The Habit Healers

By Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA

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Welcome to The Habit Healers Podcast—where transformation starts with a single habit. Hosted by Dr. Laurie Marbas, this podcast is for anyone ready to break free from chronic health struggles, rewire their habits, and create lasting healing. Through powerful stories, science-backed strategies, and real-world tools, we dive deep into the micro shifts that lead to massive health transformations. You’ll learn how to heal beyond prescriptions—how to nourish your body, reprogram your mind, and build the habits that make vibrant health effortless. Whether you’re looking to reverse disease, boost energy, or finally make health a way of life, this podcast will show you how. Because true healing isn’t about willpower—it’s about design. And you’re always just one healing habit away.

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Episode Date
What’s Your Heart’s GPA?
May 29, 2026
Your Fat Cells Just Walked Off the Job. Here's Who Got Left Holding the Bag.
May 28, 2026
What If Your Fatigue, Your Belly Fat, and Your Brain Fog All Have the Same Root Cause?
May 27, 2026
What Does It Mean When Your Fasting Glucose Is "Normal" but Your A1c Keeps Climbing?
May 26, 2026
Why Are the Fast Eaters Three Times More Likely to Carry Belly Fat?
May 22, 2026
What If Your Blender Could Replace Every Bottled Sauce in Your Fridge?
May 22, 2026
What Are the 8 Tests Your Doctor Overlooks That Predict More About Your Health Than Your Standard Labs?
May 20, 2026
How Many of These 14 Sleep Myths Do You Still Believe?
May 15, 2026
Can a Roasted Onion Replace the Sugar in Your Cooking?
May 14, 2026
Your Body Has a Built-In Blood Sugar Sponge. It's in Your Calf.
May 13, 2026
Are You Chasing a Finish Line That Keeps Moving?
May 12, 2026
What If Fourteen Risk Factors Explained Nearly Half of All Dementia, and You Could Change Every One?
May 08, 2026
Can You Really Cook a Dish That Makes You Forget About Salt?
May 07, 2026
The Bathroom Habit That May Be Raising Your Blood Pressure
May 06, 2026
Did Your Brain Accidentally Train Itself to Be Anxious?
May 01, 2026
What If You’ve Been Peeling Away the Best Part of Your Asparagus?
Apr 30, 2026
If Your Labs Are Creeping, Read This Before Your Next Prescription
Apr 29, 2026
What Can Three Strangers Do for Your Health?
Apr 24, 2026
What If Your Doctor Is Wrong About Aging?
Apr 22, 2026
What If Ten Habits Could Slow Every Way Your Body Ages?
Apr 17, 2026
What If the Secret to Weight Loss Was Already in Your Pantry?
Apr 15, 2026
What If the Most Important Thing About Your Meal Isn’t What You Eat, But How You Eat It?
Apr 15, 2026
What If the Secret to Better Cooking Has Nothing to Do With Recipes?
Apr 09, 2026
Who Designed Your Craving? (Hint: It Wasn’t You)
Apr 08, 2026
Most Habits Are Dead on Arrival. Here’s How to Tell Before You Start.
Apr 07, 2026
What If Your Dessert Was the Healthiest Thing You Ate All Day?
Apr 02, 2026
What If the Most Powerful Thing in Your Kitchen Is Something You Already Drink?
Apr 01, 2026
What If the Cheapest Supplement in the Gym Is Actually Brain Medicine?
Mar 31, 2026
What If Your 30 Plants a Week Are the Wrong 30?
Mar 26, 2026
Can You Catch Anxiety From Your Phone?
Mar 26, 2026
Why the Two-Pound Phone Was Better for Your Brain
Mar 25, 2026
Stop Buying Organic on the Wrong Foods
Mar 20, 2026
Why Can a 150-Pound Man Get Diabetes When a 300-Pound Man Does Not?
Mar 18, 2026
Is Your Brain Getting Fed? The Micronutrients Most of Us Are Missing
Mar 13, 2026
What If the Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight Is Hiding in Your Sauce?
Mar 12, 2026
What Happens When You Stretch for 3 Minutes Every Morning for 2 Weeks
Mar 11, 2026
Understanding Dementia: Early Signs, Prevention, and Treatment
Mar 09, 2026
What Does “Whole Person Medicine” Actually Look Like?
Mar 07, 2026
What If You’ve Been Thinking About Plant Protein All Wrong?
Mar 05, 2026
Why You Should Never Trust a Percentage in a Headline
Mar 04, 2026
What Happens When You Hand a Chef a Neuroscientist’s Grocery List?
