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Wellness Loud

Health and wellness is louder and more confusing than ever. One expert says eat more meat. Another says cut it out completely. One supplement is called life-changing. The next day, someone says it will make you sick.

It’s overwhelming. And that’s exactly why Heal Thy Self exists.

Hosted by Dr. Christian Gonzalez, Heal Thy Self cuts through the noise and delivers clarity in a space flooded with contradictions. This isn’t trend-based wellness or recycled talking points. It’s direct, grounded truth that blends real science with deep spiritual and emotional intelligence.

Each week, get expert conversations with doctors, scientists, shamans, and healers spanning physical health, mental wellness, emotional healing, and spirituality.

Dr. G does the heavy lifting for you, investigating the wellness industry by reviewing third-party testing and breaking down supplements and products to reveal what’s safe, what works, what’s marketing hype, and which companies deserve your trust.

You’ll also get channeled episodes that inspire and elevate beyond the physical. This is a fully integrated approach connecting body, mind, nervous system, trauma, energy, and consciousness.

If you’re tired of conflicting advice and ready for clarity that empowers, relieves, and inspires, this is the podcast you’ve been missing.

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  • Yesterday · 43 min

    How Big Food Makes the Problem, So Big Pharma Can Sell You the Band-Aid | Heal Thy Self

    → Timeline| Go to timeline.com/healthyself to take the Longevity Quiz and get your free Mitopure gummies. That’s timeline.com/healthyself. → Parasym | Head to https://nuropod.com/DRG for 5% off. Every order comes with a 100-day risk-free trial. → AirDoctor |Head to https://AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code DRG and get up to $300 off ANY of their select AirDoctor models, plus you will get a 3-year warranty, absolutely FREE! All AirDoctor air purifiers come with a 30-day money back guarantee. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Thursday · 15 min

    Your Gut Health Supplements Do Nothing - Use These Instead

    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 Get your free guide from Dr. G: https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 7 · 34 min

    Naturopathic Doctor: The 1 Longevity Trend Wasting Your Money | Heal Thy Self #518

    → Puori | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. → AquaTru | Go to https://AquaTru.com now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code DRG. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 3 · 11 min

    The Magnesium in Your Cabinet Is Doing Nothing — Here's the Right Form

    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 Get your free guide from Dr. G: https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 31 · 37 min

    Sometimes You Don't Need Prozac, You Need a Divorce: Harvard Doctor | Heal Thy Self

    → Aquatru | Unlock your hair & skin’s true potential with 20% Off AquaTru Shower using promo code SHDRG at https://aquatrushower.com. It comes with a 30-day money back guarantee. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 27 · 15 min

    The Coffee I Switched To - Half the Caffeine, 2x Productivity | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #512

