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Episode 302- The Missing Signals Your Body Needs to Burn Fat, Balance Hormones, and Restore Energy with Ethan Okunas, RDN

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Episode 301- Why You Still Feel Terrible When Your Labs Are Normal: The Missing Links Between Thyroid, Gut & Brain Health with Jim Chialtas

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Episode 300- Could Mold Be Sabotaging Your Metabolism, Hormones & Nervous System? with Ariana Thacker of MoldCo

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Episode 299- How Chris Reade Reversed Type 2 Diabetes: The Soluble Fiber Solution

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Episode 298- (REDONE!) How Long Does It Take to Reverse Insulin Resistance? What Can Change in 90 Days

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Episode 297- Is Your Light Environment Wrecking Your Metabolism? How Light Impacts Cortisol, Blood Sugar, Energy & Sleep with Roudy Nassif

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Episode 296- Raising Sextuplets, Losing Her Husband, and Transforming Her Health: Amy Van Houten's Incredible Story

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Episode 295- The Menopause Gut: Why Your Metabolism Changes After 40 with Cynthia Thurlow, NP

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Episode 294- What We've Gotten Wrong About Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Metabolic Health with Daniel Trevor

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Episode 293- From 500 Pounds to a 40-Day Fast: Athena Perez's Incredible Story of Healing

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Episode 292- Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones: The Missing Link to Weight Loss and Better Health with Dr Cassie Smith

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Episode 291- Natural and Doable Solutions for Fatty Liver and High Cholesterol

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Episode 290- In-Depth Gut Healing Strategies You Haven't Heard About Yet with Dane Johnson

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Episode 289- Why One Fiber Isn't Enough: The Power of a Fiber Matrix for Blood Sugar, Gut Health & Cholesterol

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Episode 288- From PCOS to PMOS: Why This Metabolic Name Change Matters with Cory Ruth, RD

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Episode 287- The Missing Link in Metabolic Health: Light, EMFs & Cellular Energy with Dan Stachofsky

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Episode 286- The Modern Treatment of Obesity: Surgery, GLP-1s, and Metabolic Health with Dr. Betsy Dovec

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Episode 285- Peptides, Menopause, and Metabolic Health: What Women Need to Know About Aging Well with Dr. Jennifer Timmons

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Episode 284- Protecting Your Brain in a World Designed to Distract You with Dr. Marc Milstein

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Episode 283- Prediabetes to Freedom: How to Reverse Blood Sugar Dysfunction Naturally with Dr. Jason Shumard

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Episode 282- Rapid Fire Metabolism Q&A: Challenging What You Think You Know About Weight Loss, Fatigue & Blood Sugar

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Episode 281- The Role of Keto and Fasting in Cancer Care: Hope, Nuance, and Real-Life Practice with Martha Tettenborn

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Episode 280- Q&A: Nighttime Cravings, Walking After Meals, Breakfast Mistakes & Insulin Resistance BEFORE High Blood Sugar

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Episode 279- GLP-1s, Muscle Loss, and Metabolic Damage: What Nobody Is Talking About with Jason Nelson

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Episode 278- How an 80-Year-Old Reversed Type 2 Diabetes Naturally, Avoided Amputation, and Reclaimed Her Memory

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Episode 277- Why Fatty Liver Happens—and How to Reverse It

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Episode 276- How a 56-Year-Old Became the Leanest She's Ever Been (And Ditched Food Noise for Good)

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Episode 275- Is Mental Illness a Metabolic Problem? The Shocking Link Between Brain Health & Blood Sugar with Dr Matt Bernstein

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Episode 274- Do You Have to Go Keto to Heal? My Personal Approach to Carbohydrates

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Episode 273- The Overlooked Connection Between Cancer, Infections, and Blood Sugar with Mark Lintern

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Episode 272- The Truth About Fasting: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Wrong Timing?

