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What if the smallest molecule in the universe could have the biggest impact on your health? Welcome "Greg the Hydrogen Man" to explore the science, controversy, and real-world application of hydrogen water and molecular hydrogen therapy. This conversation goes beyond hydration — it explores how hydrogen acts as a biological signal, how it interacts with oxygen, and why it may be foundational to cellular health. Whether you're into biohacking, longevity, performance, or holistic health, this episode will challenge how you think about water and what it means to truly nourish the body.

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00:00 – Why water can heal… or harm

02:30 – Why most hydrogen devices are problematic

05:00 – Japan's longevity advantage explained

07:45 – Hydrogen, gut health, and gas signaling

10:00 – What hydrogen water actually is

14:00 – The healing waters of Lourdes & hydrogen discovery

17:30 – Why hydrogen is different from all antioxidants

19:30 – Mitochondria, oxidative stress & disease

22:45 – Hydrogen and stroke recovery in Japan

26:30 – Why clean water matters before hydrogen

30:00 – Live blood analysis: clean water vs hydrogen water

33:30 – How hydrogen acts as a cellular signal

36:00 – Morning hydrogen water protocol

40:30 – The Japanese hydrogen machine origin story

43:00 – How long before people feel results

45:30 – Safety, medications & contraindications

48:30 –Ever Forward

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In this episode of Ever Forward Radio, psychologist and addiction expert Dr. Adi Jaffe reframes addiction, compulsive behavior, and self-sabotage as intelligent coping strategies rather than personal failures. He explains why labeling people as "addicts" creates shame and traps identity, how early childhood and even preverbal experiences shape adult behavior, and why most habits don't change through awareness alone.

Dr. Jaffe introduces his SPARROW Behavioral Loop—stimulus, perception, activation, response, outcome—to show how emotions and bodily sensations, not events themselves, drive behavior. Together, they explore identity, responsibility without blame, growth mindset, emotional regulation, stoicism, belief systems, and why sustainable change comes from reshaping perception and nervous system responses rather than fighting behaviors directly. This conversation offers a compassionate, practical framework for breaking patterns and moving forward—without shame.

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00:00 – Addiction Is Not Your Identity

02:00 – Why Calling Someone an "Addict" Causes Harm

05:10 – The Thing Is Never the Thing

07:30 – Coping Starts Earlier Than You Remember

10:00 – Attachment, Safety, and Early Nervous System Wiring

14:45 – Resilience vs. Disconnection

17:20 – It's Not Your Fault, But It Is Your Responsibility

19:50 – The Sphere of Control Framework

23:30 – Perception Shapes Reality

25:45 – Introducing the SPARROW Behavioral Loop

29:15 – Why Awareness Alone Doesn't Change Behavior

33:00 – Emotional Menus & Coping Patterns

35:20 – Changing Beliefs to Reduce Triggers

38:40 – Stoicism, Detachment & Emotional Regulation

41:30 – Identity Change Without All-or-Nothing Thinking

44:50 – Becoming Someone Who Can Change

48:05 – Choosing Your Hard

49:30 – How to Know You're on the Right Path

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You've probably heard of the trauma responses fight, flight, and freeze — but there's a fourth response that may be shaping your life without you even realizing it: fawning.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Ingrid Clayton, PhD a clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, and author of Fawning, to understand why people-pleasing, over-accommodating, and self-abandonment are not personality flaws — they're intelligent survival responses your nervous system learned to keep you safe.

You'll learn how fawning develops when fight, flight, or freeze aren't available — especially in childhood, unequal power dynamics, toxic relationships, and work environments where your safety or stability feels at risk. You'll also discover how living in a chronic fawn response can quietly disconnect you from your needs, your voice, your body, and your sense of self.

This conversation helps you recognize why "just setting boundaries" often feels impossible, why you may disappear in relationships, and why choosing yourself can feel terrifying even when you know something needs to change. Most importantly, you'll hear why none of this means something is wrong with you — you make sense.

If you've been stuck in survival mode, waiting for permission, approval, or safety outside yourself, this episode will help you understand what's been happening beneath the surface — and how you can begin moving forward by reconnecting with who you truly are.

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00:00 – Introducing the "Fourth F": What Is Fawning?

02:16 – Why Fawning Is Not a Conscious Choice

03:40 – Power, Safety, and Why Fight or Flight Aren't Always Options

07:43 – Living in Chronic Survival Mode

09:27 – When Fawning Becomes Your "Personality"

12:09 – Empaths, Hypervigilance, and Nervous System Trauma

13:40 – Apologizing to People Who Hurt You

16:22 – Befriending Bullies as De-Escalation

20:29 – Gender, Power, and Why Context Matters

24:03 – Ignoring a Partner's Bad Behavior

26:43 – Toxic Hope vs Reality

28:27 – Presence as a Path Out of Fawning

31:24 – Reality as a Regulating Force

35:02 – Fawning in the Workplace & Overgiving

37:26 – Choosing Yourself for the First Time

40:29 – Becoming Who You Already Are

43:56 – Why "Just Set Boundaries" Fails Trauma Survivors

48:02 – Listening to Yourself as the Path Forward

51:12 – Writing Fawning & Seeing the Bigger System

55:06 – Somatic Tools to Regulate the Nervous System

01:02:27 – Health Costs of Chronic Fawning

01:04:03 – Self-Abandonment Explained

01:06:19 – What "Ever Forward" Means Through Trauma Healing

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