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Episode Description:

The longevity industry is booming, the clinics are multiplying, and most of them are doing it wrong. Peptides, NAD IVs, hyperbaric chambers, a la carte menus of expensive therapies chosen by patients who have no framework for choosing. The tools are real. The approach is broken.

Dr. Guy is a regenerative medicine physician and the founder of Citron Wellness and Citron Longevity in Los Angeles. He has spent his career at the intersection of functional medicine, peptide therapy, mitochondrial health, and trauma physiology. This conversation goes from the longevity industry's biggest blind spots to NAD delivery methods to stored trauma as a driver of aging and chronic disease. It is one of the most clinically honest conversations about what longevity medicine should actually look like.

Dr. Guy's health takes — in order:

Take 1: "The whole longevity industry is a waste of money if you're not evaluating what the body is expressing" Dr. Guy calls out the a la carte model dominating high end longevity clinics and explains why jumping between sexy therapies without a whole body assessment is the same mistake conventional medicine has always made, just with a bigger price tag.

Take 2: "NAD works — but not the way most people are taking it" Dr. Guy explains why oral NAD and most precursors do not move the needle the way the industry claims, why IVs create a one time spike rather than sustained levels, and why subcutaneous injections have become his go-to delivery method for real mitochondrial support.

Take 3: "Mitochondrial dysfunction is really a systemic inflammatory picture" NAD is not the only answer and sometimes not even the first one. Dr. Guy breaks down what is actually driving mitochondrial decline and why addressing inflammation at the root changes everything about how you approach the longevity stack.

Take 4: "Emotional drama keeps you locked and can break the body" Trauma is a buzzword right now but almost nobody is talking about the physiology behind it. Dr. Guy explains what happens to cortisol, inflammation, and every aging mechanism in the body when the stress cycle never completes, and why stored trauma may be one of the most underestimated drivers of chronic disease.

Sleep. Eat right. Then we talk about peptides.

Find Dr. Guy:

Website: https://www.doctorguy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrguy/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:09 - Peptides, IVs, Chambers: The A La Carte Problem Nobody Is Talking About

3:24 - Is Most of What Longevity Clinics Offer Actually a Waste of Money?

3:46 - Bryan Johnson: What He Gets Right (And What Puts People Off)

4:21 - Does NAD Actually Work? When Yes, When No, and Why It Depends

5:04 - The Best Way to Take NAD — It's Not IV, Not Oral, Not Precursors

6:48 - What Mitochondrial Dysfunction Actually Is (The Warehouse Analogy)

8:01 - What He Uses Beyond NAD: CoQ10, Hyperbaric Oxygen and Two Specific Peptides

9:17 - Peptides Are the Future — But They're Far More Complex Than Instagram Makes Them Look

10:39 - The Real Danger of Cheap Peptides: What Bottled in China Actually Means

13:05 - How to Do Peptides Safely (And Why Being Cheap Is the Worst Decision You Can Make)

14:01 - Why You Must Track Peptides With Labs — Not Just How You Feel

17:00 - Who Should and Shouldn't Be on Peptides

17:32 - GLP-1s Are Not Your Enemy — But Doctors Are Overdosing Them

18:33 - The Biggest Problem He Sees With GLP-1s Being Done Wrong

19:16 - Why He Always Starts With a Microdose (And What He Looks at First)

21:32 - What Microdosing GLP-1 Can Do Beyond Weight Loss

22:11 - Retatrutide: Why He Thinks It Could Be the First Trillion-Dollar Drug

23:20 - Emotional Drama Keeps You Locked — and Breaks the Body

24:40 - Can Unresolved Trauma Be One of the Leading Causes of Aging?

27:47 - His Non-Negotiables: What to Fix Before You Touch a Single Peptide

28:14 - About Citron Longevity and Where to Find Him
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Episode Description:

The magnesium sitting in your cabinet right now is probably one your body can barely absorb. Most people buy it for sleep, for anxiety, for leg cramps, or for constipation, feel nothing, and conclude that magnesium does not work. Magnesium works. You just bought the wrong kind, and nobody told you there was a wrong kind.

70% of people are deficient in magnesium. Most of them are taking magnesium oxide, which has about 4% absorption. The other 96% moves through you and loosens your stools. But the bigger problem is that magnesium is not one supplement. It is a family of forms, and the form on the label decides the entire job it does in your body.

