Orthodox Health

Why Your Child Needs Movement to Learn | Angelique Chaverri

Why does a reading teacher require a pull-up bar? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Angelique Chaverri, M.S.Ed. joins Dr. Michael Christian & John to explo

What Is Exercise Actually For? | Presbytera Marina Thornburg

What is exercise actually for? In this episode, Presbytera Marina Thornburg returns to the Orthodox Health Podcast for a conversation with Dr. Michael Christian & John a

Why The Athos Diet Changes How We Think About Food | Dr. Pete Patitsas

What can modern medicine learn from Orthodox fasting without reducing an ancient ascetical practice to another health intervention? In this episode of the Orthodox Healt

Is Stress Always Bad? The Lost Case for Voluntary Hardship

What if the goal of health isn’t to eliminate stress... but to become capable of responding to the right kinds of stress well? Modern wellness culture is intensely focus

Our Thoughts Determine Our Health? Nocebo, Fear & the Orthodox Mind

Can fear, expectation, & the stories we tell about our bodies actually change what we experience physically? Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica famously taught that “our though

The Dormition: What the Death of the Theotokos Reveals About Yours

You will die. So what exactly are you preparing your body for? After exploring how Orthodox Christians should feed the body during fasting & how to train without making

Making the Gym an Idol? Training & Orthodox Fasting | Sdn Michael Cassell, CSCS

Is your training serving your vocation... or has your life quietly begun serving your training? Physical training can teach discipline, patience, consistency & the abili

The Ultimate Orthodox Fasting Protein Tier List

Peanut butter contains protein... but does that make it a protein source? In this episode of The Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John build the ultimate

Regenerating the Land, Forming the Man: Farming, BJJ & Orthodoxy | Nick Hillman

What connects regenerative agriculture, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Orthodox community, & the formation of the human person? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Nic

You Don't Need Spiritual Techniques... You Need Repentance | St. Paisios

Modern spirituality promises healing. St. Paisios points to something much deeper. In the conclusion of our trilogy on yoga, the New Age, & Orthodox Christianity, Dr. M

False Healing Exposed: New Age, Trauma & Christ with Anastasia Gerali (The Reborn Anastasia)

Not everything called healing actually heals. In this episode of The Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John are joined by Christian trauma therapist, Anas

False Peace: Yoga, the New Age, & the Gospel Without the Cross with Cantor & Seminarian Robert Sirico

What if the greatest spiritual deception doesn't look dark What if it looks peaceful? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John are r

Nourished Asceticism: Fasting Without Crashing | Dr. Michael Moeller

Is the Fast making you weak… or is it revealing what modern life already depleted? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John continue

The Fast & the Gut: Asceticism Without Self-Destruction

Orthodox fasting is not self-destruction. In this episode of The Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John build on two previous Orthodox Health conversation

You’re Not Absorbing It: Nutrient Pairings & Orthodox Fasting

During the Apostles’ Fast, many Orthodox Christians focus almost entirely on what they are removing: meat, dairy, eggs, oil, wine. But what if the deeper question is not

Sin Is Sickness: Trauma, Compulsion & Orthodox Healing with Fr. Hans Jacobse (St. Paisios Brotherhood)

What if sin is not merely a legal violation, or "rule-breaking," but a sickness of the whole person? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christia

False Ascension: From Occult Power to Orthodox Healing with Erika of Shire Skincare

Before Erika found Orthodoxy, she had spent years in theistic satanism, occult practice, ritual magic, & demonic spirituality... until the New Testament, the Jesus Prayer

Your Body Is NOT a Machine: The Orthodox Answer to Biohacking & the New Age

Modern medicine often treats the body like a machine. New Age wellness treats the body like energy. Orthodoxy gives us something deeper than both. In this episode of the

Alignment & Asceticism: Healing the Body in Christ | Dr. Christian Nelson, DC

What does chiropractic have to do with Orthodoxy, the body, pain, stress, & healing? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John continu

Your Body Is Not Broken: Pain, Rehab & the Resurrection | Dr. Edgar Urilov, DPT

What if your body isn’t broken, but protecting you? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John continue the Post-Pascha Body Arc with D