Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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Episode Description:

You eat perfectly all day. You are disciplined, productive, hitting every goal. And then night hits, the phone goes down, the day is over, and something takes over. You are not broken. You are wired.

Amber Romaniuk is an emotional eating, hormone, and digestive health expert who has been doing this work for over a decade. She knows what it is to eat tables full of food in one sitting. To throw food away and go back to the dumpster for it. To lose and regain over a thousand pounds across five years. And she knows how that pattern started, what was underneath it, and how it ends. This conversation goes far beneath the behavior into the nervous system, the hormones, the gut, and the childhood wounds that drive the whole cycle.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why high achieving women who are disciplined in every other area of their lives are often the most susceptible to emotional eating, and why no amount of external success can fill the internal void that is driving it

• How people pleasing drives cortisol, suppresses progesterone, tanks thyroid function, and creates the exact hormonal environment that makes nighttime cravings feel impossible to resist

• The three questions to ask yourself the moment a craving hits at night to tell the difference between physical and emotional hunger, and how to start rewiring the neural pathway that has been lighting up every evening

This is not about willpower. It is about what is underneath.

Amber Romaniuk:

Website: https://amberapproved.ca/

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

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:07 - Rapid Fire: The Signs, the Patterns and Why Restriction Always Backfires

7:05 - Amber's Own Story: From Binge Eating to Digging Through a Dumpster

11:05 - The Moment She Realized This Was Never About Food

13:00 - Why the Most Disciplined, High-Achieving Women Often Struggle the Most Behind Closed Doors

19:00 - The Nervous System, Hormones and How They Drive Eating Behavior

28:00 - Why Emotional Hunger Feels Physical (And How to Tell the Difference)

34:00 - How Unresolved Trauma Lives in the Body and Shows Up at the Kitchen

42:00 - The Role of Shame, Self-Loathing and Negative Self-Talk in the Cycle

46:00 - Can Excess Weight Actually Be the Body Protecting Itself From Trauma?

51:00 - People Pleasing, Self-Abandonment and How They Fuel Disordered Eating

56:30 - What to Do Tonight When the Craving Hits — Three Grounding Questions

58:00 - The Two-Minute Body Check-In That Can Change Everything

59:00 - Where to Find Amber and How to Get Support
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Episode Description:

You have been taking turmeric. Your joints are still stiff. Your inflammation is still there. And there is a really good chance the turmeric has been doing almost nothing the entire time.

It is not your fault. Every health article, every wellness post, and every label has told you the same thing: add black pepper and you are good to go. That advice is based on a single 1998 study. When researchers went back and tested it properly in a controlled human trial published in 2021, black pepper did not improve curcumin absorption at all. It performed no better than plain turmeric with nothing added. In that same study, a properly formulated version of curcumin was over 20 times more absorbable. Dr. G breaks down exactly what that means and what to look for instead.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why plain curcumin has less than 1% bioavailability, how your liver tags it for removal almost immediately, and why you can swallow a large dose and end up with almost none of it in your system

• What enhanced delivery forms actually mean on a label, including phospholipid, micellar, phytosome, and nanoparticle curcumin, and why these are not just marketing words

• Who should not be taking curcumin at supplemental doses, including people on blood thinners, those with gallstones or bile duct issues, anyone prone to kidney stones, and people on diabetes medication

Turmeric works. The research is strong. You just have to be taking the right form.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:30 - Does Turmeric Actually Work? What the Research Shows
3:00 - Why One of the Best Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Is Also One of the Worst Absorbed
4:30 - The Black Pepper Myth: Where It Came From and Why the 2021 Research Changes Everything
6:30 - What Dr. G Actually Gave His Oncology Patients Instead
8:00 - The Forms of Curcumin That Human Studies Show Actually Work
10:00 - The Simple Rule for Taking It With Food
11:00 - Who Should NOT Be Taking Turmeric (Don't Skip This Part)
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Episode Description:

Your skincare routine is not going to save you if you are deficient in the nutrients your skin is actually built from. And seven out of ten people in clinical practice are walking around with low omega-3 levels without knowing it.

Angelo Keely is the co-founder of Kion and one of the most evidence-based minds in nutrition. This is his third time on Heal Thy Self and the conversation goes deep on fish oil, inflammation, seed oils, and why the supplements most people are taking are either the wrong thing, the wrong dose, or completely ineffective because they have never addressed the foundational nutrient deficiencies underneath.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why Gen Z is aging faster despite eating cleaner, and why spending money on skincare without fixing your nutrient deficiencies is like painting over a structural problem in a building

• How omega-3s work at the red blood cell level, what it means for your cells to go from 4% to 8% omega-3 composition, and why that shift produces a 15% reduction in all cause mortality

• The truth about seed oils vs saturated fat, including what the human data actually shows, why the influencer narrative is misleading, and what Angelo himself eats despite what the research says

Plus what pro-resolving mediators actually do in the body, why ibuprofen sends the workers home while omega-3s fix the pothole, and how to know if your fish oil has already gone rancid before you open it.