Feb 28, 2026
Is Your Body Secretly Inflaming Your Brain Without You Knowing It?
Feb 27, 2026
What If the Most Dangerous Thing in Your Brain Wasn’t a Disease?
Feb 26, 2026
What If Your Anxiety Is Actually Just a Really Bad Habit?
Feb 26, 2026
Melatonin and Your Heart: New Warning and What Science Knows
Feb 25, 2026
Can What You Eat Today Decide Whether You Remember Tomorrow?
Feb 24, 2026
What If the Best Brain Exercise Has Nothing to Do With Your Brain?
Feb 23, 2026
Increasing omega-3s in your food with Chef Martin Oswald
Feb 21, 2026
Why Is Pickleball Sending So Many People to the Emergency Room?
Feb 18, 2026
Anti-inflammatory foods for your brain with Chef Martin Oswald
Feb 12, 2026
What Happens When You Try to Walk Like This?
Feb 11, 2026
I bet your doctor never mentioned this with Dr. Chris Miller
Feb 07, 2026
The Secret to Brain Health: Elevating Flavor to Replace Sodium
Feb 04, 2026
Are Animals the Most Powerful Medicine We Have?
Feb 04, 2026
The Generosity Paradox: Understanding the Complexities of Giving and Getting
Feb 02, 2026
Cardio isn't enough, so run to the iron
Jan 30, 2026
Let’s Get Funky: The Healing Power of Fermented Foods (Plus a Big Announcement!)
Jan 29, 2026
How to Engineer an ADHD-Friendly Life
Jan 27, 2026
Do You Actually Need Fish Oil, and If So, How Much?
Jan 22, 2026
What Happens Inside My Body After I Lose Weight? (And Why It Feels So Hard to Keep It Off)
Jan 20, 2026
Volume vs. Density: How to Eat More and Weigh Less
Jan 14, 2026
Why We Avoid Hard Things (And How to Start)
Jan 14, 2026
The Hidden Immune Marker You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (But Need to Know)
Jan 13, 2026
Four Tiny Habits for a Better Brain in 2026
Jan 10, 2026
How to raise GLP-1 naturally! No drugs needed.
Jan 08, 2026
How to Increase HRV with Dr. Chris Miller Plus a Special Announcement!
Jan 05, 2026
New Year’s Eve Strategy: Fiber, Flavor, and Fire with Chef Martin Oswald
Dec 30, 2025
When Protein Stops Working, and How to Make Midlife Muscle Respond
Dec 26, 2025
The Fiber Debate: Why Not Everyone Thrives on High-Fiber Diets
Dec 23, 2025
Delicious and Nutritious Appetizers and Flavor Enhancers for the Holidays with Chef Martin Oswald
Dec 23, 2025
The Clock In Your Habits: Why Timing Can Make Or Break Change
Dec 23, 2025
Your labs are normal, so why don’t you feel well? With Dr. Chris Miller
Dec 22, 2025
Cook Like Medicine: Mushroom-Centered Winter Healing with Chef Martin Oswald
Dec 18, 2025
Why Do We Feel Better with Cold Water Immersion?
Dec 15, 2025
From Reactivity to Reflection: The Transformative Power of Gratitude
Dec 15, 2025
Not Everyone Thrives on High Fiber Diets. This is Why!
Dec 13, 2025
The Clock In Your Habits: Why Timing Can Make Or Break Change
Dec 12, 2025
How to Build Flavor That Heals
Dec 10, 2025
Weight loss cooking tips for the holidays!
Dec 03, 2025
The Case of Brain Fog and Fatigue
Nov 28, 2025
Starving in Plain Sight: Why Obesity Is a Hidden Form of Malnutrition
Nov 26, 2025
S Is for Stress and Cortisol
Nov 24, 2025
Live heart healthy cooking demo with Chef Martin Oswald
Nov 19, 2025
Balancing Your Immune System: Insights from Dr. Chris Miller
Nov 18, 2025
The Simple Eye Trick to Instantly Reduce Anxiety with Dr. Jud Brewer
Nov 11, 2025
Is It Depression, Or Is Your Brain Starving for Support?
Nov 07, 2025
What can you do to improve your immune system?
Nov 05, 2025
Live cooking demo with Chef Martin
Nov 05, 2025
Why I Couldn’t Lift My Arms—And What It Taught Me About Thyroid Disease
Nov 05, 2025
Transforming Fresh Produce into Healing Meals
Nov 03, 2025
Pop! Why Big Goals Blow Up the Fastest
Oct 31, 2025
Intuitive Cooking Results!
Oct 30, 2025
Culinary Healing and Intuitive Cooking Experiment with Chef Martin
Oct 30, 2025
How a Smoothie Explosion Taught Me the Secret to Lasting Habits
Oct 29, 2025
Learn about stress free and intuitive cooking with Chef Martin!
Oct 27, 2025
From Plate to Plaque Do You Know the Journey Fat Takes
Oct 27, 2025
Exercising vs. Training: Which One Actually Changes You?
Oct 22, 2025
Unraveling Inflammation: Dr. Christina Miller's Journey from Autoimmune Struggles to Healing
Oct 20, 2025
Inside Your Engine: What Really Happens When You Exercise
Oct 17, 2025
What annual labs should you consider and why?
Oct 14, 2025
The Hidden Dangers of AI Therapy: A Conversation with Dr. Judson Brewer
Oct 13, 2025
The First Habit I Prescribe as a Doctor
Oct 12, 2025
Let’s talk about the 5 habits to decrease your inflammation today, with Dr. Chris Miller
Oct 11, 2025
From Austria to Aspen: Chef Martin Oswald's Culinary Journey
Oct 08, 2025
Exciting updates!
Oct 06, 2025
Diabetes Isn’t One Disease: Which House Do You Live In?
Oct 06, 2025
If Your Habits Could Speak for You at a Doctor’s Visit, What Would They Say?
Oct 05, 2025
The Hidden Fire in Your Body, and the Foods That Extinguish It
Oct 04, 2025
Are You Taking More Pills Than You Need and Suffering from the Side Effects?
Sep 23, 2025
A is For Appetite Hormones
Sep 22, 2025
How Can a Few Steps Tell You More Than a Full Checkup?
Sep 19, 2025
The A to Z of Diabetes: Why This Series Matters
Sep 17, 2025
What Really Happens to Food When You Eat It? Your Complete Nutrition Roadmap
Sep 15, 2025
Meet My Son Gabe. He’s on a Mission to Revolutionize Tempeh.
Sep 14, 2025
How Long Does It Really Take to Change a Habit? Debunking Myths with Dr. Jud Brewer
Sep 12, 2025
Menopausal Belly Fat: Why It Happens and How to Beat It
Sep 10, 2025
Why You Can’t Relax (Even When You Want To)
Sep 10, 2025
Is Your Brain Running on Empty?
Sep 09, 2025
The Hidden Health Threat Worse Than Weight Gain (and How to Stop It)
Sep 08, 2025
Beyond BMI: Why Your Health Is More Than a Number
Sep 03, 2025
Menopause Body-Snatched Me. So I Fought Back.
Sep 02, 2025
Wobble-Proof: Train the Skill That Prevents the Fall
Sep 01, 2025
The Most Overlooked Number in Your Blood Test (and Why It Matters More Than You Think)
Aug 27, 2025
Why I wrote the article Diabetes Isn’t One Disease
Aug 26, 2025
The Hidden Fire in Your Body, and the Foods That Extinguish It
Aug 26, 2025
Let’s test this again...oh and the bee at the end...
Aug 20, 2025
The Habit of Anxiety
Aug 20, 2025
Live with Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA
Aug 19, 2025
The 3-Gear Habit System That Keeps You Going—Even on Bad Days
Aug 14, 2025
Should You Stop Taking Statins? The Conversation That Could Save Your Life
Aug 13, 2025
BJ Fogg, PhD | Tiny Habits, Big Identity Shifts
Jun 18, 2025
Anne Maillette | Reversing Pre-Diabetes with Healing Habits
May 28, 2025
Elizabeth Kill | Navigating Type 1 Diabetes: A Mother's Journey
May 06, 2025
Tonyah Dee | From Anxiety to Alignment: Healing Through Meditation, Music, and the Soul’s Wisdom
Apr 02, 2025
Anastasia Lindsay | The Quiet Strength Within - Healing Through Poetry
Mar 26, 2025
Dr. Steven Lome | From Near-Death Wake-Up Call to Life-Saving Cardiology
Mar 19, 2025
Chef AJ | Laughter, Resilience, and Healing Through Plant-Based Living
Mar 12, 2025
Carrie Barrett | From Resistance to Resilience
Mar 05, 2025
Dr. Chris Miller | A Lupus Healing Journey
Feb 26, 2025
Welcome to The Habit Healers Podcast | From Doctor to Healer
Feb 22, 2025