Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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Episode Description:

The belly fat you can grab with your hand is not the fat that is hurting you. The fat that is actually driving your blood sugar issues, your heart disease risk, and your chronic fatigue is the fat you cannot even pinch. It is wrapped deep around your liver and your organs. And most of what is being sold to address it is doing nothing at all.

Visceral fat is not a willpower problem. It is an insulin problem. And there is a cheap ingredient sitting in your grocery store right now with real human evidence showing it goes directly after the cycle that is creating it.

Dr. G breaks it down — in order:

Take 1: "You don't have a belly fat problem. You have an insulin problem and it's manifesting as a belly" Dr. G reframes the entire visceral fat conversation and explains why the fat burner shelf at your local drugstore is full of stimulants that raise your heart rate and do nothing for the fat around your organs. The real target is insulin resistance.

Take 2: "Ginger at two grams a day is one of the most studied natural agents on earth for insulin resistance" Across dozens of solid human trials, standardized ginger extract has been shown to lower insulin resistance, reduce body fat, and shrink waistlines. Dr. G gives the exact dose, the exact duration, and the label trick that separates a real product from a pinch of powder in a proprietary blend.

Take 3: "Liquid sugar is the fastest way to build visceral fat" Sodas, juices, and sweet coffee drinks go almost directly to the liver and start packing fat around the organs. Dr. G explains why cutting liquid sugar is the fastest lever you can pull to stop feeding the engine before the ginger can start doing its job.

Take 4: "Stress is telling your body to store fat deep in your belly" When you are living in chronic fight or flight, your stress hormones are directing fat storage directly to the visceral region. Dr. G makes the case that unresolved and repressed emotion is a metabolic variable, not just a mental health one.

Ask your doctor for a fasting insulin test, not just fasting glucose. Watch that number fall.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Why Every Fat Burner on the Drugstore Shelf Is Completely Missing the Point

1:45 - Visceral Fat Is Not a Willpower Problem — It's Something Else Entirely

2:30 - The Cheap Ingredient in Your Kitchen That Has Real Human Evidence Behind It

4:00 - What It's Actually Doing Inside Your Cells (This Changes How You Think About It)

5:30 - The Dose, the Form and the Label Trick That Separates Results From Wasted Money

7:00 - The Two Free Things That Make Everything Else Work Better

8:15 - Why Stress Is One of the Fastest Ways to Pack On Visceral Fat

9:15 - The One Number to Ask Your Doctor For That Proves It's Working

10:00 - The Whole Protocol in One Minute

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Episode Description:

We are losing our humanity to an overstimulating and sterile lifestyle. The human nervous system is designed to spend 90% of its time in a state of being. Right now we have it completely flipped.

Brian Richards is the founder of SaunaSpace, the near infrared sauna company built around the idea that light is medicine, grounding is not optional, and stillness is one of the most healing things a human being can experience. This conversation goes far beyond detox and heat. It covers the nervous system crisis of modern life, why depression is simply anxiety taken too far, why your phone is giving your brain more stimulation in two minutes than your ancestors received in a full day, and how near infrared light works at the cellular level to do something that a traditional hot box sauna cannot.

Brian Richards' takes — in order:

Take 1: "We're losing our humanity to an overstimulating and sterile lifestyle" Brian opens with the nervous system reality most people are living inside without recognizing it. He explains why doing has replaced being almost entirely and why that flip is the root cause behind the anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout epidemic.

Take 2: "A few minutes on social media gives you more stimulation than your ancestors got in a day" It is not just the content. It is the volume and speed of incoming data that your nervous system cannot consciously process. Brian explains where all of that unprocessed information actually goes and why it shows up as irritability, restlessness, and disconnection.

Take 3: "Near infrared light penetrates your skin and charges your mitochondria directly" This is the science that separates near infrared from conventional saunas. Brian explains how near infrared photons interact with cytochrome c oxidase in the mitochondria to produce ATP, why that process also triggers melatonin production deep inside the cells, and why mitochondrial light is not the same thing as sweating in a hot room.

