The NHPPA Podcast

A wide-ranging conversation with Udo Erasmus recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour in Vancouver. Udo reflects on his early life experiences as a war refugee and how they shaped his lifelong search for harmony, health, and truth. He recounts leaving medical school after realizing that medicine focuses on disease rather than understanding health, and later suffering pesticide poisoning while...

In this video, Shawn walks through the classic elements of a manufacturing consent exercise and shows how they are being applied to Canada’s cloned meat proposal. Instead of allowing Canadians to ask whether cloned meat should be permitted at all, regulators have created a decoy issue—labelling—to distract from the real ethical and safety questions. Shawn breaks down how outrage is deliberately ch...

In this video, Shawn walks through the classic elements of a manufacturing consent exercise and shows how they are being applied to Canada’s cloned meat proposal. Instead of allowing Canadians to ask whether cloned meat should be permitted at all, regulators have created a decoy issue—labelling—to distract from the real ethical and safety questions. Shawn breaks down how outrage is deliberately ch...

In this video, Shawn cuts through the noise surrounding Health Canada’s cloned meat proposal. While the public is being steered into debating labels, the real question is being buried: should cloned meat be allowed at all? Shawn explains how this decoy issue diverts Canadians from the core ethical and safety concerns, and why the absence of real evidence should alarm anyone who cares about the int...

A conversation with Maria recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour in Vancouver. Maria shares her health journey beginning in her late 50s, when she experienced extreme fatigue, insomnia, digestive issues, palpitations, breathing difficulties, cognitive impairment, and loss of consciousness. After years of medical testing that found “nothing wrong,” a naturopathic doctor identified mercury to...

Manufacturing Consent: Animal Welfare (Part 12/12) In this final part of the Manufacturing Consent series, Sean Buckley discusses the animal welfare concerns surrounding the cloning of farm animals and the potential introduction of cloned meat into the food supply. The video argues that cloning animals can lead to high failure rates, genetic defects, organ problems, and significant suffering for m...

In this short briefing, Shawn Buckley, President of the Natural Health Product Protection Association (NHPPA), explains why Canadians are now caught in a dangerous experiment. Health Canada is moving to approve cloned beef and pork for the food supply without human safety studies, while the European Union has already said “no” to cloned meat and is proposing a complete ban on the cloning of farm a...

A discussion with Jim Ervin, a musician and Hollywood sound producer, recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour in Vancouver. Jim shares his experience developing pneumonia that progressed into atrial fibrillation and fluid around the heart, leaving him severely short of breath and unable to function. He recounts repeated visits to drop-in clinics and hospitals, being banned from a clinic afte...

In this episode of NHPPA Talk Forum, Shawn Buckley sits down for an in-depth conversation with Jacinte Levesque Naessens, a long-time advocate for alternative and complementary health care and Director General of Cerbe Distribution. Jacinte shares her decades of experience working with natural and integrative health approaches, including her involvement with 714X, an immune modulator used in cases...

A Taste of Health Freedom in Mexico – from Stem Cells to Ivermectin — In this Health on the Hill article for Vitality Magazine, Shawn Buckley breaks down Canada’s restrictive, patent-driven health regulations with Mexico’s more open system, arguing that Canadians are forced to travel abroad for treatments like stem cells and Ivermectin because non-patented and natural therapies are effectively blo...

A conversation with Sonya McLeod recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour in Vancouver. Sonya shares her health journey beginning in 2004 as a young mother of two, when she experienced severe fatigue, shifting food allergies, hives, and an inability to care for her children despite being told medical tests were normal. After limited success with conventional care and restrictive dietary appro...

A discussion with Dean Camfferman, owner of Surrey Natural Foods, recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour. Dean shares his journey from teaching at a local college to running one of Canada’s longest-standing health food stores, founded in 1975 and under his leadership since 2011. Drawing from personal experience with extreme fatigue in his 40s, he discusses how deep breathing practices, nutr...

