Wise Traditions

Life is complicated and challenging. There is beauty and heartache...and somehow also beauty IN the heartache. In a timely message, Tara Couture, the author of "Radiance of the Ordinary", communicates how she processes and manages to embrace it all.

On Tara's Slowdown Farmstead in Canada, she has dealt with the mundane -- from an ornery cow to issues obtaining raw milk -- to the unthinkable -- including th...

In April 2025, the Idaho Medical Freedom Act was passed. Leslie Manookian of the Health Freedom Defense Fund crafted the legislation and lobbied for it to become law, in order to protect residents of Idaho from being fired, excluded, or discriminated against for not taking or using a medical intervention. What if you could pass similar legislation where you live? Would you like insights on how to preserve medical freed...

Traditional diets maximized nutrients. Modern diets minimize them. Our current health crisis stems from our departure from traditional food and health ways – both how we raise our livestock and grow our produce, to what we do to it before it reaches our plate.

Sally Fallon Morell, the President and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains where we've gone wrong and what we can do to rectify it...

If it were ONLY yoga pants and Invisalign interfering with our hormonal health, it might not be too hard to avoid them and move on. But there are many more products and protocols--including plastic, pesticides, and mammograms--that throw our health out of whack. Patricia Luccardi today exposes numerous sources of toxins, PFAs (forever chemicals), and radiation that disrupt healthy hormonal function.

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A teacher offers a culinary class at a traditional urban high school in Ohio. There is a waiting list to be in the class. What gives?! How is this teacher making real food – preparing it, cooking it, and eating it – cool? Leona Vrbanac shares her secrets and tips in today's episode. She explains how she helps teens move from embracing junk to nourishing themselves with food that they harvest and learn to prepare themse...

Naysayers suggest that organic, regenerative farming is impractical, expensive, and less productive than conventional farming methods. Farmer Bob Quinn has been at it for over 40 years and he is convinced that not only is organic and regenerative farming is possible, it produces greater yields and can be more profitable.

He tells numerous stories today from his own experience and from the farmers he's ment...

Arthritis. Acne. Colitis. Celiac's. This is just the beginning of a long list of ailments that clay can address. Medicinal clay has been used historically by people around the world to remedy a variety of illnesses. Taken internally or applied externally, the results are astounding. Neal Bosshardt expounds on how he got over his initial skepticism to embrace the healing properties of this natural wonder!

What does 5G do to our health? What about cell phones and other radiation? And why is it that we cannot advocate for the removal of cell towers around us on health grounds? Attorney Odette Wilkens is the president, general counsel and co-founder of The National Call for Safe Technology. Today she offers studies about the negative impact of radiation all around us. And she also tells how she personally has been affected...

Provision 453 of the current House Appropriations bill for FY 2026 will create, in effect, a kind of liability shield for pesticide companies, protecting them from lawsuits. This means that if you are made sick by their products you will have no real legal recourse, even though scientific evidence points to the harm caused by their products.

Today, molecular toxicologist Dr. Alexandra Muñoz helps us examin...

If you got one of the COVID shots, you're not stuck. Your body has the ability to detoxify. Where to start, though? Our guest today, Christian Elliot of Healing United, suggests avoiding what he calls "biochemical whack-a-mole". Instead, he recommends that you purify and nourish the body to support its innate detoxing capabilities.

He begins by helping us understand what was in the shots in the first place...

Mike Keen came up with the idea of a kayak expedition off the coast of Greenland before he had any clue about how transformative it would be for his life and health and worldview! Today, he dives into what went down—what it was like eating the traditional Inuit diet (including fermented seal!), how his body responded to the kayaking and change in diet, and insights gathered by the microbiologists examining his stool sa...

What if we considered a new/ancient approach for healing ourselves...and the land? Anna Chaney went out on a limb to try to find answers for her own health and stumbled upon "energy healing." And while it may sound "woo woo", energy medicine helped her resolve many chronic conditions that were plaguing her.

Anna then went on to implement ancient practices for the healing of her land. She started prioriti...

Most medical professionals don't read the latest studies. A lot of modern medicine is based on bad science (B.S.). Conventional medicine was never set up to promote good health; it was meant for profit.

If these statements shock you, that is part of the point. Our guests today, Dr. Jeremy Ayres and John Gusty, are co-authors of "The Red Pill Revolution" and they are on a mission to uncover t...

Why are more and more young people struggling with back pain, injuries, and chronic joint issues? Bam LionHeart suggests that just like we need to adopt a more natural, ancestral diet, we need to get back to natural movement patterns to reclaim our freedom to move with ease and pain-free. Bam is a natural movement coach and the founder of Primal Movement and today he offers insights on what is the source of our pain an...

The water in and around us is negatively impacted by EMFs and toxins in the environment. This makes the water chaotic in structure and less health promoting. But what if we could help restructure it so that it could do us good, once again? Mario Brainović suggests that coherent, properly structured water improves gut health, increases energy and can actually reverse your biological age. He talks about how he and his te...

Can food abundance bring about peace? Jim Gale, the man behind Food Forest Abundance, believes it can. Today he discusses his big, lofty vision, along with practical ways we can get growing! He explains how permaculture works and how we can begin growing food wherever in the world we live to create the abundance that could eliminate much sickness and division. He explains the benefits that gardening can bring for every...

You might think you would never get botox, but the allure of looking younger can get to just about anyone! This is what happened to today's guest, a self-described crunchy mom who decided to get the teeniest amount of botox treatment to diminish fine lines around her eyes. And it totally wrecked her health.

Megan McCue is the author of Notox and Me Tox Pretty. And today she explains how that single treatme...

Have you ever felt addicted to ultra-processed foods---like you knew they were bad for you, but you couldn't stop indulging? This happened to our guest today who at age 15 weighed over 300 lbs. And she didn’t know who she was anymore.

Today, Penelope Popken is 19 and she's overcome her addictive behavior.

During this revealing interview, mother and daughter discuss what led to Penelope’s strug...

Wouldn't it be helpful to have straightforward nutrition and lifestyle advice for enhancing fertility? And to know what to avoid that may hinder your ability to get pregnant? Lily Nichols offers just what you're looking for on today's podcast. Lily is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and the author of Real Food for Fertility.

Today, she goes over her recommended macro and micronutrient ratios for a heal...