Podcast Category: Holistic health

Struggling with anxiety? Feeling overwhelmed?  – What if something as simple as breathwork self-healed? A tool constantly overlooked, but within us, is our breath. Samantha dives into her story about breathwork and how her first experiences changed her mental and bodily state. In addition to diving into the science of how breathwork can be a primary determinant of the state your nervous system is in, Samantha provides you with solutions to integrate breathwork when you’re busy or stressed, types of breath practices for different events in your life, the optimal frequency for breathwork, and what it means to truly pause. Finally, she dives into how you can begin teaching breathwork at an early age and the impact this has on the younger generation. Let’s dive in!

Here’s a different date idea – What if you and your partner got together to optimize your physiology? Join us as we explore Dr. Jonathan’s career and how he birthed the world’s first social health club. We dive into the concept of integrative wellbeing and shed light on the Social Wellness Club. We confront the question of why healthy activities often carry a stigma, and what it means to challenge societal perceptions and explore the barriers preventing positive lifestyle choices. By ensuring accessibility for everyone, Dr Jonathan describes the strategies employed to make the Social Wellness Club approachable to a diverse audience and breaks down the idea of participating in seemingly “stressful” self-care experiences. We redefine food choices and re-evaluate the concept of self-care through remedy place.

Feel like you’ve tried everything, from working out to eating healthy, and still have little to no results? Listen to the interview with Julia Glanz – registered dietician, strength and conditioning coach, speed and agility coach, and former D1 athlete for soccer – as she enlightens us on what might be the true cause and what it means to balance hormones.  Tune in as Julia explains how stress levels can affect your weight loss progress as well as the power of dialling back. Lastly, Julia goes over how FAD diets affect hormonal balance, the importance of carbohydrate availability, protein recommendations, and how hormonal profiles fluctuate through premenopause and menopause. This podcast is full of juicy education. Get your pens and paper out because you will WANT to take notes!

In this episode, we unravel the mysteries surrounding float therapy, its benefits, what it means to open up your magnesium stores, and the intriguing impact of sensory deprivation on our health with Maxwell Casa. Imagine immersing yourself in a tranquil, weightless space where you float effortlessly in a high-density magnesium solution. We explore its potential to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being. Uncovering the effects of eliminating external stimuli, we dive into how this can positively influence our mental and physical health. Then, we delve into the advantages of transdermal magnesium versus the oral form, along with the symptoms of magnesium deficiency. We break down the ideal dose and frequency to maximize its benefits and whether it is advisable for pregnant women! Let’s dive in!

We go back to 13 years of age when Ashleigh Di Lello describes her experience with her first health scare and walks us through the road to getting her health back when the works of the medical system failed to competently support her health journey. Then, she dives into her second health scare, speaking into chronic pain science and how the nervous system was shifted through these traumatic health experiences. By manipulating her mindset, she speaks into the brain behind the pain and how she used principles of bio-emotional healing to battle setbacks and progressions through her pain journey. Unlock top tips as you tune into Ashleigh’s story.

We have Dr. She to break down what NAD+ is and its essential role in energy, inflammation, and oxidative stress. With a particular emphasis on aging and longevity, Dr. She discusses signs of aging, whether aging can be reversed, and how the Vitality Boost product contains everything you need to optimize your energy and balance within the body. Finally, Dr. She speaks into the details of NAD and Vitamin D supplementation, how NAD+ can support pregnancy and lactation, whether supplementation can replace a ‘healthy’ lifestyle, and how testing and medical care can be more affordable. Let’s dive in!

We have Christian Limoges on to discuss how we can begin to eat according to the way our digestive tract was created. By using powerful real-life analogies to capture how the digestive system works, as well as the way protein, fruit, and inflammation affect our gut, Christian shines light on the benefits of consuming fruit, what may be contributing to the current inflammatory diseases epidemic, and how you can optimize your gut microbiome.

From traditional Western medicine rooted in pharmaceuticals to a more root-cause-based approach when approaching pain, Scott captures this paradigm shift as he interviews 60+ healthcare professionals to encapsulate the different capacities of healing, which have been undermined or underappreciated. Touching base with the politics and finances behind the medical system as we know it, Scott reveals the story that inspired him to publicize the newfound pain scene and perspectives to provide change to the education system on health via a bottom- approach and transcend hope within the general public. By highlighting the main purpose of this documentary, Scott shares his opinions on the biopsychosocial contributions to pain as well as the changing scope around holistic treatments for pain.

We have Chris Mirabile on to share his brain tumour survival journey and what influences his passion for his work around ageing. As he predicts the potential causes of his brain tumour, he speaks about epigenetics, the environmental influences on gene expression, and how we can live longer and healthier lives by addressing nutrient deficiencies, meal timings and other behaviours. Then, he distinguishes between biological and chemical age, identifying the differences in measuring the different age types and why biological age is important to consider, in reference to genetic clocks. Finally, he discusses the relationship between biological age and reproductive health. Let’s dive into how we can manipulate our environment to reverse your biological age!

We’re discussing it all with Tamar Samuels, co-founder of Culina Health. By distinguishing the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating,  Tamar discusses common symptoms of disordered eating and whether or not emotional eating is bad? Then, she discusses the role of the FODMAP diet and the cautionary measures she advises when taking aboard the low FODMAP diet for IBS and SIBO. Furthermore, she discusses the role of behaviour change, how to address emotional eating, and how to approach weight loss more sustainably. Finally, Tamar touches base with the calories in and out debate, approaching the matter from a holistic biopsychosocial approach.