The Health Hunt: Real Healing Journeys, Everyday Wellness & Expert Tips
🎙️ Real Healing Journeys, Everyday Wellness & Expert Tips.
Health is messy. One minute you’re blending kale smoothies, the next you’re having a 2am heart-to-heart with ChatGPT about your weird symptoms, convinced you might be dying. We get it, because we’ve been there too.
Welcome to The Health Hunt Podcast: a human, humble, and unapologetically real look at what it takes to actually feel better.
Your hosts, Sandi (professional health overthinker, recovering supplement hoarder, and proud tryer of anything weird in the pursuit of wellness) and Dan (deep in the biomarker rabbit hole, turning curiosity and mild obsession into real health insights), share their own health journeys: the highs, the lows, and the “did I really try that?” moments.
Along the way, you’ll hear honest stories, expert insights, and practical tools covering everything from functional medicine, nutrition, and supplementation to mind-body healing, chronic symptoms, unconventional wellness hacks, and holistic health practices.
Sometimes serious, often funny, always real, this is a space where you’ll feel less alone and more empowered to navigate your own health journey.
Because let’s be honest: nobody has health all figured out. But together, we can explore what actually works, and laugh about what doesn’t.
Episodes
41 episodes
Ep 40 - Sleep Apnea Without CPAP? How Sleep Mouthguards Actually Work | Sleep Dentist Dr. Martine Forrester Cadette
What if treating sleep apnea didn't always mean sleeping with a CPAP machine? Oral appliance therapy sometimes dismissed as simply a "snoring mouth guard" has evolved into a sophisticated treatment option for obstructive sleep apnea. But how do...
Ep 39 - Overwhelmed by ACDF Spinal Surgery? The Top FAQs About Preparation & Recovery, Answered!
If you're preparing for ACDF surgery, what do you actually need to know before surgery and what should you expect during recovery?After sharing his personal ACDF journey in Episodes 37 and 38 of The Health Hunt, Dan is answering the prac...
Ep 38 - Dan's ACDF Surgery & Recovery: What No One Tells You About the First 3 Weeks
Dan made the decision to have ACDF neck surgery. Now comes the part you don’t see on an MRI: What is ACDF surgery and recovery actually like?In Part 2 of Dan’s cervical spine surgery journey, we pick up with the whirlwind of pre-o...
Ep 37 - Three Neurosurgeons. Three Opinions. Why Dan Chose ACDF Spine Surgery
What do you do when three highly respected neurosurgeons give you different opinions?In this deeply personal episode of The Health Hunt, Dan shares the story behind one of the biggest health decisions of his life, undergoing AC...
Ep 36 - Can Sleep Apnea Improve? Dan's 7-Year Journey from Moderate to Mild
Can sleep apnea actually improve?Most people assume that once they're diagnosed with sleep apnea, they'll need treatment forever. But what if the story isn't that simple?In this episode, Dan shares something incredibly personal: t...
Ep 35 - The Sleep Doctor Answers Your Biggest Sleep Questions: Sleep Apnea, Dreams, Relationships & More | Dr. Michael Breus
What do sleep trackers, naps, CPAP machines, sleep apnea, and even your dreams have in common?They're all part of the final installment of our three-part conversation with Dr. Michael Breus, better known as The Sleep Doctor.
Ep 34 - Can't Stay Asleep? The Sleep Doctor's 3 A.M. Wake-Up Protocol + 5 Sleep Habits That Can Transform Your Sleep | Dr. Michael Breus
Do you ever find yourself wide awake at 3 a.m., staring at the ceiling while your brain decides it's the perfect time to replay every awkward conversation you've ever had or solve problems that don't even exist yet? You're not alone. In ...
Ep 33 - The Sleep Doctor, Dr. Michael Breus: Why You're Tired, Stressed, and Sleeping at the Wrong Time
Sleep is one of the most important and misunderstood pillars of health. We've spent a lot of time discussing sleep on The Health Hunt, including an entire three-part sleep series, but for this conversation we decided to bring in one of t...
Ep 32 - The Missing Nutrient? Michelle Fletcher on Fiber, Gut Health, Blood Sugar and Better Health
If you're eating more protein, tracking your glucose, taking supplements, and trying to make healthier choice, but still overlooking fiber, you may be missing one of the most important pieces of the health puzzle. In part two of our conv...
Ep 31 - French Fries, Oversized Smoothies & Why Increasing Plant-Based Eating Might Change the Game | Michelle Fletcher
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed trying to figure out the “right” way to eat, this episode is for you. In part one of our conversation with Michelle Fletcher, founder of the Holistic Business Network and longtime wellness educator, we div...
