Unstress with Dr Ron Ehrlich

Throughout the pandemic, there has been a question that has been on many of our minds, “does natural immunity still exist?” That’s the topic for this week’s episode. In my conversation with Dr Olivia Lesslar, we discuss the importance of nutrition in developing immunity to disease, what can be done nutritionally, the importance of sleep, the importance of light therapy and...

In this Healthy Bite, we are going to focus on personalised medicine. If you listen to your body, look back and review your family history, and we do get this report card in every single day, which gives us a clue as to how healthy we are, how our digestive system is doing, whether we are in good balance with our microbiome. Tune in as we also discuss the highlights of my conversation with Gerald...

Have you ever heard of ubiquinol? Would you ever use it? If you’ve ever considered using it or are unsure if it’s for you, then this is the episode you’ve been waiting for. In this episode, we are continuing our journey through biochemistry. Understanding how our body works means realising that it’s not just medication that will help us get better (if we’re unwel...

Hello and welcome to Healthy Bite. In this week's episode, I spoke to science writer Dr Todd Penberthy, and we covered quite a range of topics. He's had some amazing mentors in his life. He alerted me to Vitamin B3, the legendary doctor Abram Hoffer, who is the Father of Integrative Psychiatry and the work of a South African doctor called Dr Shankar Chetty. And Todd is very passionate about his sc...

Hello and welcome to another Unstress. The science in medicine is our topic today, and my guest is Todd Penberthy. Todd has a PhD in Research and Scientific Research. He's a science writer, his subjects of interest include Diabetes, Oncology, Integrative Psychiatry, which is what we touch on in this podcast. We talked a lot about the power of a particular nutrient, I won’t spoil it for you....

Hello and welcome to another Healthy Bite. Now this week, I had the pleasure of speaking to Admiral Chris Barrie. Chris was the Chief of the Defence Force from 1998 to the year 2002. It was such a great discussion. We talked about PTSD. Chris shared with me, which was rather surprising, that every Australian is affected to some degree by this condition because so many people suffer from it. And it...

Hello and welcome to Unstress. Now, this week's episode is about PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), and we are going to learn what a huge and growing problem this is. Something that affects almost every Australian in one way or another.  My guest for today is Admiral Chris Barrie. Admiral Barrie retired from over 41 years of active service in the Royal Australian Navy, and as the Chief of...

Welcome to another Unstress Summer Series. In this episode, Grant Hilliard joins me to discuss being an ethical omnivore. Grant is the co-author of the wonderful book 'The Ethical Omnivore' and co-owner of a fantastic butcher in Sydney - Feather and Bone. Grant champions regenerative agriculture and whole animal consumption throughout his work. In this episode, we discuss honouring the whole anima...

Hello and welcome to another Summer Series. Today we are going to be talking about Sleep Wrecked Kids: Helping Parents Raise Happy, Healthy Kids, One Sleep At A Time. We’re going to be talking about myofunctional therapy, which is a term some of you may not be familiar with. But after this podcast, you will be and you’ll realize its relevance to each and every one of you. My guest toda...

Welcome to another episode of the Summer Series. Today, we are going to talk about a very interesting subject. The secret to living a healthier life is breathing well for as long as you can, and there is a difference between breathing and breathing well. We dip into our archives this week to bring you a series on the importance of breath. Todays' episode, Dr Rosalba Courtney, joins us to explore l...

Welcome to another episode of Summer Series. Today, we are going to explore a key deficiency. Now, we’ve often talked about the importance of soils and one of the biggest deficiencies in soils are magnesium, selenium, and zinc. And magnesium, as you will hear, is a critically important element to so many functions within the body, over a thousand functions within the body. My guest today is...

Welcome to another episode of Unstress Summer Series. Well, today we are going to explore two themes, actually, one about being hooked on devices and programmes and our modern world, and the other is how to become “indistractable.” Do you have trouble focusing or working without distraction? Well if so, this week’s episode is for you. I spoke with Nir Eyal. Nir writes, consults,...

