Stay Off My Operating Table

Not everyone would readily agree to do an ice bath and endure the uncomfortable sensations of being submerged in the cold. But Scott Carney, who personally experienced it, found the benefits of doing so. As a journalist and anthropologist, he has investigated organ trafficking, experienced war zones, and met Wim Hof, the Iceman, himself. Wim Hof’s known for his ability to endure cold temperatures...

As a cop, Eric Reynolds maintained an active lifestyle, playing basketball and carrying weights. Nevertheless, he dealt with continual injuries. When he saw himself in the documentary Cops and Cabins , he was shocked. He looked heavy and sick. He knew he had to make a change. A friend who'd lost 50 pounds mentioned the ketogenic diet. He'd never heard of it. So, he researched what it was...

A first on the show: a board-certified OB-GYN and nutrition specialist who practices integrative medicine. To ensure the health of women and mothers, Jamie Seeman treats lifestyle as first-line therapy. She optimizes the controllable factors like diet, exercise, and sleep, before prescribing any medicine to the patient. She was motivated to modify her outlook and lifestyle after being diagnosed wi...

Diet is the most neglected part of oral health. It is also the cause of why we have crooked teeth and many other oral problems. Kevin Stock, the first dentist to guest on the show, shares relevant information about the co-relation of food and diet to our teeth, with historical evidence, and how it also affects our metabolic health. He was once an overweight kid so, at an early age, he was already...

As an ex-professional heavyweight boxer with a physics degree, Ed Latimore can surely explain how lipolysis works for the audience to understand. Not all healthcare professionals can do that. He’s also not the type who would buy any information just thrown at him without digging and understanding especially if it’s his health that’s on the line. The creator of “Coffee So Black” memes, he offers so...

Indirect calorimetry. A tongue twister of a word, but a game changer to metabolic health. Kirsty Woods of Metabolic Health Solutions from Perth, Australia has observed how valuable it is for research, particularly for polycystic ovarian syndrome, fatty liver, diabetes - basically anything associated with metabolism, but it's not just that. A technology usually confined to laboratory and study...

As a former professional athlete with an Economics degree, Alex Feinberg went on to work in a global macro hedge fund and later became a Google employee, so he is more than just a ripped health and fitness enthusiast.  In 2014, when he decided to change his training by running faster in just a short distance, he unexpectedly lost fat without much effort. He seemed to do everything against the book...

The ketogenic diet was developed in the 1920s as a cure for epilepsy, but when epilepsy medications hit the market, the diet was entirely forgotten. Thomas Seyfried remembers that 35 years ago at Yale University, the challenge was to do something about epilepsy. At that time, it was a prime area of research in neurology. From mapping epilepsy genes, he studied ketogenic diets and how lowering bloo...

Siobhan Huggins grew up with a negative self-image. At 18, she was obese and developed depression. Whenever she tried a new diet, her depression symptoms would get worse. Later on, she was diagnosed with lipedema. Her mom encouraged her to learn more about the ketogenic diet. She decided to do keto strictly for 2 months. The changes she experienced - from losing weight to improving her mental heal...

Animals fed with food they don't eat in the wild get sick. The same thing happens to humans. We get sick with obesity, diabetes & autoimmune diseases. Dr. Anthony Chaffee  dives into the medical literature & current studies to learn what applies in real life. His personal practice as a carnivore combined with his research makes him uniquely qualified to counter arguments against the c...

May your actions always align with your values and goals. That’s how Ryan Munsey signs his book, F*ck Your Feelings: Master Your Mind, Accomplish Anything and Become a More Significant Human His background is in Food Science and Human Nutrition, but he skipped the clinical route in favor of personal training. He opted to work with those eager to achieve optimal performance. As he saw people fail w...

Keto without the crazy. Low-carb and keto-oriented nutritionist Amy Berger's goal is to provide information about the keto diet without the fuss of different apps, spending too much, or weighing every molecule of food. Her knowledge of low-carb diet started during her college years, thanks to Dr. Atkins and his book New Diet Revolution. She was already practicing low-carb diet when she took h...

Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng wants you not to end up in the ICU. An ICU doctor and a department head at the Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Kwadwo knows metabolic disease is a massive driver of poor outcomes. Studies even established the link between poor metabolic health and COVID outcomes. But what do we do to treat that? When doctors focus primarily on sick care, they hardly ask anymore why the patient landed...

The year was 2004. It was the year Kevin Pho - a board-certified internal medicine physician - launched his blog. Blogging physicians are still uncommon. Sometimes in the exam room, patients would tell him how helpful his blog posts are.  As doctors only get to spend 10-15 minutes with their patients, their questions remain unanswered. Kevin knows there's a need for more medical professionals...

Is a vegan diet sustainable? Is the body’s fuel of choice fat or carbohydrates? Is sugar the real root of the problem? Vinnie Tortorich - the trainer to the stars - gives answers and isn’t apologetic when it comes to stating facts. Even as a student back at Tulane, he knew to ask questions when something did not seem right. With an educational background in physiology and nutrition, this fitness c...

Nick Norwitz was diagnosed with osteoporosis in his late teens. Not long after, he developed gut problems and ulcerative colitis. At one point in his early 20's, he ended up in the ICU with a heart rate the same as his age.  Who would have thought that this young man used to be a healthy, active guy who ran three-hour marathons? While lying in ICU, he realized he had 3 options:  live a horrib...

Dr. Nick Greiner describes his practice as direct primary care and regenerative medicine. Labeled by some as alternative medicine or even quackery, he witnessed how regenerative therapy and lifestyle changes helped his mother who suffered from illness in her 40s. Doctors have always used pharmaceuticals or procedures as their first line of treatment. For Dr. Greiner, the question “Why did this hap...

“Every single excuse you have is actually a reason why you need to be doing it.” - Bronson Dant At 38 years of age, Bronson Dant was just like most of us at that age - soft, flabby, overweight and heading for health problems in the second half of life.  Unlike most of us, he decided to do something about it. Today, at 50+, he has the physique of a professional athlete half his age. We caught up wi...

You are meant to be obese. You will not get better. You will always be unhealthy. Once we repeatedly hear or say these limiting beliefs, we start to accept them as truths. It prevents us to live the lives we truly want. Kari Keith emphasizes that we have a choice. Mindsets can change. We can overcome our limiting beliefs. As a health coach, Kari discovered that even with all the nutrition advice s...

People assume that personal trainers and fitness enthusiasts are dumb. Broscience has been synonymous with trainers who impart fitness advice without a scientific basis. But Alexander Cortes or AJAC has his way of flipping the broscience culture. As a certified personal trainer, he applies clinical data, hard science, and evidence from study together with practical, real-world applications. He mai...

Dr. Sean O’Mara was an emergency medicine physician. In that role, he treated people from all walks of life. And it was obvious, even the wealthiest people failed at being healthy.  Despite being a doctor, he wasn't in good shape himself. In addition to being overweight, he suffered from several other chronic health issues.  A patient confronted him about his weight and introduced him to the...

The confusion over diet or nutrition is because patients have no idea what to eat. It's not a lack of money or a busy schedule. A physician assistant turned culinary and nutrition educator, Shefaly Ravula provides a personalized approach to her patients to develop their diet plan. When her father, a vegetarian and a thin man, had a heart attack, she was left perplexed. It was an example of TO...

"Just eat whatever you want and cover it with insulin." That was the advice Nayiri Mississian received as a type 1 diabetic. She learned that it didn't improve her blood sugars. No matter what she did, her blood sugars continue to rise. The one thing she didn't try was slashing the carbs from her diet. A chance encounter with Jason Fung persuaded her to adapt low-carb diet and...

People come to Dr. Howard J. Luks because of shoulder or knee pain, but his findings led him to advise his patients about their metabolic health. As an orthopedic surgeon, he has studied the links between metabolic health disorders and their consequences on bones, cartilage, and soft tissues. His book “Longevity… Simplified” focuses on the root cause of chronic diseases and how to live a longer an...

Dr. Chris Palmer is the pioneer in using low carbohydrate ketogenic diets to treat psychiatric patients suffering from treatment-resistant mental disorders. As a traditionally-trained psychiatrist, it was hard for him to believe the results his psychiatric patients experienced when they "went keto." He knew the ketogenic diet had been used for 100 years to treat epilepsy. He theorized th...