Lucas Rockwood “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye Mental and emotional stress were at historic highs pre-C
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▶ 409: Losing it All in COVID-19
Losing it All in COVID-19with Lucas Rockwood--------------Greetings from Barcelona. We’re nearly 2 months into COVID-19 lockdown, and instead of our usual expert interviews, I thought I’d share my exp
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▶ 408: The Pleasure Gap - Women’s Inequality in the Bedroom
The Pleasure Gap - Women’s Inequality in the Bedroom Katherine Rowland----------------------“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.” - Hunter S. Thompson Most of us are high
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▶ 407: Adversity into Advantage with Laura Huang
Adversity into AdvantageLaura Huang ----------------------------As I get older, I appreciate the struggles of my past almost as much as the successes, and here’s my question for you: What if your grea
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▶ 406: How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis
How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis ----------------- I ran out of laundry detergent last week and couldn’t motivate myself to walk 20 steps to the store to buy more. Why? I can le
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▶ 405: Premature with Sarah Digregorio
Premature Sarah Digregorio----------------- Once a month I have to tell a pregnant yoga student that she cannot practice in our studio, cannot hang upside down in the Yoga Trapeze, or practice long-ho
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▶ 404: The New Science of Self Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufm
The New Science of Self Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ---------------------------When I feel frustrated with my place in the world, it’s often because I feel I’m not living up to my full
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▶ 403: How to Overcome COVID-19 Anxiety with Dr. David Carbonell
How to Overcome COVID-19 Anxietywith Dr. David Carbonell --------------------------- You’re stuck at home, your economic future is uncertain, and it’s difficult to plan more than one day at a time. To
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▶ 402: Yoga for All Bodies with Jivana Heyman
I once had a yoga student with a prosthetic leg. I didn’t realize until I attempted to push her heel to the floor in Downward Dog. I assumed that she wanted to simply blend into class and that’s why s
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▶ 401: Perfectly Hidden Depression with Dr. Margaret Rutherford
Perfectly Hidden Depression Dr. Margaret Rutherford--------------------------------------- A close friend lost her husband tragically and suddenly, but she was back in the office just two weeks later.
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▶ 400: Become a Conflict Master with Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler
Do you have a talky coworker who never gives you space to share your ideas? Do you have a neighbor who does home repairs at 2 am? Or a spouse that never follows through with their shared housework? We
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▶ 399: The Power of Thank You’ with Nancy Davis Kho
My piano lessons were a dark, 45-minute drive from home. Mom and I left home at 6:30 am on Tuesday mornings to get there before school. “Luke is really good at this,” Ms. McGill said after my third le
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▶ 398: Better Your Relationship with Maya Diamond
“I’m not sure if you feel things the way I do,” she said. “I feel everything.” I was twenty-one, she was twenty-three. The window looked out at a brick wall in my Lower East Side apartment. “I have em
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▶ 397: 13 Years Training Yoga Teachers with Lucas Rockwood
I always wanted to be a writer. Kerouac, Hemmingway, and Carver were my heros. Later it was playwrights Kushner, Ibsen, and Chekov. I’d drag home backpacks full of books from the public library, and I
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▶ 396: Our Mental Health Crisis Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD
The three largest mental health facilities in the USA are Rickers, Cooks Country and LA Twin Towers Jails. The mentally ill have literally been relegated to prisons since there are so few public resou
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▶ You Are What Your Grandparents Ate with Judith Finlayson
Two mice are genetically identical, but one ends up obese and yellow and the other ends up mousy brown and healthy as expected. What’s the difference? The mutated mouse’s mother was undernourished dur
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▶ How to Climb Mt Everest Without Leaving the United States with Jesse
I have a challenge for you. Take a pencil to paper and map out your past five years on a line graph with peaks being the great experiences and valleys being the lows. I’d be willing to guess you have
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▶ 393: The Intelligence Trap with David Robson
Steve Jobs had genius-level intelligence and built one of the largest and most influential companies in the world. This is impressive, but at the same time that Apple was achieving success, Jobs denie
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▶ 392: Turn Your Health Passion into a Business with John Berardi
I started moonlighting as a yoga teacher and nutritional coach in my 20s while I still kept my day job. I didn’t know if I could turn my passion into a career, so I dipped my toe into the water to see
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▶ 391: The Rabbit Effect with Dr. Kelli Harding
Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It’s worse for you than obesity. And you’re much more likely to suffer from dementia, he
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▶ 390: How to Break Bad Habits with Wendy Wood
You could still smoke indoors when I moved to Spain in 2009. Thankfully, it was banned in 2010 as part of an on-going anti-tobacco campaign that has since failed miserably. Fifteen years ago, 32% of p
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▶ 389: How to Live Forever with David Sinclair, PH.D.
I’ve set a personal goal to live to be 122, and I specifically chose this number because it seems like a stretch but also totally within the realm of reasonable given my age and the advances in scienc
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▶ 388: Being Ketotarian with Dr. Will Cole
When you’re fasting, your body undergoes rapid healing that is very well-documented and exciting, but it’s also extremely impractical. When you spend a few days without eating, you’re weak, tired, han
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▶ 387: Neuroscience and Leadership with Dr. Tara Swart
My worst fear with aging is losing my cognitive abilities, forgetting my kids’ names, and just becoming an old fool. It’s easy to assume that the brain will go along with the body, but there’s pretty
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▶ 386: Your Brain on Birth Control with Sarah E. Hill, PhD
Hormonal birth control has been directly correlated with weight gain, mental health problems, and decreased libido—not exactly an ideal mix when it comes to sexuality. But what are you supposed to do?
