Tom Cronin is my guest today, after 26 years in the finance sector, he became passionate about reducing stress and chaos in his own and others lives. Today Tom is a man on a mission, he has developed several programs around Vedic meditation helping people of all ages to reduce stress and achieve calm. His programs make meditation accessible, achievable and doable for all. His new film The Portal is a unique film-book helping people to reduce stress and anxiety.

Selected Links from the Episode

Tom Cronin website

The Portal Film website

Unstress episode with Shankardev Saraswati

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Hello, and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Meditation, well, it's on everybody' bucket list. So, or at the very least, on many people's things, I must-do list. It's a subject we have covered on a few occasions. Go back and have a listen to the episode with Dr Shankardev Saraswati a few months ago. Well, my guest today is Tom Cronin. Tom has developed several programs around Vedic meditation, which used to be referred to as transcendental meditation.

Tom is a man on a mission. And as you will hear, he's got many things going. One of those things is a new film coming out in the next week or so-called The Portal. I'm looking forward to seeing that. He also has many other projects to encourage people, young and old, to make meditation accessible, achievable, and doable in their lives. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Tom Cronin.

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Welcome to the show, Tom.

Tom Cronin:                          Hey. Thanks for inviting me along. It's great to be here.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Tom, your project The Portal looks amazing. The book, the film. And we're going to be talking about that. But Tom, your background is a fascinating one because we talk a lot about stress. I know you talk a lot about stress. And yet, and your background was in a pretty stressful situation. I wonder if you might share that with our listener.

Tom Cronin:                          Yeah, yeah. I was a broker on a trading room floor, and I started in 1987, which was the height of the sort of big market sort of booming, with lots of debt in the world. And it's kind of eventually went into another place these days with lots of debt again. But back then in 1987, the markets were frenetic, they were fast-paced. And I was a young 19-year-old, and walked onto a massive trading room floor of 150 predominantly guys yelling and screaming, trading all sorts of different moving markets from currencies to swaps, and bonds, and cash, and bills, and electricity, and wool, and future.

So, it was pretty frenetic. And it was exciting, it was dynamic. And it was adrenaline-pumped. But what happens in that environment is you are pretty much sustaining for long periods that fight/flight response, which is that sympathetic nervous system state. Or S for stress response. And over time, that starts to leave quite a significant sort of marks on you, on your body. And they're like symptoms that start showing up as to the anomaly that's being incurred through this state for long periods. And that was anxiety, insomnia, and panic attacks, and eventually depression, and some agoraphobia, which is the inability to leave the house. I had to leave my job for a while.

So, it got quite traumatic after some time.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Wow, at 19 now, Tom, that's ... Yeah. You're pretty resilient physically, one would hope, at that point. But not the case.

Tom Cronin:                          Well, interestingly, at 19 I was. I just finished backpacking around the world and was supposed to do a degree in Journalism at Macquarie University. But I just applied for a bunch of jobs in the paper after having spent most of my money backpacking. And hadn't anticipated going into finance, certainly not in broking. But at 19, things were great.

Tom Cronin is my guest today. After 26 years in the finance sector, Tom became passionate about reducing stress and chaos in his own and others lives. Today Tom is a man on a mission, he has developed several programs around Vedic meditation helping people of all ages to reduce stress and achieve calm. His programs make meditation accessible, achievable and doable for all. His new film "The Portal" is a unique film-book helping people to reduce stress and anxiety.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information visit, Tom Cronin website.

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Tom Cronin is my guest today. After 26 years in the finance sector, Tom became passionate about reducing stress and chaos in his own and others lives. Today Tom is a man on a mission, he has developed several programs around Vedic meditation helping people of all ages to reduce stress and achieve calm. His programs make meditation accessible, achievable and doable for all. His new film "The Portal" is a unique film-book helping people to reduce stress and anxiety.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information visit, Tom Cronin website.

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Dr Rob Szabo joins me on today's episode joins me to discuss a huge and growing problem in our society - diabetes. Rob's practice is called The Low Carb Clinic where he works with a team of practitioners utilising nutritional and environmental medicine to help patients manage their health and improve their outcomes. Rob also has a passion for regenerative agriculture and shares his own personal and professional story.

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Dr Rob Szabo website - The Low Carb Clinic

CSA: Community Supported Agriculture website

Unstress episode with Cliff Harvey on carbohydrate appropriate diets

Unstress episode with Dr Peter Brukner on healthy fats

Unstress episode with Prof. Thomas Seyfried on cancer as a metabolic disease

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Doctor Ron Ehrlich. Now today's episode is an interesting one on so many levels. Doctor training, public health messages, industry influence, chronic disease management versus addressing the cause, what a novel idea.