Dr. G breaks it down — in order:

Take 1: "You just bought the wrong kind and nobody told you" Dr. G exposes the magnesium oxide scam hiding in plain sight on every drugstore shelf and in most cheap multivitamins. Find out why the form on the label is more important than anything else and how companies hide what is actually inside the bottle.

Take 2: "The form that fixes your sleep is not the same form that fixes your cramps" Magnesium glycinate is the calming form backed by a randomized placebo controlled trial showing measurable sleep improvement. Dr. G gives the exact dose, the exact timing, and the label trick companies use to underdose you while making the number on the front look impressive.

Take 3: "This one actually crosses your blood brain barrier" Magnesium L-threonate was specifically designed to raise magnesium levels inside the brain, where it supports the connections between neurons. Dr. G breaks down the randomized controlled trial data on memory and cognition and explains why cheap versions of this form are almost always a waste of money.

Take 4: "Stress is burning your magnesium faster than you can replace it" The same fight or flight response keeping you wired at night is draining your mineral reserves all day long. Dr. G explains why chronic stress, sugar, alcohol, and heavy caffeine make you dump magnesium through your urine, and why the supplement only works in its full glory when the nervous system is also being addressed.

Glycinate for sleep and anxiety. Malate for muscles and daytime energy. L-threonate for brain fog and memory. Citrate for the gut. Oxide for almost nobody.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:45 - The Most Common Form Sold in Drugstores — and Why Only 4% Gets Absorbed

1:30 - Magnesium Is Not One Supplement — The Form on the Label Changes Everything

2:00 - Form #1: Magnesium Glycinate — For Sleep, Anxiety and a Wired Nervous System

3:15 - The Exact Dose, Timing and Label Trick That's Quietly Scamming You

4:45 - Form #2: Magnesium Malate — For Muscle Cramps, Tension and Daytime Fatigue

5:30 - Form #3: The Only Form That Actually Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier

6:45 - Form #4: Magnesium Citrate — For Your Gut (and Why People Buy This for Sleep by Mistake)

7:30 - Why 70% of People Are Depleted — and the Four Things Draining It Every Day

8:30 - The Nervous System Connection Almost No Doctor Is Talking About

9:15 - Who Needs to Talk to Their Doctor Before Taking Any of These

9:45 - The Quick Reference: Which Form for Which Problem

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Episode Description:

Your lab work is not your health. Your biography is.

Dr. Lucy McBride is a Harvard-trained internal medicine physician with 25 years of clinical practice and the author of Beyond the Prescription, published with Simon and Schuster in August 2026 with a foreword by Mary Claire Haver. She practices medicine the way almost no one does anymore: by treating the whole person, not the panel. This conversation moves through childhood trauma and metabolic disease, weight loss and GLP-1s, SSRIs and the one thing no pill will ever fix. It is one of the most honest conversations about what health actually is that Heal Thy Self has ever had.

Dr. Lucy McBride's health takes:

Take 1: "The lab work you get done with your doctor rarely shows the most interesting aspects of your health" Dr. McBride makes the case that biographic data is clinical data. Growing up in poverty, in a chaotic household, with an alcoholic parent — none of that appears on a blood panel, and all of it directly shapes how a patient thinks, eats, drinks, relates, and heals.

Take 2: "The body is the scorekeeper" Chronic nervous system dysregulation does not stay in the nervous system. Dr. McBride explains how unprocessed emotional stress shows up as high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and autoimmunity, and why prescribing a pill without asking the deeper question is solving the wrong problem entirely.

Take 3: "Sometimes you don't need a GLP-1. Sometimes you just need to eat lunch" One of the most counterintuitive takes of the episode. Dr. McBride explains why chronic low-grade restriction sends the metabolism into survival mode, why stubborn weight that will not move is sometimes the body's response to not being fed enough, and why the first question to ask is about your relationship with food — not your caloric intake.

Take 4: "Sometimes you don't need Prozac. You need a divorce" Dr. McBride closes with her most powerful take. SSRIs are not the problem — the system that prescribes them in five-minute appointments is. She makes the case that no amount of pharmacology can resolve the social and emotional toll of living in chronic fear or unhappiness, and that agency is the medicine no pill can replicate.

