Is your light environment more important than the food you eat? Can sunlight treat depression? Does a barefoot walk outside boost your immune system? The Quantum Biology Collective is a group of pioneering health professionals who study, apply and explain the emerging field of applied quantum biology: a new paradigm of understanding how human health REALLY works that is light years beyond the current traditional medical model. From the vast research showing that circadian rhythms regulate ev ...
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Each week Gwen has intimate conversations with doctors, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, psychologists, coaches, healers, entrepreneurs, and clients, so you can learn and know you are not alone in the beautiful grit of life. Gwen Dittmar is a trauma-informed professional and personal coach and quantum healer, sober single mom of two, guiding you to use all of your beautiful and gritty human experiences as opportunities to heal, grow, and evolve to know and live your purpose. Integrating a ...
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* Non Duality * Alchemist * Dreamer * Student of life * Truth Seeker * Non Duality Guide of Self-Inquiry 🌑🌒🌕🌘🌟 What is Alchemy? How spirituality, psychology, quantum physics and biology are connected? What is Non Duality? How Self Inquiry can help us understand who we truly are? Is there any connection between ancient teachings and modern science? Tune in if you want to find out more and discover ways to reconnect with your inner truth.
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EP 101: Light, Mitochondria and Emotions: Exploring the World of Sleep Architecture
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“Sleep architecture is the map of how your circadian system is working,” says Dr. Josh Rosenthal, dual board certified sleep and regenerative medicine specialist, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss just how important sleep is to optimal function and the prevention of major diseases. And it's even more important than you mig…
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Ronit Menashe and Vida Delrahim of WeNatal dive into how their personal experiences with loss and fertility struggles led them to redefine prenatal care with a holistic, partnership-focused approach.In this episode, the WeNatal co-founders emphasize the importance of preparing both men and women for conception, introducing the concept of "trimester…
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EP 100: Taking Circadian Mainstream: A Movement Toward Healthy Light Habits
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“This period in time will be classified as ‘the light revolution,’ says today's guest Jeff Gibson, whose own personal revolution--and revelation–about the importance of circadian light and quantum biology has led him to inspire others. Initially a skeptic, Jeff spent 30 days getting up with the sun and blocking blue light at night. His results were…
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Sarah Shealy, a seasoned nurse, midwife and menopause expert, shares why she left the path of medical school for midwifery. and now a menopausal expert. From perimenopause to post-menopause, Sarah offers a virtual practice, speaking, practical advice, expert insights, and compassionate support for women navigating these life changes.Through her own…
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EP 099: Light Is Food? Circadian Shifts In Perspective
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“You can’t be helpless, you can’t outsource your thinking to centralized authorities,” says today’s guest Zaid K. Dahhaj. Nearly a decade into his work in the health and fitness space, Zaid began a deep-dive into the area of circadian optimization and is now passionate about teaching others about it—or more specifically—-encouraging them to teach t…
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Ep. 104 Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Detection with Jasmine Khorsandi of Sonobreasts and the Truth About Mammograms
Jasmine Khorsandi, the founder of Sonobreast, is this week’s guest on the Beautiful Grit Podcast. Jasmine is here to discuss a revolutionary approach to breast cancer detection and the limitations of traditional mammograms. Sonobreast focuses on automated breast ultrasound (ABUS), a technology Khorsandi champions as a safer, more effective alternat…
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EP 098: A Crazy Cancer Journey: From Top Secret Military Scientist To Biophysics Practitioner
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“We’re first and foremost energy beings,” says today’s guest Deanna Won, who, after a stunning career working as a scientist and in a leadership capacity for the U.S. military took her all over the world, found herself on the brink of death from a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer. On today’s episode of the Quantum Biology Collective podca…
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In this week's episode, we hear from Emily Sadri, NP, a seasoned midwife who had four children and then transitioned into a nurse practitioner after completing her degree, to focus on the care of perimenopausal women. Emily shares how her years of experience in midwifery provided her with a strong foundation in women's health, emphasizing physical …
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EP 097: Mitochondria, Attachment, Consciousness: It’s All Connected
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“It’s really important to think about the small choices that one is making every day from the mind and heart space and realize how much our thoughts are affecting our biology,” says today’s guest Heather Crimson, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss the largely overlooked connection between mental health and mitochondrial hea…
