Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

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Health and wellness is louder and more confusing than ever. One expert says eat more meat. Another says cut it out completely. One supplement is called life-changing. The next day, someone says it will make you sick. It’s overwhelming. And that’s exactly why Heal Thy Self exists. Hosted by Dr. Christian Gonzalez, Heal Thy Self cuts through the noise and delivers clarity in a space flooded with contradictions. This isn’t trend-based wellness or recycled talking points. It’s direct, grounded truth that blends real science with deep spiritual and emotional intelligence. Each week, get expert conversations with doctors, scientists, shamans, and healers spanning physical health, mental wellness, emotional healing, and spirituality. Dr. G does the heavy lifting for you, investigating the wellness industry by reviewing third-party testing and breaking down supplements and products to reveal what’s safe, what works, what’s marketing hype, and which companies deserve your trust. You’ll also get channeled episodes that inspire and elevate beyond the physical. This is a fully integrated approach connecting body, mind, nervous system, trauma, energy, and consciousness. If you’re tired of conflicting advice and ready for clarity that empowers, relieves, and inspires, this is the podcast you’ve been missing.

  1. 1d ago

    Your Beef Liver Capsules Don’t Work - Use this Instead

    Episode Description: Hundreds of voices online told you that beef liver is nature's perfect multivitamin. It is ancestral. It is clean. It is the thing that is finally going to fix your energy. And you have been taking it every single day. There is a problem. Beef liver is not a multivitamin. A multivitamin gives you a small dose of a lot of things. Beef liver does the opposite. It gives you a massive dose of a few things and almost nothing of the rest. And the dose is exactly what is hurting people. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "Beef liver is not nature's multivitamin. It's a mega dose" Dr. G reframes the entire organ meat supplement trend and explains why the comparison to a multivitamin is the most dangerous idea in this space. More is not better when the ceiling is this low and the nutrient is fat soluble. Take 2: "A single serving of beef liver already doubles the daily upper limit for vitamin A" The National Nutrition Board ceiling for vitamin A is 3,000 micrograms. One 3 oz serving of beef liver has more than 6,000. Dr. G explains why this matters more than most people realize, what fat soluble storage actually means for your liver and bones over months of daily use, and why pregnant women especially need to hear this one. Take 3: "Oysters are closer to nature's multivitamin than beef liver is" Packed with zinc, B12, copper, and selenium in a form that is almost impossible to overdo, oysters make the case that beef liver ever earned the multivitamin title in the first place. Dr. G explains why the organ meat trend picked the wrong organ. Take 4: "If a company is not willing to show you third party testing, skip it" The liver is the filter organ for the animal you are eating. If the animal was raised poorly, that filter collected everything. Dr. G names the multivitamin brands that passed his independent investigation and explains exactly what he looks for on a label before he recommends anything to a patient. Eat it as a food sparingly. Do not take it as a daily supplement. Know the difference. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - The Myth That Gets People Hurt: Beef Liver Is Not a Multivitamin 1:30 - Why Vitamin A Is the Hidden Problem Nobody Warns You About 2:30 - The Exact Ceiling Your Body Has — and How One Serving Blows Past It 3:30 - Copper, Iron and What Happens When They Quietly Build Up 4:15 - How to Take Organ Meat the Right Way If You Still Want To 5:00 - What Dr. G Actually Recommends Instead 5:45 - The Multivitamin Brands That Passed His Standards 7:00 - Who Should Skip the Organ Trend Entirely 7:30 - The One Food That's Actually Closer to Nature's Multivitamin Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. 4d ago

