THE MASON TAYLOR SHOW
Potentially returning soon
The Mason Taylor Show has been resting, and it may well be on its way back. The archive of past episodes lives below in the meantime.
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Evolutionary Herbalism with Sajah Popham
If you’re into herbs then you’ll want to listen to this. Sajar is an epic herbalist and is having the conversations about herbal practice that I love and allows us to get into closer relation with the herbs and exactly how they are working in the body. Get ready to stop being confused by the excessive information about herbs in the textbooks and learn how to begin understanding the patterns that herbs make in our bodies.
If you’re into herbs then you’ll want to listen to this. Sajar is an epic herbalist and is having the conversations about herbal practice that I love and allows us to get into closer relation with the herbs and exactly how they are working in the body. Get ready to stop being confused by the excessive information about herbs in the textbooks and learn how to begin understanding the patterns that herbs make in our bodies.
In this podcast we cover:
- Sajah’s background and introduction to herbalism
- The concept of spagyrics medicine and its applications
- Going beyond practicing “armchair herbalism”
- Shared themes amongst ancient medicine systems
- The three doshas of Ayurveda
- The ambiguous notion of achieving balance to reach ultimate health
- The importance of lifestyle modification alongside prescribing herbs
- Wholistic and reductionist paradigms within herbal medicine
- Moving back toward “energetic & constitutional prescription” of plants
- Integrative medicine and the bridge between ancient & modern healthcare
- The “North and South” of herbs
Bio:
Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is a student of the universal truths found within both ancient and modern herbal traditions from around the world. The focus of his work is on integrating ancient teachings for a new paradigm of plant medicine, one that is truly holistic in its honoring of the spirit, energetics, and body of both people and plants. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north and south, above and below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology. Sajah’s vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physiological healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness, for a truly holistic practice of plant medicine. Sajah’s teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honour and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves. He lives in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his art.
Resources:
www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
www.organic-unity.com
The Plant Path (iTunes Podcast)
Healing Lyme with Amina Eastham-Hiller
Lyme Disease is running rampant in Australia, but what is this infection? Amina Eastham-Hillier is a naturopath and herbalist who specialises in treating stealth infections, especially the Lyme bacteria and its co-infections and has lots to say on the topic. Ever wonder why it's so difficult to heal this illness? Join us as we go deep into exploring the nature of this stealth pathogen and the process that it undertakes while infecting the body; and no, it isn't the same for everybody and depends on which co-infections have hit you and where in the body presents the greatest weakness. Treatment for Lyme takes time, however as you'll discover in this interview it can be done with an experienced team, clever strategy, time and tenacity. Enjoy diving deep into this epic conversation about healing Lyme.
Lyme Disease is running rampant in Australia, but what is this infection? Amina Eastham-Hillier is a naturopath and herbalist who specialises in treating stealth infections, especially the Lyme bacteria and its co-infections and has lots to say on the topic. Ever wonder why it's so difficult to heal this illness? Join us as we go deep into exploring the nature of this stealth pathogen and the process that it undertakes while infecting the body; and no, it isn't the same for everybody and depends on which co-infections have hit you and where in the body presents the greatest weakness. Treatment for Lyme takes time, however as you'll discover in this interview it can be done with an experienced team, clever strategy, time and tenacity. Enjoy diving deep into this epic conversation about healing Lyme.
In this podcast you will learn all about:
- Orchestrating the balance of commensal and dysbiotic gut bacteria
- The gap between allopathic and complementary medicine in treating chronic illness
- Functional testing and its place in diagnosis and treatment of stealth pathogens
- Gene testing and the realm of nutrigenomics in preventing chronic disease
- The gut microbiome of indigenous cultures VS western society
- Borrelia in Australia and abroad
- Lyme co infections such as bartonella, babesia and their clinical manifestations
- Testing for lyme and co-infections in Australia
- The interaction between virus, bacteria and biofilm
- The road to recovery from acute and chronic lyme illness
Bio:
Amina Eastham-Hillier, N.D is a Qualified Naturopath, Medical Herbalist & Nutritionist and has worked in the Health industry for over 24 years. Starting from her own clinic in England, she gained her Bachelor degree in Australia and has travelled extensively throughout Asia, spending a year studying & working in Japan, and recently a year in China studying herbal medicine. Amina is currently studying for a Nutrigenomics Diploma to further understand genetic susceptibilities of Lyme disease and mould illness.
As an International Presenter, Amina’s mission is to educate naturopaths, doctors, and patients about the importance of Integrated Medicine in treating Lyme disease, mould illness, & other stealth infections. She has presented at 26 International conferences & events in the last 4 years and has just published her book, Lyme Natural – Integrated Naturopathy for Lyme disease & its co-infections.