    → Everyday Dose | This episode is brought to you by Everyday Dose — instant mushroom coffee for focus and immunity, without the jitters or crash of regular coffee. Use code DRG10 at checkout for a discount, at https://www.everydaydose.com/discount/DRG10?redirect=/products/influencer&utm_source=influencer&utm_medium=instagram&utm_campaign=DrGReviewsProducts Episode Description: The cup you reach for every single morning before you do anything else could be quietly delivering mold toxins, heavy metals, and pesticide residues into your body. And you will never taste a thing. Because nobody is checking. Not the brands. Not the grocery store. Not the FDA, which sets no limit at all for heavy metals in coffee. In 2025, an independent lab ran 7,000 tests on 57 of the bestselling coffee brands in America and found acrylamide, glyphosate breakdown products, and heavy metals in every single sample. Dr. G investigated over 50 coffee companies looking for one that could actually hand him a lab report on the finished product. This is the one that passed. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "The mold can die in the roaster but the toxins survive" Ochratoxin A is the main mold toxin found in coffee and the World Health Organization has officially flagged it as potentially cancer-causing. Dr. G explains why your body holds mycotoxins for over a month and what that means if you are drinking poor quality coffee every single morning. Take 2: "There is no safe level of lead" Heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic accumulate in your bones, kidneys, and brain for decades with almost no way for your body to eliminate them. Dr. G uses the bathtub analogy to explain exactly what is happening over years of daily exposure. Take 3: "Even organic coffee tested positive for glyphosate residue" The weed killer sprayed on coffee crops does not just affect your cells. It targets the bacteria living in your gut, disrupting the microbiome that governs your immune system, mood, and hormonal health. Dr. G explains why even the organic label does not guarantee you are safe. Take 4: "Bulletproof says their process is proprietary and won't share testing data" The brands that market themselves as clean and mold-free are not always showing their work. Dr. G names names and explains exactly what a trustworthy coffee company has to be willing to show you before it earns a place in your kitchen. Take 5: "Everyday Dose ran three independent randomized controlled trials on their own product" Almost no coffee company has ever done this. Dr. G breaks down what those trials actually found, including measurable improvements in sleep confirmed by Oura ring data, and explains why this is his number one coffee of 2026. In this episode, you will learn: • What ochratoxin A, heavy metals, and glyphosate are each doing inside your body with daily long term exposure, and why the damage is invisible until it is not • Why pairing l-theanine with caffeine produces focused calm instead of jitters and crashes, and what the research on alpha brain wave states actually shows • What lion's mane, chaga, and grass-fed collagen each contribute to the cup and why putting evidence-based ingredients into a daily ritual you are already doing is one of the most efficient health upgrades available Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Mold Toxins in Coffee: What Ochratoxin A Does to Your Kidneys and Immune System 2:30 - Heavy Metals (Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic): No Safe Level — and the FDA Sets Zero Limits 4:30 - Glyphosate in Coffee: Why Even Organic Brands Tested Positive 6:30 - The 2025 Lab Study That Tested 57 Best-Selling Brands — and What They Found in All of Them 8:00 - Why Starbucks, Folgers and Dunkin Won't Hand You a Lab Report 8:45 - Even Bulletproof Says Their Process Is "Proprietary" — Here's What That Actually Means 9:30 - Dr. G's #1 Coffee Pick for 2026 (The Only One He'll Touch) 10:15 - Why L-Theanine Changes the Entire Coffee Experience 11:15 - Lion's Mane: The Brain Ingredient With a Double-Blind Trial Behind It 12:00 - Chaga: The Antioxidant Workhorse You Feel Three Months In 12:45 - Grass-Fed Collagen: The Ingredient Almost No Coffee Brand Includes 13:30 - The Only Coffee Company That Has Run Three Independent Clinical Trials 14:15 - Where to Find It and Why He's Never Going Back Get your free guide from Dr. G: https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 25 · 48 min

