Get Better Faster

Transform your health, unlock your potential, and reclaim your life. Real solutions from medical pioneers redefining what's possible. Welcome to The Get Better Faster Podcast—where health and thought revolutionaries Dr. J, James, and Rachel bridge ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science. Whether you're battling autoimmune disease, reversing chronic illness, optimizing peak performance, or seeking real answers in a broken healthcare system, this is your lifeline to true healing. THIS ISN'T JUST ANOTHER HEALTH PODCAST We're the frontline of a health and thought revolution. Each week, experience unfiltered conversations with pioneering functional medicine doctors, breakthrough resear

Get Better Faster is a health podcast hosted by Jason Bradley & James Chester, with 48 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jason Bradley & James Chester hosts Get Better Faster, a health show with 48 episodes published.

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  Episode #49

  You Don't Have to Get It Right, You Have to Get It Going: Growing Medicine at Home

  Aug 18, 20261h 37m

  In Episode 49 of the Get Better Faster Podcast, Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester (joining live from Rome, Italy) sit down with herbalist and Alternativ co-founder Kim Lauffer for a masterclass on growing medicinal plants at home. This is a hands-in-the-dirt conversation aimed at anyone who has ever wondered whether the plants outside their back door could actually replace what is sitting in their medicine cabinet. Kim's answer, drawn from thirteen years of farming in rural Iowa and a lifetime of practical herbalism, is a confident yes. Kim walks GBF Nation through the exact plants a beginner can start with, no farm and no PhD required: lavender, basil, aloe vera, chamomile, and calendula. She explains what each plant actually does in the body, how to grow them in a pot on a window sill or a raised bed, and how to prepare simple, shelf-stable remedies like elderberry oxymels and chamomile eye compresses. Dr. Jason and Kim compare notes on lavender as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, the safety profile of botanicals versus pharmaceuticals, and the reality that most Americans are chronically deficient in vitamin D and magnesium. The conversation then widens into the business and philosophy behind Alternative, Kim's partnership with Mindy Skarda and Allivea Travis, and why she deliberately chose to build small, family-first, and referral-based rather than chasing conventional scale. James pushes Kim on brand integrity and the pattern of natural companies being acquired and gutted by big consumer giants, and Dr. Jason takes on the peer-reviewed literature and the pay-to-play problem inside evidence-based medicine. The episode closes on a thyroid-specific conversation and Kim's single homework assignment for the audience: go to a greenhouse, pick one plant you know you will actually use, and start. This is the Get Better Faster message distilled into soil, water, and sunlight. Nobody is coming to save you, but Kim Lauffer just handed you a blueprint for taking your health back one plant at a time. Work directly with Dr. J and his team to reclaim radiant health ➝ thyroidauthority.com The content of this podcast and any related materials is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition and it should not be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider. Always consult a licensed Medical Professional before making decisions about your health. By listening to this podcast, you agree to use the information at your own risk. The host, guests, and producers disclaim any liability for actions taken based on the content presented.

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  Episode #48

  Nothing in Nature Is Malignant: The Bio-Logical Purpose of Every Symptom

  Aug 11, 20261h 40m

  In Episode 48 of Get Better Faster, Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester welcome Dr. Melissa Sell for a conversation that stretches the very foundation of how we understand symptoms, disease, and healing. A chiropractor for 14 years who came up through the maximized living model, Dr. Sell reached a point in her career and personal life where the standard tools of nutrition, detox, and spinal alignment could not fully account for what she was seeing in her patients and in herself. Her search led her to Germanische Heilkunde, and everything changed. Dr. Sell walks the GBF audience through the origin story of German New Medicine, tracing its discovery to Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer's own testicular cancer following the loss of his son. From there, she unpacks the 5 Biological Laws, the psyche-brain-organ connection, and the language of adaptation that reveals every symptom as a coherent response to a specific conflict shock. Separation conflicts and eczema. Death fright and the lung. Self-devaluation and the connective tissue. Morsel conflicts and the thyroid. Piece by piece, the framework builds. The conversation then opens into women's health, the masculinizing of women, sexual frustration conflicts, and the dysregulation of hormones that Dr. Bradley sees on labs every week. Dr. Sell introduces Awareness School and Imagination School as the tools she and her partner Steve created to help people notice their internal patterns and begin sending different signals to the body. And in the final stretch, she introduces the deepest layer: constellations, maturity stops, and why so many of us are walking through adult life at an emotional age that froze years ago. This is a conversation the GBF Nation will return to more than once. It is dense, it is radical, and it delivers on the show's core promise: solutions exist, and nobody is coming to save you but you. Work directly with Dr. J and his team to reclaim radiant health ➝ thyroidauthority.com The content of this podcast and any related materials is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition and it should not be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider. Always consult a licensed Medical Professional before making decisions about your health. By listening to this podcast, you agree to use the information at your own risk. The host, guests, and producers disclaim any liability for actions taken based on the content presented.