Find Dr. Lucy Mcbride:

Website: https://www.lucymcbride.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlucymcbride/?hl=en

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:26 - Childhood Trauma as a Data Point That Never Shows Up in Any Test 2:16 - How a Dysregulated Nervous System Becomes High Blood Pressure and High Blood Sugar

5:11 - When Abnormal Labs Are a Downstream Symptom of What's Really Going On in Someone's Life

6:18 - Autoimmunity and Why the Body Is Always the Scorekeeper

7:15 - Does Cancer Have a Life Story Element? A Harvard-Trained Doctor Answers

8:59 - Dr. G Opens Up About Addiction in His 20s — and Why Shame Made It Worse

9:27 - The Most Surprising Discovery From GLP-1 Research (It's Not the Weight Loss)

10:28 - Why Most Patients With Obesity Aren't Lazy — They Just Haven't Had the Right Tool

14:52 - What Menopause Actually Is Beneath the Hot Flashes and Brain Fog 16:00 - Hormone Replacement Therapy: The Standard of Care Most Women Are Still Being Denied

21:07 - Perimenopause: What It Is, When It Starts and What You Can Actually Do About It

23:27 - For Stubborn Weight Gain: Sometimes You Just Need to Eat Lunch 25:32 - Your Body Makes Its Own GLP-1 — Here's What Triggers It

26:30 - Is Excess Weight Sometimes Emotional Protection? She Answers Honestly

27:21 - What to Ask Yourself About Your Relationship With Food (Before You Try Anything Else)

28:44 - "Sometimes You Don't Need Prozac — You Need a Divorce"

30:22 - The Hard Work No Pill, Supplement or GLP-1 Can Do for You

33:18 - The Book, the Foreword and What It's Really a Guide For
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Episode Description:

The cup you reach for every single morning before you do anything else could be quietly delivering mold toxins, heavy metals, and pesticide residues into your body. And you will never taste a thing. Because nobody is checking. Not the brands. Not the grocery store. Not the FDA, which sets no limit at all for heavy metals in coffee.

In 2025, an independent lab ran 7,000 tests on 57 of the bestselling coffee brands in America and found acrylamide, glyphosate breakdown products, and heavy metals in every single sample. Dr. G investigated over 50 coffee companies looking for one that could actually hand him a lab report on the finished product. This is the one that passed.

Dr. G breaks it down — in order:

Take 1: "The mold can die in the roaster but the toxins survive" Ochratoxin A is the main mold toxin found in coffee and the World Health Organization has officially flagged it as potentially cancer-causing. Dr. G explains why your body holds mycotoxins for over a month and what that means if you are drinking poor quality coffee every single morning.

Take 2: "There is no safe level of lead" Heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic accumulate in your bones, kidneys, and brain for decades with almost no way for your body to eliminate them. Dr. G uses the bathtub analogy to explain exactly what is happening over years of daily exposure.

Take 3: "Even organic coffee tested positive for glyphosate residue" The weed killer sprayed on coffee crops does not just affect your cells. It targets the bacteria living in your gut, disrupting the microbiome that governs your immune system, mood, and hormonal health. Dr. G explains why even the organic label does not guarantee you are safe.

Take 4: "Bulletproof says their process is proprietary and won't share testing data" The brands that market themselves as clean and mold-free are not always showing their work. Dr. G names names and explains exactly what a trustworthy coffee company has to be willing to show you before it earns a place in your kitchen.

Take 5: "Everyday Dose ran three independent randomized controlled trials on their own product" Almost no coffee company has ever done this. Dr. G breaks down what those trials actually found, including measurable improvements in sleep confirmed by Oura ring data, and explains why this is his number one coffee of 2026.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What ochratoxin A, heavy metals, and glyphosate are each doing inside your body with daily long term exposure, and why the damage is invisible until it is not

• Why pairing l-theanine with caffeine produces focused calm instead of jitters and crashes, and what the research on alpha brain wave states actually shows

• What lion's mane, chaga, and grass-fed collagen each contribute to the cup and why putting evidence-based ingredients into a daily ritual you are already doing is one of the most efficient health upgrades available

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Mold Toxins in Coffee: What Ochratoxin A Does to Your Kidneys and Immune System

2:30 - Heavy Metals (Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic): No Safe Level — and the FDA Sets Zero Limits

4:30 - Glyphosate in Coffee: Why Even Organic Brands Tested Positive

6:30 - The 2025 Lab Study That Tested 57 Best-Selling Brands — and What They Found in All of Them

