Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Dr. Kumar from LifeWellMD.com
184 episodes
3 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...
The Cancer Paradigm Shift: Why Energy, Not Genes, May Hold the Cure
Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
14 minutes
1 week ago
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...
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...