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Episodes
63 episodes
Covid Vaccine Recovery
Like many, Michelle Grace Hunder felt coerced into having her vaccine. She thought it essential for her industry and career. Michelle has always been active and healthy and did not expect the vaccine to impact her health so dramatically. What m...
Blueprint for Wellness
Health is wealth. In this episode Dr Iggy Soosay (driggysoosay.com.au) shares is expansve knowledge and experience on how to maximise your health potential at all stages of life. You are never too young or too old to reframe your approach towar...
Whole person Psoriasis treatment
Psoriasis is a skin condition that can be socially debilitating. About a third of people with psoriasis develop a related form of arthritis which can also be physically limiting. Whilst there are a number of medical interventions that can reduc...
Beating Chronic Candida
If itching skin, redness, vaginal discharge, brain fog. bloating and general exhaustion sound familiar you may have a common fungal infection; candida albicans. Sometimes some antifungal agents offer temporary relief but unless you make big cha...
MDMA: A personal journey
Rebecca Huntley is a well known Australian author ( her MDMA memoir is 'Sassafras') and social analyst who has described herself as a "good girl. " She was brought up in a dysfunctional family and had it tough. After years of therapy she ...
Sperm: A valuable canary in the coal mine
Forever chemicals, electronic smog, and processed foods commonly make mainstream news, but most people dont realise the implications. Scientists and holistic clinicians understand that all of the environmental factors and processed food chemica...
Medicinal Cannabis Addiction
Medicinal cannabis is hot in the media and the business community. With the rush to market is there enough education of and understanding by health professionals? Naturopath Zoe Turner works in a multidisciplinary centre (Salt Recovery) w...
Trauma Informed Pain Relief
It is generally well accepted that our mind controls our nervous system and overall health. Many eastern philosophies and western medicines support this approach. However there is also another way, by training the nervous system to ...
Placebo Power
Hypnotherapy is a powerful therapeutic tool with broad application. As a teenager Craig Meriwether discovered its potential which helped him through a difficult mental period. He explains how hypnotherapy can leverage the power of self he...
Proof that food is medicine
When Hippocrates (400 BC) said 'Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food' he was really in tune with good medical practise. In this episode we speak with Jocelyn whose thryoid habitually became overactive only when pregnant....
Neurodiversity - adaption and burnout
Life would be boring if we were all the same. However, neurodivergent people often feel the pressure to be "normal" and it takes its toll. The burnout rate is double that of neurotypical individuals. Paula Liub (
BRAIN ON FIRE
Happy, healthy and connected to depressed, detached and suicidal in the blink of an eye.Lynette Milakovich had her C19 jab and could not understand how her life changed for the worse so quickly. Her family supported her, but no one believed...
Delaying Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Q: Can natural and holistic therapies assist people with significant genetic disorders?A: Absolutely!Working closely with Naturopath Christine Barnes, our young patient has avoided being wheelchair bound and is joining his peers by part...
RESILIENCE FOR LIFE
Dr John Tickell realised early in his medical career that good food and exercise was what many of his patients needed. Then, as a young doctor he was faced with a life threatening situation himself. Fortunately, many years of wholesome eating a...
Life after cancer
Cancer survivors often have a deep seated fear that the disease will return. Martin Gillespie (www.gemwellnesswarrior.com.au ) significantly reduced the return risk of his non-hodgkins lymphoma which has an extremely high rate of recurranc...
Clearing Bowel Oestrogen
Medical fertility procedures typically include giving oestrogen. Anna Paredes, a colon hydrotherapist has found that excess oestrogen can find its way to the bowel where it causes problems such as constipation. Anna and her client Sam discuss t...
mycobacterium: the insidious villain
"Complicated" is an understatement when describing Dr Shala Rasouli's patient. In a short few years she had gone through aggressive breast cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, pneumonia, brochiectasis, hiatus hernia, melanoma, SIBO and migraines. ...
Flip the mental switch
Mental trauma and anguish can end well or very badly, but what determines the direction you go in? Michael Adamedes (www.michaeladamedes.com) is a psychotherapist who describes how his relationship breakdown ultimately changed the course of his...
Severe Rectal Bleeding
Bleeding from your backside can be frightening but haemorrhaging to the point of collapse is a whole new level. Common conditions like haemorrhoids are widely experienced and usually relate to poor diet and inadequate exercise. Some medical pro...
Working out Constipation
As a successful and experienced registered dietician Rocco knows that eating more fibre is important for bowel movement. But as he discovered some-times it's just not enough. Severe constipation is distressing and there are many causes and cons...
Kidney cancer; I'll think about it
Rob Prior has a highly trained scientific and curious mind. When diagnosed with kidney cancer he applied his logic and intuition and decided to reject all standard cancer treatment. Rob chose to relentlessly pursue a holistic approach. He reall...
Turning Multiple Sclerosis around
When MS (Multiple Sclerosis) patient Jana visited Naturopath Helen Christian, she was in a terrible state. With limited mobility, insomnia, depression and deep seated anger Jana felt like she was a burden to her family and society. Within a cou...
Intractable cystitis; Homeopathy; and a life-changing bet
When Ash was 21 years old she was told that the cause of her chronic cystitis was unknown so she'd have to "keep taking antibiotics and avoid sex forever." Her sister Melissa made a bet with the Homeopath that helped Ash and changed Melis...
The Return of Iron Woman
Iron deficiency anaemia is extremely common affecting around 20% of the world’s population including 8% of preschool children, 12% of pregnant women and 15% of non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Iron deficiency without anaemia ...
Life, emotions and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
All of us have a history full of happy, sad and embarrassing events. Some more traumatic than others. How we carry the emotions attached to those moments can impact our health and ability to thrive. Dr Michelle Woolhouse, an experienced integra...