Interview with naturopathic doctor Penny recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour live event in Victoria, BC. Penny shares her personal health journey, discusses the long-term impact of antibiotics on gut health, candida overgrowth, and the naturopathic approach to healing. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe...

During the Victoria stop of the NHPPA’s cross-Canada Health Charter Tour, Shawn Buckley sits down for a live, on-stage interview with Jason Watkins to explore lived experience, personal health challenges, and the real-world consequences of Canada’s restrictive health regulations. The conversation highlights why Canadians’ personal health stories are so often censored or dismissed, and how individu...

Interview with Dr. Stephen Malthouse recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour live event in Victoria, BC. Dr. Malthouse discusses the principles of naturopathic medicine, the importance of health freedom, and the potential impacts of federal regulation on natural health products and patient choice. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/j...

This is the official replay of NHPPA Show — Episode 08, originally broadcast live on February 11, 2026. In this episode, Jason, Eric, Shawn, and Teresa return for the first full broadcast of the year to outline priorities for 2026, discuss upcoming campaigns, and address key developments affecting natural health products in Canada. Topics covered in this episode include: The current status of Bill...

This episode features a special guest: Nick Mancuso , the internationally acclaimed actor best known for starring in the television series Stingray and a long career across film and television.   In this wide-ranging and deeply personal conversation, Mancuso speaks candidly about health freedom, personal responsibility, and the cultural forces that discourage independent thought. Drawing on decade...

We’re pleased to announce the release of NHPPA Talk Forum — Episode 03, featuring an in-depth conversation between Shawn Buckley , President of the Natural Health Product Protection Association (NHPPA), and Conservative MP Blaine Calkins , the sponsor of the private member’s bill C-224.    In this episode, MP Calkins explains the intent behind Bill C-224, what it is designed to correct within the...

In the inaugural episode of the NHPPA Talk Forum, the conversation opens with a candid and informed discussion about Health Canada—how it operates, where it falls short, and how its decisions directly affect patients, practitioners, and access to natural health products. Joining the forum are Sonia Parmer , Vice President of Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs for the Canadian Health Food...

In this second episode of the NHPPA Talk Forum, Shawn Buckley, Natasha Morley-Lissoos R.TCMP, and Sean Caesar, ND, examine the growing crisis in Canada’s health system—and how regulatory overreach, rigid medical protocols, and institutional incentives are harming patients. The discussion explores real-world experiences with the conventional medical system, including delayed diagnoses, lack of indi...

NHPPA relies on donations from you! Please consider donating to ensure future access to natural health products https://www.nhppa.org/donate Listen to the replay of NHPPA’s extended Giving Tuesday broadcast from December 2. This special episode features national updates, petition and letter-writing guidance, and a full slate of guest conversations with Jason Watkin and Jill Hewlett, Gail West, Lea...

In episode 2 of The NHPPA Show, we tackle a critical question: How do we protect access to natural health products once and for all? In Buckley Unfiltered, Shawn Buckley explains why the Charter of Health is the most powerful solution we have. This proposed legislation would create a separate legal category for natural health products and traditional medicines, outside of Health Canada's control....

In this episode of The NHPPA Show, Shawn Buckley exposes how Health Canada is preventing Canadians from easily accessing truthful health information about natural health products. Canada’s healthcare system is already in crisis, and now Health Canada is making it harder to stay well. How do you make informed health decisions if you can’t easily access truthful health information?  In Canada, it's...

Connect with Shawn, Jason, Eric, and special guest, Teresa to find out more about The Health Charter Tour and updates on our efforts to protect your access to NHPs. The Feed Eric Clegg shares social media highlights and engagement numbers. Campaign Update Jason Dahl reveals some of the most impressive engagement numbers we’ve seen yet — a direct result of the Tour’s impact and your overwhelming pa...

A powerful replay of this month’s NHPPA Show If you missed this month’s live NHPPA Show, the Replay is now available — and it’s one of the most moving episodes we’ve ever produced. The heart of the broadcast was a special slideshow of the Health Charter Tour, with Shawn and Teresa walking us through the human stories behind each stop and each photograph. Hearing them reflect on the families, pract...