Naturopathic Doctor: The 1 Longevity Trend Wasting Your Money | Heal Thy Self #518

→ Puori | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. → AquaTru | Go to https://AquaTru.com now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code DRG. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee. Episode Description: The longevity industry is booming, the clinics are multiplying, and most of them are doing it wrong. Peptides, NAD IVs, hyperbaric chambers, a la carte menus of expensive therapies chosen by patients who have no framework for choosing. The tools are real. The approach is broken. Dr. Guy is a regenerative medicine physician and the founder of Citron Wellness and Citron Longevity in Los Angeles. He has spent his career at the intersection of functional medicine, peptide therapy, mitochondrial health, and trauma physiology. This conversation goes from the longevity industry's biggest blind spots to NAD delivery methods to stored trauma as a driver of aging and chronic disease. It is one of the most clinically honest conversations about what longevity medicine should actually look like. Dr. Guy's health takes — in order: Take 1: "The whole longevity industry is a waste of money if you're not evaluating what the body is expressing" Dr. Guy calls out the a la carte model dominating high end longevity clinics and explains why jumping between sexy therapies without a whole body assessment is the same mistake conventional medicine has always made, just with a bigger price tag. Take 2: "NAD works — but not the way most people are taking it" Dr. Guy explains why oral NAD and most precursors do not move the needle the way the industry claims, why IVs create a one time spike rather than sustained levels, and why subcutaneous injections have become his go-to delivery method for real mitochondrial support. Take 3: "Mitochondrial dysfunction is really a systemic inflammatory picture" NAD is not the only answer and sometimes not even the first one. Dr. Guy breaks down what is actually driving mitochondrial decline and why addressing inflammation at the root changes everything about how you approach the longevity stack. Take 4: "Emotional drama keeps you locked and can break the body" Trauma is a buzzword right now but almost nobody is talking about the physiology behind it. Dr. Guy explains what happens to cortisol, inflammation, and every aging mechanism in the body when the stress cycle never completes, and why stored trauma may be one of the most underestimated drivers of chronic disease. Sleep. Eat right. Then we talk about peptides. Find Dr. Guy: Website: https://www.doctorguy.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrguy/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:09 - Peptides, IVs, Chambers: The A La Carte Problem Nobody Is Talking About  3:24 - Is Most of What Longevity Clinics Offer Actually a Waste of Money? 3:46 - Bryan Johnson: What He Gets Right (And What Puts People Off) 4:21 - Does NAD Actually Work? When Yes, When No, and Why It Depends 5:04 - The Best Way to Take NAD — It's Not IV, Not Oral, Not Precursors 6:48 - What Mitochondrial Dysfunction Actually Is (The Warehouse Analogy) 8:01 - What He Uses Beyond NAD: CoQ10, Hyperbaric Oxygen and Two Specific Peptides 9:17 - Peptides Are the Future — But They're Far More Complex Than Instagram Makes Them Look 10:39 - The Real Danger of Cheap Peptides: What Bottled in China Actually Means 13:05 - How to Do Peptides Safely (And Why Being Cheap Is the Worst Decision You Can Make) 14:01 - Why You Must Track Peptides With Labs — Not Just How You Feel 17:00 - Who Should and Shouldn't Be on Peptides 17:32 - GLP-1s Are Not Your Enemy — But Doctors Are Overdosing Them 18:33 - The Biggest Problem He Sees With GLP-1s Being Done Wrong 19:16 - Why He Always Starts With a Microdose (And What He Looks at First) 21:32 - What Microdosing GLP-1 Can Do Beyond Weight Loss 22:11 - Retatrutide: Why He Thinks It Could Be the First Trillion-Dollar Drug 23:20 - Emotional Drama Keeps You Locked — and Breaks the Body 24:40 - Can Unresolved Trauma Be One of the Leading Causes of Aging? 27:47 - His Non-Negotiables: What to Fix Before You Touch a Single Peptide 28:14 - About Citron Longevity and Where to Find Him Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Description: The magnesium sitting in your cabinet right now is probably one your body can barely absorb. Most people buy it for sleep, for anxiety, for leg cramps, or for constipation, feel nothing, and conclude that magnesium does not work. Magnesium works. You just bought the wrong kind, and nobody told you there was a wrong kind. 70% of people are deficient in magnesium. Most of them are taking magnesium oxide, which has about 4% absorption. The other 96% moves through you and loosens your stools. But the bigger problem is that magnesium is not one supplement. It is a family of forms, and the form on the label decides the entire job it does in your body. