Maxim Pruchnewski - Medical Student and passionate Out-Of-The-Box-Thinker

Sapien's Playground - Medicine, Psychology, Truth Seeking and Fascinating Experiences

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It's time to play! Follow along for a journey of meaningful and passionate exploration of sorting out between truths and untruths about achieving optimal health and well-being through nutrition, exercise, sunlight, sleep, psychological development, etc. My name is Maxim and I am a Medical Student who is all about exploring, seeking truth, challenging old narratives and thinking out of the box to ultimatively find out what can really make us happier, healthier and stronger as humans! Enjoy listening to all the deep, meaningful conversations and productive discussions on this trilingual show!

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Maxim Pruchnewski - Medical Student and passionate Out-Of-The-Box-Thinker

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Sep 22, 2025

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(GER) - #75 – Mindful Meat: Wildfleisch, Ethik & Performance - Im Gespräch mit Nick und Fabi 22.09.2025

Willkommen zurück auf Sapiens Playground. In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Fabian, dem Gründer von Mindful Meat, und seinem Mitarbeiter Nick. Mindful Meat ist noch ein recht junges Unternehmen, das in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Jagdhaus Dellien Wildfleisch aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern liefert – mit dem Ziel, gesunde, proteinhaltige und ethisch vertretbare Ernährung mit Wildfleisch für Menschen zugängli...

(ENG) - Episode #74 – Angelo Eugenio – From Venezuela to China to Berlin: Growth, Challenge, Fitness & Finding Home 25.07.2025

Welcome back to Sapiens Playground! In this episode, I sit down with my friend Angelo Eugenio – fitness coach, nutritional expert, and founder of https://activforever.com/ Born in Venezuela, Angelo spent 13 transformative years living in China, where he studied, built his coaching business, and opened his own gym. Now based in Berlin, he continues helping others thrive through movement and lifesty...

(GER) - #73 – Fabi Eisenlauer – Vom Triathlon zur HYROX-Spitze: Essstörung, Comeback, Training & Mindset 18.06.2025

Willkommen zurück auf Sapiens Playground. In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Fabi Eisenlauer – ehemaliger Triathlet, mittlerweile einer der besten Läufer im HYROX-Sport, Rekordhalter und Weltmeister. Wir tauchen zunächst tief ein in seine persönliche Geschichte: Wie er den Übergang vom Ausdauersport zum Hybridtraining gemeistert hat, welche gesundheitlichen Rückschläge ihn auf dem Weg geprägt haben...

(ENG) - #72 - Beau Wills - Elite HYROX Athlete on Race Mindset, Strengths and Weaknesses & Smart Training Strategies 18.05.2025

Welcome back to Sapiens Playground! In this episode, I sit down with Beau Wills – one of the world’s top HYROX athletes, known for his precision, consistency, and race-day execution as well as his unparalleled humility. We talk about his Crossfit Gym in Switzerland, dive into HYROX journey, his mental approach to competition, and how he structures training to play to his strengths while managing h...

#71 - Sergio Di Pasquale - Calisthenics Endurance Dominance, Injury Rehab, Upcoming Calisthenics Events and Insane Workout Challenges 23.04.2025

Welcome back to Sapiens Playground! In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sergio Di Pasquale – an elite calisthenics athlete known for pushing the limits of endurance in calisthenics and one of the best in the world. We talk about his personal journey, how he dealth with injuries in the past and how is currently dealing with an injury at the moment. We also discuss what it takes...

(GER) #70 – Die Vision des MOJO Instituts - Dr. Gerrit Keferstein über seinen Weg zu mehr Lebenskraft und Mojo 18.03.2025

Willkommen zurück auf Sapien's Playground! In dieser Episode hatte ich die Freude, zum dritten Mal mit Dr. Gerrit Keferstein, dem visionären Gründer und Arzt des MOJO Instituts für Regenerationsmedizin, zu sprechen. Ich hatte außerdem die einmalige Gelegenheit, eine Woche im MOJO Institut zu verbringen und das Team sowie die Atmosphäre hautnah zu erleben. Unsere Unterhaltung taucht tief in die Urs...

(ENG) #69 - Hyrox World Champion Taylor Haney - Hybrid Training, Mindset of a Champion and Training Strategies for Hyrox 24.09.2023

This is where you can support the podcast:  ⁠⁠http://paypal.me/pruchnewski⁠⁠  Thank you! Hello friends! If you want to understand how a champion thinks, what it takes to become a Hyrox World Champion at 40 years of age and what the best training strategies are to improve your Hyro performance that make sure to tune into todays episode with Talyor Haney. Taylor is the gym owner of Reach Functional...

