553: Slow Down And Receive The Earth’s Medicines With Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz
Release Date: 11/17/2025
553: Slow Down And Receive The Earth’s Medicines With Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz
Wise Traditions
Our fast-paced lives can make it difficult to perceive the healing properties of the very elements that surround us: in water, fire, air, and earth. Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, the author of "Earth Medicines", invites us to slow down and receive healing from the earth and its elements. Today, she shares recipes and insights that shed new light on the ancient healing that we may be overlooking which is ubiquitous, if not right under our very noses. Visit Felicia's website: Follow this podcast on the platform of your choice and/or on Check out our sponsors: and
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552: How To Stay EMF Safe With Dan Stachofsky
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How are the many cell towers, wifi signals, and electromagnetic fields around us affecting our health? And what can we do about them? Dan Stachofsky, the founder of Essential Energy, learned about their effects the hard way, as his family dealt with numerous health issues provoked by the non-native fields. Today, he tells his story and offers simple suggestions for not only mitigating negative EMFs but also amplifying healthy frequencies around us. Visit Dan's website: Become a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation at (and use code pod10) Check out our sponsors: and
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551: Hidden Facts On The Hazards Of Vaccines With Magdalene Taylor
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"Safe and effective." This is the mantra of those in favor of vaccinations, who claim that they save lives. But, there is mounting evidence that they are neither safe nor effective. Most of us simply haven’t been privy to the facts. That is about to change. Magdalene Taylor is the Director and Editor of The Informed Parent (TiP), a journal to encourage an informed vaccination decision based on a wide range of information. Magda was once a believer in vaccines until she came across some literature that gave her pause. Now she equips parents with information on the hazards associated with...
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550: Busting Medical Myths With Mark Gober
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Pills for every ill. Viruses that we must inoculate ourselves against. Treating the body as a machine. This is the allopathic model of medicine and it completely inverts and subverts who we are as conscious human beings. Today, Mark Gober, the author of the "Upside Down" series of books, busts many modern medical myths. He tackles many of our assumptions about contagion, who we are as human beings, and how we heal. Visit Mark's website: Join our Facebook group Check out our sponsors: and
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549: When Homesteading Dreams & Your Health Fall Apart, You Pivot With Aimee And John Willis
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Sometimes homesteading is idealized and you get stars in your eyes, thinking it'll be so perfect... until it's not. Aimee and John Willis of Vintage Meadows tell the story of how a health crisis made them pivot from their original life goals into homesteading. They bought 4 acres and gave it a go. Then they had to sell it all and start all over, and over, and over again. You might call it a failure, a pivot, or simply relatable – but whatever it is, it shows the resilience of two people who want to nurture themselves and their community well and who haven't thrown in the towel just yet....
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548: Dangers Of The Vegan Diet, Glyphosate, And Vaccines With Zen Honeycutt
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Shots, nutrient-deficient diets, and pesticides are negatively impacting our children's health...and have been for some time. Today, Zen Honeycutt, founder and president of Moms Across America, offers startling insights on the serious damage and repercussions of all of the above. She discusses studies that points to the fact that our children are getting more toxins than nutrients in their lunches, and she shares her own personal heartbreaking loss and why this is making her more determined than ever to fight on behalf of our nation's children. She also shares where she aligns with the MAHA...
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547: Beauty And Heartache On The Homestead With Tara Couture
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Life is complicated and challenging. There is beauty and heartache...and somehow also beauty IN the heartache. In a timely message, Tara Couture, the author of "", communicates how she processes and manages to embrace it all. On Tara's Slowdown Farmstead in Canada, she has dealt with the mundane -- from an ornery cow to issues obtaining raw milk -- to the unthinkable -- including the untimely death of her daughter. Tara reminds us that, amidst it all, life is still beauty-full. Visit Tara's website: Register for the Wise Traditions conference in Utah: Check out our sponsors: and
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546: Resist Big Tech, Big Pharma, And Government Overreach With Leslie Manookian
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In April 2025, the Idaho Medical Freedom Act was passed. Leslie Manookian of the Health Freedom Defense Fund crafted the legislation and lobbied for it to become law, in order to protect residents of Idaho from being fired, excluded, or discriminated against for not taking or using a medical intervention. What if you could pass similar legislation where you live? Would you like insights on how to preserve medical freedom for you and your community? Leslie today gives us the back story on what motivated her in the first place to help her fellow Idahoans. And she describes the hurdles she...
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545: The Nutrient Gap: Why Traditional Diets Nourish Us More With Sally Fallon Morell
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Traditional diets maximized nutrients. Modern diets minimize them. Our current health crisis stems from our departure from traditional food and health ways – both how we raise our livestock and grow our produce, to what we do to it before it reaches our plate. Sally Fallon Morell, the President and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains where we've gone wrong and what we can do to rectify it. Visit Sally's website: Follow the Wise Traditions podcast on your favorite podcast platform! Check out our sponsors: and
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544: Yoga Pants And Invisalign Are Wrecking Your Hormones With Patricia Luccardi
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If it were ONLY yoga pants and Invisalign interfering with our hormonal health, it might not be too hard to avoid them and move on. But there are many more products and protocols--including plastic, pesticides, and mammograms--that throw our health out of whack. Patricia Luccardi today exposes numerous sources of toxins, PFAs (forever chemicals), and radiation that disrupt healthy hormonal function. Patricia also offers solutions and suggestions for avoiding these things in the first place and flushing them out once we've been exposed. She shares the benefits of going braless, the power...
info_outlineOur fast-paced lives can make it difficult to perceive the healing properties of the very elements that surround us: in water, fire, air, and earth. Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, the author of "Earth Medicines", invites us to slow down and receive healing from the earth and its elements. Today, she shares recipes and insights that shed new light on the ancient healing that we may be overlooking which is ubiquitous, if not right under our very noses.
Visit Felicia's website: kitchencurandera.com
Follow this podcast on the platform of your choice and/or on YouTube
Check out our sponsors: Optimal Carnivore and Sirius Nutrition