Show Notes
Mel has for the last twenty years helped run the Alliance for Natural Health. We talk about how Mel became a renowned advocate for how nature can heal us, and for the power of our emotions on our physical health. Or rather how our emotional health and physical health are as entwined as any natural ecosystem.
We hear about her ill health as a child and young adult, and how the medical orthodoxy failed her before natural solutions saved her.
As well as working with Robert Verkerk to advise medical practitioners around the world on good science and good law, Mel is a practitoner in her own right, focused on nutrition and now CPNI.
So we talk about her recovery from Grave’s disease, how she experienced and then understood the role of ‘spirituality’ and emotion in healing, her long relationship with gut health science and the nutritional and mental practices that heal us from within.
As with many people who have suffered ill health at a young age, Mel is blessed with insight, compassion and almost other worldly perspective.
Mel shares the moment when, at rock bottom, she was given the positive belief and intent to transform her health.
Mel is one of my favourite people. I think she might become one of yours.
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