The Chase Merrill Podcast

Archaeologist: The Superfoods Quietly Poisoning You - Bill Schindler - #72

Bill Schindler is an archaeologist, anthropologist, chef, and author. What did our ancestors actually know about food that we've forgotten? For millions of years, nearly every tool humans invented was built to make food safer and more nourishing, yet today we're surrounded by more food than ever and sicker for it. So what went wrong, and what would it take to eat like a human again? Expect to learn why almost every prehistoric technology was built around food, why the diet that healed you isn't the diet you should stay on forever, the only three foods on earth actually meant to be eaten, why the "superfoods" you've been told to eat are loaded with oxalates, how processed corn quietly killed hundreds of thousands of people, why humans have one of the weakest digestive tracts of any animal, and much more… - 0:00 From Mountain Men To Two-Million-Year-Old Tools 1:31 Every Ancient Technology Was About Food 4:39 The Shower Moment That Changed His Health 14:08 Absence Of Proof Is Not Proof Of Absence 16:49 How Peer Review Suppresses New Ideas 22:15 The Deer Study They Wouldn't Publish 27:00 The Diet That Healed You Isn't Forever 36:03 What "Processing" Actually Means 46:07 Why Every Plant Is Toxic 50:59 How Corn Killed Millions 1:02:21 Oxalates: The Glass Shards In Superfoods 1:06:47 Why You Should Eat Seasonally 1:19:20 The Truth About Fiber 1:24:54 Why Raw Food Diets Are Dangerous 1:32:38 Closing Questions & Book Recs - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Bill's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/drbillschindler/] Bill's website: HERE [https://modernstoneage.com/]

How To Become Addicted To Trusting Yourself - Cru Mahoney - #71

What does it actually take to stay disciplined for years without burning out? Most high performers learn to achieve through force — pushing harder, doing more, shaming themselves into action — until that approach quietly stops working. So what replaces willpower once it fails, and how do you build the kind of self-trust that makes hard things automatic? Expect to learn why the relationship you have with yourself is the root system for everything in your life, why force eventually stops working for every high performer, how fear and scarcity quietly sabotage the things you want most, why self-trust is really just data you collect on yourself, how to scale a daily promise small enough that you can keep it on your worst day, what running every single day for nearly 8 years actually teaches you about discipline and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Cru's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/crumahoney/] Cru's website: HERE [https://www.crumahoney.com/] Cru's podcast: HERE [https://open.spotify.com/show/1nmsenCgbOrYwb3LSNtdCz?si=e1a37155f619405c] - 0:00 The Self-Relationship Is The Root System 2:26 Why Force Stops Working 4:15 Fear, Scarcity, And "I Don't Need This" 11:14 Staying Abundant When You're Scared About Rent 15:47 "If I'm Expecting To Lose, I'm Asking To Lose" 21:00 Peak Awareness In Peak Resistance 23:19 The Run Streak And The Choice To Be Present 28:11 Attitude Versus Just Doing The Hard Thing 33:29 Joy Is A Competitive Advantage In Suffering 38:17 Do You Want It, Or Want To Want It? 40:06 Self-Trust Is Just Stacked Data 42:11 One Mile, Not Five 47:37 How He Synthesizes His Ideas 58:47 Creativity Is Ownership 1:04:42 Closing Questions: Guests And Books

EQ Predicts Life Success Better Than IQ - Genny Rumancik - #70

Genny Rumancik is an emotional intelligence educator, author, and founder of The EQ School. What does it actually take to change? We're taught that discipline, willpower, and pushing harder are the levers of growth — yet most people find themselves cycling through the same patterns no matter how hard they try. So what's actually driving those patterns beneath the surface, and how do you break them without burning yourself down in the process? Expect to learn what the four pillars of emotional intelligence are and why self-awareness underpins all of them, why procrastination is not a character flaw but a nervous system protection strategy, how to locate your sense of self internally rather than through external validation, what the emotional contracts you signed in childhood are doing to your adult behavior, why sustainable change only comes through compassion rather than shame, what Internal Family Systems therapy reveals about the parts of you that quietly sabotage your own goals, and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Genny's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/theeqschool/] Genny's website: HERE [https://theeqschool.co/] Genny's book: HERE [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767885/the-wisdom-of-feeling-by-genny-rumancik/] - 0:00 The Four Pillars of Emotional Intelligence 2:28 Procrastination Is Not a Character Flaw 6:03 Waking Up in Productivity Debt 11:05 Anchoring Your Identity Inside, Not Outside 15:54 Emotional Self-Management in Practice 18:42 People Pleasing and Setting Boundaries 20:16 Social Awareness and Relationship Management 25:32 Why EQ Predicts Success More Than IQ 30:12 Emotional Inheritance and Generational Patterns 35:59 Why Men Struggle With Emotional Processing 38:23 How Genny Got Into This Work 43:31 The Wisdom of Feeling — The Book 48:22 Internal Family Systems and Parts Work 56:31 The War of Art and Resistance