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In this enlightening episode, with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Board Certified OB GYN + Integrative Medicine Practitioner, author and creator of Menopause Bootcamp joins us for this next season on women’s health.Dr. Suzanne shares her expertise and her own personal experience of moving through perimenopause and now menopause with us. In this episode …
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EP 096: Astrophysics To Quantum Biology: The Role of Light In Life
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“It’s a very analogous system—the way that light interacts with the nebula, I think, is the way that the light is interacting with our bodies and with the biosphere in general,” says Robert Fosbury, astrophysicist who worked for 30 years for the European Space Agency and the Hubble Space Telescope. As the silos between scientific camps continue to …
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EP 095: Frequency As Medicine: Updating Our Mental Health Models
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“When we have things that work for people, it’s because of frequency, and I would never have thought that,” says Kelli Ritter, PhD, trauma competent practitioner who returns to the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss what she believes is the true nature of anxiety versus the traditional paradigm which, while not wrong, doesn’t provide the…
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EP 094: Navigating Nature Based Health In A Big Tech Dominated Culture
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“There is so much more to health and vitality and wellness than the previous checklist and model that we’ve been given,” says today’s guest Dr. Catherine Clinton. She joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss the paradigm shift taking place across humanity as to how we view the body, the universe and our place in the latter. As a resu…
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EP 093: Authentic Success: There Is No Competition In The Quantum Field (BONUS EPISODE)
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“We live in divine direction and divine time,” says today’s guest David Meltzer, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast for the show’s first-ever bonus episode. Though he is a legendary sports agent—as well as a lawyer, entrepreneur, speaker, author and lawyer with a huge online following—David’s journey and transformation using quantum p…
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EP 092: The Orthopedic Case For Quantum & Circadian Biology
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“I genuinely don’t believe that the natural state of humanity is to hurt just because we are getting older,” says today’s guest Dr. Eric Novack, orthopedic surgeon. Yet, it’s the sharp increase of incidents of musculoskeletal issues in increasingly younger populations that he is dedicated to understanding, and he shares his findings with host Mered…
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EP 091: The Quantum Effects of Gentle Movements: Primitive Reflex Integration
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“Everything is connected to everything,” explains Amanda Stencken, PhD, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective Podcast to discuss the way small movements—rhythmic integrated movements to be exact—can create huge changes in the body. As Amanda explains, during our development in the womb and in our earliest years, our bodies make unconscious movem…
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EP 090: Sitting Still Outside: How To Ditch The Chronic Illness Trap
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“My life was giv[ing] me that door to say, ‘You need to stop and slow down. You don’t have another choice,’” says today’s guest, Vanessa Baldwin, a school teacher turned classical homeopath, ancestral health expert, and circadian biology coach. Vanessa’s health journey began with a series of chronic UTIs and bladder infections at the age of five. O…
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EP 089: Circadian Regulation Starts At Conception & Matters For Life
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“A lot of people think that the placenta is just nourishing the baby, but it’s the portal where they’re getting these hormonal cues from,” says today’s guest, Nikko Kennedy, who returns to the Quantum Biology Collective podcast. In this episode, she delves into the crucial role of circadian regulation starting at conception—even earlier. Nikko expl…
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EP 088: From Hospital Doctor To Unconventional MD: Navigating The Quantum Paradigm Shift
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“If you don’t create your reality, your surroundings are going to create it for you, whether you like it or not,” says today’s guest Rachel Maurice, MD, on the Quantum Biology Collective podcast. Dr. Maurice discusses navigating personal and professional paradigm shifts, the power of the subconscious mind, and breaking out of the cult of medicine. …
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EP 087: Leveraging Your Location For Optimal Quantum Health
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“I’m not going to become a recluse; I’m just going to embrace it and find something positive about being wherever I am,” says Dr. Sara Pugh, returning for her third appearance on the Quantum Biology Collective podcast. Dr. Sara discusses how to live an optimal quantum healthy lifestyle no matter your location, sharing insights from her experiences …
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EP 086: Back To Basics: Why Care About Quantum Biology?
