Holistic Savage Podcast

About Holistic Savage Podcast

Functional Medicine, Fitness, and Wellness Podcast

Publisher

Metabolic Solutions

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jul 2019

Latest episode

11 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 67 episodes have a transcript.

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   11 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   66: How Stored Trauma Rewires Your Biology, The Three-Level Healing Framework + The Inflammation-Trauma Feedback Loop | Dr. Aimie Apigian

   Trauma expert Dr. Aimie Apigian discusses how stored trauma rewires biology and creates a three-level lock, psychological, somatic, and biological, keeping people stuck in chronic illness patterns in this interview.

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   15 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   65: Rethinking SIBO: Why Antibiotics Fail, The Hidden Fungal Factor + Testing That Actually Works | Angela Pifer

   Hey Functional Friends! This week I'm sitting down with Angela Pifer — SIBO expert and creator of the massive Cracking the SIBO Code Summit — for what might be the most comprehensive, paradigm-shifting conversation about SIBO you'll ever hear. Angela drops absolute bombs on the conventional treatment approach: why the standard "kill phase first" algorithm is causing recurrence, how 2/3 of SIBO cases also have fungal overgrowth that gets completely ignored, and why we need to flip the entire approach on its head. We dive deep into the vagus nerve connection, the shocking lack of validation behind popular tests (yes, we're calling out TRIO Smart and GI Map), and why antibiotics should be your last resort, not your first line. If you're a practitioner treating gut issues or dealing with recurrent SIBO yourself, this conversation will fundamentally change your approach. Angela Pifer is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist with over 20 years of clinical experience. Known as the “SIBO Guru”, she is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts in gut health, specializing in digestive disorders, chronic gut conditions, detoxification and SIBO. Angela holds a master’s degree in nutrition science from Bastyr University and a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Washington. She is certified in Functional Medicine and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for Physician’s Choice, makers of the #1 probiotic in the U.S. She is the creator and host of the Cracking the SIBO Code Summit, bringing together 50 top experts in functional and integrative medicine to explore the root causes of chronic gut dysfunction and inflammation. Angela is also the founder of Functional Medicine Shop, a direct-to-consumer platform offering clinically relevant lab testing for SIBO and root cause investigation and professional-grade supplements. Find Angela here: https://www.instagram.com/sibo.guru https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelapifer https://www.youtube.com/@SIBOGuru Sign up for Cracking the SIBO Code Summit HERE: https://crackingthesibocode.com/registration?am_id=brendandean1554 00:01:55 – Angela's origin story: from psychology PhD track to becoming the SIBO guru 00:04:27 – Why SIBO "reared its head" 15-20 years ago and hasn't let up since 00:07:04 – The rise of IBS/SIBO: it's not just processed food (though that doesn't help) 00:10:29 – THE VAGUS NERVE CONNECTION: every single SIBO factor ties back to vagal dysregulation 00:14:30 – Busting the myth: "70% of IBS is SIBO" comes from a flawed study with too much lactulose 00:19:30 – TOP-DOWN vs bottom-up: it's proteobacteria swallowing, not colonic migration 00:22:39 – The Re-Imagined Studies: proteobacteria is pushing down firmicutes and destroying diversity 00:31:43 – Mold > SIBO: treat the mold first, watch the SIBO symptoms disappear 00:32:29 – HIERARCHY OF NEEDS: parasites and mold come BEFORE treating SIBO 00:35:36 – SIFO bombshell: 2/3 of classic SIBO cases had fungal overgrowth in aspirate studies 00:38:56 – The common pattern: antibiotics for something else → develop SIBO → more antibiotics → worse 00:59:03 – The cautionary tale: 4 quarterly GI Maps, same person, completely different results each time 01:00:56 – Dr. Jason Hawrelak's reveal: 3 different stool tests from HIM, picture of health, wildly different protocols 01:07:52 – The Dr. Amen debate: do we need RCTs for every functional test, or is compliance the real outcome? 01:17:22 – Cracking the SIBO Code Summit: 50 experts, brain-to-bowel approach, BRAND NEW treatment announced Check Out Brendan: Brendan’s Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@the_holistic_savage⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.metabolicsolutionsllc.com/ ⁠ - - - Send in a voice message:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holisticsavagepodcast/message

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   9 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   64: The Hidden Epidemic: Why Mold Makes You Sick, How Inspectors Miss It + The Functional Approach | Brian Karr

   Hey Functional Friends! This week I'm sitting down with Brian Karr — co-founder of We Inspect — for a mind-blowing conversation about why conventional mold inspection is fundamentally broken. Brian shares his personal story of living in a "toxic box" that destroyed his health, and drops some serious truth bombs: most mold inspectors miss 78% of problems, dry mold can be MORE dangerous than actively growing mold, and your home environment might be the missing piece in your healing journey. We dive into why this issue keeps getting swept under the rug, how We Inspect is pioneering the "functional medicine approach" for homes, and the game-changing research they're doing with IRB-certified data. If you're dealing with chronic illness or work with complex patients, this conversation will change how you think about environmental health. 00:07:22 – Why We Inspect is like "functional medicine doctors for the house" 00:11:04 – Brian's origin story: sleeping in a toxic box and the inspector who saved his life 00:22:49 – The cigarette parallel: why mold awareness is 20 years behind the science 00:31:36 – The flower analogy: why DRY mold is more dangerous than wet mold (mind = blown) 00:35:02 – Air is the only thing that attacks THREE body systems at once 00:48:53 – The 78% false negative rate that's destroying lives (and why air samples don't work) 01:00:21 – "We are effectively functional medicine for the house" – the prioritization model explained 01:01:01 – BREAKING: IRB-certified research connecting home data to clinical outcomes 01:05:14 – How to connect mycotoxin testing to what's actually in your house 01:17:20 – Why the government won't touch this Download your FREE Mold Guide: https://go.metabolicsolutionsllc.com/freemoldguide?r_done=1 Check out WeInspect on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/moldfinders (http://instagram.com/moldfinders) Schedule a FREE CALL with the WeInspect team here: https://yesweinspect.com/call/?wi_plf=podcast&wi_mch=guest&wi_cmp_typ=The%20holistic%20savage (http://www.yesweinspect.com/call) Check out Brian and WeInspect: https://yesweinspect.com/ Check Out Brendan: Brendan’s Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@the_holistic_savage⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.metabolicsolutionsllc.com/ ⁠ - - - Send in a voice message:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holisticsavagepodcast/message

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66: How Stored Trauma Rewires Your Biology, The Three-Level Healing Framework + The Inflammation-Trauma Feedback Loop | Dr. Aimie Apigian

Published 11 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's it. You take those elements, you put them all together and you have a trauma response. And in that context, it's actually not little T, big T, a little trauma, a lot trauma. It's, did your body have this response or did it not? If it did not, we're not going to call it a trauma response. It would have been a stress response. It would have activated that stress survival response, but not the trauma survival response. And those are two very different physiological states. Recognizing that, we can then work with the trauma response and how it encodes memory, both in the body and in the mind, to then be able to work with the story later and record it as a memory of the past. […]

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