Niklas Gustafson: Hungry for Change

Most people eat food without ever facing what it cost.
The land. The animal. The blood. The death. The responsibility.
In this episode, I sit down with Mansal Denton, founder of Sacred Hunting and Real Provisions, for a conversation about the part of nutrition modern life keeps hidden.
This is not just about hunting.
It is about what happens when food becomes too clean on the outside, toxic on the inside, too packaged, too distant from the reality that something had to die so we could live.
Mansal has spent years helping people reconnect with wild, ethically sourced, nutrient-dense food. And in this conversation, we talk about what hunting reveals, what supermarkets hide and why facing where your food comes from may change the way you see meat, health, and nature altogether.

Timestamps: 
00:00 Intro01:05 What does health actually mean?
01:43 Raised by two PhDs: Mansal's unusual upbringing
04:10 From prison at 19 to sacred hunter
08:20 Can you really respect an animal you kill?
12:44 What changes when your food comes from your own hands
15:41 Why our connection to food is completely broken
20:36 What watching an animal die reveals about you
25:10 The hypocrisy of eating meat but refusing to kill
28:22 How to truly honor a hunted animal
31:25 Nose to tail: wasting nothing
44:44 What spiritual connection to food really means
52:44 The Instagram lie about "ancestral" living
55:26 Can you connect to food you didn't hunt yourself?
56:19 Why ethical food doesn't exist
59:50 The lies behind today's food system
1:05:13 Mansel's upcoming projects (Real Provisions & Telos)

Don’t forget to follow @mansaldenton on his socials:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mansaldenton/
Real provisions: https://www.instagram.com/realprovisions/ 
Sacred Hunting: https://www.instagram.com/sacredhunting/
Website: https://realprovisions.com/

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Heart disease usually starts long before the chest pain.
That’s what Dr. Philip Ovadia learned after performing over 3,000 heart surgeries.
Most people arrive at the operating table thinking it was bad luck, bad genes, or something that came out of nowhere.
But the signs were there for years.
Today we get into what people miss, why “normal” tests can still leave you in danger, what cholesterol does and doesn’t tell you, and how to stay off a heart surgeon’s table in the first place.

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Book: https://www.amazon.com/Stay-off-Operating-Table-Metabolic/dp/1737818205/
Appearances: https://ifixhearts.com/podcasts-and-videos/

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What if one of the biggest mistakes in modern nutrition is that we focus on what to eat, but ignore what has to be done to food first?
 
Because for most of human history, people didn’t just find food. They transformed it. And that may be one of the missing pieces in the health conversation now.
 
In this episode, Dr. Bill Schindler breaks down how humans made food safer, more digestible, and more nutrient-dense, and why many modern debates completely miss that layer.
 
We get into ancestral diets, plant toxins, nose-to-tail eating and the question that makes this whole conversation hard to forget: are we overlooking the very thing that made food work for humans in the first place?

Want to join Bill's Ancestral Table (online community)?: https://modernstoneage.circle.so/feed

Interested in Bill's Traditional Food Ways study program? Check it out here: UCC Class: Food Heritage in Action: Turning Tradition into Sustainable Enterprise: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/food-heritage/
 
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You can eat well, train hard, take supplements, and still feel off if your body is out of sync with light, sleep, and time.
In this episode I sit down with Daniel White, a Registered Nutritionist focused on sleep science and circadian biology, and Jai Kapoor, an AI and tech executive who spent years battling autoimmune psoriasis before rebuilding his life around circadian rhythm and becoming psoriasis-free.
We break down what living “in rhythm” actually means, and why ignoring it quietly disrupts everything from energy to inflammation.
 
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Web page: https://www.inrhythm.earth/lifestyle
 
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I’m usually the one asking the questions. Today I’m the one on the spot.
Valentina takes over and asks me about the opinions I’m known for, the ones I’ve softened, and the ones I’ve doubled down on.
 
We go through the real timeline: what pushed me into animal-based, what didn’t work at first, what finally clicked, and what I think is quietly wrecking people’s health right now without them even noticing.
If you want the “why” behind everything, this is the episode.

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