Mind Body Health & Politics

In this episode — Céline Hovette, a naturopath and hormone-health coach from Northern France, joins to talk about polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects roughly one woman in ten, most of whom don’t know they have it. Céline lays out the five areas she works on with clients (nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, and chemical exposure), they compare what...

In this episode — Zee Cohen-Sanchez, founder of Sole Strategies and executive director of National Ground Game, joins to talk about the difference between an activist and a political operative. They discuss her campus tour built as an answer to Turning Point USA, what “hustle” would mean for a health channel, finding and equipping young talent, lobbying, the ...

In this episode — Dr. Andrew Tatarsky, developer of Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, returns for a second conversation. They take up the question that divides the field, whether a person who once drank a fifth a day can ever have a drink on a Saturday night. Andrew: some can, some can’t, we don’t yet have the science to tell which, and the therapist’...

In this episode — Somatic Salvia guide Christopher Solomon, from Willits in Richard’s own Mendocino County, teaches Salvia divinorum from the ground up: what the plant is (a sage from the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca), its legal status (federally unscheduled and legal in California; banned in some states), how it is grown from cuttings, and the three ways it is ...

In this episode — Psychedelic psychotherapist Heather A. Lee returns to the program with the message she received on a recent psilocybin journey. She and Richard cover psilocybin for women sixty and over, why she thinks the “hero’s dose” is male language, what a micro dose actually is, Colorado’s grow-gift-share model, and the psychedelic tourism they’ve prod...