raw: season 2

Featuring
 Emeritus Professor Stephen Myers, Judy Jacka OAM, and natural health researchers and practitioners.

by Greta Puls.

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The Nature Cure is a series of interviews with leaders, researchers, and practitioners, of natural healing therapies. The podcast features stories of early twentieth-century pioneers of the nature cure.

Stephen Myers –

The Nature Cure

episode 1

An effective homeopathic treatment for Plantar Wart led Emeritus Professor Stephen Myers to become an international leader in complementary medicine education and research. Stephen discusses the history of the nature cure.

Judy Jacka is a pioneering figure in Naturopathy in Australia. Greta interviewed Judy in January 2019, by phone, from her home in Melbourne. Judy was still practising as a healer at the age of 80, at the time of this interview. Sadly, Judy passed away in March 2022, at age 83.

Vale Judy.

Judy Jacka OAM –

A life’s work

episode 2

Magnetic

Island Retreat

episode 3

Greta meets Dorothea Snook’s youngest daughter, Maree, on her way to a yoga retreat based on Mrs Snook’s cleanse alkaline diet. How will a group of modern-day women fare with eight days of eating a strict diet of vegetable juices and fruit meals, from the 1930’s-era diet?

Alistair McTaggart –

Magic Mushrooms

episode 4

Australia’s native magic mushrooms already play an important role in the global psilocybin medical industry, and mycologist Dr Alistair McTaggart thinks there may be some unique mind and health properties in Australia’s native magic mushrooms, yet to be explored.

Sheila Wilson –

Hot hands

episode 5

Reflexologist, energy healer, and viral British reality TV star, 85-year-old Sheila Wilson discusses her life and energy healing work, growing up in wartime London, and interviewing the Beatles. Sheila and Greta talk about auras, love, and the soul.

Alice Caporn –

The Nudist Naturopath

episode 6, part 1

Alice Caporn, PhD, born 1875, was an Australian nurse who settled in Boston, USA, in 1919, and became a leader of what was termed the ‘modern health sciences’ movement. A passionate advocate of sunshine therapy and nudism, she trained as a naturopath and osteopath in the US.

Alice Caporn –

Town Hall address, 1939

episode 6, part 2

Greta meets Dorothea Snook’s youngest daughter, Maree, on her way to a yoga retreat based on Mrs Snook’s cleanse alkaline diet. How will a group of modern-day women fare with eight days of eating a strict diet of vegetable juices and fruit meals, from the 1930’s-era diet?

Greta Puls Portrait

A science and technology writer, podcaster, and author of the book
Gut Instinct: Mrs Snook’s Diet

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