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  <description><![CDATA[Classical Chinese medicine, translated for the modern ear. No jargon. No mysticism. Just the real stuff — from the Huangdi Neijing to your morning coffee. Hosted by Ollie, a screech owl with a yin-yang pendant and a lot of questions. New episodes every other week.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The biggest mistranslation in the history of wellness culture: Yin and Yang are NOT good and evil. Ollie walks you through the seesaw, the three rules nobody told you, and why you should stop driving nails through your internal balance.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[When a cold hits, your first instinct is to fight it. But Chinese medicine says that's exactly the wrong move. Discover the three warming herbs — Gui Zhi, Gan Jiang, and Fu Zi — and learn why your body doesn't need a warrior. It just needs a blanket.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[You're stuck. Irritable. Everything feels like too much. Classical Chinese medicine calls this Liver Qi stagnation — your internal traffic is gridlocked. Ollie explains the highway inside your body and why emotions really do get stuck.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[You've heard the word a thousand times. But what IS Qi, actually? Not the wellness-industry version — the real thing. Ollie explains the five functions of Qi, the four ways it goes wrong, and why your body has been trying to tell you something your whole life.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every wellness influencer tells you to eat more salads. But some bodies don't want cold food — they want warmth. Ollie explains the forgotten wisdom of food temperature, the digestive fire, and why Chinese medicine has been warning about cold foods for two thousand years.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ep06: Fear Lives in Your Kidneys — The Emotion-Organ Map]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2026 21:18:00 +0800</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Every emotion has an address in the body. Anger lives in the liver. Joy in the heart. And fear — deep, chronic, background fear — lives in the kidneys. Ollie shares the ancient Five Element organ-emotion map, a personal story about Kidney energy depletion, and why going to bed before 11 PM might be the most profound thing you can do for your fear.]]></description>
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