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▶ 385: Binaural Beats & Meditation with Cory Allen
I had a rough year in 2006. It was the year I opened my first yoga studio. I should have been on cloud nine, but I wasn’t ready for all that responsibility and all that stress. I had a staff of 12, hu
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▶ 384: Tiny Habits that Lead to Big Change with Dr. BJ Fogg
I wanted to run a marathon this year. The truth is, I hardly ever run, but like any good mid-life crisis man, I wanted to tackle that goal to prove to myself I still could do hard things. Sounds great
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▶ 383: The Nocturnal Brain With Dr. Guy Leschziner
You close your blackout curtains, flip your phone to airplane mode, and crawl into bed with all the best intentions to get 7.5 hours of sleep—and then your monkey mind starts peeling bananas. Work dea
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▶ 382: The State of the Heart With Haider Warraich
I said goodbye to my grandfather when I was 8 years old. He had his first heart attack, and my mom was convinced he didn’t have long to live. Turns out he had many, many years ahead of him. Unfortunat
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▶ 381: A Year Spent Growing & Foraging Your Own Food with Rob Greenfiel
Would you survive if you had to grow or forage your own food for an entire year? Would you eat roadkill, wild yam, coconuts, and acorn grubs? Rob Greenfield is finishing up 365 days straight growing a
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▶ 380: CO2 is Your Friend with Dr. Artour Rahkimov
“Inhale fresh, life-giving oxygen… exhale toxic, dead carbon dioxide,” said my yoga teacher. I’ve heard some variation of this hundreds of times in classes. Oxygen is good, carbon dioxide is bad. In w
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▶ 379: Know Your Nerves: Polyvagal Theory with Deb Dana
People often compare the human body to a car, but this is a bad analogy (unless it’s a Tesla) because your body doesn’t contain a combustion engine. You’re electric, my friend, and your nerves are in
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▶ 378: Kids Sleep, Parents Sleep - We All Need to Sleep! with Craig Can
My second child has black circles under his eyes in all his photos from birth to age four. He slept as little as possible and willed himself through most days with all the angst and irritability of an
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▶ 377: Medical-Industrial Complex with Mike Magee, MD
The American life expectancy is currently 79, which sounds great until you realize that is the 26th in line worldwide. Despite being one of the most developed and wealthy nations in the world, the US
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▶ 376: A Life Less Stressed with Dr. Ron Ehrlich
I live in Spain where the average life expectancy just hit 83 years—number three in the world, less than one percentage of a point behind Switzerland and Japan. Foreigners often hypothesize that the r
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▶ 375: Crohn’s & Colitis - Surviving & Thriving with Dane Johnson
Imagine a mosquito bites your arm. You scratch the bump and it grows big and red and doesn’t go away for months. You’d be panicked, right? Now, imagine that the red inflamed area is inside your gut, y
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▶ 374: How to Find Work You Love Doing with Evan Carmichael
More than 80% of people are dissatisfied with their work, and yet work is where we spend the majority of our waking hours. People say things like “Do what you love and the money will follow” and “Foll
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▶ 373: Finding the Body-Positive, Sex-Positive You with Dr. Jenn Gunsau
One in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college in America*, so there are literally tens of millions of victims living every day with guilt, shame, pain, trauma, and baggage. How
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▶ 372: The Sexy Brain – Intimacy & Health with Dr. Lindsey Berkson
Just as an infant requires physical touch to ensure healthy development, every adult requires intimacy and connection to be mentally and physically healthy... and yet many of us are left lacking. A li
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▶ 371: Communication in Relationships with Sonya Jensen
Any relationship crisis is usually coupled with a communication breakdown. Your needs are not being met, so you shut down. You’re upset about something, but instead of voicing it, you bottle it up. Yo
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▶ 370: The Neuroscience of Addiction with Judith Grisel, PHD
You don’t manage to leave the office until 8 pm. Traffic is terrible, so it takes you an hour to get home. One of your relatives is sick and has been texting you all day, but you haven’t had a moment
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▶ 369: How to Lead a Simple Life Now With Gary Collins
The pursuit of health, wealth, and relationships drive 99% of our action, but just how important are each of these to you personally? How much time are you willing to invest and what are you willing t
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▶ 368: Exaholic – Breaking Your Addiction to an Ex Love with Dr. Lisa M
How many of your exes are you connected to on Facebook? How often do you find yourself dredging up past emotional head trash from lost love? For most people, the answer is “too often.” We live in an e
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▶ 367: A Home that Loves You with Lily Bernheimer
Your home and workspace affect your mood, your sleep, your productivity, and your feeling of belonging, but how much time have you spent to make them truly serve you? For most of us, we’re stuck worki
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▶ 366: How God (and Big Ideas) Change Your Brain with Mark Robert Walda
Whether you’re a devout believer or a staunch atheist, the research is clear: prayer works. Here’s what also works: introspective time, mindfulness, positive focus, and big ideas. Science has proven t
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▶ 365: Birth Control Pill - Risk vs Reward with Dr. Jolene Brighten
Many women start hormonal birth control in their teens and continue for years or even decades. This can be a responsible decision, but most people don’t realize the long-term side effects and risks in
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▶ 364: Bottle of Lies - Generic Drug Dangers with Katherine Eban
Did you know that 80 percent of generic drugs are manufactured in India or China, thousands of miles from the US FDA inspectors? When it comes to oversight, manufacturing safety, and transparency, it’
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▶ 363: Improve Your Memory with Nelson Dellis
I used to say, “I’m bad with names!” It wasn’t until my late 30s that I realized this was just an excuse for not learning how to remember names. Turns out, it’s not that hard. I’m not amazing, but I’m
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▶ 362: Do You Drink Too Much? with Annie Grace
That glass of red wine after dinner soon turns into two or three. On Friday and Saturday, two or three often turns into a bottle or two. After a decade or more of drinking, it’s not uncommon to clock
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▶ 361: The 3100 Mile Foot Race with Sanjay Rawal
When you think of a spiritual seeker, you probably conjure up images of shaved heads, orange robes, dark meditation halls, and gongs. But sitting in silence is not the only way to mediate. You can als
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▶ 360: Undo It with Dr. Dean Ornish
Real health is more than just food and exercise. The key elements we often overlook are love, support, community, and stress management. These factors are so much more difficult to manage but potentia
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▶ 359: How to Live Your Authentic Life with Philip McKernan
Your social media feed is filled with the curated lives of a bunch of strangers who you “follow” for no obvious reason. They are better-looking than you, their lunch looks tastier, their prose is so w
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▶ 358: Toxins Make You: Sicker, Fatter & Poorer With Dr. Leonardo Trasa
From the melting ice caps to dying marine reefs and depleted fish populations, we’re facing some big challenges right now, but very few people flip the lens to look at their own bodies to ask: “How ar
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▶ 357: Healthy Sex, Happy Relationship with Dr. Stephen Snyder
The two big reasons marriages fail are sex and money. While finances are by no means easy, you can always go get another job, cut back, add on, or get creative. These creative solutions rarely play ou
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▶ 356: Can Mold in Your House Harm Your Health? with Dr. Ann Shippy
I had nosebleed nearly every single day in 1988. It would usually happen midday, and while I got pretty good at predicting it, I still remember bleeding on some very important textbooks, my Iowa Basic
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▶ 355: Mind Detox: Clean Out Your Headtrash with Sandy Newbigging
“Change the way you think about things, and the things you think about will change.” This cliche sums up 80 percent of modern personal development, but it’s about as useful as marital advice that sugg
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▶ 354: Straight White Teeth with Dr. Steven Lin
Your dental health is very often the proverbial canary in the coal mine, meaning that periodontal disease is often a red flag that systemic problems exist which could be very serious. Proper brushing
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▶ 353: Inner Peace, Global Peace with Stephen Fulder
I signed up for my first 12-day meditation retreat in 2001, and then I dropped out two weeks before the start date. I never drop out of anything. Eighteen months later, I signed up again. This time, I
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▶ 352: Stop Thinking About Drinking with Belle Robertson
I love everything that’s bad for me, and alcohol certainly falls under that umbrella. It’s a love-hate relationship really, and I don’t drink anymore. At this stage of my life, it’s just not worth it.