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "You just bought the wrong kind and nobody told you" Dr. G exposes the magnesium oxide scam hiding in plain sight on every drugstore shelf and in most cheap multivitamins. Find out why the form on the label is more important than anything else and how companies hide what is actually inside the bottle. Take 2: "The form that fixes your sleep is not the same form that fixes your cramps" Magnesium glycinate is the calming form backed by a randomized placebo controlled trial showing measurable sleep improvement. Dr. G gives the exact dose, the exact timing, and the label trick companies use to underdose you while making the number on the front look impressive. Take 3: "This one actually crosses your blood brain barrier" Magnesium L-threonate was specifically designed to raise magnesium levels inside the brain, where it supports the connections between neurons. Dr. G breaks down the randomized controlled trial data on memory and cognition and explains why cheap versions of this form are almost always a waste of money. Take 4: "Stress is burning your magnesium faster than you can replace it" The same fight or flight response keeping you wired at night is draining your mineral reserves all day long. Dr. G explains why chronic stress, sugar, alcohol, and heavy caffeine make you dump magnesium through your urine, and why the supplement only works in its full glory when the nervous system is also being addressed. Glycinate for sleep and anxiety. Malate for muscles and daytime energy. L-threonate for brain fog and memory. Citrate for the gut. Oxide for almost nobody. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro  0:45 - The Most Common Form Sold in Drugstores — and Why Only 4% Gets Absorbed 1:30 - Magnesium Is Not One Supplement — The Form on the Label Changes Everything  2:00 - Form #1: Magnesium Glycinate — For Sleep, Anxiety and a Wired Nervous System  3:15 - The Exact Dose, Timing and Label Trick That's Quietly Scamming You  4:45 - Form #2: Magnesium Malate — For Muscle Cramps, Tension and Daytime Fatigue  5:30 - Form #3: The Only Form That Actually Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier  6:45 - Form #4: Magnesium Citrate — For Your Gut (and Why People Buy This for Sleep by Mistake)  7:30 - Why 70% of People Are Depleted — and the Four Things Draining It Every Day  8:30 - The Nervous System Connection Almost No Doctor Is Talking About  9:15 - Who Needs to Talk to Their Doctor Before Taking Any of These 9:45 - The Quick Reference: Which Form for Which Problem Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

→ Aquatru | Unlock your hair & skin’s true potential with 20% Off AquaTru Shower using promo code SHDRG at https://aquatrushower.com. It comes with a 30-day money back guarantee. Episode Description: Your lab work is not your health. Your biography is. Dr. Lucy McBride is a Harvard-trained internal medicine physician with 25 years of clinical practice and the author of Beyond the Prescription, published with Simon and Schuster in August 2026 with a foreword by Mary Claire Haver. She practices medicine the way almost no one does anymore: by treating the whole person, not the panel. This conversation moves through childhood trauma and metabolic disease, weight loss and GLP-1s, SSRIs and the one thing no pill will ever fix. It is one of the most honest conversations about what health actually is that Heal Thy Self has ever had. Dr. Lucy McBride's health takes: Take 1: "The lab work you get done with your doctor rarely shows the most interesting aspects of your health" Dr. McBride makes the case that biographic data is clinical data. Growing up in poverty, in a chaotic household, with an alcoholic parent — none of that appears on a blood panel, and all of it directly shapes how a patient thinks, eats, drinks, relates, and heals. Take 2: "The body is the scorekeeper" Chronic nervous system dysregulation does not stay in the nervous system. Dr. McBride explains how unprocessed emotional stress shows up as high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and autoimmunity, and why prescribing a pill without asking the deeper question is solving the wrong problem entirely. Take 3: "Sometimes you don't need a GLP-1. Sometimes you just need to eat lunch" One of the most counterintuitive takes of the episode. Dr. McBride explains why chronic low-grade restriction sends the metabolism into survival mode, why stubborn weight that will not move is sometimes the body's response to not being fed enough, and why the first question to ask is about your relationship with food — not your caloric intake. Take 4: "Sometimes you don't need Prozac. You need a divorce" Dr. McBride closes with her most powerful take. SSRIs are not the problem — the system that prescribes them in five-minute appointments is. She makes the case that no amount of pharmacology can resolve the social and emotional toll of living in chronic fear or unhappiness, and that agency is the medicine no pill can replicate. Find Dr. Lucy Mcbride: Website: https://www.lucymcbride.