Insights
Food Fear Pandemic: Break Free from Food Anxiety
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: Are you spending 20 minutes reading ingredient labels? Avoiding social situations because you can’t control the food? Feeling guilty after every meal? You’re not alone—we’re living in a food fear pandemic. In this powerful episode, Dr. Pedram Shojai addresses the anxiety crisis around eating that’s
Gut Health During Holidays Without the Digestive Regret
Discover how to manage gut health during holidays without digestive regret. Get testing, prep strategies & recovery protocols for stress-free feasts.
Setting Holiday Boundaries Without Destroying Your Peace
Learn setting holiday boundaries without destroying your peace. Practical scripts, stress management tips, and gut-health insights for the season.
Holiday Energy Management Without Burning Out This Season
Learn holiday energy management strategies to prevent burnout. Protect your reserves with science-backed boundaries before the chaos begins.
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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
Blood Type Diet for Gut Health Failed? Try This Instead
Blood type diet for gut health failed? Discover why trendy diets fail and the testing-based approach that reveals what YOUR body actually needs.
Candida Overgrowth Testing Stops Years of Guessing
Candida overgrowth testing reveals your immune response through antibody markers. Stop guessing — get objective data to end failed protocols.
Wellness
The Invisible Thief: How Social Media Steals Your Self-Worth
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: In this essential episode, Dr. Pedram Shojai exposes the invisible thief stealing your peace, presence, and authentic self-worth: social media comparison culture. Drawing on behavioral psychology research from Stanford’s Behavior Clinic that informed Instagram’s addictive design, Dr. Shojai explains why your brain—evolved to assess status
The Science of Hormesis: How Strategic Stress Makes You Stronger
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: Discover why deliberately stressing your body might be one of the most powerful health interventions available. In this episode, Dr. Pedram Shojai explores hormesis—the principle that low to moderate doses of stress trigger beneficial adaptations that make you anti-fragile. Learn the science behind cold therapy,
The Gut Reset Revolution: How Microbiome Transplants Are Reversing Chronic Disease
Dr. Jason Klop & Dr. Shaina Cahill Episode Description: Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is emerging as a breakthrough treatment for patients who’ve exhausted conventional and functional medicine options. Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Dr. Jason Klop and neuroscientist Dr. Shaina Cahill to explore how this ancient practice—dating back to
Burnout Prevention Strategies That Work Before You Break
Discover science-backed burnout prevention strategies that work before you break. Learn how to retrain your nervous system with zero extra effort.
The Sleep Quality Paradox: Why 8 Hours Isn’t Enough
Dr. Pedram Shojai Episode Description: In this essential Urban Monk weekly call, Pedram explores the critical distinction between sleep quantity and sleep quality—revealing why many people who log 7-8 hours still wake up exhausted. Drawing from his experience owning sleep labs, he breaks down the architecture of restorative sleep, identifying
Healing Parkinson’s Through the Microbiome: Martha Carlin’s Journey from Accountant to Microbiome Pioneer
Martha Carlin Episode Description: When Martha Carlin’s 44-year-old marathon-running husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2002, she applied her auditor’s mindset to examining the evidence behind this “old person’s disease.” What followed was a remarkable 20+ year journey from studying food toxins to pioneering targeted probiotic therapies. In this
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
Stress Resilience Practices That Build Unshakeable Calm
Learn stress resilience practices that rebuild your capacity to handle pressure. Discover the gut-brain connection nobody talks about.
Brain Fog and Anxiety: Your Gut May Be the Culprit
Discover why brain fog and anxiety may stem from gut issues. Learn the gut-brain connection science and practical steps to reclaim mental clarity
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 and Skin Health Connection No One Talks About
Discover the stress and skin health connection dermatologists miss. Learn how cortisol, gut issues, and inflammation age your skin — and what actually works.
Adrenal Fatigue Recovery Made Simple and Sustainable
Discover the science-backed adrenal fatigue recovery timeline, gut-brain connection, and proven natural healing strategies to restore your energy.
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
Healing Community Support Accelerates Recovery
Discover why healing community support accelerates recovery. Research shows people heal faster in groups than alone. Join supportive wellness community.
Tantric Marriage: The Sacred Creative Force of Abundance
Discover how tantric marriage creates wealth and intimacy. Ancient wisdom meets modern science for conscious partnership and abundance.
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