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▶ 351: Mindful Leadership & Emotional Intelligence with Marc Lesser
Have you ever driven from your house to the office and were unable to remember anything about the drive? Have you lost track of days and even weeks when stress and frustration turned your brain to mus
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▶ 350: Demystifying Men, Women & Polarity With Dr. John Gray
I spent my first 27 years of life convinced that men and women were exactly the same except for the obvious anatomical differences and a boatload of socialization. After a big relationship breakup, I
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▶ 349: The Wisdom of Old People with John Leland
The average life expectancy is nearly 83 years where I live. People are living healthier, wealthier, and longer lives than ever before, but what the heck do you do in that last third portion of your l
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▶ 348: Yoga for Arthritis with Dr. Steffany Moonaz
After the age of 40, there is less space between your spinal vertebrae than when you were 20. This steady degeneration of tissues happens predictably but can be exacerbated by weight, high stress, ext
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▶ 347: No Impact Man - Save the Planet with Colin Beavan
Environmental activist, Colin Beavan, and his family decided to make a bold statement: they’d spend an entire year living as close to “zero impact” as possible in the heart of New York City. They’d di
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▶ 346: Stay Strong, Middle Age & Beyond - Why Muscle Matters
When we think of strength and muscle mass, we typically imagine physique-obsessed bodybuilders staring at themselves in the mirror and clanking weights around in the gym. But what if there is more to
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This no-nonsense health and wellness show features best-selling authors and thought leaders in nutrition, mental health, relationships, and self-improvement. Each episode also includes listener Q&A. H
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▶ 345: How to Succeed with People: Leadership & Charisma
Group dynamics fascinate me. Why does one person take on the leadership role almost immediately without any need for introduction or approval? How did that one person decide he was the joker? And why
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▶ 344: Goldilocks Zone for Protein with Stephan Cabral
Most people believe that carbs give you energy, fat makes you fat, and protein builds muscles - but this is not how the body works. In fact, we metabolize macronutrients very differently - often count
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▶ 343: Narcissist Survival Guide with Dr. Ramani Durva-Sula
Open up Instagram right now, and start counting the number of narcissists in your feed today. How many? Three, ten, fifty? Is there anyone real in your feed? Narcissistic personalities have always ex
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▶ 342: Traditional vs. Alternative Medicine with Dr. Thomas Cowan
Modern medicine's best thinking pales in comparison to the wisdom of our bodies. The best science only has a very rudimentary understanding of the dynamic and complex organism we inhabit, and yet we'r
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▶ 341: Sugar is the Devil with Sarah Wilson
By the end of the 1700s, the average American consumed four teaspoons of sugar a day. One hundred years later, that number had risen to eighteen teaspoons. Today, we're consuming 22 teaspoons (93 gram
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▶ 340: Emotional Agility with Susan David,PhD
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche What in your inner world enables you to fully show up in the outer world? What is more important: What you have or how you fee
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▶ 339: One Plant-Based Meal Per Day with Suzy Amis Cameron
When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the internet will explode with searches for the best diets, which yield all kinds of good, bad, and absurd advice for getting healthy and fit. Vegeta
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▶ 338: Broadcasting Happiness with Michelle Gieland
Positive thinking is great, but how do you handle yourself when your spouse is in a funk or your boss is negative every minute of the working day? With all the best intentions for the day, many of us
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▶ 337: Cultivating Clarity with Jamie Smart
As the saying goes, “You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything.” However, figuring out exactly what you want is often difficult, as it means compromise, sacrifice, and har
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▶ 336: Addicted to Exercise, Fasting Timing & Veggie Kids
What if you become so focused on exercise and healthy living that it becomes an unhealthy obsession? What if you're a parent and eat a balanced diet but struggle to feed your kids well? What if yoga i
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▶ 335: Mental Fitness for the Modern Mind with Kasper van der Meulen
Most people know more about Game of Thrones than they do about their own digestive system. They know how many nuclear warheads are in North Korea, but they don't know their Vitamin D levels or their f
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▶ 334: Learn New Skills, Overcome Fears, Become a Hero with Josh Kaufma
After your first yoga class, your hamstrings will hurt like hell. After your first day snowboarding, your wrists will ache and your bum will be bruised. After your first week struggling to play Knocki
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▶ 333: The Power of Pleasure with Xanet Pailet
Xanet Pailet was in a marriage with zero physical intimacy for more than 15 years. Most people don't go that long, but many do wait years before they openly address these issues; however, by then, per
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▶ 332: How to Achieve Deep, Restful Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski
I struggled with chronic sleep deprivation for more than a decade. During that time, I’d fall asleep in the barber’s chair. If I was talking on the phone while in bed, I’d pass out in the middle of th
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▶ Mental Illness: A Global Health Crisis with Mark Lukach
Mark Lukach's wife spent nearly two months in total in psychiatric wards during three different bipolar episodes. Mental illness appeared seemingly out of nowhere with suicidal thoughts, delusions, an
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▶ 330: Radical Metabolism
A little girl named Charlotte was having as many as 300 seizures a week, some lasting as long as 30 minutes. Her body was frail, her health was suffering, and her parents were at their wits' end. Afte
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▶ 329: Improve Your Balance, Improve Your Life
If you can balance well, your yoga practice is more fun, you’re faster and nimbler, and you might even live longer. Sound far-fetched? Check it out: falls are the second leading cause of accidental or
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▶ 328: How to Create a Breakthrough
Everyone has some area of their life where they feel totally stuck, and it usually falls into one of three categories: health, wealthy, or relationships. It's very rare that all three of those areas o
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▶ 327: The Truth About CBD (nonpsychoactive marijuana) for Health
A little girl named Charlotte was having as many as 300 seizures a week, some lasting as long as 30 minutes. Her body was frail, her health was suffering, and her parents were at their wits' end. Afte
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▶ 326: The Food, Vitamins & Blood Test Episode
Recently, my friend returned from a family member's funeral 8 lbs heavier and asked, What's going on? Weight gain from stress can be clinically explained by a few different mechanisms. There is emot
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▶ 325: Too old to stretch? Xylitol got you down?
I receive questions from listeners every day. On this week's Q&A show, I'll answer a few of them, with topics ranging from flexibility for seniors and what technically breaks a fast to Xylitol and Vit
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▶ 324: Demystifying the Pelvic Floor
People joke that they 'laughed so hard they peed their pants.' However, this is a real problem called stress incontinence—a symptom of pelvic floor dysfunction. The pelvic floor is a complex group of
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▶ 323: The Truth About Hypnotherapy
A stage hypnotist convinced my friend Burton that he was an undercover spy and needed to find a clue hidden in the forest. There were 600 people in the audience, but Burton was all in. He raced off th
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▶ 322: Estrogeneration
Think of your body as a three-legged stool with an electrical body (your nervous system), a bacterial body (your microbiome), and a chemical body (your endocrine system). These three legs are largely
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▶ 321: Why Relationships are So Hard
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships; and yet, for most of us, being in relationship is hard. Most of us find it challenging enough to get our own lives in order
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▶ 320: Movement as Medicine
This concept of a pill for an ill has led hundreds of millions of Americans to take prescription medications every single day. Antidepressants for mood, opioids for pain, and proton pump inhibitors
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▶ 319: Why You Are Only One Percent Human
There are more than 10 times as many microbe cells in your body as human cells, but interestingly, we're exposed to our first bacteria at birth—and from there, the process begins. While two humans are
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▶ 318: Yoga Breathing Lesson: Water, Whiskey, Coffee
I feel I’ve let you down. I’ve hosted pretty much every renowned breathing expert in the world on this podcast, and yet most of my listeners are still not sure exactly how yoga breathing works. On thi
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▶ 317: Understanding Arousal
During the summer between 8th and 9th grade, I watched my classmate Jeff go from about 125 lbs to 180 lbs in six weeks. This scrawny, video game nerd turned into a force to be reckoned with through a
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▶ 316: How to Trigger ASMR Brain Tingles
Have you ever used a scalp massager made of long, thin wires? For most people, it causes quite the sensation, sending tingles from the back of their neck down their spine. Or maybe you have this react
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▶ 315: Chronic pain: Is it all in the brain?
Chronic pain—the most common of which is back pain and digestive pain—affects as many as one in four people. Pain plays a crucial role in the body as a clear sign that something is injured, diseased,
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▶ 314: Deep Dive into Knee Pain
Have you ever seen a yoga student, runner, or CrossFitter with weird crisscrossed tape on their knees? Have you ever experienced knee pain that kept you from doing your favorite activities? Aside from
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▶ 313: The Mobility Method | Find Freedom in Your Body
Your tight hamstrings, stiff hips, and locked up spine are not going to find freedom on their own—you have to train for mobility. When your body is tight, it affects everything, from your standing and
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▶ 312: Barefoot Strong
My balance has always been terrible. It didn't matter if I was on a skateboard, a balance beam, or in tree pose in yoga; I've always found it incredibly challenging to stay steady. Some people are jus
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▶ 311: Confidence: Build & Develop It
My six-year-old son will approach the person behind the counter at the grocery store and ask, “Do you have anything for kids?” At the doctor’s office, he’ll ask, “Do you have any candies?” He doesn’t
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▶ 310: Mitochondria: Key to Health and Longevity
If you go to any convenient store, you'll see dozens of energy products including bars, drinks, and snacks. Most products are loaded with sugar or caffeine—or both. In the short term, they'll certai
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▶ 309: How to Develop an At-Home Practice
Back in 2002, when I couldn’t make it to a studio, I would play an old cassette tape and practice to that in my bedroom, hotel room, or even outdoors wherever I was. At-home practice has always been p
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▶ 308: Eating for Brain Power
Most health and diet books focus on reducing your waistline but neglect the most mission critical part of your entire body: your brain. The 3 lbs, watery, fatty mass between your ears needs to be fe
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▶ 307: Natural Birth Control
Following the advice of parents, counselors, and health care providers, millions of women take hormonal birth control starting in their teenager years to avoid unwanted pregnancies, regulate their per
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▶ 306: Stiff After Stretching, Yoga Problems & Vegan Pitfalls
You’ve got questions, and I’ve got answers…. join me for this week’s Yoga Talk Show special “Q&A Show” where I do my best to help listeners. On this week’s show, we cover: my recommending reading list
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▶ 305: Balance Your Hormones
When we think about toxins in our food and environment, most people assume the risk is cancer, and that's true; but the more immediate risk is often hormonal imbalance. Common addictives in foods an
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▶ 304: Your Weakness is Your Superpower
Here is one of my favorite interview questions: What did you get in trouble for most when you were 12 years old? The answer often reveals more about who someone really is than an hour-long conversat
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▶ 303: Push Beyond Your Limits
Colin was on the beach in Thailand and decided to try Fire Poi (fire dancing). A few minutes later, he got tangled up, caught on fire, and burned 25% of his body so badly he was bedridden for months.
