Ep 249: Why Most Holistic Health Advice Is Completely Missing The Point | Ste Lane

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There's a version of health optimization that's making people more anxious, more neurotic, and less resilient, and almost no one in the space is willing to call it out.

The holistic health space has a problem, and Ste Lane is one of the few people naming it. He's a coach, homesteader, and host of Radical Health Radio. His lens on ancestral health, masculinity, and human vitality is shaped by everything from cage fighting in England to raising kids on the land in Tennessee.

Ste and I have been orbiting each other's worlds for years, and this conversation is the first time we’ve been able to sit down and dig in.

A lot gets covered, but the real thread underneath is this: most people are outsourcing their health to protocols, supplements, peptides, and fear-based content, and it's making them weaker, not stronger. Ste has strong things to say about why the vaccine was never actually forced, why orthorexia is subtly wrecking people, and what the wellness industry keeps getting wrong about resilience.

We also get into his four-truths framework, what real success looks like, and why the emotional and spiritual side of health matters more than the biohacks.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:07] Mark Sisson's podcast and the virtue of restraint

[24:47] Falling for Nicole and an Indonesian village that broke his brain about success

[43:26] Success is getting what you want, and how Ste defines it now