    Do This When You Wake Up at 3 AM | Heal Thy Self #528

    → AquaTru | Unlock your hair & skin’s true potential with 20% Off AquaTru Shower using promo code SHDRG at https://aquatrushower.com. It comes with a 30-day money back guarantee. → LMNT | Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/drg Episode Description:Most people do not have a sleep problem. They have a nervous system problem. And you cannot talk yourself into calm. You have to demonstrate safety. Katheryn Nicolai is a 20-year yoga and meditation teacher, the creator of the Nothing Much Happens podcast, and one of the most listened-to voices in sleep. She grew up in Flint, Michigan in the 80s and learned as a three-year-old to build a safe world in her mind to fall asleep in. She has spent the past two decades figuring out how to teach that skill to everyone else. This conversation covers incomplete stress cycles, nervous system dysregulation, why lack of sleep causes depression rather than just correlating with it, and why the stories she tells work in under ten seconds for millions of people. Katheryn's health takes — in order: Take 1: "Most people don't have a sleep problem. They have a nervous system problem" Katheryn explains why the body cannot be reasoned into rest and why demonstrating safety to the nervous system is fundamentally different from trying to think your way to sleep. This reframe changes everything about how you approach a sleepless night. Take 2: "Sleep is not earned. It is a biological requirement and your body will take it whether you want to or not" Katheryn challenges the hustle culture scam that treats sleep as optional and explains why sleep works more like breathing than like eating. You cannot bank it, trade it, or skip it without your body eventually forcing the issue. Take 3: "If you think you can't meditate because your mind is loud, you're doing it right" Twenty years of teaching meditation distilled into one take. Catherine reframes the most common reason people quit before they start and explains what is actually supposed to happen when you sit down and close your eyes. Take 4: "Stress cycles get opened and they don't get closed — that is almost universal" Katheryn explains what a complete stress cycle actually looks like, why so many people are carrying years of incomplete ones, and why the things that close a stress cycle are exactly the things you would never do if you were actually in danger. Find Katheryn: Website:https://nothingmuchhappens.supportingcast.fm/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamkathrynnicolai/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - Sleep Is Not Earned — It's a Biological Requirement (And Your Body Will Collect What You Owe) 0:52 - Can You Actually Make Up a Sleep Deficit? The Honest Answer 1:46 - Why We Sacrifice Sleep Before Anything Else (And Why It Says Something Deeper) 2:41 - Growing Up in Flint, Michigan: The Childhood Origin of Everything She Does 3:21 - Good Sleep Is a Modern Superpower — and Most People Don't Know They Can Build It 4:37 - The Magic Recipe Behind Why Her Voice Puts People to Sleep in Under 10 Seconds 6:17 - If You Think You Can't Meditate Because Your Mind Is Loud, You're Doing It Right 7:29 - The Cave Behind the Waterfall: What Meditation Actually Looks and Feels Like 8:27 - You Are Not Your Thoughts — You Are the One Watching Them 9:05 - How Long Should You Actually Meditate Every Day? She Throws Out the Rulebook 9:38 - If Someone Says There's Only One Way to Meditate — You're in a Cult 10:29 - The New York Finance Guy Who Hunts (And Doesn't Know He's Been Meditating for Years) 11:53 - What People Consistently Report After Starting a Practice 13:03 - Why Answers Come in Stillness — Not When You're Looking for Them 17:49 - Why Stories Let You Experience Something Safely That Might Otherwise Break You Open 18:02 - Why Every Culture on Earth Has Stories — and What We Lost When We Forgot That 19:22 - The Childhood Book That Lives in Your Nervous System Forever 21:14 - One Thing You Can Do Right Now: The Breath That Shifts You Out of Fight or Flight 22:15 - The Most Common Driver of Dysregulation in the American Lifestyle 23:29 - Italy, Siesta, and Why She's Less Stressed When She's There (It's Bigger Than the Nap) 24:33 - How to Know If Your Nervous System Is Dysregulated (The Shavasana Test) 25:53 - What a Complete Stress Cycle Actually Looks Like — and How Few of Us Ever Finish One 26:31 - You Cannot Talk Your Body Into Feeling Safe — You Have to Demonstrate It 28:22 - Three Podcasts, One Book and a Vision for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Adults Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Sep 24