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlucymcbride/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:26 - Childhood Trauma as a Data Point That Never Shows Up in Any Test 2:16 - How a Dysregulated Nervous System Becomes High Blood Pressure and High Blood Sugar 5:11 - When Abnormal Labs Are a Downstream Symptom of What's Really Going On in Someone's Life 6:18 - Autoimmunity and Why the Body Is Always the Scorekeeper 7:15 - Does Cancer Have a Life Story Element? A Harvard-Trained Doctor Answers 8:59 - Dr. G Opens Up About Addiction in His 20s — and Why Shame Made It Worse 9:27 - The Most Surprising Discovery From GLP-1 Research (It's Not the Weight Loss) 10:28 - Why Most Patients With Obesity Aren't Lazy — They Just Haven't Had the Right Tool 14:52 - What Menopause Actually Is Beneath the Hot Flashes and Brain Fog 16:00 - Hormone Replacement Therapy: The Standard of Care Most Women Are Still Being Denied 21:07 - Perimenopause: What It Is, When It Starts and What You Can Actually Do About It 23:27 - For Stubborn Weight Gain: Sometimes You Just Need to Eat Lunch 25:32 - Your Body Makes Its Own GLP-1 — Here's What Triggers It 26:30 - Is Excess Weight Sometimes Emotional Protection? She Answers Honestly 27:21 - What to Ask Yourself About Your Relationship With Food (Before You Try Anything Else) 28:44 - "Sometimes You Don't Need Prozac — You Need a Divorce" 30:22 - The Hard Work No Pill, Supplement or GLP-1 Can Do for You 33:18 - The Book, the Foreword and What It's Really a Guide For Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

→ Everyday Dose | This episode is brought to you by Everyday Dose — instant mushroom coffee for focus and immunity, without the jitters or crash of regular coffee. Use code DRG10 at checkout for a discount, at https://www.everydaydose.com/discount/DRG10?redirect=/products/influencer&utm_source=influencer&utm_medium=instagram&utm_campaign=DrGReviewsProducts Episode Description: The cup you reach for every single morning before you do anything else could be quietly delivering mold toxins, heavy metals, and pesticide residues into your body. And you will never taste a thing. Because nobody is checking. Not the brands. Not the grocery store. Not the FDA, which sets no limit at all for heavy metals in coffee. In 2025, an independent lab ran 7,000 tests on 57 of the bestselling coffee brands in America and found acrylamide, glyphosate breakdown products, and heavy metals in every single sample. Dr. G investigated over 50 coffee companies looking for one that could actually hand him a lab report on the finished product. This is the one that passed. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "The mold can die in the roaster but the toxins survive" Ochratoxin A is the main mold toxin found in coffee and the World Health Organization has officially flagged it as potentially cancer-causing. Dr. G explains why your body holds mycotoxins for over a month and what that means if you are drinking poor quality coffee every single morning. Take 2: "There is no safe level of lead" Heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic accumulate in your bones, kidneys, and brain for decades with almost no way for your body to eliminate them. Dr. G uses the bathtub analogy to explain exactly what is happening over years of daily exposure. Take 3: "Even organic coffee tested positive for glyphosate residue" The weed killer sprayed on coffee crops does not just affect your cells. It targets the bacteria living in your gut, disrupting the microbiome that governs your immune system, mood, and hormonal health. Dr. G explains why even the organic label does not guarantee you are safe. Take 4: "Bulletproof says their process is proprietary and won't share testing data" The brands that market themselves as clean and mold-free are not always showing their work. Dr. G names names and explains exactly what a trustworthy coffee company has to be willing to show you before it earns a place in your kitchen. Take 5: "Everyday Dose ran three independent randomized controlled trials