Episodes

Dr. Casey Means is a Surgeon turned "Metabolic Health Evangelist," who left a career as an ENT to pursue the root of all inflammatory disease. Casey joins the show to tell us about unexpected causes of metabolic dysfunction and simple ways we can combat it on a day-to-day basis. - Introducing Dr. Casey Means - ENT Surgeon to Metabolic Health - What causes inflammatory conditions? - Connection between inflammation and metabolic health - Cellular dysfunction and immune resp...

Knowledge Bomb Dr. G speaks to men who are typically considered workaholics, and answers the question: What makes someone a workaholic? What wounds do they carry and how does it manifest in workaholic behaviors? How can we support ourselves, or the men in our lives, to heal the emotional wounds that create imbalance between over-working, and being able to open ourselves up to the deep connection that we are so desperately missing? do you know a workaholic? what emotional wounds lead...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G shares a very important sentiment regarding your health as it relates to our most authentic human experience, and staying true to ourselves and who we truly are when we are able to free ourselves from judgment and influence of others. Guest Segment: Dr. Joshua Park is the founder of MOCEAN Physical Therapy. He is an advocate for the International Olympic Committee, having been a medical team doctor in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Joshua joins the show t...

Knowledge Bomb Dr. G lays down all the of the internal and external factors that could be contributing to your chances of being diagnosed with breast cancer, from known health-related causes, to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that could be putting you at risk. It’s never too early to start putting measures in place to prevent breast cancer Do you have a first degree relative who experienced breast cancer? Breast cancer showing up in younger and younger patients Stage 0 cells ...

Guest Segment Shawn Stevenson is a Bestselling Author, Speaker, Nutritionist & Strength Coach, who joins the show for the third time to discuss his most recent research on the observable impact of communal eating on overall health. Shawn Stevenson’s third guest appearance on Heal Thy Self Is eating together in community essential for our long term health? Culture guides our eating habits Children who eat with family regularly get more nutrients Families w...

Guest Segment Alyssa Nobriga is a licensed Clinical Somatic Psychotherapist, an international speaker, and coach, who joins the show to talk about all the ways in which people may be unknowingly stifling their own ability to make positive changes in their lives. Alyssa examines the life events and emotions that may be leading to unhelpful behaviors, and how to move past those negative patterns to manifest the reality you’ve always dreamed of. How long does it take for us to de...

Knowledge Bomb: How many products in your bathroom may contain carcinogenic chemicals? Dr. G runs down the list of common chemicals found in familiar self-care products that could be harboring toxins potentially contributing to sickness over time. - What to look for in your self-care products - The Toxic Substances Control 1976 - A large majority of chemicals are unregulated - bringing more awareness around chemical exposures - The danger of cumulative expo...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G goes through every room in your home and gives some easy and free tips for overall better health. From your shoes, to your shampoo, these simple swaps will increase your bodily resilience and support your health for years to come. - Making swaps over time - The importance of taking off your shoes in the home - Dust - Opening windows - Mold - Signs of mold sickness - BIRCH AD - NED AD - Where to look for mold - Dangers of Plastic tupperwar...

Knowledge Bomb: For the first time ever, Dr. G opens up about his own personal journey in order to give listeners an intimate look into his path to healing, including past hardships and obstacles that he was able to overcome and heal from, and ultimately share this knowledge in order to bring healing to others. Qualities of spirit Taking on our parents’ energy Generational Trauma Coming back to who we are Identifying with Spirituality Death and Gri...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G gives us a comprehensive guide to maintaining our health while traveling, from sleep routines to radiation from airport scanners. This knowledge bomb gets to the root of how traveling impacts our body on all levels, and lists actionable steps we can take to combat these outside influences and keep ourselves safe and healthy while on-the-go. - Travel hacks to feel better while traveling - Planning ahead to avoid anxiety - L - theanine - Strategi...

Special Guest Segment: Professional chef Amber Caudle gives us the rundown on ways to prioritize our health in the face of the corner-cutting restaurant industry. Chef Amber is giving us all the tools to spot green-washing at some of our favorite places to eat, and how to make sure we protect ourselves from less-than-savory ingredients sneaking onto our plates. - How to watch out for greenwashing in restaurants - Are the majority of health food restaurants of poor quality...

