The Made to Thrive Show

Dr Jack Kruse MD discusses the deep connection between thermodynamics in biology and the processing of energy and information. He explores the impact of light, water, and magnetism on disease prevention and treatment. Topics include the deuterium content in water and grass, the effects of 5G and EMFs, the role of light in wildlife migration, and the importance of critical thinking in education.

Dr Jack Kruse, world-respected neurosurgeon and CEO of Optimized Life and Kruse Longevity Center, discusses the deep connection between thermodynamics in biology and the processing of energy and information. He explores the significance of light, water, and magnetism in disease prevention and overall health. Topics covered include the three-legged stool of life, the importance of physics and water in biology, the impact of light on autophagy and apoptosis, timing differences in cellular functions, and the role of DHA, RXR, and VDR in light-based control mechanisms.

What a year 2023 has been! It’s been tough, which I have been open and vulnerable about on the show, but I am also inspired and hopeful about the future thanks to talking to people all over the world working tirelessly to serve humanity. Whether trauma experts or hormone savants or the father of biohacking itself, 2023 was filled with incredible people and powerful knowledge and insights. 2023 was also the year of brain health and even sexual health, both topics featured in this best of 2023 episode! Enjoy Made To Thrive nation. Thank you so much for your support and see you in 2024 to explore why all of you were Made To Thrive.Support the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

Can you be honest, open and vulnerable with a group of strangers? Share your scariest truths and deepest pains? I believe we all can, but most of us don’t for fear of judgment, shame and embarrassment. But I believe all of us need to overcome fear and immerse ourselves with community, and tap into the powerful healing power of being surrounded. Which is what Vanessa Cornell is doing so successfully with her NUSHU groups. I hope her story will inspire just one of you out there to speak your truth and share your story within community, and feel the winds of being uplifted and held by your fellow human being. Vanessa Cornell is the founder of NUSHU, a wellness collective and community of women on spiritual journeys seeking to find their center through connection, personal growth and empowerment. Vanessa believes in the modality of showing up exactly as you are, be accepted as such, not be fixed for who you are and feel safe in that process. She attended Harvard University, worked at Goldman Sachs, is a mother of five and currently owns Cornell Vineyards, where she and her husband create exquisite wines.   Join us as we explore:Why the foundation of our self-work begins by understanding that the answers are on the inside, not on the outside, and the number one personality characteristic that can serve you on the journey of finding yourself.How and why Vanessa founded NUSHU, what it means, what the NUSHU journey is about and why it has grown to such a powerful transformational community.What it means to hold space for groups to heal, how to create awareness about the urge to interfere and why listening is the most needed yet lacking element in relationship.Group work or community medicine, how the group always gives everyone what they need and why you should look for group circles if you feel you need to be held in your journey of healing.What happens in group work, the impact of technology in group settings and why men need group work more than ever.Are you talking the talk, wearing the costume, using the words or are you actually living your authenticity and acting with integrity?Contact:Website - https://nushu.com Mentions Podcast – Britt Frank, https://youtu.be/yIODpLr_f7s?si=_42D4knxtDPXu94J  Support the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

This is the protein episode. The diet wars are raging stronger than ever, so I receive a lot of questions about which diet is best and what food to eat for weight loss or if plant protein is really as good as animal protein. I’m not picking sides either, everyone is unique and has the autonomy to make their own choices, but I do want to be on the side of science and facts. Well, if you want to know the answer to all those questions, and much more, don’t miss this episode with expert human nutrition scientist Dr Van Vliet.   Dr. Stephan van Vliet is a nutrition scientist with metabolomics expertise in Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences (NDFS). He earned his PhD in Kinesiology as an ESPEN Fellow from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received training at the Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine and Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. van Vliet’s research is performed at the nexus of agricultural and human health. He routinely collaborates with farmers, ecologists, and agricultural scientists to study critical linkages between agricultural production methods, the nutrient density of food, and human health. Join us as we explore:If it actually matters to eat grass-fed beef vs factory farming grain fed and finished beef, but why the first step in nutrition has nothing to do with that.Did you know plant-based protein can have over 400,000 added ingredients? The truth about plant-based food and meat from an expert who has done in-depth research.Why many compounds may not be “essential” for human health but are still crucial for the bodyEverything protein – how much to eat, it is absorbed, how does our body use it, and where to get your protein from.Powders, shakes, supplements – are they good, bad, or it’s complicated? The right ones? The wrong ones? A detailed breakdown on essential fatty acids.Sarcopenia and why anyone over 50 needs to be concerned this is their number one health risk!Contact:Twitter - @vanvlietphdResearch papers (“Publications”) - https://caas.usu.edu/directory/vanvliet-stephan Mentions Study - The Skeletal Muscle Anabolic Response to Plant- versus Animal-Based Protein Consumption, https://tinyurl.com/2c3smdcs Podcast – Food is Medicine: Regenerative Agriculture with the most famous farmer Joel Salatin, Support the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

This is my third show of the year on sexual health! Before 2023, I had done no shows on this topic. So why so many now? I believe this could be one of the most overlooked aspects of our health and wellbeing. Everyone has heard plenty about diet and exercise, but who can discuss their sexual archetype, sexual matrix or sexual MOJO? Exactly. And that’s exactly what my guest today is going to unpack – your sexual MOJO.Deborah Kagan helps women conquer self-doubt and indecision to step into their full power, love who they are and live a turned ON life. She is the creator of the Rock Your Mojo™ programs, the author of Find Your ME Spot: 52 Ways to Reclaim Your Confidence, Feel Good in Your Own Skin and Live a Turned On Life and the host of The Real Undressed podcast. She's super social and wants to connect with you. Find her on Facebook (/mojorecoveryspecialist), Instagram (@deborahkagan), Twitter (@deborahkagan), Pinterest (/deborahkagan) and LinkedIn (/in/deborahkagan). And for all things mojolicious, check out www.deborah-kagan.com/blogGet her new book on pre-order NOW: https://tinyurl.com/2uwftp4pJoin us as we explore:When Deborah realised women were “aching” for a way to discuss their sexuality and especially drop the shame and guilty around sex and their bodies.Your MOJO (it’s an acronym!), your storehouse, playdates, the masculinization of women, becoming self-expressed and rediscovering your oracle.Why everyone should care about their sexuality, the power of the Higgs-Boson in sexuality and what healing our sexual body can do for our health and wellbeing.Creating a sexual sanctuary and what Deborah has seen as the most powerful sexual lifestyle interventions. Our seven power centers, and why Deborah works mostly with the second and fifth centers for sexual health.Appropriate sexual education at each age and stage of your life and how to educate the next generation in a healthy and safe way.Contact:Website – https://www.deborah-kagan.comPodcast - https://therealundressed.comMentions:Book – Think and Grow Rich, https://tinyurl.com/537cvetcProduct – Sliquid, https://tinyurl.com/y2zudvwcSupport the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

The psychedelic revolution isn’t coming. It is here, and it is moving at full pace in the United States, and within the next year or two many drugs that people still associate with partying will become the gold standard in mental health care and medicine. I have such hope for the future of psychedelics and believe it is crucially important to educate my audience about what the landscape looks like both now and in the near future.Paul F. Austin is one of the most prominent voices in the world of psychedelics. As the founder of Third Wave, he has educated millions on the importance of safe and effective psychedelic experiences. A pioneer at the intersection of microdosing, personal transformation, and professional success, he has been featured in Forbes, Rolling Stone, and the BBC's Worklife. Paul helps others use microdosing as a tool for professional development and increased self-awareness by treating the use of psychedelics as a skill refined through mentorship and courageous exploration.Get his new book Mastering Microdosing NOW: https://tinyurl.com/mastermicrodosingJoin us as we explore:Everything psychedelics – what they are, the subgroups, the typical session and why Paul fundamentally sees their healing power in their deconditioning and alignment attributes. Why psychedelics are not just about tripping but the fundamentally crucial pre-work, cultivating a clear intention, preparation and the critically important 3-week post-integration period with a coach.The “start low and go slow” method, why the psychedelic process is like a lotus, what you resist persists, ego-dissolution and why Paul became such an advocate and expert in microdosing.How Paul trains the future of psychedelic coaches and why these molecules are only tools and if not used correctly and with the correct people are likely to lead to extremely difficult and challenging situations. The data, stats and yes risks around psychedelics and what Paul himself, already 14 years into his psychedelic journey, is excited about.Contact:Website – https://thethirdwave.coMentionsProduct – ApolloNeuro, https://madetothrive.co.za/product/apollo-neuro-stress-relief-device/  Support the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

Decisions, decisions, decisions. I don’t think people appreciate the sheer volume of decisions they make every day. This has led to decision fatigue, as well as with the added daily stressors of modern life a willpower gap crisis. Add engineered food at an industrial scale and we have a food addiction epidemic driving the rampant obesity and diabetes crisis This was a much needed episode with food psychologist and brain scientist Susan Peirce Thompson who went from drug addiction and teenage prostitution to dedicating her life to non-addictive eating, weight loss and why our brain is at the center of the metabolic disorder epidemic. Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., is the New York Times best-selling author of Bright Line Eating, The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook, and Rezoom. She is an adjunct associate professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and an expert in the psychology of eating. She is president of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a company dedicated to helping people achieve long-term, sustainable weight loss.Want to be part of Susan’s next life changing weight loss boot camp? Sign up here for January 2024Get her new book “On This Bright Day” NOW. Join us as we explore:How modern and the Big Food industry has hijacked our brain and our hormones, and no, this is not by accident! It’s called leptin resistance.Why food is the first habit that fixes the others, weight loss within the addiction model, the willpower gap and the true reason people won’t, don’t, can’t stick to a healthy and sustainable eating plan.How Susan’s eating program is uniquely successful to others by reducing one key variable!Why flour and sugar are drugs as strong as any other you can think of.The hard data from her Bright Light Eating program has shown to be as powerful as spending $ 1,000 on the “miracle” pharmaceutical semaglutide, backed up by published studies and without all the side effects.Real life stories of trauma and transformation, including Susan’s very own addiction stories from methamphetamine, crack houses, food addict to successful brain scientist and food psychologist changing lives.Contact:WebsiteMentionsQuiz – Bright Light Eating quiz, https://tinyurl.com/blequizResearch, Bright Light Eating published studiesSupport the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

Something must be done to change the trajectory of human health because the trends are catastrophic. But my mission is to transform lives and empower people to a life of good health, so despite sometimes feeling like this war is too big to win, I also know there are so many health heroes out there fighting in the same fight I am. That includes Dr Coburn Allen and the healthcare company Medici. This episode is an inside look into what the future of healthcare companies needs to look like if we are to reverse our sick-care system into an actual healthcare system.Dr Coburn Allen is the Chief Medical Officer of Medici, a healthcare provider using the power of technology to offer people a better way. Motivated by the fact the United States spends twice as much on healthcare as its democratic peers yet has far worse health outcomes, Dr Allen’s mission is to create a healthcare system that is designed for the individual and aligned with real health. Medici allows patients easy access to a team of concierges, coaches, dieticians, nurses, doctors and specialists with just a single text message all at a simple, transparent and surprisingly low cost. Join us as we explore:What it is going to take to stop and reverse the sick-care system and stats that 60% of American adults have one chronic disease due only to lifestyle, 40% have two and most importantly on average all of them believe there is nothing they can do about it!Why  everyone needs not only a primary care physician in their life but a primary care team encompassing health care professionals like a health coach.  The power of measuring compassion in healthcare and using reality to motivate people to make sticky habits and change the trajectory of their lives.The power of awareness and helping a pre-diabetic patient delay onset diabetes by 11 years with on average just one lifestyle change.How the sickest 5% of people contribute to more than 50% of overall healthcare costs, and how preventative or medicine 3.0 is the only way forward we have to change that.Using the power of AI to make a 20x better decision on whether to do further testing for patients, saving both lives and massive costs for patients. The disastrous state of health of children, why college has become the nexus point of disease and what we need to do to change our kids’ future.Contact:Website – https://www.medi.ciMentionsBook – Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, https://www.amazon.com/Compassionomics-Revolutionary-Scientific-Evidence-Difference-ebookSupport the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/

Brain health has been at the top of my health radar for 2023. I have already done powerful episodes with Dr Dale Bredesen and Dr Kristen Willeumier, but this episode with incredible genius and inventor Dr Brandon Crawford blew me away. He is taking brain health and healing to a new level with his custom-invented lasers that leverage different frequencies, wavelengths and colors to heal the human body and brain. He is constantly pushing the boundary of brain health and healing, and I cannot wait to have him on again in a year or two and unpack his latest discoveries and inventions.Dr Brandon Crawford is a functional neurologist with specialization in childhood neurodevelopment and photobiomodulation. He is the owner and lead physician at NeuroSolution Center in Austin, Texas, and the co-founder and managing partner at branches in Atlanta, Georgia and soon Dubai as well as their comprehensive product range. Dr. Crawford is known for his work and advancements in laser and light therapy, also known as photobiomodulation, specifically within functional neurology. Join us as we explore:Dispelling one of the most disempowering myths out there – that neuroplasticity, or our ability to rewire our brain, is something that stops after childhood. This is wrong! We can change our brains and therefore our minds till the last days of our lives. How neurodevelopmental problems in childhood can persist into adulthood and express as different symptoms, and how Dr Crawford’s unique auditing and assessment system can pinpoint neurological “wounds” and address them with simple, non-invasive techniques.How Dr Crawford treated a case of a girl with severe autism who “wanted to rip his face off” to the point that diagnosis is gone! The NeuroSolution pillars: ESM – energy, sensory and movement, and why Dr Crawford felt it necessary to invent custom lasers for brain healing.Photobiomodulation, mal-illumination, blue light-blocking glasses, how light frequencies are languages and what God created before life was light!Innovative brain healing techniques Dr Crawford is using every day to change lives, and ideas he has for the future of brain health.Contact:Website – https://www.drbrandoncrawford.comWebsite - https://www.neurosolutionatx.comInstagram - @bcrawforddcMentionsStudy – Long term effect of low frequency (10 hz) vagus nerve stimulationSupport the showFollow Steve's socials: Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | TikTokSupport the show on Patreon:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I’d be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowSend me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our content: https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-conditions-and-privacy-policy/