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And yes, I watched the documentary “Age of Disclosure.” We’ve spoken to Luis Elizondo, Kevin Knuth, Avi Loeb, Robin Hanson and countless others about aliens, UAPs and all things abduction.

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The US government even held a hearing about UAPs and where in the known world taxpayer dollars are going…. In recent months, they even started releasing files and videos to whet our UAP appetites… but today we go straight to the source.

Ryan Graves is the first active-duty military individual to come forth and share his experiences with UAPs during numerous years of being a Navy pilot. I’ve always wanted to talk to him — and this interview does not disappoint!

Ryan is straight out of central casting when it comes to his look, his demeanor, and his professionalism. There’s even a leather flight jacket in the background when we speak to him — Top Gun vibes for sure! But Ryan is incredibly precise, incredibly honest, and incredibly brave to come forward and risk his entire career and reputation simply because he believes we all need to know what he and so many in the military have been experiencing — and told not to speak up about.

This episode will absolutely satisfy your “sweet tooth” for all things UAP and alien, but it is also a great representation of patriotism, truth-seeking at any cost, and the high price of integrity in a world that seems determined to shut you down.

We have had so much content about unexplained phenomena, and this episode is absolutely not one to miss!

Also, on Friday, Jonathan and I release one of our special deep dive episodes all about “Earth School” — many of our NDE survivors have talked about their experiences on the other side, including direct instruction about their lessons in Earth School, and it turns out, this is a tradition dating back thousands of years… Join us for a special Friday release exploring the notion that if it feels like you’re here to learn lessons, that might be exactly what we’re here for! Can’t wait to discuss this one with you all in our next LIVE!

Have a great week!!

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Has human progress stalled? In this exclusive clip, Dr. Brian Keating is here to debate just that. Some say science has failed, they’ve stopped asking questions, and believe the world hasn’t changed much since 1975. If our personal screens were gone, it would be like…

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In this week’s live for the Breaker community, Mayim and Jonathan are joined by Dr. Kate Bowler — historian of American religion at Duke University, bestselling author, and stage 4 cancer survivor — to discuss her new book Joyful, Anyway and what it feels like to ride the highs and lows long enough to realize you c…

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In this week’s episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan sit down with Dr. Brian Keating — Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego, experimental cosmologist, and author of Into the Impossible — for a conversation about the biggest questions in physics, consciousness, God, and the nature of reality itself.

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“If I didn’t believe it, I wouldn’t have seen it.”

Dr. Keating flips the common phrase to emphasize that confirmation bias can be science’s most dangerous internal force. There is evidence for some things and no evidence for others. What makes Dr. Keating different from most physicists is that he is a scientist and a person of faith who believes God’s existence should be subjected to scientific tests. God and science are not enemies, but organized religion and intellectual honesty sometimes are.

Truth and mystery still abound. Exploring where science and faith could meet leads us toward understanding, not away from it. By building and operating some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, Dr. Brian Keating attempts to do just that. And what came before the Big Bang? He gives us his theory, and it’s not what you expect.

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What did you want to be when you were a kid? If you were asked as a child what you wanted to be when you grew up, what might you have said?

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My mom tells me that all the girls in my nursery school said they wanted to be nurses when we were asked what we wanted to be. I said “doctor.” In 1978, that was considered a ‘radical’ response from a toddler!

So many of us wanted to be astronauts, princesses, explorers, or singers. Others wanted to be airline pilots, veterinarians, or Olympic athletes. What did we become, and how do our current lives reflect those dreams?

More importantly, where do those dreams go? For many of us, life can be hard — and we leave behind dreams in place of being responsible, logical, and reasonable. We listen to well-meaning family members from different generations who encourage us to stuff down creativity in place of making a “decent living,” and we leave behind parts of ourselves that reveal a lot about who we actually are.

Our guest this week makes a living as a professor and researcher, doing exactly what he dreamed of doing as a child. He spends his days staring into space, looking into telescopes, and wondering what lies beyond our current limited understanding of the Universe. What would that be like - to live out your childhood dream? Dr. Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, and the Principal Investigator of the Simons Observatory, is going to tell us all about what it’s like to have the career he dreamed of as a child — looking at other planets, searching for life, and unraveling the mysteries of the Universe!

