The Made to Thrive Show
Optimising your mind, body and soul. Hosted by Steve Stavs, Africa's Pro Biohacker, Health Futurist, and founder of www.madetothrive.co.za.
Episodes
323 episodes
Metabolic Freedom: 30 Day Guide to Restore Your Metabolism, Heal Hormones and Burn Fat. Ben Azadi (REBROADCAST)
What does it mean to be free? That is one of life’s biggest questions, and has occupied the minds of philosophers for time immemorial. But what does it mean to be metabolically free? Hangry? Post-meal slumps? Type II diabetic? These...
The Creatine Masterclass: Why & How Men and Women Optimize Performance with this Miracle Compound. Dr Darren Candow PhD CSEP-CEP FISSN (Rebroadcast)
Despite being the most studied supplement of all time, creatine is making a big resurgence. That's why we decided to rebroadcast this highly informative episode, that is more relevant now, than when it was originally posted.<...
Toxic Fat: The Most Dangerous Sign for Heart Disease. Unpacking The Fat Crisis Around Your Heart and Organs. Dr Sean O’Mara MD JD (Rebroadcast)
This week we run a rebroadcast, back by popular demand, of our discussion with Dr Sean O’Mara, and what an incredible episode it was with an amazing health hero who gives a no nonsense, no prisoners-taken masterclass on visceral fat an...
Stillness Under Fire: How Daily Meditation Clears Allostatic Overload, Heals Corporate Burnout & Restores Presence Amid Panic, Anxiety & Overstimulation — with Tom Cronin, Founder of The Stillness Project
Panic. Stress. Overwhelm. Anxiety. Worry. It’s me, it’s you, it’s everyone. What are we going to do? Meditate. Be present. Yes, this ancient practice and philosophy is more relevant and necessary than ever before. Why? Because we are overstimul...
The Modern Mental Health Crisis Is an Environment Problem: Fix Your Nervous System, Boost HRV & Beat Overstimulation | Dr. David Rabin, MD, PhD
What if the mental health crisis isn’t simply a crisis of the mind—but a crisis of the environment we’ve created for the brain? In this fascinating conversation with Dr. Dave Rabin, one of my best podcasts ever, we explore why our nervous syste...
Stress Is Your Greatest Performance Tool: Master HRV, Vagus Tone & Beat Burnout | Matt Bennett
We’ve been taught that stress is the enemy! And I have been trying for years to break that dogma. Because stress is actually one of your greatest performance tools. And there is one data point that encapsulates stress - HRV. In this ep...
Nitric Oxide: The Master Molecule That Controls Blood Pressure, Clears Soft Arterial Plaque, Protects Your Brain & Lowers Diabetes + Alzheimer’s Risk | Nathan Bryan, PhD
What if one tiny molecule played the central role in your blood pressure, heart health, brain function, exercise performance, and even your risk of diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease? Dr Nathan Bryan believes that molecule is nitric oxide. And he...
Beyond the Operating Room: How AI, Regenerative Medicine & Smarter Protocols Are Changing Surgery with Dr. Robert Whitfield, MD
Surgery doesn’t end when you leave the operating theatre. And in fact, it begins long before you step into the hospital. Dr Rob Whitfield is a surgeon intent on doing things differently for his patients aka doing things better. From informed...
No Pro Athlete Shows Up Under-Slept or Overstimulated — So Why Do Business Leaders? How to Become an Executive Athlete and Stop Burning Out with Nicole Elizabeth Ward
No professional athlete in 2026 goes into a game under-slept, under-nourished and overstimulated. So why are business execs and entrepreneurs still doing that every single day? It’s because they don’t recognize they are actually executive at...
Light as Medicine: How Photobiomodulation & Photodynamic Therapy Could Transform Alzheimer’s, ADHD & Cancer – With Dr. Hans Michael Weber, MD & Robert Weber, M.Sc.
We are entering an extraordinary era in medicine where light itself is emerging as a therapeutic tool. Technologies such as transcranial photobiomodulation and photodynamic therapy are showing encouraging promise across a wide spectrum of co...
Genes Don’t Dictate Your Cancer Fate: Dr. Monisha Bhanote, MD, FCAP, ABOIM on the 90–95% Lifestyle Truth, ‘Gut Clock’ & Ancient Wisdom.
What if 90–95% of cancers weren’t written in your genes—but in your environment, lifestyle, and daily choices? My guest today Dr B challenges some of the biggest assumptions in modern medicine, drawing on decades of experience examining canc...
Your Home Is Silently Making You Sick — Mold, VOCs & Why No Supplement Can Fix It | Jean-Marc Masson, CMI®
Most people obsess over food, supplements and exercise — while spending 90% of their lives breathing the air inside potentially toxic buildings. That’s why I brought on a true expert in the field in Jean-Marc Masson. We unpack the hidden dan...
