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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 177: Dr. Marizelle Arce and Jacob Diaz on "parasites", foodborne illness, and Terrainology

Dr. Marizelle Arce is a Naturopathic medical doctor who practices as a Naturopath, marrying her knowledge and understanding of ancient cultures and traditions with current biology, physiology and modern medicine. Jacob Diaz, aka the Undercover Virologist, is a student of the BioTerrain Model, a certified Naturopath, and a passionate researcher into the many contagion myths blamed on nonexistent pathogens.

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