Dr. Ryan Lazarus: I Discovered Spiritual Science of Healing Through Near Death Experience
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Release Date: 12/23/2025
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In This Episode, Dr. Ryan Lazarus Uncovers:
[01:05] Raised from The Dead
- Why Ryan realized his struggles were happening for him, not to him.
- How he survived a near-death experience.
- Why he first felt like a victim of what happened to him.
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[05:20] The Essential Health Playbook
- How Ryan got injured playing football.
- Why the injuries caused his pancreas to break.
- How they took his pancreas and spleen.
- Why he was calm and peaceful when he was close to death.
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[10:05] Label Theory
- How Ryan faced many health issues after the injury.
- What made him interested in label theory.
- How we manifest the diagnosis that doctors give us.
[14:10] Diagnosis Isn't a Sentence
- How Ryan makes sure he gives his patients hope.
- Why physicians mean well but can still cause harm.
- How healing starts in the mind.
- The importance of reading each patient to give them what they need.
- Why Ryan was told by a doctor that he'd always be diabetic and never heal.
[19:30] The Pillars of Health
- How our mental blocks stop us from seeing our true potential.
- Why some patients start with uncovering their emotional and mental blocks, and some with physical.
- How information overload creates a paralysis.
- What defines and feeds good health.
[26:10] The Epidemic of Loneliness
- Why isolation kills, and connection heals.
- The importance of purpose and sense of belonging.
- What spiritual isolation looks like.
- How toxic positivity makes us sick.
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[31:25] Mental Fitness
- Why untrained mind is unable to respond; it only reacts.
- Simple ways to practice mental fitness.
- How we can rewire our brains to see life through a different lens.
[34:35] Neuro-Rigidity Is Blocking Your Healing
- What prevents the majority of people from healing.
- Why change is uncomfortable.
- How answering questions honestly can help us understand and identify the stories that block us from healing.
- What we can do to find the meaning of life.
[40:30] Create a Game Plan for Your Life
- The role of gamification in habit formation.
- Why making good decisions gives us more confidence.
- How we can create an offence and defence plan for our life.
- Why we can choose to fail backward or forward.
- Why failing forward propels us for better outcomes.
- How we get seasonal defence.
[50:40] Dealing with Alzheimer's
- How Ryan's dad struggles with Alzheimer's.
- What he does to help his father's health.
- How watching someone close suffer expands our capacity to feel.
[55:55] Food Can Either Heal You or Make You Sick
- Why we should use food as preventative medicine.
- How nutrition affects our genetic expression.
- What leads to the switching of a disease on in the body.
- How toxins fuel autoimmune diseases.
- Why we should avoid artificial sweeteners, dyes, seed oils, and processed food.
- The functional medicine matrix for healing disease.
[01:04:10] Benefits of CGM + Berberine
- How CGM can provide support to people with diabetes and other diseases.
- Why Ryan tests different tools on his patients to find out what works best for each person.
- How berberine provides great health support.
- Why some peptides can mimic the benefits of GLP-1.
- How Ryan uses peptides for weight loss in his patients.
Resources:
- 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream
- 694 Shawn Wells | Your Ultimate Guide To Healing Mental + Physical Health
- 642 Dr. Craig Koniver | Peptide Masterclass: The Practical, Physical + Spiritual Guide For All You Need To Know About Peptides To THRIVE
[01:13:35] Food Addiction Cycle
- Why every shortcut turns into a longcut.
- How we tie food to nostalgic emotions.
- Why it's so difficult to stop eating certain meals.
- How we can break the food addiction cycle with awareness.
- Why the pain of change is often bigger than the pain of staying the same.
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[01:20:45] Trauma Lives in Your DNA
- Why trauma is stored in our DNA.
- How trauma is passed down from generation to generation.
- Why we can run genetic tests to find out our genetic vulnerabilities.
- How 40% of people have poor methylation.
- Why every person has completely different test results.
[01:26:30] Holistic Approach
- How every element plays a role in our health.
- What was the biggest challenge for Ryan in writing the book.
- Why we shouldn't give personal information to AI.
- How Ryan trusts everything in his life has happened for him to grow.
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"Trauma is generational. It's stored in our nervous system and DNA. So what happened 300 years ago in my family epigenetically, shows up in some aspect of my life, be it soul, spirit, or epigenetic tags. We aren't responsible for what we got, but we are responsible for meeting it where it's at, and having the courage to sit with it and alter it." — Dr. Ryan Lazarus
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All Resources From This Episode
- Dr. Ryan Lazarus
- The Essential Health Playbook by Dr. Ryan Lazarus
- Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for mortality: a meta-analytic review
- 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream
- 694 Shawn Wells | Your Ultimate Guide To Healing Mental + Physical Health
- 642 Dr. Craig Koniver | Peptide Masterclass: The Practical, Physical + Spiritual Guide For All You Need To Know About Peptides To THRIVE
- 492 Robb Wolf | Mental Health Sovereignty: How To Make Your Mind Wise + Strong Amidst Chaos
- 750 How AI Doctors, Blood Biomarkers + Epigenetics Will Unlock 140-Year Lifespans | Nathan Graville
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About Dr. Ryan Lazarus
Dr. Ryan Lazarus is the Founder and Clinical Director at The Lazarus Method, which is a cutting-edge health program where he teaches his essential elements for health.
He’s a Board-Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer & Rehabilitation Specialist. He holds a master’s degree in nutrition, a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science, and was faculty at The University of Western States in metabolic therapy for graduate students.
He currently serves as a Corporate Wellness Coach and Functional Medicine Researcher, providing workshops to Fortune 500 Corporations, CEO’s, celebrities, public figures, and most importantly, every person who wants a personalized health plan.