Find Kion: Website:https://www.getkion.com/drg

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

Timestamps:0:00 - Intro

2:07 - Meet Angelo Keely: Third Time on the Show, and the Fish Oil Conversation Changes Everything

6:45 - Rapid Fire: Seed Oils, Butter, and a Question That Might Surprise You

10:00 - What Angelo Was Doing Before Kion (And the Dark Adolescence He Came From)

13:00 - The Business Lesson That Took Ten Years to Learn

16:00 - Why Consistency Beats Everything Else (And How to Give 100% of Whatever You've Got)

21:00 - What Omega-3s Actually Are and Why Most People Are Dangerously Low

27:00 - How These Fatty Acids Literally Change the Structure of Your Blood Cells

30:00 - The Truth About Inflammation and What Omega-3s Are Actually Doing Inside You

33:00 - Fish Burps, Gross Taste and What That's Really Telling You About Your Fish Oil

35:00 - The Back-of-Bottle Math Trick That Reveals If Your Fish Oil Is Worth Taking

44:00 - The EPA vs. DHA Question (And What the Research Actually Recommends)

46:00 - Seed Oils: What the Human Data Actually Shows (vs. What Influencers Say)

52:00 - Tallow vs. Seed Oils for Cooking — What the Research Really Says

55:00 - Why Deep-Fried Food Is the Real Problem (Not Which Oil It's Cooked In)

58:00 - What Makes the Kion Omega Different and Where to Get It
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Episode Description:

You have been cutting carbs to lose weight and your blood sugar still will not move. What if you have been avoiding the one carbohydrate that was actually working in your favor the whole time?

Resistant starch is a carbohydrate your body cannot digest. Instead of spiking your blood sugar, it travels to your gut bacteria intact, feeds them, and triggers a chain reaction that improves insulin sensitivity, blunts post-meal glucose spikes, and in human controlled trials is linked to measurable reductions in visceral fat. And here is the part that might surprise you: the same food can have a completely different metabolic effect depending on how you prepare it. Cooking and then cooling a potato or a plate of rice meaningfully increases its resistant starch content. Same food. Different biology.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How resistant starch feeds your gut bacteria to produce butyrate, one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory compounds in the body, and how that chain reaction directly improves how your body handles blood sugar and insulin

• What the randomized controlled trial data actually shows for weight loss, visceral fat reduction, and insulin sensitivity, including the dose ranges used in the studies and how long it takes to see results

• The exact foods to start with, why you have to go slow, and what happens to your gut if you jump straight to 40 grams a day

This is a free tool. No supplement required.

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

1:30 - What Makes Resistant Starch Different From Every Other Carbohydrate

3:30 - The Cooking Trick That Changes How Your Body Responds to Ordinary Food

5:00 - How Your Gut Bacteria Turn This Into One of the Most Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Compounds in the Body

7:00 - The GLP-1 Connection and What the Research Actually Says (vs. What Marketing Says)

9:00 - What Dr. G Has Seen in 12 Years of Clinical Practice With Patients

11:00 - What the Randomized Trials Actually Show on Blood Sugar, Insulin and Visceral Fat1

3:30 - How to Actually Use It: Doses, Best Food Sources and the One Mistake Everyone Makes

16:00 - The Honest Limitations (And Why It's Still Worth Trying)
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Episode Description:

You have been running from yourself for a very long time. The restlessness, the worry, the relationships that keep ending the same way, the money that never feels like enough. None of that is who you actually are. It is what you learned.

Danny Morel is back on Heal Thy Self for the second time, and this conversation goes deeper than the first. Danny had the picture perfect life. The money, the business, the house, the marriage, the admiration. And he was completely disconnected from himself. It took an affair, a divorce, the death of his mother, and a moment on a run reading Eckhart Tolle for everything to crack open. What came through that crack changed everything. This is that story, and the wisdom that came out of it.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• The difference between victim consciousness and creator consciousness, why the shift from one to the other is the thing human beings are most afraid of, and why every relationship, money problem, and health struggle you keep recreating is pointing at something inside you

• How to tell the difference between true soul intuition and fear masquerading as gut feeling, and why the only way to access that distinction is through silence and direct relationship with the divine

• Why your partner is a mirror, your bank account is a mirror, and why wanting to fix the reflection without doing the inner work is the single most common way people stay stuck

This is the work that makes all the other work possible.

Find Danny Morel:

Book: Awakened: https://www.awakenedbook.comWebsite: https://dannymorel.com/Instagram: ​​https://www.instagram.com/DannyMorel/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - Rapid Fire: How to Know If You're Living From Old Conditioning (And What to Do)

5:00 - The Picture-Perfect Life That Left Him Completely Empty Inside

9:30 - The Moment a Pastor Said Something That Changed Danny's Life Forever

14:00 - From Victim Consciousness to Creator Consciousness: The Shift Most People Fear

18:30 - Why You Were Born Into Separation (And Why That's Actually Perfect)

23:00 - Masculine and Feminine Energy: The Loop That Either Creates or Destroys Your Relationships

29:00 - She Is Not the Problem — She Is the Mirror

34:00 - What Dr. G Publicly Shares for the First Time Ever

42:00 - Why Stillness Is the Thing We're Most Afraid Of (And What It Reveals)

48:00 - Why Your Purpose Has Nothing to Do With What You Do

53:00 - Forgiving Your Parents Is Not What You Think It Is

57:30 - Why You're Always "Right There" With Money But Can Never Break Through

1:02:00 - The Simplest Practice That Opens Everything

1:06:00 - About the Book and Where to Find Danny
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