Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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Episode Description

There is a food that has been on Earth for 4 billion years, is backed by over 100,000 scientific studies, is used by NASA, endorsed by the United Nations, and fuels Olympic and NFL athletes. And almost nobody is talking about it.

Catharine Arnston is the founder of Energy Bits, a PhD holder, and the world's leading voice on spirulina and chlorella — the two algae she calls your nutritional and health insurance. She found this world trying to help her sister recover from breast cancer, spent 17 years going deeper into science than anyone else has, and is now nearly 70 years old with more energy, clarity, and vitality than most people half her age. The proof is in everything she says.

In this episode, you'll discover:

 • Why spirulina's amino acid profile is almost identical to mother's breast milk — and how it protects the mitochondria, clears brain fog, and rebuilds energy at a cellular level without stimulants or crashes

 • What chlorella actually does inside the body: pulling out heavy metals, toxins, and excess iron while triggering serotonin production, improving mood, and getting your gut moving

 • Why most algae on the market has had its most critical nutrients deactivated — and what to look for to make sure you're getting the real thing

Aging is natural. Declining is not.

Find Catharine: 

Website: https://energybits.com Personal Website: https://catharinearnston.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/energybits 

Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catharinearnston

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:07 - Meet Catherine Arnson: Nearly 70, More Energy Than Most 30-Year-Olds

3:50 - Rapid Fire: Exhaustion, Coffee Dependency & Why Algae Is a Food Not a Supplement

7:12 - Catherine's Origin Story: How a Sister's Breast Cancer Led to 100,000 Studies

10:18 - Why the Science on Spirulina and Chlorella Has Been Sitting in a Vault for Decades

12:40 - The Blue Pigment in Spirulina That Has Been Shown to Kill Cancer Cells

15:20 - Real Results: The 85-Year-Old Who Cleaned Her Garage After Starting Algae

18:00 - Why Women Over 40 Feel Like They Fell Off a Cliff (And What's Actually Happening)

22:10 - Chlorella's Highest Tryptophan Content in the World and What It Does for Mood

25:30 - Why Not All Algae Is Created Equal (And Why Most Brands Are Destroying the Nutrients)

29:45 - Spirulina vs. Chlorella: What Each One Does and Why You Need Both

34:00 - Spirulina Is the Second Most Nutritionally Complete Food After Breast Milk

37:10 - Skin, Hair, Nails & Brain Fog: What Spirulina Does Specifically for Women

42:00 - The Golf Umbrella Analogy: How SOD Protects Your Mitochondria

45:30 - Telomeres, Fertility & Heart Health: More of What These Algae Protect

50:15 - Why Men Die Earlier (The Iron Oxidation Connection)

54:20 - How to Take It, How Much, and When You'll Start Feeling a Difference

58:00 - Working With NHL, NFL & Olympic Athletes for Over a Decade

1:02:00 - Where to Find Energy Bits and What Sets Theirs Apart
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Episode Description:

Everyone is calling it nature's Ozempic. That is marketing. And it is doing a total disservice to what berberine actually does.

Berberine is not a GLP-1 drug. It does not work the same way. The weight loss outcomes are not comparable. And if you are taking it expecting to drop 15% of your body weight, you are going to be disappointed. But here is what the research actually shows, and why Dr. G takes berberine every single day.

The clinical evidence on berberine for blood sugar, cholesterol, insulin resistance, and gut health is genuinely compelling. A three month randomized controlled trial in newly diagnosed type two diabetics showed reductions in HbA1c, fasting blood glucose, and post-meal blood glucose that were comparable to metformin. A 2022 meta analysis confirmed it hits triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, blood pressure, and insulin resistance markers simultaneously. And the gut microbiome research is a piece almost nobody is talking about.In this episode, you will learn:

 •  What berberine actually does in the body through the AMPK pathway, why it is not a GLP-1, and what to realistically expect from it

 • Why standard berberine has a major absorption problem, what dihydroberberine is and why it may deliver 2 to 4 times more into circulation at a fraction of the dose

 • Exactly how to buy berberine intelligently, what standardization means on a label, which forms to choose, and what to avoid.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:44 - How Berberine Works in the Body (And Why It's Not a GLP-1 Drug)

3:24 - The Weight Loss Reality: What Berberine Can and Can't Do

4:48 - Blood Sugar and Insulin Resistance: Where the Evidence Is Strongest

6:30 - Comparable to Metformin in Some Trials — What That Actually Means

7:42 - Cholesterol, Triglycerides & Cardiovascular Risk: Berberine's Strongest Evidence Base

9:44 - How Dr. G Uses Berberine in His Own Daily Routine

10:38 - Berberine's Underrated Effect on the Gut Microbiome

12:30 - The Big Absorption Problem With Standard Berberine (And the Solution)

14:22 - Dihydroberberine: 2-4x More Bioavailable in Human Trials

15:18 - How to Buy Berberine Intelligently: Standardization, Form & Third-Party Testing

17:00 - Who Should Take Berberine (And Who Shouldn't)
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Episode Description

You have been looking for yourself everywhere but inside yourself.

In this fully channeled episode, Dr. G goes inward and lets the voice within speak directly to you. Not about supplements. Not about protocols. About the thing underneath all of it. The parts of you that have been buried underground since childhood. The parts you decided were too much, too painful, too unlovable to let be seen. The parts that are still waiting.

This episode is about what healing actually is. Not a process you earn through the right habits, but a remembrance of who you already are.