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▶ 302: Save the Planet One Person At-a-Time
The world’s bulging landfills mirror our bulging waistlines; and the toxic chemicals we pour down our drains end up in our water supplies, food systems, and eventually into our own bodies. Environment
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▶ 301: THE FLEXIBILITY SHOW
Have you ever heard someone say, “Flexibility doesn’t matter!” or “Stretching makes you weak!” For some reason, the misinformation about flexibility training is rampant, and many students are confused
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▶ 300: Sleep Better, Perform Better, Live Better
Meet the man who top Athletes like, Cristiano Ronaldo, consult with to make sure they get optimal sleep: Nick Littlehales. Sleep quality makes a huge difference in optimal sports performance and overa
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▶ 299: Everything I Know About Weight Loss
The world is getting fat at an alarming rate. Two in three adults are overweight or obese, and excess weight is correlated with every degenerative illness across the board. While some overweight peopl
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▶ 298: Uncontrolled Sweating, Zevia & Muscle Cramps – Special Q&A Show!
LISTENER QUESTIONS! Is borage oil any good? What do you do with heart rate variability data? My kid is sweating like crazy, what do I do? How do I get started on a vegan diet? Are oats any good for br
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▶ 297: How to Get Stuff Done
Have you ever heard someone say, I'm an idea person... I like to start new things, but I'm not the person who finishes them? You know who does finish things? Winners. Starting is not hard, or intere
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▶ 296: How to Heal from Brain Drain
It's Friday night. You're home late from work and desperate to sleep, and yet you can't. You're tired but wired, overworked but over-stimulated. Cortisol has been pumping through your veins all week,
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▶ 295: Magnesium: Top Mineral for Yoga Students
Many people think mineral deficiencies only occur in the developing world where food is scarce; but the reality is that most people are deficient in at least a few vitamins or minerals. Our soils are
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▶ 294: The End of Alzheimer’s
Do you have a friend or family member losing their short-term memory, losing their mental edge, and just generally slowing down in terms of brain function? If so, this week's Yoga Talk Show delivers
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▶ 293: Unlock Your Happy Brain Chemicals
I just want to be happy... is something you've probably said one thousand times. You want to be happy at work, at home, with your partner and friends—but what does that mean? You've no-doubt felt h
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▶ 221: My Untold Story: Yoga, Drugs & Alcohol
It was Christmas 2001. I was 23 years old, and I woke up in the back of ambulance after convulsing in a grand mal seizure in front of my parents. I'd managed to wobble through the previous 3 years in
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▶ 291: Push to Your Limit & Beyond
During the World Financial Crisis of 2008, James Lawrence's mortgage business went belly-up, and he started running, cycling and swimming. He channelled his pain and struggle into training, and became
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▶ 290: Lab-Grown Clean Meat & the Future of Food
At age 23, I was overweight, drinking too much and smoking constantly. I was stuck in life and wanted a new one, so I finally got up the courage to attend a 10-day meditation retreat just before my 24
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▶ 289: Why Touch Matters in Everything
You probably know that infants that don't receive enough cuddles, hugs, and physical affection suffer from all kinds of developmental problems—the first two years are the most critical, and this is wh
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▶ 288: Why We're Depressed & What to Do About It?
I've spent most my career researching, studying and teaching physical health and wellness only to realize that mental health is the big elephant in the room. In many cases, diet and exercise help, of
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▶ 287: Wellness Insider Best Of
After interviewing hundreds of health experts, you learn dozens of industry insights that would otherwise be impossible to gather. Our guest on this week's Yoga Talk Show is a veteran podcaster and we
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▶ 286: How to Love Your Body
One of the best ways to love your body is to stop poisoning it with excess sugar, starch and carbohydrates. This sounds obvious, but it's actually a huge challenge. Excess sugar is everywhere and with
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▶ 285: Laughing for Healing
Why do so many yoga and meditation teachers talk in the third person, add in huge pauses between words, and hold awkward eye contact while teaching? Where did this caricature of a spiritual person com
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▶ 284: Finding Strength in Pain
Can you imagine if your mother died of a sudden brain aneurysm, your young husband died of a heart attack, and then your father-in-law passed away from cancer all in the span of 9 years? This is Amy M
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▶ 283: Better than Before
At one of my first personal growth and development retreats, I wrote down my goals to build a huge health and wellness center with yoga, a restaurant, diet programs, and more. Financially, I wanted it
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▶ 282: Become More Productive
I'm often praised for my productivity. I have two kids, three businesses, 28 staff, and a hectic travel schedule. So how do I manage to get it all done? To be honest, I'm not sure I do. Work-life bala
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▶ 281: Meditation for Skeptics
I can't meditate, is one of the most common phrases I hear in the yoga studio. Students somehow feel that since they cannot sit still or calm their mind, they are unable to practice meditation—but the
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▶ 280: Mobility Training
There are two types of people who say that flexibility doesn't matter. The first group is stiff as a board and want an excuse for their lack of mobility. The second group consists of people who have a
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▶ 279: The Problem with Nice Guys
Nice Guy Syndrome is when men try so hard to be liked and helpful that they end up miserable and alone. The people-pleasing, caretaker role is something that initially sounds great but often leads to
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▶ 278: Changing Habits
Your habits around food, exercise and lifestyle largely dictate your health. What do you eat for breakfast? What is a fun night out for you and your friends? How often do you get outdoors, run, cycle
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▶ 277: Detox Your Body & Life
Did you know that newborn babies are born with 200+ chemical toxins in their bodies? Or that polar bears often have off-the-charts levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) despite living in remo
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▶ 276: Find Your Cozy Place
Danish people regularly score as the happiest people in the world, but it's a small, flat, wet country; taxes are ridiculously high, and the weather is generally bad. So what's going on? What do the D
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▶ 275: The People's Pharmacy
Did you know that chili pepper and mustard can help with muscle cramps? Did you know that your acid blocking digestive aids could actually make your problem worse over time? We all have unprecedented
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▶ 274: The Power of Self-Awareness
Do you know yourself? Really? Do you know what makes you tick and what drives you... what lights you up and what dims your fired? Self-awareness doesn't come naturally, like all forms of intelligence,
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▶ 273: Discover Wild Food & Weeds
It's easy to get excited about the newly-imported Brazilian berry with crazy-high antioxidant levels; but what about the weeds and wild foods growing your backyard? When it comes to micronutrients, th
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▶ 272: Unlocking the Secrets of Fascia
Did you know that your muscles would be a bloody pile of melted, soft-serve ice cream if not for fascia? This web of connective tissues literally hold your body together—and most of us aren't really e
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▶ 271: What Darwin Got Wrong
How did our planet form? How did life begin? Most of us have no idea how to explain this foundational, existential question. Evolutionists say that all life has stemmed from a series of random mutatio
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▶ 270: Change Your Life w/The 5 Second Rule
What if what’s keeping you from achieving your goals and building the life you truly desire came down to your constant, nagging habit of procrastination? What if you had a simple tool to reverse your
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▶ 269: The Body-Eye Connection
Did you know that your “vision” and your “eyesight” are not the same thing? Did you know that your eye health can impact your mental and emotional health as well? Most of us are familiar with seasonal
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▶ 268: Can Mindfulness Make You Younger?