Look we've all visited doctors and we've had various points in our lives and sometimes it's for an acute problem. You might have a respiratory infection, some injury or perhaps you're in for a regular check-up. You might get some blood tests, the results come back, your doctor gives you some advice, may even give you some medication. Now that advice comes from years of studying at medical school and then if you can picture me now, using quotation marks as I say this, "staying up to date with the latest," and again in quotation marks, "evidence-based medicine." Evidence-based medicine is the gold standard in health care, and of course, all of this is supported by professional organizations, one of which I'll get to in a moment.

Now as many of you may know, diabetes is a huge and growing problem in our society. Now I'm going to reference here the Diabetes Australia website, the National Diabetes Services Scheme, surely you couldn't get more evidence-based and up to date than that, okay. So, that was rhetorical by the way.

So what is type one diabetes? It's an autoimmune condition. The body attacking itself. The pancreas stops making insulin. Now that's in 15% of cases, that's what diabetes is, type one. Much more common is type two diabetes. The pancreas does make insulin but it's not produced in sufficient quantities that your body needs, and it doesn't work effectively. So it's a combination of genetics and environmental factors, used to be called late-onset diabetes but it's affecting people younger and younger. And this is still from the website, managing type two diabetes. I wanted to share this with you because it's very relevant to our conversation today and I again quote Diabetes Australia here. Type two diabetes can often initially be managed with healthy eating and regular physical activity, however, over time most people with type two diabetes will also need tablets and many will also need insulin. It's important to note that this is just the natural progression of the disease. I'm still quoting. And taking tablets or insulin as soon as they are required can result in fewer complications in the long term, to help you manage diabetes, your diabetes, and again this is that National Diabetes Services Scheme from Diabetes Australia, here are your meal suggestions. Regular and spread evenly throughout the day, lower in fat, particularly saturated fat, and most importantly should be based on high fibre carbohydrate foods such as wholegrain bread, cereals, beans, lentils, vegetables and fruits.

Well, my guest today is Melbourne medical practitioner, Doctor Rob Szabo, and this is not a spoiler, but he runs the practice in Melbourne, his practice is called The Low Carb Clinic. I had the pleasure of meeting Rob when he was speaking at the Annual Conference of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, the acronym is ACNEM,

Dr Rob Szabo joins me on today's episode joins me to discuss a huge and growing problem in our society - diabetes. Rob's practice is called The Low Carb Clinic where he works with a team of practitioners utilising nutritional and environmental medicine to help patients manage their health and improve their outcomes. Rob also has a passion for regenerative agriculture and shares his own personal and professional story.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information visit, Dr Rob Szabo website - The Low Carb Clinic

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Dr Rob Szabo joins me on today's episode joins me to discuss a huge and growing problem in our society - diabetes. Rob's practice is called The Low Carb Clinic where he works with a team of practitioners utilising nutritional and environmental medicine to help patients manage their health and improve their outcomes. Rob also has a passion for regenerative agriculture and shares his own personal and professional story.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information visit, Dr Rob Szabo website - The Low Carb Clinic

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Amie Skilton, Naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist, life coach and educator joins me today to discuss CIRS -chronic inflammatory response syndrome. CIRS occurs due to the inability to remove certain biotoxins, such as mould, from the body. Amie shares her own personal journey with CIRS as well as the difficulties for identifying mould and then how to deal with.

Selected Links from the Episode

Amie Skilton website

Unstress episode with Nicole Bijlsma on creating a healthy home

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Hello and welcome to Unstressed. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Now, if you're not familiar with the acronym CIRS, and I didn't misspell it. It is C-I-R-S and it stands for Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Now, as many of you will know, the common denominator in all chronic diseases is chronic inflammation.

There's a difference between acute and chronic inflammation. When we injure ourselves, or there's some tissue damage, acute inflammation is an important part of the repair process, but when it persists for months or even years, well, that is the beginning of chronic disease. Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, CIRS, occurs due to the inability to remove certain biotoxins such as mould from the body.

It's said to occur in genetically susceptible individuals, and can cause chronic fatigue, weakness, aches, and vertigo, and as you will hear, much, much more. Now, we've also talked about putting your own house in order. We did that a few episodes ago with Nicole Bijlsma. She gave us a great overview of the challenges of finding mould, first of all, and then actually dealing with it. Mould is a very tricky one.

Well, my guest today is Amie Skilton. Amie is a naturopath, and herbalist, and nutritionist, a life coach, and an educator, and a very good one at that. I've heard Amie speak at many conferences and she is an absolute wealth of knowledge. I heard her relate her own story with CIRS and mould, at a conference on building biology last year in 2018.

I wanted to get her on the podcast and share that story with you. Not only her personal experience but as a health professional, how she navigated through it. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Amie Skilton.

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Welcome to the show, Amie.

