Restore the Real

Dan Carcillo spent 12 years in the NHL, won two Stanley Cups, and walked away with seven concussions and a brain injury diagnosis doctors told him was permanent. A psilocybin ceremony in 2019 changed that, and changed the entire direction of his life. What happens when half a million dollars, every conventional treatment available, and the top neurologists in the field still leave you with no answ...

Troy Olds is the co-founder of Ascend Brain Center in Boise, Idaho, a neurofeedback and wellness practice he built after breaking his own brain and nervous system during the dot-com boom and spending years rebuilding himself from the ground up. What happens when someone who has done hundreds of therapy sessions, thousands of twelve-step meetings, breath work, meditation, and psychedelic therapy st...

May 26 Zach Dancel is the co-founder of Nava Health, a functional medicine platform built after watching the entire modern medical system fail his mother despite having access to the best specialists in the world. What happens when eight top specialists, 15 medications, and years of appointments still can't tell you what's wrong? Expect to learn... Why a seven minute doctor's appointment structura...

Dr. Cathrine Clinton is a naturopathic physician, author, and founder of the Quantum Biology Health Institute who sits at the intersection of biology, physics, and healing and she's here to explain why the body is far more intelligent than most medicine gives it credit for. Expect to learn... What fascia actually is, why it was dismissed as useless scaffolding for decades, and why it may be on...

Randy Michaux is back with a solo episode on why the protocols that worked three years ago are hitting a wall, and what he believes is driving it. Expect to learn... Why post-COVID fear, isolation, and distrust created a population-level physiologic shift that is making bodies resistant to even the gentlest healing protocols What Dr. Robert Naviaux's cell danger response research reveals about...

Stephen Davis is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and inventor with 35 years of executive leadership experience who built frequency-based wellness technology after watching his family suffer through years of Lyme disease misdiagnosis with no real solutions. Expect to learn... How 74 simultaneous plant-based frequencies can wake up an immune system that Lyme disease has essentially put to...

Dr. Katie Patel spent 15 years as a pharmacologist watching people swap one prescription for another, never asking why they got sick in the first place. Now she straddles two worlds as both a VA clinical pharmacologist and a functional medicine practitioner, and she's on a mission to get people building a foundation before they reach for anything else. Her wake-up call didn't come in a cli...

Tara Miller is a psychotherapist, top 5% certified Self-Regulation Therapy practitioner, and nervous system performance coach who helps entrepreneurs and executives build what she calls unstoppable resilience. She's now bringing cutting-edge neuroscience into a form you can literally wear on your skin. Her path into this work wasn't planned. A series of traumatic events, including a car accident w...

Christy Hutchison is a realtor, healthy home specialist, and mold survivor who helps people with biotoxin illness and SIRS find homes where they can actually heal. After 15 years of mysterious symptoms and a catastrophic exposure in a Newport Beach beach house that left her unable to walk, Christy rebuilt her health — and her entire approach to real estate. Today she inspects every inch of a home...

Tami Reed is a Human Design and Quantum Alignment Guide who helps people stop performing and start living as who they actually are. At 14, Tami survived a suicide attempt — and in that moment heard a question that changed everything: "Why are you placing your value in other people's hearts?" That single internal shift sent her on a decades-long search to understand how we're trul...

Dr. Melanie Stein is a licensed naturopathic physician in Portland, Oregon, a leading clinician in cell membrane therapy for complex and chronic illness, and the author of  Breaking Through Chronic Illness . After waking up paralyzed in naturopathic medical school, then being told her symptoms were “all in her head” before eventually being diagnosed with Lyme disease and mold toxicity, she built a...

Katie Hardie is a board-certified holistic nutritionist and FDN practitioner who helps high performers reclaim their energy, optimize nutrition, and achieve sustainable results through bio‑individual, science‑driven programs.​ How 90s “low‑fat, more cardio” culture pushed Katie into overtraining, and hypothalamic dysfunction. Why more minutes and miles don’t equal better performance—and how intell...

