Insights
Pain as a Teacher: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: Most people respond to pain with one goal: make it stop. But Dr. Pedram Shojai reveals that pain isn’t a mistake—it’s a message your body is desperately trying to send you. Drawing from decades of treating patients and studying traditional medicine, he teaches you how
From Overwhelm to Awareness: The Witness Practice for Healing
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: Dr. Pedram Shojai guides listeners through the transformative practice of developing witness consciousness – the ability to observe your thoughts,
Why You’re Still Sick: The Victim Trap Destroying Your Health
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: Dr. Pedram Shojai delivers a no-holds-barred wake-up call about victim mentality and its devastating impact on your health. Drawing from
Sustainable Wellness Habits Beyond New Year’s Hype
Discover sustainable wellness habits that actually stick. Science shows they take 59-335 days, not 21. Learn the framework that works long-term.
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Greta Thunberg, the March of Teen Millions, and Standing Up To Global Governments
If you don’t know Greta Thunberg by name, I’m sure you’re familiar with her work. She’s the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist that was behind last week’s global Climate Strike.
She’s been publicly campaigning for at least a year — starting with her weekly climate strikes in Sweden to hold her
Different Gut Issues and How to Eat for Them
Modern Western medical science has spent many years overlooking one crucial area of the human body: the gut.
Shocking, considering 60-70 million people are affected by digestive diseases in the United States alone. And, because only 36.6 million receive a gut disorder diagnosis on their first doctor’s office visit, 60-70
Dip Your Toes into Personal Finance with HYSAs
Burning the candle at both ends may temporarily add to your bottom line. But you’re working hard, not smart.
And since you hear so much in the news about recessions, crashes, corrections, bear markets, post-pandemic economies…
You stockpile your hard-earned cash into low-interest bank traps: savings accounts.
Diet and Nutrition
Mindful Eating During Holidays When Food Triggers You
Discover 5 practical mindful eating during holidays techniques that improve digestion and help you enjoy meals without bloating or guilt.
Gut Testing for Weight Loss That Finally Ends the Guessing
Gut testing for weight loss reveals hidden food sensitivities and gut dysfunction blocking your progress. Stop guessing, start healing.
Wellness
Consciousness Practice Benefits Most People Never Discover
Discover consciousness practice benefits that activate all 9 perceptual channels. Learn why you’re exhausted and how to restore natural energy.
Voice as Medicine: Frankko Vivo’s Journey from Basketball Court to Mountain Temple
Frankko Vivo Episode Description: In this intimate conversation, Pedram sits down with Frankko Vivo, a musician and ceremony guide who transformed from a basketball player into a guardian of sacred space. Frankko shares how an 82-year-old violinist named Sol changed his life’s trajectory with a single gift, leading him to
Chronic Fatigue Natural Remedies for the Tired but Wired
Discover chronic fatigue natural remedies that address the tired-but-wired paradox. Evidence-based solutions for HPA axis, gut health & energy restoration.
Energy Cultivation Practices for Sustainable Vitality
Learn energy cultivation practices that generate vitality at the cellular level. Science-backed Taoist techniques in just 10 minutes daily.
The Breathing Crisis: How Modern Life Stole Your Breath and the Ancient Practice That Gets It Back
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: Most people breathe 20,000 times a day, yet modern life has systematically broken this fundamental function. Dr. Pedram Shojai reveals how collapsed posture, chronic stress, mouth breathing, and lost body awareness have created a breathing crisis—leaving us in survival mode with shallow, chest-based breathing that
Breaking the Sympathetic Spiral of Doom with Dr. Scott Sherr
Dr. Scott Sherr Episode Description: Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with integrative medicine physician Dr. Scott Sherr to unpack one of the most overlooked health crises of our time: the sympathetic spiral of doom. When your nervous system gets stuck in fight-or-flight mode, your mitochondria desperately try to produce more
Gardening
5 Ways to Keep Your Garden All-Natural
It’s almost time to start harvesting your spring veggies and considering your fall haul. Mid-July to early August is the beginning of the fall planting
Is Vertical Farming the Future of Sustainable Food Sourcing?
Picture huge, industrialized fields of waving wheat and corn and soy in the American midwest. That’s about the size of our collective understanding of where
Natural Weed Repellents You Can Make at Home
There’s nothing quite as heartbreaking as watching insidious invasive forces strangle the life out of the garden you’d built from nothing. Well, there are plenty
Gut Health
When to Get Gut Testing: The Decision Guide
Learn when gut testing makes sense for chronic symptoms. Get the decision framework to stop guessing and start healing with targeted testing.
