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Infusing the benefits of psychedelics and alternative medicine treatments, ranging from nutrition to supplementation, and personal development while pursuing the goal to live a healthy and abundant life! Host Richard Zwicky explores various treatments, regimens, and technology living a healthy and active lifestyle and a positive mindset.

  1. 25 ABR

    Unmasking the High Performer: Navigating High-Functioning Depression

    Richard Zwicky interviews therapist Alyssa Allen to explore the often-misunderstood concept of high-functioning depression. Allen describes this condition as a "high-performance mask" where individuals appear successful and overflow with social and professional commitments while internally battling chronic stress, emotional numbness, and exhaustion. Drawing from her background in neurotheology and Chinese medicine, Allen emphasizes the importance of intrinsic self-worth and mental resilience, advocating for holistic healing that addresses root causes rather than just managing symptoms.

    36 min

  2. 19 ABR

    The Healing Touch vs. The Digital Brain: Navigating AI in Medicine

    In this episode of High on Healthy, Richard Zwicky and Dr. Sulagna Misra explore the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. Dr. Misra highlights the tension between AI's potential for efficiency—such as robotic surgery and data collection—and the critical risks of losing the human relationship essential to healing. They delve into the dangers of AI "hallucinations" in psychiatric care, the necessity of physician-led guardrails, and the vital role of medical intuition in picking up on nuances, like a patient's silence, that a machine might overlook. While AI is a powerful assistive tool, it must be carefully regulated to enhance rather than replace the delicate human element of medical practice.

    32 min

  3. 12 ABR

    Why Addiction is an Adaptive Response, Not a Moral Failing

    Richard Zwicky sits down with Dr. Adi Jaffe, a UCLA-affiliated specialist and author of Unhooked, to dismantle the traditional stigma surrounding addiction. Dr. Jaffe shares his powerful journey from a felony conviction to a PhD, arguing that addictive behaviors—ranging from substance abuse to workaholism and digital dependency—are actually adaptive coping mechanisms developed to survive emotional pain and trauma.

    32 min

  4. 5 ABR

    Hunger as a Compass: Reclaiming Your Original Relationship with Food

    High on Healthy explores the "gut-mind" connection with Shirley Billigmeier, the founder of Innergetics. Moving beyond the restrictive rules of traditional diet culture, Shirley discusses how we often lose the biological "eating boundaries" we were born with due to early childhood conditioning and emotional "food noise." She introduces the concept of the hunger scale as a tool for metacognition, teaching listeners how to distinguish genuine physical signals from the nervous system’s desire to "detour" into eating to mask discomfort.

    35 min

  5. 5 ABR

    Why Your Success is Taxing Your Nervous System

    In this insightful episode of High and Healthy, host Richard Zwicky sits down with systemic coach and Breathing Flame founder, Oscar Trelles, to deconstruct the "slow roasting" of modern burnout. Oscar shares his personal journey from running a high-flying global market research firm to a total identity collapse during the pandemic, revealing how consumer culture trains our nervous systems to prioritize material accumulation over biological safety.

    29 min

  6. 29 MAR

    When More Isn't Happier: Unpacking the Burnout in Achievement Culture

    Richard Zwicky and licensed marriage and family therapist Zoe Spears, discuss the psychological cost of modern achievement and consumer culture.  They explore how industrialism and capitalism have tied self-worth to productivity and monetary gain, leading many high achievers and perfectionists to struggle with anxiety, burnout, and chronic dissatisfaction.  Spears notes that this pressure is often internalized, causing a fear of failure and an incessant drive to optimize. The conversation also addresses how consumerism acts as a short-term "dopamine fix" and a form of addiction, compensating for an underlying feeling of emptiness or lack of self-worth that may stem from deeply rooted issues.

    29 min

  7. 29 MAR

    Beyond Workload: How Narrow Thinking Kills Creativity and Causes Burnout

    Richard Zwicky interviews social psychologist Dr. Andre Walton, who proposes a provocative redefinition of burnout, asserting that it is primarily caused by how we think rather than simply by workload or being restricted to workplace stress.  Dr. Walton explains that burnout stems from "thinking too narrowly," which suppresses the core human drive for creative thought. Adults, trained to be efficient, often default to analytical and convergent thinking, which is the opposite of the divergent thinking required to see all options.  This analytical rut is worsened by chronic stress, leading to the social science phenomenon of "seizing and freezing," where individuals cling to the first available option and fail to search for new possibilities, making them rigid and less innovative.

    30 min

  8. 22 MAR

    The Hidden Cost of Success: Unmasking High Functioning Depression

    Richard Zwicky talks with licensed professional counselor Hunter Cook examines "high functioning depression," a silent mental health challenge faced by successful professionals who appear accomplished but internally struggle with chronic stress, anxiety, and emotional disconnection.  Cook explains that this non-clinical phenomenon is often rooted in conditional love, trauma, or societal expectations—especially for neurodivergent individuals—which forces them to suppress emotions as a survival technique and drives a destructive cycle of perfectionism.  Recovery involves embracing vulnerability and the process over the outcome, clarifying personal values using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and consciously separating self-worth from professional performance.

    30 min
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Infusing the benefits of psychedelics and alternative medicine treatments, ranging from nutrition to supplementation, and personal development while pursuing the goal to live a healthy and abundant life! Host Richard Zwicky explores various treatments, regimens, and technology living a healthy and active lifestyle and a positive mindset.

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    Cannabis Radio
  • Años de actividad
    2016 - 2026
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