Uncommon Living: A Dialogue in Human Resilience

Epizodes

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  Medicine Springs Minerals | Brandon Price | Uncommon Living 59 27.07.2026 59min

  Brandon Price describes the mineral content of hot springs, transdermal absorption of minerals like magnesium and lithium, and how these elements can enhance health and wellness. We explore the science behind mineral therapy, the importance of natural mineral sources, and innovative ways to bring these benefits into your home.Mineral content of hot springs and their health benefitsTransdermal absorption of magnesium and other mineralsThe historical and cultural significance of hot springs as sacred sitesFormulation of mineral bath soaks based on natural spring analysisThe role of lithium and boron in mental health and degenerative diseasesThe Healing Power of Hot Springs and MineralsUnlocking Wellness with Transdermal Mineral Therapy
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  Professional Athletes Ice Bath | Uncommon Living 58 20.07.2026 1h 25min

  Three international athletes from three different sports describe their experiences using ice baths to increase performance. Mitch Wishnowski (American football), Luke Donald (golf), and Trison Casas (Baseball) all talk about the mental benefits of their Morozko ice bath practice.
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  What Your Doctor Doesn't Know Can Kill You | Tom Cowan, MD 12.07.2026 1h 6min

  In the world of health and medicine, the conversation about cancer often centers around DNA and genetics. But what if we’ve been looking at cancer from the wrong angle? This episode of the Uncommon Living podcast explores the insights shared by Dr. Tom Cowan, who challenges conventional thinking about cancer and the role of DNA, urging us to reconsider how we understand health and disease.
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  Cold Water Saved My Life | Fire Captain Sean Smiley | Uncommon Living 56 05.07.2026 34min

  summarySean Smiley shares his inspiring journey of how cold water therapy transformed his life, improved his mental health, and became a vital tool for firefighters' well-being.
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  Transformation | Adonnai Santos | Uncommon Living 55 21.06.2026 1h 4min

  After an eight-year long custody battle for his autistic son, Adonnai Santos found himself in the hospital with acute mental and physical health issues. He says the ice bath probably saved his life.In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast shares his transformative journey with Professor Thomas Seager, and how his new venture Transformation Columbus his changing his clients lives like he changed his own. In particular, Santos describes how his nine-year-old autistic son went from unable to read to testing out as advanced for his grade in less than one year after practicing cold plunge therapy. Santos is now participating in an Ohio program to offer cold plunge therapy to other children.
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  Fixing Healthcare Chris Zimmerman | Uncommon Living 54 13.06.2026 1h 7min

  Modern American hospitals are modeled after the factory in the service of the military. They are excellent for treatment of infectious disease and gunshot wounds (acute trauma).They are NOT designed for chronic illness.In Episode 54 of the Uncommon Living podcast, Chris Zimmerman shares his innovative approach to transforming healthcare by repurposing rural hospital infrastructure, emphasizing systemic change, and leveraging natural modalities like cold exposure and light therapy to improve health outcomes.
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  Bobby Williams May Have Found the Fountain of Youth | Uncommon Living 53 07.06.2026 1h 13min

  Hollywood Stuntman Bobby Williams describes his experiences with the Stratosphere ATC hypobaric machine he invented to boost health and longevity. In Episode 53 of the Uncommon Living podcast, William's explains to Thomas Seager, PhD how hypobaric (i.e., high altitude simulation) training has improved lung capacity for him and his wife, actress Mariel Hemingway. Their conversations compares hypobaric to hyperbaric chamber and examines the physiology behind both hyperbaric oxygen therapy and induced hypoxia. Finally, the two discuss plans to collaborate at the Cold Plunge Research Institute 3rd Annual Symposium, and for equipping a new hot springs spa in Ketchum Idaho with Morozko ice baths.
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  Brown's Gas Hydrogen | George Wiseman | Uncommon Living 52 31.05.2026 1h 7min

  George Wiseman invented a machine to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen rich "Brown's gas" for inhalation via an oxygen cannula. He's maintained the practice years, and credits it for healing scars, warts, boosting his immune system, and keeping him young. In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Wiseman tells Professor Thomas Seager about the benefits of hydrogen inhalation for overall health and human performance.
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  The New Australian Treatment for Endometriosis | Kelsi Dodds, PhD 23.05.2026 1h 8min

