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The Metabolic Detective: Why Your Body Already Has the Answer

Jun 23, 2026 · 1h 41m

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In this episode, Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester sit down with Shawn Bean, the Metabolic Detective, for one of the most layered conversations the show has hosted. Shawn opens with his own origin story: a competitive bodybuilder running his nervous system on stimulants around the clock, a post-contest collapse triggered by food poisoning and later compounded by mold exposure, and a nine-month spiral that cost him 100 pounds of lean muscle while doctor after doctor came up empty. From there the conversation moves into the framework Shawn built to recover and now uses with clients. He explains why the words we use shape our nervous system, contrasting the shame loaded into “I'm sorry” with…