Helena Norberg-Hodge: Globalisation and Local Futures

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Unstress Summer Series. Today, I want to turn our focus on regenerative agriculture. In line with this, I’d like to look back and share my conversation from September last year with Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Have you heard the expression “Think globally, act locally”? Today, we are going to explore both terms: Globalisation and Localisation.

My guest today is author and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge, a pioneer of the local economy movement. She is the founder and director of Local Futures.

In this podcast, Helena and I sat down for a chat concerning localisation, globalisation, the film The Economics of Happiness, neoliberalism, and industrial agriculture.

Belinda Fettke on Veganism & Sanitarium’s Public Health Impact

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Unstress Summer Series. This time, I want to turn the focus to where our public health messages are coming from. For this, I’d like to share my conversation from earlier this year with Belinda Fettke. Belinda Fettke is theBelinda is the wife of Gary Fettke, an Orthopaedic Surgeon practising in Launceston, Tasmania, who has come under scrutiny for his research into the influence of Seventh Day Adventism and Cereal companies impact on creating dietary guidelines.

In our conversation, Belinda and I discuss the origin of public health messages, the rise of veganism in the west from a sustainability discourse and take a broader lens to explore the origins of health food branding in the 21st century.

Dr Richard Cheng on Population Immunity & Vitamin C

Hello and welcome to the Unstress Summer Series. For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing with you some of my favourite episodes from the archives. And for our first episode of our summer series, it feels appropriate to share my conversation from earlier this year with Dr Richard Cheng.

A practising physician, public health educator and public speaker whose work integrates conventional medicine with anti-ageing medicine, orthomolecular medicine and functional medicine. Dr Richard offers unique perspectives on both the Chinese and American response to the pandemic, the benefits of Vitamin C, and the role of antioxidants in reducing oxidative stress and more.

Unstress: 2021 Year in Review with Dr. Ron Ehrlich

Well, 2021. What a year. Now, one of the things that I have always prided myself on in the years that we’ve just had is that we’ve always promoted the idea of improving immune function, defining and redefining what holistic means, and so much more..

This is the last episode of the year, and we’ve covered some amazing territories, I’ve had many fabulous guests.. let us go back and see what a year it has been.

Prof Ian Brighthope: Is Immune Function Still Important?

Today, we are going to be exploring the pandemic and immune function, and we are going to be talking to one of the legends in Australian health care, Professor Ian Brighthope. Now, Ian is the founder of and the past president of ACNEM – Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.

As you will hear in the episode, Ian has a very definite view about why this has been handled, he reminds us of the importance of immune function and shares with us some very important advice about how to ensure your immune function is functioning optimally.

HEALTHY BITE | Trust the Science??

Welcome to another Healthy Bite. This week’s episode was with Gill McEwen who has extensive in history experience in both the pharmaceutical and vitamin supplement industry. Starting as a sales rep at 21 years of age for the pharmaceutical industry, then going on to be involved in education within that industry before moving to Group Director Of Education at Blackmores. It was interesting to hear Gill’s experience as a sales rep in her early years with big Pharma. The overwhelming message was ‘ she wouldn’t sell anything she didn’t truly believe in’. I think most medical practitioners would say the same about pharmaceutical products they prescribe for their patients…. trusting the ‘science’… but the question is….can we … trust the science?

Gill McEwen: Blackmores, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer & More

This week on the podcast we are going to gain a little bit of an insight, particularly into two industries. One is the pharmaceutical industry and the other is the vitamin industry. They have a lot of similarities and differences.

My guest today is Gill McEwen. Gill has been the Global Director of Education at the Blackmores Institute. Gill has extensive commercial and education experience in building high-performance teams — the pharmaceutical, accounting, and governance arenas. She has a wealth and depth of knowledge and insights into those industries. And we touched on certain things in sales that I thought were very revealing.

HEALTHY BITE | Regenerative Agriculture: An Issue We All Need to Engage With

Hello, and welcome to another Healthy Bite. In this week’s episode, we welcomed back Dr Christo Miliotis. If you’re interested in climate change, your own health, and that of your family and friends, in ensuring that we have quality nutrient-dense foods for generations to come, then you should be engaged as well with this issue of regenerative agriculture and soil. We touched on so many topics, it raises so many issues, and it brings us back to why I think we should all be involved in this conversation.

Join me as we discuss some important highlights of my conversation with Chris.

Dr Christo Miliotis: Make the Problem the SOILution

Today on Unstress, I spoke to Dr Christo Miliotis. If you’re a regular listener to this podcast, we did a programme before about his book, Diet for a Cool Planet. Christo is a doctor and scientist who has devoted his life and work to biodynamics.

Christo is always at the cutting edge of how to incorporate agriculture, climate, building, the built environment. He has a holistic view of the world and the problems and the solutions, and that’s how he has coined the phrase for the name of this episode: Make the Problem the SOILution.

I hope you enjoyed this conversation I had with Dr Christo Miliotis.

HEALTHY BITE | At What Point in Medical Education Did Your Practitioners Curiosity Kick In

Welcome to another Healthy Bite. In this episode, I want to discuss certainty and curiosity. It is something we all love in this life. As health practitioners, when others are putting their lives and health in your hands, we are drawn to that certainty because we’re still human. We want to be certain about what we’re telling our patients is right or not. So there’s natural scepticism there, but it’s the curiosity which hopefully drives progress, and I think it’s an exciting part of health care to be on.

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