There are so many things that take us away from the dreams of our youth... but can we reach an understanding that our dreams reflect who we truly are?

Dr. Martha Beck suggests thinking back to little you — the playful, joyful child inside of each of us who felt expansive and open-hearted. What special skills did you have as a child — before the world beat you down! — that indicated that you had something unique to offer?

Were you a deep thinker who was often described as dreamy?

Did you have the ability to imagine worlds that did not exist?

Could you draw images from your mind’s eye with accuracy?

Were you adept at coming up with elaborate choreography for water dance routines? (My cousin Rebekah and I excelled here...)

Those skills of your youth — the skills you honed when no one was watching, the things that made you eager to play just a little longer — those are things that make you you. Let’s find out who that is!

Have a great week, and let us know if you discover any glimpses of your inner child talents this week!

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In this week’s episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan sit down with Zarna Garg — internationally beloved standup comedian, New York Times bestselling author of This American Woman: A One in a Billion Memoir, and America’s first Indian immigrant mom comedian — for a conversation that is as funny as it is moving.

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Growing up in India, Zarna was unimportant. She was the youngest of four, born into a culture that had no use for her big mouth and witty banter. When her mother died suddenly, a single option surfaced: marriage. She wasn’t even fifteen years old. Her father expected her to abide, but what followed was one of the most unlikely origin stories in comedy.

She began sleeping on friends’ couches to avoid becoming someone’s wife. She thought it would be two or three days, but she made it last for two years. Her father was a rich and powerful man; many of her friends’ parents didn’t want to make him an enemy. And some agreed with him! She was turned away because her ideas about choosing her own life were considered dangerous.

Now she sells out theaters and makes people feel seen in a way that only Zarna can. It all started when she stopped talking about high heels and trusted that her voice would make us listen and laugh.

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In this week’s Substack live, Mayim and Jonathan are fresh off releasing their episode with Dr. Rick Doblin, founder of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. He has spent f…

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The popularity of psychedelics thrived in the 1960s and 1970s and, in many circles, was synonymous with the radical and anti-establishment politics surrounding the Vietnam War and the civil rights movements. President Nixon criminalized all psychedelics, including those that held the promise of significant treatments for a variety of mental health conditions. Because of this criminalization, critical psychedelic research went underground for decades. Recently, President Trump’s executive order has fast-tracked FDA research, but who controls the parameters of this research and whether profit or healing will take precedence remain to be seen.

It’s estimated that there may be 10,000 psychedelic clinics across America in the not-too-distant future. What does that mean for the future of mental health as we know it?

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This week we have two very different guests on MBB, and both are thought-provoking pioneers in their fields who refuse to give up on their dreams, no matter how hard it might seem to achieve those dreams...

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Our episode tomorrow features Dr. Rick Doblin, the founder and president of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Dr. Doblin was on MBB years ago when we were just starting up, and the notion of a widespread acceptance of the medical benefits of psychedelics to treat PTSD, depression, and various other mental health challenges seemed a far-off idea.

One question we asked then was: How could people possibly get behind this? Is there enough research to support it? Aren’t people going to become couch potatoes if we just let them get high all of the time, and how will society continue to function?!

Well, smash cut to several years later, and Dr. Doblin’s work has gained global attention as veterans and those suffering from treatment-resistant depression and PTSD have sought psychedelic treatment as an alternative to what Western medicine has been offering, courtesy of Big Pharma... Dr. Doblin is back to update us on the significant changes in the field of psychiatry, how it impacts psychedelic research, and how he is finally seeing his work bear fruit that can help so many people who need help. It’s an awesome conversation!

On Friday, we drop our episode with comedian and screenwriter, the hilarious Zarna Garg! In case you think you know who Zarna is — and especially if you don’t — you must not miss this episode. Zarna’s specials, her podcast, and her TikToks speak so deeply to the immigrant experience, the insanity of America, and the beauty of being part of this crazy melting pot. Zarna lost her mother at 14, only to be kicked out of her house because she refused her father’s attempts to marry her off...Her journey is incredible, and this trailblazer and self-professed “funny brown mom” brings a lot of heart to MBB with this conversation!

