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Your Mind Is Wandering 47% of the Time
🎙️ Your mind is wandering 47% of the time, and it's making you miserable. Dr. Pedram Shojai explores the science of temporal displacement and why constantly living in the past or future is destroying your health. Drawing on Harvard researc
When Money Stress Hijacks Your Body
🎙️ Financial stress isn't just a money problem. It's a full-body physiological event. Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down exactly what's happening inside your body when financial worry takes hold: the cortisol cascade, the inflammatory markers,
Lights On: The Recovery Paradox — Why Rest Leaves You More Exhausted
🎙️ You took the weekend off. You slept in. You did nothing. So why do you feel worse? Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down the Recovery Paradox: the frustrating phenomenon where rest leaves you more depleted than the work itself. Drawing from pol
Lights On: Get Back in Your Body and Shift Your Relationship with Time
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down proprioception—the sense that tells your body where it is in space—and why losing it erodes balance, posture, and neurological resilience. He shares how moms crawling with their kids stopped having migraine
Lights On: Follow Your Pain – The Body Is the Treasure Map
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai returns from a week of illness with hard-won lessons about pain, healing, and what happens when a teacher has to drink his own medicine. After battling mast cell activation and histamine overload post-COVID, he found h
Lights On: Why You Never Have Enough Time And How to Fix It
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai dives into chronoception (time perception) and why most people feel trapped in time scarcity. He explains how rushing creates compression, which makes hours disappear into autopilot—and how presence does the opposite,
Interoception: The 8 Dimensions of Body Awareness
🎙️ In this Lights On course coaching session, Dr. Pedram Shojai guides students through week three: interoceptive awareness training. Most people have been trained their entire lives to ignore their bodies—overriding tiredness with caffein
How Your Environment Is Hijacking Your Brain: The Science of Spatial Awareness
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai explores how your physical environment is actively shaping your mental and emotional state every single moment. He breaks down the neuroscience behind environmental influences on your nervous system, explaining how clu
Pain as a Teacher: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
🎙️ Most people respond to pain with one goal: make it stop. But Dr. Pedram Shojai reveals that pain isn't a mistake—it's a message your body is desperately trying to send you. Drawing from decades of treating patients and studying traditio
From Overwhelm to Awareness: The Witness Practice for Healing
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai guides listeners through developing witness consciousness—the ability to observe your thoughts, emotions, and sensations without being consumed by them. Through practical examples and a guided meditation, he demonstrat
Why You're Still Sick: The Victim Trap Destroying Your Health
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai delivers a no-holds-barred wake-up call about victim mentality and its devastating impact on your health. Drawing from real cases of people sabotaging their own healing while blaming everyone else, he breaks down the b
Voice as Medicine: Frankko Vivo's Journey from Basketball Court to Mountain Temple
🎙️ In this intimate conversation, Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Frankko Vivo, a musician and ceremony guide who transformed from a basketball player into a guardian of sacred space. Frankko shares how an 82-year-old violinist named Sol
The Breathing Crisis: How Modern Life Stole Your Breath and the Ancient Practice That Gets It Back
🎙️ Most people breathe 20,000 times a day, yet modern life has systematically broken this fundamental function. Dr. Pedram Shojai reveals how collapsed posture, chronic stress, mouth breathing, and lost body awareness have created a breath
Breaking the Sympathetic Spiral of Doom with Dr. Scott Sherr
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with integrative medicine physician Dr. Scott Sherr to unpack one of the most overlooked health crises of our time: the sympathetic spiral of doom. When your nervous system gets stuck in fight-or-flight mode,
The Exhaustion Medicine Can't Find
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai addresses one of the most common yet dismissed complaints in modern medicine: chronic fatigue that conventional doctors can't diagnose or explain. He reveals why standard medical tests fail to identify this multi-syste
