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The mindbodygreen Podcast
The mindbodygreen podcast explores the infinite possibilities of health & well-being. Hosted by founder and co-CEO Jason Wachob, each episode features a thought-provoking interview with a leader in the health space. Whether you’re thinking about changing what’s on your plate, how you move, or how you think, these conversations are sure to offer solutions in whole-body health.
Episodes
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301: The science of past life memories | Jim Tucker, M.D., director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies
Jim Tucker, M.D.: “Consciousness is the core of reality that the physical world grows out of, not the other way around.” Tucker—the Director of the UVA…
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300: Best & worst wellness trends, low-glycemic foods, and more | Episode #300 AMA with Jason!
Today marks the 300th episode of the mbg podcast! What a journey it’s been since our launch on June 12, 2017. We’ve had an incredible array of guests on the…
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299: Huge news that will transform your skin from the inside & out! | Alexandra Engler, mbg Beauty Director
Big news: We’re launching a beauty podcast, hosted by mbg’s own beauty director, Alexandra Engler. We believe the conversation about the intersection of beauty…
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298: The secrets to a long, healthy life | Dan Buettner, Blue Zones founder
Dan Buettner: “If you want to live a long time, you want to think about shaping your surroundings.” Buettner—a longevity expert, New York Times bestselling…
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297: COVID, T-cells & vascular health: What you need to know today | William Li, M.D.
William Li, M.D.: “We can now begin to test people who didn't have access to COVID testing earlier on to see if the photograph of the coronavirus is there, and…
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296: How to make your veggies taste amazing | Dan Barber, award-winning chef
Dan Barber: “You can't get truly jaw-dropping, delicious flavor unless it's from good, biologically active soil." Barber, an award-winning chef and co-owner of…
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294: The new science of dealing with anxiety | Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.
Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.: “Some people can benefit from medications, but everybody benefits from understanding how their mind works.” Brewer, an addiction…
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293: How to feel younger & more energetic | Mark Sisson, founder of Primal Kitchen
Mark Sisson: “At the end of the day, all that matters is how do you look, feel, and perform—most importantly how you feel.” Sisson, a New York Times…
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292: Chronic inflammation & toxic mold | Madiha Saeed, M.D.
Madiha Saeed, M.D.: “If we can lower overall inflammation in the body, we can optimize overall health and wellbeing.” Saeed, an integrative family physician…
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290: Eat your way to better brain health | Drew Ramsey, M.D.
Drew Ramsey, M.D.: “It's really important for everybody with a brain to know how to feed it.” Ramsey, a nutritional psychiatrist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason…
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289: How to combat cognitive decline in your 20s, 30s & beyond | Dean Sherzai, M.D. & Ayesha Sherzai, M.D.
Dean Sherzai, M.D. & Ayesha Sherzai, M.D.: “Cognitive decline is something that happens slowly and gradually, starting in our thirties and in our forties… And…
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288: The huge food issues affecting our health | Mark Bittman, award-winning food journalist
Mark Bittman: "Now there's this [new] kind of malnutrition, where people are getting too many of the wrong calories and not enough nutrients.” Bittman, an…
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287: What science says about the afterlife | Bruce Greyson, M.D., the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences
Bruce Greyson, M.D.: “There's definitely a lot more going on than just the physical world. I don't see how there's any question about that.” Greyson, the…
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286: Why we’re all so tired | Amy Shah, M.D.
Amy Shah, M.D.: “Our fatigue and burnout problem is a diet problem, but it's also a lifestyle problem.” Shah, a double board-certified integrative medicine…
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285: How to manage negative thoughts | Neuroscientist Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.
Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.: “We spend between half to three quarters of our day in our minds time traveling between the past, present, and future.” Leaf, a cognitive…
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284: How many carbs should you really be eating? | Will Cole, D.C., IFMCP
Will Cole, D.C., IFMCP: “You have to quiet that proverbial noise—whether it’s hormone balance, inflammation, or blood sugar imbalance—to hear that resounding…
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283: The truth about blood sugar & longevity | Mark Hyman, M.D.
Mark Hyman, M.D.: "Food is medicine. It's not just calories—it's information.” Hyman, a functional medicine doctor and New York Times bestselling author, joins…
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282: How much water should you really be drinking? | Dana Cohen, M.D.
Dana Cohen, M.D.: “Before you start any diet or any nutrition plan, you first need to learn how to hydrate.” Cohen, an integrative medicine physician, joins…
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281: What your dreams are trying to tell you | Leslie Ellis, Ph.D.
