Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

Anxious? Unfocused? Burned out? The answer might be sitting between your ears 🧠⚡ In this episode, Rachel Lambert and Angie Noack of Braincode Centers are exposing what the mental health industry skips over — brain mapping and neurofeedback. We're talking everything a EEG brain map actually reveals and how you can retrain and optimize your brain naturally. Thank you to our sponsors! TAYLOR DU...

The invisible threat moms can’t wash off 🌱🌾🚜 After watching her own family's health fall apart, Zen Honeycutt got to work — founding Moms Across America, running the first glyphosate testing in the country, and getting Costco to pull Roundup off its shelves. In this episode, we're breaking down glyphosate, paraquat, atrazine, fluoride, and the Big Ag lobbying machine. Thank you to our s...

Everyone's ditching fluoride for hydroxyapatite. But is it actually safer? 🦷 Jenn Thatcher didn't just go along with the trend — she pushed back. After believing her children were affected by products she trusted, and then facing her son's brain tumor diagnosis, she became relentless about ingredient safety. She's the founder of ZEBRA, a non-toxic personal care brand built on one principle: clean...

Your great-grandmother ate bread every day—so why does a single slice leave so many people feeling bloated, sluggish, and convinced they're gluten intolerant? 🍞 Sue Becker — food scientist, author, and founder of Real Bread Outreach — is back after her first appearance broke the internet and sold out flour mills across the country. After more than 34 years studying wheat and modern food proce...

A generation ago, pregnant women were rarely offered vaccines. Today, they're encouraged to get multiple shots before their baby takes a single breath. Dr. Bob Sears, pediatrician, vaccine educator, and author of The Vaccine Book , joins us to discuss parental choice, informed consent, and the growing debate around maternal vaccination. We also dive into circumcision—and his perspective may su...

We've all been sleeping on LARD?! The wellness world is obsessed with beef tallow — but Charles Mayfield, regenerative farmer and founder of Farrow Skincare, says we've completely ignored the one animal humans have relied on most for centuries: the pig. After a severe sunburn flipped his entire worldview, Charles became obsessed with the question hardly anyone in the MAHA movement wants to touch —...

We're surrounded by WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G every day — so why haven't we heard what the research says about long-term exposure? Stephanie Locricchio, Senior Advocacy Manager at Children's Health Defense and founder of Wellness Warriors Revolution, joins us to break down the explosion of wireless technology and H.R. 2289 — a bill that could strip local communities of control over where...

Millions of Americans take antidepressants, but far fewer are warned about how difficult coming off them can be. Laura Delano spent 14 years inside the psychiatric system before discovering that many of the symptoms she believed were signs of mental illness were actually linked to psychiatric drug withdrawal. We discuss why antidepressant tapering is so often misunderstood, how withdrawal can be m...

The beauty industry has been putting ingredients in your lip products that they'd NEVER be allowed to put in your food — and nobody is talking about it. Laura DiGirolamo is a beauty attorney, industry insider, and founder of YOM Beauty, and she's blowing the whistle on one of the biggest blind spots in modern beauty. We're talking flavored balms, vanilla frosting lip masks, tinted glos...

Why are so many incredible women still single — and why do men feel like dating is impossible? Brad Wilcox, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UVA and author of Get Married, joins us to tackle one of the most urgent crises of our time — crashing birth rates, exploding loneliness, and entire generations opting out of love and family. He breaks down why even Christians are struggling, and gives...

The Trump pivot. The Crowder fallout. Brett Cooper. Ben Shapiro. Jeremy Boreing has been at the center of some of the biggest personalities, controversies, and power moves in conservative media. As co-founder of The Daily Wire, he helped build a startup into a media empire—and in this episode, we get into what it really takes to do that, where the movement goes from here, and whether conservatism...

We've all heard about how mouth breathing can affect kids — but what about adults? Dr. Hilary Fritsch, an airway-focused biological dentist and Montana's premier Toothpillow provider, uncovers one of the most overlooked health crises of our time — exposing why your TMJ, neck pain, low libido, and hormone issues may all trace back to how you breathe. She reveals why modern humans are develo...

Dr. Hutz Hertzberg, Chief Education Officer at Turning Point Education, joins us to discuss faith, leadership, education, and culture. With decades of experience spanning higher education, ministry, and service as a U.S. Navy Reserve chaplain, Hutz shares insights from leading top-ranked Christian schools, mentoring the next generation, and navigating today’s cultural challenges through a biblical...

MONSTER episode with Mikhaila Peterson on the lasting damage people are getting from SSRIs, dating, faith, her dad Jordan Peterson’s current health situation, plastic surgery, and healing chronic illness with The Lion Diet. Thank you to our sponsors: ZEBRA: Use code "ALEX" for 10% off any order at https://yayzebra.com A'DEL NATURAL COSMETICS: Use code "ALEX" for 25% off fir...

What do parents need to know before ever giving their child a vaccine? How worried should we be about hantavirus? And after everything we went through, does the DOJ finally have enough to put Fauci in jail? Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist with over 1,000 published papers and 700+ citations in the National Library of Medicine and is one of the most censored do...

How do you find a better doctor? What if they aren’t in your insurance network? What is the difference between a functional medicine doctor and a naturopath? Razi Berry, founder of NDNR, The Journal of Applied Natural Medicine, and curator of the largest archive of naturopathic and integrative medicine case reports, has spent over two decades documenting what conventional medicine keeps getting wr...

Beyoncé, Madonna, and Kendall Jenner trust her research and she says the tea industry is one of the most diabolical when it comes to plastic and lead exposure. Josephine Musco, environmental health researcher, Vogue and Forbes contributor, and founder of Olyxir, has spent years studying how toxins infiltrate the body. Today, she's exposing the microplastics hiding in your tea, the skincare you...

You're probably spending more money on skincare products that are secretly making your skin worse. Bethany McDaniel, founder of Primally Pure, went from debilitating adult acne to skin so clear people don't believe it's real—and she built an entire brand around what actually got her there. She breaks down what's really driving chronic acne in women, why most non-toxic brands are still quietly fail...

What if the lights in your home are quietly wrecking your hormones, aging your skin, and disrupting your baby’s development? Heidi Sime, circadian rhythm expert and co-founder of DreamWalkerz, breaks down how modern lighting is throwing your biology off—especially for moms and babies—and shares simple, realistic ways to fix your “light diet,” improve sleep, and support your hormones without going...

Who is pulling the corruption levers in the food industry? How did it get this bad? Jason Karp, CEO of HumanCo and one of the main investors in multiple clean food brands knows ALL the inside baseball into the dark history of Big Food. As the executive producer of 'The Plastic Detox' on Netflix, Jason also drops bombs on what plastic exposure is doing to our bodies and contributing to the...

Are we posting our kids online in ways that could seriously hurt them later? Lead Plunkett, author of 'Sharenthood' and faculty at Harvard law school, talks about the hidden risks of posting your children online, what most parents don’t understand about privacy in the digital age, the dark side of the family influencer economy, and how AI is raising the stakes in ways most people haven’t e...

What if most of your "normal" eye decline was actually preventable? Dr. Bryce Appelbaum, board-certified neuro-optometrist and founder of MyVisionFirst, joins me to break down everything your eye doctor probably never told you — dry eyes, screen fatigue, vision problems misdiagnosed as ADHD, how concussions can mess with your sight long after the injury, and and the practical tools that...

What are the world’s most elite doing for perfect skin, balanced hormones, and longevity—and is stem cell therapy actually worth it? Dr. Rafael Gonzalez explains aging, fertility, inflammation, and the truth about stem cell therapy—ethical concerns, cancer risks, and whether it actually works. We also get into what high-level clients like Dana White & Gary Brecka are doing for next-level healt...

Nutritional scientist Chris Masterjohn breaks down Why your mitochondria—not your calories—control your energy, the supplement trends that are a complete waste of money (and the few that aren’t), which exercises can buy time on your life, the “healthy habits” that could actually be wrecking your hormones, the truth about seed oils, protein quality, and nutrient deficiencies and yes…whether RFK Jr....

How-to lead your family in their health journey from a husband who’s doing it. From the basics of blood work to peptides or even testing for the MTHFR gene mutation, Nate Graville, founder of Geviti helps you get ahead of disease before it starts. Thank you to our sponsors! TOOTH PILLOW: Use code "ALEXCLARK" for a free video review upgrade A'DEL NATURAL COSMETICS: Use code "ALEX...