Amie Skilton:                        Thank you, Ron. So pleased to be here.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Amie, there's so much I wanted to talk to you today about, but I thought, I wondered if we might just first start, give us a little bit of background about your journey.

Amie Skilton:                        Yes, sure. So, I am a natural health practitioner, so naturopath, nutritionist, and herbalist. That's been my whole career. I got into it very young and I feel yeah, very blessed actually for so many reasons that that's the case. And from a personal point of view, certainly to be so well informed and educated, as to keep my health in good nick, I'm very, very grateful for that. And in case you hear it come through in my accent, I'm a Kiwi.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Oh, okay. We've had a few Kiwis. We cross borders, we don't hold anything back here. We've had plenty of Kiwis.

Amie Skilton:                        I know, there's so many of us here. The weather is overall better here in Australia, which I'm pretty sure is why so many of us flock here. I've been here now 14 years.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Wow. I must say, with your Prime Minister, I was almost tempted to emigrate. There are so many good things that go on in New Zealand as well, and environmentally, politically, socially. Anyway, this isn't about New Zealand, it's about you, Amie. Go on, go on.

Amie Skilton:                        So, I've since been here, I've made Sydney my home, and yes, I have an online clinical practice, as well as having the joy and privilege of flying around Australia,

Amie Skilton, naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist, life coach and educator joins me today to discuss CIRS -chronic inflammatory response syndrome. CIRS occurs due to the inability to remove certain biotoxins, such as mould, from the body. Amie shares her own personal journey with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) as well as the difficulties for identifying mould and then how to deal with.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information about CIRS visit Amie Skilton website

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Amie Skilton, naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist, life coach and educator joins me today to discuss CIRS -chronic inflammatory response syndrome. CIRS occurs due to the inability to remove certain biotoxins, such as mould, from the body. Amie shares her own personal journey with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) as well as the difficulties for identifying mould and then how to deal with.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information about CIRS visit Amie Skilton website

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Terry McCosker, an internationally acclaimed teacher in research and property management joins me today to discuss ecosystem health, farm-family wellbeing and regenerative agriculture.

Selected Links from the Episode

Resource Consulting Service website

Unstress episode with Allan Savory on civilisations

Unstress episode with Joel Salatin on regenerative agriculture

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello, and welcome to Unstress, I'm Doctor Ron Ehrlich. I continue to be fascinated by this world we live in, and what holistic means. My guest today is Terry McCosker, and Terry is an internationally acclaimed teacher and has worked in research and property management. Now, that's agricultural properties, in both government and private sectors for over 45 years. Now, in his research era, Terry published over 40 papers, and made several world-first discoveries in the 1980s, in the fields of ruminant nutrition and fertility, as well as a deep understanding of pasture ecology. And he shares some pretty amazing facts with us today.

Terry's ideas took farming out of a war against nature, to an association with it. It's not just a lesson for farmers, it's a lesson for us all. He introduced Australian farmers to the concept of ecosystem health and developed methods of measuring it alongside financial health. Rather importantly, he introduced the concept of farm-family wellbeing and welcomed female partners, siblings and parents into courses about decision making. Again, it's probably lessons not just for those on the land, but for us all as well.

I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Terry McCosker.

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Welcome to the show, Terry.

Terry McCosker:           Good, thank you. Good to be here.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Thanks, Terry. Listen, Resource Consulting Services, RCS. How did you get started? Tell us a bit about it.

Terry McCosker:           Well, I think it came about because I jumped the fence in my earlier career. I'd been with the Queensland Department of Private Industries for 11 years as a scientist and an advisor, and then I went on to a property to implement everything that I thought I knew. And within six months I realized that I actually knew nothing that worked and fitted into a system, and pretty soon after that, I decided that one day I would set up a private extension service, which operated differently to the public extension services. I had no idea how to do it, and I had no idea when I would do it, and it was probably ten years or more after that, that I started RCS, and then it took me another five years after that to work out how to put together and grow a private extension service that operated differently to the public extension services.

So that's a sort of a plotted history of how we got started.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             So you had spent a considerable number of years in Queensland Private Industry Department, advising farmers?

Terry McCosker:           Yes, so the history goes back a fairway. I joined the Queensland Department of Primary Industries as a cadet in 1967. So, I've been operating professionally in agriculture now for a little over 50 years.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             God, Terry. Sobering, isn't it? Sobering.

Terry McCosker:           Well, it is, yeah. And it that I've had all sorts of different experiences. So, in the government sector, on a property for seven years, trying to implement what I thought I knew, and figuring out that I didn't know enough to make it work. And that was a sobering experience. And then having a go at operating a consulting business for several years, and that wasn't successful, and then I stumbled on, in a way, holism, and I had learnt while I was on the station to... I've learnt a lot about systems thinking, and pulling things together, and pulling all sorts of threads together, and I was in a wonderful position there.

I was, as a young kid,