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

Herzlich wilkommen zu einer ganz besonderen Episode, wo ich die große Freude und Ehre hatte, mir mit Dr. Ralph G. Schoelhammer einige wahnsinnig spannende, wichtige, aber auch kontroverse Themen vorzuknüpfen und sehr relevante Fragen zu klären, insbesondere auf Ebene der Energiepolitik, Sozioökonomie und Philosophie.  Nach seinem Doktorat in Politischer Theorie an der University of Kentucky i...

Welcome back to a very special episode on Sapien’s Playground! For absolutely incomprehensible reasons I somehow managed to invite Robb Wolf on my podcast and it was not only a big honor but also an enlightening experience and a great pleasure to have him on the show and dive as deep as we could possibly manage in a little bit more than an hour into the ethical, environmental and nutritional conce...

Welcome back to Sapien's Playground! This is a conversation I had with vegan cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn which might come as a surprise to many of you as I usually position myself as a big proponent of including liberal amounts of animal foods into one's diet. Nonetheless, as I am a very curious person, as I believe in the power of free speech and conversation and as the name of this podcast contai...

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...

Welcome everyone to Sapien's Playground! I am very pleased to have Austin Haedicke, @savagezen, on my podcast today. He currently holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has also trained within the SPEAR System .  In addition to being a licensed professional counselor in the State of Georgia (#LPC011834) , Austin is also a certified nutrition coach with Precision Nutrition (PN1) and an...

Willkommen zurück zu Sapien's Playground! Heute hatte ich erneut ein sehr spannendes Gespräch mit @perfomance.doc Dr. Gerrit Keferstein, welcher nun zum zweiten Mal auf meinem Podcast erscheinen durfte. Dr Keferstein ist Arzt in Hennef (Nähe Bonn) und hat mit seinem Team das MOJO-Institut gegründet, ist Spezialist für funktionelle Medizin und verfolgt einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz bei seiner Arbeit...

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...

Hello everyone! Today it's me, Maxim Pruchnewski, recording an audio version of an essay I wrote very recently exploring and delineating the reasons and potentially tenable and tangible solutions for the fundamental problem of political division as such. I see it as a problem that keeps growing in severity and increasingly takes overhand of society, manifesting itself on a broad societal scale on...

Welcome back everybody to another conversation here on Sapien’s  Playground!  I had the great pleasure of speaking, for a second time now, with one my  greatest sources of inspiration, endurance calisthenics athlete, one of  the very strongest in this field, and a good friend of mine – Sergio  DiPasquale  @Sergio Di Pasquale AKA NewEra  .  I was particularly...

Herzlich willkommen zusammen zu einer weiteren Folge bei Sapien's Playground! Diese Episode wurde aufgenommen am 28.07.2022. Heute hatte ich die große Freude, mich mit Aron zusammenzusetzen und über die letzten zwei Jahre sowie die Zukunft zu philosophieren. Ihr kennt Aron womöglich unter dem Namen "Der Friedvolle Krieger" in den sozialen Medien, wo er überwiegend auf Instagram, YouTube und TikTok...

Welcome back, everyone, to Sapien's Playground.  Today I have the pleasure to be talking to Moritz Schäfer, or @MoMagnon on Instagram, who's a quite unusually knowledgeable certified nutrition coach from Germany who's truly interested in understanding how the body actually functions and how we can better create a sophisticated idea and understanding about the root causes and subsequent pathop...

Hello everyone! This is episode number 39 with Dr. Tommy Wood, MD and PhD. To quote Dr. Wood from his website, he is a Research faculty member at the University of Washington (UW) in the Department of Pediatrics. His research focuses on ways to increase resilience of, and treat injury of, the developing brain. Dr. Tommy Wood has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge,...

Hallo zusammen!  Heute teile ich mal ein kleines Update zu einer Story, die mir letztens widerfahren ist, die ich auch in ganzer Ausführlichkeit dargelegt und analysiert hatte in einem vorherigen englischen Essay. Dieses deutschsprachige Essay widme ich einem brillianten Beitrag von einer Kommilitonin zu folgenden Geschehnissen. Ein anderer Kommilitone in meinem Medizinstudium empfand es als...

Hello everyone! Thanks a lot for tuning in for another podcast episode on Sapien’s Playground. Today I had Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg as my special guest and it is hard to overstate how great of an honor it is to have him on the show in order to help me and all of us figure out better ways to look at the complicated world around us. Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg holds a degree in History from the U...

Welcome back to a new episode on Sapien’s Playground! Today I am very delighted to have as my guest Dietetics Student and Biochemistry enthusiast Nicole Crendal (@bio.chem.nikki on Instagram). We had an awesome exchange on a whole bunch of complicated issues, including the exploration of possible explanations for autoimmunity which Nikki became so interested in as a result of her own health journe...

Welcome back to Sapiens Plaground! I am more than delighted to welcome my friend Brian Sanders back to the show. We discussed as much as we managed to cover in this hour with regards to the Food Lies Film which he has been working on very diligently for more than 5 years now. Learn more about Brians story and our discussion regarding the five most important pillars of health in the first episode w...

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...

Good day everyone and thanks for tuning in for another episode on Sapien’s Playground. I am very pleased to be talking to Dr. Gil Carvalho, MD and PhD today and diving as deep as we can manage into the field of individualized medicine.  Gil Carvalho, MD PhD is a physician, research scientist, science communicator, speaker and writer. In the aftermath of graduating from medical school in the U...

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...

Hello everyone!  I am very pleased and grateful to have the opportunity to talk today with Alec Zeck. Unfortunately, maybe not so much though, I suppose, we didn’t really manage to delve deep into his past and the sorts of transformations which he had undergone during the course of his life. Nonetheless, Alex is a really deep and critical thinker and by having this discussion with him my aim...

Welcome back! This is part 2 of a conversation I had with the passionate Heart Disease Researcher and Sceptic Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. He is a family physician from Scotland who very early on in his carreer developed an ever-persisting passion and desire to get behind the real pathopysiological mechanisms that underly Atherosclerosis and Heart disease.  Malcolm has authored several books like Do...

Hello everyone. Today it's me, Maxim Pruchnewski, recording an audio version of an essay I wrote very recently outlining the essence of a story which occured in a surprising way to me in medical school and which, more importantly, highlighted the dangers associated with ideology together with the domain of personal belief entering the domain of science and possibly yielding undoubtedly unpleasant...

Welcome back and thanks very much for tuning in once again!  I was extremely excited for inviting my friend Frank Bohne from Vermont onto Sapiens Playground and diving as deep as we were intellectually able to into his personal health story. Frank works on an animal farm in Vermont and was not hesitant at all to share his experience having worked on different kinds of farms and to tell us in...

Hello friend, and welcome back to the show! I am very delighted to be back talking with another guest on Sapiens Playground. The conversation I had today with Quetzal, @wildquetzal on Instagram, was a particularly inspiring one as we primarily attempted to get behind the ethical considerations, as far as diet and food choices are concerned, and the ultimate implications that this might have on the...

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...