March 13, 2021
Dr. Leland Stillman is one interesting doctor and a man after my own heart – meaning he's interested in everything from how polar bears use cold thermogenesis and hibernation to enhance longevity to how your environment drastically shapes your health no matter how hard you exercise or how perfectly you eat.
He became interested in natural and integrative medicine at an early age. After majoring in environmental health at Connecticut College and earning his medical doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Dr. Stillman completed his training in internal medicine at Maine Medical Center. Board-certified in internal medicine and specializing in integrative medicine, he has a passion for doing whatever it takes to discover the root cause of his patients' medical problems through advanced laboratory testing and then addressing those imbalances with dietary or lifestyle interventions. Dr. Stillman focuses not only on the patient but on all aspects of the environment they live in. Some of Dr. Stillman's professional interests include phototherapy (photobiomodulation), nutrition, toxicology, and the immune system.
In this podcast, we talk light, EMF, air, water, sound, metabolic typing, COVID vaccines, and a whole lot more!
During this discussion, you'll also discover:
-Dr. Stillman's family history…6:30
- His ancestor was a physician to Gov. Stanford of California in the 1800s
- Son died of a bacterial infection and was named after Gov. Stanford
- Practice is in Richmond, VA; however, 99% of his practice is virtual
- Pretty Healthy practice in NYC
- Dr. Anthony Beck's BGF podcasts:
- Dr. Stillman's videos on COVID went viral (video is now not available)
- Life Site News
-Why Dr. Stillman is not planning on getting vaccinated for COVID…10:30
- Ben is not 100% opposed to the idea of vaccinations
- Many ethical concerns with the current COVID vaccine
- FDA has often approved drugs that were later taken off the market
- Fundamental ethics of medicine is to not force anything on a patient
- Why Viruses Are Crucial To Life On This Planet, The Link Between Air Pollution, Glyphosate & Pandemics, Loss Of Biodiversity (& What We Can Do About It) & More With Dr. Zach Bush.
- The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg
- Video on non-native EMF (by Dr. Stillman) was later taken down
- Evidence for a Connection Between COVID-19 and Exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation from Wireless Telecommunications Including Microwaves and Millimeter Waves – COVID-19 paper by Beverly Rubik and Robert Brown mentioned in the video
- BioGeometry Protection Of Your Home, Plant Medicine, Parenting, Stacking Rocks, Stages Of Human Consciousness & More With Paul Chek
- Faraday materials and EMF blocking/shielding gear
- BGF podcasts with Brian Hoyer:
- Hunting Down EMF In Your Office, Bedroom, Gym & Beyond: Is Your Home’s “Dirty Electricity” Wrecking Your Sleep, Your Recovery, Your Health & More? The Official Ben Greenfield & Brian Hoyer Low-EMF Home How-To, With Brian Hoyer.
- The Intriguing Science Of Building Biology (Along With A Complete Analysis & Surprising Results From Ben Greenfield’s So-Called “Biohacked Home”), With Brian Hoyer.
-How to mitigate the effects of, and how to avoid contracting, COVID…16:35
- It's difficult to expose everyone to a virus
- There's no element of the environment that won't have an effect on human health
- How To Biohack The Ultimate Healthy Home: Part 1, with Dr. Jack Kruse
- Light and biochemistry
- Optimizing internal and external environments
-How to optimize light for your own biology…23:10
- Quantify the light in your environment via a smartphone app
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) – Sunlight deficiency
- Sunglasses may be contributing to SAD, affecting emotions deleteriously
- Paper: Melatonin and the Optics of the Human Body
- Bright light during the day is essential for proper melatonin production at night
- Re-Timer light therapy glasses
- Antioxidant benefits of light are lost
- Supplementation of melatonin should copy nature
- Red and near-infrared light (Joovv)
- Naturally lit environment at night
- Vaping, ozone generators hurt melatonin production
- Tryptophan and vitamin B6 are necessary to produce melatonin
-How to use melatonin as a “circadian reset”…35:15
- Dr. John Lieurance melatonin reset
- The Man Who Is Curing Blindness And Alzheimer's, Growing New Brain Cells & Elegantly Fabricating Some Of The Most Powerful Nootropics Known To Humankind with Dr. Andrew Huberman
- Exposure to light at a temperature minimum to reset circadian rhythm
- Don't reinvent nature; tools can become liabilities
- Lux light meter app for smartphone
- Article: Indoor Lighting Causes More Cancer than the Sun by Leland Stillman
- D Minder app
- Clearlight Sauna
- Joovv
-How to determine the proper lighting for your home…39:50
- First determine your goal
- Red lamp during the night when waking up in the night
- HugoAi lamps
- Dimmable lights tend to produce higher amounts of EMF
- Dirty EMF filter
- Turn off dimmers during sleep
-The Polar Bear program for optimizing health…43:50
- Dr. Jack Kruse: “Eat like a shark, live like a polar bear”
- Humans in high artificial light eat lots of food, gain weight, don't sleep well, etc.
- Polar bears have many of the same metabolic abnormalities as humans with the poor diets
- Adaptations that allow them to survive the winter
- Dr. Stillman had many of these symptoms
- Repleted levels of nutrients and health improved dramatically
- Balance Protocol by Dr. Anthony Beck
-Breathwork protocols Dr. Stillman uses…50:50
- Vladimir Buteyko
- The sickest patients breathe quickly and rapidly
- Animals that live the shortest take more rapid and shallow breaths
- Low rate of oxygen exposure = longer lifespan
- Nasal, diaphragmatic breathing for the vagus nerve
- Box breathing
- Respiratory systems back to optimal breathing mechanics
- BGF podcasts on breathing and breathwork:
- Biohack Your Breath With Nose “Boners,” Carbon Dioxide Inhalation, Tibetan Longevity Stretches & Much More: How To Unlock The New Science Of A Lost Art, with James Nestor
- The Renegade Pharmacist: How To Increase The Effects Of Psilocybin, The Secrets Of Colostrum, Fixing Constipation With Breathwork & More, with Niraj Naik
- The Ultimate Guide To Freediving, Legal Blood Doping, Wim Hof Breathing, Increasing Your Breathhold Time, Underwater Ear Equalizing, Spearfishing & Much More! With Ted Harty
- Maximize Oxygen Utilization Efficiency, Simulate High Altitude Training, Get The Cardiovascular Capacity of a Navy SEAL & More With “The Oxygen Advantage” Author Patrick McKeown.
- Breath Belt
- Relaxator, developed by Anders Olsson
-What kind of dietary approach Dr. Stillman utilizes for himself and his patients…57:00
- Figure out what you absolutely cannot eat (elimination diet)
- Food allergy tests have many false positives
- Immune system has reactions we can't explain
- Chia and flax seeds are rich in arginine and Omega 3 fatty acids
- Soak and blend chia and flax seeds
- We all need our diet tailored to our allergies, insensitivities, etc.
- Nutrition and the Autonomic Nervous System by Nick Gonzalez
- Measure sympathetic vs. parasympathetic nervous systems
- Article on the 5-day juice fast (Stay tuned to my feed for this article next week)
- NatureBeat app
- Driven: Understanding and Harnessing the Genetic Gifts Shared by Entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Pro Athletes (& Maybe You), with Doug Brackmann
- Driven by Doug Brackmann
-Light shapes life: How the human body creates light within itself…1:09:00
- Ra Optics blue light blocking glasses
- BGF podcasts with Matt Maruca:
- Ben Accidentally Gets A Bit High On Ketamine & Talks About His Journey Of Biohacking, Ancestral Health, Spirituality, Fitness & Much More With Light Expert Matt Maruca.
- What Time Of Day Can You Eat A “Cheat Meal,” How Cold Can Make You Unstoppable, Lies We’ve Been Led To Believe About Sunlight & Much More!, With Matt Maruca
- Our bodies are built to retain light via the mitochondria
- Hot mitochondria? Paper by Nick Lane mentioned by Dr. Stillman
- Light is a form of energy
- Mitochondria emit large amounts of infrared light
- Lack of magnesium affects the ability to produce internal light
-The two elements of health Dr. Stillman views as non-negotiable…1:16:55
- Mindset and psychology
- Those around us sabotage our efforts to get well because of toxic negativity
- The best results are those patients with the most hope, faith, most positive mindset
- Placebo effect is a thing
- Anatomy of An Illness by Norman Cousins
- Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
-And much more!
Click here for the full written transcript of this podcast episode.
Resources from this episode:
- Pretty Healthy
- Dr. Leland Stillman's YouTube Channel
- Indoor Lighting Causes More Cancer Than The Sun
– Podcasts And Articles:
- The Physician Who Personally Advises The World’s Leading Health Authorities, And His Tiny Invention That Pro Athletes Swear By.
- The Danger Of ‘Shrooms, Eating & Supplementing “Seasonally”, Whether Lectins Are Really Bad For You & Much More With Dr. Anthony G. Beck!
- Why Viruses Are Crucial To Life On This Planet, The Link Between Air Pollution, Glyphosate & Pandemics, Loss Of Biodiversity (& What We Can Do About It) & More With Dr. Zach Bush.
- Hunting Down EMF In Your Office, Bedroom, Gym & Beyond: Is Your Home’s “Dirty Electricity” Wrecking Your Sleep, Your Recovery, Your Health & More? The Official Ben Greenfield & Brian Hoyer Low-EMF Home How-To, With Brian Hoyer.
- The Intriguing Science Of Building Biology (Along With A Complete Analysis & Surprising Results From Ben Greenfield’s So-Called “Biohacked Home”), With Brian Hoyer.
- The Crazy Future Of Medical Biohacking: Skull Resets, Suppositories, Nasal Sprays, Nebulizers, Sound Therapy & More With Dr. John Lieurance.
- The Man Who Is Curing Blindness And Alzheimer's, Growing New Brain Cells & Elegantly Fabricating Some Of The Most Powerful Nootropics Known To Humankind with Dr. Andrew Huberman
- Jack Kruse Tells You How To Live Like A Polar Bear And Eat Like A Great White Shark
- Biohack Your Breath With Nose “Boners,” Carbon Dioxide Inhalation, Tibetan Longevity Stretches & Much More: How To Unlock The New Science Of A Lost Art, With James Nestor
- The Renegade Pharmacist: How To Increase The Effects Of Psilocybin, The Secrets Of Colostrum, Fixing Constipation With Breathwork & More, With Niraj Naik
- The Ultimate Guide To Freediving, Legal Blood Doping, Wim Hof Breathing, Increasing Your Breathhold Time, Underwater Ear Equalizing, Spearfishing & Much More! With Ted Harty
- Maximize Oxygen Utilization Efficiency, Simulate High Altitude Training, Get The Cardiovascular Capacity of a Navy SEAL & More With “The Oxygen Advantage” Author Patrick McKeown.
- Biohack Your Breath With Nose “Boners,” Carbon Dioxide Inhalation, Tibetan Longevity Stretches & Much More: How To Unlock The New Science Of A Lost Art, With Anders Olsson
- Driven: Understanding and Harnessing the Genetic Gifts Shared by Entrepreneurs, Navy SEALs, Pro Athletes (& Maybe You), With Doug Brackmann
- Ben Accidentally Gets A Bit High On Ketamine & Talks About His Journey Of Biohacking, Ancestral Health, Spirituality, Fitness & Much More With Light Expert Matt Maruca.
