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

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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.

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My guest today is Dr Shankardev Saraswati, who is a medical practitioner with over 40 years experience. He combines psychotherapy with meditation, yoga, nutritional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine in his practice. In this episode, we discuss the importance of personalised medicine for the future of healthcare and Shankardev explains the guiding principles behind ayurvedic medicine.

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Dr Shankardev Saraswati website

Unstress episode with Dr Shankardev Saraswati on finding life's purpose

Unstress episode with Dr Shankardev Saraswati on mind-body connections

Unstress episode with Dr Stephen Cabral on the rain barrel effect

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstress, I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Now, if you were to ask any forward-thinking medical practitioner where health care is going in the future, personalized medicine, that is an individual approach recognizing that everybody is different is the way of the future. So today's topic is interesting for many reasons, not the least of which it takes a personalized approach to a person's health and it's thousands of years old. It's Ayurvedic medicine. It's been around for all that time and been in a constant state of development. It is so interesting for many reasons.

One, it recognizes that detoxifying cleaning of the system is important. Two, it recognizes that on the one hand, your genes are important but on the other hand, it's the things you expose your genes to. Nutritional, environmental, thoughts and lifestyle that determines how those genes are expressed. And three, it's a way of identifying variations in body types and subtypes.

My guest today is Dr Shankardev Saraswati. He was on a few episodes ago, talking about finding life's meaning. Go back and have a listen. It's a great episode. Shankardev is a medical practitioner, he trained in Sydney, Australia, has practised medicine for over 40 years. His practice currently focuses on psychotherapy and apart from a very eclectic mix of psychotherapy, his approach also incorporates meditation, yoga, nutritional medicine and of course Ayurvedic medicine in his practice.

He's also a great friend and we caught up for this interview in my home office, face to face, which I always enjoy with my guests if it can be arranged. It's not always easy. At some point, it may get into a lot of detail but don't be put off. Let it wash over you and realize that personalized medicine is far more complicated and involved than the simple disease symptom prescription model which characterizes our current chronic disease management system we call healthcare. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr Shankardev Saraswati.

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Welcome back to the show, Shankardev.

Dr Shankardev Saraswati:          Thanks, Ron.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Shankardev, last time we spoke, we touched on a subject which I think is of interest to most people and that is finding life's purpose.

Dr Shankardev Saraswati:          We did.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             And we talked about chakras and we talked about meditation. And we touched on Ayurvedic medicine and I wanted to get you back to explore that a little bit more. Can you give us a little bit of a historical perspective on Ayurvedic medicine?

Dr Shankardev Saraswati:          Sure. Well, the word Ayurveda, ayus, means life and Veda means knowledge. So it's the study of life, longevity and the things that prevent us from living full lives and having a healthy long lifespan, a healthspan. And it's been around for a long time. It's evolved out of the Vedic sciences, so the Vedas in India go back a long way and they are the Indian classical texts, the original texts, that describe all of the various sciences required for society to survive. So architecture, politics, war, health and everything. So the whole thing. And religious and spiritual studies as well.

Dr Shankardev Saraswati is a medical practitioner with over 40 years experience. He combines psychotherapy with meditation, yoga, nutritional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine in his practice. In this episode, we discuss the importance of personalised medicine for the future of healthcare and Shankardev explains the guiding principles behind Ayurvedic medicine.

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

For more information visit Dr Shankardev Saraswati website

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Dr Shankardev Saraswati is a medical practitioner with over 40 years experience. He combines psychotherapy with meditation, yoga, nutritional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine in his practice. In this episode, we discuss the importance of personalised medicine for the future of healthcare and Shankardev explains the guiding principles behind Ayurvedic medicine.

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

For more information visit Dr Shankardev Saraswati website

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In this episode of Unstress I visit Armidale and Uralla in New South Wales, where I speak to Karen Zirkler, the CEO of the Southern New England Land Care Group, and also organic cattle farmer Glenn Morris who manages Fig Tree Organics Farms. We discuss regenerative farming and the important role of land care.

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Southern New England Land Care Group website

Fig Tree Organic Farms website

Unstress episode with Tim Wright on using animals to regenerate the land

Unstress episode with Glenn Morris on the importance of soil

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstress, I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. In March this year, I had the pleasure, with my wife Annie, of visiting the Southern New England area around Armidale and Uralla in Northern New South Wales to give a talk and do a workshop with the Southern New England Land Care Group. It also involved spending a day visiting a 4,000-acre sheep and cattle farm owned by one of Australia's well known regenerative farmers, Tim Wright, on his property Lana. You can go back and listen to the interview I did with Tim earlier this year. It was an amazing day and we learned so much. Our guides were the CEO of the Southern New England Land Care Group, Karen Zirkler, and also organic cattle farmer Glenn Morris who manages Fig Tree Organics Farms which runs two properties near Grafton and Inverell, in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Not only did Tim, Karen and Glenn show us around but helped explain what it is we were looking at, like many of you I have driven through the country and looked at paddocks and saw some animals, cattle or sheep, and not given much thought to what I was really looking at. It's a bit like I think, going into an art gallery and walking through, making a mental note that you like this or you don't like that and then one day in an art gallery you just happen to eavesdrop on a guide explaining one painting. And you hear about its history, it's artist, the time in which it was painted, how various aspects of the painting make a social-political comment or has symbolism and suddenly this painting you would previously just walk past and barely notice takes on a new significance. And you reflect and you wonder about all those other paintings you've walked past. Well, having the land and farms explained, having grazing plans, water cycles, soils, hummus, biodiversity and much, much more explained to you is like having a work of art explained. And when it's well done it is a work of art.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Now, while we're on the day I had loads of questions, Tim Wright who's property, Lana, we visited explained lots of things and you can go back and listen to that episode, but I had lots of other questions and I wanted to know about land care so I spoke to Karen later on in this episode and I go on to speak also to Glenn. So I've got two conversations tied together here and he ran me through the history and ... of cattle in Australia and that chat follows Karen's. Look, I hope you enjoy this conversation, initially, I had with Karen Zirkler.