8:00 - Why Starbucks, Folgers and Dunkin Won't Hand You a Lab Report

8:45 - Even Bulletproof Says Their Process Is "Proprietary" — Here's What That Actually Means

9:30 - Dr. G's #1 Coffee Pick for 2026 (The Only One He'll Touch)

10:15 - Why L-Theanine Changes the Entire Coffee Experience

11:15 - Lion's Mane: The Brain Ingredient With a Double-Blind Trial Behind It

12:00 - Chaga: The Antioxidant Workhorse You Feel Three Months In

12:45 - Grass-Fed Collagen: The Ingredient Almost No Coffee Brand Includes

13:30 - The Only Coffee Company That Has Run Three Independent Clinical Trials

14:15 - Where to Find It and Why He's Never Going Back

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Episode Description:

Over 21 million women in the United States are dealing with bacterial vaginosis right now. Most of them have never told a single person. Not their doctor, not their closest friend, not their partner. Because somewhere along the way we decided this was not something we talk about. Today we will talk about it.

Danielle spent five years cycling through antibiotics, specialists, Reddit rabbit holes, and remedies that did not work. When she finally told her then new boyfriend Hans, he did not run. He asked how he could help. Hans happened to come from a family that had been manufacturing dietary supplements for 30 years. What came out of that conversation became Happy V, a vaginal probiotic that does not just feed the good bacteria but hunts down the bad ones.

Danielle and Hans break it down — in order:

Take 1: "Antibiotics eliminate all the bacteria — and then it comes right back" Danielle explains why the standard treatment for BV sets women up for a revolving cycle of reinfection. She breaks down what is actually happening in the vaginal microbiome and why the conventional approach keeps missing the root cause.

Take 2: "The shame around BV is destroying relationships" From new couples to long marriages, BV is ending intimacy and keeping women isolated in embarrassment. Hans and Danielle share what that conversation looked like for them and why having it honestly changed everything.

Take 3: "Not all probiotics are the same and most gummies are basically useless" Hans pulls back the curtain on how the supplement industry actually works and why most probiotic products on the shelf cannot deliver what they promise. He explains what three things a label has to show before a probiotic is worth buying.

Take 4: "Probiotics hate water, acid, and heat — which is everything a gummy is made of" This one will make you look at your cabinet differently. Hans explains exactly why the gummy format destroys the very bacteria you are trying to consume and what format actually protects them.

Take 5: "Give it time — anyone telling you this works overnight is lying to you" Dietary supplements are not magic and the marketing around vaginal health is especially aggressive. Danielle and Hans give the honest timeline and explain what patience actually looks like when you have the right product.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why recurring BV is not a hygiene problem, what is actually driving the imbalance, and why the antibiotic cycle keeps women stuck instead of healed

• How to read a probiotic label and what three things the International Probiotic Association says must be present for a product to actually be legitimate

• Why the vaginal microbiome is one of the most undertreated areas of women's health and how an imbalanced pH affects everything from intimacy to confidence to daily comfort

This one is for every woman who has suffered in silence and every partner who wants to understand.

Find Happy V: Website: https://www.happyv.com

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:00 - Danielle's Story: 5 Years of BV, Antibiotics That Kept Failing, and Reddit Rabbit Holes

7:00 - The Conversation Every Woman Dreads Having With a New Partner (And How Hans Responded)

11:00 - Why Antibiotics Make You More Vulnerable to BV the Next Time Around

15:00 - What BV Actually Is: The Vaginal Microbiome Explained Simply

19:00 - Why This Is a Couples Issue, Not Just a Women's Issue

23:00 - The Garlic, Yogurt Tampon and Hydrogen Peroxide Remedies — Do Any of Them Work?

27:00 - What Makes Happy V Different: Hunting Bad Bacteria, Not Just Feeding Good Ones

31:00 - The Strain, Dose and CFU Conversation Most Probiotic Brands Don't Want You to Have

35:00 - Why Probiotic Gummies Are Basically Useless (The Science Behind It)

38:00 - How to Read a Probiotic Label and Know If You're Getting Scammed

41:00 - How Long It Actually Takes to Work (And Why Anyone Saying "Overnight" Is Lying)

43:30 - They've Helped Over a Million Women — Here's What the Reviews Say

45:30 - Where to Find Happy V and How Every Purchase Gives Back
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