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Healthy AF | Healthy After 50

Zane Griggs: Health Tips

Healthy AF, the podcast dedicated to helping you live a healthier life after the age of 50, hosted by health and longevity expert Zane Griggs. This show is your guide to achieving optimal health, both physically and mentally. Whether you"re in your 20s and want to plan for a healthy future or in your 50s and seeking to catch up, this show could help you improve your nutrition, fitness, and overall well-being. Each week, we"ll dive into the latest research and expert advice on topics such as

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56. The Overlooked Hormone Behind Fasting Blood Sugar...

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2026/09/28

Why is your fasting blood sugar high even when you're eating clean, training consistently, cutting sugar, or even following a low-carb diet? That's what I'm breaking down in Part 3 of this series. I've dealt with this myself. There was a period where I was eating low carb, doing intermittent fasting, training fasted, and still waking up with fasting glucose in the 90s and sometimes higher. At first glance, that doesn't make much sense. But once I started looking deeper into glucagon, cortisol,

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55. Your Vision Is Trainable: How to Improve...

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2026/09/07

What if declining vision, eye strain, headaches, brain fog, and difficulty focusing weren't simply things you had to accept as you get older? In this episode of Healthy AF, Zane Griggs sits down with neuro-optometrist Dr. Bryce Appelbaum to explore the connection between your eyes and your brain—and why he believes vision should be trained just like the rest of your body. Dr. Appelbaum explains the important difference between eyesight and vision, how hours of daily screen time can place the visual

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54. Why Am I Always Hungry? The Mitochondrial...

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2026/08/31

You just ate a full meal. You consumed enough calories. So why are you hungry again 45 minutes later? Or maybe it's 3 PM—you've eaten plenty, but you're running on fumes, struggling to focus, and craving something sweet or starchy. Most people blame willpower, blood sugar, or a lack of protein. In Part 2 of Zane Griggs' series on seed oils and mitochondrial health, he explores a different possibility: what if the problem isn't how much energy you're eating, but how efficiently your cells are

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53. What Happens to Seed Oils After You Eat Them?

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2026/08/17

What actually happens to seed oils once they enter your body? In this first episode of a new Healthy AF series, Zane Griggs breaks down the metabolic chain reaction he argues can begin when dietary polyunsaturated fats become incorporated into the membranes of your mitochondria. Your mitochondria produce the ATP that powers your cells—but the fats you eat can become part of the physical structure of the mitochondrial membrane. Zane explores research around membrane composition, polyunsaturated fats,

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52. The Truth About Alcohol Nobody Wants to Hear |...

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2026/07/20

Can you be Healthy AF if you still drink alcohol? In this episode of Healthy AF (Healthy After 50), I sit down with functional diagnostic nutritionist, peptide educator, and My Peptide University faculty member Sam Lander for one of the most honest conversations we've had on the podcast. Sam opens up about her incredible journey—from addiction, prison, and rebuilding her life—to becoming one of the most respected educators in functional medicine and peptide therapy. We dive into why so many people

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51. The Seed Oil Studies Are Measuring the Wrong Thing

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2026/06/04

A new seed oil study may look reassuring at first glance — but what did it actually measure? In this episode, Zane Griggs breaks down a 2025 review of clinical studies on seed oils and explains why short-term improvements in blood markers do not necessarily tell us what is happening inside the mitochondria. You'll learn why the real concern is not only what shows up in a blood draw, but what happens when polyunsaturated fats become incorporated into mitochondrial membranes over time. Zane walks

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50. Your Body Is Stuck Burning Fat — And It's Making...

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2026/06/02

What happens when your body gets stuck burning fat and can't switch back to glucose? In Part 2, Zane breaks down metabolic inflexibility and explains why being locked into fat-dominant metabolism is not the same as being metabolically healthy. You'll learn how this pattern affects the muscle, heart, and liver — and how elevated fatty acids can impair glucose oxidation, disrupt insulin signaling, and contribute to insulin resistance, fatty liver disease, and heart failure. Start with Part 1 first for

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50. Glucose Is the Most Efficient Fuel | The ATP &...

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2026/05/29

What if the most efficient fuel for the human body isn't fat… but glucose? In this episode, Zane Griggs breaks down the actual biochemistry behind ATP production, mitochondrial efficiency, and why cardiologists actively try to shift failing hearts away from fat oxidation and back toward glucose oxidation. This conversation dives deep into the P/O ratio, oxygen efficiency, insulin resistance, heart failure, ketones, metabolic flexibility, and the misunderstood role of glucose in human metabolism. If

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49. Fix Your Blood Sugar Without Cutting Carbs With...

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2026/03/24

In this episode, Zane sits down with registered dietitian and Type 1 diabetic Isaac Pohlman to challenge one of the biggest misconceptions in modern health: that carbs are the problem. Isaac shares his powerful personal journey—from a high-level athlete dealing with chronic fatigue, hormonal issues, and gut dysfunction to being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in grad school. What followed wasn't just managing symptoms, but completely rethinking metabolism, energy production, and how the body actually

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48. The Real Reason Your Metabolism Slows After 40...

