Ancestral Health Today

The Parkour Mindset  This episode of Ancestral Health Today is a wide-ranging discussion with Julie Angel about Parkour and other natural movement practices.  Julie is a filmmaker, an author and a movement coach.  Her movement practice developed out of her early encounter with the Parkour movement in Paris in the early 2000s.  For those of you who may not be familiar with Parkour, it involves jump...

In this episode of AHTP we have Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD. She is the founder of Nutrivore.com. She creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidenced-based scientific research. Dr. Sarah began her career as a science communicator and health educator when she launched her original website in 2011. S...

This week’s episode with Dr. Anna Lembke explores what drives addictions and how to overcome them. Dr. Lembke is the medical director of Stanford's Addiction Medicine center, in addition to being a practicing psychiatrist and helping patients with their addictions.  Her recent book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence takes a deep look at the epidemic of addition -- not only...

Terry Wahls on Treating Multiple Sclerosis Using Paleo Principles In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Terry Wahls will discuss a promising approach to treating MS and other autoimmune conditions using a "paleo plus" diet. Terry is a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Iowa and has developed a dietary framework for recovery from MS based on her own experience and recovery from the d...

Honored to have Jen Brea on the show. We had a wonderful conversation about her personal journey with MECFS, growing up with healthy parents and her experience in the ancestral health community. Jen was warning about the potential of chronic illness post Covid-19 infection, on her X account back in March of 2020. Jennifer Brea is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Pr...

Stephan Guyenet on How the Brain Controls Eating and Obesity This episode with Stephan Guyenet examines the brain processes that drive appetite and eating behavior. Stephan is a neuroscientist who has studied what drives many of us to overeat and become overweight, and why it is so hard to lose weight.  He did his Ph. D. in Neurobiology at the University of Washington, and wrote the popular heath...

Dr. Alessio Fasano, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Fasano’s translational science is focused on the role of impaired intestinal barrier function in the pathogenesis of autoim...

This episode with Michael Rose will look at longevity from an evolutionary perspective.  Michael is an experimental evolutionary biologist who has spent the last several decades running experiments to understand the role that natural selection plays in aging.  He's a distinguished professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine, and a great talk at the Ancestral Health Symposium 2018 on...

On this episode of the Ancestral Health Today we have Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman. Katy teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. Her work has been featured in diverse media including The Today Show, CBC Radio One, The Seattle Times, and Good Housekeeping. One of...

In this episode of Ancestral Health Today, we bring you a conversation with James Nestor.  James Nestor is a science journalist and author of the bestselling book Breath, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 18 weeks, and won the a 2020 prize for Best General Nonfiction.  James also wrote a book on free divers who test their limits by diving to the ocean floor without oxygen tanks,...

Welcome to Ancestral Health today. In this episode we bring you part 2 of our discussion with Darryl Edwards. We released part 1 last week on September 5th, which also happened to be Ancestral Health Today’s very first episode. Today we dive into the rest of the pillars of health, including diet, avoiding toxicity, breathing, play and living with purpose. You can find more about Darryl by visiting...

Welcome to the first episode of Ancestral Health Today. We are excited to bring you part one of a two part episode with the Amazing Darryl Edwards. Darryl is the founder of Primal Play , a super creative and always evolving movement program, a social and community experience with play at the center. Darryl is the best selling author of the book Animal Moves , he is a keynote and motivational speak...

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