The Made to Thrive Show

Richard Sutton is “a South African legend with an International following”. He is an adviser on stress management and adaptability to industry leaders, top athletes and Olympic teams. He is widely regarded as an expert in the field of genetics and their role in resilience and human performance. Richard has been a post-graduate lecturer in the areas of performance, health and athlete development fo...

Mic Mann is the CO-CEO of SingularityU South Africa, the SA Chapter of Singularity University (SU). SU focuses on global learning and innovation communities aiming to use the exponential growth of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), to address the world’s most pressing problems. SingularityU South Africa takes that mission to a local stage with the mission of building an empower...

Niraj Naik, The Renegade Pharmacist, is on a mission to improve health and well-being on a global scale. He posits an interesting thought experiment – what if the billions of coca-colas and cigarettes consumed a day were replaced with the habit of breathwork? Naik believes it would be revolutionary. A certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert, Naik’s story is like so many i...

Today is a bit different on The Made To Thrive Show. In this special episode we share a recent interview Steve Stavs did on Radio Caxton, a local South African station. Steve joined “The Coaching Hour” show with host Paul Rotherham and co-host Marika Grove to discuss the basics of what is biohacking as well as offering the opportunity to get to know a little about Steve himself. This is a great ep...

Dr Ela Manga is a medical doctor in Muldersdrift specializing in bringing mindfulness back into medicine and using various integrative techniques in her daily practice.  She uses modern medicine as a framework but focuses on looking at the root causes of illness rather than focusing on treating symptoms.  Dr Ela Manga recognizes the need for health coaches as her approach is to treat her patients...

Dr. Riaz Motara is doing things a little differently. Not only is Dr. Motara a cardiologist with 20 plus years experience, he founded the first woman’s heart clinic in Africa and is the only functional medicine trained cardiologist in South Africa who focuses on cardiac-endocrinology. But six years ago Dr. Motara was faced with a problem – his waiting list for patients was too long and his time to...

Dr. Jack is back!. He is the world-respected neurosurgeon and CEO of Optimized Life and Kruse Longevity Center. Dr. Kruse’s focus is  on the foundations of how we work. Using science he explains the deep connection between thermodynamics in biology and the processing of energy and information. Dr. Jack reveals how there are diseases all around the world and they all come back to - light, water, an...

Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac is the founder of Kresser Institute, the creator of ChrisKresser.com , and the New York Times best selling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health, and has trained over 1,500 practitioners and health coaches around the world in his unique approac...

Patrick McKeown is a pioneer in his field and a renowned breath expert, and has just authored another book called “The Breathing Cure”  He is passionately motivated to teach people how to breathe correctly. He has been on the Made to Thrive show before and we are honored to have him back as his knowledge and passion are so valuable. Patrick is a world- renowned author and breathing practitioner wh...

“Brittany Biohacker,” or Bio B, is a Canadian (via South Africa) registered holistic nutritionist who is passionate about everything from biohacking to lifestyle habits and nutrient dense food. Like so many, Brittany came to taking ownership for her own health, by biohacking her own series of health crises. She battled years of health battles including leaky gut syndrome, Candida, parasites, gut d...

Mark Joseph is a mindfulness and meditation teacher. He loves his job because he gets to really make a difference in people’s lives. Having suffered terribly from panic attacks and anxiety as a young man, Mark is eternally grateful for the transformation of his mind and soul due to the daily practice of mindfulness. He spent three years living in a Buddhist temple, and shortly after began teaching...

Dr. Scott Sherr is a board-certified internal medicine physician with an additional certification in hyperbaric oxygen medicine. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a BA in History and BS in Psychobiology. He then attended University of Maryland Medical School and Residency Program where he graduated magna cum laude from the former with Alpha Omega Alpha Distinction. Dr....

Mike Dillard is the host of his podcast The Mike Dillard Show (formerly the Self Made Man Podcast) and serial entrepreneur with several multimillion-dollar businesses including Mike Dillard Media, The Elevation Group and Magnetic Sponsoring. Mike resides in Austin, Texas and aside from his business pursuits is dedicated to his family and an avid motorsports man.  Today he joins Steve Stavs because...

Dr Stephanie Seneff is a pioneer in the field of glyphosate and the adverse effects it has on our health. Dr Seneff has an eclectic background with a MIT Computer Science Master's degree and an undergrad in Biology. She has spent most of her career working in computer dialogue systems. In 2007/8, her concern for Autism and the environmental factors behind its alarming increase, which she desc...

Dr. Craige Golding is back for round two! As an Integrative Medical Doctor, Dr. Golding is the only doctor in South Africa to have completed his advanced fellowship in anti-ageing, functional and regenerative medicine with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.  He is pure genius and South Africa’s most decorated specialist physician as well as serving on the Made To Thrive’s Scientific Advi...

Dr. Kien Vuu is a concierge performance and longevity physician specializing in human optimization and regenerative medicine. Having overcome poverty and nearly dying of dysentery as a young refugee, Dr. Vuu became a physician in America only to fall victim to the trappings of modern life and became overweight, developed hypertension and diabetes, and found himself taking several prescription medi...

Dr. Jay Montgomery is a South Carolina based opthamologist with a unique quantum perspective. Having gotten ill himself due to blue-light toxicity he had to ditch decades of traditional training and education as Western medicine continued to fail him. He is now dedicated to educating the masses about the quantum effects of the modern environment on health and disease and how to use a proper light...

Dr. Al Danenberg has been a periodontist for over 40 years. As a student and qualified dentist, he practiced all the traditional methods of very invasive dental surgeries. Until, in 2018, at 71 years old, Dr. Al was diagnosed with terminal multiple myeloma - he wasn’t supposed to make it to see 2019, let alone be thriving in 2021. He determinedly developed a plan that evolved into his Unconvention...

Dr. Leland Stillman is a MD of Internal Medicine Specialist from Portland, Maine.  He became interested in medicine at an early age, thanks to childhood ear infections, allergies, and ADHD. This sparked his interest in the immune system, which led him on a path to help people achieve their highest potential.  He studied biochemistry and environmental health and went on to receive his doctorate fro...

Dr. Orlando Rojas believes in ethical bio-aesthetic dentistry and discovering the truth. After graduating as a dental surgeon in Colombia in 1986, Dr. Rojas was deeply disturbed and disappointed after uncovering that amalgam fillings were not safe and the dentistry world knew it but still used them. He wondered if they lied about that, what else had they lied to him about? Since that fateful day D...

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. During her years in...

Jake Steiner is the founder and pioneer behind endmyopia.org, the world leading resource hub on how to reverse myopia and naturally return one’s eyesight to 20/20. Twenty years ago Jake himself had a -5.00 diopter myopia but now has perfect vision. Throughout his journey Jake accumulated and cataloged the many tools, resources and experiences that eventually became endmyopia.org, which has grown i...

Dr Tom Cowan is a curious observer and courageous teacher.  He is the author of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, and the principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing, and co-author (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care.   He has studied and written about many subjects in medicine including the heart, cancer, autoimmune disease, nutrition, anthroposophical medic...

Jeffrey Bland has been an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field for over 35 years and is known as the father of functional medicine for his ability to synthesize complex scientific concepts in a manner that is both personable and accessible. A biochemist by training, Dr. Bland earned dual degrees in biology and chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, and...

Josh Trent is the Founder of Wellness Force Media and host of the top-ranked Wellness Force Radio.  His iTunes show focuses on Health, Self-Help, and Fitness & Nutrition that showcases world class experts in both physical and emotional wellness. In 2004, he began his wellness journey in search of the truth and embarked on his very own Hero’s Journey. He has spent over 17 years as a researcher,...