It’s been a very long time since Kyle Kingsbury, one of Paul’s very best friends, has appeared on the podcast, and there’s good reasons for that.

Kyle describes what life has been like since their 2021 conversation, including a move to a farm and learning how to live without fear this week on Spirit Gym.

Find out more about Kyle’s work on Gardeners of Eden and Fit for Service websites and on social media via Twitter and Instagram. Enjoy his Kyle Kingsbury podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Timestamps

2:47 Kyle’s life shifted as he started working on the farm and living away from Austin.

7:50 “My intention in 2020 — even prior to COVID — was to live without fear, but I hadn’t given fear its due respect.”

21:02 Find your secret passage to nature in your city.

32:31 You can grow more food than you assume on a quarter-acre.

44:19 Kyle’s favorite podcast guests.

52:13 Homeschooling.

1:00:33 Bioavailability versus the USDA.

1:09:24 Making eating sacred.

1:13:40 A light conversation.

Resources

Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Zack Bush, Charles Eisenstein, Dr. Nathan Riley, Jamie Wheal, Ben Greenfield, Robb Wolf, Fred Provenza and Matt Maruca

Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening by Sepp Holzer

Desert or Paradise by Sepp Holzer

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Need a quick refresher course on the principles Paul and CHEK Practitioners all over the world teach? Paul hits the blackboard to cover the Big 6 principles of healthy living this week on Spirit Gym.

Timestamps

1:51 The Big 6: Three yin (feminine) principles and three yang (masculine) principles.

12:03 One love.

17:36 Getting clear about your dream.

26:34 Thinking and manifestation.

28:33 The Grand Canyon test.

30:13 Four Doctors core values guide our life choices.

42:43 Clearly state your core values.

49:05 Fungal and parasite infections.

55:18 The four-day rotation diet.

1:00:19 Qualities of the soul.

1:03:50 Must-haves and must-not-haves.

1:09:46 Proper breathing.

1:16:46 Primal pattern movements.

1:24:34 Are you properly hydrated?

1:34:11 Seasonal changes for your health.

1:38:21 Five program design factors that help you succeed.

1:46:30 Simple ways to slow down the aging process.

1:55:46 Three choices.

Resources

The work of Stanley Krippner, Walter Russell and Charlie Francis

Paul’s Living 4D conversation with John Stewart Reid

Beating The Food Giants by Paul Stitt

A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives by Ruth Winter

The Safe Shoppers Bible by David Steinman and Samuel Epstein

Natural Detoxification: A Practical Encyclopedia by Jacqueline Krohn and Frances Taylor

Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams

Nutrition and Your Mind by George Watson

Food and Behavior: A Natural Connection by Barbara Stitt

The Life Stylist Podcast with Luke Storey

The 1-2-3-4 of Overcoming Addiction, Obesity and Disease

Find a Spring

Cymatics

Your Body’s Many Cries for Water by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

The 20th anniversary edition of How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy

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If you’ve been looking for safer options for pain relief, kratom — a Southeast Asian plant with at least 40 naturally occurring bioactive alkaloids — has probably popped up in your search results more than once.

But, how do can you know the differences in quality, potency and safety between naturally sourced kratom products?

Alexander Karp, chief scientific officer for ETHA Natural Botanics, describes his journey to find pain relief with kratom, the perils of an unregulated marketplace and why you should not mute the Pain Teacher this week on Spirit Gym.

In the Members section of this podcast, legendary skateboarder Danny Way joins the conversation to share his experiences with kratom as a more effective pain reliever than all the previous ones.

For Spirit Gym listeners: Save 15% on Element 115 kratom products developed by Alexander and Danny at Element 115 Botanicals or ETHA Natural Botanicals via the promo code PAUL15. (Special offers from Spirit Gym guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)

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Timestamps

5:10 Our lifestyles have evolved to be more processed and synthetic at the same time more natural treatment options have become demonized by the allopathic world.

14:09 “Kratom and all of the alkaloids are like a symphony orchestra.”

16:26 Are you muting the Pain Teacher?

29:37 How Alexander became aware of kratom.

34:50 “It was out of a personal need that I had severe pain, heard about kratom, tried it and it was a miracle.”

40:44 Different alkaloids, different effects in kratom.

48:22 The complications of an unregulated market.

1:02:07 Taking a low dose of anything doesn’t imply that it isn’t a powerful one.

1:17:23 “You don’t want pain to go away 100 percent.”

1:24:47 A review of the kratom-based products Alexander’s ETHA Natural Botanicals sells.

Resources

Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Eben Britton

The work of Dr. Royal Lee and Dr. Chris McCurdy

Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams

Mitragynine

Tongkat ali

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