Your body responds to the stress of a busy morning with the same biochemical responses it would have if a tiger pounced on you in the jungle. Intellectually, these two events are completely different,
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▶ 267: Sleep Like a Baby
Poor sleep can cause hormonal imbalances, weight gain, impair your immune system, reduce your mental clarity, and contribute to dozens of other health problems. Sleep is a huge sticking point for your
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▶ 266: Never Binge Eat Again
Why do some people suffer from overwhelming food cravings, multiple times per week—and others never have cravings at all? Why do some of us feel addicted and out-of-control with food while others coul
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▶ 265: Brain Training & Brain Mastery
Did you know that your morning coffee blocks alpha brain waves states and that your evening glass of red wine encourages it? Did you know that the blue light from your cell phone affects both your hor
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▶ 264: Meditating with the Taliban
Politically, the world is more polarized and terrorized than ever before. Even the wealthiest countries in the world are experiencing record levels of terror and violent attacks—so what do we do? Can
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▶ 263: My 15 Year Vegan Blood Tests Revealed
When I turned 24, I started this weird experiment eating just plant foods. I'm a chronic over-committer, and here I am 15 years later, still eating 100% plant-based. This is a complicated path that's
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▶ 262: How to Balance Your Blood Sugar
As health seekers, we obsess over the micro-changes in our food and fitness routines. Micro changes are fun and interesting, but it's much wiser to first address the big elephants in the room. One of
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▶ 261: Learn to Breathe
Breathing for health can be learned in quickly and its benefits experienced in as little as 10 minutes, and yet this practice is all but lost from most modern yoga classes. Yoga that should revolve ar
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▶ 260: A Way Out of Back Pain
80% of people will suffer from back pain at some point in their life, often debilitating pain, but most problems are undiagnosed, self-diagnosed, and it can be chronic. So what do you do? For better o
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▶ 259: Reducetarian: Save the Planet with Your Food Choices
Everyone is familiar with vegetarians, vegans, and macrobiotics... but what about reducetarians? This new movement focuses less on hard-line extremes, and instead, encourages any and all steps toward
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▶ 258: Beautiful Skin, Naturally: How to
When you're a teenager, you get acne. As you age, you get wrinkles, sun spots, and sagging skin. No matter what age you are, your skin is probably something you think about each morning when you wake
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▶ 257: Reset Your Brain for a Pain-Free Life
80% of the opioid drugs in the world are consumed in the United States, and addiction, abuse, and even death are commonplace across all demographics in society. Why such growth in abuse? One word: pai
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▶ 256: Organics, Aquaponics & Hydroponics
What does organic labeling really mean? If I ask five Yoga Talk Show listeners, I'll get five different answers. And new growing methods stack complexity on complexity with hydroponics and aquaponics
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▶ 255: Test Your Genes, Understand Your Body
In 1990, the Human Genome Project began, and by 2003, roughly 20,000 human genes had been sequenced. This is exciting, but it's also just the first step. How can we use this data to understand human h
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▶ 254: How Big is Your But?
Hypnotherapy has been around since the 1950's, yet most people still think of it as a party trick. In reality, there is mounds of data to support the power of mind over body when in a suggestible, alp
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▶ 253: Multiple Sclerosis: Surviving & Thriving
What if your immune system went haywire and starting attacking your body's nervous system affecting your vision, your sensations, your mobility, or other bodily functions? Auto-immune conditions are e
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▶ 252: Can Ice & Cold Heal Your Body & Mind?
If given the opportunity, would you climb Mt. Kilamanjaro in nothing but your shorts and sneakers? Would you trust a stuntman-turned-breathing guru with you life? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll
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▶ 251: The Telomere Effect: Cell Aging, Stress & Mind-Body Practices
Science has linked meditation with longevity through the study of telomeres, the chromosomal caps that are an indication of cell health. By mitigating our stress response specifically, research indica
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▶ 250: Breathing: a Forgotten Art Rediscovered
In almost every yoga class, the teacher will emphasize the importance of breath—but what does that really mean and why does it matter? If you ask, you'll likely hear that you're adding oxygen to your
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▶ 249: Time Management Secrets
You wake up in the morning with the best of intentions, but soon, you're lost in Facebook and email. You wanted to do 30-minutes of exercise before work, but you end up a reading CNN.com instead. At w
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▶ 248: How to Get Your Blood Tested
If you go to your doctor for a routine checkup, he or she will usually run very limited blood tests because of cost considerations and limited health insurance coverage. For anyone interested in optim
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▶ 247: Life Without Trash?
Is it possible to live a life without trash? Could you reduce your waste by 50%? 75% or More? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet the founder of the Zero Waste movement, Bea Johnson who claims
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▶ 246: Can Kids Learn Mindfulness?
Children around the world are suffering from learning, development, and behavioral problems at record rates. Mindfulness can be taught as a secular way to train the mind and body to assist our youth.
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▶ 245: Great Sex & Great Relationships
When most people think of health and wellness, sex is not usually top-of-mind, but it should be. Most couples have bad sex rarely, and most want to have great sex all the time. What's gone wrong? We a
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▶ 244: The Adrenal-Thyroid Revolution
About once or twice a week, I'm completely exhausted and yet I can't fall asleep until one or two in the morning. This wired and tired feeling is common among most busy people, and while we often blam
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▶ 243: Plant-Based Weight Lifting
There is a myth that weight lifting makes you big and muscle-y. More than any time in history, medical doctors and fitness experts are recommending weight training as one of the best ways to improve y
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▶ 242: HeartMath: How to Listen to & Train Your Heart
Most people assume that a healthy heart is beating slowly and steadily. The truth is a healthy heart is agile, highly variable, and changing with every inhale and exhale. The measurement of your real-
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▶ 241: Secular Meditation
Almost every style of meditation I've learned has been presented as secular, but very quickly there is a Hindu chant, a photo of some old guru with a beard, or some other paraphernalia that looks and
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▶ 240: Marijuana as Medicine w/out Getting High
Marijuana is being decriminalized and even legalized in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world very quickly—and for good reason. The law enforcement costs are many billions of dollars ann
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▶ 239: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Have you heard of fecal implants? This is when the fecal matter from someone with healthy gut bacteria is transferred to the gut of someone with gut dysbiosis—and it works. While this sounds extreme,
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▶ 238: Why Slow Medicine is the Future
Your typical doctor's visit is less than 7 minutes long. It doesn't matter if you have a broken bone, a tonsil infection, or pancreatic cancer, most of the time you're in and out faster than seems pos
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▶ 237: Less Stuff, More Happy: Living Minimal
The things you, own end up owning you... – Tyler Durden (Fight Club). Often times the things we work so hard for end up taking more than the give, the bleed us more than they feed us. It might be the
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▶ 236: A Way from Darkness: Addiction & Yoga
Addiction take many different forms and affects just about everyone either directly or with one degree of separation. While addict conjures up images of heroin and cocaine, the reality is that people
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▶ 235: Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs
Many yoga students explore traditional Indian medicine, Ayurveda, but neglect to study Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). While they have many similarities, TCM offers some herbs, techniques, and app
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▶ 234: Love Your Brain Yoga
The World Health Organization estimates that traumatic brain injuries will be the 3rd leading cause of death and disability by 2020, but many people are still unaware of this condition impacting milli
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▶ 233: Happy Feet: How to Heal Your Messed Up Toes
Do your feet hurt? Do you have hammer toe, overlapping toes, corns, or bunions? Without even realizing it, most people wear footwear that leads to poor posture, muscle imbalances, and chronic foot pro
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▶ 232: One Breath – Freediving & Beyond
Breathing has always been an integral part of yoga practices, but for many years, it was mostly forgotten or taught as an aside to asana practice. Just in the past few years, breathwork has come back
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▶ 231: Finding Happiness with Technology
If you've ever completed goal-setting activities, no doubt happiness appeared on the top of your list. And yet, what is happiness? Really? Do you have a way to measure it? Do you have tools to achieve
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▶ 230: Don't Believe in Vitamins? Listen to this...
