The mindbodygreen Podcast

As a National Geographic Fellow, multiple New York Times bestselling author, and owner of three Guinness world records for biking, Dan Buettner knows a thing or two about adventure. He sits down with mbg Founder and Co-CEO, Jascon Wachob, to discuss his adventures and what he learned from the “Blue Zones”—the five places in the world where people live the longest and are the healthiest. Tune in to find out what people in the Blue Zones eat for longevity and how they live happier lives. You may be surprised to find that we're doing quite the opposite here in the U.S. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Integrative functional medicine practitioner Ali Miller R.D., L.D., CDE, has a passion for the food-as-medicine protocol, as she uses nutrients and food as the foundation of treatment in her practice. She sits down with mbg Founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, and explains optimal eating plans for combatting anxiety, taming inflammation, and balancing blood sugar. Tune in to hear glimpses into why inflammation could be the root of your anxiety, as well as the one mistake most of us are making on a keto diet.To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode sponsored by Nature Made! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an author, entrepreneur, and public speaker with a passion for positivity and simple pleasures, Neil Pasricha sure knows a thing or two about how to live a happy life. It’s exactly what he discusses with mbg Founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, as he explains how to increase our resilience, foster difficult conversations with people, and how to teach our children to have thick skin in today’s society. Tune in to find out how you can grow your resilience muscle and why failure is actually a good thing. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you were to ask nutritional psychiatrist Georgia Ede, M.D., what’s the number one factor causing increased levels of anxiety in today’s generation, she’d passionately tell you that poor nutrition is the foundation of our struggles with mental health. Tune in as she sits down with mbg Founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, and discusses what we should be eating to ensure optimal mental health—from our mood, to stress, sleep, concentration, and energy. Her own personal experience as well as what she’s seen with her clients has definitely surprised her, and I’m sure her tips will be a little unexpected for you as well (hint: It’s not your average plant-based eating plan!) To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If there was a reigning expert in intermittent fasting for women, double board-certified integrative medicine doctor, Amy Shah, M.D. could very well hold the title. As a mbg class instructor with training from Cornell, Columbia and Harvard Universities, it’s no surprise she was named one of mindbodygreen's Top 100 Women In Wellness to Watch in 2015. Shah sits down with mbg Founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, and explains an ideal fasting day in the busy working world, what to do if you’re struggling with your fast, and what a fasting schedule looks like for menstruating women. Tune in to find out how you can navigate the very personalized (and sometimes ambiguous) world of intermittent fasting.To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of the mindbodygreen podcast features Ilene Ruhoy, M.D., Ph.D., a board-certified neurologist who also includes acupuncture, neurofeedback, and herbal and nutritional guidelines into her practice. In this episode, she sat down with mbg Chief Content Officer, Olessa Pindak, and explains the best ways we can eat, sleep, and exercise to optimize our brain health. Tune in to this episode to hear glimpses into Ruhoy’s personal battle with brain cancer and find out why we should actually be thankful for our pain. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of the mindbodygreen podcast features Desiree Nielsen, R.D., a renowned dietitian, TV host, and plant-based cookbook author. In this episode, Nielsen sits down with mbg founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, and explains how our anxiety levels can shed light on digestive issues, as well as why we should prioritize gut health and decreasing chronic inflammation. Tune into this episode to hear more about her personal food philosophy—you might be surprised at the many ways you can make the most of a plant-based diet. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Daniel Amen discusses different brain types, the link between anxiety and negative thinking, the impact of alcohol on the brain, supplements for brain health, effects of caffeine, black coffee, ketogenic diet, and intermittent fasting on brain health, and the importance of screening the brain for health.

A leading functional medicine practitioner, Will Cole, D.C., IFMCP, is an expert when it comes to analyzing the underlying factors of chronic disease. In his practice, he customizes health programs for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, and brain problems. And with this impressive resume, it’s no surprise he was named one of the top 50 functional-medicine and integrative doctors in the nation.When Founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, sat down with Cole on this episode of the mindbodygreen podcast, he was so excited to hear details about his upcoming book, The Inflammation Spectrum. In this book, Cole educates people on how they differ in terms of an inflammatory response, as well as urges us to discover how our bodies respond to certain lifestyle practices, both positively and negatively.Another component Cole mentions is the fact that there are certain markers of inflammation that might look “normal” to the average eye, when really these signs can be crucial for diagnosing and treating certain inflammatory conditions.According to Cole, there’s quite a few ways to determine whether you’re experiencing inflammation you might not have thought about, until now. Whether you check the fullness of your eyebrows in the mirror, track your sleep habits, or mitigate your stress levels, you’ll be one step closer to pinpointing what’s causing your inflammatory response. And even if you don’t think you experience high inflammation, it may be worth your while to check in on these four commonly overlooked signs. You might be experiencing high inflammation levels without even knowing it!To contact the mindbodygreen team comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to working with her patients, Bindiya Gandhi, M.D. has a goal of getting to the root cause of certain issues and making patients feel healthy in the most natural way possible. As a family medicine physician with a passion for functional medicine, Gandhi couples her traditional education and training with a nutritional medicine lens, making her a unique, cutting-edge professional in the medical field.Gandhi offers some great tips and advice (you’ll seriously want to listen to this episode of the podcast with a notebook and pen in hand), on a variety of topics we can approach with a “food is medicine” mentality, ranging from balancing hormones, taming inflammation, and fertility. Another topic she covers as she chats with Olessa Pindak, mindbodygreen's Chief Content Officer, is how she advises her patients to optimize their gut health.Gut health should be a priority, Gandhi states, because of its ability to affect so many other processes in our bodies. When our gut health becomes compromised, it can lead to chronic issues like IBS, SIBO, and Chron’s disease, and can even have an effect on our brain health. “The gut is so important. You want to diversify it and keep it healthy,” she says.“If you have an imbalance of good bacteria,” Gandhi says. “That's going to link to heart disease later on in life, or Alzheimer's, or other medical conditions, or autoimmune conditions. So to me, gut health is so important. All medical problems start in the gut.”The good thing is, we can take control of our gut health (and our overall health, for that matter!) by eating a diverse diet and making sure we get our fill of probiotics and prebiotics. Food really is medicine, take it from Gandhi, herself.To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email podcast@mindbodygreen.com. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email sales@mindbodygreen.com. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices