Steph Lowe joins me to discuss a real food approach to sports nutrition. Steph is a Sports Nutritionist who works with athletes at the top of their game. However, the lessons she shares in the episode are lessons for us all, even if you aren't an elite athlete. Steph's approach incorporates low carb and healthy fats, an approach that differs from the high carb recommendations traditionally promoted for athletes. We discuss the low-carb healthy fat approach and its effects on productivity and peak performance that is sustainable and low inflammatory, tools that we can all incorporate into our lives.

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Dr. Thomas Levy joins me to discuss the proper role of vitamin C and antioxidants in the treatment of a host of medical conditions and diseases. We also discuss the hidden epidemic of oral disease and the role it plays in our health.

Selected Links from the Episode

Dr. Thomas Levy website

Dr. Thomas Levy books

Unstress episode with Dr Lewis Ehrlich on oral health

Unstress episode with Dr Steven Lin on the dental diet

Unstress episode with Dr Sandra Kahn on narrow jaws

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Dr Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. All disease is caused by oxidative stress, all cancers are a focus of chronic inflammation and chronic oxidative stress. Too much calcium is a problem, too much iron is a problem. What are the four basic and must-have supplements? Why is oral health the hidden epidemic, what about vitamin C? Why has it been described as the universal panacea? Well, my guest today is Dr Thomas E. Levy.

Thomas is a board-certified cardiologist, the author of “Primal Panacea” and “Curing the Incurable - Vitamin C Infectious Diseases and Toxins” plus three other ground-breaking medical books. Thomas is one of the world's leading vitamin c experts and frequently lectures to medical professionals all over the globe including in Australia about the proper role of vitamin C and antioxidants in the treatment of a host of medical conditions and diseases.

I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr Thomas Levy.

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Welcome to the show Thomas.

Dr Thomas Levy: Thank you, I’m glad to be here.

Dr Ron Ehrlich: Thomas you have quite a journey through law, cardiology, you’ve written books on dental disease and the connection to health. It's quite a journey. Can you just run us through your own journey to this point?

Dr. Thomas Levy: Well, I was a traditional mainstream cardiologist up until about 1993 when I met Dr Hal Huggins in Colorado Springs and for a number of reasons I was open to a change and I wasn't anticipating on meeting somebody like Dr Huggins but anyway he invited me to this clinic to see what was going on and I guess you might say that was the beginning of the end or the beginning of the beginning because I saw a large number of really critically ill patients getting many hours of extensive dental work extractions etc. crowns all over that period of time and then feeling really great afterwards. It just doesn't add up to me because I knew kids in college that went and got a couple wisdom teeth out and they went home and went to bed for a week.

It just didn't add up and I said Hal what's going on here and Hal if you ever had a chance to know him had a pretty devilish sense of humour and a sarcasm not match by any and he just pointed to the IV and I said “Okay, if that's fine, I'm familiar with IVs”. You're saying an IV did it and he said: “Well, no, it's what's in it”. I said “Okay, I'll bite. What's in it?” And he said fifty grams of vitamin C. That caught me completely out of left field and I immediately resolved that I was going to start learning about vitamin C, all this history what it’s doing the literature etc.

Along with all the other stuff Hal had to offer knowledge-wise, I like to say that was the beginning of my real medical education that everything else had just been the preparation for. And so, over the course of the subsequent 23 or so years up until now, it's been quite a journey. A number of books, a number of projects, at one point in time I might begin working for Dr. Huggins as a consultant and he paid me well enough and I had enough time off that after watching all the brutal suits and everything else that he got harassed with so frequently then he had a lawyer on staff. I just decided that I was going to go ahead and get my law degree.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Of course, why not?

Dr. Thomas Levy: I look at these law books today and I don't know how I did it. I mean I just said you actually read that stuff and com...

Dr Thomas Levy discusses the proper role of vitamin C and antioxidants in the treatment of a host of medical conditions and diseases.

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Dr Thomas Levy discusses the proper role of vitamin C and antioxidants in the treatment of a host of medical conditions and diseases.

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lenn Morris, joins me to discuss the importance of soil in building resilience, improving the lands ability to absorb and store water, and improve the nutrient value of the land. Glenn is an organic beef farmer in Northern New South Wales who has studied agricultural science. Glenn has seen first hand the vulnerability of our land and the way sustainable agriculture cannot only regenerate it, but help it thrive.

Selected Links from the Episode

Glenn Morris Website

Unstress episode with Allan Savory on holistic management 

Unstress episode with Dr Charles Massey on regenerative agriculture

Unstress episode with Joel Salatin on sustainable farming

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. We hear the expression food is medicine. We also hear about the importance of the gut the second brain where 70% of our immune system resides how important our relationship is with our microbiome. We also hear about climate change. It's a huge question, political question, economic, environmental. And of course, in the eastern half of Australia, we are going through what some are calling the worst droughts in living memory.

There's, of course, a connection between all of this and it's very basic. We need healthy foods to be healthy and we need healthy soil to grow that healthy food in, not just for today but for the future as well. When it comes to soil it turns out that how we manage it how well we understand it, is critically important. Farmers are in charge of all of that. Often being advised by industry and regulatory bodies and academic institutions which in turn are all influenced by industry or a lot are. Sound familiar? Well, our health care could be said to be suffering from the same problems.

My guest today is organic farmer Glenn Morris whose organic beef farm is in the northern New South Wales area around Inverell. Like many farmers, Glenn studied agricultural science and observed what the various practices were doing and noted that there was a vulnerability inherent in our land and in how it was being managed. He decided to go back and study more by doing a master's in sustainable agriculture, in particular, the importance of the soil in building resilience, improving the lands ability to absorb and store water and improve the nutrient value of the land. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Glenn Morris.

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Welcome to the show Glenn.

Glenn Morris: Thank You.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Glenn you are a farmer in northern New South Wales and I was wondering if you could just share with our listener many of whom may not be out on the farm, living in the city and give us a bit of a backstory about where you are now and how you got there?

Glenn Morris: Basically, I'm living on a farm in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. We're just off the top of the range sort of heading west so we're about 40 kilometres just coming down the slopes basically it's a nice little in-between climate if you like from the real cold of the mountains and not quite as hot as the plains so quite a nice spot to live normally.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Is that where you grew up?

Glenn Morris: No, actually, Ron Osborn on a property down near Goulbourn but did at different circumstances as far as what have you, I ended up growing up in the city and then basically decided when I got to about 20 that I wanted to get back to farming and I've made a career out of farming ever since. I have just been working my way up.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: But your farm is not an ordinary farm. Well, I wish it was but tell us a little bit about what distinguishes your farm now?

Glenn Morris: It's sort of interesting, basically as I say I just sort of made a career out of farming. I was trained conventionally. I went to conventional Agriculture College and then the all the time that I was sort of learning new techniques and that I had this sort of I supp...

Glenn Morris, a farmer, discusses the importance of soil in building resilience, improving the lands ability to absorb and store water, and improve the nutrient value of the land and the way sustainable agriculture cannot only regenerate it but help it thrive.

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Glenn Morris, a farmer, discusses the importance of soil in building resilience, improving the lands ability to absorb and store water, and improve the nutrient value of the land and the way sustainable agriculture cannot only regenerate it but help it thrive.

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Professor Grant Schofield joins me to discuss obesity, low carb, fasting and confusing public health messages. As a professor of public health, Grant focuses on reducing the risk and eventual mortality and morbidity from obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In this episode he explains the complex role hormones play in our bodies, benefits of fasting/restricted eating and some of his top tips for getting started.

Selected Links from the Episode

Prof. Grant Schofield website

Prof. Grant Schofield books:

What the Fast?

What the Fat?

Unstress episode with Allan Savory on holistic management

Unstress episode with Cliff Harvey on carbohydrate appropriate diets

Unstress episode with Prof. Dominic D'Agostino on keto nutrition

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

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress” where each week we try to unpack another piece of the puzzle we call our modern life. I'm dr. Ron Ehrlich. Obesity, high fat, low carb, fasting, confusing health messages - Just a taste of what we're going to be talking about today. When it comes to public health messages who better to talk to then a professor of public health? My guest today is professor Grant Schofield from The Auckland University of Technology. He's director of the university's Human Potential Centre. His research and teaching interests are in well-being and chronic disease prevention, the theme I'm sure you can all relate to. His focus is on reducing the risk and eventual mortality and morbidity from obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Grant’s motto which I first heard about five years ago when I interviewed him on my old podcast is “Be the best you can be”. Now when I first heard that it really resonated with me and I've appropriated that for my own life ever since. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with professor Grant Schofield.

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Welcome to the show, Grant.

Professor Grant Schofield: Hi, Ron, thanks for having me.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: That’s a pleasure. Grant, there's so much I want to talk to you about but the first thing I wanted to know how does one grow up to be a professor of public health?

Professor Grant Schofield: That's a great question. I've often wondered that myself. In childhood everyone else is often aspiring to be policemen and firemen but not that I'll be a professor of public health. But I think just in the accidental since I was always a kid who was good at science and it was about all I was good at until I stopped trying at school and became mediocre. I enrolled in engineering which lasted about two weeks and then I just ended up doing a series of degrees in physiology and psychology because they seemed interesting. Then I couldn't think of a job so I thought well I should be a psychologist which turns out to be a hopeless profession at least for me because my tendency is to want to do the opposite of what you should do in psychology training which is “shut up and listen” and when the solution becomes obvious not to offer them or help people get to the solution. My natural tendency is to go straight for the solution which I think it's good in science but helpless for psychologists. That's how I ended up in this space and I've always enjoyed fitness and exercise and thinking about what we eat and in those just turned out to be the two major public health problems of our time. It was just lucky… Well not lucky, it's bad luck for humans but for me.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: No, no, no. Let our listener be the judge of that at the end of this podcast. But the solution-driven approach, of course, does lend itself you would think to public health but it's not always as simple as that either isn't really?

Professor Grant Schofield: No because we're still stuck in this sort of old thinking which I think was never driven by science. It's just not about calories,

Professor Grant Schofield joins me to discuss obesity, low carb, fasting and confusing public health messages. As a professor of public health, Grant focuses on reducing the risk and eventual mortality and morbidity from obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In this episode, he explains the complex role hormones play in our bodies, benefits of fasting/restricted eating and some of his top tips for getting started.

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Professor Grant Schofield joins me to discuss obesity, low carb, fasting and confusing public health messages. As a professor of public health, Grant focuses on reducing the risk and eventual mortality and morbidity from obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In this episode, he explains the complex role hormones play in our bodies, benefits of fasting/restricted eating and some of his top tips for getting started.

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

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