Terrain Theory

How much of our health and terrain is shaped not just by what we eat or how we avoid toxins, but by the timing of our activities and choices? The when of our lives.  

In this episode, we sit down with Avi Jacobson, co-founder of Kintsyougi and one of the creators of the CRD Challenge—a simple three-week experiment that introduced thousands of people to the principles of circadian biology. Built around practices like morni...

We often think of health as something that's built through food, movement, sunlight, sleep, and the choices we make each day. But what if one of the most influential forces shaping our terrain isn't something we consume, but rather the people we surround ourselves with?

In this conversation, we sit down with author, explorer, and former Global Citizen executive Michael Trainer to explore the science and philosophy of resonance: the ...

When filmmaker and homeopath Ananda More first encountered homeopathy, she dismissed it as pseudoscience. It wasn't until an unexpected experience while traveling through India that her certainty began to unravel. Years later—even after becoming a practicing homeopath herself—she still wrestled with the question: "is this all simply placebo?" That honest skepticism became the foundation for Magic Pills, a documentary ex...

Tommy Hughes returns to the Terrain Theory Podcast for a conversation that builds on our first exploration of Classical Chinese Medicine and takes it into even deeper territory.

Drawing from the ancient medical classics, Tommy explains why Chinese physicians believed disease begins in the heart, how chronic emotional patterns can eventually become physical pathology, and why the body's symptoms are often the final chapter of a story...

Cannabis has become one of the most polarizing plants in modern history, but hemp may be the more important story.

In this episode, Ben and Mike sit down with Florida cannabis cultivators Anya and Jacob Smith of Green Smith Family Farms to explore the remarkable versatility of hemp and why so much of its history has been forgotten. The conversation moves well beyond CBD and THC into living soil, terpene diversity, clean cultivation,...

Change your mind? More like change your mindset.

In this episode, we sit down with Mark England, founder of Enlifted, to explore the relationship between language, breath, mindset, and health. Mark argues that mindset isn't some abstract self-help concept: it's simply the story we tell ourselves about our lives, our bodies, our relationships, and our circumstances. And when those stories become rooted in fear, victimhood, or the bel...

Mike Winner has spent decades exploring the intersections of health, consciousness, philosophy, technology, and human potential. Many listeners know him as the longtime co-host of Alfa Vedic alongside Dr. Barre Lando, but his latest project, TerrainTV, may be his most ambitious yet: a centralized platform designed to bring together some of the most influential voices in the Terrain movement.

In this conversation, Mike joins Ben and ...

What happens when the illness that nearly killed you turns out to be the catalyst for your greatest healing?

Dr. Caroline Hartridge began her medical career firmly rooted in the conventional system. But after years of unexplained symptoms, a missed diagnosis, and a near-death experience during medical school, she found herself questioning everything she thought she knew about health, healing, and the human body.

A Doctor of Osteopath...

Most veterinarians spend their careers learning how to diagnose disease. Dr. Maureen Ann McMichael became interested in a different question: why was the animal sick in the first place?

A board-certified veterinary critical care specialist and former veterinary school professor, Dr. McMichael has worked in emergency medicine, academia, and specialty practice for decades. Along the way, she began questioning some of the foundational ...

What happens when a near-death experience completely rewires the way you see the world?

Before Pearly Montagu was working with trauma, intuition, reflexology, and energy healing, she was living a very different life in corporate finance and global shipping. But after a devastating boating accident and profound near-death experience in her late twenties, everything changed. What followed was years of chronic pain, nervous system dysr...

Is cancer a random genetic accident, an isolated physical event, or a message arising from unresolved stress, suppressed emotion, relationship conflict, and deeply rooted patterns carried through a lifetime?

In this episode, we sit down with Paul Leendertse and Aria Konrad of the Root Cause Institute for a far-reaching conversation on the psycho-emotional and spiritual dimensions of cancer and chronic illness. Building on our recent...

Sexual health is one of the most overlooked aspects of the terrain conversation, yet the reproductive system is literally the engine of life force. It is the system capable of creating new life, regulating vitality, driving creativity, and profoundly influencing our emotional and energetic state. If that system is depleted, disconnected, or chronically unhealthy, it raises an important question: how healthy can the rest of the terr...

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. James Odell, Executive Director of the Bioregulatory Medicine Institute (BRMI), an organization dedicated to researching and educating on systems-based, non-toxic approaches to health. With a background in naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and European biological medicine, Dr. Odell has spent decades studying how the body regulates, adapts, and heals across both biochemical and en...

Cancer is typically framed as uncontrolled growth: cells breaking the rules and turning against the body. In this episode, Patrick Coles presents a different theory, one grounded in biophysics and terrain-based thinking, that reframes tumors as part of a larger adaptive process tied to toxic load and metabolic stress.

Coles, trained as a physicist, approaches cancer through the lens of systems, thresholds, and testable predictions. ...

Jodi Allison Scott is the co-founder of Green Goo, a plant-based first aid and skincare company built upon the belief that Nature could outperform the artificial and synthetic options found in most drugstores and medicine cabinets. With a Master’s in Health Psychology and a focus in psychoneuroimmunology, her work bridges the gap between modern physiology and time-honored plant medicine.

In this conversation, we explore how th...

Dentistry is often treated as separate from the rest of the body, a place for cleanings, fillings, and the occasional procedure. In this conversation, Dr. Jean Nordin makes a different case: the mouth is not isolated. It’s one of the clearest reflections of what’s happening systemically, and in many cases, one of the first places imbalance shows up.

Drawing on more than two decades in biological dentistry, Dr. Nordin wal...

Parasites are typically framed as invaders. Organisms to fear, eliminate, and cleanse from the body. That assumption runs deep, not only in conventional medicine, but increasingly in alternative health as well.

In this conversation, Liev Dalton of Beyond Terrain presents a very different interpretation.

Drawing from a wide range of literature, including human ingestion studies and ecological research, he argues that the presence of p...

In this deeply personal and expansive conversation, Melanie Ryan returns to the Terrain Theory Podcast to share the story of losing her only son, Justin, and the path of understanding that followed.

What began as a sudden and devastating medical event became something far more complex when viewed through a terrain lens. Rather than reducing the experience to a single cause, Melanie walks through the layered reality of what unfolded ...

What if the human body isn’t just self-healing… but cyclical, rhythmic, and far more capable than we’ve been led to believe?

In this episode, we sit down with R. Sage to explore what he calls the body’s “hidden cycle” – a monthly, internal process tied to lunar rhythms, the brain, and the nervous system. Often referred to as the sacred secretion, this phenomenon is described as a natural, r...