Insights
Energy Management Beats Time Management Every Single Time
Discover why energy management beats time management. Learn ancient practices & science-backed techniques for lasting productivity.
From Military Service to VA Benefits Champion: How One Navy Doctor is Fighting the System for Veterans
Dr. Matt Wilyonson Episode Description: Dr. Matt Wilyonson, a former Navy orthopedic surgeon and current Chief Medical Officer of Woobie.io, shares his powerful journey from
Sleep Quality Issues That Leave You Exhausted All Day
Discover why sleep quality issues leave you exhausted despite 8+ hours in bed. Learn the 3 hidden systems sabotaging your energy daily.
Candida Overgrowth Steals Your Energy, Hijacks Your Cravings
Candida overgrowth steals energy and hijacks sugar cravings. Learn natural treatment protocols to eliminate yeast and reclaim your vitality.
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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
The Stress and Gut Health Loop Keeping You Sick
Learn how stress and gut health are connected. Discover why stress hits your gut first and proven strategies to break the damage cycle.
The Sleep-Digestion Connection Causing Your Insomnia
Discover the sleep-digestion connection causing your insomnia. Learn how gut inflammation disrupts sleep and the proven protocol to fix both.
Wellness
How Gut Health and Energy Levels Connect to End Fatigue
Discover how gut health and energy levels connect to end afternoon fatigue. Learn the gut-brain pathway that drains energy and how to fix it.
Environmental Toxins and Mycotoxins: The Hidden Health Crisis
Dr. Dennis Hooper Episode Description: Dr. Dennis Hooper, founder of Real Time Laboratories and pioneer in mycotoxin testing, shares his personal journey from growing up in Nevada’s nuclear testing zone to becoming a leading expert in environmental toxicity. After his family and community developed widespread autoimmune diseases from nuclear fallout
The Protein Problem: Why Most People Aren’t Getting Enough (And What to Do About It)
Angelo Keely Episode Description: In this enlightening episode of the Urban Monk Podcast, host Pedram Shojai engages with Angelo from Kion to investigate one of the most misunderstood aspects of nutrition: protein. Moving beyond the polarized debates and one-size-fits-all advice, Angelo explains the fundamental science of why protein is literally
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.
AI, Consciousness, and the Quest for Human Vitality: A Deep Dive with Dr. Srini Pillay
Dr. Srini Pillay Episode Description: In this enlightening episode of the Urban Monk Podcast, host Pedram Shojai engages with Dr. Srini Pillay, a psychiatrist, brain researcher, and author, to investigate the intersection of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and the concept of living with vitality in an increasingly dynamic world. The
Hacking the Vagus Nerve: How a Rocket Scientist’s $200 Device Replaced $30,000 Medical Equipment
Mark Fox Episode Description: When rocket scientist Mark Fox started experiencing debilitating anxiety around blood pressure measurements that haunted him for 40 years, he never imagined he’d become a pioneer in nervous system healing technology. In this groundbreaking conversation with Dr. Pedram Shojai, Mark reveals how his skepticism transformed into
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
The Digestive Enzymes Solution for Clean Eaters
Discover why digestive enzymes could solve your bloating despite clean eating. Learn the signs you need them and when to take them.
Your Oral Microbiome Controls More Than Just Your Breath
Discover how your oral microbiome controls gut health. Learn why most dental products harm beneficial bacteria and simple fixes that work.
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
The Gut-Brain Connection That Controls Your Mood
Discover how the gut-brain connection controls your mood. Learn why 90% of serotonin is made in your gut and how to optimize this vital link.
The Hidden Cost of Always Staying Busy
Why We Can’t Stop Moving and What It’s Costing Us The hidden cost of why we can’t stop moving is taking a serious toll on
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
Unveiling the Mystery: What Is the 6th Love Language?
In the realm of interpersonal connections and intimate relationships, the concept of “love languages” plays a pivotal role.
Beyond Words and Actions: The 6th Love Language and Its Impact
In this article, we delve into the depths of this sixth love language and explore its profound impact on our connections with others.
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