The Sakara Life Podcast

We at Sakara believe that deepening our connection to our bodies is a key first step to nourishing our health for life—which is why we are so excited to speak with today’s guest.Dr. Mindy Pelz is a fasting expert and best-selling author who has helped thousands reset their health over her nearly 30-year practice, empowering them to take control of their well-being through fasting for hormonal balance. She works with Olympic athletes, Academy Award-winning actors, Silicon Valley CEOs, and countless patients looking to renew their body’s healing powers—including a 50,000-plus Resetter Collaborative Community and The Reset Academy, specifically designed to teach women how to sync a fasting lifestyle with their hormones.We hope you enjoy our conversation with Dr. Mindy Pelz on the distinct influence women’s hormones have on our health, the importance of cultivating body intelligence and syncing our habits to our hormonal cycles, and how our health—and lives—can transform when we do.Produced by Hangar Studios

One of Sakara’s Nine Pillars Of Nutrition, body intelligence is about honing your ability to listen and respond to your body’s needs through awareness, knowledge, and engagement. It’s a dynamic intersection of science and spirit, and an essential skill for feeling and showing up as your best at every stage of life.We’re so excited to have Dr. Taz Bhatia back on the podcast to discuss the five life shifts every woman experiences, as chronicled in her best-selling book, The Hormone Shift. As a board-certified Integrative Medicine physician and wellness expert, a fellow of the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine led by Dr. Andrew Weil, and the founder and CEO of her nationally recognized integrated medicine practice, CentreSpringMD, Dr. Taz serves patients holistically by pulling from multiple vantage points of functional, and integrative medicine spanning Western and Eastern modalities.In this conversation, we get into how women’s major hormonal shifts mirror common social phases of life; why supporting our body intelligence through all of life’s phases requires breaking through culturally imposed boundaries and rebuilding connection with other women; and the steps we can take at every stage to nourish our body intelligence and set up our bodies, minds, and spirits for optimal vitality.Produced by Hangar Studios

In this episode Danielle sits down solo with Dr. Austin Perlmutter, who specializes in what he calls the “science of stuck.” His research and work centers around the thesis that modern culture is rewiring our brains and damaging our health in the name of profit, and his New York Times best-selling book, Brain Wash, offers a plan of resistance against this pervasive numbing championed by our society. Austin suggests that to rehabilitate our neuroplasticity—a.k.a., our brain's ability to shift its response to our environment—we need to combat the isolation of our digital age by seeking out both more human connection, and time immersed in Nature. He believes that through reconnecting with our community and ourselves, we can reattune our consciousness and ability to sit on the driver’s seat of our own health.Produced by Hangar Studios

On today's podcast we had the pleasure of sitting down with Whitney and Danielle's longtime personal dentist, Dr. Gerry Curatola. Dr. Curatola has been a practicing clinician for several decades and is anything but traditional when it comes to oral health and his holistic approach to dentistry. Based on academic research and practice, he champions the idea that our mouth microbiome is both a portal and a mirror to our overall well being, and that it holds many more insights to our health than the modern Western dentistry standards address. He's the author of a new book called The Mouth Body Connection, which details how to create a healthy mouth, reduce inflammation, and prevent disease throughout the entire body. He's also the co-inventor of the world's first prebiotic naturopathic toothpaste called Revitin. During this conversation we touch on everything from metal fillings to jaw cavitations, root canals, and Dr. Curatola’s personal mission to change the world of dentistry for the better. Produced by Hangar Studios

Today, we’re excited to be sitting down with Dr. Dawson Church, an award-winning science writer and author of three best-selling books The Genie in Your Genes,Mind to Matter, and Bliss Brain, to explore how we can remodel the brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy. Dawson founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to study and implement evidence-based psychological and medical techniques. The Institute’s largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to over 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. Here, he shares his methods of treatment, the science behind them, and how the rituals we choose are investments in our long-term happiness.Produced by Hangar Studios

Today we’re diving into one of our most-requested topics: metabolism. With the help of Sakara Science Council Member and Harvard-trained medical doctor, Dr. William Li, we dissolve many of the myths about metabolism that we’ve all been led to believe, including that your metabolism does not have to slow with age–but why you might still be experiencing a metabolic slow down and what you can do to resolve it. We also discuss the calorie myth, and why eating for our gut health means eating for our whole body. This eye-opening episode reminds us of the power we hold over our own health, and how we can get back in the driver’s seat at any age or life-stage.Produced by Hangar Studios

Our relationship with our body is one of, if not the most important relationships in our lives. At Sakara we believe that deepening our body intelligence is key to well-being—which is why we’re so excited to speak with today’s guest, Dr. Rachel Allyn. As an author, TEDx speaker, and holistic somatic psychologist, Dr. Allyn’s work hinges on the study of body wisdom. She focuses on taking pressure off the mind to foster a deeper connection with our bodies, working with patients to hone their “bodyfulness”—her term for expanding our mindfulness to incorporate our physical bodies. By integrating movement into her practice, she helps them unlearn and release long-held stigmas and shame about their bodies and their pleasure, allowing them to access greater satisfaction and joy—both in their physical relationships with themselves, and their intimate relationships with others.Produced by Hangar Studios

Explore releasing toxic inner narratives and achieving true freedom with Peter Crone. Unveil roots of calorie counting obsessions and journey towards self-acceptance. Understand mind-body connection for healing and taking responsibility for emotional reactions. Learn about Sakura's nutrition program for transformation.

Is there life after death? Is there any essential soul to the human body? What is consciousness?  Today on the Sakara Life Podcast we explore possible answers to these existential queries, as we’re joined by Graham Nicholls to discuss his work around out of body experiences (OBEs) and the psychology of consciousness. An author, lecturer, and board member for the Rhine Research Center, Graham connects the dots between cutting-edge metaphysics research and his own personal history with out-of-body experiences, exploring how they can help us all reach greater levels of consciousness and spiritual fulfillment. In this cerebral conversation, Graham shows us how this deeper level of consciousness can impact the way we move through the world and understand our connection to the greater universe.Produced by Hangar Studios

Here at Sakara, we're forever exploring the connections between our brains and bodies, and the role our minds and habits play in creating the lives we want to live. In this episode, we're joined by the renowned psychologist and author Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman to discuss his books, The Molecule of More and Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind, and his work exploring the neurochemical dopamine's impact on our mental health. In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Lieberman unpacks the ways in which this powerful hormone is often misunderstood, diving into both its light and shadow sides—and how it can help us manifest our future. Together we examine the difference between our conscious and unconscious mind, and the phenomenon of transcendence, the power of faith, and the limits that blur the line between science and spirit.Produced by Hangar Studios