It’s a perfect week to have a perfectly open mind with our episodes featuring Dr. Doblin and Zarna! Enjoy 🙂

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In this week’s episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan sit down with Robert Edward Grant — polymath, inventor, entrepreneur, mathematician, philosopher, and host of Code X on Gaia — for a conversation on the Age of Aquarius, what that really means for humanity, and the mathematics of consciousness itself.

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According to Robert, the current chaos of our times isn’t random. Earth moves through 26,000-year seasonal cycles. We just crossed the vernal equinox into spring. We are moving out of the Age of Pisces: two fish swimming in opposite directions, tied together — science and spirituality pulling apart. For the next 2,160 years, the Age of Aquarius takes the reins. The disorientation most of us are feeling right now is what a shift of this magnitude looks like from the inside.

Robert brings the mathematics for what’s underneath it. He says our thoughts may not be happening inside our brains at all. It could be that the brain is a radio receiver, and emotional states determine what frequency it is tuned to. As we weave through his research, we see that math is not a human invention, but a discovery. We see geometry everywhere, from the music we hear to the code in our subconscious.

Through Leonardo da Vinci, the Egyptian pyramids, and truths that may predate recorded history by tens of thousands of years, he traces the hidden geometry of the universe — and illuminates the patterns lying in wait.

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Hi all. What do you do for a living? I know, weird way for me to start the week with y’all.

But if you had to answer, what would you say? Some people have “easy” answers to this one. Some “easy” responses might be:

I’m a teacher.

I’m a pediatrician.

I’m a stay-at-home dad.

I am a welder.

I’m an Olympic hurdler.

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But for some of us, the answer to that question is a bit more complicated. Maybe we are a lot of things, or maybe we don’t compartmentalize our tasks and abilities in neat and clean ways.

And maybe we don’t have to be just one thing in this life. Perhaps those of you who think you do or are “one thing” actually might realize that you’re a lot more than that one thing.

Because we’re never just one thing! Even if our profession is easily encapsulated by “I’m a nanny” or “I’m a graduate student in psychoneuroendocrinology,” we are never just that! We are also friends, partners, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, and black belts in taekwondo or whatever we are!

And also — we are just in these meat suits for this lifetime, but apparently we are actually spiritual beings having a physical experience. So all of these labels are just that: labels.

I know this seems a bit scattered, but there’s a reason. Our guest this week makes his living being all of the things he is and more. He’s a self-described polymath, like so many famous polymaths before him. Leonardo da Vinci was a polymath, as was Benjamin Franklin. Some people have mastery in so many categories that who they are is literally a definition of all of those things: a polymath!

Sir Robert Edward Grant is someone hard to describe. You have to watch this episode to understand this particular polymath.

And I hope you’ll be inspired by Robert — as Jonathan and I were — to see all of the facets of yourself all at once, and not feel like you have to pick one particular identity.

Enjoy the ride in your meat suit this week!

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Mayim breaks down one of Dr. Conti’s most profound suggestions — that if a diagnosis becomes your sole identity, the brain will actually reinforce it. Every time you return to a problem as the primary fact of your existence, you deepen the groove that rumination is creating in your brain. He’s offering a clinical framework for redirecting attention toward what is functioning, and why that reorientation affects real mental health improvement.

More than half of the physical complaints that walk into a general practitioner’s office originate in the mind not as fabrication, but as the body’s honest response to unprocessed psychological overload. Mayim and Jonathan sit with what that actually means: your back pain, your gut issues, and your chronic fatigue may not be separate problems requiring separate specialists; they may be indications of a system under pressure that needs focused psychological care.

