Niklas Gustafson: Hungry for Change

Niklas Gustafson
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What does it really mean to be healthy? How can we get closer to our optimal, natural state? In a time in which financial interests and deceitful marketing are sending us mixed messages, it can be hard to figure out what is really good for us. Join author and health enthusiast Niklas Gustafson as he speaks to experts from all around the world about what health really is.

  1. May 29

    What We Lost When We Stopped Hunting | Mansal Denton

    Most people eat food without ever facing what it cost. The land. The animal. The blood. The death. The responsibility. In this episode, I sit down with Mansal Denton, founder of Sacred Hunting and Real Provisions, for a conversation about the part of nutrition modern life keeps hidden. This is not just about hunting. It is about what happens when food becomes too clean on the outside, toxic on the inside, too packaged, too distant from the reality that something had to die so we could live. Mansal has spent years helping people reconnect with wild, ethically sourced, nutrient-dense food. And in this conversation, we talk about what hunting reveals, what supermarkets hide and why facing where your food comes from may change the way you see meat, health, and nature altogether. Timestamps:  00:00 Intro01:05 What does health actually mean? 01:43 Raised by two PhDs: Mansal's unusual upbringing 04:10 From prison at 19 to sacred hunter 08:20 Can you really respect an animal you kill? 12:44 What changes when your food comes from your own hands 15:41 Why our connection to food is completely broken 20:36 What watching an animal die reveals about you 25:10 The hypocrisy of eating meat but refusing to kill 28:22 How to truly honor a hunted animal 31:25 Nose to tail: wasting nothing 44:44 What spiritual connection to food really means 52:44 The Instagram lie about "ancestral" living 55:26 Can you connect to food you didn't hunt yourself? 56:19 Why ethical food doesn't exist 59:50 The lies behind today's food system 1:05:13 Mansel's upcoming projects (Real Provisions & Telos) Don’t forget to follow @mansaldenton on his socials:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mansaldenton/ Real provisions: https://www.instagram.com/realprovisions/  Sacred Hunting: https://www.instagram.com/sacredhunting/ Website: https://realprovisions.com/ Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    1h 8m

  2. Apr 28

    CONFESSIONS OF A HEART SURGEON: HOW TO STAY OFF MY OPERATING TABLE | Dr. Philip Ovadia | Niklas Gustafson

    Heart disease usually starts long before the chest pain. That’s what Dr. Philip Ovadia learned after performing over 3,000 heart surgeries. Most people arrive at the operating table thinking it was bad luck, bad genes, or something that came out of nowhere. But the signs were there for years. Today we get into what people miss, why “normal” tests can still leave you in danger, what cholesterol does and doesn’t tell you, and how to stay off a heart surgeon’s table in the first place. Make sure to check Dr. Ovadia’s socials:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ovadiahearthealth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifixhearts/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixhearts X URL: https://x.com/ifixhearts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IFixHearts LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/philip-ovadia-heart-health/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Stay-off-Operating-Table-Metabolic/dp/1737818205/ Appearances: https://ifixhearts.com/podcasts-and-videos/ Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    1h 7m

  3. Apr 1

    I DRANK BLOOD WITH THE SAMBURU | Bill Schindler

    What if one of the biggest mistakes in modern nutrition is that we focus on what to eat, but ignore what has to be done to food first?   Because for most of human history, people didn’t just find food. They transformed it. And that may be one of the missing pieces in the health conversation now.   In this episode, Dr. Bill Schindler breaks down how humans made food safer, more digestible, and more nutrient-dense, and why many modern debates completely miss that layer.   We get into ancestral diets, plant toxins, nose-to-tail eating and the question that makes this whole conversation hard to forget: are we overlooking the very thing that made food work for humans in the first place? Want to join Bill's Ancestral Table (online community)?: https://modernstoneage.circle.so/feed Interested in Bill's Traditional Food Ways study program? Check it out here: UCC Class: Food Heritage in Action: Turning Tradition into Sustainable Enterprise: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/food-heritage/    Make sure to check Bill’s socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbillschindler/?hl=en Instagram: @themodernstoneage Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@themodernstoneage Web page: https://modernstoneage.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drbillschindler/ Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson  TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    1h 10m

  4. Mar 12

    LIGHT CAN HEAL YOU | Daniel White & Jai Kapoor

    You can eat well, train hard, take supplements, and still feel off if your body is out of sync with light, sleep, and time. In this episode I sit down with Daniel White, a Registered Nutritionist focused on sleep science and circadian biology, and Jai Kapoor, an AI and tech executive who spent years battling autoimmune psoriasis before rebuilding his life around circadian rhythm and becoming psoriasis-free. We break down what living “in rhythm” actually means, and why ignoring it quietly disrupts everything from energy to inflammation.   Make sure to check the In Rhythm socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inrhythm.earth/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inrhythm.earth TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@inrhythm.earth Web page: https://www.inrhythm.earth/lifestyle   Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson   Substack: https://substack.com/@niklasgustafson TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    1h 7m

  5. Feb 27

    MISTAKES ARE NECESSARY TO EVOLVE | NIKLAS GUSTAFSON

    I’m usually the one asking the questions. Today I’m the one on the spot. Valentina takes over and asks me about the opinions I’m known for, the ones I’ve softened, and the ones I’ve doubled down on.   We go through the real timeline: what pushed me into animal-based, what didn’t work at first, what finally clicked, and what I think is quietly wrecking people’s health right now without them even noticing. If you want the “why” behind everything, this is the episode. Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson   Substack: https://substack.com/@niklasgustafson TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    26 min

  6. 12/24/2025

    CARBS ARE OPTIONAL | Coach Bronson

    Most people don’t have a fitness problem. They have a metabolism problem. Coach Bronson lost 70 pounds and learned the hard way why training harder can still leave you stuck. This episode is about what “metabolic freedom” actually looks like, and the changes that flip everything.   Make sure to check Coach Bronson’s socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coach.bronson/ Web page: https://coachbronson.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@coach.bronson/videos Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson   Substack: https://substack.com/@niklasgustafson TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    55 min

  7. 11/26/2025

    HOW YOU CAN LIVE TO 102 YEARS | Dr Sarah Myhill

    If you wake up tired, run on caffeine, and keep hearing “your labs are normal,” this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar. There is a reason your body has no battery and most doctors never even look at it. Dr. Sarah Myhill has spent 40+ years going straight to the body’s engine, your mitochondria, to figure out why people burn out, crash, and stay sick. She’s helped thousands with chronic fatigue, long COVID, and “mystery” symptoms using protocols she built in the clinic, not in a boardroom. She’s published prize-winning books, original research, and she’s been willing to fight her own profession when the system got in the way of getting people better. In this conversation, we get into what’s quietly draining your energy, the core tests she relies on, and the exact steps she uses to help patients rebuild from the ground up. If you’ve ever been told “there’s nothing wrong with you” while your body is clearly saying the opposite, watch this before you accept that answer. Make sure to check Dr. Sarah Myhill socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmyhill/ Twitter: https://x.com/MyhillNews Web page: https://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVy79ULSLRIkbjUWoslZ_Mw Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson   Substack: https://substack.com/@niklasgustafson TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    1h 7m

  8. 10/31/2025

    Harvard Dr. Georgia Ede: Your Brain Screams for Help

    Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede has a message most doctors won’t say out loud: the modern diet is wrecking our mental health. Depression, anxiety, burnout, brain fog,  these aren’t always chemical imbalances. Many are driven by what we eat, and psychiatry isn’t keeping up. In this episode, Dr. Ede explains how food affects brain function, why standard treatments often fail, and what happens when you remove the triggers instead of just masking symptoms. Before you blame your brain… look at your plate. Make sure to check Dr. Ede’s socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgiaedemd/  Twitter: https://x.com/GeorgiaEdeMD  Web page:  www.diagnosisdiet.com/resources    Don't forget to subscribe and follow me on my socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niklasgustafson/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiklasGustafsonHealth/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/niklasgustafson  TikTok: @niklasgustafson

    51 min
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What does it really mean to be healthy? How can we get closer to our optimal, natural state? In a time in which financial interests and deceitful marketing are sending us mixed messages, it can be hard to figure out what is really good for us. Join author and health enthusiast Niklas Gustafson as he speaks to experts from all around the world about what health really is.

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