Take 4: "This is not just a sauna. It is an experience of being a human" After 20 minutes inside, Brian describes coming out feeling more centered, more focused, more himself. He makes the case that stillness plus light plus grounding creates something restorative that no gym sauna, no cold plunge, and no supplement can replicate.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:21 - Your Nervous System Is Supposed to Be in a Being State 90% of the Time — Ours Is Inverted

3:16 - Why Stillness Is Not Boredom — It's the Only Time Your Body Can Actually Integrate

4:28 - Two Minutes on TikTok Gives Your Nervous System More Stimulation Than Our Ancestors Got in a Day

6:38 - Why You're Irritable and Don't Even Know Why (The Answer Is the Phone)

7:25 - The Further We Get From Nature, the Further We Get From Health

8:44 - The First Three Things He Does Every Morning to Bring Nature Back Into His Day

10:02 - What Air Conditioning Is Actually Doing to Your Indoor Air (Beyond Temperature)

10:56 - Why He Keeps Night Shift Mode On His Phone All Day Long

11:41 - Why Homes in the UK Feel Warmer and Calmer — and What American Lighting Is Doing to Us

13:30 - The Mall Story: What Happens to Your Body Under Fluorescent Light That You Can't Unsee

17:00 - The Light Your Body Runs On That Nobody Told You About

22:00 - Sunscreen, Sunlight and the Biggest Misunderstanding in Modern Health

27:15 - Why Saunas Are No Longer a Luxury — They're a Necessity in the Toxic World We Live In

28:55 - The Chemicals Acting as Hormones in Your Body Right Now (Xeno Estrogens, Explained)

30:28 - The Only Known Natural Therapy Shown to Reduce Risk of Dying From All Non-Trauma Causes

31:18 - Why You Get Out Feeling Like More of Yourself — Not Just Sweaty and Tired

32:42 - What Makes This Sauna Different: EMF Shielded, No Blue Light, Grounding Mat Built In

34:12 - How He Uses His Own Sauna Every Morning (and Why He Never Skips It)

37:57 - It's Not Just a Sauna — It's a Sacred Time to Be Still and Hear Yourself

38:48 - Where to Find Sauna Space and How to Save on Your First Order
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That recovery that now takes days instead of hours. The strength slipping. The words you stumble on. The energy that used to feel automatic. That is not just your age. That is your biological clock running faster than it needs to. And the anti-aging shelf is not going to fix it.

Resveratrol looked great in a petri dish. So did a hundred other supplements. Most of them were never tested on human aging clocks. We can now measure biological aging directly through DNA methylation. Only a handful of supplements have actually moved those clocks in real human trials. Dr. G breaks down the four that have, the label tricks that waste your money, and the one thing at the end that no supplement company will ever sell you.

Dr. G breaks it down — in order:

Take 1: "If a supplement has never slowed down aging in a living human, you are buying a headline" Dr. G calls out the resveratrol hype and explains why petri dish and mouse study results have been sold to consumers for years without ever being tested on human aging clocks. Find out what DNA methylation testing actually measures and why it changes everything.

Take 2: "Omega-3s are the one supplement on earth shown to slow biological aging in real human trials" In a three year randomized controlled trial in older adults, one gram a day measurably slowed several DNA methylation aging clocks. Dr. G gives the exact form, the exact dose, and the label trick that turns a promising fish oil into an expensive bottle of oxidized oil.

Take 3: "Urolithin A clears out the dead power plants inside your cells" As you age the cleanup crew that removes broken mitochondria slows down and garbage accumulates. Dr. G explains the mitophagy process, why most people cannot produce urolithin A from food alone, and what the randomized controlled trial showed about muscle strength and endurance after four months.