In this live, they also explore:

• Why internet self-diagnosis and social media labeling can be dangerous — and what the actual clinical criteria are for knowing when something needs professional attention versus when you’re just wired differently

• The case that many mental health challenges are spiritual in nature, and what it means that our healthcare system lacks a framework for treating them that way

• How chronic background stress erodes your capacity to handle normal life — and why you often can’t see it happening, because your baseline keeps shifting without your awareness

• Practical takeaways from the recent episode with Dr. Stacey Sims, Exercise Physiologist and Nutrition Scientist, on women’s health, protein timing, and what actually happened when Jonathan snuck a bolus of protein into Mayim’s bedtime routine

“If I am trained to constantly look for everything that’s going wrong, that adds a level of stress on my body and my mind that impacts the entire system. So I may have these horrible stomach aches — and it may be that I’m just so negative, so fearful, constantly in a state of protection.”

“We went from people not talking at all about mental illness to a label for everything. Sometimes we’re just different. Sometimes we’re just on a spectrum of behavior and coping mechanisms.”

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In this week’s episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan sit down with Dr. Stacy Sims — exercise physiologist, nutrition scientist, and author of Roar: Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong Body for Life. She questions everything we know about women’s fitness, hormones, and healthy habits. Why? Because they were never studied.

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Dr. Sims’ research changes that. The consequences have devastated progress for long enough. Two billion people worldwide are micronutrient-deficient right now. Weight loss protocols such as GLP-1 medications are destroying muscle. Wearables like the Apple Watch and Oura Ring can’t detect ovulation — skewing the results and pointing toward illness. And oral contraceptives cause irreversible changes to the amygdala during adolescence, permanently increasing women’s capacity for anxiety and fear.

The data cannot be ignored!

Every person on Earth is affected by women’s health. The research we use to diagnose, treat, and heal must reflect their unique physiological makeup, or we all suffer. The system failed, but Dr. Sims refuses to let that stop her. Women’s health can finally be for women.

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Well, maybe impressionable is a better word. Let’s break it down.

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I don’t want to take away all of my therapists’ fun in figuring this one out, but some of my guesses as to why I am gullible include:

• Being a people-pleaser so as to minimize tension

• Some limitations I have in certain fields of study, leading to susceptibility to mis- or disinformation

• The internet makes me crazy, and I can’t process all of the information anyway, so my brain kind of assumes everything is right in some way (!?)

• Social media is such an echo chamber that things get repeated so many times that I start to wonder if, because I am not on social media, I am missing out on some fundamental truth every second of the day

This is a lot. Right!?

Funnily enough, I’m also prone to being a very salty critic of other people’s bullsh*t, so it’s funny that in some ways, I am so discerning and skeptical but in other ways, I am so impressionable!

What’s a gal to do? I don’t have an answer, honestly. This week’s guest helped me keep things right-sized, though. Dr. Stacy Sims is an international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist ​with a goal of revolutionizing exercise, nutrition, and ​performance for women.

Her contributions to the sports nutrition industry have established a new niche, and she is an expert on sex differences in training, nutrition, and health.

One of the things she discusses is HRT, since it comes up in so many conversations we have regarding health for women. Dr. Sims sheds light on the fact that HRT may not be for everyone, which I found shocking… since everyone else (or so it seems) thinks it’s for everyone.

This realization that there is more than one way to look at this issue reminded me that the same holds true for everything we examine or ponder: relationship dynamics, medical information, mental health challenges, the news cycle... There is always more than one way to look at something. And just because someone says something, that doesn’t mean it’s true!

If I’m the only one struggling with this seemingly clear fact, don’t tell me because that would be really embarrassing!!!!

I’m curious what you find that you may have assumed but may actually need more analysis before you make decisions, whether it be health-related, self-related, or even spirituality-related.

Happy to be here learning as I go with all of you!

Have a great week!

Mayim

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In this week’s episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan sit down with Dr. Paul Conti — Psychiatrist, President of Pacific Premier Group, and author of What’s Going Right: A Powerful New Method for Optimizing Your Mental Health — for a conversation that unravels what the mental health and medical fields have missed: that trauma lives in the body, but emerges from the mind.

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The problem: The DSM — the book at the center of modern psychiatry — is a laundry list of labels with no explanatory mechanism for where they come from or what we can do about them. If we don’t bridge the gap between information and healing, the body and the mind will continue to suffer. Even Lady Gaga’s fibromyalgia was connected to sexual assault, weaving her physical crisis with her mental health. Trauma shapes longevity, disrupts immune function, and can be passed down genetically to the next generation. When mind and body are treated separately, the tools to break that cycle remain out of reach.

This is one reason for the growing popularity of AI “therapists.” They listen to what we have to say, instead of shuffling us out the door.

But as psychiatry and medicine converge, Dr. Conti believes that healing is possible. It becomes accessible when we look at the whole story. Ancient philosophy and cutting-edge neuroscience, including research informed by psychedelics like psilocybin, are filling the pages — pointing to a generative drive in us, a spirituality that overarches everything and anchors us to our route to health and happiness.

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Vinney Tolman died in a Dairy Queen bathroom and watched his own body get zipped into a body bag from above. The Breakers have questions. So do Mayim and Jonathan. And while “death” remains an unsolvable mystery between the two — whether he was “mostly dead” as Miracle Max famously puts it in The Princess Bride, or if “nearly dead” in itself doesn’t mean dead — they’ve only just started to unravel the mystery. Barbra Banner’s story steps in. If you want a full picture of how this advertising executive became one of the most sought-after media figures around, start with Suzanne Giesemann, whose episode still has skeptics turning their heads. Then, as they revisit Shaka Senghor’s story, Jonathan reflects on the moment that stayed with him most: the power of literacy as a lifeline. In solitary confinement, Shaka built a structure of reading, writing, and working out that turned seven years in solitary confinement into a stepping stone to his life as an author.

Then a spontaneous turn of events. Mayim and Jonathan ask the community: What was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 list the week you were born? Watch now for a joyful jaunt down the rabbit hole about music, memory, and whether or not the universe has a sense of humor about what it sends you into the world with.

In this live, they also explore:

• The EMT who received an intuition to revive a body already zipped into a bag — and what that says about the things science can’t explain

• Whether childhood trauma and the ability to leave the body are connected — and what that might mean for who has NDEs and why

• Why Barbra Banner describes herself as a funny medium — and why Mayim, a self-described skeptic, still can’t explain what happened in her reading

• Suzanne Giesemann — where to start if you want to understand how Barbra Banner found her abilities and became her student

• Shaka Senghor’s dream, written in a prison cell: that one day Oprah would talk about his book

• A tease for Tuesday’s episode so cryptic even Jonathan would be amazed if anyone could figure it out

"He was not unwakeable from death. That's the most accurate thing I can say." — Mayim Bialik

Three episodes, and maybe a few more questions than answers. Join us next Tuesday for an episode you won’t want to miss!

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Magnesium Breakthrough from BiOptimizers uses a unique formula containing seven different forms of highly bioavailable magnesium, including magnesium orotate which is amazing for metabolic and hormonal health.

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The pandemic changed our lives in ways none of us could have imagined. And Barbra’s was no different. The idea of mediumship was so far outside her life as a seasoned advertising and marketing executive that you may as well have told her she was going to space. Her idea of a medium was someone hunched over a crystal ball, spinning tales of the future.

She wasn’t that.

But it was during that time that orbs started appearing in her audition tapes, a clock flew off the wall, a fan spun at 50 miles an hour on its own — its light flashing even though there was no bulb. But quite possibly the tipping point? Her deeply skeptical husband said there was definitely something going on.

She took a class. Within weeks, she saw her father on the other side.

Barbra approaches mediumship with humor and warmth that is unique to her readings. She believes laughter is one of the highest vibrations there is, and she sits it beside grief, moving through them together.

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In this week’s episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan sit down with Vincent “Vinney” Tolman — author of The Light After Death: My Journey to Heaven and Back and NDE speaker — who died for 90 minutes and spent three days in a coma. The doctors were stunned. And everything he thought he knew about life, death, and why we’re here changed forever.

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What began in a Dairy Queen bathroom became the catalyst for the rest of his life. He had no pulse and watched himself from above, suddenly privy to the thoughts and feelings of every person watching him.

He underwent what many NDE survivors report: a life review. He felt every ounce of pain and joy he had ever caused another person. But what sets Vinney’s experience apart is the specific messages he says he received from the other side. His main message? The most important thing isn’t love — it’s authenticity.

In this episode, they also explore:

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