Dr Stephen Cabral, Naturopathic physician and qualified Ayurvedic practitioner joins me to discuss The Rain Barrel Effect. Stephen combines his years of training with a personal approach to healthcare to effectively treat the individual. Stephen brings to light ancient wisdom in a modern setting to help his patients get well, lose weight and feel alive again.

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Dr Shankardev Saraswati returns to Unstress to discuss a big question - finding life's purposes. A big question, I know! Shankardev is a Western medical doctor, yoga authority, therapist and teacher with over 40 years of experience. He is also a psychotherapist, author and runs many live and online workshops. Shankardev integrates Western mind-body medicine and psychotherapy with Eastern methods of mind-body development and awakening consciousness, making him a unique person to explore this big question.

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Dr Shankardev Saraswati returns to Unstress to discuss a big question - finding life's purposes. A big question, I know! Shankardev is a Western medical doctor, yoga authority, therapist and teacher with over 40 years of experience. He is also a psychotherapist, author and runs many live and online workshops. Shankardev integrates Western mind-body medicine and psychotherapy with Eastern methods of mind-body development and awakening consciousness, making him a unique person to explore this big question.

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Dr Peter Brukener, leading Sports Medicine physician and founder of SugarByHalf joins me to discuss reclaiming our health and his own discoveries around nutrition.

Selected Links from the Episode:

Dr Peter Brukner website

Dr Peter Brukner book - A Fat Lot of Good

Unstress episode with Cliff Harvey

Unstress episode with Grant Schofield

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Now, we are exploring fulfilling potential, and when it comes to sport, elite sportsmen and women are doing that in a very public way, and it's literally worth millions of dollars and often viewed by millions of people. Well, my guest today is one of the world's leaders in sports medicine, Dr. Peter Brukner. Now, I will let Peter give you his CV, and it's pretty impressive. He shares some great insights. Needless to say, when it comes to medical experts in Australia, or the world for that matter, Peter is up there with them. Now, when you think about public health messages over the last 40 years, you might be excused for feeling a little confused. And as you hear how unhealthy we are as a society, and how unhealthy we've become, you might wonder what has been going on, and as you will hear, you are not alone Apart from the wonderful insights into the world of sport, Peter also underwent a personal epiphany. Some seven years ago, after many years at a very senior level in sports medicine, and at the age of 60, faced with some health challenges himself ... look, there is just so much in this episode. Let's get started. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr. Peter Brukner.

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Welcome to the show, Peter.

Dr Peter Brukner:              My pleasure.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Peter, you've had an amazing association with elite sporting teams, and I sense from having just having spoken to you a few times, you're a very modest man, but could you indulge us a little and give us a brief history of how you got into sports medicine and some of the teams and sports you've been associated with?

Dr Peter Brukner:              Sure. Well, I guess sport's has always been my passion, for some reason, I don't really know why. My parents are quite normal, and they didn't have that obsession with sport that I did. But right from a kid I was always really interested in sport and loved either playing or watching or reading about sport and so on. So I guess no one was particularly surprised when I got into ... I finished my medical degree and finished up in sports medicine. And sports medicine was just sort of starting really in those days. I've been involved in establishing sports medicine as a recognized medical specialty over the last couple of decades and so on. So it's been quite an interesting journey.

Dr Peter Brukner:              But along the way, I started off, probably the first professional team I got involved with is in the AFL, in Melbourne. You know, if you're a sports doctor in Melbourne it's hard to avoid the AFL. It was the VFL in those days, which dates me a little bit. But I was a club doctor at Melbourne for some years. The Melbourne supporters out there would realize when I say that it was a long time ago, when I say that every year I was there we were in the finals. And that's happened rarely for Melbourne the last 20 or so years, so that dates me a little bit.

Dr Peter Brukner:              So, that was in the late 80s. And then around that time I got involved in a number of other national teams, swimming, and hockey. And then my first long association with Olympic teams was in athletics. I was the national athletics team doctor for 10 years, right through the 90s. And did a whole bunch of world championships and Olympic games. I went to two Olympic Games, to the Atlanta games in 1996, and I was fortunate enough to be involved in the Sydney Olympi...

Dr Peter Brukener, leading Sports Medicine physician and founder of SugarByHalf joins me to discuss reclaiming our health and his own discoveries around nutrition.

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Dr Peter Brukener, leading Sports Medicine physician and founder of SugarByHalf joins me to discuss reclaiming our health and his own discoveries around nutrition.

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Tim Wright regenerative farmer, holistic manager, educator and soon to be published author joins me to discuss regenerative agriculture. There are important things to learn from this episode, whether you are living in the country or city, we are all dependent on agriculture for the food we consume. Tim's family have been connected with the land since the first settlers, so he has deep roots with the land. Today, Eastern Australia is going through the worst drought in our history, if ever there was a time to build resilience this is it.

Selected Links from the Episode

Unstress episode with Allan Savory on holistic land management

Unstress episode with Dr Charles Massy on regenerative agriculture

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello, and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Identifying and minimizing the effect of stress on our health, and then focusing on pillars of health to build resilience is a theme we revisit in different forms on this podcast. Also, exploring what 'holistic' actually means is another one. I'm also pretty passionate about increasing the understanding of those of us in the city as to what goes on for people in the country. Growing the food, the nutrient dense food, and ideally low or no chemical food we need to be healthy. Well, my guest today is Tim Wright, regenerative farmer, holistic manager, educator, and soon to be author ... a published author, whose family has been connected with the land since the time of the first settlers in Australia. Living on the land and managing that land in Australia's climate is challenging at the best of times. I mean, I've lost count of the droughts that have occurred in the last 50 or 60 years, but today eastern Australia is going through the worst drought in our history. So, if there was ever a time to build resilience, or to hope you already had done it, this would have to be it. There are some important lessons to learn, and things to be aware of, so I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Tim Wright.