How to Heal Leaky Gut Naturally When Nothing Works
Discover how to heal leaky gut naturally when nothing works. Learn the 5 hidden blockers preventing your healing & the testing-first approach that works.
Fitness
Replace Glory Gains with these 5 Vital Movements
The internet is saturated with advice on how to manicure your body and finetune it like a microchip — washboard abs, Madonna arms, digestive purges, leg day, chest day, back sculpting, squat thrusts, etc.
In the noise, you may find yourself confused about where to start and what’s important.
The
Physical Fitness to Get Your Gut Health in Gear
A lot can happen in 42 days.
Habits form, people fall in love, zucchinis grow.
And according to recent research, the bacteria in the gut microbiome changes after only 42 days — or six weeks — of exercise. That’s without changing your diet, medication, or anything else.
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How to Manage Your Musculoskeletal Health
80% of all adults in the U.S. experience, or report, lower back pain.
Compare that to 12% of the population who has sought the services of a chiropractor, or a doctor specializing in musculoskeletal health. That’s quite a disconnect.
Your body is your armor, your vessel, your best weapon, your
Caveman Skills Just as Relevant Now as Then
The more we’ve moved humanity indoors, automated our skills away, and gotten our experience of the world filtered and sent to us through screens…
The more we’ve lost touch with some of the vital skills cavemen and prehistoric men learned in order to survive.
We’re only able to tell an
Mental health
Stress Reduction Techniques to Calm Your Nervous System
Learn stress reduction techniques backed by science. 5-minute breathing practices and vagus nerve activation to calm chronic stress fast.
Mindfulness Meditation Benefits in Just 10 Minutes Daily
Discover mindfulness meditation benefits backed by science. Just 10 minutes daily reduces stress, improves focus, and regulates emotions effectively.
Sleep
Does Your Sleeping Position Affect Your Digestion? Answers Inside…
During our waking hours, we’re told to consider our posture. Our form when we’re exercising. How we lounge when we’re watching TV.
We’re told that it’s vital to concern ourselves with our spinal alignment, that we can seriously injure ourselves if we’re not careful, and that anything from the functioning
Getting Better Sleep is the Key to Vitality
Sleep is essentially the Fountain of Youth. You can’t be healthy if you’re not getting it and if you’re really suffering with insomnia, you’re falling apart each week you don’t take steps to fix this issue.
Yeah, it’s that important.
Sleep helps repair neurons in the brain, helps replace dead
How Sleepless Nights Affect Your Gut
It’s becoming common knowledge in scientific circles that our guts, or “second brains,” have a symbiotic relationship with almost every other system in our bodies. What this means is that the composition of your microbiome is not only influenced by your body’s systems… But that it influences them as well.
The Four Different Kinds of Rest
From the very beginning of our consciousness, rest is a catch-all palliative for any number of maladies. Cranky? Take a nap. Can’t think straight? Close your eyes. Have a headache? Have a lie down. And there’s plenty to be said for that simple advice – rest should be restorative and a
Relationships
Practicing Presence for a More Meaningful Thanksgiving
Discover how practicing presence rewires your nervous system. Science-backed techniques to stop mind-wandering and fully experience life’s moments.
Gratitude Meditation Benefits for Your Brain
Discover gratitude meditation benefits: lower stress, reduce anxiety, and rewire your brain in just 5 minutes a day with this simple practice.
Finance
Ignoring Your Budget: Worse for your Mental Health than Sleep Loss
Have you ever wondered why it feels so good to cross something off of your list?
There’s a psychological principle, known as the “Zeigarnik effect,” named for its discoveress Bluma Zeigarnik, that comes close to
What Happens When a Banking SuperPower CoSigns an Eco Trend
Even if you consider yourself an environmentally conscious person, there is a trend that may have escaped your notice.
Socially responsible investing, or SRI, is an investment strategy which rewards thriving companies that include
Compartmentalizing Growth: You and the 100 Day Year
Ask most entrepreneurs the secret to their success, and before they say generational wealth, they’ll likely say “compartmentalization.”
What that means simply is the ability to break down information and tasks into discrete parts.
Rockefeller’s Great Heist is Still Wrecking your Money TODAY
Dear Reader, Being stupid is the only way to get smarter. You probably know that, right? But do you know why? It’s because you don’t know what you didn’t know until you screw up. And