    Scientists Found a $4 Root That Melts Fat

    → Shop all my verified, tested and preferred wellness products - includes most up to date brands: https://theswellscore.com/pages/drg Episode Description: The belly fat you can grab with your hand is not the fat that is hurting you. The fat that is actually driving your blood sugar issues, your heart disease risk, and your chronic fatigue is the fat you cannot even pinch. It is wrapped deep around your liver and your organs. And most of what is being sold to address it is doing nothing at all. Visceral fat is not a willpower problem. It is an insulin problem. And there is a cheap ingredient sitting in your grocery store right now with real human evidence showing it goes directly after the cycle that is creating it. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "You don't have a belly fat problem. You have an insulin problem and it's manifesting as a belly" Dr. G reframes the entire visceral fat conversation and explains why the fat burner shelf at your local drugstore is full of stimulants that raise your heart rate and do nothing for the fat around your organs. The real target is insulin resistance. Take 2: "Ginger at two grams a day is one of the most studied natural agents on earth for insulin resistance" Across dozens of solid human trials, standardized ginger extract has been shown to lower insulin resistance, reduce body fat, and shrink waistlines. Dr. G gives the exact dose, the exact duration, and the label trick that separates a real product from a pinch of powder in a proprietary blend. Take 3: "Liquid sugar is the fastest way to build visceral fat" Sodas, juices, and sweet coffee drinks go almost directly to the liver and start packing fat around the organs. Dr. G explains why cutting liquid sugar is the fastest lever you can pull to stop feeding the engine before the ginger can start doing its job. Take 4: "Stress is telling your body to store fat deep in your belly" When you are living in chronic fight or flight, your stress hormones are directing fat storage directly to the visceral region. Dr. G makes the case that unresolved and repressed emotion is a metabolic variable, not just a mental health one. Ask your doctor for a fasting insulin test, not just fasting glucose. Watch that number fall. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Why Every Fat Burner on the Drugstore Shelf Is Completely Missing the Point 1:45 - Visceral Fat Is Not a Willpower Problem — It's Something Else Entirely 2:30 - The Cheap Ingredient in Your Kitchen That Has Real Human Evidence Behind It 4:00 - What It's Actually Doing Inside Your Cells (This Changes How You Think About It) 5:30 - The Dose, the Form and the Label Trick That Separates Results From Wasted Money 7:00 - The Two Free Things That Make Everything Else Work Better 8:15 - Why Stress Is One of the Fastest Ways to Pack On Visceral Fat 9:15 - The One Number to Ask Your Doctor For That Proves It's Working 10:00 - The Whole Protocol in One Minute Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 21

    Why The Lights in Your House Are Actually Making You Sick | Heal Thy Self

    → SaunaSpace | For the next week, Heal Thy Self loyal listeners can get an exclusive 15% off at sauna.space with code DRG at checkout. This exclusive offer ends September 28 — after that, the discount returns to the standard 10% off. Episode Description: We are losing our humanity to an overstimulating and sterile lifestyle. The human nervous system is designed to spend 90% of its time in a state of being. Right now we have it completely flipped. Brian Richards is the founder of SaunaSpace, the near infrared sauna company built around the idea that light is medicine, grounding is not optional, and stillness is one of the most healing things a human being can experience. This conversation goes far beyond detox and heat. It covers the nervous system crisis of modern life, why depression is simply anxiety taken too far, why your phone is giving your brain more stimulation in two minutes than your ancestors received in a full day, and how near infrared light works at the cellular level to do something that a traditional hot box sauna cannot. Brian Richards' takes — in order: Take 1: "We're losing our humanity to an overstimulating and sterile lifestyle" Brian opens with the nervous system reality most people are living inside without recognizing it. He explains why doing has replaced being almost entirely and why that flip is the root cause behind the anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout epidemic. Take 2: "A few minutes on social media gives you more stimulation than your ancestors got in a day" It is not just the content. It is the volume and speed of incoming data that your nervous system cannot consciously process. Brian explains where all of that unprocessed information actually goes and why it shows up as irritability, restlessness, and disconnection. Take 3: "Near infrared light penetrates your skin and charges your mitochondria directly" This is the science that separates near infrared from conventional saunas. Brian explains how near infrared photons interact with cytochrome c oxidase in the mitochondria to produce ATP, why that process also triggers melatonin production deep inside the cells, and why mitochondrial light is not the same thing as sweating in a hot room. Take 4: "This is not just a sauna. It is an experience of being a human" After 20 minutes inside, Brian describes coming out feeling more centered, more focused, more himself. He makes the case that stillness plus light plus grounding creates something restorative that no gym sauna, no cold plunge, and no supplement can replicate. Find SaunaSpace: Website: https://www.saunaspace.com Use code DRG for 15% off through September 28th, then 10% off after Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saunaspace/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - Your Nervous System Is Supposed to Be in a Being State 90% of the Time — Ours Is Inverted 3:16 - Why Stillness Is Not Boredom — It's the Only Time Your Body Can Actually Integrate 4:28 - Two Minutes on TikTok Gives Your Nervous System More Stimulation Than Our Ancestors Got in a Day 6:38 - Why You're Irritable and Don't Even Know Why (The Answer Is the Phone) 7:25 - The Further We Get From Nature, the Further We Get From Health 8:44 - The First Three Things He Does Every Morning to Bring Nature Back Into His Day 10:02 - What Air Conditioning Is Actually Doing to Your Indoor Air (Beyond Temperature) 10:56 - Why He Keeps Night Shift Mode On His Phone All Day Long 11:41 - Why Homes in the UK Feel Warmer and Calmer — and What American Lighting Is Doing to Us 13:30 - The Mall Story: What Happens to Your Body Under Fluorescent Light That You Can't Unsee 17:00 - The Light Your Body Runs On That Nobody Told You About 22:00 - Sunscreen, Sunlight and the Biggest Misunderstanding in Modern Health 27:15 - Why Saunas Are No Longer a Luxury — They're a Necessity in the Toxic World We Live In 28:55 - The Chemicals Acting as Hormones in Your Body Right Now (Xeno Estrogens, Explained) 30:28 - The Only Known Natural Therapy Shown to Reduce Risk of Dying From All Non-Trauma Causes 31:18 - Why You Get Out Feeling Like More of Yourself — Not Just Sweaty and Tired 32:42 - What Makes This Sauna Different: EMF Shielded, No Blue Light, Grounding Mat Built In 34:12 - How He Uses His Own Sauna Every Morning (and Why He Never Skips It) 37:57 - It's Not Just a Sauna — It's a Sacred Time to Be Still and Hear Yourself 38:48 - Where to Find Sauna Space and How to Save on Your First Order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 17