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“It’s amazing what happens when you step out of your comfort zone.” In the inaugural episode of “Quantum Healthy,” Meredith joins co-hosts Laura Kissman and Andeea Rae, alumnae of the Applied Quantum Certification program, as the first guest! They delve into the necessity of belief in quantum biology and quantum health, challenging conventional med…
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EP 085: How To Claim Control Over Our Tech
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“We’re sort of becoming the AA of the digital world,” says today’s guest Andrew Laubacher, executive director of the new nonprofit Humanality. The organization helps college students redefine their relationship with technology, encouraging intentional use and control rather than being controlled by it. Students participate in various levels of “det…
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EP 084: Back To Basics: BLOCK BLUE LIGHT AT NIGHT
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“Why take the chance with light?” says Andy Mant, founder of Bon Charge, a holistic wellness company that manufactures blue-blocking glasses and other products designed to prevent circadian disruption and promote health. He joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss the importance of minimizing blue light exposure, especially at night.…
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EP 083: The Non Linear Nature of Healing
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“Unresolved emotions are such an overlooked piece. It’s huge,” says Dr. Calvin Ng, a chiropractor specializing in applied kinesiology and “neuro-emotional technique,” about the impact of the nervous system on our health. In modern Western society, we often live in a state of constant sympathetic dominance—fight or flight. This unhealed trauma, stor…
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EP 082: Launching A Light Revolution: The Book That Could Change Everything
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“We’re contributing to epidemics of psychiatric illness and cancer in the name of energy conservation and climate change without realizing the harm being done,” says Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, who returns to the Quantum Biology Collective Podcast just ahead of the release of his book “The Light Doctor.” Host Meredith Oke predicts the book will have the …
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EP 081: Quantum Herbalism And The Power of Plants
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“Plants heal themselves; they are their own doctors,” explains Amber Hargroder, a quantum herbalist and listener favorite. She returns to the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss how plants offer the same healing to us by behaving in the body as they do in response to environmental stress. In our modern world, including contemporary scienc…
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EP 080: How Our Eyes Run Our Biology
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“Our eyes are hormone-making organs,” says optometrist and integrative health coach Dr. Valerie Giangrande, and for most of us, this is nothing short of a revelation. Starting with the first strains of sunrise, the eyes take in light, send signals to our internal clock to release hormones in their intended order, so that those hormones work toward …
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EP 079: The Impact of Complete Solar Spectrum On Our Bodies
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“Melatonin is the body’s most effective antioxidant,” declares Scott Zimmerman, who published a groundbreaking paper on subcellular melatonin, which has completely altered our understanding of how the hormone is produced in the body. As it turns out, melatonin is not solely produced by the pineal gland but in all of our mitochondria. It works to so…
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EP 078: The ICU Doctor Who Prescribes Sunlight As Medicine
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“Melatonin is the most powerful antioxidant that we know of in the human body—the king of antioxidants,” says today’s guest Dr. Roger Seheult, whose Youtube channel MedCram, helps make complicated medical topics easier to understand. On this episode of the Quantum Biology Collective podcast, he breaks down the process by which melatonin mitigates o…
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EP 077: A Computer That Cares About Your Biology
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“We blame ourselves when these tools are actually mismatched for us,” says Anjan Katta, founder of the Daylight Computer company, which has made the first computer that is reverse-engineered to be good for us—or at least not harmful to our biology the way current models are. On today’s episode of The Quantum Biology Collective podcast, he explains …
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EP 076: Sun Maxxing And The Reality of Skin Cancer Research
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“It turbo charges your vitality. That’s enough to reorganize my whole life around it,” says Steven Lubka, known on X as a “sun max-er,” about his commitment to being outdoors, despite his busy day job working as the head of private clients at Swan Bitcoin. On today’s episode of the Quantum Biology Collective podcast, he explains how you can work th…
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EP 075: Beyond Biomechanics: The True Nature Of The Human Form
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“We are grace incarnate,” says today’s guest, Joanne Avison, movement and manual therapy practitioner and author of “Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement.” Unfortunately, as Joanne explains that beginning with Rene Descartes, the so-called founder of modern science, we have learned to separate our physical selves from our spiritual selves, when in fa…
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EP 074: Brilliant Inventors Part II: Portable Phototherapy To Harness Our Body’s Own Light
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“Light therapy is unbelievably powerful and it certainly is the future of medicine,” says David Schmidt, CEO of health and wellness company LifeWave, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss his X39 patch and its ability to completely change our current approach to anti-aging and, as a result, to fighting disease. Rather than inj…
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EP 073: Habit or Addiction: Easing Recovery with Light
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“You can’t get healthy in the environment you got sick in,” says Andeea Rae, licensed addiction counselor, certified in applied Quantum Biology, who joins today’s episode to discuss the nature of addiction, and the bio-psycho-social behavioral changes necessary for recovery. A new environment doesn’t just mean a change of scenery, she explains, it …
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EP 072: Coherence, Resilience And The Role of Pain In Our Lives
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“Pain is in the brain,” explains Stephen Hussey, doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of functional medicine who returns to the podcast to discuss the way the body interprets, processes and manages pain. In addition to the sensory components of pain, there are cognitive and emotional receptors, as well, which means physical pain is affected by m…
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EP 071: How To Make Good (Health) Decisions In Challenging Times
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“Once you learn the Earth is round, you can sail around it, so you have a lot more options,” says Denise K. Shull, circadian optimized decision expert. “Once you learn there’s an emotional logic to everything, you can sail around your mind and your life in a much more expansive way.” Unfortunately, popular thought still tells us to remove emotions …
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EP 070: Are You Electro-Sensitive? The Invisible Frequencies Bombarding Our Biology & What To Do About It
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“Think of radio frequency radiation as just a sort of invisible light,” says today’s guest Nick Pineault, author of the best-selling book “The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs.” Just as the toxic light emitted from our laptops and cellphones are disrupting our biology at the mitochondrial level, the WiFi connecting us to those same devices sends out elect…
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EP 069: Brilliant Inventors #1: Sound As The Origin Of Light and Life?
