
EP 89 — Autumn Smith: Food As Medicine For Healing and Optimal Health
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06/16/20 • 120 min
Are you treating the foods you eat as medicines that can harm your health or give it the boost your body needs?
Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritional expert Autumn Smith describes her personal transformation to healthy living thanks to shifting her diet to whole, organic foods and her journey to build two ethical, whole health companies — Paleovalley and Wild Pastures — in this delicious Living 4D podcast.
Learn more Autumn's work at Paleovalley via social media on Facebook and Instagram.
Show Notes
- Autumn gets rid of her longtime digestive disorders with whole foods. (6:35)
- Paul’s tip for weaning off caffeine. (11:30)
- The number one ingredient contained in most beef sticks on the market. (17:11)
- Paul’s diet philosophies helped Autumn heal and inspire the growth of Paleovalley. (30:05)
- The difference between organic and regenerative agriculture. (38:51)
- Health benefits of apple cider vinegar in foods. (52:15)
- “Collagen is the fountain of youth.” (1:09:00)
- How much vitamin C in many foods comes from GMO corn? A lot! (1:15:41)
- Organ meats are “nature’s multivitamins.” (1:28:24)
- Curcumin is just one compound in turmeric among hundreds that work synergistically to our benefit. (1:41:05)
- Why Autumn started Wild Pastures. (1:50:38)
Resources
- Gluteomorphins and caseomorphins
- The work of Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and Francis Pottenger
- Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Eugene Trufkin and Dr. Paul Saladino
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 1934
- Stalking The Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
- The Real Truth About Vitamins and Anti-Oxidants by Judith DeCava
Thanks to our awesome sponsors: Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code chek15 at checkout), BiOptimizers (save 26 percent on BiOptimizers’ Upgraded Digestion package of products Paul uses by using the code CHEK10 at checkout) and Cymbiotika (save 15 percent on your purchase when you use the code CHEK15 at checkout).
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Are you treating the foods you eat as medicines that can harm your health or give it the boost your body needs?
Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritional expert Autumn Smith describes her personal transformation to healthy living thanks to shifting her diet to whole, organic foods and her journey to build two ethical, whole health companies — Paleovalley and Wild Pastures — in this delicious Living 4D podcast.
Learn more Autumn's work at Paleovalley via social media on Facebook and Instagram.
Show Notes
- Autumn gets rid of her longtime digestive disorders with whole foods. (6:35)
- Paul’s tip for weaning off caffeine. (11:30)
- The number one ingredient contained in most beef sticks on the market. (17:11)
- Paul’s diet philosophies helped Autumn heal and inspire the growth of Paleovalley. (30:05)
- The difference between organic and regenerative agriculture. (38:51)
- Health benefits of apple cider vinegar in foods. (52:15)
- “Collagen is the fountain of youth.” (1:09:00)
- How much vitamin C in many foods comes from GMO corn? A lot! (1:15:41)
- Organ meats are “nature’s multivitamins.” (1:28:24)
- Curcumin is just one compound in turmeric among hundreds that work synergistically to our benefit. (1:41:05)
- Why Autumn started Wild Pastures. (1:50:38)
Resources
- Gluteomorphins and caseomorphins
- The work of Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and Francis Pottenger
- Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Eugene Trufkin and Dr. Paul Saladino
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 1934
- Stalking The Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
- The Real Truth About Vitamins and Anti-Oxidants by Judith DeCava
Thanks to our awesome sponsors: Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code chek15 at checkout), BiOptimizers (save 26 percent on BiOptimizers’ Upgraded Digestion package of products Paul uses by using the code CHEK10 at checkout) and Cymbiotika (save 15 percent on your purchase when you use the code CHEK15 at checkout).
As an Amazon Associate, we ear
Thanks to our awesome sponsors:
Paleovalley
BiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10
Organifi CHEK20
Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
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EP 88 — Sayer Ji: The Future of Health and Wellness is Now!
Are you concerned about the future of whole health alternatives to the standard allopathic treatment model?
Paul talks to Sayer Ji about founding GreenMedInfo, the ongoing fight to share whole health alternatives with the public and his new book, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience Through the New Biology, in this Living 4D podcast.
