443: Dr. Alejandro Junger on How to Control Your Thoughts & End Your Suffering
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/dralejandrojunger443
Dr. Alejandro Junger (IG: @dralejandrojunger) is an LA-based cardiologist, founder and medical director of the Clean Program and bestselling author of Clean and Clean 7.
He is an expert in gut health & nutrition and incorporates functional medicine with Ayurveda.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Traveling nourishes you in a different kind of way
- Global warming is a symptom of toxicity
- How the detoxification system in the body works
- Eating food-like products leaves you with nutritional deficiencies
- Everybody’s diet is different
- Why Alejandro chose to stop taking medications and look for different solutions
- How thoughts trigger your unconscious mind
- Redirecting your attention to the present
- Using plant medicine as a tool for healing
- Alejandro’s experience with holotropic breathing
- The state of enlightenment
- Chemical toxins we’re exposed to daily
- Drink clean water to help eliminate toxins
- How toxins are linked to the obesity epidemic
- The 5 big groups that hinder detoxification
- Regular coffee is loaded with toxic chemicals
- Enjoying tulsi (holy basil)... the sacred herb
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Related links:
Dr. Alejandro Junger - Clean 7 (book)
Dr. Alejandro Junger's website (Clean Program)
Follow Dr. Alejandro Junger on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Alejandro Junger - Clean (book)
Dr. Alejandro Junger - Clean Eats (book)
Dr. Alejandro Junger - Clean Gut (book)
Listen Dr. Alejandro Junger previously on TUHP (episode #361)
Stanislav Grof - Holotropic Breathwork (book)
Pyotr Ouspensky - In Search of the Miraculous (book)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | When emotions come up, it's the hardest to, you know, |
| 0:07.0 | not to identify with thoughts. |
| 0:08.4 | And it happens to me a lot, but compared to what I was |
| 0:12.9 | describing to you before, you know, I've come a long way. |
| 0:18.8 | I understand now that these are not thoughts |
| 0:24.4 | that I am willingly fabricating. |
| 0:29.2 | I understand also that I can redirect my attention |
| 0:35.5 | into the present. |
| 0:37.7 | And when I do that, the pool of those automatic negative |
| 0:42.9 | thoughts is much less, right? |
| 0:46.7 | Because I'm redirecting willingly my attention somewhere else. |
| 0:51.4 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast Episode 443. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm Jesse Capis, and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 1:04.8 | Each week I'll bring you deep conversations with health |
| 1:07.3 | and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 1:09.5 | This week, Dr. Alejandro Younger is back on the show. |
| 1:12.5 | He's an LA-based cardiologist, founder and medical director |
| 1:15.7 | of the Clean Program, and best-selling author of Clean and Clean 7. |
| 1:20.0 | He's an expert in gut health and nutrition |
| 1:22.0 | and incorporates functional medicine with Ayurveda. |
| 1:25.1 | I was really excited to have Alejandro back on the show a second time, |
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