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Emad Ansari

Emad Ansari

Emaad Ansari is a 12-year-old co-host of The Holistic Kids' Show Podcast and co-author of The Teen Health Revolution, focused on teen health and wellness.

Jul 14, 2026

28:50
Mm-hmm.
28:50
Yeah.
28:50
So I think how doctors really affect our fa- our, our decisions and what we did do, like, differently from everybody else, is that we see firsthand, like, that we're not, that doctors aren't taught really me- um, holistically to, um, to teach.
29:09
Really there's, "Oh, here's a pill, take this." Literally I think, um, doctors will, like, get fired I- if, um, if the, like, they'll get mad at the patients if they ask questions.
29:21
So, like, they just like, "Here's a pill, you take this," and then there's symptoms, and they, they get eventually get more money out of it.
29:30
Like, they get, they see, uh, they get paid the amount of pa- pa- um, patients they see, not the amount of patients they heal.
29:38
So, like, that has an effect on, like, the way we...

35 MINS LATER

65:01
I'd love to hear, like, in that book, what's some practical take-home advice that teens are gonna get out of it?
12:49
Okay, so what does that look like packing lunches for school, dinners, breakfast, snacks?
12:56
Yeah, so for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and this is what we use, this is the same thing we use for almost every single meal, including school lunches.
13:04
We have a vegetable, uh, maybe a carrot or something, and then a clean protein, so it can be some meat.
13:12
And then, um, healthy fat, so maybe some cashews on the side.
13:17
And then for carb, we can get maybe some, um, fruits on the side just to make it more delicious.

40 MINS LATER

53:01
[laughs]
53:01
I can probably say from my childhood, 'cause now I'm, you know, more of been going to my adulthood, probably it ha- it has to be, you know, when we were...
53:09
When our mom was like, "Oh, we went to Smoky Mountains." And from going to Illinois to Smoky Mountains is a completely, like, different experience.

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