Podcast
Welcome to the Ricci Flow Nutrition Podcast. In this series, I discuss a host of topics related to health, wellness, nutrition, science and medicine. I get the opportunity to learn from some of the brightest and most forward-thinking minds in the world. This podcast invites fresh thoughts and ideas about our health and the health of our planet.
Dean Radin: Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness & Biology
Dean Radin, MS, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He has degrees in electrical engineering, physics and psychology and has been involved in research on the frontiers of consciousness for over 30 years. Dean is the author of many scientific papers, book chapters and books including Supernormal, The Conscious Universe and Real Magic. Dean’s work opens up the possibility for the unification of science and spirituality through the lens of quantum mechanical principals. His work on how conscious attention and intention impacts quantum-level events is paving the way for our understanding of our role in the unfolding of the world around us.
Pelle Lindqvist: Sunlight in Reducing All-Cause Mortality
Pelle Lindqvist, PhD, is a Swedish obstetrician and epidemiologist with particular interest in the role of sun exposure habits in health outcomes. He has become more well-known particularly because of his publications in the last decade on how sun exposure impacts disease incidence and mortality. In 2014 and 2016, Pelle and colleagues used data from the Melanoma in Southern Sweden Cohort of 30,000 women over 20 years. The published results demonstrated that those with the greatest sun-seeking habits had lower all-cause mortality when compared with those with the lowest sun-seeking habits. These results have since been replicated using data from the UK Biobank, making it crystal clear that our disconnection from sunlight is affecting health in a foundational manner.
Tristan Scott: Electromagnetism & Safe Technology
Tristan Scott is an electrical engineer, electromagnetic field expert, speaker, author and safe technology advocate. Tristan is extremely knowledgable about the biological effects of man-made EMF and how the communications industry and public health agencies fail to adequately address this pervasive issue. Based in Wyoming, Tristan’s approach to health has been borne out of the ideas of nature being the guide and sovereignty. He is an integral part of the Daylight Computer Co. who have developed a new screen technology void of flicker and circadian-disrupting light. Daylight are the first tech company to place user health at the very forefront of their mission. Tristan recognises the unmatched need for education about electromagnetism in health and technologies that are not inherently dangerous to use.
Andrzej Slominski: Light's Unparalleled Influence in Biology
Andrzej T. Slominski, MD, PhD, is a dermatopatholigist and world-expert on the influence of light on biology. Over the last 30+ years, he has focused on the regulation of the neuro-endocrine-immune axis by light on the skin and through the eyes. Andrzej has contributed substantially to our understanding of how light signals are transduced in the body and what effects they have on global homeostasis. His recent focus is on neuroendocrinology of the skin, cancer, photobiology, pigment biology, cutaneous steroidogenesis, vitamin D and melatonin.
Jean Claude Guimberteau: The Extracellular Matrix, Biotensegrity & Order From Chaos
Jean Claude Guimberteau is a French surgeon who specialises in endoscopic investigations of the human extracellular matrix, otherwise known as fascia. Over the span of several decades, Jean Claude has documented thousands of hours of footage of living tissue and the spaces between tissues. He has observed that the living extracellular matrix is a dynamic and fractal structure capable of absorbing stress and distributing it through the entire system in a non-linear manner. His work overlaps that of biotensegrity, systems biology and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, even extending to ideas of how posture influences cellular and even genomic processes.
Gerald Pollack: Membranes, Charge Separation & ATP: Investigating Biology's Foundations
Gerald Pollack is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, WATER; Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science; and founder of the Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. In this conversation, we focus on the shortcomings of staple ideas in biology such as cell membranes, ATP and ion channels. If these 'textbook' ideas are even slightly wrong, what are the implications for the rest of biology? There appear to be plenty of holes in the orthodox views that must be addressed with genuine investigation.
