The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life.
Episodes
Episode 28: Healthy Deviance
14 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about one of Pilar's all-time favorite topics: Healthy Deviance. It's a favorite because it's the su...
Episode 27: Fasting
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about fasting, the power of periodically foregoing food, and the significant health benefits that can proceed from doing it in...
Episode 26: Nourished
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about the fine art of being nourished. By that, we mean not just being adequately fed or fueled, but being amply supplied with...
Episode 25: Masculine and Feminine
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Living Experiment, in what Dallas calls our "most terrifying episode" to date, we're talking about the qualities of masculinity and f...
Episode 24: Busy
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Busy is the new black — and none of us are wearing it well. We're all over-scheduled, under-rested, rushing and running on empty most of the time...
Episode 23: What Now?
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The start of a new year is a great time to re-evaluate and adjust the way you are spending your time and energy. So this week on The Living Experiment...
Episode 22: New Year
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us, the New Year is a fresh start, an opportunity to get a new outlook on life. This week on The Living Experiment, we talk about the natu...
Episode 21: Health Media
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to know what to believe. Online, in print, via TV and radio broadcast, the health media delivers a lot of mixed messages and downright conf...
Episode 20: Eating Out
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eating out offers many potential benefits – tasty food, fun with friends, and a break from cooking – but it can also lead to pitfalls for your wel...
Episode 19: Mansplaining
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about "mansplaining" — that dynamic where men sometimes explain things to women in condescendin...
Episode 18: Coffee
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We are big fans of coffee. We dig its flavor, its aroma, its health benefits, its feel-good buzz. We also know it's easy to overdo, particularly when...
Episode 17: Winter
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Every season has its gifts, but we live in a culture that prefers to celebrate the bright, "go-go" energy of summer. Without the haven of a winter rec...
Episode 16: Shame
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Shame is universal. It touches every age, gender, and ethnicity — from a child who wets the bed to a presidential candidate who is caught off guard...
Episode 15: Sitting
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sitting on our butts — it's something most of us do for hours on end. We sit at our desks and in meetings. We sit while parked in front of screens ...
Episode 14: Creativity vs. Consumption
24 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a culture that encourages us to consume far more than we create. That's a dynamic that directly undermines both our health and happiness. L...
Episode 13: Poo
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From a health perspective, what comes out of your body is every bit as important as what goes in. So we think it's high time we gave poo the respect ...
Episode 12: Enough
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Can you ever have "enough" — money, time, energy, love? Do you trust that you will have enough in the future? Do you believe you are enough, right...
Episode 11: Paleo vs. Primal
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of The Living Experiment, we dig into the fundamentals of Paleo and Primal eating approaches — their origins, similarities...
Episode 10: Top 10 Health Biggies
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wrapping up our successful first season, we offer a big picture view of what we see as the top 10 fundamentals of healthy, happy living, and how they ...
Episode 9: Fitspo
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Living Experiment, we consider the pros and cons of "Fitspo" — short for Fitness Inspiration — that stream of idealized-body im...
Episode 8: Addiction
05 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Living Experiment, we're talking about "Addiction" — what that phenomenon is all about, and how to address the sometimes-subt...
Episode 7: Pause
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Living Experiment, we're celebrating power of the pause — the importance of taking regular breaks, and the rewards of getting int...
Episode 6: Travel
22 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Living Experiment, we're talking about travel—the real challenges it poses for health-seeking people, and smart things you can ...
Episode 5: Seasons
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode of The Living Experiment, we're talking about seasons: the natural fluctuations your body goes through during the cycles of winte...
Episode 4: Morning
08 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Living Experiment, we talk about mornings - the challenges they present for many, and some smart strategies for redesigning t...
Episode 3: Lonely
31 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Living Experiment, we talk about Lonely — the experience and stigma of that feeling, and the negative impacts it has on our well-...
Episode 2: Healthy vs. Hot
31 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What's the difference between "Healthy" and "Hot"? We share what those descriptors mean to us, and how our definitions have evolved over time. We add...
Episode 1: Freak
31 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Can you live a healthy life in an unhealthy world? Yes, you can. But right now, more than 97 percent of U.S. adults aren't managing it. So if you are ...