Is mitochondrial decline the hidden blueprint that decides how fast your body ages?

Inherited Trauma + Mitochondria: The Hidden Reason Depression Runs In Your FamilyJosh Trent welcomes Dr. Brad Currier, PhD, Clinical Scientist, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 793, to unpack how mitochondrial health is passed through generations, why modern environments and sedentary living accelerate aging, how mitophagy and Urolithin A restore cellular energy, why gut health blocks or enables longevity, and how exercise plus targeted supplementation can fundamentally shift mood, vitality, and long term health from the inside out.

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In This Episode, Dr. Brad Currier, PhD Uncovers:

[01:10] How to Optimize Mitochondrial Health

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[08:35] Intergenerational Mitochondrial Health

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[12:55] The Cause of Aging

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[16:55] The Importance of Urolithin A

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[20:55] You Need to Fix Your Microbiome

[24:15] Gut-Brain Axis

[29:35] Activate Mitophagy to Stop Aging

[36:05] Scientific Data Behind Mitochondrial Health

[43:40] The Power of Exercise

[50:20] The Fundamentals of Health

[55:20] Change Is Counter-Intuitive

“Poor quality food and pollutants in our environment ultimately converge on the mitochondria and have an impact on its ability to produce energy. When we have this accumulation of debris in our cells, they don't work as well and they start releasing toxins that impact cells around them. ” — Dr. Brad Currier, PhD

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About Dr. Brad Currier, PhD

Inherited Trauma + Mitochondria: The Hidden Reason Depression Runs In Your Family

Brad Currier, PhD, is a clinical scientist specializing in mitochondrial health, cellular aging, and metabolic resilience.

With a background in translational research and applied clinical science, Brad focuses on how mitochondria, lifestyle inputs, and environmental stressors influence energy production, longevity, and disease risk.

His work bridges cutting-edge science with real-world application, helping people understand how to protect and optimize their cellular engines for sustained health, performance, and resilience.


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Why does the brain associate weight loss with dying, and what happens when you stop fighting your body and flip the brain instead?

Why Your Brain Fights Weight Loss: The Survival Programming That Causes Regain and OvereatingJosh Trent welcomes Weight Loss Expert, David Zappasodi, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 792, to reveal why weight gain is often a survival strategy, how subconscious identity and polarity drive compulsive eating, why willpower and restrictive diets fail, what a true Brain Flip does to dissolve fear, mourning, and self sabotage around weight loss, and how allowing transformation instead of forcing change creates sustainable freedom in the body and mind.




In This Episode, David Zappasodi Uncovers:

[01:15] Consciousness Brain Flip

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[06:50] Weight Gain As a Survival Mechanism

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[09:40] What Story Do You Attach to Food?

[13:30] How Polarity Shapes Your Identity

[15:20] Face The Darkness

[19:00] Can You Believe Your Own Mind?

[22:20] Willpower Won't Fix Your Problems

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[28:35] The Cause of the Jojo Effect

[31:50] Restrictive Diets Don't Work

[34:45] Reprogram Your Brain

[38:25] Your Mind Wants to Keep You Stuck

[42:15] The Fear of Losing Weight

[50:35] Forcing Change VS Allowing Transformation

[56:05] The Solution to Losing Weight Is Easy

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“To the brain, losing weight feels like dying because being heavy has become associated with living. On a daily basis, heavier people are experiencing the physical sensations of heaviness, when they're getting out of bed, when they're getting into the tub, when they're putting shoes on, etc.. At the exact same time, they're experiencing the physical sensations of being alive because they are alive. And when being heavy becomes equated with life, then being light becomes equated with death. ” — David Zappasodi

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Why Your Brain Fights Weight Loss: The Survival Programming That Causes Regain and Overeating

David Zappasodi is a weight loss expert and creator of the Brain Flip Method, a mindset-based approach that helps people lose weight by changing the way their brain relates to food, cravings, and self-control.

Rather than relying on rigid diets or willpower, David teaches clients how to rewire the subconscious patterns that drive overeating, emotional eating, and self-sabotage. The Brain Flip Method focuses on identity level change, helping people feel calm around food, trust their body again, and lose weight in a way that is sustainable and stress-free.

With a direct, practical teaching style, David is known for helping people break lifelong weight loss cycles by flipping the mental switch that makes healthy choices feel natural instead of forced.


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Is the discomfort you’re trying to fix actually the signal calling you back to your soul instead of another problem to solve?

Kyle Cease | I Fasted For 11 Days To Dissolve Trauma (Surrender Experiment)Josh Trent welcomes Ex-Comedian, Kyle Cease, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 791, to explore how fasting dissolves emotional hunger, why effort and ambition are often trauma driven, how the ego uses goals and problems to stay in control, why pain is a spiritual teacher, and how surrendering identity, outcomes, and the need to be someone can reconnect us to soul, presence, and God.



In This Episode, Kyle Cease Uncovers:

[01:25] Merge with Your Soul

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[08:50] The Paradox of Not Wanting to Be Like Your Parents

[16:05] Efforting VS Effortless

[22:55] You Are Not What You Do

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[30:25] Don't Attach to Your Goals

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[35:15] Allow Yourself to Feel

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[41:20] Can You Just Be?

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[45:00] From Comedy to Mindset Work

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[58:25] Pain Is Your Teacher

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[01:06:30] How to Move Closer to God

[01:15:45] The Ego Likes Problems

“I'm not fasting to get something. I'm fasting to know God. I literally spent the last 11 days just watching Kyle die left and right. I noticed that if I fast to get a result like weightloss or becoming healthy, then this fast is under my egoic control. But when I'm doing it for God, all kinds of miraculous things show up. ” — Kyle Cease

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Kyle Cease | I Fasted For 11 Days To Dissolve Trauma (Surrender Experiment)

Kyle Cease has a gift for merging comedy with personal transformation. As a comedian, Kyle had two #1 Comedy Central specials and was voted #1 on Comedy Central’s Stand-up Showdown.

After leaving his job as an award-winning comedian, Kyle dedicated his life to helping others and created Evolving Out Loud, which is a growing community with over 400 thousand members worldwide. Kyle has personally coached over fifteen thousand people.

Kyle has made over 100 TV and movie appearances, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Late Show, and his speaking events regularly fill large venues across the United States.

He has also spoken with renowned teachers like Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey, Michael Beckwith, Louis C.K., Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Louie Anderson, Dick Gregory, and David Wolfe; as well as being a guest speaker at thousands of colleges, summits, and Fortune 500 conferences.


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