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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(ENG) - #25 - Spirit of Exploration, Questioning Everything, Atherosclerosis & Cholesterol and Dodging Nutritional Dogma - My Appearance on the Highest Health Podcast with Natasha Dasaro 04.04.2022

Welcome back!  Recently, I had the honor to be invited to the Highest  Health Podcast which is hosted by Natasha Dasaro. I very much appreciate  her giving me that opportunity and enough space to really go very deep  into the pathophysiological processes underlying atherosclerosis,  ultimately leading to heart disease. After ellaborating on the things which clearly do not...

#24 - Bedtime Story (6) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 4 - Isolated and Modernized Gaelics 02.04.2022

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...

#23 - Essay #1 - Why giving away individual responsibility for personal health decisions might eventually turn out to be an exceptionally dangerous idea 28.03.2022

Hello everyone. Today it's me, Maxim Pruchnewski, recording an audio version of an essay I wrote very recently concerning some of the more fundamental questions that we should be thinking about in regards to the current situation. Feel free to share this around because I wholeheartedly hope  that this will reach many people and make them at least look at the current issue from a different, mo...

(ENG) - #22 – What Causes Heart Disease? Part 1 – Why LDL Is Probably Not The Cause of Heart Disease – With Dr. Malcolm Kendrick 17.03.2022

Welcome back! Today I had the pleasure to talk to one of the very controversial figures in regards to heart disease and the association between Apo-B containing lipoptroteins, aka LDL, VLDL, etc. and heart disease. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick who is a family physician from Scotland can be considered a great mentor and teacher as far as I am concerned, since many of the ideas that he brings forward and me...

(ENG) - #21 - Dr. Camilo Karpf and Maxim Pruchnewski Discussing Animal-Based-Diets, the Issues Concerning the Health Care System and How to Best Initiate Radical Change 14.03.2022

Enjoy the nice talk I recently had in an Instagram-Live with my good friend Dr. Camilo Karpf, who is a medical doctor from Columbia. Camilo practices in a clinic in Hamburg, Germany and is not only helping patient after patient to reverse chronic disease and come off medication through lifestyle interventions but is also engaged in a number of different projects here in Germany and also in Columbi...

#20 - Bedtime Story (5) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 3 - Isolated and modernized Swiss 11.03.2022

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) - Ep.19 - Sergio DiPasquale aka New Era - High-Reps-Calisthenics as a Tool to Become Undefeatble and Find Deep Meaning in Life - A Philosophical Discussion 07.03.2022

Welcome back to Sapien's Playground!  Growth means "to open yourself up to the possibility of failure". That is one of the many powerful and vehemently profound quotes from today's episode with ultra-passionate elite Calisthenics-Athlete and language-student Sergio DiPasquale aka New Era. Sergio is an insane beast, a true leader who dominates the field of endurance-style calisthenics. His uns...

(GER) - Ep. 17 - Daniel Pugge - Teil 1 über Covid, Maßnahmen und, was wir hätten anders und besser machen können. 05.03.2022

Herzlich willkommen zurück auf Sapiens Playground! Heute hatte ich die Freude, mich mit Daniel Pugge über eine Bandbreite an verschiedenen Themen auszutauschen. Daniel Pugge studierte Sportmanagement in Köln, ist Trainer Coach, Ernährungsberater und führt zwei YouTube Channels. Im ersten Teil des Gesprächs reden wir hauptsächlich über Covid, Maßnahmen, Risikofaktoren und, wo man hätte ansetzen kön...

(GER) - Ep.18 - Daniel Pugge - Teil 2 über Ketogene Ernährung/Low Carb im Sport und Körpervermessung zur Leistungsoptimierung 04.03.2022

Herzlich willkommen zurück auf Sapiens Playground! Heute hatte ich die Freude, mich mit Daniel Pugge über eine Bandbreite an verschiedenen Themen auszutauschen. Daniel Pugge studierte Sportmanagement in Köln, ist Trainer Coach, Ernährungsberater und führt zwei YouTube Channels. Im zweiten Teil des Gesprächs gehen wir näher darauf ein, wie sich Low Carb anwenden lässt in Sport und, welche Verbesser...

(РУС) - Эпизод 16 - Сандро из Star Bars Gym про оптимальный подход к силовым тренировкам, значимость разминки и лучшие методы в изучении элементов 22.02.2022

Привет всем и добро пожаловать на первый русский эпизод на моём подкасте Sapiens Playground! Сегодня мне удалось поболтать и заснять интереснейший разговор с тренером, воркаутером и одним из создателей Star Bars Gym, Сандро. Он работает вместе с Дмитрием Доценко в плане своей тренерской деятельности и при этом они ещё снимают много интересного контента на YouTube.  Мы обсудили оптимальные под...

(ENG) Ep.15 - Message to Society - You Decide Which World You Want to Live in 12.02.2022

Hello everyone.  Today it's me, Maxim Pruchnewski, recording a quick message for the people out there and to all citizens of the world concerning some of the issues that I have been extensively thinking about over the past months. Feel free to share this around because I wholeheartedly hope that this will reach many people and make them at least look at the current issue from a different, mor...

(ENG) - Ep.14 - Interviewing Dr. Peter McCullough MD, MPH on Everything Regarding Vaccine Safety and Efficacy, Early Treatment of COVID-19, Masks, Lockdowns and Mass-Deception by Media Propaganda 27.01.2022

Welcome back to a new episode on Sapiens Playground! Today I had the overwhelming honor to talk to Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, who many of you have probably heard on the Joe Rogan Podcast. It, thus, surprised me even more that Dr. McCullough was willing to set aside some time to come onto my podcast which clearly indicates how much he is interested in spreading that important message which he h...