Many health fanatics claim that they, don't believe in supplements, as if micronutrients were a belief system or a religion—but they are not. They are foundational to our health, an essential part of
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▶ 229: The Placebo Effect: How Suggestible Are You?
Have you heard of sham surgeries? In 2002, 180 people with osteoarthritis of the knee joined a double-blind study. Some patients underwent real arthroscopic surgery and a placebo group simply had a sk
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▶ 228: Back Pain: Surgery or No Surgery?
Back pain affects an estimated 80% of the population at some point in life, and yet most conditions are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. To complicate matters, most people have hard line ideas about treat
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▶ 227: Special Edition: Listener Q&A
Over 1 million people have listened to the Yoga Talk Show since its inception, and it's you the listeners I have to thank for all the support and growth over the years. To say thanks and deep-dive int
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▶ 226: Neurogenic Yoga for Stress, Trauma & Tension Release
Almost everyone who practices yoga has experienced and emotional release or even a breakthrough in class—it just happens. But what if there were a way to actively encourage that type of release with m
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▶ 225: Inflammation: Kryptonite for Your Health
Chronic inflammation is a precursor to a myriad of diseases and illness, and the foods and lifestyle choices we're making are largely at fault. Perhaps the biggest challenge with inflammation is you c
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▶ 224: Does Ethical, Eco-Friendly Protein Exist?
By 2050, we'll have 9 billion people on the planet, and we cannot feed them with chicken, pigs, cows, wheat, soy, and corn. The food system that got us to where we are today is now destroying our plan
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▶ 223: Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises [TRE]
How many people do you know who live stress-free lives without any tension or trauma? Let me guess: none! Stress, tension and even soft trauma are part of all our lives, and the tools most of us have
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▶ 222: Developing Your Own At-Home Practice
Advanced yoga students come in all shapes and sizes around the world, but the one thing they all share in common is a commitment to self-practice. In order to achieve mastery at any skill whether yoga
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▶ 221: Ouch, My Back Hurts
It's estimated that 80% of the population will suffer from back pain at some point in their life—and most people are left frustrated and confused about how to actually heal. Should you take medication
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▶ 220: Heart Rate Variability from Your Phone
The benefits of yoga practice are at least 50% nervous system related; and yet, most of the yoga world has completely forgotten your body's electrical system. The nervous system effects of yoga are wh
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▶ 219: Getting Started with Traditional Chinese Medicine
USA Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps made headlines this year with his black and blue marks all over this back during his races. Wonder what that was? It's a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) techniqu
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▶ 218: Is Your Gut Health the Problem?
What is your Gut IQ? Is your gut a genius or a fool? Your gut is home to over 3lbs of bacteria, both good and bad. Your gastrointestinal health is crucial for the digestion and absorption of nutrients
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▶ 217: The Big Protein Question
In any health conversation, one of the most-common things discussed is: “So where do you get your protein?” This is not a bad question, but it’s not exactly the right question either. Protein is a rea
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▶ 216: Hypopressive Exercises for Core Strength & Rehab
Have you ever sneezed and accidentally peed your pants? Have you (or someone you know) suffered from a distended abdomen after pregnancy? Did you know that many women, even women who have never given
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▶ 215: Where Are All the Guys in Yoga?
Many yoga teachers will tell you that their class is for everyone - all sizes, ages, backgrounds, and genders - and yet the actual students that turn up to class tell a different story. They tend to b
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▶ 214: Corrective Exercise
We often think of “exercise” as the yoga class after work, the morning job, or a weightlifting session. But there are many more ways to exercise, and one way often overlooked is Corrective Exercise, o
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▶ 213: Minimal Footwear for the Modern Yoga Student
Yoga students invest hours on functional flexibility, strength, and mobility, but the moment they leave the studio, most lace up restrictive footwear. Modern shoes squish your toes, damage your arches
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▶ 212: Warrior Style Yoga with a Former Navy Seal
You might think of yoga and the military as polar opposites, but the rigor of military training and a dedicated yoga practice actually have a lot in common. According to former Seal Commander, Mark Di
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▶ 211: Lucid Dream Yoga
We spend a third of our lives asleep, but most people treat sleep and dream states like second rate citizens of consciousness, always given the back seat to waking states. On this week’s Yoga Talk Sho
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▶ 210: Demystifying Core Strength
Dr. Sarah Ellis Duvall is a physiotherapist specializing in core work, pelvic floor, functional movement, and injury prevention and healing. A former division I athlete, Dr. Duvall has been working wi
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▶ 209: Flexibility Training Demystified
When it comes to flexibility, most people fall into 3 main categories: those who have always been flexible and think it's no big deal (dancers, gymnasts, random outliers); those who have always been s
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▶ 208: Have Modern Mothers Lost Their Way?
Kimberly Johnson is a yoga teacher trainer, Rolfer, women’s health care advocate, mother, and doula. Much of her most recent work focuses on postpartum care. She's the author of the soon-to-be release
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▶ 207: Integrating Essential Oils Into Your Health Plan
Dr. Eric L. Zielinski (“Dr. Z”) is a natural health care provider, chiropractor and researcher with the intent to educate, inspire and challenge people to live their potential. He earned his Doctor of
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▶ 206: Sustainable Eating for You & the Planet
Pop environmental wisdom teaches that a vegetarian diet is the most sustainable way of eating for the planet, but is this always true? What about in areas where crops are impossible to grow, but where
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▶ 205: Happiness vs. Intelligence
Most people claim “happiness” is one of their top priorities in life, but how many of us really take time to define what that means? Is it free time? Is it friends and family? Is it financial success?
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▶ 204: Magic Mushroom Medicine
We´ve been talking about the Future of Food and what our main food sources will be as the population increases, are mushrooms one of them? Are they important and can they benefit our health and well b
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▶ 203: The Dangers & Benefits of Breathing
Breathing has never been more popular in yoga, fitness, and mindfulness circles—but unfortunately, most people lump all breathing into one category assuming that it's all good. The reality is that dif
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▶ 202: Sleep Hygiene: Engineering Better Rest
You know you should sleep 7 to 8 hours per night, but do you really sleep that much? And when you do, is the quality of your sleep any good? Modern life makes pillow-time a huge challenge. Your cell p
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▶ 201: Choose Your Own Life Adventure
We all want to live a life of adventure, purpose, and meaning - but that’s easier said than done. With each passing year, our lives get more full, more stressful, and in many cases, more complicated.
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▶ 200: Hot & Cold Therapy for Yoga Students
If you want to start an argument among yoga students, just
mention the phrase hot yoga. Love it or hate it, Hot Yoga has
spread across the globe faster than any other style—and there are
solid health
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▶ 199: Home Grown Mushrooms
Many of us go to great lengths and great expense to obtain organic and locally-grown foods, but the leftovers including stems, rinds, peels, and grounds are usually throw in the garbage. What a waste!