  Clinical trials at Adelaide University in Australia have demonstrated the efficacy of cold plunge therapy for relief of endometriosis pain. Results show that those women who cold plunged most often obtained the greatest relief. In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Kelsi Dodd, PhD describes the complex and painful condition of endometriosis, distinguishes it from PCOS/PMOS, and hypotheses about the mechanisms by which cold water bathing provides pain relief.
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  Photobiomodulation | UV, Green & Red Light Therapy | Uncommon Living 50 18.05.2026 46min

  In this episode 50 of the Uncommon Living podcast, Thomas Seager, PhD describes the science of photobiomodulation (PBM), explaining that red light therapy and infrared light therapy are becoming popular for their effects on boosting mitochondrial health. However, he also suggests that the big gains in photobiomodulation may still be yet to come.While red/NIR therapy devices typically target the cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) enzyme in the mitochondria to boost production of ATP, Seager suggests that wavelengths targeting melanin are more powerful for promoting skin health. In particular, he emphasizes the potential of green light at 532 nm to energize melanin and promote healing of skin lesions, as well as relieve headache pain anr promote relaxation.Seager also reviews the interaction between different wavelengths of light, such as how red/NIR will protect the skin from the risks of ultraviolet.Finally, Seager reveals that during cold thermogenesis, mitochondria make sunlight inside the body called biophotons, and that light will stimulate production of Vitamin D inside brown fat cells, where it can be stored until other cells in the body need it.
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  What's Wrong With American Healthcare? | Thomas Seager, PhD & Dean Hall 05.05.2026 46min

  There's a growing awareness that something is seriously amiss with US health care. According to NIh Director Jay Bhattacharya, PhD/MD, life expectancy in the USA peaked in 2014.Why?Because for 50 years scientists have been looking for the secrets to longevity and health in the DNA, rather than in the mitochondria. In this episode of Uncommon Living, we share a lecture given at the Abilities Expo by Thomas Seager, PhD and Dean Hall. They describe how reconnecting with Nature is a reliable way to support mitochondrial health, boost the immune system, and ;resolve chronic illness. Cold water immersion therapy and forest light, in particular, were effective for Dean Hall to cure himself of chronic leukemia and lymphoma.
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  Anxiety & Resilience in Entrepreneurship | Josh York 25.04.2026 34min

  Gym Guyz Founder Josh York describes his entrepreneurial journey, the importance of resilience, and how discipline and mental toughness over comes anxiety and drives success. York tells Professor Thomas Seager about how he changed his ice bath routine to precool his intense workouts, and what happened to his testosterone as a result. Both men agree that success in entrepreneurship requires that they "Burn the Boats," because there is no Plan B.
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  BioWild Psychology Fixes What's Wrong With Talk Therapy | Dean Hall 19.04.2026 51min

  Dean Hall returns to the Uncommon Living podcast to share how his experiences as a cancer patient and survivor have reshaped him as a trauma therapist. This interview with Thomas Seager, PhD describes Hall's disillusionment with traditional talk therapy, and the realization that he must stay more closely connected to Nature to manage the health risks of feeling being connected to his clients. Hall's proposes a new method, called BioWild Psychology, for treating what he calls "Synthetic Living Syndrome" -- i.e., ill health resulting from a chronic exposure to florescent lights, disrupted sleep patterns, and failure to ground (earth), and disconnection from the natural environment.
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  Somatic Sound Therapy | Sean-Patrick Maher | Uncommon Living 46 11.04.2026 1h 1min

  Somalive Founder Sean Patrick Maher joins Professor Thomas Seager on the Uncommon Living Podcast to describe experiences with vibroacoustic therapy. They explore the technology and architecture of sound and its effects on the human body, from ancient cathedrals to soundscape ecology, and how the digital tactile transducers in the Somealive sound bed create an amazing yet unexplainable sensation.
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  Reversing Autism | Beth Lambert | Uncommon Living 45 04.04.2026 1h

  In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Beth Lambert describes her recent peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on autism. She tells Thomas Seager, PhD about her work educating parents and clinicians about the Total Load approach to understanding the origins of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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  Banana-Based Skin Health | Sean Finney 28.03.2026 1h 5min

  Sean Finney, co-Founder of Tano Skincare, describes the banana sap-based skincare creams he developed that were inspired by a traumatic leg injury he suffered as a child. In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Finney tells Arizona State University Professor Thomas Seager, CEO of Morozko Forge, how banana sap offers a natural alternative to retinol for promoting skin health by accelerating wound healing, and reducing signs of aging without harmful side effects.
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  Medicine Without Pills | Ahmad Ammous MD | Uncommon Living 43 22.03.2026 1h 6min