    Scientists Found 4 Supplements That Actually Slow Aging in Humans

    → Shop all my verified, tested and preferred wellness products - includes most up to date brands: https://theswellscore.com/pages/drg Episode Description: That recovery that now takes days instead of hours. The strength slipping. The words you stumble on. The energy that used to feel automatic. That is not just your age. That is your biological clock running faster than it needs to. And the anti-aging shelf is not going to fix it. Resveratrol looked great in a petri dish. So did a hundred other supplements. Most of them were never tested on human aging clocks. We can now measure biological aging directly through DNA methylation. Only a handful of supplements have actually moved those clocks in real human trials. Dr. G breaks down the four that have, the label tricks that waste your money, and the one thing at the end that no supplement company will ever sell you. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "If a supplement has never slowed down aging in a living human, you are buying a headline" Dr. G calls out the resveratrol hype and explains why petri dish and mouse study results have been sold to consumers for years without ever being tested on human aging clocks. Find out what DNA methylation testing actually measures and why it changes everything. Take 2: "Omega-3s are the one supplement on earth shown to slow biological aging in real human trials" In a three year randomized controlled trial in older adults, one gram a day measurably slowed several DNA methylation aging clocks. Dr. G gives the exact form, the exact dose, and the label trick that turns a promising fish oil into an expensive bottle of oxidized oil. Take 3: "Urolithin A clears out the dead power plants inside your cells" As you age the cleanup crew that removes broken mitochondria slows down and garbage accumulates. Dr. G explains the mitophagy process, why most people cannot produce urolithin A from food alone, and what the randomized controlled trial showed about muscle strength and endurance after four months. Take 4: "GlyNAC reversed multiple hallmarks of aging at once and it is cheap" The Baylor University trial showed improvements in glutathione, mitochondrial function, insulin resistance, walking speed, strength, and cognition in 16 weeks. Dr. G explains how glycine and NAC work together to rebuild your body's master antioxidant and why this one belongs in almost everyone's stack. Take 5: "Spermadine switches on the process that keeps your brain recycling itself" Found in wheat germ, aged cheese, and mushrooms, spermadine activates autophagy — the cellular trash removal process that dims as we age. Dr. G walks through the memory trial data and explains why the dose on the label matters more than the ingredient name. Nothing ages you faster than a stressful life. No supplement is going to touch that. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Most Anti-Aging Supplements Were Never Tested on a Single Human 2:00 - There Is One Supplement Proven to Slow Your Biological Clock 3:15 - Supplement #1: The Dose, the Form and the Label Trick That's Costing You 4:30 - Supplement #2: What's Happening Inside Your Cells That You Can't Feel 6:00 - Supplement #3: The Cheapest One — and the Biggest Reset on the List 7:30 - Supplement #4: For the Person Who Feels Like Their Mind Is Slipping 8:45 - The One Thing That Beats All Four (No Company Will Ever Sell You This) 10:00 - Where to Start Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Sep 14

