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PYP 143: Janice Stanger on Hormonal Disruption and Dietary Dangers

Janice Stanger, PhD, author of The Perfect Formula Diet, is a repeat podcast guest. This time, she’s on because she gave a remarkable presentation on hormonal health and disease at the annual Wellness Forum Health conference.

Near the beginning of her talk, she read a quote from a medical textbook with a single word omitted: “[Blank] is the most powerful anabolic hormone in the human body.” – and asked us to fill in the blank. I stood confidently, raised my hand, and boomed out the answer, Human Growth Hormone.

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PYP 142: Alan Goldhamer on the Fastest Way to Improve Health

Alan Goldhamer, DC, is coauthor, with Doug Lisle, of The Pleasure Trap, and co-founder and director of one of the most important medical institutions in the world: The True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. Using lifestyle medicine and supervised water fasting, the staff at True North achieve medical miracles on a daily basis.

Simply by letting the body heal faster than it can be made sick.

The healing power of water fasting is so remarkable that reputable medical journals feared for their credibility when asked to publish Goldhamer’s results. Only recently has the British Medical Journal published a case report of a woman whose follicular lymphoma disappeared after 21 days of water fasting and 9 months of clean eating.

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PYP 136: Eileen Kopsaftis on How to Become Ageless

Eileen Kopsaftis is an amazing physical therapist based near Albany, New York. She’s unusual in many ways, including her use of nutrition to help her patients get out of pain and regain function, and her hands-on (literally) approach to resolving pain and mobility issues.

Her passion is healthy aging. And until I looked up her bio in preparation for writing these show notes, I had no idea that she’s 10 years older than me. So she definitely practices what she preaches – and it definitely works for her.

I’ve met Eileen in person twice, at Wellness Forum Health conferences, and both times she’s helped me with my own aches and pains. So I’m a believer in her approach on a cellular level, and not simply based on my reading of the research.

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