Bonus Episode: Here’s my full interview with Kristina Kallas, Estonia’s Minister of Education and Research.Students from this small country are achieving leading ranks on the international student PISA tests. Minister Kallas shares what Estonia has learned and secrets of their success in education (edited for clarity and brevity)
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🧠 I just interviewed Dr. William Walsh, who’s spent the last 40 years researching nutrient-based psychiatry. What’s particularly interesting is that, with over 1.5 million patients treated, it seems clear that his nutrition-based treatments are effective.
Certainly, I personally know at least one person for whom his protocols successfully treated a serious teenage depression problem that nobody had been able to solve — all through a personalized food plan and supplements, without the need for powerful medications with substantial side effects.
That said, it’s important to note that Dr. Walsh supports medications when they offer benefits beyond what nutrients alone can do.
🌍 Also worth noting: Dr. Walsh has dedicated his career purely to research and education — he does not run a commercial operation and works only through his non-profit Walsh Research Institute.
💡 His latest research focuses on Bipolar Disorder, a devastating and highly heritable condition. His findings show how to halt the progression of the illness — and, when treatment starts early, even prevent it from taking hold.
🎥 You can learn more about Dr. Walsh’s research from my interview with him.
Summary:
🧬 Dr. William J. Walsh, a pioneer of nutrient-based psychiatry, has spent over four decades shifting psychiatry’s focus — from treating symptoms with medication to addressing the biochemical and epigenetic root causes of mental health conditions.
📊 With one of the world’s largest biochemical databases on mental health (built from over 1.5M clinical cases), Dr. Walsh and his team have shown how trace element imbalances and methylation patterns shape mood, behavior, and personality.
📘 His landmark book “Nutrient Power” explains these mechanisms in depth, and his latest work on Bipolar Disorder documents groundbreaking discoveries about the cyclic biochemical patterns driving this illness — offering practical treatment and prevention protocols.
🌱 Dr. Walsh’s lifetime of work demonstrates how epigenetics is transforming psychiatry, opening the door to truly personalized, biology-based mental health care.
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Aparna Chennapragada is Director of Product at Google focused on mobile and Android. Her 15 year career spans the Internet sector across product management, strategy and engineering leadership. Prior to Google Ms. Chennapragada worked at Akamai and Oracle. She is a graduate of IIT in Madras, University of Texas in Austin, and MIT.
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Dan Gregory is one half on an extraordinary Australian duo – The Impossible Institute – who have a knack of turning the mundane into the marvelous. A behavioral scientist by training, with a sparkling wit, Dan takes a business problem, turns it upside down and creates a compelling solution. Hear Dan explain what he does:
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If you know the AFLAC duck, or you’ve heard of Kodak moments. If you’ve secretly grinned at the Herbal Essence commercial of the girl in the shower – you’ve seen and enjoyed the unmistakeable work of Linda Kaplan Thaler. Learn more about this incredibly creative advertising genius in our conversation here. And buy her book – From Grit to Great!
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