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Episode 271- From Dancing with the Stars to Healing Chronic Pain and Trauma: Ashleigh Di Lello's Powerful Story

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Episode 270- Morning Habits That Reprogram Your Hormones

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Episode 269- Is Candida Sabotaging Your Metabolism? The Truth About Gut Infections & Insulin Resistance

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Episode 268- Your Blood Sugar Is a Light Problem (Not Just a Food Problem)

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Episode 267- GLP-1s, Statins, Metformin: Are These Meds Helpful or Harmful?

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Episode 266- Are GLP-1 Meds a Bridge or a Trap? Healing the Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction with Lindsay Venn, PA-C, RD

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Episode 265- The Truth About Cholesterol, Triglycerides & Fatty Liver — And What Really Fixes It

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Episode 264- How One Doctor Found His Calling -and His Health- After Leaving the System with Dr. Kenny Harless

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Episode 263- Eat This First, Not Last: Simple Hacks to Balance Blood Sugar & Reverse Insulin Resistance

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Episode 262- Beating Hashimoto's, Severe Gut Issues, and Chronic Pain Without Meds: A Real-Life Transformation

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Episode 261- Is Alzheimer's a Metabolic Disease? The Case for Insulin Resistance as Root Cause with Rachel Daughtery

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Episode 260- Inside the Feel Great System: Sam Hughes of Unicity on the Ingredients, the Mission, and the Metabolic Crisis

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Episode 259- Fatty Liver & Insulin Resistance: Why It's Everywhere—and How to Reverse It

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Episode 258- What No One Tells You About Life After GLP-1 Meds with Dr. Jim Hill

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Episode 257- Holiday Eating Triggers: How to Stay in Control Without Feeling Deprived

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Episode 256- How I Lost Weight on a Cruise and Through Thanksgiving, Without Dieting or Tracking

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Episode 255- Weight Won't Budge? Dig Deeper Into Peptides, Hormones & Mitochondrial Health with Craig Mullen, FNP

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Episode 254- How to Reverse Fatty Liver Naturally: The 90-Day Reset That Heals from the Inside Out

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Episode 253- Why You're Still Sick (And What to Do About It) with Dr. Aaron Hartman

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Episode 252- Fix the Root: How I Dropped My Total Cholesterol 58 Points & LDL 41 Points in 11 Weeks—Without Medication

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Episode 251- Winter Wellness: Embracing the Dark, Melatonin, Vitamin D, and Ketogenic Living for True Circadian Health with Carrie Bennett

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Episode 250- The Truth About GLP-1 You Haven't Heard and How to Safely Wean Off Medications

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Episode 249- Are We Treating the Wrong Numbers? Rethinking Cholesterol & Heart Health—with Dr. Urban Kiernan

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Episode 248- Brent & Tonya's Miracle: Off Insulin in a Week, Down 62 Pounds, Triglycerides Dropped 400+ Points

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Episode 247- How Circadian Disruption Fuels Anxiety, Trauma, and Hormone Chaos—with Dr. Kelli Ritter

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Episode 246- Boosting GLP-1 Naturally: What Drug Companies Won't Admit or Tell You

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Episode 245- What to Fix First: Gut, Sleep, Detox or Hormones? with Dr. Austin Lake

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Episode 244- Back-to-School Reset: How to Feel Great Again—Without More Diets, Meds or Burnout

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Episode 243- Why Fasting Was Hurting My Hormones: Burnout, Stress & the Truth You Need

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Episode 242- How It Feels When Your Metabolism Finally Works, If Insulin Resistance Can Return, and What the Feel Great System Does for Cholesterol

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Episode 241- Cravings Gone, Cholesterol Down: The Surprising Fix That Helped RD Shannon Davis Reverse Insulin Resistance

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Episode 240- What You Really Need to Know About Insulin Resistance & GLP-1 (That No One's Telling You)

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Episode 239- How Poor Sleep Blocks Weight Loss and Fuels Insulin Resistance with Jill McRae

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Episode 238- Is It Sugar or Stress? How to Tell What's Really Spiking Your Blood Sugar

