Your Health Reclaimed: Exposing The Root Causes Of Lyme & Chronic Illness So You Can Finally Heal

In Part 1, John Graham Harper shared how skepticism turned into a company after red light therapy healed a knee injury that had plagued him for years. In Part 2 of this Your Health Reclaimed conversation, Dr. Brad and John go deep into the actual science — the wavelengths, the devices, and the clinical protocols behind Lumaflex. John breaks down exactly how his devices work: red light at 630 nanom...

What if the pain you've been told to "just live with" could start disappearing in a week — not from a pill, but from light? This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation on Your Health Reclaimed. Dr. Brad sits down with John Graham Harper, founder and CEO of Lumaflex, to trace the injury-to-innovation story behind one of the most talked-about red light therapy devices on the market — before the scienc...

Carnivore promises strength and clarity. Here's why an all-meat diet may quietly wreck your hormones, gut, and blood sugar instead. In this solo episode of Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad breaks down the carnivore diet — one of today's most popular "fad" diets — and walks through what happens to your hormones, gut, and metabolism when plant foods disappear from your plate entirely. No culture in h...

What if the depression, OCD, or "mental breakdown" a doctor diagnosed was actually a tick-borne infection attacking the brain? In this episode of Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad sits down with Dr. Gary Kaplan — founder and medical director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine and a clinical associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine — for a candid look at why so many...

The Paleo Diet is one of the most popular eating plans in the world — but is it actually healing your body, or quietly making things worse? In this episode, Dr. Brad Montagne of HealthfullyU.com takes a hard, science-backed look at the Paleo (Hunter-Gatherer) diet and exposes the critical gaps that most health influencers never talk about. With nearly 40 years of Functional Medicine experience — a...

Keto has become one of the most popular diets in the world — but is it actually doing what people think it's doing? In this episode of Your Health Reclaimed Podcast , host Dr. Brad Montagne , a functional medicine practitioner and founder of HealthfullyU, takes a hard look at why keto was designed as a short-term metabolic reset, not a permanent lifestyle, and why so many longtime keto dieters sha...

In the final part of this series, Philip De Luca shares what he calls his "crown jewel" — a single insight that took him 30 years to fully figure out, and one he says even world-class anger-management experts have never identified. The question: in any argument, when one person is calm ("front brain") and the other is escalating ("back brain") — who actually holds the power, and why? Phil walks Dr...

In Part 3, Philip De Luca finally lays out the first three steps of his game-changing 5-step communication system — the same framework that's helping couples stop fighting in as little as one or two sessions. Step 1 is deceptively simple: good communication can only happen when BOTH people are in "front brain." If even one person has flipped into "back brain," it's not a good time to talk — period...

What if the reason you're still sick has nothing to do with your diagnosis — and everything to do with what's on your plate? In this episode of Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad Montagne shares what four decades of clinical practice with chronically ill patients has confirmed over and over: diet accounts for roughly 50% of whether people heal from chronic illness — or stay stuck in a cycle of sympto...

Your cells are listening to your thoughts. In Part 2, Philip De Luca and Dr. Brad Montagne dive into the science of how chronic conflict literally switches on pro-inflammatory, disease-promoting genes — and why the "express yourself" model isn't just bad for your relationship, it's bad for your DNA. Phil shares a wild story from his work doing deliverance ministry in Mexico — and how laughter comp...

For 50 years, marriage counselors have told couples to talk it through, express their feelings, and never go to bed angry. Licensed Clinical Social Worker Philip De Luca tried exactly that with his very first clients back in 1977 — and watched it fail, again and again, leaving couples worse off than before. In Part 1 of this 4-part conversation, Phil joins Dr. Brad Montagne to reveal where the "ex...

If you've ever been told you need gallbladder surgery — or if you've tried keto, carnivore, or paleo and wondered why you still feel terrible — this episode is going to change how you see your own health. In this solo episode, Dr. Brad Montagne walks through one of the most striking clinical cases of his 40-year career: a patient in acute right-sided abdominal pain called him from over a thousand...

When Dr. Brad walked into Moscow's Red Square just after the Berlin Wall fell, he felt something no diagnostic test can measure: the weight of collective oppression pressing him toward the ground. That experience taught him something about energy — and about the invisible forces that shape not just our environments, but our bodies, our relationships, and our capacity to heal. Part 2 of this landma...

