Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

You have read about her infertility journey in People Magazine and watched her viral TikToks where Illie Balaj lays out why she believes women deserve better than IVF.

After a year of being thrashed and trashed in comments by IVF moms for daring to question the status quo, Illie worked with Dr. Gavin Puthoff, a NAPRO fertility doctor to get real answers. The results were shocking. And the update…will leave you in tears.

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Babies don’t need all that STUFF! 👶 Today’s guest had her daughter with no crib, no monitor, and no disposable diapers - on purpose.

Rosalie Snyder, creator of World Changer Co., teaches me how little babies actually need to thrive and how new moms are preyed upon by the baby industry. Plus, she walks through the specific how-tos of cloth diapering, so you can actually make the switch 🧷

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Do you know what happens when a newborn is given Tylenol? 💊

Today’s guest is former Duke researcher Dr. William Parker, author of Tylenol and Autism. He argues that acetaminophen exposure in babies and young children may contribute to autism in vulnerable kids. We’re digging into the evidence, fevers, and his surprising take on germs and parasites.

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HOW TO CURE PICKY EATING 🍽️

Today’s guest is Shandy Watters, an integrative pediatric feeding specialist and founder of Speaking of Health & Wellness. I was a severely picky eater as a kid, so I asked her everything: how to tell normal pickiness from something deeper, the hidden causes behind a shrinking list of “safe foods,” and how to make dinnertime less stressful.

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This is the ULTIMATE preconception-to-postpartum crash course 📝

My friend and SAVA Nutrition founder, Taylor Dukes, is back and she's expecting baby #3! Now that I'm in my trying-to-conceive era, I asked her everything: how to prep your body before pregnancy, which prenatal to take, the nontoxic registry must-haves and how to protect your postpartum season.

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How do you figure out your purpose? Why don’t you feel happy? These questions get answered in a mindblowing episode with #1 New York Times bestselling author Arthur Brooks.

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What if cancer isn't just bad luck?

Today's guest is Dr. Dagmara Beine, an integrative oncology clinician, physician assistant, and PhD. After losing her fourteen-year-old daughter to an aggressive form of leukemia, she turned unimaginable heartbreak into a mission to help patients understand their risk and advocate for themselves. We're talking about what may actually raise your risk, how to use your labs to catch dysfunction before it becomes disease, and how epigenetic testing can help you make changes before your environment and lifestyle pull the trigger.

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What if the opposite of homosexuality isn't heterosexuality?

Today's guest is Dr. Christopher Yuan. And no, this is NOT the story you think it is. He didn't pray the gay away, and he didn't become a Christian and suddenly turn straight. Months away from becoming a dentist, Christopher was secretly using and dealing drugs across state lines, even to one of his professors, until federal agents showed up at his door. What happens next is a powerful reminder that God's grace is infinite.

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Why are girls getting their periods earlier than previous generations? What can your tongue reveal about your health? And how did a stem cell procedure nearly leave Dr. Josh Axe permanently disabled? 👀

Dr. Josh Axe joins me to explore early puberty, tongue health, natural medicine, and the medical experience that changed his life. We dive into what our bodies can reveal about underlying health issues, the importance of understanding root causes, and what his near-debilitating procedure taught him about healing. 🦠

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Nicotine, IVF, and... WikiFeet? Yea. I'm talking about it 🦶🏻

It's been 2 years since the beginning of Culture Apothecary and a LOT has changed. MAHA made it in the White House, I got married to the love of my life, and I've been able to speak to SO MANY amazing guests (some of which have now become good friends). I've also changed my mind about a LOT of things...

Let us know what you think about this solo format & if Lobotomy Hour needs a formal REVIVAL 🧠

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The trades were never the problem. We were lied to about their value.

Mike Rowe — host of Dirty Jobs and founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation — joins me to talk about the loneliness epidemic, the generational lie that success requires a four-year college degree, and why we need to start encouraging young people to pursue the trades before we lose the skills that keep this country running.

We get into the Palisades fire, Spencer Pratt's run for mayor, Charlie Kirk, the problems with higher education, and what it actually looks like...

