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Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Dr. Kumar from LifeWellMD.com
184 episodes
2 days ago
Send us a text A growing stack of clinical evidence says the body doesn’t just enjoy a good laugh—it transforms because of it. We break down how spontaneous laughs and laughter yoga can lower cortisol by double digits within minutes, restore homeostasis, and create durable gains in happiness, hope, and resilience. If you’ve ever wondered whether a light-hearted practice could meaningfully change stress, sleep, and pain, the data is here and it’s compelling. We trace the mechanisms behind lau...
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Send us a text A growing stack of clinical evidence says the body doesn’t just enjoy a good laugh—it transforms because of it. We break down how spontaneous laughs and laughter yoga can lower cortisol by double digits within minutes, restore homeostasis, and create durable gains in happiness, hope, and resilience. If you’ve ever wondered whether a light-hearted practice could meaningfully change stress, sleep, and pain, the data is here and it’s compelling. We trace the mechanisms behind lau...
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Alternative Health
Health & Fitness,
Nutrition,
Medicine
Episodes (20/184)
Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
How Laughter Lowers Cortisol, Lifts Hope, And Protects Long-Term Health
Send us a text A growing stack of clinical evidence says the body doesn’t just enjoy a good laugh—it transforms because of it. We break down how spontaneous laughs and laughter yoga can lower cortisol by double digits within minutes, restore homeostasis, and create durable gains in happiness, hope, and resilience. If you’ve ever wondered whether a light-hearted practice could meaningfully change stress, sleep, and pain, the data is here and it’s compelling. We trace the mechanisms behind lau...
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2 days ago
13 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Your Brain On Meditation: Now With More CEO And Less Noise
Send us a text What if a few minutes of daily practice could measurably preserve your brain’s structure and sharpen your mind’s control systems? We dive into the data tying meditation to neuroplastic gains across gray matter, white matter, and the networks that steer emotion, attention, and self-awareness. Drawing on MRI studies, longitudinal MBSR trials, and effective connectivity analyses, we trace how long-term practitioners maintain higher gray matter volume across the cortex—especially i...
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3 days ago
14 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Ozone And Cancer
Send us a text A reactive gas that might make tumors less resistant, treatments more effective, and recovery more manageable sounds risky at first blush—but the science tells a more nuanced story. We unpack how medical ozone doesn’t attack tumors directly; instead, it forms short-lived messengers that can improve oxygen delivery, stress tumor mitochondria, and nudge the immune system toward better surveillance. The result is a systems-level effect that could reduce hypoxia, enhance T cell inf...
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4 days ago
11 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Precision Exercise For A Longer Health Span
Send us a text The old slogan of eat right and exercise doesn’t cut it anymore. We break down a modern, evidence-based blueprint for extending health span by treating exercise like a prescribed therapy—precise in dose, targeted in modality, and sequenced for real-world function. Instead of accepting decline as inevitable, we frame inactivity as the disease of disuse and show how the right program can restore strength, stability, and confidence at any age. We start with progressive resistance...
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5 days ago
17 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Beyond Cinnamon: What Really Lowers A1C
Send us a text Most supplement advice around blood sugar sounds confident but collapses under scrutiny. We take a different route: follow the data, prioritize A1C outcomes, and build a practical plan that blends targeted supplements with gut-first strategies. Starting with a quick reality check on regulation and labeling, we trace metformin’s origins from French lilac to show how tradition can inform modern care—when validated properly. Cinnamon gets a tough, honest look: conflicting studies...
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1 week ago
14 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Ozone Therapy For Fibromyalgia Relief
Send us a text Chronic pain shouldn’t feel like a life sentence. We take a hard look at fibromyalgia as a complex, measurable condition—driven by central sensitization, immune dysregulation, and chronic oxidative stress—and unpack why so many patients feel failed by conventional medications alone. From fatigue that sleep can’t fix to the mental haze often called fibro fog, we connect symptoms to biomarkers like thiol–disulfide balance and discuss how these chemistry shifts correlate with real...
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1 week ago
16 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
What If Managing Testosterone Is The Missing Lever For Longevity
Send us a text The way we measure aging is changing, and it’s changing fast. We dig into a major multi-ethnic study that connects men’s total testosterone with the speed of biological aging, then translate the findings into clear steps you can use to protect your health span. Instead of counting candles, we focus on the KDM biological age method, which blends eight clinical markers to capture how your body is really doing—metabolism, inflammation, cardiovascular stress, and more. We break do...
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1 week ago
13 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The Cancer Paradigm Shift: Why Energy, Not Genes, May Hold the Cure
Send us a text What if cancer’s engine isn’t in the nucleus, but in the mitochondria? We open with the cracks in the mutation-first narrative—millions of tumor variants, no universal driver gene—and follow the trail to a simpler, unifying idea: cancer as a metabolic disorder. From the Warburg effect to PET imaging, we show why a cell’s hunger for glucose is more than a quirk; it’s a signature of an energy system in distress that floods the cell with reactive oxygen species and chaos downstrea...
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1 week ago
14 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The Hidden Fat That's Killing Your Heart (BMI Won't Catch It)
Send us a text Most people think the scale tells the truth. We pull back the curtain on why it often lies, and how hidden visceral fat can quietly drive insulin resistance, bad cholesterol patterns, and heart disease even when BMI looks “normal.” Drawing on decades of research, we explain why location is destiny for body fat, what makes visceral depots uniquely dangerous, and how the portal vein gives them a direct line to overwhelm the liver and derail metabolism. We walk through the real m...