    21 Million Women Have This—And Suffer in Silence | ft. Happy V HTS #514

    Episode Description: Over 21 million women in the United States are dealing with bacterial vaginosis right now. Most of them have never told a single person. Not their doctor, not their closest friend, not their partner. Because somewhere along the way we decided this was not something we talk about. Today we will talk about it. Danielle spent five years cycling through antibiotics, specialists, Reddit rabbit holes, and remedies that did not work. When she finally told her then new boyfriend Hans, he did not run. He asked how he could help. Hans happened to come from a family that had been manufacturing dietary supplements for 30 years. What came out of that conversation became Happy V, a vaginal probiotic that does not just feed the good bacteria but hunts down the bad ones. Danielle and Hans break it down — in order: Take 1: "Antibiotics eliminate all the bacteria — and then it comes right back" Danielle explains why the standard treatment for BV sets women up for a revolving cycle of reinfection. She breaks down what is actually happening in the vaginal microbiome and why the conventional approach keeps missing the root cause. Take 2: "The shame around BV is destroying relationships" From new couples to long marriages, BV is ending intimacy and keeping women isolated in embarrassment. Hans and Danielle share what that conversation looked like for them and why having it honestly changed everything. Take 3: "Not all probiotics are the same and most gummies are basically useless" Hans pulls back the curtain on how the supplement industry actually works and why most probiotic products on the shelf cannot deliver what they promise. He explains what three things a label has to show before a probiotic is worth buying. Take 4: "Probiotics hate water, acid, and heat — which is everything a gummy is made of" This one will make you look at your cabinet differently. Hans explains exactly why the gummy format destroys the very bacteria you are trying to consume and what format actually protects them. Take 5: "Give it time — anyone telling you this works overnight is lying to you" Dietary supplements are not magic and the marketing around vaginal health is especially aggressive. Danielle and Hans give the honest timeline and explain what patience actually looks like when you have the right product. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why recurring BV is not a hygiene problem, what is actually driving the imbalance, and why the antibiotic cycle keeps women stuck instead of healed • How to read a probiotic label and what three things the International Probiotic Association says must be present for a product to actually be legitimate • Why the vaginal microbiome is one of the most undertreated areas of women's health and how an imbalanced pH affects everything from intimacy to confidence to daily comfort This one is for every woman who has suffered in silence and every partner who wants to understand. Find Happy V: Website: https://www.happyv.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - Danielle's Story: 5 Years of BV, Antibiotics That Kept Failing, and Reddit Rabbit Holes 7:00 - The Conversation Every Woman Dreads Having With a New Partner (And How Hans Responded) 11:00 - Why Antibiotics Make You More Vulnerable to BV the Next Time Around 15:00 - What BV Actually Is: The Vaginal Microbiome Explained Simply 19:00 - Why This Is a Couples Issue, Not Just a Women's Issue 23:00 - The Garlic, Yogurt Tampon and Hydrogen Peroxide Remedies — Do Any of Them Work? 27:00 - What Makes Happy V Different: Hunting Bad Bacteria, Not Just Feeding Good Ones 31:00 - The Strain, Dose and CFU Conversation Most Probiotic Brands Don't Want You to Have 35:00 - Why Probiotic Gummies Are Basically Useless (The Science Behind It) 38:00 - How to Read a Probiotic Label and Know If You're Getting Scammed 41:00 - How Long It Actually Takes to Work (And Why Anyone Saying "Overnight" Is Lying) 43:30 - They've Helped Over a Million Women — Here's What the Reviews Say 45:30 - Where to Find Happy V and How Every Purchase Gives Back Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 24 · 41 min

    Walk With a Former T-Mobile VP: 4 Takes on 5G and EMFS | Heal Thy Self

    → Quantum | Upgrade your energy, harmonize your EMF exposure, and elevate your wellness with Quantum Upgrade and get a 15-day FREE trial, no credit card required at quantumupgrade.io/start when you use code DRG at checkout. Episode Description: You are living in an electromagnetic soup and most people have no idea. Over 4,000 published studies show harmful effects from EMF exposure on the brain, blood, nervous system, fertility, and more. The European Parliament has its own report on the cancer and fertility risks. And with 6G rolling out faster than 5G ever did, it is not getting better. This guest spent years as a VP at T-Mobile before switching sides. Now he studies and develops technology designed to harmonize EMF exposure rather than ignore it. This conversation covers what EMFs are doing inside the brain within seconds of exposure, why the problems accumulate silently until they are hard to trace back, and what anyone can actually do about it right now. Dr. G and his guest break it down — in order: Take 1: "EMFs are detrimental to human health and there are over 4,000 studies that show it" Most people cannot find this research on the first page of a Google search, but it exists and it spans decades. The guest breaks down what the evidence actually shows and where to find it. Take 2: "Within seconds in the brain, everything linked to stress fires up" EMF exposure does not wait weeks or months to affect your nervous system. The guest explains what happens inside the brain almost immediately upon exposure and why that matters for anxiety, brain fog, and chronic stress. Take 3: "You cannot hide from EMFs anymore" From 5G towers to Starlink to electric vehicles, there is nowhere left to escape. The guest explains why the goal cannot be avoidance and what the realistic path forward actually looks like. Take 4: "6G is going to be much worse than 5G" The next wave of wireless technology is already rolling out and the latest generation of mobile phones attacks the lymphatic system faster and deeper than the one before. The guest lays out what is coming and why staying informed matters. Take 5: "You can start becoming more coherent right now, for free" Meditation, sunlight, nature, yoga, and tai chi all support your biofield even before any technology gets involved. The guest gives the honest baseline of what lifestyle alone can do and where its limits are. In this episode, you will learn: • Why EMF exposure causes problems that accumulate silently, why most people attribute their symptoms to something else entirely, and why the brain is especially vulnerable because it is the central steering organ for everything in the body • How gamers, pilots, Uber drivers, and anyone with multiple screens and Bluetooth devices are experiencing compounded EMF exposure at levels the body was never designed to handle • What coherence technology is, how it differs from simply blocking or shielding EMFs, and what the research behind it actually shows Find Quantum Upgrade:Website: https://www.quantumupgrade.io Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - 4,000+ Studies on EMF Health Effects (And Why You Don't Find Them on the First Search) 5:00 - Is There Anywhere Left on Earth to Escape EMFs? 8:00 - Are These Studies Being Suppressed? A Former T-Mobile VP Answers Honestly 10:00 - Why the Brain Is the First and Most Sensitive Organ to Take the Hit 13:00 - How Short-Term Exposure Triggers the Stress Response — And Why It Gets Worse Over Time 17:00 - Kids, Three Screens, Bluetooth Headphones and Why No One Is Connecting the Dots 21:00 - Why We're Not Talking About EMFs the Way We Should Be (It's Because They're Invisible) 25:00 - 5G Was Bad — Here's What 6G and Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Do 29:00 - What You Can Do for Free Right Now to Start Protecting Yourself 33:00 - From VP at T-Mobile to This: Why He Crossed to the Other Side 35:00 - The Technology That Harmonizes EMFs Without Removing Them 38:00 - The 15-Day Free Trial and Where to Find It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 20 · 15 min

    Podpage: Scientists Found 4 Things That Actually Lowers Inflammation | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #512

    Episode Description: That stiffness when you wake up. The puffiness in your face. Feeling exhausted after eight hours of sleep. That is inflammation. And chronic inflammation is a low silent fire burning in your body every single day, quietly driving almost every disease you are afraid of. Most people have already spent good money trying to fix it. Most of them felt nothing. And the truth is not that supplements for inflammation are a scam. The truth is that most of what is on the shelf is underdosed, in the wrong form, and targeting the wrong pathway. Dr. G breaks down four supplements with real research behind them, the exact doses used in the trials, and the label tricks companies use to take your money without delivering results. Dr. G breaks down his anti-inflammatory protocol — in order: Take 1: "Ibuprofen does not lower your inflammation" Dr. G exposes why the most common go-to for pain and inflammation is only a temporary mask, not a fix. He reveals the molecule your body already makes to shut inflammation off and how to actually support it. Take 2: "One capsule of fish oil a day is doing close to nothing" The dose that moves inflammatory markers in real bloodwork is dramatically higher than what most people take. Dr. G gives the exact EPA and DHA number to hit and shows how to spot the label trick that makes you think you are getting more than you are. Take 3: "Boswellia hits a branch of inflammation that fish oil cannot reach" This is the one almost nobody is talking about. Dr. G breaks down why Boswellia serrata blocks a completely different inflammatory pathway and what has to appear on the label or the product is essentially useless. Take 4: "Cheap curcumin exits your body before it does anything" The most counterfeited anti-inflammatory supplement on the shelf gets a full breakdown. Dr. G explains what absorption actually requires, why black pepper is not enough, and what form to look for instead. Take 5: "Ginger is criminally underrated" It is dirt cheap, probably already in your spice drawer, and blocks both major inflammatory pathways. Dr. G makes the case for why ginger belongs in every anti-inflammatory protocol and what dose the research actually used. In this episode, you will learn: • Why ibuprofen only presses the alarm button down temporarily while your body already has its own system for switching inflammation off, and how omega-3s at a real dose provide the raw materials for that system to work • Why Boswellia serrata blocks a completely different branch of inflammation than ibuprofen or fish oil, why that matters if you have joint or autoimmune issues, and the one number that has to appear on the label or you have no idea what you are getting • Why cheap curcumin is barely absorbed and exits your body before it does anything, what standardized and phytosome actually mean, and why ginger at one to three grams a day lowered objective inflammatory markers in clinical trials Plus why none of these four supplements will work if chronic stress is keeping your nervous system in low grade fight or flight every day. 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 Most Inflammation Supplements Have Done Nothing for You (And Who's Responsible) 2:00 - What Ibuprofen Actually Does — And What It Completely Misses 2:45 - Supplement #1: The Molecule That Actually Switches Inflammation Off 4:30 - The Exact Dose That Moves Your Inflammatory Markers in Bloodwork 5:30 - The Fish Oil Label Scam That's Making You Pay for Filler Oil 7:00 - Supplement #2: The One That Hits the Inflammation Pathway Ibuprofen Can't Reach 8:30 - The Label Red Flag That Means You Have No Idea What You're Actually Taking 9:00 - Supplement #3: The Most Bootlegged Anti-Inflammatory Supplement on the Market 10:00 - The Absorption Problem That Makes Most Turmeric Products Useless 11:00 - Supplement #4: The Cheapest and Most Underrated One — Already in Your Spice Drawer 12:00 - Why All Four Supplements Will Barely Work if You Don't Fix This First 13:15 - Who Needs to Be Careful Before Starting Any of These 13:45 - The One Blood Test to Ask Your Doctor for Right Now Get your free guide from Dr. G: https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 17 · 34 min