Stop Cancer Before It Starts: Healing Mind, Body, The Bioelectric Field & The Soul with Dr. Beth DuPree MD, The Holistic Cancer Surgeon.
Maybe medicine will end cancer. Maybe. But the medical institution has spent more than 50 years and tens of billions of dollars trying without meaningful success. We have to try a new paradigm. Which is what Dr Beth du Pree is doing. She cut...
Grow Your Brain Back: Game-Changing Plasmalogen Breakthroughs to Reverse Dementia, Restore Vision, Regrow Brain Tissue & Unlock Epic Peak Cognitive Performance with Pioneer Neuroscientist & Biochemist Dr. Dayan Goodenowe, PhD
Somewhere, someone in the world is pushing the frontiers of medicine. And today that someone is Dr. Dayan Goodenowe, the pioneer of plasmalogen medicine. His stories of clinical success deploying his very own patented plasmalogen molecules a...
Chasing 10Hz: Game-Changing Neurohacks to Unlock Epic Flow States, Brain Magic, Unstoppable Peak Performance & Mental Mastery with Sports Neuroscientist Dr. Izzy Justice
Our brain is a bioelectric organ. And the frequency of our thoughts and the extent of our stimulation is as serious as life and death. Living too often in 90 hz, that’s a life of addiction. But by using neurohacks and the data from brain EEG...
Why Peptides Are Revolutionizing Fat Loss, Hormones & Longevity with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer, MD
I continue to believe peptides offer hope in medicine like few things ever have. Because of the mechanism of action and lack of toxicity, these compounds have the ability to restore the body’s proper natural functioning rather than suppress ...
Heart Disease is the #1 Killer: Why Most Cardiologist Visits Feel Like a Time Machine – And the AI Breakthrough Detecting Deadly Soft Plaque (Not the Hard Plaque Your CAC Score Shows) with Dr. John Osborne, M.D., Ph.D.
Walking into a cardiologist appointment is more often than not walking into a time machine. Not only the discussions about disproven risks but unfortunately the outdated tools and technology that have little to no predictive or preventative ...
Building a Sharp Brain at 75: How AI-Powered Microhabits Are Beating the Attention & Dementia Crisis with Thoryn Stephens
Driving action from data. That’s what Thoryn believes is the secret to the success of brain.one, his evidence based, adaptive AI powered brain fitness platform. And a peptide one too. Again, AI is changing the game in real-time. The future i...
Swimming Against the Current from Day One: Saving Our Kids’ Brains & Nervous Systems in a Toxic World with Dr. Stephanie Rimka, BA, DC, BCN
Dr. Stephanie Rimka paints a bleak picture of why babies born into the modern, urban world are swimming against the current from day one. 350 chemicals in their bodies. Protein bars and pesticides. Microplastics. Digital dementia. All ...
Why 90% of Disease is Entirely Preventable: The Power of Florence AI with Guy Leitersdorf
There’s no doubt about it - AI is going to change the game of medicine, health and longevity. And Florence AI could be it. Working alongside your physician, for you the patient, Florence is the most curated, intentional health AI agent I hav...
The Super Body Blueprint: Reversing Muscle Loss, SIBO, and Brain Fog with Dr. William Davis, MD
From super gut to super body. One of my favorite guests, Dr William Davis, is back on the podcast to explain why our microbiome is inextricably linked to the body. We discuss probiotics, SIBO, the most game-changing microbes for brain health...
The Death of Modern Science, the Cult of Dogma, and Restoring Health Through the New Biology of Water with Dr. Tom Cowan, MD
Are we progressing in health and wellness? Or is so much of what we are looking for in the simplicity of the past and the design of nature? We live in a complex and messy and yes toxic world, so what do we do about it? Today I talk to Dr Tom...
From Fake Freedom to Full Flow: Unlock 10+ Hours/Week, Master Your MTP & Engineer the Life You Actually Want with Dr. Ann Tsung, MD
Are you living fake freedom? One of my biggest realizations with productivity expert Dr Ann Tsung was that - many of us are stuck in stage 3 of the time freedom cycle and treading water in fake time freedom. The question then is - how do we ...
Parkinson’s is Preventable: The Toxic Chemicals Causing 6 Million Cases, AI-Powered Prevention & How to End the Disease Forever with Dr. Ray Dorsey, MD/MBA
Parkinson’s is not a function of aging, it is not a genetic disease and it is a human caused disease that is entirely preventable. That’s what the research is showing and what Parkinson’s expert and advocate Dr Ray Dorsey is on a mission to ...
Superhuman Longevity Unlocked: AI, TRT, Biological Age Hacking & Peak Human Protocols with Dr. Sanjeev Goel, MD (The Happiness & Longevity MD)
Why settle for normal when we the target should be peak human health optimization, what I call superhuman? With the billions being put into the biotech industry, wearables, more access to all sorts of techniques, and now the unimaginable pow...