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2026/03/17

Most people believe your metabolism automatically slows down after 40. But the science says something very different. In this episode of Healthy AF, Zane Griggs breaks down the truth about metabolism, aging, and why fat loss gets harder for many people after 40. You'll learn why muscle loss, lifestyle habits, and hormone changes play a much bigger role than age itself — and what you can do to keep your metabolism strong for decades. If you want better energy, improved body composition, and long-term

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47. The Real Reason You're Always Tired After 40

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2026/03/13

Most people think fatigue is a sleep problem. But the truth is… sleep is often just a symptom. In this episode, Zane breaks down why so many people—especially after 40—feel exhausted even when they're getting 7–8 hours of sleep. The real issue often comes from under-fueling, chronic fasting, low carb diets, and excessive training, which drive up stress hormones like cortisol and disrupt recovery. Zane shares the mistakes he made for years with fasted workouts, low-carb dieting, and overtraining, and

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46. Low Carb Is Wrecking Your Thyroid (And Most...

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2026/03/12

Many people struggling with fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, or low libido may actually be dealing with thyroid dysfunction — and not even know it. In this episode of Healthy AF, Zane explains how common lifestyle habits like low-carb dieting, intermittent fasting, overtraining, chronic stress, and sleep deprivation can quietly disrupt thyroid function and slow your metabolism. You'll learn why markers like T3, reverse T3, and TSH matter more than most standard lab panels suggest, how the body

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45. Most Men Over 40 Are Missing These 5 Blood Markers

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2026/03/10

Most men focus on body weight, workouts, or body fat… but those numbers don't tell the full story. In this episode of Healthy AF, Zane breaks down the five blood markers every man over 40 should be tracking if they want to stay strong, energized, and metabolically healthy for decades to come. These biomarkers can reveal problems years before symptoms appear and help you catch issues related to metabolic dysfunction, heart disease, inflammation, testosterone decline, and prostate health early. You'll

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44. Why I Stopped Recommending Low-Carb: My Full Diet...

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2026/02/16

I recommended low-carb and intermittent fasting for nearly 20 years. Then my labs started telling a different story. In this episode, I break down why I stopped fasting, increased carbohydrates, lowered fat intake, and how that shift improved my fasting glucose, thyroid markers, LDL, sleep, and recovery. This isn't anti-keto/carnivore. It's anti-dogma. If you care about metabolic health, ATP production, thyroid function, or insulin sensitivity, this conversation will challenge what you think you

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43. What 10 Years of Keto Did to My Thyroid, Gut &...

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2026/01/19

Low-carb, ketogenic, and carnivore diets have helped a lot of people — myself included — at different stages of their health journey. But what happens when a strategy meant to heal is followed too long without reassessment? In this episode of Healthy AF, I sit down with Dr. Rachel Brown, a psychiatrist and functional medicine practitioner who shares her deeply personal experience after 10 years of ketogenic eating — six of those strictly carnivore. Dr. Brown opens up about the symptoms she believes

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42. Breaking Free from Extremes: Biohacking,...

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2026/01/05

For years, the health and fitness space has rewarded extremes — more restriction, more protocols, more supplements, more "hacks." But what happens when chasing optimization starts to quietly dismantle your health instead of improving it? In this episode of Healthy AF, Zane sits down with Dylan Gemelli for one of the most honest, wide-ranging conversations the show has had. Dylan's journey doesn't begin with illness — it begins with pushing the limits of health itself. From elite athletics to

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41. Unlocking the Gut-Brain Connection with Dr....

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2025/12/01

We talk a lot about fitness, metabolism, and hormones on this show — but if your gut's not right, none of it works properly. In this week's episode of Healthy AF, I sit down with Dr. Vincent Pedre, board-certified internist, functional medicine pioneer, and author of the bestselling book Happy Gut. Dr. Pedre has spent over two decades helping people repair their gut health, rebalance their microbiome, and understand how the gut affects every system in the body — from mood and memory to metabolism

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40. From Food Addiction to Freedom: Meghann Hempel's...

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2025/11/10

Most of us don't realize how deep our relationship with food runs until we try to change it. In this Healthy AF episode, I sit down with Meghann Hempel, who shares her powerful journey from battling food addiction, emotional eating, and self-sabotage to finding complete freedom through mindset, community, and real nourishment. For years, Meghann found herself stuck in the cycle so many of us know too well — using food for comfort, trying every new plan, and blaming herself when nothing worked. But

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39. From Keto to Flexibility: Healing PCOS, PMS, and...

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2025/11/05

Low-carb, high-fat, keto — for a while, these were the tools that saved so many of us from the blood sugar rollercoaster. But what happens when the same diet that once healed you… starts to hold you back? In this week's Healthy AF episode, I sit down with Jen Winkler, a Functional Health and Hormone Coach who helps women heal from PCOS, PMS, insulin resistance, and blood sugar struggles through food, movement, and lifestyle balance. Jen shares her personal healing journey — from managing PCOS

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38. Low Carb, High Stress? The Bioenergetic Truth...

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2025/10/20

Low-carb might not be the health solution you think it is. After years of eating low-carb, fasting, and grinding through high-stress training, I started to notice something: my results were stalling, my sleep was off, and my labs were telling me I wasn’t as metabolically “healthy” as I thought. When I added carbs back in—real food carbs from fruit, honey, and roots—my energy, recovery, and hormone markers improved across the board. That shift led me back to today’s guest, Jay Feldman, a health

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