Learn more about Sayer and GreenMedInfo on social media via Instagram and Facebook and at Stand For Health Freedom. Download the free e-book, Nature’s Pharmacy: Evidence-Based Alternatives to Drugs, when you sign up for the GreenMedInfo newsletter.
Show Notes
- The conventional medical model has been built around trauma from the time we’re born. (10:15)
- Paradox: The best way to describe life that integrates the layers of the spiritual, emotional and physical. (24:41)
- The magic behind the placebo effect. (35:14)
- GreenMedInfo’s mission. (46:57)
- Over-estimations of COVID-19 from the experts. (58:58)
- “Scientism is the religion that would devour all others.” (1:16:18)
- Harnessing zero-point energy. (1:21:37)
- The phenomena of cavitation. (1:30:14)
- Mitochondria power. (1:44:48)
- Paul meets a peacock, a symbol of enlightenment. (1:47:48)
- Sayer and his wife, Dr. Kelly Brogan, join forces to create the Vital Life Project. (1:59:19)
Resources
- The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies by David Wilcock
- The work of James True, Dr. Kelly Brogan, Joseph Rael, Rudolf Steiner, Walter Russell and Dr. William Tiller
- A Möbius strip
- The Great Hack on Netflix
- Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Ervin Laszlo
- The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid and Vapor by Gerald and Ethan Pollack
- NanoSpire
Thanks to our awesome sponsors: Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code chek15 at checkout), BiOptimizers (save 10 percent on your purchase by using the code PAUL10 at checkout) and
Thanks to our awesome sponsors:
Paleovalley
BiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10
Organifi CHEK20
Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
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EP 90 — Dr. Keith Witt: Seeing the World and Love Through Integral Psychology
With the world becoming a more brittle and fragile place, our relationships with the people we love and care about are more important than ever before.
Dr. Keith Witt shares his five dimensions for building successful relationships and takes on the big questions — racism, violence and radical acceptance — in this expansive and therapeutic Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Keith’s 40+ years as a psychotherapist and get a free download of his book. The Attuned Family, on his website. You can email him at [email protected].
Show Notes
- Faced with decisions for a lifetime, Keith chose the warrior and the healer. (6:15)
- Everything is relationships. (12:44)
- Connecting with your eighth and ninth chakras. (19:15)
- What worldview are you living in? (26:54)
- Violence: The worst addiction in humanity. (35:24)
- Society’s biggest problems: Child abuse, child neglect and education. (43:26)
- Moving slower to engage in more consciousness with life and the people we love. (51:21)
- Donald Trump’s gift to our world. (1:02:33)
- Today’s human culture is brittle, fragile and deconstructing right in front of us. (1:11:07)
- Are you weird or just healthy? (1:21:32)
- Are you a seeker? (1:29:51)
- “Radical acceptance is not radical indulgence.” (1:44:46)
- Shame: The basis for morality. (1:56:18)
- Erotic polarity. (2:05:16)
- Keith and Paul have daughters named Zoe. (2:11:53)
- Attachment issues with your partner are a YOU problem too! (2:20:43)
- Therapy is like a marriage to a client one hour at a time. (2:27:14)
- Why does all love involve some pain and suffering? (2:32:39)
- “Carl Jung must’ve been a lonely guy...” (2:39:30)
Resources
- Integral Life
- Loving Completely, Shadow Light, Shadow Light Workbook: Recording Your Shadow Journey, Waking Up and The Gift of Shame by Dr. Keith Witt
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Religion of Tomorrow by Ken Wilbur
- Keith’s Therapist in the Wild video series
- The Shrink & The Pundit podcast series with Keith and Jeff Salzman
- What is Pendulation in Somatic Experiencing with Dr. Peter Levine on YouTube
- Robert Augustus Masters on Shadow Work
- Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding The Dark Side of Psyche by Robert Johnson
Thanks to our awesome sponsors: Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase
Thanks to our awesome sponsors:
Paleovalley
BiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10
Organifi CHEK20
Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.
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