on their own product" Almost no coffee company has ever done this. Dr. G breaks down what those trials actually found, including measurable improvements in sleep confirmed by Oura ring data, and explains why this is his number one coffee of 2026. In this episode, you will learn: •  What ochratoxin A, heavy metals, and glyphosate are each doing inside your body with daily long term exposure, and why the damage is invisible until it is not • Why pairing l-theanine with caffeine produces focused calm instead of jitters and crashes, and what the research on alpha brain wave states actually shows •  What lion's mane, chaga, and grass-fed collagen each contribute to the cup and why putting evidence-based ingredients into a daily ritual you are already doing is one of the most efficient health upgrades available Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro  1:00 - Mold Toxins in Coffee: What Ochratoxin A Does to Your Kidneys and Immune System 2:30 - Heavy Metals (Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic): No Safe Level — and the FDA Sets Zero Limits 4:30 - Glyphosate in Coffee: Why Even Organic Brands Tested Positive 6:30 - The 2025 Lab Study That Tested 57 Best-Selling Brands — and What They Found in All of Them 8:00 - Why Starbucks, Folgers and Dunkin Won't Hand You a Lab Report 8:45 - Even Bulletproof Says Their Process Is "Proprietary" — Here's What That Actually Means 9:30 - Dr. G's #1 Coffee Pick for 2026 (The Only One He'll Touch) 10:15 - Why L-Theanine Changes the Entire Coffee Experience 11:15 - Lion's Mane: The Brain Ingredient With a Double-Blind Trial Behind It 12:00 - Chaga: The Antioxidant Workhorse You Feel Three Months In 12:45 - Grass-Fed Collagen: The Ingredient Almost No Coffee Brand Includes 13:30 - The Only Coffee Company That Has Run Three Independent Clinical Trials 14:15 - Where to Find It and Why He's Never Going Back Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Description: Over 21 million women in the United States are dealing with bacterial vaginosis right now. Most of them have never told a single person. Not their doctor, not their closest friend, not their partner. Because somewhere along the way we decided this was not something we talk about. Today we will talk about it. Danielle spent five years cycling through antibiotics, specialists, Reddit rabbit holes, and remedies that did not work. When she finally told her then new boyfriend Hans, he did not run. He asked how he could help. Hans happened to come from a family that had been manufacturing dietary supplements for 30 years. What came out of that conversation became Happy V, a vaginal probiotic that does not just feed the good bacteria but hunts down the bad ones. Danielle and Hans break it down — in order: Take 1: "Antibiotics eliminate all the bacteria — and then it comes right back" Danielle explains why the standard treatment for BV sets women up for a revolving cycle of reinfection. She breaks down what is actually happening in the vaginal microbiome and why the conventional approach keeps missing the root cause. Take 2: "The shame around BV is destroying relationships" From new couples to long marriages, BV is ending intimacy and keeping women isolated in embarrassment. Hans and Danielle share what that conversation looked like for them and why having it honestly changed everything. Take 3: "Not all probiotics are the same and most gummies are basically useless" Hans pulls back the curtain on how the supplement industry actually works and why most probiotic products on the shelf cannot deliver what they promise. He explains what three things a label has to show before a probiotic is worth buying. Take 4: "Probiotics hate water, acid, and heat — which is everything a gummy is made of" This one will make you look at your cabinet differently. Hans explains exactly why the gummy format destroys the very bacteria you are trying to consume and what format actually protects them. Take 5: "Give it time — anyone telling you this works overnight is lying to you" Dietary supplements are not magic and the marketing around vaginal health is especially aggressive. Danielle and Hans give the honest timeline and explain what patience actually looks like when you have the right product. In this episode, you'll discover:  • Why recurring BV is not a hygiene problem, what is actually driving the imbalance, and why the antibiotic cycle keeps women stuck instead of healed  • How to read a probiotic label and what three things the International Probiotic Association says must be present for a product to actually be legitimate  • Why the vaginal microbiome is one of the most undertreated areas of women's health and how an imbalanced pH affects everything from intimacy to confidence to daily comfort This one is for every woman who has suffered in silence and every partner who wants to understand. Find Happy V: Website: https://www.happyv.