Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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