In this episode, Elwin Robinson sits down with Dr. Robert Selig — a functional medicine practitioner and mineral balancing specialist with over 30 years of experience — to unpack one of the most confusing topics in health: copper, zinc, and ceruloplasmin. Dr. Selig offers a nuanced middle path between extreme views, explaining how you can be copper toxic and copper deficient at the same time, why zinc is essential (not the enemy), and how hair tissue mineral analysis combined with blood and u...
Most diets promise to fix your health — but every restrictive diet leaves out something important. In this episode, Elwin Robinson breaks down 8 popular diets (keto, pescatarian, gluten-free, fiber maxing, carnivore, longevity/CRON, Ray Peat inspired, and low vitamin A) and reveals the specific nutrient deficiencies each one is more likely to cause. This isn't about criticising any diet — it's about helping you fill the gaps so whichever way of eating you choose actually works for you long te...
In this deeply personal episode, Elwin shares the detective story of how one barely-deficient nutrient on a blood test led him to discover a serious medical condition that no doctor or practitioner had been able to find. After resolving it, he gained 7kg of muscle and lost 3kg of fat in 5 months between two DEXA scans, regained his energy, strengthened his immune system, and finally resolved years of mysterious symptoms — from high prolactin to muscle weakness to a dry socket after a root can...
In this Q&A episode, Elwin Robinson answers listener questions on bioregulators for detox, stacking Livagen and Ovagen for advanced cirrhosis, whether soy is genuinely protective or harmful in estrogen dominance, the real role of retinoic acid receptors, iron accumulation on carnivore diets, copper and insulin resistance, pregnenolone for men, allopregnanolone sourcing, fixing low bile production, benfotiamine and B-complex sequencing, chronic fatigue and exercise intolerance, glycine bey...
In this deep dive episode, Elwin Robinson sits down with Dr. Miriam Mikicki to unpack everything you need to know about growth hormone — what it does, why it declines with age, how to measure it, and the real pros and cons of raising it. They cover the natural ways to stimulate growth hormone release, the differences between prescription growth hormone and peptides like ipamorelin, tesamorelin, CJC-1295, and AOD 9604, and the often-overlooked risks including counterfeit products on the gray m...