Leslie Ellis, Ph.D.: “Dreams are not beyond our ability to understand. We just have to look at them with an open mind." Ellis, a therapist and dream expert…
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280: The connection between breath & weight loss | Tanya G.K. Bentley, Ph.D.
Tanya G.K. Bentley, Ph.D.: "People lose weight, but where is it going? Actually, it's getting excreted as carbon dioxide by breathing out.” Bentley, a…
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279: How colors affect your health | Deanna Minich, Ph.D.
Deanna Minich, Ph.D.: "These colorful compounds, they're not just antioxidants. They actually locate in certain parts of the body and have functional roles.”…
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278: Why we need to talk about eye health | Rudrani Banik, M.D.
Rudrani Banik, M.D.: "Our vision is so precious. We have two eyes, but they are very delicate organs. We need to protect them for our lifetimes.” Banik, a…
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277: Can we really slow aging? | Gil Blander, Ph.D.
Gil Blander, Ph.D.: “There is no silver bullet or shortcut for health. You need to maintain your body well, because it deserves it.” Blander, a internationally…
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276: What you can do to stop cancer before it starts | Jason Fung, M.D.
Jason Fung, M.D.: “Cancer is something that can hide—it can change, and the immune system is our best chance of trying to take away the hiding places.” Fung, a…
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275: What to eat to balance your chakras | Serena Poon, nutritionist & Reiki Master
Serena Poon, C.N., CHC: “When I create [food] lists for clients, it's more about where to eat from instead of what not to eat.” Poon, a celebrity chef…
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274: How COVID will affect future generations | Joel Warsh, M.D.
Joel Warsh, M.D.: “My number one tip, even before the pandemic, when it comes to food is read the labels—please turn the box over and look at it.” Warsh, a…
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273: The best & worst foods for sleep | Michael J. Breus, Ph.D.
Michael J. Breus, Ph.D.: “Sleep is a lot like love. The less you look for it, the more it shows up.” Breus, a clinical psychologist and board-certified sleep…
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272: What nutrition science gets wrong about weight loss | Gary Taubes, science journalist
Gary Taubes: “When you pay attention to what makes a fat cell fat, it's insulin—it just dominates everything.” Taubes, an award-winning science journalist…
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271: The do's & don’ts of intermittent fasting | Dave Asprey, Bulletproof founder & biohacker
Dave Asprey: "Cutting calories and working out more actually doesn't work for a lot of people, especially for women." Asprey, a professional biohacker and…
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270: Everything you’d ever want to know about productivity | Steven Kotler, performance expert
Steven Kotler: “Peak performance is nothing more than getting our biology to work for us rather than against us.” Kotler, a performance expert, New York Times…
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269: Your brain on comfort food | Mitzi Joi Williams, M.D.
Mitzi Joi Williams, M.D.: "If you treat yourself a lot, you begin to crave those treats more and more; versus if you are eating healthy, you crave those things…
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268: The keys to fulfilling relationships, self-awareness & success | Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey: “We see sacrifice as a loss, and it's not. There's gain in sacrifices if we just see further down the road.” McConaughey—an Academy…
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267: The connection between your relationships & longevity | Marta Zaraska, science journalist
Marta Zaraska: “Just like the way we think about eating veggies and fruits, we should think about relationships as a health priority.” Zaraska, a science…
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265: The gut-skin axis & the skin microbiome | Whitney Bowe, M.D.
Whitney Bowe, M.D.: "If you're just treating the skin from the outside-in, it's like a band-aid, a quick fix.” Bowe, a board-certified integrative…
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264: We need to talk about death more | Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D.
Shosana Ungerleider, M.D.: “Seeing the end of life as a part of life is, to me, critical for living a good life.” Ungerleider, an internal medicine physician…
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262: How spirituality changes your brain | Anna Yusim, M.D.
Anna Yusim, M.D.: “There's a whole science to prayer. It's very powerful.” Yusim, a board-certified psychiatrist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss…
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261: What your tongue reveals about your health | Paige Bourassa, DACM, L.Ac.
Paige Bourassa, DACM, L.Ac.: "The tongue is the only muscle you can see without skin on the body.” Bourassa, a nationally board-certified acupuncturist with a…
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260: Do macronutrients really matter? | Garth Davis, M.D.
Garth Davis, M.D.: “Food is not macronutrients. Food's got everything in it.” Davis, a bariatric surgeon, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the most…
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259: Where do you hold stress in your body? | Gail Parker, Ph.D., E-RYT 500
Gail Parker, Ph.D., E-RYT 500: “Emotional pain is just as painful as physical pain, because they share the same neural pathway.” Parker, a psychologist and…
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258: Finding opportunity in a crisis | Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.
Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.: “When we’re reminded of how impermanent we are, we become humble and realize that we need each other.” Tsabary, a clinical psychologist…
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257: What we got wrong about COVID lockdowns | Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D.,M.Sc.: “We haven’t protected people in lower-income populations, and we've especially failed in the inner cities.” Kulldorff, an…
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256: The best & worst foods for your skin | Keira Barr, M.D.
Keira Barr, M.D.: “Your skin can reflect what you’re feeling on the inside, and what you’re feeling can be reflected on your skin.” Barr, a board-certified…
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255: You’re probably eating too much protein | Frank Lipman, M.D.
Frank Lipman, M.D.: "It's a good idea as you get older to cut back a little bit on animal-based protein, so it won't have that negative effect on aging."…
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254: The connection between cortisol & weight loss | Kyrin Dunston, M.D.
Kyrin Dunston, M.D.: “Cortisol is the mother of all hormones. It determines our sleep wake cycle, energy, weight, immune system—it’s vital.” Dunston, a…
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253: What we know about COVID today | Patrick Hanaway, M.D.
Patrick Hanaway, M.D.: “The microbiome of the world and of our forests have an impact on the immune system.” Hanaway, a board-certified family physician and…
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252: We have success all wrong | John Mackey, co-founder & CEO of Whole Foods
John Mackey: “Create value for other people. If you can’t do that, you’re not going to be successful.” Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market…
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250: The connection between fertility & longevity | Cleopatra Kamperveen, Ph.D.
Cleopatra Kamperveen, Ph.D.: "Fertility is not fixed. Like there’s plasticity in brain, there’s plasticity in the reproductive system.” Kamperveen, a fertility…
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248: What you need to know about metabolic health | Julie Foucher-Urcuyo, M.D., M.S.
Julie Foucher-Urcuyo, M.D., M.S.: “People often realize they need to make changes, but by this time the metabolic dysfunction could be going for 10 or 20…
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247: How to reduce your exposure to endocrine disruptors | Leonardo Trasande, M.D., MPP
Leonardo Trasande, M.D., MPP: "We cannot change our genome, which begs the question: What environmental factors are causing a spike in chronic conditions?”…
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246: The best & worst foods for anxiety | nutritional psychiatrist Uma Naidoo, M.D.
Uma Naidoo, M.D.: “Every condition has links to the gut microbiome, and foods can drive a certain symptom or improve it.” Naidoo, a board-certified…
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245: You’re not healthy if you’re not breathing right | James Nestor, NYT bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor: “To keep inflammation down, one of the easiest things you can do is breathe slower and not breathe through your mouth.” Nestor, the New York…
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244: You’re mislabeling your emotions & why it matters | Susan David, Ph.D.
Susan David, Ph.D.: “You cannot begin to do any sort of moving on until you have shown up to what is.” David, an award-winning Harvard Medical School…
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243: We eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a week | Jesse Daystar, Ph.D., Chief Sustainability Officer, Cotton Inc.
Jesse Daystar, Ph.D.: “From beer, water, and salt alone, we eat 5,800 pieces of plastic a year in the U.S.” Daystar, the Chief Sustainability Officer of Cotton…
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242: Grit, gratitude, & the power of anger | Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: “Its important to be careful with anger—make the distinction between anger and hate.” Hanson, a psychologist and New York Times bestselling…
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241: What is methylation & why it’s critical to your health | Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.
Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.: “If oxidative stress is chronic, your methylation cycle can’t keep up—you’ll always have this drain on your antioxidant system.”…
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240: Listening to your gut with food & business | Elizabeth Stein, founder of Purely Elizabeth
Elizabeth Stein: "I need to feel good in my body in order to be a good business person at the same time.” Stein, the founder and CEO of Purely Elizabeth, joins…
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239: Fast carbs vs. slow carbs | David Kessler, M.D.
David A. Kessler, M.D.: "LDL, fasting blood glucose, and blood pressure: If we work on those as a country, we can change health care as we know it.” Kessler, a…
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238: You’re probably breathing wrong | Brian Mackenzie, human performance specialist
Brian Mackenzie: "At least 80% of your breathing in a day should be through your nose only.” Mackenzie, a human performance specialist, breathing expert, and…
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237: Why anxiety is your friend | Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.
Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.: "Your mind and your brain are separate but inseparable: Your mind changes your brain." Leaf, a communication pathologist and cognitive…
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236: Light as medicine & afternoon diabetes | Max Lugavere
Max Lugavere: “Light is either a form of medicine, or it can potentially accelerate aging." Lugavere, a New York Times bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO…