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Terrain Theory

Ben

193 episodes

17 hours ago

At the end of every Terrain Theory episode, we ask our guests the same question: What are your non-negotiables, the daily habits you do to tend to your terrain? In this special year-end episode, we revisit some of the most compelling answers from 2025. Across disciplines and perspectives, our guests reflect on rhythm and circadian health, movement in nature, nutrition and species-appropriate eating, discipline and simplicity, stillness and nervous-system regulation, and the role of joy in mai...

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At the end of every Terrain Theory episode, we ask our guests the same question: What are your non-negotiables, the daily habits you do to tend to your terrain? In this special year-end episode, we revisit some of the most compelling answers from 2025. Across disciplines and perspectives, our guests reflect on rhythm and circadian health, movement in nature, nutrition and species-appropriate eating, discipline and simplicity, stillness and nervous-system regulation, and the role of joy in mai...

Show more...

Alternative Health

Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness,

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Terrain Theory

Daily Non-Negotiables: Highlights From 2025

At the end of every Terrain Theory episode, we ask our guests the same question: What are your non-negotiables, the daily habits you do to tend to your terrain? In this special year-end episode, we revisit some of the most compelling answers from 2025. Across disciplines and perspectives, our guests reflect on rhythm and circadian health, movement in nature, nutrition and species-appropriate eating, discipline and simplicity, stillness and nervous-system regulation, and the role of joy in mai...

18 hours ago

29 minutes

Terrain Theory

Wellness Check #10: Free Birth Babies, Lunar Returns, and Right Thinking for Terrain Living

In this Wellness Check episode of the Terrain Theory Podcast, Ben and Mike sit down with their Primary Healthcare Providers – themselves – for a grounded, honest check-in as 2025 comes to a close and 2026 comes into view. This conversation spans the deeply personal and the deeply practical. Ben shares the story of welcoming a new baby through an unexpected, peaceful home birth – an experience that reframes birth not as a medical emergency, but as a natural, intuitive process when fear and int...

1 week ago

1 hour 26 minutes

Terrain Theory

Resonance Over Rules: Fruit, Fasting, and Finding Your Nutritional Frequency with Marlon Azurdia

After more than three years, Marlon Azurdia returns to the Terrain Theory Podcast...and he brings with him a depth of lived experience that can only come from someone fully committed to walking the path. A former CrossFit Games athlete who famously competed as a vegan, Marlon has spent the last decade challenging every nutritional and performance assumption placed in front of him. In this episode, he shares how that journey has evolved since we last spoke: from a year as a fruitarian experime...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 44 minutes

Terrain Theory

Defying Today’s Diet Wars: Natural Hygiene, Carnivore Counterpoints, and Lifelong Vitality with Mark Huberman

What if one of the longest-running human health experiments has been hiding in plain sight...quietly unfolding across the life of a man who’s never eaten the Standard American Diet, never accepted the inevitability of chronic disease, and never believed that health comes from a pill, an injection, or a supplement? In this episode, we sit down with Mark Huberman, President of the National Health Association and lifelong practitioner of Natural Hygiene – a philosophy of health that predates tod...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 32 minutes

Terrain Theory

Fired for Saying No: COVID Mandates, School Shutdowns, and Alternative Education with Stephanie Edmonds

New York City history teacher Stephanie Edmonds never imagined that her dedication to her students would one day cost her the career she loved. But during COVID, as she watched extended school shutdowns devastate her students’ mental health and academic progress, she began speaking publicly about the harms she was witnessing firsthand. When New York City rolled out vaccine mandates for teachers, Stephanie refused — and was ultimately fired for standing by her convictions. What began as ...

1 month ago

1 hour 48 minutes

Terrain Theory

When the “Healthiest Diet” Makes You Sick: Mucus, Natural Hygiene, and Species-Appropriate Eating with Mariah Manazza

What if the diet you believe is healing your body is actually holding it hostage? In this episode, we sit down with Mariah Manazza — once a full-on homesteader living the traditional diet dream — as she reveals how raw milk, pasture-raised meats, and ancestral traditions weren’t enough. In fact, they nearly broke her. Migraines, depression, numbness, leg pain, cysts — all symptoms she was told she’d have for life. Until she asked herself: “What am I really designed to eat?” Through 12 y...

1 month ago

1 hour 39 minutes

Terrain Theory

The Terrain Toxin We Celebrate: Alcohol, Addiction, and the Path Beyond with David Nutt

Alcohol is the world’s most socially accepted toxin — a substance woven into our rituals, relationships, and celebrations, yet responsible for immeasurable physical, emotional, and societal harm. What happens when we finally confront that truth? In this episode, we sit down with Professor David Nutt, neuropsychopharmacologist, author, and founder of GABA Labs, to explore alcohol’s hidden toll on the human terrain — from cellular toxicity and neuroinflammation to cultural indoctrination and ad...