(ENG) - Ep.13 - Discussing the Lipid Energy Model and Encountering Challenges in Med-School with Dr. Nick Norwitz, PhD 24.01.2022

Aaand we're back with another great episode on Sapien's Playground! This time I had the pleasure to have a nice talk with Nick Norwitz PhD,  who has now also decided to attend Harvard Medical School to further  pursue his passion of helping people to become healthier by changing  diet and lifestyle. Nick's enthusiasm for the topics we discussed today is truly contagious  and it...

(ENG) - Ep.12 - Vegan Myths and Why Eating More Meat Will Probably Making You Healthier with Dr. Shawn Baker MD 21.01.2022

Good day everyone! I am super happy to welcome you back to another great  episode on Sapien's Playground. I had the pleasure to sit down and talk  to the popular, yet pretty controversial figure, doctor and  carnivore-proponent Dr. Shawn Baker.   Primarily, out discussion was tackling two fundamental and nowadays  highly debated questions:  Is meat really so harmful o...

(ENG) - Ep.11 - Importance of Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine and Why Humans Probably Evolved as Hypercarnivores with Raphael Sirtoli 19.01.2022

Welcome back to Sapiens Playground! I know that it has been quite some time since the last episode with a guest, but now I'm back with another fascinating conversation about evolutionary biology with PhD candidate Raphael Sirtoli. He was been engaged in different fields of science and has researched a broad spectrum of different topics, such as cancer, paleoanthropolgy, evolutionary biology and mo...

Bedtime Story (4) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 2 - The progressive decline of modern civilization 14.01.2022

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 &nb...

(GER) - Ep.10 - Deep Dive into Diabetes, Immunsystem, Immunsignatur und Impfungen - Gespräch mit "Performance.doc" Dr. Keferstein 07.11.2021

Ich begrüße euch alle! Vielen Dank, dass ihr wieder zugeschaltet habt bei Sapien's Playground! Heute hatte ich ein sehr spannendes Gespräch mit @perfomance.doc Dr. Gerrit Keferstein. 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 mit Sportlern und an...

(GER) - Ep.9 - Arteriosklerose, Blutzuckerschwankungen, Gefahren von Kaffekonsum, Dogmatismus in der Ernährung und vieles mehr! - Im Gespräch mit FastenCoach Dave 11.10.2021

Willkommen alle zusammen bei einer neuen Folge auf Sapien's Playground! Diese Episode spreche ich mit FastenCoach Dave über sehr viele ineressante Themen wie Arteriosklerose und der Zusammenhang mit LDL, Blutzuckerschwankungen, den zirkadianen Rhythmus, wir diskutieren die Gefahren von Kaffeekonsum und die Risiken vom Dogmatismus in der Ernährungsszene. Diese und viel mehr Themen wurde in der Folg...

(ENG) Ep.8 - Omari Jinaki - Use Training and Mindset to Overcome Diffuclties in Life 13.09.2021

"If you die before you die, then when you die you will not die...". Let this blow your mind for a second. The mindset of this man is incredible. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to speak with today's guest - Omari Jinaki, the Calisthenics Ambassador and the strongest man in Chicago and exchange and share wisdom, knowledge and experiences. This conversation went into quite a different di...

(GER) - Ep.7 - Malik Abbas - Die größten Mythen in der Ernährung und warum Fleisch und Eier gesund sind! 17.08.2021

Hallo zusammen und wilkommen zu einer weiteren Episode bei Sapien's Playground! Heute spreche ich mit Malik Abbas über viele Punkte, die hauptsächlich Ernährung betreffen. Wir gehen einigen großen Mythen nach und klären die Fragen, ob Fleisch nun schädlich ist und, ob Eier uns einen Herzinfarkt geben. Malik hat eine Ausbildung gemacht zum Sport- und Fitnesskaufmann und geht bald sein Studium in Er...

(ENG) - Ep.6 - Mary Ruddick - What our ancestors were eating, why the Blue Zones are a myth and how to increase healthspan. 30.07.2021

I hope everyone is doing great and I also hope that everyone is super stoked for todays episode! My guest today is Mary Ruddick, the Weston Price of modern times, travelling the world and visiting all kinds of tribes in Africa, living a radical life and helping people all around the world to achieve optimal health and get some serious health conditions into remission. Mary herself suffered from a...

Bedtime Story (3) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects by Weston A. Price - CHAPTER 1 - Why seek wisdom from primitive peoples? 05.07.2021

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 Primiti...

(ENG) Ep.5 - Ruslan Saibov - Become superhuman through calisthenics and by training your mind! 01.07.2021

What's going on everyone? Back again with another episode of Sapien's Playground, today with a very special guest who many of you guys might already know - Ruslan Saibov, the Muscle-Up-King, although, according to him, Push-Ups are his favourite exercise;) We started of talking about his life journey and how he came to calisthenics. The transformation of his mind and the insights he was sharing in...

Bedtime Story (2) - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects by Weston A. Price - INTRODUCTION 27.06.2021

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  Compariso...

(GER) - Episode 4 - Folge deinem Herzen! Leben mit Bewusstsein, Intuition und Freiheit mit Jenny Le 23.06.2021

Herzlich wilkommen zu dieser Episode, auf die ich mich sehr gefreut habe! Jenny ist ein toller Mensch, ich durfte von ihr schon viele Weisheiten lernen und auch in unserem Gespräche teilen wir sehr schöne Gedanken bezüglich verschiedenster Themen. Nicht nur ist Jenny's Geschichte äußerst inspirierend, ihre Einstellug zum Leben und ihr Umgang mit schwierigen Momenten ist etwas, was für viele Mensch...

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