    How Big Food Makes the Problem, So Big Pharma Can Sell You the Band-Aid | Heal Thy Self

    → Timeline|  Go to https://timeline.com/healthyself to take the Longevity Quiz and get your free Mitopure gummies. → Parasym | Head to https://nuropod.com/DRG for 5% off. Every order comes with a 30-day risk-free trial.  #Nuropod #VagusNerve → AirDoctor |Head to https://AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code DRG and get up to $300 off ANY of their select AirDoctor models, plus you will get a 3-year warranty, absolutely FREE! All AirDoctor air purifiers come with a 30-day money back guarantee. Episode Description: There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma and almost nobody is naming it directly. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight or obese because of what the food industry has done to our food supply. And the solution the medical industry is now selling is a drug that suppresses the appetite for the food that is still being made and sold and eaten. The wound is being bandaged. The source of the wound is untouched. Dr. Josh Levitt is a naturopathic physician with 25 years of clinical experience, the co-founder of UpWellness, and one of the most grounded integrative voices in medicine. This conversation covers the big food and big pharma racket, the Nova food classification system, what real food actually looks like, the emotional roots of physical disease, and why dogma on both sides of medicine is killing people. Dr. Josh Levitt's health takes — in order: Take 1: "There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma" Dr. Levitt lays out the cognitive dissonance at the heart of modern medicine. The drugs that suppress appetite are genuinely effective, and they are also a band-aid placed over a wound created by the same economic system that has no incentive to heal it. Take 2: "Balance is a fallacy" Health is not a static destination. Dr. Levitt uses his background as a surfer to explain why people who are good at balance are actually good at the active management of imbalance, and why that reframe changes everything about how you approach the ups and downs of your own health. Take 3: "I have seen people die on the hill of dogma" This is the take most people on both sides of medicine do not want to hear. Dr. Levitt makes the case that extreme conviction in either direction, whether it is that all natural medicine is quackery or that all conventional medicine is poison, has genuinely cost people their lives. Take 4: "I wish people didn't need the supplements I make" Dr. Levitt closes with the most honest take of the episode. He explains why supplements are a tool that help people earn back a sliver of faith in their body's ability to heal, and why the real goal is a world where most of what he sells becomes unnecessary. We have all the technology. We should be crushing it. We are not. Find Dr. Josh Levitt: Website: https://www.upwellness.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/reels/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:23 - GLP-1s Are a Band-Aid for a Problem That Started in Our Food Supply 2:25 - The Core Problem With American Food (And Why "Natural" Labels Are Part of It) 3:49 - The Foundational Approach He Uses With Every Patient — No Diet Required 6:38 - Rapid Weight Loss Is a Good Thing — But Nobody Is Warning You About This 7:50 - Where Those Lost Pounds Actually Go (The Answer Will Change How You Think About Your Liver) 8:29 - Brain Fog, Fatigue and Skin Issues During Weight Loss? Here's Why 9:15 - Is Stored Fat Also a Storehouse for Emotional Toxins? 11:12 - Dr. G's Patient Who Couldn't Lose Weight — Until She Did This 14:00 - What Conventional Medicine and Alternative Medicine Both Get Dangerously Wrong 18:00 - The Crisis of Faith: How Chronic Illness Makes People Stop Believing in Their Own Bodies 22:49 - You Can Lose Faith in Your Body Through Supplement Addiction Too 23:54 - What Happens Inside a Person Who Feels Betrayed by Their Own Body 24:43 - Can the Body Recover From Any Disease? A 25-Year Naturopathic Doctor Answers 25:35 - Why "Holistic" Means More Than Mind-Body — It Means You Are Connected to Everything 26:51 - The Little Win That Starts the Cascade Back to Healing 30:11 - The Body Is Talking to Us All the Time — Are You Listening? 31:35 - What He Would Say to Someone With Cancer Who Has Lost All Faith 33:34 - We Have the Best Medical Tools in History — So Why Are We Failing?34:54 - About UpWellness and Where to Find Dr. Josh Levitt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Sep 10