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▶ 198: Breathe, Perform & Recover
Could mood be the #1 determining variable in performance and recovery from training? What impact does reduced breathing versus accelerated breathing have on your oxygen and carbon dioxide levels—and w
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▶ 197: The Vegan, Veg & Paleo Debate
Food has become religion with missionaries telling you to drink kale smoothies, eat bacon, avoid chicken, and take pills and potions galore. Vegetarian, vegan, raw food, paleo, Atkins... there are so
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▶ 196: The Death of Bread
You already know wheat is inflammatory, high glycemic, and allergenic for many people, but did you know that bread can affect your brain as well? Sad but true: something as ubiquitous as your morning
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▶ 195: Mysteries of the Brain, Secrets of the Heart
Is your inner voice critical, self-defeating, and ruminating all day long? Our modern world is more knowledge-based than action-based, but what do you do when your inner voice is your worst enemy? How
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▶ 194: The Science of Mind Over Body
Why is it that larger pills are more effective than smaller ones at treating illness? How could it be that longer doctor’s visits are correlated with faster patient recovery? How much of alternative h
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▶ 193: 10% Happier with Meditation
Meditation has been shown to reduce stress, increase focus, and lower blood pressure, but when there are so many different types of meditation techniques, how do you decide which one is right for you?
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▶ 192: Buteyko Breathing - Is C02 Your Friend?
Discover this little-known, Russian breathing technique for regulating stress, combating asthma, balancing your nervous system, and improving sleep. Yoga teachers often treat carbon dioxide like it’s
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▶ 191: Nerd Fitness
Believe it or not, lifting weights and throwing kettlebells around can help improve your yoga practice (yup, you read that correctly). On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, Lucas Rockwood and fitness profess
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▶ 190: The Science of Stress vs. Yoga on Your Brain
Both “meditation” and “yoga” are buzz words in pop health circles, but both are actually categories of mind-body practices - not specific practices. Not all mind-body practices are the same, and the s
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▶ 189: A Life of Adventure
How many people are lucky enough to turn what they love most in life into their career? On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, you’ll meet career rock climber, Conrad Anker, who has done just that. Anker has
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▶ 188: Power Posing for Confidence
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an important meeting or speaking engagement paralyzed with anxiety or nervousness? If so, you’re not alone. Social Psychologist, Amy Cuddy, discovered tha
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▶ 187: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Corporate giants like Coca-Cola, Kraft, and Kellogg’s dominate the food and beverage industries, but they are optimized for profit, not for our health. To make their foods more palatable and profitabl
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▶ 186: Habits of a Happy Brain
When you experience happiness, your brain releases dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and/or endorphin. The curious things is that our brain doesn’t release a happy chemical without very particular (and o
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▶ 185: How to Poo Like a Magic Unicorn
Have you seen the viral Youtube video where a unicorn poops rainbow ice cream and a prince lectures on bowel health? It’s ridiculous but also very relevant. Yoga students talk about their bowel moveme
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▶ 184: No Grain, No Pain
Wheat-related digestive problems are something you’ve probably heard of before, but less commonly known is the effect that long-term gluten exposure has on your entire body. Guest speaker, Dr. Peter O
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▶ 183: Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
Every year, millions of people resolve to lose 10lbs in the new year. They starve themselves for two weeks, join a new gym, lose a few pounds—but then gain it all back in February when their motivatio
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▶ 182: What I Learned in 2015
The Yoga Talk Show is 3 years old, and I feel like we're just getting started. 2015 was an amazing year with over 50 guests with topics spanning from hormonal health to barefooted running. I've learne
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▶ 181: How Not to Die
Your body is hard-wired for survival, but our modern world throws continuous health challenges our way. I wish things became easier with time and age, but for most people, the journey toward health be
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▶ 180: Medicinal Mushroom Superfoods
This week’s yoga talk show explores medicinal mushrooms; not the hallucinogenic kind, the type that boost your immune system! Tero Isokauppila, co-founder of Four Sigma Foods, a medicinal mushroom sup
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▶ 179: Surviving the Holidays
Popular health advice around the holidays usually includes such nonsense as doing squats before you pig-out, taking charcoal capsules after you drink too much, and going to the gym twice per day in an
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▶ 178: Heal Your Shoulders with Yoga
Whether you’ve hurt your shoulder doing yoga or perhaps you’ve come to yoga to heal, Dr. Ariele Foster shares her knowledge about how the practice can help you recover from rotator cuff injuries and o
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▶ 177: Lucid Dreaming
Dream states are more than just random fantasy. Dreaming can be incredibly healing and is believed to be an essential part of all restful sleep. Robert Waggoner, a leading authority on lucid dreaming,
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▶ 176: Yoga Student, Measure Thyself
On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, you’ll meet biohacker, Ben Greenfield, who teaches you how functional exercise, nutrition, and the balance between performance and health can help you improve your yoga
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▶ 175: 4x4 Balanced Breathing
When we practice yogic breathing, we can either up-regulate, down-regulate or balance our nervous system. In different situations, all three can be valuable, but for whatever reason, balanced breathin
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▶ 174: Live Dirty, Eat Clean – Microbiome
“ The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for your soul to reside in.” - B. K. S. Iyengar
Your gut health is vitally important for your immune system, digestion, and even your mood. On this we
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▶ 173: Heart Rate Variability, Breathing and Yoga
You’ve probably measured your heart rate while exercising with a chest strap or a wrist device - but have you ever measured your heart rate variability (HRV)? It’s fascinating stuff for yoga students.
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▶ 172: Getting Started with Handstands
If you’re excited about inversions, and handstands in particular, than you’re going to love this week’s Yoga Talk Show. Ryan Hurst, Program Director and co-founder of GMB Fitness, shares his tips for
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▶ 171: Psychologist’s Tips for Beating Anxiety & Worry
In an attempt to lead the healthiest life possible, food and movement often become the main focus - but you must also address your mental and emotional health, particularly as you age. More and more r
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▶ 170: Breathing Instead of Medicating
Yoga is unique and powerful as a mind-body fitness modality in that it can restore balance to the body's electrical system (aka your nervous system) - and breathing is the secret key that makes it all
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▶ 169: “Lucky Fish” Cures for Anemia?
When most people think about world hunger and poverty, they often think of Vitamin A deficiency impacting vision or distended abdomens from protein deficiency in developing countries. Oddly, a much bi
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▶ 168: The Brain Fog Fix
Negative lifestyle habits and poor food choices can impact the neural messengers that keep you energized, calm, focused, optimistic, and inspired. In many ways, our modern world undermines our brain h
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▶ 167: Psycho Path Free Living
Jackson MacKenzie is the co-founder of PsychopathFree.com, an online support community that reaches millions of abuse survivors each month. Driven by personal experience, his mission is to spread awar
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▶ 166: Food & Flexibility
For some strange reason, many yoga students overlook the importance of diet on their yoga practice—and this is a huge mistake. You are what you eat, is a phrase everyone has heard, but in yoga, it's e
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▶ 165: Bone Broth Miracle?
Nutrition is such an important topic, and no matter where we find ourselves on our health journey,we are constantly looking for ways to feel better, live longer, and generally lead healthier, happier
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▶ 164: Anxiety - Friend or Foe?
This week, we take a close look at the brain mechanisms of emotion and memory. With as many as 25% of adult women taking some form of antidepressants, emotional health has become a huge problem in the
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▶ 163: Breathing Secrets of the Ice Man
Can breathing unlock your inner power, strengthen your body, and boost your immune system? Wim Hof (aka the “Ice Man”) on this week’s Yoga Talk Show says, yes. Wim also says you’ll sleep better, impro
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▶ 162: Flexibility Training - Nerves, Muscles & Soft Tissues
Some people seem to be naturally flexible while others struggle with even the most basic poses—but this need not be. In this bonus episode, Lucas explains the difference between flexibility training a
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▶ 161: Stoned - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana has always been a polarizing topic, clouded in controversy, and it can be challenging to distinguish the real medical benefits from the stoner myths. On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, D
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▶ 160: At-Home Kombucha Brewing
Ever heard of kombucha? Kombucha is a fermented tea loaded with beneficial bacteria, activated micronutrients, and if you like sour - it tastes amazing. Traditionally, it’s made with black tea and sug
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▶ 159: How to Heal Your Messed Up Feet & Toes
Modern footwear leaves most people’s feet deformed by the time they reach adulthood, and these abnormalities lead to all kinds of movement problems, pain and cascading injuries.
