Radical Health Radio

Nat lost 65 pounds and reversed Hashimoto’s without tracking macros or taking pills, and the thing that actually worked was free.

My guest, Nat Collier, is the founder of SunWhore. Her story cuts through almost every mainstream assumption about sunlight, skin cancer, and healing.

She was deep in the holistic world already. Organic food, homestead in Georgia, 12 acres of virgin land, chickens in the yard. Her health was still falling apart. Her mother was dying from Lewy body dementia brought on by severe mold toxicity, and her own antibodies were in the tens of thousands.

What changed everything was a scrappy little self-published book called Heal Yourself with Sunlight and a decision to go all in on living as a circadian being.

She doesn’t argue data with skeptics. She asks better questions, like why melanoma shows up where the sun never reaches. Nat explains solar callus, tyrosine, the specific nutrients that help your skin hold melanin, and the formulation story behind Sun Scoops and Sun Honey.

Along the way, the conversation moves somewhere heavier: the shooting in her town, circadian dysfunction and mental health, and the aliveness she thinks most Americans have been cut off from.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[1:20] Losing her Mom to mold-linked dementia while Nat’s own health collapsed

[11:01] The expert worship that silences ordinary voices

[15:19] My semi-viral sunburn post and building a solar callus with the seasons

[22:41] Food is light information, and everything you consume is high or low quality

[30:03] Planting hopeful seeds in grown kids who push back on the crunchy stuff

[34:54] Nat’s after-sunset routine and why winter is for rest and repair

[41:31] An astrology theory of a new background frequency starting in February 2027

[45:41] Circadian disruption and mental health after a tragedy in Nat’s hometown

[54:31] Tanorexia and the grief of losing a summer tan

[59:38] A tan as a primal health signal, and cold plunging without the extremes

[1:04:04] From Klamath Lake algae to pink lotus oil, inside Sun Scoops and Sun Honey

[1:11:53] Running Sun Whore from the kitchen table and packing every box herself

[1:14:31] Bring forth what is within you, or it will destroy you

Resources Mentioned:

Sun Scoops | Product

Sun Honey: The Un-Sunscreen | Product

Heal Yourself with Sunlight by Andreas Moritz | Book

HealthForce Elixir of the Lake | Product

Maui Babe Browning Lotion | Product

Zaid K. Dahhaj | Website

Find more from Nat:

Nat Collier | Instagram

SunWhore | Website

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Ste Lane | Instagram

Radical Health Radio | Instagram | YouTube

Heart and Soil Supplements | Website | Instagram | X | YouTube

Your body learned to expect danger long before you could talk, and that feeling might create attachment issues.

Dana Doswell is a nervous system educator focused on the female nervous system, somatic touch, and detoxing perfectionism. Her approach cuts against the therapy-speak that’s taken over the algorithm.

Her own history includes croup and antibiotics before she was one, chronic strep from early childhood, Accutane, a six-year toxic relationship, a bodybuilding phase, and a medication-induced faint onto a cement floor that pushed her into the work.

Anxiety, she argues, is extended overactivation your nervous system has learned to require. When the default mode network merges with the negativity bias, “being with what is” can keep reinforcing that something is wrong.

The attachment style section is sharp. Dana traces what gets imprinted from conception, umbilical cord cutting, breastfeeding, and the cry-it-out era, and how that shows up later as anxious, avoidant, or disorganized relating.

Dana’s relationship with Case, the soft-to-savage spectrum, warrior-poet masculinity, and the difference between safe spaces and brave spaces all get unpacked without the usual clichés.

The two foundational steps she gives at the end are worth the full listen.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[3:40] Why the mind-body split is a protective dissociation

[7:43] How culture worships the head at the body’s expense

[17:17] Chronic strep and constant antibiotics in Dana’s early childhood

[26:39] Dana discovering polyvagal theory and realizing she wasn’t broken

[28:48] Somatic touch and trauma that is developmental, not shock

[37:08] Yielding versus relaxing and what safety actually means

[41:47] Perfectionism at its core as not trusting life

[50:50] Attachment begins in the womb, and crying it out creates freeze, not independence

[1:04:24] Co-sleeping and parenting against the mainstream narrative

[1:10:48] Authenticity as the necessary map for a rapidly changing world

[1:17:23] Where to start first if you feel dysregulated

Resources Mentioned:

NeuroAffective Touch Institute | Website

The Sacred Village | Website

Polyvagal Theory | Wikipedia

Case Bradford | Website | Instagram

Find more from Dana:

Dana Doswell | Offerings

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Ste Lane | Instagram

Radical Health Radio | Instagram | YouTube

Heart and Soil Supplements | Website | Instagram | X | YouTube

My secret for getting better at everything while stressing less? I stopped being so hard on myself.

That sounds backwards, especially coming from a working-class bloke who grew up on grit, rugby, and MMA. But every measure that actually matters to me improved once I loosened the grip: my work, my health, my relationships, my presence with the people I love.