- What Time Of Day Can You Eat A “Cheat Meal,” How Cold Can Make You Unstoppable, Lies We’ve Been Led To Believe About Sunlight & Much More!, With Matt Maruca
- The Ultimate Breathwork Ninja Guide: How To Banish Stress & Kiss High Cortisol Goodbye
– Books:
- The Invisible Rainbow By Arthur Firstenberg
- Driven By Doug Brackmann
- Anatomy Of An Illness By Norman Cousins
- Biology Of Belief By Bruce Lipton
– Gear and Supplements:
- Re-Timer Light Therapy Glasses
- Joovv
- Clearlight Sauna
- Red Lamp
- HugoAi Lamps
- Dirty EMF Filter
- Breath Belt
- Relaxator
- Ra Optics
- No Choice Grounding Garments
- Lambs Underwear (use code BEN15 to save 15%)
- Grounding Bags
- Bags For Phones
- Canopy
- Silvershield EMF Shielding Tent
- Melatonin Patch
- Melatonin Reset
- Thorne 5-Hydroxytryptophan (Tryptophan With Vitamin B6)
- Chia Seeds
- Flax Seeds
- Kion Omega
– Other Resources:
- Life Site News
- Lux Light Meter App
- D Minder App
- NatureBeat App
- Balance Protocol by Dr. Anthony Beck
- Box Breathing
- Vladimir Buteyko
- Melatonin And The Optics Of The Human Body
- Hot Mitochondria?
- 10 Dangerous Drugs Recalled By The FDA
- The Therapeutic Potential Of Melatonin: A Review Of The Science
- Comparing The Best Light Meter Apps That Actually Work
- Evidence for a Connection Between COVID-19 and Exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation from Wireless Telecommunications Including Microwaves and Millimeter Waves
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DR. Still man: after seeing/ listening to you on several different broadcasts just wanted you to know I have added you to my prayers every night. I am resisting family pressure for Covid vax as I don’t believe at this time is safe. Thanks. Stay safe!!
I work in an environment that has
Fluorescent Bulbs throughout the building. I do not necessarily have an office that I could put different bulbs in. Do you have any suggestions? I have bought the lights that you have suggested for my home and just wondering what the best protection would be at work. I also do not enjoy wearing the glasses to protect from the blue light while watching TV. Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks for this fantastic postcard!
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Thanks Ben. Incredible Episode! Dr Stillman is brilliant. Every time I run across an interview with him I find it refreshing to hear a doctor share the truth and real wisdom that is useful and for improving health versus the deathcare system that only pushes the Rockefeller agenda of chemicals to fill a certain few pockets. Seems some of your commenters above are still stuck in the dogma, indoctrination, and compartmentalization of generational manipulation, it’s hard for some to break free from the system as that takes internal work, self responsibility and the willingness to seek truth. Unfortunately most don’t innerstand the depths of deception and censorship of the interweb and how long this has been going on…. Be Well.
Thank you, Ben and Leland, for another stellar episode!
Thanks so much to both of you! And double thanks Ben for continuing to share and post a wide variety of ideas and viewpoints on health. It continues to help, even after many years of listening.
@leland
What you do you think of the lighting by truedark? I would assume the circadia bulb fits your criteria. They also have a nighttime bulb, which does have a remote, but it didn’t seem to emit much EMF. It didn’t seem to emit much when I measured it, but I don’t have any sophisticated devices. I know it’s really changed my home environment in a beautiful way as far as light goes.
Also, from my research Satic seems to make some of the best dirty electricity products out there. Have you looked into them yet?
And @BenG.
When you gonna interview Huberman bro :D
Your podcasts are almost always very interesting for me but this one was is mindblowing. I have to try some food improvement my targeted KETO&IF. I have just one question for u though. I feel very good on high fat and pretty high protein as well diet. I do really small veggies (severe diarrhea and it is not SIBO) but I’m pretty wired man even I’m 45yo. I mean I’m a more sympathetic (Cortisol) adrenal body type. What am I supposed to eat now? Sympa or parasympa food? I know u have no all my health data and I respect that what I am asking is to show me a direction and I will do my own research on that
This was such a fantastic podcast!!! One of my favorites you have ever done! Ben, you’re so right, Dr Stillman does it ALL! I love the articulate and simple way he explains things that are actually really complex. I felt like I walked away with really tangible things I could look at in my own life to improve my health! Thank you so much for this invaluable info!
Please provide a link to download to mp3.
The download link is the center "down arrow" button to the right within the player.
