499: Are Oysters The Ultimate Superfood? with Stephen Kavanagh
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Oysters are a nutrient-rich powerhouse for the body--excellent for cognitive function, the immune system and even boosting mood. Why does liver get all the hype and press?! Stephen Kavanagh of Marine Health Foods, a marine biologist with over 30 years of experience explains why we can look to oysters for TONS of good stuff like zinc, protein, selenium, and more and what these can do for us. Stephen also expands on how unique oysters are, how good they are for the ocean, and what we can do to avoid overfishing them. Connect with and learn more about Subscribe to Wise Traditions on ...
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498: The “Tweakable” Wise Traditions Diet: Making an Ancestral Diet Work for You with Sally Fallon Morell
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How much fat should you eat? What about salt? And broth? Sally Fallon Morell, President and Founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, goes over today the 11 Wise Traditions dietary principles. She emphasizes how these principles are based on healthy traditional eating practices observed around the world…and how we can apply them wherever we live today! She explains how these ancient practices are backed by science. She reviews the “sacred foods” of indigenous peoples and goes over why they were so revered. She concludes the overview with tips for eating in such a way that sugar cravings...
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497: Workout Tips For Women: Cycle-Syncing, Cardio Vs. Resistance Training, & Reducing The Chance Of Injury With Kelsee Moore
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Is it bad to not take a rest day? What are the red flags that you're over-training (or maybe under-training)? Should women cycle-sync their workouts? Is cardio important or should we just focus on resistance training? Kelsee Moore is a strength and conditioning coach, coaching the best and brightest athletes and military service members in NCAA Division I athletics and Air Force Special Warfare. Today, Kelsee tells us how to make the most of our workouts as women and she answers her most frequently asked questions like: How do we reduce our chances of injury? Should we rest our injuries...
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496: Put Your Cell Phone In Its Place: Strategies for Less Screen Time and More Real Life
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How can we loosen the grip of our devices? Do we own them or do they own us? Joey Odom is the founder of ARO, a company committed to helping us spend less time on our phones. Too much screen time can have a negative impact on our psychological and physical health. Depression, suicidal ideation, and anxiety are real outcomes from investing too much time on social media. In some ways, our phones have become like pacifiers and comfort objects for many of us. Today, Joey offers numerous strategies for reclaiming our lives and releasing our phones. He shares his stop/start philosophy and guidelines...
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495: Reading The Ingredients Might Just Change Your Life with Gubba Homestead
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Improved digestion. Clearer skin. Brain fog clearing up. These are some of the benefits of paying attention to the quality of ingredients that go into (and on) the body! Gubba Homestead, a leading figure in the homesteading and natural skincare community, experienced all of the above and then some. Her family’s health improved, too, as they began avoiding toxic chemicals and returning to more natural foods and products. Gubba tells her story today and also what led to her recent de-platforming on TikTok. (She was talking about the dangers of ingredients in sunscreen when her account was...
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494: Know Your Crunchy Legal Rights with Julie Dean Richards
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Defend your right to drink raw milk, to buy food directly from your farmer and to keep your bodily autonomy! Julie Dean Richards, the Crunchy Legal Lady, helps us understand what our rights are when it comes to all of the above and then some. She goes over how to obtain a religious exemption to vaccinations, how to identify health practitioners who honor your right as a parent (so that your children will not have to get shots if you don't want them to). She discusses the Amos Miller case and Private Membership Agreements and whether or not they are helpful for protecting your rights to...
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493. Improving Fascia Function For Optimal Health with Elisha Celeste
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Fascia is a kind of "sensing organ" (connective tissue) that extends from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. How can we work with it, improve its suppleness, and benefit from its healing capabilities? Today, Elisha Celeste of the School for Living Science and the Human Freedom Project podcast, helps us wrap our minds around this mysterious, all-encompassing tissue. Elisha goes over the kinetic energies in nature and how they relate to how our bodies function, and consequently how our fascia acts and reacts to our environment. She offers tips for optimizing fascial health (like the...
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RFID: A Livestock Surveillance System Poses a Threat to Food Freedom with John Moody
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Radio Frequency ID (or RFID) has been presented as something of a modern-day branding system, allowing for the identification of cattle and other livestock on farms across the U.S. That sounds benign enough…until you realize that RFID is actually a livestock surveillance system that poses a threat to our farmers’ rights to raise their animals without government interference and may impinge on the free market relationship between farmers and consumers. John Moody, co-founder of the Rogue Food conferences, explains today exactly what’s at stake when it comes to legislation in the works for...
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492: Is Harmony With Nature A Sustainable Farming Philosophy? with Molly Chester
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Molly and John Chester set up Apricot Lane Farms (known as the Biggest Little Farm) with the intention of working in harmony with nature, while maximizing nutrients and flavor. Have they been successful? What has changed since the documentary came out five years ago featuring their farm? How has the farm grown and is it living up to its original goals? Molly Chester answers all of the questions above today, sharing insights on the biodynamic and harmonious philosophy behind their farm (that now has over 250 varieties of fruits and vegetables growing on the property)! She talks about how it has...
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491: Blowing The Lid Off Virology (Or Bird Flu Part 2) with Jamie Andrews
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If the bird flu virus hasn't been isolated, why does it matter? What are the implications? Has any virus EVER been isolated? These are questions that have the potential to undermine our current understanding not only of viruses but of all sicknesses. Jamie Andrews is the Project Manager overseeing control studies to reexamine our understanding of virology. He addresses today the methodology for the new studies, the reason behind them, and what this has to do with our own personal approach to wellbeing and nurturing good health. Go to for more information Register for the in Orlando Check out...
info_outlineThe doctor looks you in the eye and says, "You have high cholesterol." Now what? Statins are not the answer! Not by a long shot! Dr. Tom Cowan of the New Biology Clinic reminds us that there is no correlation between high cholesterol and heart attacks, heart disease, or early death. He sheds light on the HDL/LDL ratio questions and suggests that cholesterol tests, in the first place, do not provide helpful data in any case.
Find out what Tom recommends instead to maintain a healthy heart and a healthy lifestyle.
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