    Frozen Fruit Isn't Harmless, Chinese Medicine Actually Hates It | Heal Thy Self

    → AirDoctor |Head to https://AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code DRG and get up to $300 off ANY of their select AirDoctor models, plus you will get a 3-year warranty, absolutely FREE! All AirDoctor air purifiers come with a 30-day money back guarantee. → Timeline | Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/DRG →Puori 7/12 | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. Episode Description: Your morning smoothie might be working against you. Your intermittent fasting routine might be dysregulating your hormones. And Botox, from a Chinese medicine perspective, is freezing the very nervous system pathways that keep your skin alive. Dr. Felice Chan is back on Heal Thy Self and this time the conversation happened outside, on a walk, in a rosemary bush. Dr. Felice is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner based in Los Angeles, and she connects dots between ancient medicine and modern biology in a way that stops you mid-sentence. This conversation covers breakfast, fasting, facial acupuncture, Botox, aging, and why everything in the body comes back to nervous system regulation and the rest and digest state. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why cold and blended foods create what Chinese medicine calls dampness in the body, how that slows metabolism and digestion, and what Dr. Felice's own smoothie habit led to after two to three months of daily use • Why most fasting research was done on men, what happens to a woman's cortisol and hormones when she skips breakfast, and the Chinese medicine case for a warm morning meal • The difference between what Botox does to the face neurologically versus what cosmetic acupuncture does, and why one freezes while the other reinvigorates Beauty from the inside out. This is what that actually looks like in practice. Find Dr. Felice Chan: Website: https://www.feliceacupuncture.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfelicechan/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Why Smoothies Are One of the Worst Breakfast Choices (Chinese Medicine Explains Why) 2:20 - What Actually Happens in Your Body When You Drink a Smoothie and Drive to Work 4:00 - How Her Morning Smoothie Habit Sent Her to the ER and Changed Everything 5:30 - What to Eat for Breakfast Instead (Her Actual Morning Meal) 6:44 - Why Intermittent Fasting Is Doing More Harm Than Good for Most Women 8:00 - What Skipping Breakfast Does to Your Hormones, Metabolism and Energy Over Time 10:14 - The Symptoms She Sees in Every Woman Who Skips Breakfast 12:05 - Why Most People Think Their Nervous System Is Fine — And Why It Isn't 12:45 - The Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System You're Probably Overlooking 15:13 - The #1 Mental and Emotional Effect of Living in Chronic Fight or Flight 15:52 - When Gut Problems Have Nothing to Do With Food 16:55 - The Five Organs, the Five Emotions and Where They Live in Your Body 18:36 - Is a Dysregulated Nervous System One of the Top Drivers of Disease? 19:04 - Botox vs. Cosmetic Acupuncture: What's Actually Happening Beneath the Skin 21:54 - What Chinese Medicine Says Is Really Causing Your Fine Lines and Wrinkles 23:06 - Why Cosmetic Acupuncture Results Last Longer Than Botox (And What It Takes) 24:30 - Graceful Aging Is an Energy — And You Can Feel It on Someone 25:27 - The One Thing She Wants Every Listener to Walk Away With Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 13 · 11 min

    Why I Would Never Take Melatonin to Fall Asleep | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #510

    Episode Description: You are probably taking melatonin wrong and it is almost certainly not your fault. Most people take it like a sleeping pill every night, wake up groggy, and eventually need more and more to get the same effect. That is not a melatonin deficiency. That is melatonin being used for something it was never designed to do at a dose your body would never produce on its own. The amount of melatonin your brain actually releases at night is about 3 tenths of 1 milligram. Your gummy says 10. The research is humbling and the label may not even be accurate. Researchers tested 30 melatonin products off store shelves and found the real content ranged from 83% below the label to nearly five times above it. In roughly one out of four products they found serotonin, a compound that was not listed on the label at all. In this episode, you will learn: • Why melatonin is a timing hormone and not a sedative, what it is actually designed to do in the body, and why taking a giant dose expecting to be knocked unconscious was never how it works • Whether long term melatonin use shuts down your body's own production, why the answer is no, and what the real risks actually are • Why Dr. G never raises the dose when a patient says melatonin has stopped working, what he does instead, and the specific scenarios where melatonin is genuinely the right tool Plus the warning every parent needs to hear before giving melatonin to a child. 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 - The One Thing About Melatonin That Changes Everything 2:30 - Mistake #1: The Dose Most People Take Is 10 to 30 Times Too High 4:00 - Will Melatonin Shut Down Your Body's Own Production? The Real Answer 5:30 - Mistake #2: Using It Like a Sleeping Pill When It Was Never Designed for That 7:00 - Mistake #3: The Study That Shows You Can't Trust the Number on the Label 8:30 - How Dr. G Actually Has His Patients Use Melatonin 9:30 - The Warning Every Parent Needs to Hear Before Giving This to Their Kids 10:00 - The Whole Truth in One Line Get your free guide from Dr. G: https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 10 · 45 min

    The Real Reason You Wake Up Anxious for No Reason | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #509

    → Puori 7/12 | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. → Timeline | Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/DRG → Ora Oganic | Real ingredients, planet-friendly packaging, easy to love. Head to https://ora.organic/pages/drg and use my code HEALTHYSELF30 to enjoy 30% off your first Ora order today. Episode Description: Every person comes into this world with a spiritual container. If your container can only hold 60 watts of energy, that is all you are getting. No strategy, no opportunity, no amount of hustle changes that. What changes it is expanding the vessel itself. David Ghiyam is a Kabbalah teacher and spiritual coach who has spent 25 years working with people at the intersection of consciousness, abundance, and transformation. This is one of the most expansive conversations Heal Thy Self has ever had. It moves from money ceilings and competing belief systems to anxiety as a message from your highest destiny, to darkness as excess light, to the energetic pipes of mother and father that govern healing and abundance. It goes places most podcasts never go and it earns every minute of it. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why the ceiling you keep hitting with money, love, or opportunity has nothing to do with the outside world, and why fixing your circumstances without expanding your spiritual vessel is fighting a shadow instead of the seed • What competing belief systems are and how a hidden belief you are completely unaware of can quietly sabotage every goal your conscious mind is working toward • Why anxiety is not a problem to solve but a signal that your higher destiny is trying to come in and cannot, and what it actually takes to open the channel This one will stay with you. Find David Ghiyam: Website: https://davidghiyam.com/yis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidghiyam/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Your Spiritual Container: The Real Reason Wealth, Love and Opportunity Stop at a Certain Point 2:30 - The Two Belief Systems That Are Quietly Blocking Everything You Want 4:00 - The Hidden Desire That Was Costing David Millions Without Him Knowing It 6:00 - Why Moving Cities, Changing Jobs or Finding New People Won't Fix the Problem 8:30 - 100% Aligned Desires = Instant Manifestation — Here's What That Means 11:55 - Anxiety Is Not a Disorder — It's Your Higher Destiny Trying to Come In 13:00 - Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light — It's the Excess of It 13:35 - The Single Biggest Block for High-Achieving, High-Anxiety People 14:00 - Why Every Best Idea You've Ever Had Came When You Were Alone 15:00 - The Real Reason People Fear Public Speaking (It Has Nothing to Do With Confidence) 17:50 - Why Staying in Something That's Not Working Is Hurting Everyone Around You 19:00 - Giving From the Left Column vs. the Right Column (And Why Most Leaders Only Do One) 23:00 - The Energy of One Disengaged Employee Is Quietly Killing Your Company 25:00 - The Amazon $5,000 Quit Check — And Why David Uses the Same Principle 26:00 - Why You Can't Attract a Partner Who Has What You're Not Willing to Build in Yourself 29:00 - The Real Estate Broker, the $50M Listing, and the Lesson About Her Mom 31:50 - What Blaming Your Parents Is Actually Blocking in Every Area of Your Life 32:00 - Father Energy and Mother Energy: The Two Pipes That Govern Abundance and Love 34:30 - Prayer Is Not Woo Woo — It's a Technology That Expands the Vessel 35:30 - How to Call In the Healing (Even If You Don't Want to Want It Yet) 37:00 - Where to Find David and How to Go Deeper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 6 · 15 min

