You’re the Cure w/ Dr. Ben Edwards

Amy Bernhard has been listening to this podcast for four years. It gave her the courage to start asking questions. Those questions led her to Instagram, then to a book, and now to this conversation. Her book is called Unmasked, and it covers more ground than most health books dare to touch. It starts when she was 12 years old and her brother came home from college addicted to OxyContin. It ends with her second daughter turning four years old, never vaccinated, never on antibiotics, and rarely sick. In between, Amy walks through the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma’s deliberate lie that OxyContin was not addictive, the FDA conflict of interest that stamped it approved, the marketing machine that pushed it into every family practice office in the country, and what it did to small towns across America. Seven of eleven boys on her brother’s little league team are dead from overdose. Her brother spent 17 years in active addiction and is now nine years sober, running eight sober living homes with an 80% success rate. She also goes deep on six years on SSRIs, what it felt like to be emotionally numb during her own wedding dress fitting, and what nobody told her about getting off them. Her journey into somatic healing, letting Jesus meet her in the wounds from childhood, and discovering that trauma lives in the body not just the mind is one of the most honest accounts of real healing you’ll hear. And then there’s her daughters. The first followed the full CDC schedule and was in the emergency room three times before 15 months old, with eight ear infections, eczema, a speech delay, tonsils out, adenoids removed, and two sets of tubes before age four. The second has never been vaccinated and has had two ear infections in almost four years, both treated with garlic ear oil. Amy is not anti-medicine. She’s pro-truth. And this book is a tool for anyone who is starting to ask the same questions she did. https://www.amybernhard.com/

Can we vote our way out of the mess we’re in? Mollie Engelhart of Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas doesn’t think so. Neither does Thomas Massie, who told the crowd at the Weston A. Price Wise Traditions conference that your votes aren’t being stolen at the ballot box. They’re being stolen on the first day of Congress. Mollie and Dr. Ben sit down fresh off that conference to talk about what’s actually happening, what’s being done about it, and why the real revolution looks a lot more like buying a half a cow from your neighbor and trading peaches for raw milk than anything happening in Washington. They also go deep on an article Mollie published that almost nobody in mainstream media would touch. At a conference in North Dakota, a cattle industry insider showed her a research poster she couldn’t believe was real. 19% of steers and over 50% of heifers in conventional beef production are lactating at the time of harvest. She went down the rabbit hole. She reached out to the researchers. She published the findings. And then the silence was deafening from every major outlet on both sides. The episode covers the estrogen and hormone implants used throughout conventional cattle production, why the researchers say it’s actually obesity causing the lactation, why Mollie isn’t convinced without a control group, and what all of this excess estrogen exposure means for human health downstream. Then they pivot to what Sovereignty Ranch is actually doing. No antibiotics. No vaccines. Holistic planned grazing. Cows eating a diverse range of plants from land that gets healthier every year. And a restaurant where people walk in and feel the presence of God before they even order. This one is wide ranging, honest, and worth your time.

What if the verse everyone uses to make you feel guilty actually means something completely different? Romans 3:23 says all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory. But Abraham John points out that the Greek word for sin, hamartia, doesn’t mean “you did something bad.” It means you missed the mark. You missed your purpose. You took a wrong turn on the way to the destination God intended for you. That changes everything. Dr. Ben Edwards and Abraham John go deep on what salvation was actually for, why Jesus never once asked someone if they wanted to go to heaven when they die, and why the gospel so many of us grew up with was only part of the story. Abraham shares what he’s been witnessing traveling to nations across Africa, where governments, religious systems, and education have all failed to answer the most basic human question: who am I, and why am I here? The answer isn’t in a political movement, a denomination, or a self-improvement plan. The answer is in the kingdom. And the kingdom, Jesus said, is within you. They also talk about the prodigal son and why you don’t have to clean yourself up before you come home, the difference between an orphan mindset and a son mindset, and what it actually looks like to walk in your true identity right now, in your everyday life. Dr. Ben and Abraham John will be speaking together in person at the Kingdom Wellness Conference this April in Indiana. If this conversation is stirring something in you, come be in the room. Get your tickets and find all the details at kingdomwellnessevents.info The tree of life is being restored. The leaves of that tree are for the healing of the nations. And healing starts with knowing who you are.

We are more toxic than any generation before us. 287 chemicals found in the umbilical cord blood of newborns. Microplastics in the brain. Heavy metals in arterial plaque. Glyphosate, mycotoxins, petrochemicals. The body was designed to handle toxicity, but not at this level. Jeff Hoyt has spent years in the trenches of functional medicine, biohacking, and detoxification, and what he discovered changed everything he thought he knew about helping people heal. The answer wasn’t more technology. It wasn’t more chelation. It was a naturally occurring mineral called zeolite that works with the body instead of against it. In this conversation, Jeff and Dr. Ben cover why so many people get stuck even when they’re doing everything right, how toxic elements get locked in tissue and why the body refuses to let them go, what detox reactions are actually telling you, the difference between binding agents and chelators and why it matters, and the specific protocol Jeff recommends for ZeoCharge based on years of case study data. If you’ve been an A or B student on your health journey and still feel like something’s holding you back, this one might be the missing piece. Find ZeoCharge at ZeoliteLabs.com.

The most nutrient dense foods on the planet aren’t new. They’re not in a lab or a supplement bottle. They’re the parts of the animal your grandparents ate and your generation threw away. Chef James Barry spent over 20 years cooking for Tom Cruise, George Clooney, and some of Hollywood’s biggest names before realizing he was meant to feed the other 99%. That calling led him to create Pluck, an organ meat seasoning that makes it easy to get beef liver, heart, kidney, spleen, and pancreas into your daily meals without even thinking about it. In this episode, James and Dr. Ben break down why organ meats are nature’s true multivitamin, how the modern food system turned us into isolate chasers, the difference between eating whole food nutrition and chasing the magic pill, and practical tips for getting back in the kitchen without the overwhelm. Everything your body needs to thrive is already in the design. We just stopped trusting it. Find Pluck at eatpluck.com and locally at The Merc in Downtown Lubbock.