Jack Kruse: Mate Selection, DNA, Bioelectricity & Thermodynamics
Jack Kruse is a practising neurosurgeon with particular interest and expertise in quantum biology. In our previous podcast episode, Jack and I focused on the pillars that lay the foundation for all life on Earth; light, water and magnetism. In this conversation, we delved a little deeper into the esoteric ideas and discoveries that help to make sense of how life can thrive in such diverse conditions. We touch on olfaction’s role in mate selection, biophotons, magnetic fields in reactive oxygen mechanisms, the microbiome and much more.
Scott Zimmerman & Bob Fosbury: Light-Life Interactions & The Plea For Safe Lighting
Scott is an expert in optics and has focussed his attention on quantifying the health effects of natural sunlight. With over 35 years of experience in the industry, Scott has unparalleled knowledge about how light interacts with systems. Scott is now a world leader in the optics of the human body and how light interacts with life.
Bob is an emeritus astronomer at the European Southern Observatory and an honorary professor at the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London (UCL). He is an integral part within the Institute of Ophthalmology at UCL with his unique perspective on light and its interactions with the earth’s atmosphere. His work with Professor Glen Jeffrey has paved the way for a new understanding of how light, particularly in the NIR range, interacts with the body. His physics background has proved to be indispensable in understanding sunlight and how biological systems have evolved to use it.
Eyla Cuenca: Conscious Conception, Pregnancy & Birth
Eyla Cuenca is a holistic birth guide, Childbirth Educator, Doula, health freedom advocate and birth trauma alchemist. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Ethnographic photography from Bennington College. After working as a documentary photographer she trained with the AAHCC founded by Robert A. Bradley, MD where she became specialized as a Birth Educator and Doula. She stands behind the idea that it is everyone’s right to have access to empowering education from conception to parenting. Her work is dedicated to offering guidance that supports women and men in the process that is a return to their deepest knowing about birth, individual sovereignty, and the body’s innate intelligence.
Leland Stillman: Medicine, Trauma & Upholding The Hippocratic Oath
Leland Stillman, MD is an American integrative medical doctor who specialises in environmental medicine. Leland realised very early on in his career that conventional medical practices focus on symptom management rather than optimal health. The word doctor is derived from the Latin word, ‘Docere’, meaning “to teach”; something Leland saw was absent in the centralised system.
Jim Laird: Embracing The Fundamentals & Simplicity
Jim Laird, an experienced strength and conditioning and health coach. Since 1997, he has empowered clients from diverse backgrounds to achieve their goals. From everyday individuals to professional athletes in the NFL, CFL, LPGA, and MLB, Jim helps clients unlock their potential. He's renowned for delivering exceptional outcomes efficiently, focusing on optimal health along with strength. With his motto, "Training Smarter, Not Harder," Jim's approach has earned praise from experts.
Clark Engelbert: Mineral Balancing & Systems Biology
Clark is a health practitioner who specialises in mineral balancing. The concept of mineral balancing is based on the field of ionomics and stems from the work of a soil scientist, William Albrecht. Clark is particularly interested in the use of hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) in identifying system-wide nutrient relationships in order to restore balance and eliminate accumulated heavy metals. The use of HTMA over blood analysis gives some salient advantages in some respects; hair is a tissue sample and can be used to gain a deeper insight into the longer-term status of an individual and their metabolic function. While it has its limitations, HTMA, when interpreted correctly can be extremely helpful in identifying imbalances in the mineral system and establishing protocols to rebalance that system.
Cyndi O'Meara: Vitalism as a Guide to Health & Wellness
Cyndi O’Meara is a leading nutritionist, filmmaker, best-selling author, TEDx Speaker and Founder of Changing Habits and The Nutrition Academy. She has been a trailblazer in the natural health space for several decades. Long before there was more widespread awareness of the dangers of hyperprocessed foods, Cyndi has been an advocate of whole food nutrition as well as using ancestral lifestyle patterns as a guide for wellness in the post-industrial era. She has been involved in so many projects that have brought more awareness to the issues of chemically-based agriculture, low carbohydrate diets and so much more. Cyndi also co-hosts a podcast called, “Up For A Chat” with hundreds of episodes covering a large range of topics.
