Tend The Terrain Podcast with Dr. Nasha

Dr. Maya Shetreat is board certified in adult neurology, child neurology, and pediatrics — a résumé that could have kept her comfortably inside the walls of academic medicine for the rest of her life. Then her own young son started having seizures, and the cause turned out to be nothing she had been trained to look for. It wasn't in his brain. It was in their home, in the mold, in the invisible environment that no neurology text had ever asked her to examine. A pediatric neurologist could not...

Will Harris was raised to farm the way America taught a whole generation to farm — with chemicals, confinement, monoculture, and a single-minded focus on pounds and efficiency. For twenty years he ran his family's Georgia land that way, and he was good at it. Then he looked at what all that efficiency had actually produced: soil that couldn't hold water, animals that couldn't express a single natural instinct, a hometown that was quietly dying. And he made the boldest decision of his life. He...

Nicole Masters gets called out to look at damaged ground. Compacted, crusted, lifeless dirt on ranches and farms across New Zealand, Australia, US, S. Africa, the UK. She is an agroecologist, she has been doing this for more than twenty years, and she is very good at reading what soil is telling her. But somewhere in those two decades she noticed something that changed the whole shape of her work: the people calling her about their soil almost never had a soil problem. They had a mindset prob...

Dr. Jeffrey Rediger has spent more than thirty years asking the question most of medicine steps around: why do some people recover from illnesses that are supposed to be incurable? He is a Harvard psychiatrist with a Master of Divinity, a man raised close to the land in a deeply religious Midwestern world who went on to study both the soul and the body — and in his book Cured, he did the unglamorous work of tracking down the documented cases of “spontaneous” remission and asking what those su...

Dr. Petra Davelaar came on Tend the Terrain to talk about deuterium — the heavy hydrogen she's chased for the better part of a decade — and within minutes made it clear she'd walked through that door into something far larger. Recorded, almost too fittingly, during a solar eclipse, this is a conversation about how light governs life, and about a frontier that quietly upends the textbook: the idea that the body is not a machine assembled from parts, but a field of living processes. Petra has b...

Some people spend a career inside a field. Dr. Lise Alschuler helped build one. When she began practicing naturopathic oncology, there was no board to certify it and no association to hold it — so she helped create them. She co-wrote The Definitive Guide to Cancer, a book that became something close to scripture for a generation of integrative practitioners, and for years she and Dr. Tina Kaczor have stood up at the OncANP conference to translate the newest research for the rest of the field....

Dr. Kelly McCann has the kind of credentials that open any door in conventional medicine — an MD and a Master's in public health and tropical medicine from Tulane, one of only about 3000 physicians worldwide to complete Andrew Weil's integrative medicine fellowship. And then she did something that tells you everything about her: she went back to school for a Master's in Spiritual Psychology. Not because the science failed her, but because it kept running out before her patients did. Because h...

Dr. Raoul Goldberg carried his trauma for fifty years without knowing it was there. He knew something wasn’t right — the anxiety that arrived whenever he was in the spotlight, the need to prepare before every encounter, the careful management of exposure. But it felt so ordinary that he had long since stopped questioning it. He called it his personality. He called it who he was. And underneath it, unmet since the age of four, was a small boy who had been hurt at nursery school, sent back the ...

When Dean Hall waded into Oregon's Willamette River in the summer of 2014, he wasn't trying to beat cancer. He was a marriage-and-family therapist of more than thirty years who had already buried his first wife — she died of a brain tumor — and had since been handed two of his own diagnoses: chronic lymphocytic leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. What he was looking for was not a treatment. It was a reason to keep going. He had read Viktor Frankl, and he had decided he needed a purpose so la...

Dr. Catherine Clinton was in her second year of naturopathic medical school when her own body came apart — two autoimmune conditions and Lyme disease, arriving at once. The medicine she was being trained to practice could name the pieces but couldn't reach the whole, and the long road back handed her a different map entirely. On it, the body wasn't a machine of separate parts to be managed, but a responsive, intelligent system in constant conversation with light, water, temperature, sound, an...

Vanessa Morgan is a colleague from my Durango years — fifty-four years in clinical practice, an acupuncturist, homeopath, and biological medicine practitioner trained on three continents, with more than ten thousand patients behind her. She started at seventeen, living for nine months in the attic of a Mohawk herbalist on Vancouver Island, and she has spent a lifetime working in the corners of medicine the rest of medicine wasn’t looking at. But that’s not why I asked her on. I asked h...

