The Made to Thrive Show
Optimising your mind, body and soul. Hosted by Steve Stavs, Africa's Pro Biohacker, Health Futurist, and founder of www.madetothrive.co.za.
Episodes
241 episodes
Cognoscopy! What? Your Mental Performance Science Backed Score. How is Your Brain? Dr Dale Bredesen MD (rebroadcast)
I believe in knowing your data. Knowing your numbers, because they are objective sign posts that guide us into targeted action, making medicine personal, proactive, preventative and performance enhancing. That’s why Dr Dale Bredesen’s Apollo...
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Episode 241
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Stem Cell Masterclass: Why YOU need them, & How to Enhance and Mobilize Stem Cells. Christian Drapeau: Stem Cell Scientist
Stem cells are the key to your longevity. These miracles of life are what repair and rejuvenate everything about you biologically, creating “new” organs every few years and repairing damage and disease. But as we age, live unhealthy li...
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Episode 240
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Hair & Scalp Health: Balding, Thinning, Greying. Why Your Hair is Important & What You Can Do! Dr Alan Bauman, MD ABHRS
Are you listening to your scalp? Because what is going on your head, and how your hair feels is at the crux of your hair health and your chances of hair loss. We are so emotionally connected to our hair, and people are willing to try just ab...
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Episode 239
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Bone Health Masterclass: Adults, Children, Osteoporosis, Osteopenia & Why Your Childhood Lifestyle is Crucial for Bone Health. Prof Belinda Beck PhD.
Your bones are the pillars of what it means to be “strong for life”, and there are few things are as important for health span and longevity as the strength of our bodies to be functional in our latter years. It is assumed that it’s the...
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Episode 238
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Why You Battle To Change Your Health Habits & Irrational Wellness Decisions Explained. Prof Dan Ariely Ph.D.
When it comes to health, we can get stuck in the details, the specifics, the data, the tests, the supplements, the diets. But above all of that is you; who you are, what you believe in, your history, your hopes, and your environment, where y...
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Episode 237
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Reproductive Health Masterclass: Infertility? Contraceptive Pill?, & Gynaecological Issues? Gabriela Rosa ND MPH
It’s one of the greatest causes of tension, relationship breakdown and ultimately separation or divorce - infertility. Couples that are unable to conceive are 30% more likely to separate, which makes sense given the financial, emotional and ...
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Episode 236
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Rejuvenation Olympics, Biohacking - Aka Health Optimisation - Done Both Simply and Affordably. Julie Gibson Clark
“What else do I not know that I don’t know”. Asking this question was the catalyst of my guest’s biohacking and health success story. It is a statement of curiosity and also accountability to find solutions, both being the heart of bio...
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Episode 235
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Mysterious Conditions, Sensitive Patients, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome: Why there is New Hope & Tools to Change Your Life! Dr Neil Nathan MD
If you are struggling and suffering in silence, or been told by doctor after doctor there’s nothing wrong, and it’s all in your head, do not give up. Today is an episode of hope. Your mystery symptoms and disease can be cured. There are test...
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Episode 234
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Big Food’s Deception, Big Body Care’s Lies, Toxins, Chemicals, & Hidden Damaging Ingredients YOU Should Be Aware of! Ben Katz BSE
What is hidden in your chocolate, our creams, our shampoos, toothpastes and yes even our sausages! The skullduggery hidden in the products we use in our everyday lives is frightening. From M&Ms to kombucha and anything smelly, it takes a...
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Episode 233
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Hormones! Do You Have a Personal Hormonal Plan? It’s Never Too Late to Optimise Hormonal Health: Dr Carrie Carda MD FACOG
Treating root causes not diseases are at the core of functional medicine, and that includes hormonal health. If someone is hormonally deficient and unbalanced, simply put they’re in trouble. It’s the reason why girls are reaching puberty 4 to 5...
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Episode 232
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The Children & Teenager Health Crisis: Is Your Child 1 of the 50% with a Chronic Disease? Integrative Pediatrician Dr Gator unpacks WHAT YOU can DO!
This one is about the kids, and it’s sad to say - the kid’s are not alright. Just 50 years ago, chronic disease in children and teens was a rarity. Now it’s the norm. I know things are bad, I talk about it and see it everyday, but when my gu...
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Episode 231
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1:00:36
Optimizing Mental Performance with the Latest Biohacks, IV Drips & Bespoke Medicine. Sam Tejada
Today’s episode goes into the world of personalised and preventative care, unpacking the depth and breadth of diagnostic, treatment and lifestyle options out there to optimize your mental, physical and even sexual performance. <...