    The 4 Supplements I Use to Lower Cortisol | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #508

    Episode Description: Wired and exhausted at the same time. Weight around your midsection that will not move no matter what you do. Mind racing the moment your head hits the pillow. That is not too much cortisol. That is a cortisol curve that has lost its shape. And there is a very real difference between those two things. Before Dr. G gets into the four supplements that have actual human research behind them, he is going to expose the cortisol detox teas and adrenal fatigue narrative for what they are. You cannot detox a steroid hormone. And the concept of adrenal fatigue was examined across 58 studies and has no scientific basis. What you actually have is a dysregulated HPA axis, and that is something you can actually fix. In this episode, you will learn: • Why ashwagandha is the most proven cortisol lowering supplement on earth by a wide margin, the exact label trick companies use to sell you an underdosed product, and who should never take it regardless of stress levels • The difference between the person who spikes easily under pressure and the person who crashes after sustained stress, why these require completely different supplements, and what phosphatidylserine and rhodiola each do that the other cannot • Why 45% of fish oil on shelves is already rancid, how to read the label to find out if your EPA and DHA numbers are actually therapeutic, and how omega-3s physically blunt both resting cortisol and cortisol spikes under stress Plus the one warning sign that means your cortisol issue is not everyday stress and you need to see a doctor immediately.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 - Cortisol Detox Teas Are a Scam — Here's Why in 30 Seconds 1:30 - What the Cortisol Curve Actually Is (And What Chronic Stress Does to It) 2:45 - The Belly Fat, Sleep and Energy Connection Nobody Explains Correctly 3:45 - Supplement #1: The Most Proven Cortisol-Lowering Herb on Earth 5:30 - The Label Tricks Companies Use to Quietly Drain Your Wallet 6:15 - Who Should Never Touch This Supplement (Especially Thyroid Conditions) 6:45 - Supplement #2: The One for People Who Spike Hard Under Pressure 8:15 - Why the Lower Dose Does Absolutely Nothing (The Research Is Precise) 8:45 - Supplement #3: The Adaptogen for People Who Can't Get Out of Bed in the Morning 10:30 - The Most Manipulated Supplement in This Category and How to Spot a Fake 11:15 - Supplement #4: The Foundation Sitting Beneath All Three 12:30 - The Fish Oil Label Scam That's Making People Pay for Rancid Oil 13:30 - The One Thing That Beats All Four Supplements Combined 14:30 - When Your Cortisol Problem Is Actually Something More Serious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 3 · 32 min