Welcome to another Summer In today’s episode, I am talking about the elephant in the room. The confusing and often contradictory public health messages. How these are crafted and why. The science in medicine and who or what informs that. Is that always evidence-based? And the positive opportunities out of this pandemic. As I honestly believe we could emerge from this pandemic reflecting on o...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Summer Series. Well, today we’re going to explore Digital Nutrition, digital superfoods, and how to deal with the digital world we find ourselves in. My guest today is Jocelyn Brewer. Jocelyn is a registered psychologist who is changing the way we think about how we use digital technology. Her philosophy of “digital nutrition” aims to o...

Welcome to another episode of the Summer Series. This week, Dr Howard Hindin joins me to talk about "GASP" or airway health as a hidden path to wellness, the yin and yang of heart rate variability, and his 4 pillars of health. A graduate of New York University College of Dentistry, Dr. Howard Hindin is trained in all aspects of general dentistry, with an early emphasis on surgery and endodontia. S...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Summer Series. Today, we are going to explore immune function with Dr Michael Gonzalez. Michael is a professor at the Nutritional Program School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico. In our talk, we discuss ways to optimize immune function best, the influence of vitamin C on cancer treatment, and explore the long-term complexities involved in unde...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Unstress Summer Series. Today, I want to turn our focus on regenerative agriculture. In line with this, I'd like to look back and share my conversation from September last year with Helena Norberg-Hodge.  Have you heard the expression “Think globally, act locally”? Today, we are going to explore both terms: Globalisation and Localis...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Unstress Summer Series. This time, I want to turn the focus to where our public health messages are coming from. For this, I’d like to share my conversation from earlier this year with Belinda Fettke.  Belinda is the wife of Gary Fettke,  an Orthopaedic Surgeon practising in Launceston, Tasmania, who has come under scrutiny for his r...

Hello and welcome to the Unstress Summer Series. For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing with you some of my favourite episodes from the archives. And for our first episode of our summer series, it feels appropriate to share my conversation from earlier this year with Dr Richard Cheng.  A practising physician, public health educator and public speaker whose work integrates conventional...

Well, 2021. What a year. Now, one of the things that I have always prided myself on in the years that we've just had is that we've always promoted the idea of improving immune function, defining and redefining what holistic means, and so much more.. This is the last episode of the year, and we've covered some amazing territories, I've had many fabulous guests.. let us go back and see what a year i...

Today, we are going to be exploring the pandemic and immune function, and we are going to be talking to one of the legends in Australian health care, Professor Ian Brighthope. Now, Ian is the founder of and the past president of ACNEM - Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. As you will hear in the episode, Ian has a very definite view about why this has been handled, he r...

Welcome to another Healthy Bite. This week's episode was with Gill McEwen who has extensive in history experience in both the pharmaceutical and vitamin supplement industry. Starting as a sales rep at 21 years of age for the pharmaceutical industry, then going on to be involved in education within that industry before moving to Group Director Of Education at Blackmores. It was interesting to hear...

This week on the podcast we are going to gain a little bit of an insight, particularly into two industries. One is the pharmaceutical industry and the other is the vitamin industry. They have a lot of similarities and differences. My guest today is Gill McEwen. Gill has been the Global Director of Education at the Blackmores Institute. Gill has extensive commercial and education experience in buil...

Hello, and welcome to another Healthy Bite. In this week's episode, we welcomed back Dr Christo Miliotis. If you're interested in climate change, your own health, and that of your family and friends, in ensuring that we have quality nutrient-dense foods for generations to come, then you should be engaged as well with this issue of regenerative agriculture and soil. We touched on so many topics, it...

Today on Unstress, I spoke to Dr Christo Miliotis. If you're a regular listener to this podcast, we did a programme before about his book, Diet for a Cool Planet. Christo is a doctor and scientist who has devoted his life and work to biodynamics. Christo is always at the cutting edge of how to incorporate agriculture, climate, building, the built environment. He has a holistic view of the world an...