What if the doctor's office isn't where your healing actually begins? In Part 1 of this powerful two-part conversation on Your Health Reclaimed Podcast, Dr. Brad Montagne sits down with Dr. Jay LaGuardia — physician, motivational speaker, author, and transformational coach with over 30 years of experience — to tackle the real root causes of chronic illness, poor health, and the patterns that keep...

What if the way we think about elder care is completely backwards? In Part 2 of this essential conversation on Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad Montagne and long-term care expert Lindsay Friedman go beyond the basics — into the deeply human side of aging, caregiving, and what it truly means to plan for your future with dignity and intention. Lindsay returns with insights from a book that's reshapin...

Are you prepared for the long-term care conversation your family hasn't had yet? Most people don't think about nursing homes, home health aides, or care planning until they're in a full-blown crisis — and that's exactly when the system takes advantage of you. In this episode of Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad Montagne welcomes Lindsay Friedman, founder of LT Care Nav and Care Bloom, for a raw and...

Therapy wasn't working. The diet plans weren't sticking. The weight wouldn't move. And then Matt Melvin walked into a room full of men who were willing to cry. And everything changed. In Part 2 of this powerful conversation on Your Health Reclaimed , Dr. Brad Montagne and Matt Melvin pick up where they left off — going deeper into the spiritual and emotional breakthroughs that powered Matt's 100-p...

Most people think chronic illness, obesity, and self-destructive behavior are problems of willpower or genetics. They're wrong. In this deeply honest first episode of Your Health Reclaimed , Dr. Brad Montagne sits down with Matt Melvin — the man behind Bullied Behind Bars — for a conversation that strips away the comfortable narratives around health and gets to what's really driving the epidemic o...

In honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, Dr. Brad Montagne delivers one of the most comprehensive — and sobering — breakdowns of why the vast majority of people suffering from Lyme disease never fully recover. And the answer, he explains, rarely has to do with the Lyme bacteria itself. The root of the problem, as Dr. Brad sees it, is a fundamental misunderstanding of what Lyme disease actually is...

What does it look like when the treatment makes the illness worse? In this deeply personal and eye-opening episode of the Your Health Reclaimed Podcast , Dr. Brad Montagne welcomes Ioannis Skiotes — a first-generation Greek-American who was institutionalized at 25 with severe Bipolar Type 1 and spent two years in a state mental hospital being treated with the wrong psychiatric medications for illn...

Episode 2 of Your Health Reclaimed Podcast continues the deep dive into how our inner stories shape our health and healing. Dr. Brad Montagne and Zac Russell reveal surprising examples of how emotional narratives can manifest as chronic illness. Zac shares powerful case studies: a woman who lived with heart disease for a decade and a man battling Crohn’s disease – both found dramatic relief by rew...

Episode 1 of Your Health Reclaimed Podcast explores the hidden forces that keep us stuck in health and emotional struggles. Dr. Brad Montagne sits down with transformational coach Zac Russell to unpack how early childhood experiences shape our beliefs and physical well-being. Zac introduces the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) framework and explains how trauma and fear of abandonment during age...

If you've spent years cycling through doctors, protocols, and diagnoses without real answers, this episode may be the most important conversation you've ever heard. Dr. Brad Montagne — founder of Your Health Reclaimed and a functional wellness practitioner with over four decades of clinical experience — makes a bold, evidence-backed claim: in 40 years and thousands of patient cases, he has never s...

You've been trying to stop the anger, the addiction, the numbing, the people-pleasing. You've tried willpower. You've tried therapy. You've maybe even tried just pretending it isn't there. And it keeps coming back. In the final installment of this landmark three-part series on the HealthfullyU Podcast, Dr. Brad Montagne and trauma recovery coach Betsy Kudlinski reveal the most important — and most...

Most approaches to trauma and mental health healing have one major flaw: they push too hard, too fast — and in doing so, they reinforce the exact patterns they're trying to heal. In Part 2 of this transformative conversation on the HealthfullyU Podcast, Dr. Brad Montagne and trauma recovery coach Betsy Kudlinski explore the nervous system with a depth and compassion rarely found in conventional th...