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - Danielle's Story: 5 Years of BV, Antibiotics That Kept Failing, and Reddit Rabbit Holes 7:00 - The Conversation Every Woman Dreads Having With a New Partner (And How Hans Responded) 11:00 - Why Antibiotics Make You More Vulnerable to BV the Next Time Around 15:00 - What BV Actually Is: The Vaginal Microbiome Explained Simply 19:00 - Why This Is a Couples Issue, Not Just a Women's Issue 23:00 - The Garlic, Yogurt Tampon and Hydrogen Peroxide Remedies — Do Any of Them Work? 27:00 - What Makes Happy V Different: Hunting Bad Bacteria, Not Just Feeding Good Ones 31:00 - The Strain, Dose and CFU Conversation Most Probiotic Brands Don't Want You to Have 35:00 - Why Probiotic Gummies Are Basically Useless (The Science Behind It) 38:00 - How to Read a Probiotic Label and Know If You're Getting Scammed 41:00 - How Long It Actually Takes to Work (And Why Anyone Saying "Overnight" Is Lying) 43:30 - They've Helped Over a Million Women — Here's What the Reviews Say 45:30 - Where to Find Happy V and How Every Purchase Gives Back Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

→ Quantum | Upgrade your energy, harmonize your EMF exposure, and elevate your wellness with Quantum Upgrade and get a 15-day FREE trial, no credit card required at quantumupgrade.io/start when you use code DRG at checkout. Episode Description: You are living in an electromagnetic soup and most people have no idea. Over 4,000 published studies show harmful effects from EMF exposure on the brain, blood, nervous system, fertility, and more. The European Parliament has its own report on the cancer and fertility risks. And with 6G rolling out faster than 5G ever did, it is not getting better. This guest spent years as a VP at T-Mobile before switching sides. Now he studies and develops technology designed to harmonize EMF exposure rather than ignore it. This conversation covers what EMFs are doing inside the brain within seconds of exposure, why the problems accumulate silently until they are hard to trace back, and what anyone can actually do about it right now. Dr. G and his guest break it down — in order: Take 1: "EMFs are detrimental to human health and there are over 4,000 studies that show it" Most people cannot find this research on the first page of a Google search, but it exists and it spans decades. The guest breaks down what the evidence actually shows and where to find it. Take 2: "Within seconds in the brain, everything linked to stress fires up" EMF exposure does not wait weeks or months to affect your nervous system. The guest explains what happens inside the brain almost immediately upon exposure and why that matters for anxiety, brain fog, and chronic stress. Take 3: "You cannot hide from EMFs anymore" From 5G towers to Starlink to electric vehicles, there is nowhere left to escape. The guest explains why the goal cannot be avoidance and what the realistic path forward actually looks like. Take 4: "6G is going to be much worse than 5G" The next wave of wireless technology is already rolling out and the latest generation of mobile phones attacks the lymphatic system faster and deeper than the one before. The guest lays out what is coming and why staying informed matters. Take 5: "You can start becoming more coherent right now, for free" Meditation, sunlight, nature, yoga, and tai chi all support your biofield even before any technology gets involved. The guest gives the honest baseline of what lifestyle alone can do and where its limits are. In this episode, you will learn:  • Why EMF exposure causes problems that accumulate silently, why most people attribute their symptoms to something else entirely, and why the brain is especially vulnerable because it is the central steering organ for everything in the body  • How gamers, pilots, Uber drivers, and anyone with multiple screens and Bluetooth devices are experiencing compounded EMF exposure at levels the body was never designed to handle  • What coherence technology is, how it differs from simply blocking or shielding EMFs, and what the research behind it actually shows Find Quantum Upgrade:Website: https://www.quantumupgrade.io Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - 4,000+ Studies on EMF Health Effects (And Why You Don't Find Them on the First Search) 5:00 - Is There Anywhere Left on Earth to Escape EMFs? 8:00 - Are These Studies Being Suppressed? A Former T-Mobile VP Answers Honestly 10:00 - Why the Brain Is the First and Most