Category Archives for "Podcast"

Exploring Regenerative Agriculture Cycles

Did you know that with regenerative agriculture, instead of 500 years, we can grow soil one or two inches and a half centimetres in three to five years? Regenerative Agriculture is a theme we explore on the podcast recently.

This week was an opportunity to reconnect with Christos. His ideas are quite fascinating, and I admire how he incorporates natural materials and takes a holistic approach to it.

Join me as we review the 5 cycles of regenerative agriculture by Charles Massey, the difference between set stocking and regenerative agriculture, and so much more.

Dr Christos Miliotis: A Blueprint for Cooling Our Blue Planet

In this Unstress episode, we welcome back Dr Christos Miliotis. 

Dr Christos has been exploring strategies to draw down greenhouse gases from the sky to soil for 17 years, with a particular focus on the role of microbes in building the soil carbon sponge and drawing in more water vapour from the atmosphere and storing it in the soil.

In this fascinating discussion, Christo sheds light on the importance of soil bacteria and the diverse organisms that reside within them. 

Holistic Context: Regulatory Impact on Health

This week on the Unstress, we talked about Building Biology. It is a science that studies the health hazards of the built environment, and something I believe we should all be engaged in.

In this week’s Healthy Bite, I get to reflect and discuss all the different stressors that affect our health, and recognizing the ‘whole’ person and environment in disease prevention and cure may be the key to some diagnoses.

Nicole Bijlsma: Healthy Home, Healthy Family

What exactly is Building Biology? And how can you use it to improve your health and well-being at home?

Today, we will learn everything about Building Biology from Nicole Bijlsma. Nicole Bijlsma is a woman driven by a passion to help the environment. Nicole, a former naturopath and acupuncturist with 15 years of clinical expertise, switched careers to become a building biologist after discovering a clear association between many of her patients’ illnesses and health concerns in their homes. Nicole is the best-selling author of Healthy Home, Healthy Family. She is also the founder of and the head of the Australian College of Environmental Studies.

Debunking Evidence-Based Medicine: Industry Influence

This week, we revisited medical science, which I believe should be at the top of our agenda because it affects each and every one of our lives in ways that we could never have anticipated earlier.

Join me in this episode as I read an article: The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine and as well as share my thoughts on it.

Prof David Healy: Pharmageddon – Evidence Based Medicine or Marketing?

Today, we are going to be continuing with the theme can we “trust the science?”.

It is a wonderful privilege to be able to interview one of these professionals who, for many of you, will require no further introduction. My guest today is Prof David Healy. I have known him because of the wonderful book he has written, Pharmageddon. Prof David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author. David’s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.

Tune in as we explore numerous topics that we should all be aware of, and it speaks of not just how medicine is practised, how chronic disease is approached, but also how this pandemic is confronted.

Silent Reflux & Holistic Solutions

This week’s Healthy Bite is a real treat that broadens our understanding of speech pathology. Nikki is a treasure of knowledge; we talked about Laryngology 101, paresis, silent reflux, and so much more and it episode reminded me how interrelated the body is.

Join me as we discuss the highlights of our conversation, including consuming liquid while eating, what to drink to prevent reflux, and how The Breather Fit helped me with my specific silent reflux condition.

Nikki Martin: Speech Pathology, Laryngology & Silent Reflux

Have you ever heard of silent reflux? In this week’s episode, we are going to talk about this and a whole lot of other things.

My guest today is Nikki Martin. Nikki is a skilled Speech Pathologist with 22 years of experience. She has an immense experience in Voice and Swallowing problems, with an exceptionally high client success rate. I had the pleasure of being referred to her for my own issue around silent reflux. And I was just blown away by Nikki’s holistic approach to this.

Join me in this conversation as Nikki and I discuss laryngology, paresis, silent reflux, and so much more.

HEALTHY BITE | Education, Evolution & Ignorance

My interview with Dr Traill Dowie took much longer than normal since we lost track of time chatting face to face and became absorbed in so many fascinating discussions covering a wide range of issues. I also had the opportunity to recognise how well this episode fits in with the other episodes I’ve done for the past months and years.

This Healthy Bite allows me to reflect and share my thoughts on the things we discussed, as well as the high points of our conversation, and so much more.

Dr Traill Dowie: Philosophy, Trauma, Psychedelic Therapy and More

Today’s episode is a little different because I had the pleasure of catching up with my guest in my own home studio and we did the interview face to face, which reminded me of what I believe we’ve all learned as a result of this pandemic. And that is, while we have access to online communication, nothing beats talking and looking at people’s faces and examining body language and facial expressions and experiencing that connection with someone, which I had the pleasure of doing today.

My guest is Dr Traill Dowie who is the Chair of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) Panel for Trauma Standards & Practice, he is also the Head of Faculty at Ikon Institute Australia, and is a practising psychotherapist, supervisor and public speaker.

He holds dual PhDs, receiving a PhD in Psychiatry from Monash University and a PhD in Philosophy from The University of Melbourne. He is also co-director of the Mind Medicine Institute, and I recently had the pleasure of talking to his co-director, integrative psychologist, Nigel Denning. So these two episodes really do dovetail with each other really well.