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Episode 237- What If Cancer Is a Metabolic Disease? My Mom's Story & the Power of Light

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Episode 236- What EMFs Are Doing to Our Brains, Hormones, and Future Generations

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Episode 235- Continuous Glucose Monitors: Why You Need One + How to Use It

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Episode 234- The Episode That's Been On My Heart for 2 Years- When Health Isn't Just Physical: My Shift Toward Spiritual Wellness

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Episode 233- Gut, Hormones & Microdosing GLP‑1 with Dr. Cassie Smith, MD

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Episode 232- CGM Secrets: How I Got My Blood Sugar into the 80s (Without More Fasting!)

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Episode 231- The Sleep Tool Every Stressed Woman Needs: Cooling Weighted Blankets with Elizabeth Grojean

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Episode 230- Why Sleep from 10 PM to 6 AM Heals You—But 1 AM to 9 AM Might Hurt You

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Episode 229- Why You Should Eat Carbs—Especially Seasonally!

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Episode 228- How Poor Cervical STRUCTURE Can Trigger 3AM Wake-ups, Fatigue and Blood Sugar Issues with Dr. Peter Martone

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Episode 227- The Cortisol Comeback: How to Heal from Burnout Naturally

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Episode 226- Adrenal Fatigue or Circadian Dysfunction? Here's How to Tell!

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Episode 225- 3 AM Wake-Ups: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You!

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Episode 224- Spring Reset! 5 Ways to Align Your Hormones with the Sun

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Episode 223- The Realities Behind the Current Metabolic Health Crisis with the Living Beyond Medicine Team

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Episode 222- Everything You Wanted To Know About Red Light Therapy with Scott Chaverri

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Episode 221- Gut Health After Antibiotics, During Travel, and How It Relates to Weight Loss with Lindsey Parsons

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Episode 220- Introducing the GoCoCo App to Make Label Reading a Breeze with Julie Ruelle, RD

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Episode 219- The Simple Science and Magic Behind Coherent Water and the Analemma Wand with Mario Brainovic

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Episode 218 CONTINUED with Mollie Starkey

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Episode 218- How One Couple Lost 77 Pounds Collectively and Changed the Trajectory of Their Entire Family with LIA Student Mollie Starkey

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Episode 217- Amazing and Unique Healing Qualities of Molecular Hydrogen with Greg the Hydrogen Man

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Episode 216- Unraveling Genetic Testing to Reveal Specific Health Protocols with Dr. Matt Dawson

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Episode 215- A Moving Breast Cancer Survivor Story Combining Alternative and Traditional Therapies with Jimi Sturgeon-Smith

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Episode 214- Profound Lessons I Learned in 2024 and What I'll Be Sharing in 2025- SOLO Episode

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Episode 213- Why Dry January Could Change Your Life with Amanda Kuda

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Episode 212- Your Feisty 4 Hormones and How To Balance Them at Any Age with Nicki Williams

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Episode 211- Overcoming Breast Cancer, Heavy Metal Toxicity, and Leaky Gut with Miriam Jacobson, RD

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Episode 210- How Lori Balue Lost More Than 100 Pounds Over The Age of 50

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Episode 209- BONUS! Identify and Test For Insulin, Cortisol, and Blood Sugar Issues, My Total Wellness Mastery Summit Interview

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Episode 208- Blue Light Toxicity, Melatonin, and the Cancer Epidemic with The Light Doctor Dr. Martin Moore-Ede

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Episode 207- Overcoming the Physical and Emotional Challenges of Perimenopause and Menopause with Dr. Liz Lyster

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Episode 206- Using Glutathione to Slow Aging and Reduce Oxidative Stress with Dr. Nayan Patel

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Episode 205- Taking FULL Advantage of Darkness, Cold, and Food Scarcity in the Fall and Winter With Dr. Sara Pugh

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Episode 204- The Amazing Healing Effects of Frequency Medicine with Stephen Davis