Light As Medicine, Metabolic Typing, COVID Controversies, Polar Bear Fitness, Healing Yourself With Laughter & More With Life Network Expert Dr. Leland Stillman
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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From the science behind sunlight, circadian lighting, and EMFs to practical tips on breathwork, cold exposure, and personalized nutrition, this wide-ranging conversation is packed with actionable insights. You'll learn why optimizing your external environment—light, air, water, and even mindset—is just as vital as what you eat, plus discover how environmental factors can impact everything from immune health to sleep quality. Whether you're a health enthusiast or just curious about leveling up your wellbeing, this episode delivers a blend of cutting-edge science and real-world strategies that will inspire you to rethink your daily routine.
Dr. Leland Stillman is one interesting doctor and a man after my own heart - meaning he's interested in everything from how polar bears use cold thermogenesis and hibernation to enhance longevity to how your environment drastically shapes your health no matter how hard you exercise or how perfectly you eat.
He became interested in natural and integrative medicine at an early age. After majoring in environmental health at Connecticut College and earning his medical doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Dr. Stillman completed his training in internal medicine at Maine Medical Center. Board-certified in internal medicine and specializing in integrative medicine, he has a passion for doing whatever it takes to discover the root cause of his patients' medical problems through advanced laboratory testing and then addressing those imbalances with dietary or lifestyle interventions. Dr. Stillman focuses not only on the patient but on all aspects of the environment they live in. Some of Dr. Stillman's professional interests include phototherapy (photobiomodulation), nutrition, toxicology, and the immune system.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's podcast replay features Life Network expert Dr. Leland Stillman as we dive deep into light, air, water, EMFs, and why your environment and nutrition matter. |
| 0:09.6 | More than you think. From cold thermogenesis and circadian lighting to breathwork and nutrition, |
| 0:14.1 | there's a big, wide-ranging practical discussion for anyone serious about their long-term health. |
| 0:18.7 | Full show notes are at Ben GreenfieldLife.com slash slash L-N-L-N-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-D. |
| 0:26.9 | For more about all of our Life Network experts, |
| 0:29.7 | you can also visit joinLifenetwork.com. |
| 0:32.7 | Let's jump in. |
| 0:37.2 | Leland, that's an interesting name. |
| 0:38.7 | What's the background of that name, by the way? |
| 0:40.3 | Funny you should ask. |
| 0:41.7 | A trokey is this thing. |
| 0:44.7 | How do I describe this? |
| 0:45.8 | You put it right in your mouth where you'd normally put two or like a nicotine pouch or whatever. |
| 0:51.7 | That's called a buckle trokey, a buckle troche. It kind of gets absorbed to |
| 0:55.2 | your cheek mucosa. Now, I'm not talking about nicotine or tobacco right now. What I'm talking about |
| 1:01.3 | is this company called Trescriptions. They make science-back pharmaceutical grade physician-designed |
| 1:06.3 | trokeys. Disolvable lozons that you put between your upper cheek and your gum, and these |
| 1:11.5 | ingredients get infused in that very vascular area, very close to your brain into your body. This totally |
| 1:18.6 | bypasses the digestive system. So you get really good onset and higher bioavailability compared to |
| 1:24.1 | just like swallowing a capsule, which could take like two hours to take effect. And they have crazy pharmaceutical grade quality trokeys. |
| 1:30.3 | They've got like methylene blue, cortisepin from cortiseps mushroom, |
| 1:35.2 | agarin from the fly agaric mushroom, B3 GABA for relaxation, and a lot more. |
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