SURPRISE! I'M MARRIED!!!! 💍

I am SO excited to reveal the biggest secret I've had to keep... I got married! Everyone meet my HUSBAND: Vance Voetberg 🤍

Vance is a health writer and the creator of "Running on Butter," a publication for gym bros and grandmas who want to live their fullest, healthiest life. Most importantly, he’s MY husband and Mochi’s stepdad. 🥹

But how did we meet?! How did he propose?! And how did I manage to plan an entire wedding in Washington state without telli...

"In sickness and in health" is easy to say when you're standing in a white dress surrounded by flowers.

Megan Basham — Daily Wire reporter and bestselling author of Shepherds for Sale — was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2024, later classified as stage four. In this Wife School episode, she talks about what happens when the "in sickness" part stops being hypothetical: the obsession with survival statistics, the fear of not being there when her daughters marry, and how much easier it is to talk about trusting God when you don't believe you're dying. We also get...

Wife School is back in session, and today's class honors one year since Charlie Kirk's death.

Today's guest is Alisa Childers — author, Christian apologist, former member of ZOEgirl, and host of The Alisa Childers Podcast. We're going somewhere uncomfortable: the line between biblical discernment and conspiracy obsession. When does asking hard questions turn into a search for secret knowledge the Bible explicitly warns against — and what happens when the content we consume starts changing our peace, our marriages, and even our faith? Alisa has publicly pushed back on Candace Owens' investigation into Charlie's death, and...

Wife School continues — and today's professor is about to become my sister-in-law. 👯‍♀️

Katie Voetberg married a Voetberg son before I did, so she's graciously agreed to give me a little training before I officially join the family. She and her husband, Elisha, live in a barn in North Idaho with their six children, host the Now That We're a Family podcast, help run Voetberg Music Academy, and just celebrated ten years of marriage. This episode gets extremely practical: how to create peace in your home, stop micromanaging your husband, stay on top of the never-endin...

Welcome to episode one of Wife School, a five-part series on everything no one tells you before you say "I do."

Today's professor is Tilly Dillehay — author, pastor's wife, homeschooling mom of four, and one of the most requested guests in Culture Apothecary history after her last episode exploded. This one is almost entirely driven by your questions: how to stop comparing your husband to other men, what submission actually looks like day to day, sexless marriages, difficult in-laws, rebuilding trust after betrayal, and what to do when you wake up feeling more like ro...

THIRTEEN psychiatric drugs in four months — that's what Lindsay Clancy was reportedly prescribed before she killed her three children. 💊

She wasn't taking all thirteen at once, but clinicians kept starting, stopping, and switching powerful psychiatric medications on a new mother in crisis. Today's guest is Dr. Roger McFillin, clinical psychologist, outspoken critic of the modern mental health system, and host of the “Radically Genuine” Podcast. We ask the uncomfortable question almost nobody wants to touch: what if the system that was supposed to help Lindsay was the thing making her worse? 🩺

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He helped sell America's biggest cereal brands, then had a daughter and couldn't bring himself to feed her any of it.

Today's guest is Parker Brook, founder of Lovebird Foods and a former insider at General Mills. He argues the food he was putting on family tables was engineered for profit, not health — and that most "healthy" labels are marketing, not nutrition. We talk about what really happens inside Big Food, the biggest scams hiding on labels, why the good brands keep selling out, and how parents can outsmart the grocery store.

Homeschooling should be a pre-marriage conversation and almost nobody treats it like one.

Today's guest is Mandy Davis — author of The Homeschool Bible, former school principal, and a leading voice helping parents take back authority over their children's education. She argues this decision shouldn't wait until your child turns five; it belongs in the conversation long before you say "I do." We talk about what to do when your spouse isn't on board, why the non-homeschooling parent matters more than most families realize, and why so many teachers are walking away from the system.

Girls used to be sold products. Now they've become the product.

Today's guest is writer Freya India. Her new book, 'GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything,' argues that an entire generation of young women has been taught to package, brand, and market themselves for public consumption — from Instagram feeds to dating apps. We talk about how social media, technology, and modern culture are reshaping identity, relationships, and what it means to grow up as a young woman today.

