You’re the Cure w/ Dr. Ben Edwards

Veritas Medical

What if the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t “out there”… but already within you? On You’re The Cure, Dr. Ben Edwards challenges conventional thinking around health, identity, and healing—inviting you to step out of fear-based systems and into truth. Blending functional medicine, spiritual insight, and real-world experience, this podcast explores what it truly means to live whole, free, and aligned. Each episode features deep, thought-provoking conversations with doctors, thought leaders, and truth-seekers who aren’t afraid to question the status quo. From chronic illness and root-cause healing to identity, faith, and the unseen forces shaping our world—nothing is off limits. This isn’t just about getting well. It’s about waking up. Because healing doesn’t come from outside systems. You’re the cure.

  1. Jun 29

    The Truth About Cholesterol, Sunscreen & Heart Attacks | Dr. Ben Edwards

    Dr. Ben Edwards returns to connect the dots from last week's conversation with Dr. Tom Cowan — and this episode covers a lot of ground. First, Dr. Ben reads two contrasting articles on sunscreen and skin cancer, including findings from a 470,000-person UK Biobank study showing dramatically higher skin cancer risk among frequent sunscreen users — even after accounting for major risk factors like skin type, sun exposure, and sunburn history. He explains why chemical sunscreens, vitamin D deficiency, and seed oil-saturated skin cells may all be converging to fuel the modern skin cancer epidemic. Then Dr. Ben dives deep into the history of the cholesterol-heart disease theory — tracing it from a flawed rabbit study in the early 1900s to Ancel Keys' cherry-picked "Seven Countries Study," through a string of buried clinical trials and more than a dozen peer-reviewed studies that collectively call the entire saturated fat hypothesis into question. He then builds a complete picture of what actually causes heart attacks: damaged glycocalyx, loss of structured water charge in the blood vessels, inflamed plaque rupture, cardiac muscle mitochondria flipping into anaerobic metabolism, and the underappreciated role of chronic fight-or-flight nervous system activation through the vagus nerve. This is one of the most comprehensive episodes yet on cardiovascular disease — and it may permanently change how you think about cholesterol, sunlight, and the health of your heart.

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What if the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t “out there”… but already within you? On You’re The Cure, Dr. Ben Edwards challenges conventional thinking around health, identity, and healing—inviting you to step out of fear-based systems and into truth. Blending functional medicine, spiritual insight, and real-world experience, this podcast explores what it truly means to live whole, free, and aligned. Each episode features deep, thought-provoking conversations with doctors, thought leaders, and truth-seekers who aren’t afraid to question the status quo. From chronic illness and root-cause healing to identity, faith, and the unseen forces shaping our world—nothing is off limits. This isn’t just about getting well. It’s about waking up. Because healing doesn’t come from outside systems. You’re the cure.

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