Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

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What if the smallest molecule in the universe could have the biggest impact on your health? Welcome "Greg the Hydrogen Man" to explore the science, controversy, and real-world application of hydrogen water and molecular hydrogen therapy. This conversation goes beyond hydration — it explores how hydrogen acts as a biological signal, how it interacts with oxygen, and why it may be foundational to cellular health. Whether you're into biohacking, longevity, performance, or holistic health, this episode will challenge how you think about water and what it means to truly nourish the body.
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00:00 – Why water can heal… or harm
02:30 – Why most hydrogen devices are problematic
05:00 – Japan's longevity advantage explained
07:45 – Hydrogen, gut health, and gas signaling
10:00 – What hydrogen water actually is
14:00 – The healing waters of Lourdes & hydrogen discovery
17:30 – Why hydrogen is different from all antioxidants
19:30 – Mitochondria, oxidative stress & disease
22:45 – Hydrogen and stroke recovery in Japan
26:30 – Why clean water matters before hydrogen
30:00 – Live blood analysis: clean water vs hydrogen water
33:30 – How hydrogen acts as a cellular signal
36:00 – Morning hydrogen water protocol
40:30 – The Japanese hydrogen machine origin story
43:00 – How long before people feel results
45:30 – Safety, medications & contraindications
48:30 –Ever Forward
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In this episode of Ever Forward Radio, psychologist and addiction expert Dr. Adi Jaffe reframes addiction, compulsive behavior, and self-sabotage as intelligent coping strategies rather than personal failures. He explains why labeling people as "addicts" creates shame and traps identity, how early childhood and even preverbal experiences shape adult behavior, and why most habits don't change through awareness alone.
Dr. Jaffe introduces his SPARO Behavioral Loop—stimulus, perception, activation, response, outcome—to show how emotions and bodily sensations, not events themselves, drive behavior. Together, they explore identity, responsibility without blame, growth mindset, emotional regulation, stoicism, belief systems, and why sustainable change comes from reshaping perception and nervous system responses rather than fighting behaviors directly. This conversation offers a compassionate, practical framework for breaking patterns and moving forward—without shame.
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00:00 – Addiction Is Not Your Identity
02:00 – Why Calling Someone an "Addict" Causes Harm
05:10 – The Thing Is Never the Thing
07:30 – Coping Starts Earlier Than You Remember
10:00 – Attachment, Safety, and Early Nervous System Wiring
14:45 – Resilience vs. Disconnection
17:20 – It's Not Your Fault, But It Is Your Responsibility
19:50 – The Sphere of Control Framework
23:30 – Perception Shapes Reality
25:45 – Introducing the SPARO Behavioral Loop
29:15 – Why Awareness Alone Doesn't Change Behavior
33:00 – Emotional Menus & Coping Patterns
35:20 – Changing Beliefs to Reduce Triggers
38:40 – Stoicism, Detachment & Emotional Regulation
41:30 – Identity Change Without All-or-Nothing Thinking
44:50 – Becoming Someone Who Can Change
48:05 – Choosing Your Hard
49:30 – How to Know You're on the Right Path
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You've probably heard of the trauma responses fight, flight, and freeze — but there's a fourth response that may be shaping your life without you even realizing it: fawning.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Ingrid Clayton, PhD a clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, and author of Fawning, to understand why people-pleasing, over-accommodating, and self-abandonment are not personality flaws — they're intelligent survival responses your nervous system learned to keep you safe.
You'll learn how fawning develops when fight, flight, or freeze aren't available — especially in childhood, unequal power dynamics, toxic relationships, and work environments where your safety or stability feels at risk. You'll also discover how living in a chronic fawn response can quietly disconnect you from your needs, your voice, your body, and your sense of self.
This conversation helps you recognize why "just setting boundaries" often feels impossible, why you may disappear in relationships, and why choosing yourself can feel terrifying even when you know something needs to change. Most importantly, you'll hear why none of this means something is wrong with you — you make sense.
If you've been stuck in survival mode, waiting for permission, approval, or safety outside yourself, this episode will help you understand what's been happening beneath the surface — and how you can begin moving forward by reconnecting with who you truly are.
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00:00 – Introducing the "Fourth F": What Is Fawning?