Resources:
www.lymenatural.com
www.noosaholistichealth.com
www.sacredearthmusic.com/downtoearth
Lyme Disease in Australia with Peter Dobie
Since getting bitten by a Lyme infected tick last year I’ve been very interested in helping inform people about what exactly this infection is, the controversy surrounding it and how to treat it (big discussion). Peter Dobie has been doing all these things for many years in Australia, in fact he’s one of the longest serving integrative doctors in Oz and he a lot of insights and practical information to share in regards to the research behind Lyme, getting it acknowledged by the modern medical system (because it IS here), treatment options and heaps more. If you’re in an area where Lyme is prevalent, or plan to travel to any such places, it is important to be aware of what to do in the instance of infection, this podcast lays it out.
Since getting bitten by a Lyme infected tick last year I’ve been very interested in helping inform people about what exactly this infection is, the controversy surrounding it and how to treat it (big discussion). Dr Peter Dobie has been doing all these things for many years in Australia, in fact he’s one of the longest serving integrative doctors in Oz and he a lot of insights and practical information to share in regards to the research behind Lyme, getting it acknowledged by the modern medical system (because it IS here), treatment options and heaps more. If you’re in an area where Lyme is prevalent, or plan to travel to any such places, it is important to be aware of what to do in the instance of infection, this podcast lays it out.
In this podcast we dive straight into:
- Lyme controversy in Australia and abroad
- methods of Lyme transmission
- Prevelance on the east coast of Australia
- Borreliosis vs lyme-like illness
- Antibiotics in acute and chronic lyme disease
- Herbal medicine protocols
- Mason’s account of his journey back to health post tick bite
- Lyme testing in Australia
- Neurological manifestations of lyme
- The stealth nature of these infections and ability to evade our immune system
- Biofilm eradication
- Herxheimer reactions
- DIY “Tick Kits”
- What to do if you become ill after being tick bitten
Dr Peter Dobie studied medicine at the University of Tasmania. He is one of the most experienced doctors in Australia in the field of integrative medicine. He specialises in nutritional medicine, anti-ageing medicine, the treatment of chronic fatigue, the treatment of adrenal fatigue, thyroid disorders, bio-identical hormone therapy, intravenous vitamin therapy, allergy testing and treatment, chelation therapy, and the treatment of Lyme disease. Dr Dobie’s emphasis is very much on the promotion of wellness. He takes a thorough and holistic approach to treating chronic health problems, as well as providing preventive medical care. He incorporates into his practice the latest advances in biochemistry, endocrinology and clinical nutrition, and prefers to prescribe non-drug treatments wherever possible.
Dr Peter Dobie
MBBS, MACNEM, ABAARM, MCPSA, MAIMA
Resources:
www.drpeterdobie.com
Social Media and Original Sin Part 2 with Tristan Bray
PART 2
The world of social media is here, it’s pervasive and it is not going away; but how do we integrate with it in a healthy and sustainable manner? It’s this questions that lead me to sitting down with Tristan Bray to explore some of the physiological effects that Instagram & Facebook have when in excess and some very interesting distinctions that can help us to stay centred in navigating this vast, polarising, deep, shallow, complex, silly and meaningful virtual world. Get ready to get some wake up calls around the nature of this virtual world and learn the dynamic ways that it is being used by people and organisations around the world. Social media often sits on a knifes edge between being medicine for the world or poison (like many herbs based on their dose), let’s explore where that dynamic line exists.
Part 2 of this social media epic and we’re going deeper. Tristan and I couldn’t contain the amount of info we wanted to share with you in one interview and this episode contains all the juice that flowed forth as we started to jam. Get ready to change the relationship you have with social media.
In this instalment, we pick it up and run with the following topics:
- Creative exercise as part of upgrading attention span and cognitiion
- Social media excess and the distortion created by it
- Psychiatry and pharmaceutical withdrawal
- Navigating past trollers in the cyber world
- Letting go of social media's unwritten laws and rigor
- What we see VS what is reality through the social media lens
- Vulnerability in the social media world
Tristan has been a Regression Therapist for ten years. He brings his in depth background in Psychotherapy, Meditation, Quantum Healing, Cell Biology, Epigenetics, Kinesiology, Psychopharmacology, Sexual Health, Diet, Detox, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Taoism, Shamanism, Entheogens, Chi Gung, Kung Fu and Modern Medical Science to his clients, talks and workshops. He currently shares his skills as a therapist, life coach and counsellor.
Throughout his twenties Tristan has studied internationally in the healing arts. He is passionate in reminding people, that the human capacity for healing is limitless. Tristan helps to open his client’s minds to how many natural super abilities that we all possess to enhance our life that have been squashed out of the mainstream belief system by reductionist scientific dogma and disempowerment religions.
Tristan’s healing treatments, seminars and workshops are primarily focused around clearing trauma and sharing why this is so important to all of us. Trauma is the biggest cause of ill health in our world because it often will permanently change the body’s physiology, emotions and spiritual outlook if not released. Much of modern medicine looks at putting a ‘band aid effect’ over the current effect of trauma as opposed to clearing it, back at the creation point.
Website links:
Tristan Bray Website
Tristan Bray Facebook
Instagram: #anopportunitytoheal
Enjoy!