If your whole life requires white-knuckling to hold it together, the problem isn't your discipline. It's your alignment.

Culture's answer to a hard life is always the same. Go harder. Get up earlier. Add a cold plunge. Stack another habit. You can go a long way on willpower and spite. Believe me, I've done it. But you can also discipline your way into a successful life you don't really want.

Alan Watts and the Taoist idea of wu wei sit at the heart of this. So does Tim Cook's take on loving your work, and a Jocko line I think needs an asterisk. There's also the concept of "discipline miles per gallon", and why running downhill is not laziness; it's alignment.

If you're tired of white-knuckling your entire life, always forcing and never flowing, this one's for you.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[2:50] Discipline as a gauge, not just a virtue

[3:56] The cult of seriousness convinces us to be hard on ourselves

[5:53] The highest form of discipline is not needing it

[7:26] Flow removes friction, not the hard part

[9:43] Why discipline goes further when you’re in alignment

[11:36] Freedom never comes from force; it comes from flow

Find more from Ste:

Ste Lane | Instagram

Radical Health Radio | Instagram | YouTube

Heart and Soil Supplements | Website | Instagram | X | YouTube

Cannabis today is stronger and more habit-forming than ever, but used with intention, it can still be powerful medicine.

Corinne Tobias came to cannabis as medicine in her mid-20s with herniated discs, opiate use, and a prognosis that said she probably wouldn't be walking well by 30. A stack of CDs, a few small joints, and a very different intention changed her life's trajectory. She now trains coaches, sits on the scientific advisory board of a cannabinoid company, and is working toward legal facilitation licensure in Colorado.

Three years after her husband died, Corinne did her first mushroom journey alone at home, convinced she'd already grieved his loss. The medicine disagreed almost immediately and put her in the bathtub for hours, talking to him.

Corinne is direct about what she's seen inside underground ceremonies, including sexual abuse rates in ayahuasca settings, and why "just take a heroic dose" isn't the right path for everyone. She's also honest about her own kambo experience in Tulum, where a practitioner kept pushing her to drink more and more water - a real danger with kambo - and she went along with it despite her gut telling her something was off.

If you've ever wondered whether your relationship with cannabis has drifted somewhere you didn't intend, or whether microdosing is actually as productivity-hacky as the internet makes it sound, listen through to the end.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[6:36] Corinne was told she might not walk by 30

[9:02] Off opiates within weeks of smoking medicinally

[16:11] Losing her husband at the peak of girl boss mode

[25:58] The Terence McKenna conviction that caused real harm

[35:39] THC in flower went from 1 percent to 30 percent

[39:24] She's never seen proof that vape pens are safe

[47:40] More pain is an invitation to go inside

[55:31] Sexual abuse reported in underground ceremonies

[1:04:41] Never betray the body speaking over the mind

[1:13:41] Preparation matters as much as integration

[1:19:49] Huxley's Island and raising children who never need it

Resources Mentioned:

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan | Book

The Secret Chief Revealed by Myron Stolaroff | Book

Island by Aldous Huxley | Book

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley | Book

FK+ | Website

Find more from Corinne:

Corinne Tobias - Wake + Bake | Website | Instagram

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Ste Lane | Instagram

Radical Health Radio | Instagram | YouTube

Heart and Soil Supplements | Website | Instagram | X | YouTube

8 weeks of meditation is enough to produce measurable changes in the connectivity of your prefrontal cortex. But most people won’t do it because they don’t see immediate results.

My guest this week is Brandon Cowling, a neuroscience student at the University of Texas and the voice behind Brandon's Brainwave, where he’s making the science of self-change something anyone can use.

Predictive processing was the first idea that stopped me. Your brain is not showing you the world. It's showing you a filtered version based on beliefs you probably didn't choose. The lion is gone, but your amygdala still thinks the boss meeting is one, and your prefrontal cortex pays the price.

Brandon describes long-term potentiation, why meditation measurably shifts the default mode network, and the concept of limbic friction, which reframes willpower as a design problem instead of a character flaw.

If you've ever wondered why the phone wins every time, the answer is not that you're weak.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[3:45] Becoming your greatest self when your brain is wired to predict and protect

[14:26] Simple but not easy, how practice physically rewires the brain

[21:03] Deconstructing a 36-year habit and how quickly the brain can change

[28:22] Phones prey on unconscious processes by design

[35:21] Limbic friction and buying back mental real estate from decision fatigue

[42:54] Escaping the cult of seriousness to explore the mystery of consciousness

[53:32] Pornography's effect on the brain and refusing the defeatist mindset

[59:42] Bridging neuroscience and spiritual awakening through the brain's built-in blueprint

[1:04:54] Rejecting doom thinking and training your brain to spot opportunity

Resources Mentioned:

Brick | Website

Brain Performance Institute at the Center for Brain Health | Website

Find more from Brandon:

Brandon Cowling | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube

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Ste Lane | Instagram

Radical Health Radio | Instagram | YouTube

Heart and Soil Supplements | Website | Instagram | X | YouTube