For yoga students, st
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▶ 158: Are You Getting Enough Protein?
If you’re a vegan or a vegetarian, chances are someone has already asked you where you’re getting your protein from, or if you’re getting enough of it. We know many yoga students and teachers are expl
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▶ 157: The People's History of Hot Yoga
Modern Hot Yoga practice originated from a teacher named, Bishnu Gosh, in Calcutta, India, though it’s probably best-known today from one of Gosh’s most influential (and notorious) students, Bikram Ch
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▶ 155: BONUS EPISODE - Box Breathing
Just to mix things up a little at The Yoga Talk Show, this week, Lucas will lead you through a guided yoga breathing exercises called, Box Breathing. Box breathing is an easy-to-learn and highly effec
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▶ 155: Woman Dives 90 Meters in One Breath
As a yoga student, you’ve no-doubt heard of pranayama (yogic breathing practices), but you’ve probably had very little experience practicing it. Yoga breath work is mostly a “lost art” today partly du
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▶ 154: Meet the Grandmother of Yoga, Indra Devi
Yoga teaching was dominated by men until Russian-born, Indra Devi, came to Los Angeles in 1947 and quietly changed the direction of modern yoga forever. Devi was not only the first woman to break thro
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▶ 153: Is Your Thyroid Broken?
Environmental toxins, genetically modified food, chronic stress, and the rise in autoimmune conditions have all contributed to an explosion of thyroid problems. Dr. Will Cole joins Lucas on this week’
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▶ 152: Eating Clean & Quitting Sugar
People use the term eat clean in different ways, but what does a healthy diet entail? One of the biggest challenges many people face is reducing their sugar intake. Sugar in all its forms, not just th
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▶ 151: Healing Herbs for Yoga Students
Over-the-counter drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen are cheap, easy to obtain and provide instant pain relief - but they are more of a coverup than a cure. For these reasons, it’s no surprise that yoga
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▶ 150: Ayurveda 101 - Discover Yoga's Ancient Sister Science
Ayurveda, often referred to as traditional Indian medicine, offers us a truly holistic look at health and wellness. From understanding your own personal constitution to the food you eat and the energi
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▶ 149: Lift Like a Girl (strong!)
Everyone from trainers to medical doctors is touting the benefits of lifting, not just for cosmetic reasons, but for metabolic health, hormonal health, bone density, and more. Nia Shanks joins to Luca
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▶ 148: The Art & Science of Better Sleep
Poor sleep quality has reached critical mass, and the problem seems to be getting worse with our modern lifestyles. Whether it’s stress, anxiety or diet-related, millions are struggling each night. In
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▶ 147: Life on the Run
Running and injuries go hand-in-hand, but it’s such a fundamental, functional movement practice - and so good for you - there must be a way to spend your “life on the run.” On this week’s Yoga Talk Sh
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▶ 146: Can the Moringa Tree Stop World Hunger?
Moringa is known as the “miracle tree” due to its many healing properties. With over 92 macro and mirco-nutrients, nearly every part of the tree can be used to heal and sustain life. This week, Lucas
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▶ 145: How to Cool Your Body's Inflammation
Pop health losing weight advise tells us to, eat less and exercise more - but research has shown this rarely works. This week, Lucas and Dr. Lori Shemek deep dive into the research around inflammation
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▶ 144: How to Feng Shui Your Home
The art of Feng shui was developed in China over 3,000 years ago, and it’s based on the notion that what's happening in our homes is essentially a reflection of what’s going on inside us. The idea is
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▶ 143: Getting Rejected 100x in a Row - On Purpose!
Fear is one of the most powerful motivators on the planet. Unfortunately, it usually motivates us to play small, hide in our own shell, and avoid the awkward and personally challenging situations need
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▶ 142: “Best of 2014“ Special Edition
The Yoga Talk Show had over 200,000 listeners in 2014, and we’ve had the pleasure of hosting a number of amazing experts. From best-selling authors and medical doctors to yoga misfits and mind-body re
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▶ 141: Juice Your Way Back to Health
We all know green juice is good for you, but you can take it much deeper and actually “reboot” your health and detoxify your body. This week, Lucas Rockwood talks with Joe Cross about juicing for heal
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▶ 140: Primal Posture for Pain-Free Living
Back pain is pandemic, and it’s one of the top reasons people come to yoga class. In this week’s Yoga Talk Show episode, Lucas Rockwood and Esther Gokhale discuss how primal posture can help with chro
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▶ 139: Scoliosis & Yoga
Do you have an irregular spinal curve? This week, Lucas Rockwood and Deborah Wolk talk about holistic healing and yoga. Deborah Wolk has been teaching students with scoliosis and other back conditions
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▶ 138: Are Crickets the New Chicken?
Chocolate-covered ants and other novelty foods have been around for ages, but is anyone moving beyond the novelty foods and taking a deeper look at the real nutritional benefits of edible insects? T
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▶ 137: Can We Feed the World on Plants?
This week, Lucas Rockwood and Dr. Thomas Campbell discuss food, nutrition and the health of our planet. Dr. Campbell is the co-author of, The China Study, an extremely influential and highly-debated b
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▶ 136: The “Fat Yogi” - Body Image & Yoga
If you hang out on social media, it’s easy to get caught up in the seeming importance of the outward appearance of yoga. It’s easy to develop ideals of what a yoga body should look like when in realit
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▶ 135: How to Hydrate Your Connective Tissues
When you feel stiffness, pain, and aches in your body, it can often be caused by connective tissue dehydration, a little-known, extremely-common condition that’s no good for yoga students. Join Lucas
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▶ 134: Functional Anatomy
Want to learn more about functional anatomy, yoga, movement, and how all this impacts your range of motion and flexibility? Join Lucas Rockwood & Dr. Andreo Spina as they dive deep into soft tissue wo
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▶ 133: The Food Babe Attacks!
Ready to find out the scary truth about the food industry? In today’s episode, Vani Hari (aka The Food Babe) talks about why it’s so important that we investigate what we eat. Vani is a food journalis
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▶ 132: How to Live “On Purpose”
Do you struggle to find significance in you life? Meaning in your work? Purpose in your day-to-day routines? Living a life of purpose is something I think we all strive for, but it’s easier said than
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▶ 131: Becoming a Supple Leopard
Are you as supple a leopard or as bendy as a tortoise? The “supple leopard” himself, Kelly Starrett, joins YOGABODY for an insightful class on the importance of listening to your body whether practici
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▶ 130: Broccoli - The DNA Whisperer
Can broccoli “talk” to your DNA? Listen and find out more about epigenetics, candida and GMO food with special guest, Tom Malterre. Tom is a certified nutritionist who travels throughout the United St
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▶ 129: Handstands & Flexibility Tips from an Acrobat
Listen and learn all about acrobatics, inversions, hand-balancing and flexibility. This week’s guest, Andralyn Zayn, grew up as a competitive gymnast worked and trained with, The Underground Circus, i
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▶ 128: Yoga TuneUp - Alignment & Functional Anatomy
Learn the importance of functional anatomy, correctives exercises and self-treating your body. Jill Miller is the co-founder of TuneUp Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise format Y
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▶ 127: Human Performance
Mark McClusky is the author of the new book, FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, and the Editor at WIRED.com in San Francisco. Prior to his work at WIRED, Mark was an editor at Mobile PC magazine, Editor in Chi
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