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hi, Karen, great to have you on the show.

Karen Zirkler:               Thank you very much for having me on the show, Ron.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Karen, you know we had this wonderful trip up to Armidale to the New England area and you and Glenn Morris were showing me and Annie around and we learned so much and it struck me that you being in your position in land care; it was just an opportunity for me to get to our listeners something about the history of what land care is about, how long it's been going, what are some of the issues. So I wondered if you might share with our listeners some of that information?

Karen Zirkler:               Sure. I'm not sure the breadth of your listeners, but I'll just assume-

Regenerative Agriculture and what this means for Land Care. In this episode of Unstress, I visit Armidale and Uralla in New South Wales, where I speak to Karen Zirkler, the CEO of the Southern New England Land Care Group, and also organic cattle farmer Glenn Morris who manages Fig Tree Organics Farms. We discuss regenerative farming and the important role of Land Care.

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For more information about Land Care visit Southern New England Land Care Group website

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Regenerative Agriculture and what this means for Land Care. In this episode of Unstress, I visit Armidale and Uralla in New South Wales, where I speak to Karen Zirkler, the CEO of the Southern New England Land Care Group, and also organic cattle farmer Glenn Morris who manages Fig Tree Organics Farms. We discuss regenerative farming and the important role of Land Care.

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

For more information about Land Care visit Southern New England Land Care Group website

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Nicole Bijlsma joins me today to discuss the importance of establishing a healthy home and work environment. As one of Australia's leading Building Biologists Nicole has a wealth of knowledge on how our homes can help or hinder our health. This is an incredibly important topic that is often overlooked by patients and practitioners.

Selected Links from the Episode

Nicole Bijslma website

Australian College of Environmental Studies

Unstress episode with Nicole Bijlsma part 1

Unstress episode with Nicole Bijslma part 2

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich.

Now, to be honest, this is a first. I'm actually quoting from the Old Testament. Yes, the book of Isaiah, as it turns out, taking Unstress Podcast to new levels. Here it is, "Put your own house in order." It actually gets a little more dramatic in the next line, and here it is, "Again for you are dying and will not live."

Wow, now that is a heavy message, but the first part is the theme of today's show. No, there will be no more Bible readings. The point is, you could be on the best diet in the world, eating organic, biodynamic food, taking the most expensive supplements, exercising, meditating, all which are great, but if your house is not in order, quite literally the foundations on which you are trying to build, rebuild or maintain your health, well, then all of those efforts may not pay the dividends they should. Enter the world of Building Biology.

Now, Building Biology is about creating healthy, beautiful and sustainable buildings in ecologically sound, socially connected communities in the selection of materials and the design of living environments, ecological, economic, social and social aspects are also considered. Now, that may seem a little bit distant from your own home, but it's not. It's not. There are in fact 25 guiding principles, so there is a lot to consider and there are a lot of things that can affect your health in ways you might not even have considered or imagined.

Who better to talk about these issues in the home, that may be affecting your health than Australia's leading Building Biologist, Nicole Bijlsma?

Now, Nicole's been on the show before. She's actually doing her PhD on this very topic. We've talked to her before, but today I thought she should just remind us, or for those new to this idea, enlighten us on just some of the things to consider in putting your own home in order. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Nicole Bijlsma.

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Welcome to the show, Nicole.

Nicole Bijlsma:             Hi, Ron. Good to be here again.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Yeah, always good to have you on. I love our conversations. I always learn so much.

Now listen, it occurs to me that people often are looking at their health, they go on diets, they eliminate food, they meditate, they exercise, they do everything and have blood tests. They're on medications and supplements, but some of them are just not getting better. And it occurs to me that the house in which they live is the problem. And, of course, that's very much what this conversation is about. How do we work out if our house is affecting us, who's susceptible?

Nicole Bijlsma:             Well, most people come to us as a building ... I'm a building biologist, and they come to us when they've gone everywhere else and they're not getting answers. I would argue your home and the built environment, whether it's the workplace or home, is probably contributing to most chronic illnesses. And that's a really big call. But in the last 20 years investigating this, it's really clear that we're exposed to many of our toxicants or manmade chemicals or allergens, electromagnetic fields, which have just escalated significantly and will continue to escalate. With the introduction of 5G enormously.

So most of the triggers of illnesses,

Nicole Bijlsma joins me to discuss the importance of establishing a healthy home and work environment. As one of Australia's leading Building Biologists Nicole has a wealth of knowledge on how our homes can help or hinder our health. This is an incredibly important topic that is often overlooked by patients and practitioners.

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

For more information visit Nicole Bijslma website

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