For as long as most of us have been alive, we’ve been told a story about who we are: accidents of chemistry, driven by selfish genes, thrown into a world that runs on survival of the fittest. Fight. Compete. Dominate. Win. It’s the story underneath our medicine, our economy, and the way we wage war on our own bodies when they frighten us. Cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton has spent fifty years quietly dismantling that story from inside the petri dish. In Beyond Darwin, he lays out the science ...

James Barry spent more than two decades as a private chef to the famous — Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand — feeding people who could have anything they wanted. For years, he was a vegan. Then his young daughter nearly died of a rare bacterial infection, and the ground beneath everything he believed about food gave way. He came back not with a stricter diet, but with an older question we've been trained to look past: what happens when the most nourishing thing on the plate is the ...

We live in a culture that promises we can hack our way to health — more data, more inputs, more control. Nathalie Niddam has spent years inside that world and has become one of its most trusted voices, going deeper into peptides and bioregulators than almost anyone. But underneath the language of optimization sits a quieter idea: these molecules don’t override the body — they remind it. They hand back signals the body already knows how to use. In this conversation, Dr. Nasha and Nathalie sit...

Dr. Beth DuPree has held a scalpel for more than thirty-five years — a breast cancer surgeon, board-certified in general surgery, the kind of physician who led a cancer center to national accreditation and served as a hospital vice president. Every credential the system can hand a person, she earned. And then she did the thing the system rarely forgives: she started listening to her patients in a way that changed what she believed medicine was for. Somewhere between the diagnoses and th...

Dr. Arwen Podesta is an addiction psychiatrist in New Orleans who has spent her whole career sitting across from the people our culture has decided are the most broken among us — the addicted, the relapsed, the ones who keep reaching for the thing that’s hurting them. And here is what undid me about her: she doesn’t see broken people. She sees terrain. She sees a nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do to survive. She’s board-certified in psychiatry, addiction medicine, forensic ps...

Pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro on industrial food, glyphosate, and what four decades at the bedside taught her about why kids are sick. For most of a career spanning emergency rooms and children's hospitals, Dr. Michelle Perro watched the patterns in front of her shift—more allergies, more gut trouble, more neurological and chronic conditions in children who, a generation earlier, would have been rare. Rather than treat each symptom as its own broken part, she did what good clinicians do: s...

Evie Fatz is the founder of Cōpow Foods — a word she made up, colorful and powerful, which is about as honest a description of Evie herself as I could offer. She spent fifteen years coaching people on how to eat and ran into the thing that breaks a lot of us: she could hand someone the truth and they still couldn't reach the food. So she stopped teaching about real food and started growing the conditions for it — sourced regeneratively, cooked without the junk, and then, for every meal...

Dr. Isabella Cooper is a biochemist and pathology scientist out of the University of Westminster, and she runs one of the only labs in this field that takes no money from the food industry — so when she tells you something, it's the data talking and nothing else. Most researchers study ketosis by asking what it does when you switch it on. Isabella walked in through the back door: she took women who'd been in ketosis for years and had them stop, then watched what the body did when the t...

In this conversation, Dr. Nasha Winters sits down with Sophie Trew, cancer survivor, breathwork practitioner, and holistic health advocate, for a deeply personal discussion about life, healing, and the extraordinary intelligence of the human body. Drawing from her own journey through cancer and recovery, Sophie shares how one of the most powerful tools available to us has been with us all along: the breath. What began as a path toward healing became a profound exploration of resilience, self-...

While studying at Cambridge University, Ashok developed a debilitating chronic illness that left him searching for answers beyond conventional explanations. What followed was not only a personal journey of recovery but a decades-long exploration into the remarkable relationship between the brain, the body, adaptation, and healing. His experience would eventually lead to the creation of the Gupta Program, a neuroplasticity-based approach now used by individuals around the world facing complex ...

In this deeply meaningful conversation, Dr. Nasha Winters sits down with Dr. Cathleen King to explore Primal Trust, nervous system regulation, trauma patterns, brain retraining, and the profound relationship between the body, the mind, and the environment we create within ourselves each day. Together, they uncover how unresolved stress, trauma, fear, and disconnection can quietly shape physiology over time, influencing everything from energy production and immune resilience to inflammation, c...

On the very first episode of the Tend The Terrain podcast, Dr. Nasha Winters welcomes Dr. Katie Deming into a deeply personal conversation exploring water fasting, the importance of tending the terrain, and the shared death experience that forever changed the way she understands medicine, healing, and what it means to truly care for another human being. Together, they explore how illness is often shaped by far more than symptoms alone, and why restoring resilience, adaptability, and connectio...