Take 4: "GlyNAC reversed multiple hallmarks of aging at once and it is cheap" The Baylor University trial showed improvements in glutathione, mitochondrial function, insulin resistance, walking speed, strength, and cognition in 16 weeks. Dr. G explains how glycine and NAC work together to rebuild your body's master antioxidant and why this one belongs in almost everyone's stack.

Take 5: "Spermadine switches on the process that keeps your brain recycling itself" Found in wheat germ, aged cheese, and mushrooms, spermadine activates autophagy — the cellular trash removal process that dims as we age. Dr. G walks through the memory trial data and explains why the dose on the label matters more than the ingredient name.

Nothing ages you faster than a stressful life. No supplement is going to touch that.

Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Most Anti-Aging Supplements Were Never Tested on a Single Human

2:00 - There Is One Supplement Proven to Slow Your Biological Clock

3:15 - Supplement #1: The Dose, the Form and the Label Trick That's Costing You

4:30 - Supplement #2: What's Happening Inside Your Cells That You Can't Feel

6:00 - Supplement #3: The Cheapest One — and the Biggest Reset on the List

7:30 - Supplement #4: For the Person Who Feels Like Their Mind Is Slipping

8:45 - The One Thing That Beats All Four (No Company Will Ever Sell You This)

10:00 - Where to Start

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Episode Description:

There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma and almost nobody is naming it directly. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight or obese because of what the food industry has done to our food supply. And the solution the medical industry is now selling is a drug that suppresses the appetite for the food that is still being made and sold and eaten. The wound is being bandaged. The source of the wound is untouched.

Dr. Josh Levitt is a naturopathic physician with 25 years of clinical experience, the co-founder of UpWellness, and one of the most grounded integrative voices in medicine. This conversation covers the big food and big pharma racket, the Nova food classification system, what real food actually looks like, the emotional roots of physical disease, and why dogma on both sides of medicine is killing people.

Dr. Josh Levitt's health takes — in order:

Take 1: "There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma" Dr. Levitt lays out the cognitive dissonance at the heart of modern medicine. The drugs that suppress appetite are genuinely effective, and they are also a band-aid placed over a wound created by the same economic system that has no incentive to heal it.

Take 2: "Balance is a fallacy" Health is not a static destination. Dr. Levitt uses his background as a surfer to explain why people who are good at balance are actually good at the active management of imbalance, and why that reframe changes everything about how you approach the ups and downs of your own health.

Take 3: "I have seen people die on the hill of dogma" This is the take most people on both sides of medicine do not want to hear. Dr. Levitt makes the case that extreme conviction in either direction, whether it is that all natural medicine is quackery or that all conventional medicine is poison, has genuinely cost people their lives.

Take 4: "I wish people didn't need the supplements I make" Dr. Levitt closes with the most honest take of the episode. He explains why supplements are a tool that help people earn back a sliver of faith in their body's ability to heal, and why the real goal is a world where most of what he sells becomes unnecessary.

We have all the technology. We should be crushing it. We are not.

Find Dr. Josh Levitt:

Website: https://www.upwellness.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/reels/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:23 - GLP-1s Are a Band-Aid for a Problem That Started in Our Food Supply

2:25 - The Core Problem With American Food (And Why "Natural" Labels Are Part of It)

3:49 - The Foundational Approach He Uses With Every Patient — No Diet Required

6:38 - Rapid Weight Loss Is a Good Thing — But Nobody Is Warning You About This

7:50 - Where Those Lost Pounds Actually Go (The Answer Will Change How You Think About Your Liver)

8:29 - Brain Fog, Fatigue and Skin Issues During Weight Loss? Here's Why

9:15 - Is Stored Fat Also a Storehouse for Emotional Toxins?