I am new to this website and wonder what took me so long. I have dabbled or used long-term so many of the discussed items/methods. I loved hearing all the updates. My immediate concern is to replace my home air purifier IMMEDIATELY with a non-ozone model. Please let me know what you think is best in this direction. I walked right over and turned mine OFF the moment I head your comments about ozone. I have not lived without a whole-house model for alt least 25 years, so this is weird for me.Thanks so much, I have shared the podcast and will be listening to it a few more times with a pen in my hand. Any chance of a transcript? Thanks so much.
WHERE IS THE LINK TO THE PODCAST???
I would love to listen to the podcast, but I can’t find a “play” link on this page.
Ben,
Please clarify how to download mp3 with your changed format
Your audio player no longer is available on page at least on my email links?
I think it is disgraceful that you keep advocating against Covid vaccination and spreading this message that is not backed by any actual science. This guy obviously is a quack and spreads very damaging messages that real scientists have demolished over and over and over. You should stop this really. You keep spreading this dangerous stuff and the rest of your messages loses all credibility. We are in a pandemic, we have thousands of deaths everyday around the world, our lives have come to a stop for the past year and you keep putting this utter bs into people’s minds. Frankly if this message is preventing even one person from vaccinating you would have done enough damage already, as that one person could get sick and die or transmit the disease to a fragile person and that would translate in enormous grief for a bunch a bunch of people. Qanon has already showed its face and you keep following this bs.
Stop worshipping the news and use your brain. Ben is providing tools for you to take care of yourself. If you want to blindly follow the MSM cult that’s your choice but you don’t get to call it science and label anything you don’t like quackery. By the way there is no science proving the vaccine cures anything by Fauci’s own admission. It blocks symptoms which makes you an asymptomatic carrier. Thanks for constantly encouraging us to be healthy Ben way before any public health scare.
what a retarded comment…quackery and as someone else said below, retarded quackery
This is some wacky stuff! And dangerous too.. The last thing we need is more misinformation from a “medical professional” to prevent people from getting the Covid 19 vaccine. There is so many false conspiracy theories out there that people are latching on to already. The bottom line is that this vaccine will prevent more people from dying from this horrible disease. It is safe and effective and ALL adults should get the vaccine.
Israel has already vaccinated over half the population. Even in this short time from deaths from vaccines have EXCEEDED the risk of death from Covid. We have not even seen how bad long term effects will be.
“mortality hundreds of times greater in young people compared to mortality from coronavirus without the vaccine, and dozens of times more in the elderly”
“There is a mismatch between the data published by the authorities and the reality on the ground…
“this is a new Holocaust,” in face of Israeli authority pressure to vaccinate citizens.”
— Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Medicine Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit’s Dr. Hervé Seligmann and engineer Haim Yativ
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/297051
So, please either start casting a wider net for your information sources, or alternatively get your shot, and help the U.S. government solve the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare for us…
Thanks for posting this, Nick. It’s important for people to cast a wider net for information sources.
you know nothing about “information sources” obviously as you are quoting the worse Israeli/French tabloids.
Retarded. Two quacks saying baseless stuff are not “information”, they are antivax quacks like this ignorant Stillman.
Ben, so irresponsible, stop the antivax quackery
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-israel-idUSKBN2AA2TS
Amazing how few biohackers have been harmed by COVID. I’m more scared of getting hit by a car, yet I leave my house every day.
Wow, as a doctor, one would think Dr. Stillman would be a bit more worried about his credibility and simply do 5 seconds of fact-checking before “thanking” someone for posting blatant misinformation. Pandemics are nothing new, vaccines are nothing new. This isn’t all some conspiracy. Reading a few middle-school-level history and science books would do wonders for most of you people.
Wow – total misdirection… You dishonestly quote a Reuters article attacking a blogger collecting anecdotes of deaths – NOT the researchers, statististical analysis of government statistics.
Tell me why you trust the Israeli government (or any government) NOT to lie to you when they have made a mistake?
Retarded.
“Practice is in Richmond, VA; however, 99% of his practice is virtual”
This was a heartening fact to learn. Since Dr Stillman is an Antivaxer, it would be unethical for him to personally see patients and possibly infect them if he turns out to be asymptomatic.