Sensitive Organ to Take the Hit 13:00 - How Short-Term Exposure Triggers the Stress Response — And Why It Gets Worse Over Time 17:00 - Kids, Three Screens, Bluetooth Headphones and Why No One Is Connecting the Dots 21:00 - Why We're Not Talking About EMFs the Way We Should Be (It's Because They're Invisible) 25:00 - 5G Was Bad — Here's What 6G and Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Do 29:00 - What You Can Do for Free Right Now to Start Protecting Yourself 33:00 - From VP at T-Mobile to This: Why He Crossed to the Other Side 35:00 - The Technology That Harmonizes EMFs Without Removing Them 38:00 - The 15-Day Free Trial and Where to Find It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Description: That stiffness when you wake up. The puffiness in your face. Feeling exhausted after eight hours of sleep. That is inflammation. And chronic inflammation is a low silent fire burning in your body every single day, quietly driving almost every disease you are afraid of. Most people have already spent good money trying to fix it. Most of them felt nothing. And the truth is not that supplements for inflammation are a scam. The truth is that most of what is on the shelf is underdosed, in the wrong form, and targeting the wrong pathway. Dr. G breaks down four supplements with real research behind them, the exact doses used in the trials, and the label tricks companies use to take your money without delivering results. Dr. G breaks down his anti-inflammatory protocol — in order: Take 1: "Ibuprofen does not lower your inflammation" Dr. G exposes why the most common go-to for pain and inflammation is only a temporary mask, not a fix. He reveals the molecule your body already makes to shut inflammation off and how to actually support it. Take 2: "One capsule of fish oil a day is doing close to nothing" The dose that moves inflammatory markers in real bloodwork is dramatically higher than what most people take. Dr. G gives the exact EPA and DHA number to hit and shows how to spot the label trick that makes you think you are getting more than you are. Take 3: "Boswellia hits a branch of inflammation that fish oil cannot reach" This is the one almost nobody is talking about. Dr. G breaks down why Boswellia serrata blocks a completely different inflammatory pathway and what has to appear on the label or the product is essentially useless. Take 4: "Cheap curcumin exits your body before it does anything" The most counterfeited anti-inflammatory supplement on the shelf gets a full breakdown. Dr. G explains what absorption actually requires, why black pepper is not enough, and what form to look for instead. Take 5: "Ginger is criminally underrated" It is dirt cheap, probably already in your spice drawer, and blocks both major inflammatory pathways. Dr. G makes the case for why ginger belongs in every anti-inflammatory protocol and what dose the research actually used. In this episode, you will learn: •  Why ibuprofen only presses the alarm button down temporarily while your body already has its own system for switching inflammation off, and how omega-3s at a real dose provide the raw materials for that system to work •  Why Boswellia serrata blocks a completely different branch of inflammation than ibuprofen or fish oil, why that matters if you have joint or autoimmune issues, and the one number that has to appear on the label or you have no idea what you are getting •  Why cheap curcumin is barely absorbed and exits your body before it does anything, what standardized and phytosome actually mean, and why ginger at one to three grams a day lowered objective inflammatory markers in clinical trials Plus why none of these four supplements will work if chronic stress is keeping your nervous system in low grade fight or flight every day. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Why Most Inflammation Supplements Have Done Nothing for You (And Who's Responsible) 2:00 - What Ibuprofen Actually Does — And What It Completely Misses 2:45 - Supplement #1: The Molecule That Actually Switches Inflammation Off 4:30 - The Exact Dose That Moves Your Inflammatory Markers in Bloodwork 5:30 - The Fish Oil Label Scam That's Making You Pay for Filler Oil 7:00 - Supplement #2: The One That Hits the Inflammation Pathway Ibuprofen Can't Reach 8:30 - The Label Red Flag That Means You Have No Idea What You're Actually Taking 9:00 - Supplement #3: The Most Bootlegged Anti-Inflammatory Supplement on the Market 10:00 - The Absorption Problem That Makes Most Turmeric Products Useless 11:00 - Supplement #4: The Cheapest and Most Underrated One — Already in Your Spice Drawer 12:00 - Why All Four Supplements Will Barely Work if You Don't Fix This First 13:15 - Who Needs to Be Careful Before Starting Any of These 13:45 - The One Blood Test to Ask Your Doctor for Right Now Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