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2 weeks ago
13 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The Hidden Food Category Destroying Men's Testosterone and Fertility
Send us a text What if the biggest lever for men’s vitality isn’t counting calories but changing the kind of calories you eat? We dig into a rigorous randomized crossover trial that matched energy intake yet found ultra-processed foods drove rapid fat gain, worse cholesterol ratios, blood pressure increases, and early insulin resistance signals—within just three weeks. The kicker: the same pattern spilled into reproductive health, with drops in FSH, a trend toward lower testosterone, and redu...
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2 weeks ago
14 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The Amino Acid That Rebuilds Your Gut From the Inside Out
Send us a text A single nutrient can flip the body’s repair switch—and the path runs through the immune system. We unpack new MIT research showing that dietary cysteine doesn’t just act as an antioxidant; it primes CD8 T cells in the small intestine to release IL-22, the signal that tells intestinal stem cells to multiply and rebuild. By converting cysteine to coenzyme A and broadcasting that signal locally, gut cells recruit a specialized repair crew exactly where damage from chemotherapy an...
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2 weeks ago
12 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The 'Anti-Cancer Grocery List': 7 Unexpected Foods That May Help Stop Tumor Growth
Send us a text Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your supplement regimen or health routine. Individual needs and reactions vary, so it’s important to make informed decisions with the guidance of your physician. Connect with Us: If you enjoyed today’s episode, be sure to subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with som...
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2 weeks ago
17 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Is Your Nightcap Fueling Prostate Cancer? The Shocking New Data
Send us a text A single habit can tilt the odds on one of the most common cancers men face. We dig into decades of research to explain how alcohol—especially heavy or binge patterns—raises prostate cancer risk, accelerates progression, and complicates diagnosis and treatment. The story changed after widespread PSA screening, which cleaned up control groups and revealed a much clearer link. From there, we connect the dots between epidemiology and biology so you can understand not just that the...
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3 weeks ago
12 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Your Daily Habits Are Reprogramming Your Body (Here’s How)
Send us a text What if the biggest factor shaping your future health isn’t what you’re doing this week, but what you’ve repeated for years? We dive into a rare 30-year cohort study that tracked adults from 27 to their early 60s and found a clear winner between “current habits” and “lifetime exposure.” The results are striking: accumulated years of smoking, heavy drinking, and physical inactivity are far more predictive of depressive symptoms, self-rated health, and metabolic risk than a simpl...
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3 weeks ago
13 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The Free Wellness Trick That Instantly Lowers Stress
Send us a text Your body runs on direct current, and so does the Earth. We unpack how reconnecting to that steady DC signal—what we call “vitamin G”—can stabilize your internal clock, feed your mitochondria with a flow of electrons, and lower the inflammation that drags health down. Drawing on classic bunker studies and modern mitochondrial research, we connect measurable physics to practical outcomes: better ATP production, calmer brain waves, improved heart rate variability, and blood that ...
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3 weeks ago
15 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Living Underwater Sounds Cool Until You See The Bill
Send us a text A man lives underwater for months and claims a decade shaved off his biological age—great headline, poor roadmap. We break down what HBOT really does at high pressure and high oxygen, from telomere dynamics and senescent cell clearance to stem cell mobilization and neuroprotective pathways. Then we ask the hard questions: where is the evidence strong, what are the risks, and how do time, cost, and lack of standard protocols limit its use for healthy people chasing longevity? O...
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3 weeks ago
26 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Cancer Vaccines Are Finally Delivering Real Results
Send us a text Imagine training your immune system to recognize cancer before it takes hold—and keeping it vigilant for the long haul. That’s the promise we unpack as we connect breakthrough prevention science in animals with real-world vaccine signals in human trials, and then translate it into practical steps you can take today. We start with a bold shift: a lipid nanoparticle “superadjuvant” from UMass Amherst that co-delivers two immune stimulants to ignite stronger, coordinated response...
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1 month ago
15 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The 3 Lab Numbers That Predict Men’s Health Better Than BMI
Send us a text Forget chasing a single number on the scale. We dig into what truly predicts men’s longevity and performance: body composition and the balance of muscle and fat, especially the hidden visceral fat that drives metabolic risk. We break down why BMI can’t tell a lifter from someone with high cardiometabolic danger, and how a precise DXA baseline reveals what tape measures and smart scales miss. From there, we translate the latest men-only evidence into a clear training strategy. ...
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1 month ago
14 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
The Surprising Medications That Rewire Your Cravings and Habits
Send us a text Cravings don’t just live in the pantry—they live in the brain. We take a deep look at how GLP‑1 receptor agonists, known for diabetes and weight loss, may also tune the reward circuits that drive habits far beyond food. Drawing on thousands of real‑world accounts and current neurobiology, we connect GLP‑1 receptor sites in the hypothalamus, cortex, and hippocampus to the mesolimbic pathway, where dopamine shapes motivation, cue salience, and impulse. The result is a surprising,...
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1 month ago
15 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Your Gut Bacteria Hold the Key to Longevity
Send us a text Your gut isn’t just digesting lunch; it’s running a molecular switchboard that shapes metabolism, immunity, and how you age. We pull back the curtain on the chemical messages your microbes send—why butyrate calms inflammation and fuels your colon, how SCFAs nudge GLP‑1 and PYY to steady appetite and insulin, and where things go off the rails with LPS leaks, TMAO spikes, and dysregulated bile acids. Along the way, we map the three lines of defense—microbes, barrier, liver—and sh...
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1 month ago
13 minutes

Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Send us a text A growing stack of clinical evidence says the body doesn’t just enjoy a good laugh—it transforms because of it. We break down how spontaneous laughs and laughter yoga can lower cortisol by double digits within minutes, restore homeostasis, and create durable gains in happiness, hope, and resilience. If you’ve ever wondered whether a light-hearted practice could meaningfully change stress, sleep, and pain, the data is here and it’s compelling. We trace the mechanisms behind lau...