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  Episode #47

  It's Not the Seed, It's the Soil: Terrain Theory, Trauma, and Taking Back Your Body

  Aug 4, 20261h 35m

  In Episode 47 of the Get Better Faster Podcast, Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester sit down with Heather Cooan for one of the most unflinching conversations we have ever aired on the state of modern cancer care. Heather walks GBF Nation through the moment she got the phone call. She was standing on a sidewalk outside a work happy hour, still deep in her Google-era digital marketing executive life, when her doctor told her, quote, it looks like there's a little bit of cancer there. What followed was the collision most cancer patients never see coming: a diagnosis, a graphic list of side effects, a surgeon willing to bargain, and a system that only knows three moves. Cut it out, burn it out, poison it out. Heather chose a fourth path. She refused chemo and radiation, leaned into the metabolic approach to cancer under Dr. Nasha Winters, and rebuilt her body from the terrain up. This episode is the story of how she did it and what she has learned about cancer, autoimmunity, trauma, and the industrial forces that keep patients on a rail. Along the way, Heather and Dr. Jason unpack terrain theory (it's not the seed, it's the soil), the Russian nesting dolls model of generational epigenetics, the fact that the entire household calibrates off of mom's nervous system, and the uncomfortable math of a cancer industry that is currently a 400 billion dollar economy and is projected to cross 1 trillion within the decade. James pushes the conversation into affordability, prevention, and the recovery mindset shift, drawing the line between an alcoholic in recovery and a cancer patient in remission: same community principles, same daily choices, same refusal to go back to the bar. This is one of those episodes that will change the way listeners talk to their oncologists, read their labs, and think about their kitchens. As Dr. Jason puts it, if people knew what we know, they'd do what we do. Work directly with Dr. J and his team to reclaim radiant health ➝ thyroidauthority.com The content of this podcast and any related materials is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition and it should not be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider. Always consult a licensed Medical Professional before making decisions about your health. By listening to this podcast, you agree to use the information at your own risk. The host, guests, and producers disclaim any liability for actions taken based on the content presented.

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  Episode #46

  Your Body Is Not Broken, It's Adapted: The Doctor Who Walked Away From Surgery to Heal Trauma at the Cellular Level

  Jul 28, 20261h 36m

  In Episode 46, Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester sit down with Dr. Aimie Apigian for a conversation that flips the script on everything most people have been taught about trauma, chronic illness, and why the body just will not let them heal. Dr. Aimie is a double board-certified physician, a Certified Functional Medicine doc, the founder of the Mind-Body-Biology Institute, and the national bestselling author of The Biology of Trauma with a foreword by Dr. Gabor Mate. Dr. Aimie opens with the story of Miguel, the little boy she adopted from foster care during medical school. Watching Miguel's nervous system respond to a safe home as if it were still the dangerous one cracked open her understanding of what medicine was ignoring. Years later, her own collapse into chronic fatigue and autoimmunity taught her that trauma is not a memory to be processed, it is a biology to be repaired. The conversation goes deep on why talk therapy alone falls short, why stored stress drives autoimmunity, what the Critical Line of Overwhelm actually is, and why creating a felt sense of safety in the body has to come before any trauma processing. Dr. Aimie walks Jason and James through a live somatic exercise on air, pushing an imaginary boulder, and Jason reports his sinus tension disappearing in real time. James pushes back on staying small to stay safe, and Dr. Aimie clarifies where partnering with the parts of you comes in and where accountability picks up. The trio digs into the trifecta driving the autoimmunity epidemic, the role of mitochondria in trauma recovery, the three T's (traumas, toxins, and thoughts), and Dr. Aimie's strategy of going directly to the people rather than waiting three decades for the medical schools to catch up. If you have done all the therapy, taken all the supplements, tried all the diets, and you are still stuck, this is the episode that finally connects the dots. Work directly with Dr. J and his team to reclaim radiant health ➝ thyroidauthority.com The content of this podcast and any related materials is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition and it should not be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider. Always consult a licensed Medical Professional before making decisions about your health. By listening to this podcast, you agree to use the information at your own risk. The host, guests, and producers disclaim any liability for actions taken based on the content presented.

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  Episode #45

  Your Body Must Keep Up With Your Ambition: McKensie Stanton on Building a Life That Feels Right

  Jul 21, 20261h 35m

  In this powerful episode, McKensie Stanton joins Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester to discuss the journey from knowing about health to actually experiencing it. McKensie shares her vulnerable story of overcoming eating disorders at three pivotal moments in her life and how those experiences shaped her inside-out approach to transformation. The conversation dives deep into identity, exploring how the fuel we choose directly impacts our energy, mindset, and sense of self. McKensie explains the difference between the outside-in approach (what most people try) versus the inside-out approach (what actually creates lasting change). Dr. Jason shares his own experience with the World Changers Movement and how it helped him identify his biggest health gap despite 26 years in functional medicine. The team also tackles the systemic issues with the American food industry, the USDA food pyramid, and how ultra-processed foods are engineered to create addiction. This episode delivers actionable insights for anyone whose body isn't keeping up with their ambition. Work directly with Dr. J and his team to reclaim radiant health ➝ thyroidauthority.com The content of this podcast and any related materials is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition and it should not be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider. Always consult a licensed Medical Professional before making decisions about your health. By listening to this podcast, you agree to use the information at your own risk. The host, guests, and producers disclaim any liability for actions taken based on the content presented.

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