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Music medicine and the healing power of sound are concepts which date back as far as Ancient Greece, having been first attributed to Pythagoras. John Stuart Reid’s first encounter with sound healing took place in the King’s Chamber in the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, where he ran an experiment in cymatics which, he explains, is the basic principle th…
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EP 068: How Light And Movement Shape Our Brains
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“If you address the inputs, the outputs address themselves,” says Dr. Amanda Steencken, who joins The Quantum Biology Podcast to discuss her work with primitive reflex integration work. Primitive reflexes, she explains, are the body’s involuntary movements, which occur down to the subatomic level, in response to stimuli that promote brain developme…
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EP 067: Light Optimization As A Lifestyle
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“You’re just going to have to live with it.” This is the response, says today’s guest Thomas Van Doorn, medical professionals give to the nearly 11 million citizens suffering from chronic disease in his native Netherlands. This was the advice given to Thomas’s disabled sister, before he began to incorporate elements of quantum biology into her trea…
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EP 066: Light & Digestion: How Regulated Circadian Rhythms Heal The Gut
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“We are in a perpetual state of jet lag these days, simply because we don’t know what time of day it is.” Carrie Bennett returns to the Quantum Biology Collective Podcast to discuss the importance of regulating circadian rhythms as a means to healing the gut. Every task in the body is timed to a vibrating central oscillator which acts like an inter…
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EP 065: Voltage & Anxiety: Why Light Is Key To Mental Health
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“We are electric beings,” says Dr. Kelli Ritter, and she’s not just speaking metaphorically. Returning to The Quantum Biology Collective Podcast to discuss the link between light and anxiety, Dr. Kelli explains that the infrared light that our mitochondria make inside of us is the ultimate healer, and that light is informed by the natural light we …
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EP 064: The Incredible Quantum Story Of Our Eyes And Mouth
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How often does your dentist ask you how much blue light you consume each day, about your sleeping patterns, or even how long you were breastfed or if you fell on your tailbone when you were a child? These are just a few of the questions that Dr. Jalal Khan asks his patients during assessment, in his efforts to take dentistry well past “filling and …
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“Our biology–and all of the other animals and creatures on the planet, everything–is geared to the wavelengths of the sun,” says Dr. Sara Pugh, PhD, who returns to the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss the vital importance of daily exposure to natural light. Dr. Sara breaks down a complicated process into a series of dynamic metaphors. …
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EP 062: What’s Your Human Design? Understanding All The Parts of Ourselves
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“When people get to settle into their natural rhythm versus forcing themselves to be what they’ve been conditioned to be or what society tells us we need to be, then there’s infinite freedom,” says Gwen Dittmar, who specializes in Quantum Human Design. This practice, originally founded by Rah Uber Hu, draws from Vedic astrology, quantum physics, th…
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EP 061: The Infrared Deficiency Epidemic & Effective Red Light Therapy with Kelly Bento
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“Super simply, it’s everything for everyone,” says Kelly Bento about the power of infrared light therapy to heal the body and promote wellness by infusing your cells with direct energy. A clinician, Kelly regularly used lasers on her dental patients, and became even more invested in them after her brother sustained a brain injury. Soon she develope…
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EP 060: How To Read The Energy of The Body with Medical Intuitive Wendie Colter
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“What medical intuitives have been doing naturally for centuries is now being studied and corroborated by Science,” says Wendie Colter, a pioneering medical intuitive and founder of The Practical Path. The Practical Path is a school that certifies medical intuitives. On this episode of The Quantum Biology Collective Podcast, host Meredith Oke, and …
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EP 059: From Liquid Crystal to Ether: Next Level Quantum Biology with Carrie Bennett
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Ether, the unseen conductor of health and vitality, takes center stage in this fascinating episode of the Quantum Biology Collective podcast. Join host Meredith Oke and guest Carrie Bennett as they unravel the mysteries of ether in quantum biology and its profound implications for human health and healing. Meredith and Carrie engage in a thought-pr…
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EP 058: Sunlight and PTSD with Kelley Erickson
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Could the secret to overcoming trauma lie in the interplay of light and nutrition?" In this episode of the Quantum Biology Collective podcast, Meredith Oke delves into this topic with Kelley Erickson, a holistic health practitioner with expertise in nutrition, Reiki, and functional mental health. Kelley shares her journey of healing from childhood …
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EP 057: Mastering Your Hormones, Life & Business with Sarah Kleiner
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Could retraining your body's hormonal system be the key to unlocking improved fertility, weight management, and overall well-being? In this episode, host Meredith Oke and Sarah Kleiner, a quantum health practitioner, explore this intriguing possibility. Sarah shares her journey from personal health challenges to founding a coaching business dedicat…
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