11:12 - Dr. G's Patient Who Couldn't Lose Weight — Until She Did This

14:00 - What Conventional Medicine and Alternative Medicine Both Get Dangerously Wrong

18:00 - The Crisis of Faith: How Chronic Illness Makes People Stop Believing in Their Own Bodies

22:49 - You Can Lose Faith in Your Body Through Supplement Addiction Too

23:54 - What Happens Inside a Person Who Feels Betrayed by Their Own Body

24:43 - Can the Body Recover From Any Disease? A 25-Year Naturopathic Doctor Answers

25:35 - Why "Holistic" Means More Than Mind-Body — It Means You Are Connected to Everything

26:51 - The Little Win That Starts the Cascade Back to Healing

30:11 - The Body Is Talking to Us All the Time — Are You Listening?

31:35 - What He Would Say to Someone With Cancer Who Has Lost All Faith

33:34 - We Have the Best Medical Tools in History — So Why Are We Failing?34:54 - About UpWellness and Where to Find Dr. Josh Levitt

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Episode Description:

The bloating after every meal. The gas. The afternoon energy crash. The brain fog. The belly fat that will not move. Almost all of it runs through one place. And it is not a willpower problem. It is your gut.

Most people have already spent real money on a probiotic, felt nothing, and concluded that probiotics do not work. The truth is worse. Most of those bacteria are dead before they reach you. The label counts them at manufacturing, not when you swallow them. You may have been paying for a probiotic graveyard for years. Dr. G breaks down four gut supplements with actual human proof behind them, the exact label tricks companies use to take your money, and the one thing that does more for your gut than all four combined.

Dr. G breaks it down — in order:

Take 1: "A dead probiotic is just an expensive way to feed your toilet" Dr. G exposes the 50 billion CFU scam and explains why most probiotics never survive the journey to your intestines. Find out why the strain on the label matters far more than the number and what to look for instead.

Take 2: "Saccharomyces boulardii is the one probiotic that actually arrives alive" It is a yeast, not a bacteria, which means stomach acid and antibiotics cannot touch it. Dr. G breaks down what it does once it gets there, the exact dose used in randomized controlled trials, and the one strain designation that separates the real product from the filler.

Take 3: "A probiotic does nothing if you are not feeding the bacteria you already have" Partially hydrolyzed guar gum is one of the most underrated gut supplements in existence and almost nobody is talking about it. Dr. G explains why it feeds your existing microbiome without triggering the gas and bloating that sensitive guts get from other fibers.

Take 4: "Enteric coated peppermint oil beats placebo across dozens of randomized controlled trials" If your gut hurts, cramps, or spasms, this is the one. Dr. G explains the exact mechanism, why the enteric coating is non-negotiable, and what happens if you take the version without it.

Take 5: "Glutamine is the mortar between the bricks of your gut wall" When the lining goes leaky, food sensitivities, immune reactions, and gut symptoms follow. Dr. G breaks down the randomized controlled trial showing 15 grams a day nearly normalized gut permeability, and why most gut repair blends are burying a useless dose inside an expensive label.

Supplements are tools. Your diet and nervous system are the foundation.

Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication.

We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Why That Expensive 50 Billion CFU Probiotic Is Probably Just an Expensive Graveyard

2:00 - The One Probiotic That Actually Survives Your Stomach Acid (It's Not a Bacteria)

3:30 - The Exact Strain and Dose to Look for on the Label

4:30 - The Gut Supplement Almost Nobody Talks About — and Why It Beats Most Probiotics

6:15 - How to Spot the Prebiotic Label Scam Before You Buy

7:00 - For the Person Whose Gut Actually Hurts: The Supplement With Surprisingly Strong Research

8:45 - The Single Most Important Word on the Label (Skip It and You'll Just Have Expensive Heartburn)

9:30 - The Fourth Supplement: What Rebuilds the Gut Wall Itself

11:00 - The Does Most People Miss (And Why a Tiny Amount Does Nothing)

11:45 - The One Thing That Does More for Your Gut Than All Four Supplements Combined

13:30 - Why Stress and Repressed Emotions Are Feeding the Exact Problem You're Trying to Fix

14:00 - The Full Protocol in One Minute

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