02:16 – Why Fawning Is Not a Conscious Choice
03:40 – Power, Safety, and Why Fight or Flight Aren't Always Options
07:43 – Living in Chronic Survival Mode
09:27 – When Fawning Becomes Your "Personality"
12:09 – Empaths, Hypervigilance, and Nervous System Trauma
13:40 – Apologizing to People Who Hurt You
16:22 – Befriending Bullies as De-Escalation
20:29 – Gender, Power, and Why Context Matters
24:03 – Ignoring a Partner's Bad Behavior
26:43 – Toxic Hope vs Reality
28:27 – Presence as a Path Out of Fawning
31:24 – Reality as a Regulating Force
35:02 – Fawning in the Workplace & Overgiving
37:26 – Choosing Yourself for the First Time
40:29 – Becoming Who You Already Are
43:56 – Why "Just Set Boundaries" Fails Trauma Survivors
48:02 – Listening to Yourself as the Path Forward
51:12 – Writing Fawning & Seeing the Bigger System
55:06 – Somatic Tools to Regulate the Nervous System
01:02:27 – Health Costs of Chronic Fawning
01:04:03 – Self-Abandonment Explained
01:06:19 – What "Ever Forward" Means Through Trauma Healing
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What if the foods you believe are "healthy" are quietly driving chronic inflammation, hormonal disruption, and behavioral issues in children? Julia Putzeys is here to expose the truth about ultra-processed foods, misleading food labels, artificial dyes, seed oils, and chemical additives hiding in plain sight. Julia breaks down why front-of-package marketing is designed to mislead consumers, how certain ingredients are still legal in the U.S. but banned abroad, and why simply "hitting your macros" is not the same as eating real, nourishing food.
We explain how food additives impact children's brain health, gut health, metabolism, and long-term disease risk — and how parents and everyday shoppers can take back control at the grocery store. This conversation will empower you with practical tools to read ingredient labels properly, make smarter food swaps, and protect your family's health without falling into fear or overwhelm.
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00:00 – The Biggest Lie the Food Industry Tells
01:15 – Why "High-Protein" Processed Foods Are Still Dangerous
03:41 – Seed Oils & Chronic Inflammation Explained
05:35 – Why Food Labels Are Designed to Confuse You
08:10 – Are Brands Intentionally Misleading Consumers?
10:45 – Why Front-of-Package Claims Mean Nothing
12:49 – Ultra-Processed Foods vs Real Food
16:02 – Ingredient Order & Label Red Flags
18:07 – Why Modern Bread Is So Dangerous
19:41 – Artificial Dyes & Kids' Brain Health
23:36 – The Top 5 Most Dangerous Food Ingredients
27:54 – High-Fructose Corn Syrup & Hidden Sugars
31:32 – Artificial Sweeteners & Gut Damage
33:56 – Why Europe Bans Ingredients the U.S. Allows
37:48 – Ultra-Processed Foods & Chronic Disease
42:23 – How Parents Can Protect Their Children
56:10 – Why Calories ≠ Health
57:53 – What Is the Trash Panda App?
01:02:12 – How Trash Panda Rates Ingredients
01:08:20 – Consumer Power vs Big Food
01:10:10 – Ever Forward
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In this powerful conversation, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, MD joins Ever Forward Radio to explore why true healing goes far beyond food, supplements, and exercise—and into the nervous system, emotional health, and human connection. Drawing from his new book Plant Powered Plus, Will explains how inflammation is driven by an inseparable triad of gut microbiome imbalance, immune dysfunction, and a compromised gut barrier, while also revealing how chronic stress, unresolved trauma, loneliness, and circadian disruption can prevent the body from ever feeling safe enough to heal. This episode clearly explains the gut–brain–immune axis, the role of parasympathetic "safety" states, why PTSD and trauma leave measurable signatures in the gut, and how practices like sunlight exposure, breathwork, meaningful relationships, and spiritual purpose are not "woo"—but biology. 
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00:00 – Introduction: Why You're Not Healing (It's Not Just Food)
01:30 – Inflammation, Strength & the Core Thesis of Plant Powered Plus
02:25 – 70% of the Immune System Lives in the Gut
03:40 – The Inflammation Trifecta: Dysbiosis, Gut Barrier & Immunity
05:10 – How Fast the Gut Microbiome and Gut Lining Can Heal
06:00 – 450,000 New Gut Cells Every Second
09:00 – Why the Body Wants to Heal (If We Let It)
10:00 – Morning Sunlight, Circadian Rhythm & Energy
11:30 – Gut Microbes Follow a 24-Hour Schedule
12:45 – Why the Immune System Is Active at Night
14:00 – Serotonin, Melatonin & Gut Repair
16:00 – Cortisol: When Stress Helps vs. Harms
18:30 – The Sympathetic Nervous System & "Berserker Mode
21:45 – How Chronic Stress Damages the Gut Barrier
24:00 – Trauma, PTSD & Inflammatory Disease
26:00 – Why You Can't Out-Diet Trauma
29:00 – Science, Pattern Recognition & the Mind–Body Connection
32:00 – Parasympathetic Healing: Safety, Rest & Digestion
34:00 – Breathwork, Meditation & Nervous System Regulation
36:00 – Human Connection as Medicine
38:30 – Loneliness, Mortality & Modern Society
43:00 – Why Meaningful Relationships Are Essential for Health
46:00 – Can You Be Healthy Without Deep Connection?
49:00 – Measuring Stress: HRV, Wearables & Inflammation
55:30 – Trauma, PTSD & the Gut Microbiome
58:00 – Healing Trauma and Healing the Gut Together
1:03:30 – Dr. Bulsiewicz's Personal Healing Story
1:09:30 – Reconciliation, Grief & Spiritual Healing
1:18:00 – Purpose, Faith & the Limits of Science
1:22:00 – Ever Forward
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