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[Ep 210] The Science of Self-Healing: Bioregulatory Medicine with Dr. James Odell

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. James Odell, Executive Director of the Bioregulatory Medicine Institute (BRMI), an organization dedicated to researching and educating on systems-based, non-toxic approaches to health. With a background in naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and European biological medicine, Dr. Odell has spent decades studying how the body regulates, adapts, and heals across both biochemical and energetic dimensions.

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[Ep 199] Before Modern TCM: Classical Chinese Medicine and the Roots of Terrain Theory with Tommy Hughes

Long before modern TCM was standardized, systematized, and filtered through a biomedical lens, Classical Chinese Medicine described health as harmony...not the absence of pathogens, but the presence of balance.

In this conversation, Tommy Hughes walks us back to the original canon — the Huangdi Neijing, the language of Qi, the cosmology of seasons, and the principle of treating what is not yet diseased.

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Episode 188: When the “Healthiest Diet” Makes You Sick: Mucus, Natural Hygiene, and Species-Appropriate Eating with Mariah Manazza

What if the diet you believe is healing your body is actually holding it hostage? In this episode, we sit down with Mariah Manazza — once a full-on homesteader living the traditional diet dream — as she reveals how raw milk, pasture-raised meats, and ancestral traditions weren’t enough. In fact, they nearly broke her. Migraines, depression, numbness, leg pain, cysts — all symptoms she was told she’d have for life. Until she asked herself: What am I really designed to eat?”

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Episode 183: Dr. Shivani Gupta on Ayurveda, Mind-Body Types, and Personalized Health

Dr. Shivani Gupta is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Fusionary Formulas. In this episode, she helps us rediscover Ayurveda as the original terrain-based health system — one that recognizes the body’s innate intelligence and its connection to mind, spirit, and environment (Nature). We discuss how to identify your mind-body type (dosha), personalize your health rituals, and use ancient wisdom to navigate modern stressors, toxins, and chronic imbalance.

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