Your Best Shot: The Truth About GLP-1s and Natural Weight Health Hormones
🎙️ Registered dietitian Ashley Koff joins Dr. Pedram Shojai to unpack the truth about GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy. While these drugs mimic hormones our bodies naturally produce, they don't solve the root cause of why our own
Energy Sovereignty: Reclaim Your Power Through Boundaries
🎙️ In this transformative episode, Dr. Pedram Shojai addresses the modern energy crisis that leaves so many people chronically depleted. Moving beyond simple fatigue from lack of sleep or overwork, he reveals how we experience systemic ene
The Supplement Trap: What You Actually Need
🎙️ Are you spending hundreds of dollars a month on supplements you can't even remember why you're taking? Dr. Pedram Shojai exposes how the $50 billion supplement industry has convinced health-conscious people to swallow 20-30 pills daily—
Food Fear Pandemic: Break Free from Food Anxiety
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai addresses one of the most pervasive issues in modern wellness: the food fear pandemic. Are you spending 20 minutes reading ingredient labels? Avoiding social situations because you can't control the food? This isn't ab
The Invisible Thief: How Social Media Steals Your Self-Worth
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai exposes the invisible thief stealing your peace, presence, and authentic self-worth: social media comparison culture. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • Why your brain—evolved for tribes of 150—now compares you to billions of cur
The Science of Hormesis: How Strategic Stress Makes You Stronger
🎙️ Discover why deliberately stressing your body might be one of the most powerful health interventions available—hormesis: the principle that low to moderate doses of stress trigger beneficial adaptations that make you anti-fragile. 🎯 Wh
The Gut Reset Revolution: How Microbiome Transplants Are Reversing Chronic Disease
🎙️ Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is emerging as a breakthrough treatment for patients who've exhausted conventional and functional medicine options. Dr. Pedram Shojai talks with Dr. Jason Klop and neuroscientist Dr. Shaina Cahill about
Become a Detective of Your Own Body: Mastering Interoception for Early Disease Prevention
🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai delivers a transformative guide on developing interoceptive awareness—the ability to sense and interpret your body's internal signals before minor symptoms become major health crises. Using the powerful analogy of a ca
The Sleep Quality Paradox: Why 8 Hours Isn't Enough
🎙️ In this essential Urban Monk weekly call, Pedram explores the critical distinction between sleep quantity and sleep quality—revealing why many people who log 7-8 hours still wake up exhausted. Drawing from his experience owning sleep la
Healing Parkinson's Through the Microbiome: Martha Carlin's Journey from Accountant to Microbiome Pioneer
🎙️ When Martha Carlin's 44-year-old marathon-running husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002, she applied her auditor's mindset to examining the evidence behind this "old person's disease." What followed was a remarkable 20+
From Workaholic to Presence: Eric Farewell's Journey to Freedom Through Somatic Healing
In this poolside conversation, entrepreneur Eric Farewell shares his transformation from a workaholic aviation CEO to a presence-focused coach helping executives escape the trap of their businesses. After building multiple seven-figure comp
PEMF Technology for Pets: How NASA Tech is Revolutionizing Animal Wellness with Mark Fox
In this episode of the Urban Monk Podcast, Dr. Pedram Shojai interviews Mark Fox, a NASA rocket scientist turned inventor who has adapted PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) technology for pet health. After discovering the technology 27 yea
From Military Service to VA Benefits Champion: How One Navy Doctor is Fighting the System for Veterans
Dr. Matt Wilyonson, a former Navy orthopedic surgeon and current Chief Medical Officer of Woobie.io, shares his powerful journey from serving 10+ years in the military to becoming a fierce advocate for veterans navigating the broken VA (Dep
Environmental Toxins and Mycotoxins: The Hidden Health Crisis
Dr. Dennis Hooper, founder of Real Time Laboratories and a pioneer in mycotoxin testing, shares his personal journey from growing up in Nevada's nuclear testing zone to becoming a leading expert in environmental toxicity. After his family a
The Protein Problem: Why Most People Aren't Getting Enough (And What to Do About It)
In this enlightening episode of the Urban Monk Podcast, host Pedram Shojai engages with Angelo from Kion to investigate one of the most misunderstood aspects of nutrition: protein. Moving beyond the polarized debates and one-size-fits-all a
