A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, Benjamin Fuchs is a registered pharmacist, nutritionist, and cosmetic chemist who has been compounding custom medication, formulating nutritional and skin care products, and consulting with doctors and patients for decades. In the first half, he shared tips for maintaining good health through diet and supplementation. Rather than getting the flu vaccine, he recommends reducing stress, and taking nutritional substances like Vitamin C that strengthen the immune system. People have become "medicalized" – thinking that the medical model takes care of every possible health issue, he commented, but for many ailments, we can treat ourselves with such things as proper nutrition, exercise, and mental health strategies.

The paradigm of medicine that we are just doomed to fall apart and come down with diseases is not accurate, said Fuchs. The body has a built-in healing mechanism, he suggested, which can be unlocked by a variety of methods such as nutritional supplements and deep breathing, and these help to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. Chronic pain is often associated with inflammation, he cited, and he advises taking a look at the digestive system or center of the body first. To do this, a person can fast for a day or two, then carefully reintroduce various foods, making a chart of what they eat, and how the body feels. The body often reacts negatively around 20 minutes after eating something problematic, and that is how one figures out which foods to eliminate, he explained.