Welcome to this episode of The Tonic, terrestrially broadcast on June 14 and 15, 2025 on AM740 and FM 96.7 in Toronto. Topics covered on the show track the lifestyle articles and themes published in The Tonic Newsletter and on the Tonic Website. We’ll discuss supplemental digestive enzymes for better digestion with nutraceutical formulator Dr. Gordon Chang PhD, how to unlock your career potential with author Adam Haston, a new theory on how to close the door on viruses with researcher Dr. Bryan Fraser and how mindfulness can help with anxiety with author Julie Potiker.
We specifically discuss:
Supplemental Enzymes For Digestion (Part 1)
- What is the gut?
- Acid reflux
- Digestive enzymes
- How do you know if you need digestive enzymes?
- What type of digestive enzymes should you supplement with?
- Ph range of digestive enzymes
- Temperature range of digestive enzymes
- When should you take a digestive enzyme?
- If you supplement digestive enzymes will your body stop making them?
How to Unlock Your Career Potential
- Your sense of calling
- Career vs. job fulfilment
- Defining fulfilment
- What prevents us attaining fulfilment?
- Nonconforming routes to success
Closing the Door on Respiratory Viruses
- Why is it important to study how respiratory viruses get into the body?
- Doorway proteins
- How do viruses bind to proteins?
- Isolating doorway proteins
- Protein folding
- Doorway proteins are similar to other proteins in the body
- “Drugging” proteins
Mindfulness to help with Anxiety
- Mindfulness and anxiety
- Soothing touch
- Naming the emotion
- Actions to take
- Praise
- Making time for meditation
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