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Healing the Gut- Stop Guessing and Start Testing

Dr Robert Silverman Episode Description: In this enlightening podcast, the host speaks with Dr. Rob Silverman, a chiropractor who expanded into functional medicine after discovering the profound connection between gut health and overall wellness. Dr. Silverman shares how he initially focused on musculoskeletal issues but found that many patients’ chronic

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This 6,000 Year Period is Responsible for Our Excessive Caloric Intake

Ever wonder how ethnic and cultural cuisines developed? Is it because the Irish are predisposed to prefer the taste of potatoes? Because those in the Levant had a particular yen for lentils? The actual answer is much, much bigger: Cultural cuisines developed in conjunction with the agricultural revolution. Agrarianism increased

Keeping Corona at Bay by Tending to your Tummy

The U.S. houses nearly 12 million immunocompromised people (people with weakened immune systems who can’t rely on their body’s natural defense system to stave off a foreign predator), which is about 4% of the total population.  “Immunocompromised” applies to a multitude of your friends and neighbors – asthmatics, diabetics, those

Is Personal Activism Futile in the Face of Big Waste?

Ever since corporations and the government got the idea to let citizens feel personally responsible for pollution, recycling has snowballed into an epic cultural movement.

The 1970s saw the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and America’s first “Earth Day.” When the EPA started promoting the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” slogan,

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Diet and Nutrition

How Your Microbiome Influences Your Mood

The microbiome isn’t just a passive passenger in our bodies. It’s an active participant in numerous bodily functions, from helping to digest our food to supporting our immune system.

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Wellness

The Lullaby is LOUD- Self Sabotage and Conscious Awareness

Dr Pedram Shojai Check out the LIFE GARDEN Course to map out your own priorities. Listen to the episode on Spotify here or on your favorite podcast platform and check out the Urban Monk Academy here. Podcast transcript: [00:00:00] Welcome back to the Urban Monk. Dr. Pedram Shojai. Today we’re

Are EMFs Harmful?

Nick Pineault Nick is known widely in the industry as the EMF Guy. He’s a researcher who’s done a lot of work digging up the science and helping us navigate the wild world of EMFs and health issues. Listen to the episode on Spotify here or on your favorite podcast

Healing through Grief

Dr Pedram Shojai Today I share a conversation about grief and how to properly feel it to heal it. Listen to the episode on Spotify here or on your favorite podcast platform and check out the Urban Monk Academy here. Podcast transcript: [00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to the Urban Monk.

Testing the gut instead of guessing

Dr Pedram Shojai Today I share changes in our thinking around testing the microbiome and what we’re finding to be more effective for patients. HERE IS A LINK to the gut testing package I mentioned– it’s at a super discount right now during the event and I wanted to make

The Pineal Connection From Fluoride to Spiritual Zombies

Dr Pedram Shojai Today I explore this idea of fluoride in the water and what it does to our pineal gland. Is it putting us to sleep? Listen to the episode on Spotify here or on your favorite podcast platform and check out the Urban Monk Academy here. Podcast transcript:

Good Health Starts in Your Kitchen with the Kids

Katie Kimball Katie Kimball has shared her journey to real food and natural living for over 8 years at Kitchen Stewardship, a blog that encourages other moms to take baby steps to better nutrition for their families while balancing their limited time and budget Listen to the episode on Spotify

Could Bringing Back Victory Gardens Pull Your Family Through Covid-19?
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Gut Health​

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Fitness

Is Low Energy Really Just a Pitfall of Advancing Years?

At a certain point in the Western world, it can feel like your doctor has given up on finding solutions for the creaks and strains your body experiences with growing frequency as you age. Have you ever heard your doctor say, “Ah, yes, that’ll be happening more now that you’re

Four Ways You’re Perpetuating the Exhaustion Cycle

Teenagers – with frontal lobes that haven’t completed their myelination process – actually do show physical warning signs of wear and tear while they’re living recklessly. They just might not have the self-awareness to recognize what’s happening.  Our idea about what it was like to be young, and our frustration about

Introduce a Few Tantric Principles Into Your Relationship

Tantra isn’t about sex – yes, you read that right. It can include sex, and the sex you have may be tantric… but the ideology itself is so much deeper and wider.  In Sanskrit, tantra means “web” or “to weave energy.” Tantra is about connection and fusion before it’s about

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Mental health

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Sleep

How Can We Increase our Heart Rate Variability?

And why do we want to? In the West, we worry about heart disease. But in ancient belief systems – like Taoism and the tenets of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) – they worry about the heart in a different context. In Taoism,  equilibrium is achieved by nurturing the heart-mind – the balance between

Caveman Skills Modern Man Still Can’t Do Without

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

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

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Relationships​

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Finance

Dip Your Toes into Personal Finance with HYSAs

The FOMO of watching your friends make a killing on bitcoin… Or discussing multiple streams of passive dividend income… Or hearing whispered secrets about the latest hot pot stock that’ll have you retiring at 30…

Dr. Pedram Shojai

NY Times Best Selling author and film maker. Taoist Abbot and Qigong master. Husband and dad. I’m here to help you find your way and be healthy and happy. I don’t want to be your guru…just someone who’ll help point the way. If you’re looking for a real person who’s done the work, I’m your guy. I can light the path and walk along it with you but can’t walk for you.