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Millions of people take antidepressants every day. Far fewer are told what can happen when they try to stop.

Danielle was first prescribed antidepressants at seven years old. Now, she's 30 and still on them. After what she describes as severe neurological injuries from decades of SSRI use, she's become one of the leading voices calling for informed consent, safer tapering protocols, and recognition for the millions of people who believe these drugs have harmed them.

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One tick bite can change what you're able to eat for the rest of your life 🩸

Dr. Will Cole is back on the show, and we're connecting the dots between Alpha-gal, Lyme, histamine intolerance, and autoimmune disease — why so many immune systems are suddenly turning on their owners. Then we get into the GLP-1 conversation everyone's dancing around: who these drugs are really for, and what nobody tells you about what happens when you stop.

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Women spend billions chasing perfect skin — botox, fillers, lasers — and somehow there's always another treatment waiting 💉

Licensed aesthetician Jamie McGuire spent over twenty years inside that industry, before her own health collapsed. We get into what the industry gets wrong on aging, inflammation, and hormones, and what it doesn't advertise: skincare isn't built to heal your skin. It's built to keep you buying it.

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Half of American kids now have a chronic condition- that number was single digits when their grandparents were in school.

Beth Lambert, Founder and Executive Director of Documenting Hope, has spent 15 years asking why today's kids are sicker than any generation before them. We get into the toxic load kids carry before kindergarten, why eczema, allergies, ADHD, and anxiety keep showing up in the same child, and the part almost nobody tells parents: a lot of this can be reversed.

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Everything you put in that blue recycling bin? Most of it was never actually recycled.

Julia Cohen, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Plastic Pollution Coalition, is here to explain the biggest PR campaign of the last 50 years — and why it worked so well. We get into the microplastics and chemicals now showing up in human blood, brains, and breast milk, the everyday items quietly exposing you, and what the plastics industry has been hiding from you the whole time.

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Rachel Jankovic — wife, mom of eight, and author of 'No Time to Be Dumb' — joins me with practical, biblical guidance for teenage girls AND their moms. We get into friendship drama, how to actually start reading your Bible, modesty without shame, physical affection, and what to do when you're the only Christian in your family.

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Kids today can list every sin America's ever committed — but ask them why freedom is worth defending and you'll get blank stares 👀

Surprise! I've got a bonus episode for you. Glenn Beck — founder of Blaze Media and one of the most influential voices in conservative media — joins me with a mission for America's 250th birthday: helping families rediscover the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and what freedom actually requires from us. Plus, he tells me the story behind his new dystopian novel, Chasing Embers.

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4 million copies sold, taught in classrooms, quoted by every therapist in America — and it might all be wrong 👀

Dr. Michael Scheeringa — psychiatrist and PTSD researcher of nearly three decades — makes the case that 'The Body Keeps The Score,' the most influential trauma book of our time, is built on evidence that doesn't prove what people think it proves. He breaks down where the "trauma lives in your body" theory actually came from, what the research really shows about PTSD and memory, and why no one in modern psychology is willing to touch this.

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Apparently farting is bad — and your "hormone problem" might not be a hormone problem at all 💨

Amy Migdalia — functional and holistic health practitioner and former attorney — reveals where most health problems actually start and why the answer is usually deeper upstream than you think. She breaks down her "3 E's" framework (Eating, Environment, and Extras), how to rebuild your gut after antibiotics, performance optimization for athletes, and the easiest way to get a skeptical husband on board with healthier habits 🥗

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Your doctor might be making you sicker — and he'd know, because he was one of them 💊

Dr. Ken Berry — board-certified family physician and bestselling author of Lies My Doctor Told Me — reveals how weak evidence and industry influence shaped the medical advice you've been told your whole life. He breaks down the truth about cholesterol during pregnancy, becoming osteoporosis-proof, the rise of insulin resistance in women, and why the same diet gets totally different results for different people 👀