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Welcome to the show, Tim.

Tim Wright:                  Thank you. Yeah.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Tim, I wanted to talk to you today about regenerative agriculture and holistic management of the land, but I think it would be good to set the scene, 'cause you come from a long line of farmers, and I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about that story, a little bit about the traditional approach to farming in Australia.

Tim Wright:                  Well, gee, we go back a bit there, Ron. My family comes back through a long line. I guess they're the first settlers. They brought the first Herefords into Australia. They also started the first winery at Wyndham Estate Winery. That's the oldest winery in Australia. And my family, Wright married a Wyndham, and that's how it started. Then they went to Queensland and then came back to the Northern Tablelands, because of the climate I guess. And they settled on the eastern side.

Tim Wright:                  I guess my family has been in the agricultural side for quite a few generations, really. And on the closest side to my family, my grandfather was involved with the University of New England, and he was the chancellor there for a number of years, and he instigated Rural Science, the degree, along with a couple of other farmers as well. But, he was one of the main ones behind it with Professor Bill McClymont, who's now deceased, but [crosstalk 00:03:11].

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             I know that name very well because of two very dear friends of mine, Vicki and Tim Poulter, Vicki McClymont, of course. It runs in the history.

Tim Wright:                  That's right, yeah. Yeah, so my father got on well with Bill, and I think ... We're talking about agriculture and where it's sitting, I think it was on the right path, definitely, back in those days, 'cause they were teaching ...

Tim Wright regenerative farmer, holistic manager, educator and soon to be published author joins me to discuss regenerative agriculture. There are important things to learn from this episode, whether you are living in the country or city, we are all dependent on agriculture for the food we consume. Tim's family have been connected with the land since the first settlers, so he has deep roots with the land. Today, Eastern Australia is going through the worst drought in our history, if ever there was a time to build resilience this is it.

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Tim Wright regenerative farmer, holistic manager, educator and soon to be published author joins me to discuss regenerative agriculture. There are important things to learn from this episode, whether you are living in the country or city, we are all dependent on agriculture for the food we consume. Tim's family have been connected with the land since the first settlers, so he has deep roots with the land. Today, Eastern Australia is going through the worst drought in our history, if ever there was a time to build resilience this is it.

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Professor Fred Provenza joins me to discuss behaviour-based management of landscapes and we discuss his new book - Nourishment: What Animals can teach us about rediscovering our nutritional Wisdom. In addition to wisdom from animals, Fred explains how much we have to learn from plants too.

Selected Links from the Episode

Fred Provenza's book

Unstress episode with Dr Charles Massy on regenerative agriculture

Unstress episode with Allan Savory on holism

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:  Hello! Welcome to Unstress. My name is Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Today is a big and very important episode. Well, they’re actually all important. So I want to get right down to it. My guest today is Professor Fred Provenza. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Ecology at Utah State University.

For the last 30 years, Fred and his research group have produced groundbreaking research that has laid the foundations for what is now known as Behavior-based Management of Landscapes. You don't have to be out on the land. Your landscape goes on in your own house. So listen up.

That work has inspired researchers in many diverse disciplines, including ecology, human and animal nutrition and biopsychology, animal welfare, landscape restoration, sociology, eco development and much, much more. Together with colleagues and graduate students, he has been an author or co-author of 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has been an invited speaker at over 325 international meetings. When I spoke to him, he was in Montana, USA and I was in Sydney, Australia. I know that doesn't constitute an international meeting but we certainly enjoyed talking to each other.

He has recently released a fabulous book called, Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom. It turns out they are much smarter than we give them credit for. We do, in fact, have much to learn incidentally. As you can hear, plants are also pretty smart too. I’ll let Fred explain. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Professor Fred Provenza.

 

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Welcome to the show, Fred!

 

Prof. Fred Provenza:   Thank you very much, Ron! Wonderful to be here with you.

Dr Ron Ehrlich: Now, Fred, we are going to be talking about this wonderful, wonderful book called, Nourishment. Before we jump in, I wondered if you might share with our listeners a little bit about your journey which has brought you to this point professionally, personally.

Prof. Fred Provenza: Happy to do that. For me, it starts as a young fellow with just an absolute fascination with nature and natural kinds of things, especially back in those days: wild animals, anything that moved whether it was an insect, a bird or a mammal, I was just fascinated with those kinds of things.

So I often tell people, “For me, growing up there were only three seasons: hunting, fishing here in the US and then skiing. Those were the three seasons for me. It was a natural then when I went to college to enroll in Wildlife Biology where I was able to learn so many things about ecology, plants and how they work, and animals. It was just amazing.

At the same time, I was working on a ranch in Colorado, in the central part of the state, in the heart of the mountains there, and just absolutely loving and learning about that part of things: working with sheep, cattle, goats, irrigating crops, harvesting. It was wonderful. The two things really came together for me.

When I finished school at Colorado State University, I really didn’t know what to do next though. I knew I wasn't going to be a wildlife biologist; I don't know why. I just knew. The old fellow that I talked about in the book, Henry Deluke and his wife, Rose, who became like parents to my wife and I actually, they encouraged us to just come there. They needed someone to run the ranch year round. So I did that for two years and just took a little time to ponder....