    Your Gut Health Supplements Do Nothing - Use These Instead

    Episode Description: The bloating after every meal. The gas. The afternoon energy crash. The brain fog. The belly fat that will not move. Almost all of it runs through one place. And it is not a willpower problem. It is your gut. Most people have already spent real money on a probiotic, felt nothing, and concluded that probiotics do not work. The truth is worse. Most of those bacteria are dead before they reach you. The label counts them at manufacturing, not when you swallow them. You may have been paying for a probiotic graveyard for years. Dr. G breaks down four gut supplements with actual human proof behind them, the exact label tricks companies use to take your money, and the one thing that does more for your gut than all four combined. Dr. G breaks it down — in order: Take 1: "A dead probiotic is just an expensive way to feed your toilet" Dr. G exposes the 50 billion CFU scam and explains why most probiotics never survive the journey to your intestines. Find out why the strain on the label matters far more than the number and what to look for instead. Take 2: "Saccharomyces boulardii is the one probiotic that actually arrives alive" It is a yeast, not a bacteria, which means stomach acid and antibiotics cannot touch it. Dr. G breaks down what it does once it gets there, the exact dose used in randomized controlled trials, and the one strain designation that separates the real product from the filler. Take 3: "A probiotic does nothing if you are not feeding the bacteria you already have" Partially hydrolyzed guar gum is one of the most underrated gut supplements in existence and almost nobody is talking about it. Dr. G explains why it feeds your existing microbiome without triggering the gas and bloating that sensitive guts get from other fibers. Take 4: "Enteric coated peppermint oil beats placebo across dozens of randomized controlled trials" If your gut hurts, cramps, or spasms, this is the one. Dr. G explains the exact mechanism, why the enteric coating is non-negotiable, and what happens if you take the version without it. Take 5: "Glutamine is the mortar between the bricks of your gut wall" When the lining goes leaky, food sensitivities, immune reactions, and gut symptoms follow. Dr. G breaks down the randomized controlled trial showing 15 grams a day nearly normalized gut permeability, and why most gut repair blends are burying a useless dose inside an expensive label. Supplements are tools. Your diet and nervous system are the foundation. Product reviews assess both brand transparency and product quality. If a company doesn’t respond to our outreach, it doesn’t automatically mean their product is low quality but it does mean they’re failing their customers on transparency and communication. We reach out multiple times. No response isn’t an oversight, it's a choice. And consumers deserve better. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Why That Expensive 50 Billion CFU Probiotic Is Probably Just an Expensive Graveyard 2:00 - The One Probiotic That Actually Survives Your Stomach Acid (It's Not a Bacteria) 3:30 - The Exact Strain and Dose to Look for on the Label 4:30 - The Gut Supplement Almost Nobody Talks About — and Why It Beats Most Probiotics 6:15 - How to Spot the Prebiotic Label Scam Before You Buy 7:00 - For the Person Whose Gut Actually Hurts: The Supplement With Surprisingly Strong Research 8:45 - The Single Most Important Word on the Label (Skip It and You'll Just Have Expensive Heartburn) 9:30 - The Fourth Supplement: What Rebuilds the Gut Wall Itself 11:00 - The Does Most People Miss (And Why a Tiny Amount Does Nothing) 11:45 - The One Thing That Does More for Your Gut Than All Four Supplements Combined 13:30 - Why Stress and Repressed Emotions Are Feeding the Exact Problem You're Trying to Fix 14:00 - The Full Protocol in One Minute Get your free guide from Dr. G:  https://page-builder-christiangon110.replit.app/opt-in/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Sep 7

    Naturopathic Doctor: The 1 Longevity Trend Wasting Your Money | Heal Thy Self #518

    → Puori | Go to https://puori.com/DRG and use the code DRG at checkout to get 32% off your first Puori Creatine+ subscription order. → AquaTru | Go to https://AquaTru.com now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code DRG. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee. Episode Description: The longevity industry is booming, the clinics are multiplying, and most of them are doing it wrong. Peptides, NAD IVs, hyperbaric chambers, a la carte menus of expensive therapies chosen by patients who have no framework for choosing. The tools are real. The approach is broken. Dr. Guy is a regenerative medicine physician and the founder of Citron Wellness and Citron Longevity in Los Angeles. He has spent his career at the intersection of functional medicine, peptide therapy, mitochondrial health, and trauma physiology. This conversation goes from the longevity industry's biggest blind spots to NAD delivery methods to stored trauma as a driver of aging and chronic disease. It is one of the most clinically honest conversations about what longevity medicine should actually look like. Dr. Guy's health takes — in order: Take 1: "The whole longevity industry is a waste of money if you're not evaluating what the body is expressing" Dr. Guy calls out the a la carte model dominating high end longevity clinics and explains why jumping between sexy therapies without a whole body assessment is the same mistake conventional medicine has always made, just with a bigger price tag. Take 2: "NAD works — but not the way most people are taking it" Dr. Guy explains why oral NAD and most precursors do not move the needle the way the industry claims, why IVs create a one time spike rather than sustained levels, and why subcutaneous injections have become his go-to delivery method for real mitochondrial support. Take 3: "Mitochondrial dysfunction is really a systemic inflammatory picture" NAD is not the only answer and sometimes not even the first one. Dr. Guy breaks down what is actually driving mitochondrial decline and why addressing inflammation at the root changes everything about how you approach the longevity stack. Take 4: "Emotional drama keeps you locked and can break the body" Trauma is a buzzword right now but almost nobody is talking about the physiology behind it. Dr. Guy explains what happens to cortisol, inflammation, and every aging mechanism in the body when the stress cycle never completes, and why stored trauma may be one of the most underestimated drivers of chronic disease. Sleep. Eat right. Then we talk about peptides. Find Dr. Guy: Website: https://www.doctorguy.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrguy/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:09 - Peptides, IVs, Chambers: The A La Carte Problem Nobody Is Talking About  3:24 - Is Most of What Longevity Clinics Offer Actually a Waste of Money? 3:46 - Bryan Johnson: What He Gets Right (And What Puts People Off) 4:21 - Does NAD Actually Work? When Yes, When No, and Why It Depends 5:04 - The Best Way to Take NAD — It's Not IV, Not Oral, Not Precursors 6:48 - What Mitochondrial Dysfunction Actually Is (The Warehouse Analogy) 8:01 - What He Uses Beyond NAD: CoQ10, Hyperbaric Oxygen and Two Specific Peptides 9:17 - Peptides Are the Future — But They're Far More Complex Than Instagram Makes Them Look 10:39 - The Real Danger of Cheap Peptides: What Bottled in China Actually Means 13:05 - How to Do Peptides Safely (And Why Being Cheap Is the Worst Decision You Can Make) 14:01 - Why You Must Track Peptides With Labs — Not Just How You Feel 17:00 - Who Should and Shouldn't Be on Peptides 17:32 - GLP-1s Are Not Your Enemy — But Doctors Are Overdosing Them 18:33 - The Biggest Problem He Sees With GLP-1s Being Done Wrong 19:16 - Why He Always Starts With a Microdose (And What He Looks at First) 21:32 - What Microdosing GLP-1 Can Do Beyond Weight Loss 22:11 - Retatrutide: Why He Thinks It Could Be the First Trillion-Dollar Drug 23:20 - Emotional Drama Keeps You Locked — and Breaks the Body 24:40 - Can Unresolved Trauma Be One of the Leading Causes of Aging? 27:47 - His Non-Negotiables: What to Fix Before You Touch a Single Peptide 28:14 - About Citron Longevity and Where to Find Him Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Health and wellness is louder and more confusing than ever. One expert says eat more meat. Another says cut it out completely. One supplement is called life-changing. The next day, someone says it will make you sick. It’s overwhelming. And that’s exactly why Heal Thy Self exists. Hosted by Dr. Christian Gonzalez, Heal Thy Self cuts through the noise and delivers clarity in a space flooded with contradictions. This isn’t trend-based wellness or recycled talking points. It’s direct, grounded truth that blends real science with deep spiritual and emotional intelligence. Each week, get expert conversations with doctors, scientists, shamans, and healers spanning physical health, mental wellness, emotional healing, and spirituality. Dr. G does the heavy lifting for you, investigating the wellness industry by reviewing third-party testing and breaking down supplements and products to reveal what’s safe, what works, what’s marketing hype, and which companies deserve your trust. You’ll also get channeled episodes that inspire and elevate beyond the physical. This is a fully integrated approach connecting body, mind, nervous system, trauma, energy, and consciousness. If you’re tired of conflicting advice and ready for clarity that empowers, relieves, and inspires, this is the podcast you’ve been missing.

Information

  • Creator
    Wellness Loud
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    526
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Heal Thy Self

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