Michael Holick: Vitamin D & Leveraging Sunlight For Health
Michael Holick, MD, PhD, is an American endocrinologist and world’s leading expert on Vitamin D. He is known for his discovery of the active form of Vitamin D and the development of the assay for the circulating form - one of the most ordered assays ever generated. Michael has specialised in conditions including psoriasis, osteomalacia and hypermobility syndromes. He is the author of several popular books including “The Vitamin D Solution” and “The UV Advantage”.
Gaétan Chevalier: Earthing & Bioelectromagnetism
Gaétan Chevalier, PhD, is an expert in engineering physics, atomic physics and laser spectroscopy. He is a world-leading expert on the effects of earthing (otherwise known as grounding) on human biology. Gaetan has been involved in earthing research for over 20 years and founded the Earthing Institute. He spent four years of researching plasma physics and nuclear fusion at UCLA, and then served as a professor at CIHS. Dr. Chevalier is currently lead faculty at CIHS, visiting scholar in the Department of Family Medicine & Public Health, School of Medicine, UC San Diego, and Director of the Earthing Institute and Research Director at Psy-Tek.
Jack Kruse: Light, Water & Magnetism - The Foundation of Health
Jack Kruse is a practising neurosurgeon with particular interest and expertise in quantum biology. Jack has been at the forefront of health for decades, prioritising the foundational aspects of what makes life possible on this planet; light, water and magnetism. His approach is parsimonious and the story it weaves has more explanatory power than conventional approaches with regard to explaining the decline in human health over the last century. Jack has uniquely tied in the fundamental science of physics and quantum mechanics to the world of biology, as it is the only way we can truly understand and begin to mend the problems we now face. Our conversation centres around the impacts of our non-native electromagnetic field exposures, the unique and stunning properties of water, and the semiconductor networks that drive our physiology.
John Mitrofanis: Biophotons, Internal Melanins & Photobiomodulation
John Mitrofanis, PhD, is a world leading researcher on the impact of photobiomodulation and neurodegenerative disease. His work has been centred around seeking effective drug-free treatments and preventative measures for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. A former professor of anatomy at the University of Sydney, John is now based in France, where he works at the biomedical research centre, Clinatec in Grenoble France. John is beginning exciting work on biophoton release, examining how photobiomodulation might alter the release of these photons from neurones and other cell types. In his book, Run in the Light, John outlines the most current understanding of the pathologies involved in Parkinson's disease, and how both exercise and photobiomodulation can be used as inexpensive, simple and essentially no-risk modalities to both prevent and delay the progression of the disease. John is extremely humble and open-minded; excellent qualities to explore deep scientific questions.
David Raubenheimer & Stephen Simpson: Nutritional Geometry & The Protein Leverage Hypothesis
David and Stephen have been working together for decades on a unifying approach to nutrition and energy balance. Their investigations began with the question of why animals in the wild are so capable of regulating their food intake as to avoid the conditions of excess that humans are experiencing at startling rates. This led them to investigate the impacts of various ratios of macronutrients on food intake in animals from locusts to primates. Their findings led them to formulate the “Protein Leverage Hypothesis”, which broadly states that animals prioritise the consumption of protein and eat various foods until a ‘target’ of protein is met.
Michael Crawford: DHA, Prenatal Nutrition & The Shrinking Brain
Michael Crawford, PhD, is a British researcher who focuses on the importance of marine fatty acids in human development and health outcomes. Michael got his PhD in 1960 in chemical pathology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London. Since then, Michael has been a vital part of countless projects including setting up advanced medical schools and hospitals in Uganda, working with the Indonesian government on marine farming projects, all the while becoming the world’s expert in essential fatty acids.
Nina Jablonski: Biological & Social Impacts of Skin Color
Nina G. Jablonski is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist who’s work focusses on the social and biological meanings of skin color in humans. She completed her PhD in Anthropology in 1981 and she is currently an Evan Pugh University Professor at Pennsylvania State University. Her work spans broad yet intimately connected topics such as human evolution, human diversity, and racism. She was recently elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in 2009, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.