Brian welcomes Ann Bennett, creator behind Simply Unconventional, who started her health journey after hearing a Peak Human episode on seed oils. Ann describes cleaning up her family's diet and home, switching to raw milk and local meat, and seeing colds, stomach bugs, chronic sinus issues, and her sons' severe asthma disappear. That success led her husband to rethink their farm, slowly transitioning from heavy chemical spraying to regenerative practices that helped their crop survive extreme heat and drought.

She shares how, despite doing "everything right," she was still exhausted, irritable, and holding onto stubborn belly fat until Coach Chris Kruger's natural hormone optimization method showed her that going too low carb was part of the problem. Adding back whole-food carbs like potatoes, rice, and sourdough helped both her and her husband finally lose the belly fat. The conversation also covers rancid store-bought pecans, why "eat less, move more" fails women, the limits of conventional blood work, HRT vs. natural optimization, the Beast, Feast, Fast, Sleep framework, and a first look at Brian's upcoming book, The New Theory of Food.

02:50 Meet Ann Bennett
09:00 How Peak Human Started It All
10:55 Belly Fat Is a Hormone Problem
12:45 From City Kids to Pecan Farmers
15:00 Detoxing the Home and Diet
17:40 Taking the Farm Regenerative
19:50 Cover Crops and Drought
20:45 Why Store Pecans Taste Bitter
23:55 Raw Milk and Asthma
25:30 Meat, Milk and Height
26:30 Low Carb and Crashed Hormones
28:30 CrossFit and Stubborn Belly Fat
30:00 Keto as a Short-Term Tool
31:55 Japan and Rice
36:55 Maasai vs. Tsimane Diets
38:05 Weston A. Price
40:40 Is Obesity Genetic?
41:00 Eating With Your Cycle
43:00 Why Eat Less, Move More Fails
46:45 Normal Blood Work Isn't Optimal
48:30 HRT vs. Natural Hormones
49:15 Hormones After Menopause
52:15 Breaking the Snacking Habit

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Brian introduces Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, which grew from efforts to label GMOs into a national nonprofit focused on reducing pesticide and toxin exposure through education and extensive testing that has found glyphosate in items including tap water, urine, breast milk, foods, and other products. Honeycutt describes launching a legislative arm (Moms Across America Movement/"Yes Ma'am") to promote health-focused policy, discusses MAHA-era progress and perceived corporate pushback, and urges contacting representatives via calls, email, visits, and X. She shares outcomes from switching to organic, including a story of a child's mental health improving, and recounts her son's strict organic veganism, subsequent nutrient/toxin findings (including thallium, mycotoxins, DDT), and suicide, informing proposed newborn genetic disclosure and EPA reforms. The conversation also covers EMFs, vaccine safety, microplastics, and major concerns about data centers' noise, energy, and water impacts.

Show Notes:

01:16 Meet Zen Honeycutt

02:46 Austin Events and Community

04:55 Moms Across America Origin

06:53 Testing Glyphosate Everywhere

08:26 MAHA Movement and RFK Jr

12:49 Policy Slowdown and Pushback

15:13 What You Can Do Now

19:46 Organic Food Changes Everything

22:06 Organic and Mental Health Story

26:42 Ben's Story and Vegan Risks

31:57 Genes Toxins and New Bills

38:22 Fat Fuels Survival

38:45 Cholesterol and Brain Health

39:16 Food Lies and Plant Toxins

41:39 Why Carnivore Helps Some

42:24 Fermentation and Gut Issues

45:08 Vegan as Reset Not Nutrition

51:32 Africa Anecdotes on Meat

53:39 Glyphosate and Vegan Exposure

55:32 Moms Across America Issues

56:41 Data Centers Health Threat

01:04:00 Microplastics and Fertility

01:05:36 Self Regulation and Identity

01:09:05 Unstoppable Take Action

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Brian interviews Calley Means from HHS about the Trump administration and Secretary Kennedy's push to address chronic disease by focusing on root causes like food and reforming scientific agencies. He describes entrenched incentives in healthcare and government, updates on dietary guidelines and a revised food pyramid emphasizing protein, fruits, vegetables, and reduced ultra-processed foods, and discusses efforts to redefine "ultra-processed" foods. He addresses controversy around glyphosate, explaining farmers' concerns about sudden bans disrupting agriculture, and highlights commitments and incentives for regenerative agriculture. They cover policies to remove soda, candy, and other ultra-processed items from SNAP, changes in school, hospital, and military food procurement, and mention work with outside partners on tools to help Americans make healthier choices.

02:07 Inside HHS Role

04:21 Why Reform Now

05:30 Food Pyramid Overhaul

06:37 NIH and Root Causes

08:16 Health Gets Political

09:41 Empowered Patients

12:35 Glyphosate Backstory

16:52 Market Shifts and SNAP

21:21 Regenerative Ag Funding

23:49 SNAP Soda Crackdown

26:20 School Lunch Pushback

28:35 Fixing School Breakfast

29:43 Farmers And Food Procurement

30:45 Hospitals Stop Serving Junk

33:45 Root Causes Of Chronic Disease

36:11 Defining Ultra Processed Food

39:17 Traditionally Prepared Foods

42:12 Messaging And Food Transparency

44:41 Lifespan Project Incentives

46:55 Policy Shift Toward Prevention

50:35 Inside The White House Role

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In this episode of Peak Human, Brian Sanders sits down with physician, athlete, and author Dr. Jaime Seeman to discuss what it really takes to become "hard to kill."

Dr. Seeman is a practicing OB-GYN, former Mrs. Nebraska, competitive athlete, and metabolic health advocate. After struggling with her own metabolic issues, including prediabetes and hypothyroidism, she transformed her health through diet, strength training, and lifestyle changes.

Together, Brian and Dr. Seeman explore how metabolic dysfunction develops, why muscle is one of the most powerful tools for longevity, and why focusing on nutrients instead of calories may be the key to fixing modern health problems.

They also dive into women's metabolic health, perimenopause, visceral fat, and the role of diet evolution—from ketogenic to carnivore to a flexible real-food approach.

This conversation breaks down the science of human nutrition and performance while offering practical strategies for living stronger, longer, and healthier.

Show Notes

04:00 – Why modern medicine focuses on treatment instead of prevention

07:00 – The growing movement for metabolic health

11:00 – Diet tribes vs. real food

12:00 – Dr. Seeman's personal metabolic health journey

15:00 – Keto, carnivore, and evolving diets

18:00 – The Sapien lifestyle: eating like humans evolved to eat

20:00 – Women's hormones, carbs, and the menstrual cycle

23:00 – Fasted training and metabolic flexibility

27:00 – Nutrient density vs calorie counting

31:00 – Muscle: the most overlooked organ in medicine

33:00 – Visceral fat and hidden metabolic disease

35:00 – Beauty and nutrition

42:00 – C-sections, childbirth, and the infant microbiome