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Most girls can name every Taylor Swift era, but not one phase of the menstrual cycle 🩸

Kylah Smook — women's health educator and founder of Cycle Camp Retreats — reveals what the body craves after ditching birth control and how fertility awareness gives women a natural way to prevent pregnancy. She also walks through the four phases of the menstrual cycle, why ovulation acts like a monthly report card for health, and shares her tricks for taming those 'lunatic' phase mood swings 👀

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Anxious? Unfocused? Burned out? The answer might be sitting between your ears 🧠⚡

In this episode, Rachel Lambert and Angie Noack of Braincode Centers are exposing what the mental health industry skips over — brain mapping and neurofeedback. We're talking everything a EEG brain map actually reveals and how you can retrain and optimize your brain naturally.

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The invisible threat moms can’t wash off 🌱🌾🚜

After watching her own family's health fall apart, Zen Honeycutt got to work — founding Moms Across America, running the first glyphosate testing in the country, and getting Costco to pull Roundup off its shelves. In this episode, we're breaking down glyphosate, paraquat, atrazine, fluoride, and the Big Ag lobbying machine.

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Everyone's ditching fluoride for hydroxyapatite. But is it actually safer? 🦷

Jenn Thatcher didn't just go along with the trend — she pushed back. After believing her children were affected by products she trusted, and then facing her son's brain tumor diagnosis, she became relentless about ingredient safety. She's the founder of ZEBRA, a non-toxic personal care brand built on one principle: clean is black and white — no gray area.

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Your great-grandmother ate bread every day—so why does a single slice leave so many people feeling bloated, sluggish, and convinced they're gluten intolerant? 🍞

Sue Becker — food scientist, author, and founder of Real Bread Outreach — is back after her first appearance broke the internet and sold out flour mills across the country. After more than 34 years studying wheat and modern food processing, she's answering your biggest questions about gluten, sourdough, and fresh-milled flour, exposing what's really hiding in modern bread, and explaining why the right kind of bread is one of the most powerful health fo...

A generation ago, pregnant women were rarely offered vaccines. Today, they're encouraged to get multiple shots before their baby takes a single breath.

Dr. Bob Sears, pediatrician, vaccine educator, and author of The Vaccine Book, joins us to discuss parental choice, informed consent, and the growing debate around maternal vaccination. We also dive into circumcision—and his perspective may surprise you.

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We've all been sleeping on LARD?!

The wellness world is obsessed with beef tallow — but Charles Mayfield, regenerative farmer and founder of Farrow Skincare, says we've completely ignored the one animal humans have relied on most for centuries: the pig. After a severe sunburn flipped his entire worldview, Charles became obsessed with the question hardly anyone in the MAHA movement wants to touch — if we care so much about what goes in our bodies, why are we ignoring everything we absorb onto our skin every single day?

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We're surrounded by WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G every day — so why haven't we heard what the research says about long-term exposure?

Stephanie Locricchio, Senior Advocacy Manager at Children's Health Defense and founder of Wellness Warriors Revolution, joins us to break down the explosion of wireless technology and H.R. 2289 — a bill that could strip local communities of control over where towers go, including near schools and playgrounds. She explains why it matters and what families can do to push back.

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Millions of Americans take antidepressants, but far fewer are warned about how difficult coming off them can be.

Laura Delano spent 14 years inside the psychiatric system before discovering that many of the symptoms she believed were signs of mental illness were actually linked to psychiatric drug withdrawal. We discuss why antidepressant tapering is so often misunderstood, how withdrawal can be mistaken for relapse, and whether a lack of training around safe tapering is quietly contributing to today’s mental health crisis.

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The beauty industry has been putting ingredients in your lip products that they'd NEVER be allowed to put in your food — and nobody is talking about it.

Laura DiGirolamo is a beauty attorney, industry insider, and founder of YOM Beauty, and she's blowing the whistle on one of the biggest blind spots in modern beauty. We're talking flavored balms, vanilla frosting lip masks, tinted glosses — products literally designed for your mouth, treated like they never enter your body at all. She breaks down what's actually in them, why the science is scarier than anyone want...