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Episode 230
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Mental Fatigue? Burnout? Memory Issues? Brain Fog? Bioelectric Medicine is Transforming Brains! Guy Odishaw
We are not biological beings. This huge misconception and misunderstanding about human health could be why chronic disease continues to soar, and why despite having more doctors, even functional health doctors, hospitals and medicine than ev...
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Episode 229
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A Mental Health and Mental Performance Game Changer! How Movement & Exercise Optimize Your Mind. Kris Gethin - The World’s No 1 Transformation Expert
This episode is a bridge between the science and gadgets of biohacking and our human ancestral and evolutionary reality. There is a host of protocols and stacks and gizmos that can improve your mental performance but as my guest Kris Gethin ...
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Episode 228
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Glucose Control, Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and New Functional Medicine Assessments and Treatments. Dr Leland Stilman MD
It’s been 3 years since he was last on the show, so it was time to check in with integrative medicine specialist and member of my scientific advisory board Dr Leland Stillman. This is Dr Leland’s third appearance on the show, in which we dis...
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Episode 227
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1:07:58
Upgrade Your Brain with the Latest BioTech Frequency Medicine. How Electrical and Magnetic Waves on the Brain Transform Your Performance! Dr Jeoff Drobot NMD
My guest today is practicing precision high performance medicine based on one simple premise - electricity + oxygen = energy = health. He is tackling cognitive decline, mental distress and a host of autoimmune disease by targeting the central n...
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Episode 226
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Diabetes and PreDiabetes Can Be Reversed! Proven Strategies to Get Healthy and Maintain Performance. Sami Inkinen Virta Health
It’s not your fault, and you don’t have to wait for hope, it’s already here. That’s a message from today’s guest Virta Health CEO Sami Inkinen, the man on a mission to reverse diabetes in 100 million people. And guess what, he’s doing it. With ...
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Episode 225
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The Psychology of Food. Exploring Human Beings Relationship to Food & The New Success of Using Ketamine and Nutritional Coaching for Lasting Transformation. Jillian Acosta RD LDN
This is my topic of 2024 - food. We need it to survive, and we need it to thrive, but food is also the most frequent and widespread choice for abuse, over use and addiction. My sense is that by better understanding and unpacking the hum...
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Episode 224
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The Grounding Masterclass: Are You Electrically and Magnetically Balanced? Clint Ober delivers a Foundational Health Groundbreaker!
An enormous array of health and performance problems can be distilled into one word - disconnection. Mental health distress is usually a disconnection from our purposes and community. A disease like cancer has been described as ...
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Episode 223
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Sugar Addicts, Big Food’s Annuity Income Plan, & How To Break Free from Sugar’s Enslavement. Bitten Johnson Leg.SSK, Reg.Nurse
I know how many of you feel. Ashamed at constantly failing a diet, ashamed you can’t lose the weight, wondering why you don’t have the willpower, embarrassed you don’t have the means or the time to treat yourself better. Well, there is hope, an...
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Episode 222
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Functional Medicine 202. Unpacking Root Cause Diseases, The Power of Your Own Data and the Personalized Actionable Steps You Can Take! Reed Davis HHP CNT
Awareness is at the core of transformation. That’s why I believe so deeply in the data centric model, because by investing in your own data you become aware of your unique biological profile and take intentional, precise action to improve your ...
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Episode 221
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Beating Migraines, Chronic Headaches, & Facial Pain with Dr Kevin Smith’s MD ENT. Revolutionary Treatments You Haven’t Heard of
Migraines are crippling experiences for their sufferers. They often also come in concert with a host of other devastating symptoms that can wreak havoc in people’s lives. Yet, they have eluded medical treatment for years, with success here a...
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Episode 220
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Are We All Addicted? Sugar, Ultra-Processed & Big Food’s Plan To Keep You Enslaved. Dr Joan Ifland PhD MBA
Are we all addicts? When it comes to processed food I am concerned. This is a sobering episode about the horror processed food is wrecking in people’s lives who are largely totally unaware of what is happening to them. With 93% of adults in ...
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Episode 219
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Prof & Doctor Michael Ruscio Delivers a Gut Health & Performance Game Changer: Your Gut Type? Do You Know it? & Much More!
This is an episode I wish everyone would listen to. Gut health genuinely builds the foundation of our health, but it is far more nuanced and fascinating than even I realized! Gut types and probiotic types are crucial to any decision we make ...
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Episode 218
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A Plastic Free World: The Dangers, The Myths and The Solutions of Toxic Plastic. Frede Magnussen
It’s everywhere. Our homes, our clothes, our water, our food, our bodies, our lives - plastic! This episode is stunning, and sadly scary. At the same time, a plastic-free or at least plastic-less world is possible. Find out how you can be pa...
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Episode 217
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