From chronically ill patient to the strategist behind 9-figure wellness brands, this conversation with Allie Chandler is about what it really takes to heal when your body. Allie is the founder and CEO of Upsell Health, a marketing agency helping functional medicine practitioners and supplement companies scale to 60–100M in revenue, after years as the “mystery patient” navigating chronic Lyme, mold...

Veenu Keller is an entrepreneur, behavior specialist, and “Parent–Child Whisperer” who helps families heal patterns of self-harm, suicidal ideation, anxiety and much more, by addressing the root emotional wounds between parents and children. How unhealed wounds in parents quietly shape their kids’ behavior and mental health, and how curiosity, regulation, and root-cause work can transform “problem...

Nicole Bell is an engineer, entrepreneur, medical advocate, and author of  What Lurks in the Woods , whose life was transformed when her high-performing husband developed rapid cognitive decline that was repeatedly misdiagnosed. Drawing on her background in engineering and diagnostics, Nicole brings a clear, systems-level lens to the failures of conventional testing, the complexity of Lyme and co-...

Giovanni Bartolomeo is a serial entrepreneur, founder of Elemental Breathwork, and a transformational breathwork teacher whose work helps people use the breath not to control experience, but as a gateway into regulation, awareness, and lasting change.  In this episode, Randy and Gio unpack how a single breathwork journey became the inflection point that pulled Gio out of a “successful but empty” l...

Dr. Keiko Finnegan, Co-Founder of Kinfolk Optimal Living What if your body isn’t broken and never was? Dr. Randy Michaux sits down with Dr. Keiko Finnegan to explore vitalism not as a philosophy, but as a lived, embodied relationship with life itself. Together, they unpack trust, pause, awareness, and the quiet intelligence that animates healing when we stop trying to be fixed. Rather than chasing...

Hunter Ziesing is the co-founder of Longevity Health , a preventative-medicine platform combining advanced testing, and emerging AI tools to help people take control of their long-term health. After two decades in finance and a personal wake-up call when his father passed from pancreatic cancer, Hunter turned his focus to fixing the failures of modern healthcare—starting with prevention. Expect to...

Dr. Ashley Beckman — Doctor of Chinese Medicine, acupuncturist, and functional wellness expert — joins us to talk about the hidden sources of burnout, chronic fatigue, hormone imbalance, and unexplained symptoms that so many women face today. Dr. Ashley shares her personal healing journey, beginning with severe chemical sensitivity, joint pain, and autoimmune-like symptoms that went undiagnosed by...

Dr. Allen Linsley — functional medicine practitioner, clinical nutritionist, and specialist in chronic illness — breaks down why long COVID leaves so many people unable to recover, even when the initial infection is long gone. In Part 2, we dive deeper into the physiology behind post-viral dysfunction, the hidden stress loops that keep the body stuck, and what traditional medicine still overlooks...

Chad Ayers, business owner and certified environmental consultant with PureHealth Mold Inspections, joins us to unpack the hidden health risks inside our homes — and how many healing journeys stall when the home environment isn’t safe. In this conversation, you’ll discover: •What’s missing from most mold inspections — and why standard air-sampling often misses serious problems. •How hidden mold an...

She thought she was doing everything right; raising 8 kids, working out, eating well, yet her body felt heavier, slower, and more out of control by the day. In this episode, I sit down with my sister Jenny to talk about what really changed when she said yes to the Living Light Reset. Spoiler: it wasn't just about weight. Yes, she lost 30 pounds. But more importantly, she found stability. Her...

Dr. Vohn Watts is the founder of Aegis Formulas, a company focused on creating high-absorption, clinically dosed supplements built on the principles of foundational medicine. In this conversation, Dr. Watts explains why health is simpler than the industry makes it seem — and why most disease begins with dysfunction at the organ level. He shares how restoring the body’s foundation can bring labs ba...

In this episode, Dr. Randy Michaux sits down with Dr. Alan Linsdley, a chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner who has worked with over 25,000 patients navigating Lyme disease, chronic infections, and long-term fatigue. Together, they dive deep into the lingering mystery of Long COVID, exploring how the virus may not have fully left the body, how it hides in tissues, and how that can sil...