  Ahmad Ammouss, MD almost quit medical school when he realized that the pharmaceutical drug therapies could never cure patients of chronic illness, but instead of walking out on medicine, he graduated, completed his residency training, and passed his Boards. Now he practices as a physician with hospital privileges in Massachusetts -- except his patients don't get pills. They get lifestyle recommendations that focus on diet and sunlight.In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Dr. Ammous describes his unique journey from attending medical school in Lebanon to practicing medicine in the United States. He and Arizona State University Professor Thomas Seager, PhD review the shortcomings of modern medical training, and how animal-based diets high in fat can help restore health. They talk about light hygiene and the importance of bright, sunlit days and dark nights. Then. Professor Seager introduces the MyGreen Lamp and reviews the clinical trials and patient case experiences that demonstrate the power of green phototherapy for migraine headache and other pain relief.
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  Your Beautiful Future | Seager at SXSW for Halo+ | Uncommon Living 42 16.03.2026 37min

  Morozko CEO and Arizona State University engineering Associate Professor Thomas Seager describes how his interest in metabolism began when his six-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes twenty-five years ago. When he discovered that the nutrition and diet advice he was getting from the licensed clinicians contradicted the scrupulous records he kept on his son's blood glucose levels and insulin demand, Seager decided he had to figure out for himself what would work best for his son.However, it wasn't until Seager had his own health scare that he got serious about a daily ice bath practice. He had a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test that indicated an elevated risk of prostate cancer. Seager decided not to undergo conventional treatments. Instead of a biopsy and prostatectomy, he used a ketogenic diet and ice baths to lower hid PSA from 7.0 to 1.8. Coincidentally, his total testosterone jumped from 736 to 1180.That was almost ten years ago.Since then, Seager has been researching how the ice bath benefits the body, including the way that brown fat from cold exposure will support thyroid function and correct hypothyroidism. He's published two books, Uncommon Cold, and Uncommon Testosterone, that document the extraordinary case studies in the use of cold plunge therapy to reverse chronic illnesses.This video is the interview he gave at the Halo+ activation during the SXSW 2026 festival in Austin TX, in which he emphasizes the role of mitochondria in health, beauty, and longevity.
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  Medical Truths | Dr. Tro | Uncommon Living 41 07.03.2026 1h 12min

  When he weighed 350lb, Dr. Tro Kalayjian began questioning everything he'd learned about obesity in medical school. Instead of following the recommendations in his textbooks, he decided to read the scientific literature for himself.He discovered that low carbohydrate diets were an effective treatment for morbid obesity, and he lost more than 150lbs. Then he had to wonder, "What else could possibly be wrong with allopathic medical advice?"Lots.In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Dr. Tro explains why he does not take the flu vaccine, and how he convinced his medical superiors to allow him an exemption. He talks with Thomas Seager, PhD, about his work as a board-certified physician specializing in Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, how he gets his patients off the prescribed medications that they don't need, and his experiences with cold water immersion therapy.
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  Controlling Chronic Inflammation (Without A Clinic) | Bob Messerschimdt | Uncommon Living 40 27.02.2026 1h 11min

  In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Thomas P Seager, PhD, interviews Bob Messerschmidt, the founder of COR Health, about the importance of self-monitoring health through innovative technology. Messerschimdt explains the significance of inflammation as a marker for chronic diseases, the limitations of traditional medical practices, and the potential of at-home health monitoring devices to empower patients to be in charge of their own health. He shares insights into the science behind his device that measures inflammation via erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) -- i.e., the rate at which red blood cells coagulate.The COR Health devices provides immediate data to drive lifestyle changes. Messerschmidt and Seager describe several habits and foods that can help resolve chronic inflammation, including ice baths. Summary:Self-monitoring health is becoming increasingly accessible.Inflammation is a key factor in chronic diseases.Traditional medicine often lacks effective solutions for chronic illnesses.Immediate data feedback can drive better health decisions.The COR device offers a new way to measure inflammation at home.ESR is a reliable indicator of systemic inflammation.Lifestyle changes can significantly impact inflammation levels.Healthy foods can be more effective than supplements for reducing inflammation.Cultural practices have proven benefits for health.Regulatory challenges exist in the health tech industry.