E138 - 15 “Normal” Habits You Do Every Day Destroying Your Body, Brain, & Testosterone

E138 - 15 “Normal” Habits You Do Every Day Destroying Your Body, Brain, & Testosterone

From First Things THRST by Mike Thurston

April 19, 2026 · 1h 52m · Episode 138

About this episode

Paul Saladino discusses the impact of diet on health and the benefits of an animal-based diet.

» Produced by Hack You Media: pioneering a new category of content at the intersection of health performance, entrepreneurship & cognitive optimisation. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hackyoumedia/ Website: https://hackyou.media/ Paul Saladino left medicine to focus on nutrition and moved to Costa Rica for the surf, and this conversation reveals why he avoids wearables and EMF exposure, how simplifying diet to meat and fruit fixes most chronic conditions, and why organ meats contain forgotten nutritional wisdom. This covers why carnivore works short-term, but he recommends adding fruit, how elimination diets beat expensive food sensitivity tests, and why eating specific organs like testicle or spleen follows evolutionary logic that modern science is only beginning to understand through peptides and microRNAs. 00:00 Introduction & Costa Rica lifestyle 06:19 Designing a unique home: innovations and choices 11:08 Air quality and EMF exposure: health implications 17:18 Concerns about wireless devices affecting health 24:20 Sleep's role in health and minimising EMF exposure 30:32 Diet quality over calorie counting for weight loss 36:39 Simplifying food choices for…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Thurston

Guest: Paul Saladino

Topics covered

  • nutrition
  • health
  • cognitive optimisation
  • diet
  • entrepreneurship
  • chronic conditions

Keywords

  • testosterone
  • organ meats
  • carnivore diet
  • EMF exposure
  • elimination diets
  • health supplements

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hack You Media

Places: Costa Rica

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