Everything You Think You Know About Vikings Is Wrong — Martyn Whittock - #69

Martyn Whittock is a historian, author, and former educator with over 35 years of teaching medieval history, and the author of American Vikings and Vikings in the East. What was a Viking? Not a people, a nation, or a religion — but a job description. The Norse exploded out of Scandinavia for three centuries, raiding from Lindisfarne to Baghdad, yet within two generations almost everywhere they landed, they became the locals. So what actually triggered the Viking Age, why did the most feared warriors in history convert to Christianity so fast, and what did a Danish conquest in 1016 have to do with the Norman invasion of 1066? Expect to learn why "Viking" described what you did rather than who you were, what an 8th-century Islamic silver famine had to do with the sack of Lindisfarne, why everything we think we know about Norse religion was written by a 13th-century Christian, why the Blood Eagle almost certainly never happened, how the Great Heathen Army stopped going home and changed England forever, why 1016 matters more than 1066, and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://nordicwave.pxf.io/WOG6E3] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Martyn's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/martynwhittock/] - 0:00 What Is a Viking, Actually? 4:23 What Triggered the Viking Age 9:39 Why Silver Ruled the Viking World 11:41 Lindisfarne: The 9/11 of the Viking Age 21:27 The Longship Advantage 28:28 Valhalla and the Will to Fight 31:04 Everything We Know About Norse Religion Is Wrong 37:28 Why Vikings Converted in One Generation 43:51 The Blood Eagle and the Berserkers 50:06 The Great Heathen Army 1:02:06 120 Longships on Paris 1:05:40 Ragnar Lothbrok: Real or Legend? 1:10:58 Cnut: The Invasion Everyone Forgot 1:32:21 Vikings in America 1:37:10 Closing Questions

Your Microbiome Is Going Extinct, Generation By Generation - Kiran Krishnan - #68

What's actually happening inside your gut? Modern diets, over-sterilized environments, and decades of bad supplement advice have quietly dismantled the microbiome that runs almost every system in your body — from your immune system to your brain. So what does a genuinely healthy microbiome look like, and what does it actually take to rebuild one? Expect to learn why 80% of gut-brain communication travels from gut to brain rather than the other way, how 40 grams of daily fiber cuts all-cause mortality by 40% (and why that would be a trillion-dollar pill if you could patent it), why the "kill the bad bacteria first" strategy has always been wrong, what leaky gut and LPS actually are and why one paper named them the number one driver of mortality and morbidity worldwide, why 98% of probiotics on store shelves are dead before they reach your intestines, and how our microbiome diversity has collapsed from 800–900 species in our ancestors to an average of 120 today and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://nordicwave.pxf.io/WOG6E3] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Kiran's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/kiranbiome/] - 0:00 The Other Brain: Why The Gut Runs Your Body 6:03 What Is "Gut Health"? Defining the Microbiome Spectrum 9:13 It's Daily Choices, Not Miracle Supplements 13:48 Reading The Signs: What Your Body Is Telling You 19:32 Your Gut Controls Your Immune System (Treg Cells and the Nobel Prize) 21:04 How To Build Gut Diversity With Food and Fiber 24:23 The Diet War: Why Picking A Camp Makes You Untrustworthy 32:44 Meal Hygiene: How You Eat Matters As Much As What You Eat 41:49 Why "Kill The Bad Bacteria" Is The Worst Gut Health Advice 47:35 Probiotics vs Prebiotics vs Postbiotics: What You Actually Need 54:29 Leaky Gut, LPS, and The #1 Driver of Chronic Disease 1:00:30 The Mass Extinction Of The Western Microbiome 1:08:24 High Protein, Rotten Farts, and Fasting: The Complete Picture 1:15:47 Closing Questions