Ep 30 - Can Energy Change How We Age? Ashley Grace on Longevity, Consciousness & the Future of Health
If you’ve ever wondered whether brain fog, low energy, chronic stress, inflammation, emotional reactivity, and accelerated aging are all connected, this episode will completely challenge the way you think about health and human performan...
Ep 29 - Why Are We So Tired? Ashley Grace on Aging, Energy & Brain Fog
If you’ve ever wondered whether aging, brain fog, low energy, inflammation, and burnout are really just “normal” or if there’s something deeper happening underneath the surface, this episode will completely challenge the way you think ab...
Ep 28 - Full Body MRI: A Prenuvo Executive Explains the Data
If you’ve ever wondered whether a full body MRI can actually detect cancer early, or just leave you more anxious than informed,this episode breaks down what these scans really show, what they miss, and how to make sense of the results without s...
Ep 27 - Colonoscopy: What You Really Need to Know (The Real Experience, Prep & Colon Cancer Prevention)
Colonoscopy & Colon Health: What it’s really like, how to prepare, and why a test can prevent colon cancerColonoscopies, colon cancer, and gut health, this might not be the sexiest topic, but it could be one of the most import...
Ep 26 - Are You Overcomplicating Your Diet? The Truth About Gut Health, Protein & Real Food | Dr. Jerry Hu
Simple, no-BS advice on gut health, protein, metabolism, and what actually works.If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by conflicting health advice, eat less, move more, take this supplement, avoid that food, this episode might be the r...
Ep 25 - Gut Health, Weight Gain & The Microbiome: Why “Healthy Eating” Might Be Working Against You | Dr. Jerry Hu
If you’ve been working out, trying to eat “healthy,” and still not feeling better, this episode may change how you think about food entirely. In part one of our conversation with primary care physician Dr. Jerry Hu, we explore gut health, the m...
Ep 24 - When Pain Moves: The Mind-Body Clue Most People (and Doctors) Miss
What if your pain didn’t follow logic, because it’s not just coming from your body? In this episode, we share a real-time mind-body experience where chronic symptoms suddenly shifted, neck pain disappeared, back pain appeared, and the brain sci...
Ep 23 - Stuck in Your Symptoms? Where to Begin Your Mind-Body Healing Journey | Hillary Rollins
If you’ve been living with chronic pain, chronic symptoms, or a nervous system that feels stuck in stress or overdrive, this episode is for you. In Part 3 of our conversation with mind-body coach Hillary Rollins, we move beyond the scien...
Ep 22 - From Chronic Pain to Recovery: Hillary Rollins' Mind-Body Healing Story
If you live with chronic pain, chronic illness, anxiety, or unexplained symptoms, this episode explores the powerful connection between the brain, the nervous system, and the body. In Part 2 of our conversation with mind-body coach Hi...
Ep 21 - The Brain Science Behind Chronic Symptoms That Doctors Miss: Neuroplastic Pain Explained | Hillary Rollins
What if your chronic pain isn’t coming from where you think it is?If you’ve been living with chronic pain, unexplained symptoms, anxiety, or health issues that don’t fully make sense, this conversation with mind-body coach Hillary Rollin...
Ep 20 - Inside a Prenuvo Full-Body MRI: One Scan, Two Different Experiences
Our Prenuvo full body MRI experience: what it’s really like inside the machine, how to prepare, what to expect from the results and whether a full-body MRI scan is actually worth it for preventative health screening.If you’ve ever...
Ep 19 - Full Body MRI Anxiety: Our Honest Conversation Before Our Prenuvo Scans
Before getting a Prenuvo full body MRI, we had to face something bigger than the scan itself: health anxiety, claustrophobia, and the fear of what preventive screening might uncover. In this episode, we talk openly about the “what i...
Ep 18 - Vagus Nerve & Anxiety: Why You Feel "Off" Even When Your Tests Are Normal
If you’ve been feeling stressed, anxious, wired, or just not quite like yourself and you’re overwhelmed trying to figure out why this episode is for you. We’re talking about the vagus nerve, a key part of your nervous system that quietly influe...
Ep 17 - Waking Up at 3 am? Insomnia, Cortisol and Dan's Real-Time Sleep Experiments
Wide awake in the middle of the night with a racing mind? This episode is for anyone struggling with sleep maintenance insomnia or middle-of-the-night wake-ups. Dan shares what he’s currently experiencing, the small changes he’s testing,...
Ep 16 - Our CGM Experiment Results: How Food, Exercise, and GLP-1s Actually Impact Blood Sugar
Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) can reveal how food, exercise, stress, sleep, GLP-1 medications impact blood sugar in real time. In this episode, we break down what our CGM experiment actually showed, including what spiked our glucose, what ...