(ENG) #68 - Dr. Stephen Hussey, DC - Challenging the Lipid Hypothesis and Discussing Unknown Contributors to Heart Disease - Body Water, Sunlight and EMFs 26.08.2023

This is where you can support the podcast: ⁠⁠http://paypal.me/pruchnewski⁠⁠ Thank you! Hello everybody, today I had the pleasure to speak with Chiropractor and Functional Medicine Practioner Dr. Stephen Hussey. We had a wonderful and enlightening conversation about heart disease and some its rather underappreciated causes and contributors. Dr. Hussey attained both his Doctorate of Chiropractic and...

#67 - Bedtime Story (14) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 12 - Isolated and Modernized New Zealand Maori 06.08.2023

In  the section "Bedtime Story" I will read a chapter from a book for you which I personally found interesting and find worth sharing with you! Please excuse if I my misspronounce some words, since English is not my first language and I could potentially make mistakes in the pronounciation. Our first book will be "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A  Comparison of Primitive and...

(GER) #66 - Dr. Daniele Ganser - Schweizer Historiker und Friedensforscher über Wahrheit, Liebe und Mut als Wegweiser in Zeiten von Krieg, Zensur und Propaganda 12.06.2023

Hier könnt ihr meine Arbeit unterstützen: http://paypal.me/pruchnewski Vielen Dank! Herzlich willkommen zu einer der wichitgsten Folgen bisher auf Sapien's Playground! Ich hatte die große Ehre und wahnsinnige Freude, mit dem Schweizer Historiker und Friedensforscher Dr. Daniele Ganser heute auf meinem Podcast zu sprechen. Über sich schreibt Dr. Ganser auf seiner Website, er ist Schweizer, Hist...

(ENG) #65 - Lorenzo Barberis Canonico, PhD - The Art of Podcasting, Speech and Debate, AI and Politics 07.05.2023

This is where you can support the podcast: http://paypal.me/pruchnewski Thank you! Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode on Sapien's Playground! While travelling the US I had the great pleasure and honour to meet up twice with Lorenzo Barberis Canonico, PhD and spend several hours recording what turned out to be one podcast episode with me being the host and the second one where he...

#64 - Bedtime Story (13) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 11 - Isolated and Modernized Torres Strait Islanders 21.04.2023

In  the section "Bedtime Story" I will read a chapter from a book for you which I personally found interesting and find worth sharing with you! Please excuse if I my misspronounce some words, since English is not my first language and I could potentially make mistakes in the pronounciation. Our first book will be "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A  Comparison of Primitive and...

(РУС) #63 - Диета ГАПС - Интервью с доктором Наташей Кэмбелл Макбрайд - Как излечить свою психику и физиологию от хронических заболеваний 11.04.2023

Здравствуйте друзья! Добро пожаловать на мой подкаст!  Сегодня у меня в гостях очень важный гость - доктор Наташа Кэмбелл Макбрайд. Наташа на данный момент проживает в Англии, закончила она медицинский институт в России. Cерьёзно задумываться о хронических заболеванияx она началась после того, как у её сына был поставлен диагноз аутизма. С этого момента она все эти годы пыталась разобраться в том,...

(ENG) #62 - David Greenwalt - The Leanness Lifestyle University and The Most Impactful Causes of Obesity 23.03.2023

Welcome back everyone to Sapien`s Playground! With us today is Certified Health Coach, fitness expert, and author David Greenwalt. A husband, father, former police officer, gym owner, competitive state-level body builder, and powerlifter, in 1997, at age 32 and a bodyweight of 235 pounds, David discovered an evidence-based approach for getting off his own 50 excess pounds and keeping it off for 25...

(РУС) #61 - Руслан Саибов - Разговор с профессиональным атлетом - Как сила внимания, целеустремленность и освоение своих ценностей могут помочь справиться с негативными взглядами на жизнь 01.03.2023

Привет ребята!  Рад приветствовать вас на Sapien's Playground! Сегодня очередной раз у меня на канале Руслан Саибов. На этот раз мы решили записать подкаст на русском языке и глубоко и подробно обсудили много разных важных тем, которые в первую очередь касаются нашего внутреннего настроя по отношению к внешнему миру. Мне было очень интересно услышать, как его взгляды на жизнь изменились в теч...

(ENG) #60 – Aaron Braun – How Hypnotherapy, Spirituality, Gratitude and Exercise Have Saved and Transformed His Life 20.02.2023

Dear listener!  Today I would like to take you with me on a journey through Aaron's life and transformation. His story is truly moving, inspiring, breathtaking, heartbreaking and at the same time unbelievably encouraging and empowering. Aaron describes himself as someone who practices the development of the Drengr Discipline Mindset, as an MMA-enthusiast a Pagan practicioner and a proud dad....

(РУС) - #59 - Анастасия про свою страсть в спорте - По пути, чтобы стать самой сильной женщиной в сфере калистеники 09.02.2023

Здравствуйте всем!  Сегодня вы услышите, что такое настоящая страсть в спорте. Вы услышите человека, который горит тем, чем занимается и упорно движется по направлению к целям. Мне было искренне приятно поговорить сегодня с Анастасией, услышать её историю, исследовать причины, которые её вдохновили заниматься калистеникой и которые продолжает её вдохновлять. Мы побеседовали о женских атлетах...

#58 - Bedtime Story (12) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 10 - Isolated and Modernized Australian Aborigines 31.01.2023

In  the section "Bedtime Story" I will read a chapter from a book for you which I personally found interesting and find worth sharing with you! Please excuse if I my misspronounce some words, since English is not my first language and I could potentially make mistakes in the pronounciation. Our first book will be "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A  Comparison of Primitive and Moder...

(ENG) #57 - Nick Capolino - Masculinity and Femininity, Family, Realtionships and Love, Discovering Our Deepest Values and Dealing With Suffering In Life 20.01.2023

Dear all, welcome back to this episode on Sapien's Playground.  This episode is a special one, not just because I have my friend Nick Capolino on the show but because we get to delve into some crucial issues that concern every single one of us on a daily basis and on several layers of analysis. We had a fascinating discussion about the interplay and relationship between masculinity and femini...

(ENG) #56 - Nicolas Verhoeven from Physionic - The Underlying Biochemistry of Type 2 Diabetes, NAFLD Fatty Liver Disease and Fatty Acid Consumption (SFAs, PUFAs, MUFAs) 10.01.2023

Hello everyone and a happy new year! Welcome back to my podcast Sapien's Playground! I am really excited today to have Nicolas Verhoeven from Physionic on the show and to get really granular and technical while discussing the biochemical and physiological pathways that underly Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Fatty Liver Disease, as well as the effect of dietary fatty acid composition on insulin sensitiv...

(ENG) #55 - NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL - My Conversation with Dr. Sean O'Mara - The Dangers of Excess Visceral Fat and Measures to Ameliorate Chronic Health Conditions 31.12.2022

Dear all, I wish everyone a wonderful New Year's Eve and a powerful start into 2023! May this year encourage you to take greater responsibility for your health first and foremost, may you come to the realization that you are literally the only one who must take it into your own hands.  By that same token, I hope that this special episode I had with Dr. Sean O'Mara will be of some value in gui...

(GER) #54 Julia @Metabolic.Med.Student – Zwei Charité Medizinstudenten diskutieren über Medizinstudium, traditionelle Ernährung, Weston Price, Atherosklerose und Probleme in der Patientenversorgung 20.12.2022

Liebe Freunde, liebe Zuhörer! Vielen Dank, dass ihr zu einer neuen Folge dazugeschaltet habt! Heute hatte ich die Freude, mich mit Julia über ein breites Spektrum an Themen zu unterhalten, Ernährung, Weston Price und unsere Erfahrungen aus dem Medizinstudium mit eingeschlossen. Julia ist ebenfalls Medizinstudentin an der Charité, jedoch schon im sogenannten Praktischen Jahr, also der letzte Schrit...

(ENG) #53 - Gabor Erdosi - The Immunological Aspects of Insulin Resistance and Visceral Adipose Tisue 07.12.2022

Dear listener, Welcome back to a new episode! I am delighted to have with me today Gabor Erdosi from Hungary, a food scientist with a master's in molecular biology and a particular interest in the development of chronic disease from a molecular and immunological perspective. His views on insulin resistance were particularly interesting not least because his unique explanations seemed coherent and...

(РУС) #52 - Денис Виталиев - Физкультура и калистеника для физичезкого и духовного развития 28.11.2022

Привет всем и добро пожаловать на новый эпизод на подкасте Sapien's Playground. Сегодня у меня была замечательная возможность побеседовать с моим хорошем другом Денисом Виталиевым. Денис имеет 20-летний опыт работы в качестве тренера по тренировкам с собственным весом тела. Изначально он был гимнастом, но последнее десятилетие активно стал продвигать искусство акробатики и гимнастики работая трене...

(ENG) #51 - A Discussion with Katja Bui - Feminism, Liberalism and Conservatism 13.11.2022

Hello everyone!  Today, I had the great pleasure to sit down in Berlin with a friend of mine, Katja Bui, originally from Ukraine, lived in Germany for the majority of the time and graduated from the same high school as I did. Katja has been interested in politics since mid-school an stood out in class due to her rather unpopular and conservative views on a wide array of sociopolitical questio...

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