In this episode, you will hear:

 • Why the love you have been seeking from everyone around you has always existed inside of you, and what it actually takes to come back to it

 • The truth about healing as a return to your natural state, and why no disease can survive a human organism that is fully in alignment

 • Your soul contract: why you came here, what your purpose actually is, and how embodying who you are changes the people around you without saying a single word

Take a deep breath. Open your heart. Let this one move something.

 

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - The Hidden World Inside You That You've Been Running From

3:20 - Healing Is Not a Process — It's a Remembrance of Your Natural State

5:00 - The Parts of You Buried Underground That Are Dying to Be Seen

8:45 - When Your Soul Celebrates, Your Nervous System Follows

9:30 - There Is No Disease That Cannot Be Reversed With a Body in Alignment

11:00 - The Soul Contract: Why You're Here and How You Change the World

13:15 - A Message for Everyone: You Have Never Not Been Loved
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Episode Description

Heal Thy Self has never done a show on eye health. Until now. And this conversation goes a lot deeper than seeing clearly.

Dr. Bryce Applebaum is a functional neuro optometrist who rewires the connection between the eyes and the brain. Vision is not the same as eyesight. Eyesight is how you focus light. Vision is how your brain tells your eyes to move, converge, track, and make sense of the world. And in 2026, with the average adult spending over seven hours a day on screens, that system is under more stress than it has ever been.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why your prescription should not get stronger every year as an adult, and why a worsening prescription is a sign your brain is adapting to stress, not a normal part of aging

• The connection between functional vision problems and ADHD, including why convergence insufficiency and eye turns are diagnosed far more often in kids labeled with ADHD, and how vision training has gotten patients off medication entirely

• Why blue light blocking glasses are not enough, what is actually causing your brain fog and eye fatigue after hours on a screen, and the overnight contact lenses that reshape your cornea while you sleep

Plus the foods that protect your eyes, the foods that accelerate macular degeneration, and why vision belongs at the top of your list if you are dealing with brain fog.

Find Dr. Bryce Applebaum:

• Website: https://myvisionfirst.com

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

• Online program: https://www.screenfit.com/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

3:51 - Rapid Fire: Reversing Vision, Best/Worst Foods for Eyes & the "20/Happy" Standard

6:14 - What Makes Functional Optometry Different From a Standard Eye Exam

8:32 - Why Your Prescription Shouldn't Get Worse Every Year (But Does)

10:49 - The Myopia Epidemic: From 25% to 44% of America in One Lifetime

13:00 - How Screens Are Rewiring the Way Our Eyes and Brains Work Together

17:25 - Why Smaller, More Frequent Screens Are Making This Worse

21:16 - Dr. Apple's Own -10.50 Prescription and How He Stabilized It

23:05 - How Eyestrain From Screens Actually Makes Your Eyesight Get Worse

26:49 - Brain Fog, Blur, and Why It Builds Throughout the Day

28:26 - Do Blue Light Blockers Actually Work? The Truth

30:38 - Digital Performance Lenses: A Different Kind of Prescription for Near Work

33:34 - The Flicker Rate: Why Certain Lighting Causes Sensory Overload

38:06 - Can You Actually Reverse Your Eye Prescription? What's Real and What's Hype

42:02 - Is LASIK a Good Idea? An Eye Doctor's Honest Answer

45:22 - Orthokeratology: The Contacts You Wear at Night to Reshape Your Cornea

49:02 - Why Podcast Lighting Leaves You Mentally Exhausted

54:34 - Is It ADHD, or Is It a Vision Problem? The Overlap Is Massive

58:25 - The Best Foods and Supplements for Eye Health (And Why Seed Oils Are the Enemy)
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You could be eating well, working out, and doing everything right and still carry stubborn fat around your midsection that will not move. That is not a willpower problem.

Visceral fat is the fat that wraps around your organs deep inside your abdomen, and it behaves completely differently than the fat under your skin. It is metabolically active, releasing inflammatory signals into your bloodstream around the clock and driving insulin resistance, high blood pressure, and metabolic syndrome. Most people have no idea that specific supplements have actual clinical data showing they target visceral fat directly.

In this episode, Dr. G breaks down five supplements with real research behind them, what the studies actually measured, and the exact doses used.

In this episode, you'll learn:

 • Why berberine has to be taken three times a day with meals to work, and the meta analysis showing real reductions in visceral fat and waist circumference

 • The randomized controlled trial where resistant starch led to over 6 pounds of measured visceral fat loss in 8 weeks, and how to dose it without destroying your gut

 • Why EPA dose matters more than total fish oil, the 1800 milligram number from the research, and why 45% of fish oil on shelves has already gone rancid

Plus the role of magnesium in insulin resistance and visceral fat storage, why EGCG only works alongside exercise, and Dr. G's week by week protocol for building all of this into your routine.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:44 - Supplement #1: Berberine — What the Research Actually Shows (And the Right Dose)

3:40 - Supplement #2: Resistant Starch — The Most Underrated Tool for Visceral Fat

6:07 - Supplement #3: EPA Omega-3s — Why Dose and Oxidation Both Matter

8:28 - Supplement #4: Magnesium — The Foundational Fix Most People Are Missing

10:14 - Supplement #5: EGCG — The Green Tea Extract That Amplifies What You're Already Doing

11:33 - How to Build a Visceral Fat Protocol Week by Week
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