    Airway Dentist: The Way You Breathe Is Reshaping Your Face | Heal Thy Self #507

    → Ora Oganic | Real ingredients, planet-friendly packaging, easy to love. Head to https://ora.organic/pages/drg and use my code HEALTHYSELF30 to enjoy 30% off your first Ora order today. → Puori | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. Episode Description: The way that you breathe actually shapes the way that your face grows. And if your child is sleeping with their mouth open, that is not cute. That is a warning sign. Dr. Nora Zaghi is an airway focused biological pediatric dentist and one of the leading practitioners in sleep disordered breathing. This conversation connects dots that most people have never had connected for them. Mouth breathing, tongue ties, crowded jaws, ADHD, anxiety, dark circles under the eyes, restless sleep, and even the way a child walks. It is all coming from the same root. And for adults who have been living with this their entire lives without knowing it, there are still solutions. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why where your tongue rests in your mouth determines how your jaw and face develop, and why children who mouth breathe grow downward and backward instead of forward and wide • How a tongue tie creates tension through the entire deep front line of the body from the base of the tongue all the way to the toes, and why releasing it has caused patients to cry, stand straighter, speak more confidently, and walk normally for the first time • The root cause connection between a restrictive tongue, jaw clenching and grinding, and chronic anxiety, and the simple at home test you can do right now to check your own tongue mobility This episode is for every parent, every adult who was told they had ADHD or anxiety, and everyone who has been mouth breathing their whole life without knowing there was a name for it. Nora Zaghi: Website: hhttps://www.breathekidsdental.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.norazaghi/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:05 - What Causes a Child's Tongue to Rest on the Floor of the Mouth Instead of the Roof 4:03 - Why a Sleeping Baby With Their Mouth Open Is Concerning, Not Cute 5:17 - Signs as an Adult That Your Jaw Never Fully Developed (And What You Can Do Now) 7:15 - How to Self-Check at Home Right Now 9:07 - The Connection Between Mouth Breathing and Chronic Fatigue 10:02 - 44% of People With ADHD Also Have a Breathing Problem — Here's Why 12:58 - Can ADHD Be Misdiagnosed When Sleep Apnea Is the Real Issue? 15:53 - How Breastfeeding Is Actually the First Orthodontic Intervention 17:07 - Why You WANT Gaps Between Your Baby's Teeth (And Why "Perfect Alignment" Is a Red Flag) 18:21 - Tongue Ties, Breastfeeding Pain and What Most Hospitals Get Wrong 22:23 - A Root Cause of Anxiety That Can Actually Be Found in Your Mouth 25:36 - How Releasing a Tongue Tie Can Trigger a Full-Body Emotional Release 26:24 - How to Find a Provider and Where to Learn More Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 30 · 8 min

    The First Hour After You Wake Decides Your Entire Day’s Energy | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #506

    Episode Description: You are not tired because you slept badly. You are tired because of what you are doing in the first five minutes after you wake up. There is a specific window, the first 60 minutes after you open your eyes, where your body runs a hormonal program that quietly determines your energy, your focus, and your stress resilience for the entire day. Cortisol rises by more than 50% in the first 30 to 40 minutes. It is called the cortisol awakening response and it is your body's built in ignition. The problem is not the cortisol. The problem is what most people are stacking on top of it before they even get out of bed. In this episode, you will learn: • Why reaching for your phone in the first few minutes of the day is pouring stress into a nervous system that is already at its peak, and why doing that every morning for years builds a body that lives in low grade fight or flight • Why the 90 minute coffee rule is not backed by good studies, what the actual problem with morning coffee is, and the simple fix that will make your mornings more productive without any timing rules • Who the cortisol awakening response matters for most: if you have afternoon energy crashes, anxiety, blood sugar issues, or you cannot fall asleep at night no matter how tired you are, the first hour is the lever you have not pulled yet None of this costs a dollar. All of it starts tomorrow morning. 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 - Intro1:30 - What the Cortisol Awakening Response Actually Is (And Why It's Not a Bad Thing) 2:30 - The Most Important Thing to Do in That Window That Costs Nothing 4:00 - The First Mistake Almost Everyone Makes Within Minutes of Waking Up 6:00 - What Happens to Your Nervous System When You Do This Every Morning for Years 7:30 - Why Your First Meal Is Setting Your Energy, Focus and Cravings for the Day 9:00 - The Truth About the 90-Minute Coffee Rule (And Why the Internet Gets It Wrong) 11:00 - Who This First Hour Matters for More Than Anyone Else 12:30 - The Simple Morning Protocol That Changes Everything Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 27 · 1 hr

    Emotional Eating Expert: Why Diets Keep Failing You | ft. Amber Romaniuk HTS #505

    → Aqua Tru | Go to https://AquaTru.com now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code DRG. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 23 · 8 min

    Swallowing Turmeric (Curcumin) Does Nothing — Take This Instead | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #504

    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. 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 - 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 20 · 1 hr 2 min

    How to Feel Younger Without Changing Your Diet | ft. Angelo Keely HTS #503

    → KION| Visit getkion.com/DRG for 20% off 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 16 · 9 min

    How to Eat Carbs and Lose Weight | Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #502

    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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 13 · 57 min

    You Have the Power to Rewrite Your Love, Money & Health | ft. Danny Morel HTS #501

    → Timeline | Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/DRG → Santa Barbara Chocolate | CocoaDynamics available at https://SantaBarbaraChocolate.com. Use code DRG20 for 20% off. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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