Mike Vera, Board-Certified Health Coach
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On Healthy & Awake Podcast we question the conventional, explore the unconventional, and seek the truth in health and wellness.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest-led conversations connect personal health choices with wider disputes over medicine, food, movement, and public institutions.
Mike Vera treats health as a question of personal agency, then follows that question into guest-led conversations about movement, diet, chemical exposure, circadian habits, medicine, and public institutions.
Carnivore debates meet Department of Education politics; your wellness curiosity may need a bigger notebook.
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A skeptical look at weight loss injections that keeps the focus on risks, tradeoffs, and the work that still matters.
Mike Vera treats Healthy and Awake as a skeptical look at weight loss injections, especially Ozempic, without slipping into a scolding tone. The episode stays focused on risk, on healthier and safer alternatives, and on what can get lost along the way, even when the drugs do…
A combative health episode that mixes praise, argument, and a promotional detour.
Healthy & Awake leans into a truth-seeking health stance, and this episode does not soften its position. Mike Vera gives Dr. Peter McCullough a long, admiring introduction, then lets the discussion run into a familiar set of claims: that the pandemic-era products may be tied to…
A coaching conversation that frames influence as a client-centered tool.
Healthy and Awake Podcast with Mike Vera and Dr. Michael Arlosky turns a practical coaching question into something clear: how to influence without taking over.
A skeptical health conversation about diet advice, metabolic dysfunction, and patient-led care.
Dr. Robert Lufkin returns to Healthy and Awake for a conversation that pushes back on low-fat orthodoxy, metabolic dysfunction, and the view that patients should carry more of the weight in their own health decisions.
A skeptical, practical look at whether pet care is becoming overmedicated and overconfident.
Healthy & Awake asks whether routine veterinary habits are helping pets or simply making care easier to manage. Dr. Judy Morgan draws on 40 years in practice to examine pre-visit sedatives, vaccine overload, titers, and the gap between official guidance and what owners are often…
A sharp education debate that treats school reform as a fight over fundamentals.
The episode starts with Trump's plan to eliminate the Department of Education and uses it to widen the frame toward K-12 decline, teacher training, and the argument that schools have drifted away from basics like reading, arithmetic, social studies, government, and history. Dr.
A cautious look at personalized peptides and the promise of N-of-one medicine.
Dr. John Catanzaro's conversation with Mike Vera treats personalized peptides and N-of-one medicine as a practical problem, not a slogan. The strongest stretch is the one that slows down and asks what is being targeted, why a one-size-fits-all peptide may be too blunt, and how…
A blunt carnivore conversation about gut health, food money, and why processed substitutes keep drawing suspicion.
The episode treats carnivore eating as a question of incentives as much as taste, tying gut trouble, plant-based branding, fake meat, and food-company profit motives into one straight line.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
Discussion on ai & code generation with industry expert.
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Sleep is the biggest pillar of health
Healthy & Awake Podcast episode 66 brings Nicholas Hulscher of the McCullough Foundation into a long discussion about H5N1 bird flu, lab research, and public-health messaging.
Dorinda Smith, aka Dory Smith, is introduced as a research immunotoxicologist with a master’s in immunology and environmental toxicology from Virginia Tech, plus work at Duke University Medical Center and the NIH.
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Healthy and Awake Podcast closes out 2024 with a recap built from some of its best moments.
Mike Vera opens by welcoming critical thinkers and framing Healthy and Awake as a place to question standard health advice before shifting to weight-loss injections and Ozempic.
Mike Vera opens by pushing back on the automatic, heated way people slip into debate and reaction.
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Host Mike Vera interviews Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com, about his photographic memory, health insights, and whistleblowing efforts against government corruption.
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A top psychiatrist says some people in prison right now were driven to kill by their medication.
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Mike Vera opens by treating frustration as something learned, not fixed.
Mike Vera opens by pushing back on the plant-based wave and the rise of fake meat.
Mike Vera welcomes back Dr.
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Mike Vera opens on Trump's announced plan to axe the Department of Education.
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Clay Clark says the COVID response rested on models that changed from 500,000 projected deaths in the UK to 20,000, and he frames that as proof the lockdown logic was built on false assumptions.
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