Special Guest Segment: Danny Morel stops by the show to discuss how the life we’ve always dreamt of and aspired towards is within our grasp, once we overcome the limiting narratives that define our reality and stifle our maximum potential. By connecting with our truest selves and establishing clear boundaries, we can achieve all of our goals and more! - Letting go of the old to bring in the new - Loving Ourselves in Order to receive love from others - Removing outside inf...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G gets to the root of social acceptance and rejection, and how we’ve evolved to depend on social interaction and acceptance by our peers. Social interaction plays a role in our overall health, mental and physical, and what we can do to fulfill these needs in a healthy and positive way. - How our brains perceive social rejection - Social acceptance for survival - Acceptance satisfies multiple biological programs - Social rejection and pain -...

Special Guest Segment Elissa Goodman, holistic nutritionist and cleanse expert, joins the show to talk about healthy habits to achieve that natural glow and find your inner strength through communicating with your body and feeding it the proper diet for maximum energy and wellness potential. Intro w/ Dr. G Inner peace for internal glow Sympathetic Dominance and cancer Elissa’s cancer journey Finding your passion Plant medicine Feeling good i...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G is sharing his ultimate guide to full body healing, addressing quick, easy and free tips to kickstart your healing in the body, the mind, and the spirit. The Ultimate Cheap and Easy Guide to Overall Health How to Heal TODAY Cheap and Easy Steps The Physical Body Cheap and Easy Steps to Heal your Body Getting Good Sleep The Importance of Daylight Exposure to Sunlight Importance of Grounding Drinking ...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G gives us the TOP three easy and free ways to kickstart your emotional healing and feeling better in your body and mind. Three easy tips for healing repressed emotion Relaxing your belly Belly breathing Connecting with your body Identifying tension in the body Where are you holding emotion The body has the tools to heal Bringing awareness to tension in the body Connecting to the breath and voice Sp...

Special Guest Segment: Intuitive coach, India Leigh, joins us to talk all about relationships, and the balance of feminine and masculine energy in partner dynamics that has the power to reflect, reveal and heal our deepest emotional wounds and traumas, if we can learn to manifest our own growth and confront imbalanced patterns. Our Relationships as mirrors of the self Masculine and Feminine energies in relationships Learning our triggers through relationships Wh...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G is back with the ultimate guide to period pain, what causes it, and what foods, supplements and lifestyle changes could possibly prevent it or lessen the severity of it. He also goes into one little-known underlying detail in why some women may experience more period pain than others. - Period pain, what causes it and what can help - What causes period pain? - Cycle syncing, what is it and how can it help? - Fitness during your cycle - Nu...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G gives a rundown of his top recommended foods and supplements that help to curb glucose spikes and support steady insulin production. - Blood Sugar and the importance of managing glucose levels - Reasons your blood sugar might spike - How people become insulin resistance - signs of having elevated blood sugar - how to balance blood sugar - What are the best supplements for balancing and supporting blood sugar - Alpha Lipoic ...

Special Guest Segment: Maryn Azoff, long-time singer, musician, Spirit lifter, Soul emancipator, fear crusher, and creator of the Vocal Transformation Method, joins our show to break down the history and significance of using our voice as a sound-based healing method by vibrating areas of the body to access stored emotion. - How does the voice connect to healing - Does the use of language limit our voice - Accessing emotions within the body using our voice - How we ...

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G returns with the third installment of the breakdown of all things NAILS. This week, we put the spotlight on Dip Powder nails, a newer addition to the world of nail technology that claims to be a safer, less-toxic option, but what little data is available shows otherwise. What is dip nail powder? Pros and cons of dip nail powder? Risks related to dip powder Sanitary concerns of dip powder Long Term concerns of dip powder Spec...

Special Guest Segment: Gaia Bernstein, Technology, Privacy and Policy Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and author, joins us to discuss the ways in which screens have slowly become an inescapable part of our daily lives, and how this affects our health and happiness overall, from toddlers to adults. - How smartphones gradually changed our sense of awareness - The impact of screens on adults and children - How screens affect cognitive develop...

Special Guest Segment: Jessie Inchauspe, a French biochemist, bestselling author, and founder of the Glucose Goddess movement, joins our show to talk about how daily glucose spikes could be affecting our health in a variety of ways, from mental health to premature aging, and how we can curb these spikes to regain balance and control over our metabolism. What are the metabolic effects of eating sugar How Glucose spikes affect us on a cellular level Foods that produce dopamine...

Special Guest Segment: Dr. Jolene Brighten, a Board Certified Naturopathic Endocrinologist and author, joins our show for the second time to talk about the science and history of the clitoris and how it relates to having better sex for better overall health - What is the orgasm gap and how can we try to close it? - What is the #1 reason people are sexually dissatisfied - Cliteracy 101 - The History of how the Clitoris was left out of sex education - Top things...