→ AirDoctor |Head to https://AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code DRG and get up to $300 off ANY of their select AirDoctor models, plus you will get a 3-year warranty, absolutely FREE! All AirDoctor air purifiers come with a 30-day money back guarantee. → Timeline | Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/DRG →Puori 7/12 | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. Episode Description: Your morning smoothie might be working against you. Your intermittent fasting routine might be dysregulating your hormones. And Botox, from a Chinese medicine perspective, is freezing the very nervous system pathways that keep your skin alive. Dr. Felice Chan is back on Heal Thy Self and this time the conversation happened outside, on a walk, in a rosemary bush. Dr. Felice is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner based in Los Angeles, and she connects dots between ancient medicine and modern biology in a way that stops you mid-sentence. This conversation covers breakfast, fasting, facial acupuncture, Botox, aging, and why everything in the body comes back to nervous system regulation and the rest and digest state. In this episode, you'll discover:  •  Why cold and blended foods create what Chinese medicine calls dampness in the body, how that slows metabolism and digestion, and what Dr. Felice's own smoothie habit led to after two to three months of daily use  •  Why most fasting research was done on men, what happens to a woman's cortisol and hormones when she skips breakfast, and the Chinese medicine case for a warm morning meal  •  The difference between what Botox does to the face neurologically versus what cosmetic acupuncture does, and why one freezes while the other reinvigorates Beauty from the inside out. This is what that actually looks like in practice. Find Dr. Felice Chan: Website: https://www.feliceacupuncture.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfelicechan/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Why Smoothies Are One of the Worst Breakfast Choices (Chinese Medicine Explains Why) 2:20 - What Actually Happens in Your Body When You Drink a Smoothie and Drive to Work 4:00 - How Her Morning Smoothie Habit Sent Her to the ER and Changed Everything 5:30 - What to Eat for Breakfast Instead (Her Actual Morning Meal) 6:44 - Why Intermittent Fasting Is Doing More Harm Than Good for Most Women 8:00 - What Skipping Breakfast Does to Your Hormones, Metabolism and Energy Over Time 10:14 - The Symptoms She Sees in Every Woman Who Skips Breakfast 12:05 - Why Most People Think Their Nervous System Is Fine — And Why It Isn't 12:45 - The Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System You're Probably Overlooking 15:13 - The #1 Mental and Emotional Effect of Living in Chronic Fight or Flight 15:52 - When Gut Problems Have Nothing to Do With Food 16:55 - The Five Organs, the Five Emotions and Where They Live in Your Body 18:36 - Is a Dysregulated Nervous System One of the Top Drivers of Disease? 19:04 - Botox vs. Cosmetic Acupuncture: What's Actually Happening Beneath the Skin 21:54 - What Chinese Medicine Says Is Really Causing Your Fine Lines and Wrinkles 23:06 - Why Cosmetic Acupuncture Results Last Longer Than Botox (And What It Takes) 24:30 - Graceful Aging Is an Energy — And You Can Feel It on Someone 25:27 - The One Thing She Wants Every Listener to Walk Away With Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Description: You are probably taking melatonin wrong and it is almost certainly not your fault. Most people take it like a sleeping pill every night, wake up groggy, and eventually need more and more to get the same effect. That is not a melatonin deficiency. That is melatonin being used for something it was never designed to do at a dose your body would never produce on its own. The amount of melatonin your brain actually releases at night is about 3 tenths of 1 milligram. Your gummy says 10. The research is humbling and the label may not even be accurate. Researchers tested 30 melatonin products off store shelves and found the real content ranged from 83% below the label to nearly five times above it. In roughly one out of four products they found serotonin, a compound that was not listed on the label at all. In this episode, you will learn: •  Why melatonin is a timing hormone and not a sedative, what it is actually designed to do in the body, and why taking a giant dose expecting to be knocked unconscious was never how it works •  Whether long term melatonin use shuts down your body's own production, why the answer is no, and what the real risks actually are •  Why Dr. G never raises the dose when a patient says melatonin has stopped working, what he does instead, and the specific scenarios where melatonin is genuinely the right tool Plus the warning every parent needs to hear before giving melatonin to a child. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps:0:00 - Intro 1:30 - The One Thing About Melatonin That Changes Everything 2:30 - Mistake #1: The Dose Most People Take Is 10 to 30 Times Too High 4:00 - Will Melatonin Shut Down Your Body's Own Production? The Real Answer 5:30 - Mistake #2: Using It Like a Sleeping Pill When It Was Never Designed for That 7:00 - Mistake #3: The Study That Shows You Can't Trust the Number on the Label 8:30 - How Dr. G Actually Has His Patients Use Melatonin 9:30 - The Warning Every Parent Needs to Hear Before Giving This to Their Kids 10:00 - The Whole Truth in One Line Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

→ Puori 7/12 | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. → Timeline | Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you subscribe at https://timeline.com/DRG → Ora Oganic | Real ingredients, planet-friendly packaging, easy to love. Head to https://ora.organic/pages/drg and use my code HEALTHYSELF30 to enjoy 30% off your first Ora order today. Episode Description: Every person comes into this world with a spiritual container. If your container can only hold 60 watts of energy, that is all you are getting. No strategy, no opportunity, no amount of hustle changes that. What changes it is expanding the vessel itself. David Ghiyam is a Kabbalah teacher and spiritual coach who has spent 25 years working with people at the intersection of consciousness, abundance, and transformation. This is one of the most expansive conversations Heal Thy Self has ever had. It moves from money ceilings and competing belief systems to anxiety as a message from your highest destiny, to darkness as excess light, to the energetic pipes of mother and father that govern healing and abundance. It goes places most podcasts never go and it earns every minute of it. In this episode, you'll discover:  •  Why the ceiling you keep hitting with money, love, or opportunity has nothing to do with the outside world, and why fixing your circumstances without expanding your spiritual vessel is fighting a shadow instead of the seed  •   What competing belief systems are and how a hidden belief you are completely unaware of can quietly sabotage every goal your conscious mind is working toward  •   Why anxiety is not a problem to solve but a signal that your higher destiny is trying to come in and cannot, and what it actually takes to open the channel This one will stay with you. Find David Ghiyam: Website: https://davidghiyam.com/yis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidghiyam/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Your Spiritual Container: The Real Reason Wealth, Love and Opportunity Stop at a Certain Point 2:30 - The Two Belief Systems That Are Quietly Blocking Everything You Want 4:00 - The Hidden Desire That Was Costing David Millions Without Him Knowing It 6:00 - Why Moving Cities, Changing Jobs or Finding New People Won't Fix the Problem 8:30 - 100% Aligned Desires = Instant Manifestation — Here's What That Means 11:55 - Anxiety Is Not a Disorder — It's Your Higher Destiny Trying to Come In 13:00 - Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light — It's the Excess of It 13:35 - The Single Biggest Block for High-Achieving, High-Anxiety People 14:00 - Why Every Best Idea You've Ever Had Came When You Were Alone 15:00 - The Real Reason People Fear Public Speaking (It Has Nothing to Do With Confidence) 17:50 - Why Staying in Something That's Not Working Is Hurting Everyone Around You 19:00 - Giving From the Left Column vs. the Right Column (And Why Most Leaders Only Do One) 23:00 - The Energy of One Disengaged Employee Is Quietly Killing Your Company 25:00 - The Amazon $5,000 Quit Check — And Why David Uses the Same Principle 26:00 - Why You Can't Attract a Partner Who Has What You're Not Willing to Build in Yourself 29:00 - The Real Estate Broker, the $50M Listing, and the Lesson About Her Mom 31:50 - What Blaming Your Parents Is Actually Blocking in Every Area of Your Life 32:00 - Father Energy and Mother Energy: The Two Pipes That Govern Abundance and Love 34:30 - Prayer Is Not Woo Woo — It's a Technology That Expands the Vessel 35:30 - How to Call In the Healing (Even If You Don't Want to Want It Yet) 37:00 - Where to Find David and How to Go Deeper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices