Learn 10 fun mental tricks to help you in times of temptation, each tool providing you with protection when you are confronted with your favorite addictive foods or substances. The ten hacks, which can be used individually or in combination with one another, fall into the following categories:visionconcepts & beliefssmelltastememorytime travelemotionbusinessbeautyidentity

Are donuts better for you than protein bars? Deception and lies run rampant throughout reality, especially in the world of man-made things like food, medicine, and technology. Yet so also does honesty. Even unhealthy things like cupcakes and candy can have the boldness, confidence, and shamelessness to own who they are and not pretend they're good for you.A new theory of nutrition and consumption is proposed in this episode:The best things for you are not always necessarily the "healthiest" things, but the least deceptive ones. That's because our ideas about what is healthy are always changing. Heroin, cigarettes, fat-free, and sugar-free foods used to be considered healthy. What new health craze of today might be the next heroin?  When products are honest, we often end up eating less of them, and our relationship with them is overall healthier. When they are dishonest, or in the grey zone, it's easy to trust them too much, leading to overconsumption and often sickness and death.The best overall strategy is to consume things that come directly from nature. They tend to be the least able to disguise themselves, and therefore are the most honest and trustworthy. The risk of deception still does exist, though it is much lower. It is the new, corporation-designed, man-made items that you must be most skeptical toward.Listen to discover a new perspective on what it means for something to be healthy.

This episode is more of a philosophical adventure about perception and mindset. In it you will learn how to change how you think about reality and your brain. That's the first step, before even all that nutrition and lifestyle stuff. If you don't believe you can change your brain, you never will. Let go of limiting beliefs about yourself from childhood and culture, and find out what your brain is really capable of doing. It argues that our perceptions of ourselves and reality are often caused by various forces: authority figures in our childhood, culture, language, politics, and our battling desire for both freedom and connection. The Western tendency to divide the world up into parts, fixed objects, is making us less healthy. But the Eastern tendency, like in Taoism and Buddhism, to  see the connections between things, viewing everything more fluidly and as always changing, allows us to perceive more of reality and better understand our brain. If you can learn to see how deeply intertwined your brain and body is with everything else in reality, and how it therefore too is also changing, then you can skyrocket your brain's health and power.

Learn about ten more foods that improve brain health: celery, dark leafy greens, algae, fermented foods, beets, turmeric, mushrooms, rosemary, bone broth, and cacao.

This episode talks about how to rethink your relationship with food. In it, we learn about ten foods that are good for your brain:broccolionions (and garlic)fishwalnutsolive oilcoconut oilavocadoblueberrieseggssweet potatoes

In this episode, the host, Michael Waite, discusses his motivations for starting the podcast - namely, his brother living in the wild, his mother dying, as well as the positivity experienced when consuming real, natural things. He argues that you can learn how to control your own brain state (focus, energy, creativity, etc.) by changing what you put into your mind and body. We need to retake ownership over our own brain, rather than passively letting outside forces control it for their own benefit, harming us along the way. If you want to improve your mood or any area of your life, you're going to have to become more knowledgeable and conscious of how what you consume affects your brain.  Take care of your brain, by getting closer to nature and providing it with the right resources, and thereby reinvigorate your freedom and true potential. Two of the basic premises of this podcast are: (1) everything in this world is interconnected; everything, including humans, is one with nature. So, we must live in sync with it, loving it and letting it love us back; and (2) Everything in the human experience goes back to brain health. Yet there is a paradox - we must connect with nature yet also with society. For proper brain health, we need the right elements from both.There is a direct causal connection between what you put into your body and how you think, feel, and act. You are the information that you intake. In this show, we will dig into how everything affects our brain. In a nutshell, if we want to increase our brain health, we need to get back to what is natural. If you want to destroy your brain and turn down your uniquely human qualities, getting more into raw animal mode, just do the opposite. Some episodes will be solo episodes, Michael analyzing and philosophizing about the research. On other episodes, we will bring on guests to discuss specific topics with.