1 month ago

1 hour 29 minutes

Terrain Theory

Light, Water, and the Quantum Terrain: Circadian Health and Applied Quantum Biology with Nikko Kennedy

What if your body isn’t just a collection of organs, but a living, self-organizing field of light, water, and energy? In this episode of the Terrain Theory Podcast, Ben and Mike sit down with Nikko Kennedy, Director of Research at the Institute of Applied Quantum Biology, to explore the frontier where circadian health meets quantum biology. Nikko explains how quantum physics underlies the biological processes of life, from the way mitochondria generate energy to how our cells structure water....

1 month ago

1 hour 18 minutes

Terrain Theory

Elizabeth Vernon on Biologic Inserts, Human Hierarchy, and Kennedy as Controlled Opposition

Elizabeth Vernon is a beekeeper-activist, herbalist, and founder of Queen Bees Farmacy, dedicated to bringing together the world of wild-crafted remedies, advocacy, and deep terrain insight. In this episode, we dive into the hidden dimensions of health and resistance — from how screen time is reshaping our bodies and nervous systems to the untested and unknown dangers of biologics. Elizabeth pulls no punches as we unpack how certain systems of “controlled opposition” (yes, we talk about RKF J...

2 months ago

1 hour 54 minutes

Terrain Theory

Dr. Anna Sitkoff on Terrain-Supporting Mushrooms, Foundational Fungi, and The Ergothioneine Effect

Dr. Anna Sitkoff is a naturopathic physician and herbalist whose clinical and personal journey has been guided by a deep relationship with medicinal mushrooms. In this episode, she shares how her early exposure to natural medicine—and a life-changing experience with her father’s cancer treatment—sparked a decade-long exploration into the world of fungi. Dr. Sitkoff unpacks the science and spirit of mushrooms: their role in restoring the body’s terrain through mitochondrial repair, gut balanc...

2 months ago

1 hour 32 minutes

Terrain Theory

Dr. Shivani Gupta on Ayurveda, Mind-Body Types, and Personalized Health

Dr. Shivani Gupta is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Fusionary Formulas. In this episode, she helps us rediscover Ayurveda as the original terrain-based health system — one that recognizes the body’s innate intelligence and its connection to mind, spirit, and environment (Nature). We discuss how to identify your mind-body type (dosha), personalize your health rituals, and use ancient wisdom to navigate modern stressors, toxins, and chronic imbalance. Dr. Gupta also shares h...

2 months ago

1 hour 25 minutes

Terrain Theory

Scott Berman on darkness as healer, shedding masks, and the anatomy of a dark retreat

Can the darkness heal you? Are you willing to find out? Scott Berman is the founder of Sky Cave Retreats, a dark retreat sanctuary in Southern Oregon that puts guests in complete and total darkness for a set period of time. In this safe space, with somatic support and all needs met, a guest may relax into the rhythms of the dark, soften, and simply exist. In this conversation with Scott we discuss: How his early experiences with wilderness solitude primed him for dark retreatsHis first dark r...

2 months ago

1 hour 31 minutes

Terrain Theory

Leah Wilson on parental rights, privacy, and standing for health freedom

This is the hill we die on. Leah Wilson is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Stand for Health Freedom, a nonprofit organization dedicated to informing and activating grassroots movements to protect our health and our families. Since their inception in 2019 they have helped empower the masses to take over 6 million actions to preserve and promote informed consent, parental rights, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and privacy. In this conversation with Leah we discuss: What prompted her...

2 months ago

1 hour 35 minutes

Terrain Theory

Salima Adelstein on Sufism, spiritual healing, and returning to Source

Salima Adelstein is a Master Healer, a Sufi Spiritual Guide, and the co-founder of The University of Sufism, a non-profit, religious organization whose vision is to open the heart of humanity to the Reality of Divine Love, Gnostic understanding and complete healing. In this conversation we discuss: Understanding SufismThe central practices of the SufiThe power of remembrancePurification of the heartHow asking "what do I love?" is a step towards the SourceCo-founding the University of SufismBe...

3 months ago

1 hour 14 minutes

Terrain Theory

Ryan Connor and Briana Connor Garcia on PFAS poisoning, Superfund scandals, and seeking justice

Ryan Connor and Briana Connor Garcia are siblings who grew up in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, right around the corner from a landfill that later became designated an EPA Superfund site. Unbeknownst to them, they spent their childhood exposed to toxic "forever chemicals" that leached into the soil and water, poisoning countless community members in the process. Following separate cancer diagnoses and years of debilitating health issues, they are on a crusade to raise awareness of the dangers of P...

3 months ago

1 hour 26 minutes

Terrain Theory

Dr. Shamini Jain on biofield science, energy pathways, and creativity as a non-negotiable

Dr. Shamini Jain is founder and CEO of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative, an international collaborative of scientists, healing practitioners, educators and artists who lead humanity to heal ourselves. She’s a clinical psychologist, an award-winning researcher, and an author on topics ranging from psychoneuroimmunology to biofield science. In this conversation with Dr. Jain we discuss: Her spiritual upbringing within the Jain traditionThe academic path that led her to energy healingThe...

3 months ago

1 hour 20 minutes

Terrain Theory

Dr. Marizelle Arce and Jacob Diaz on "parasites", foodborne illness, and Terrainology

Dr. Marizelle Arce is a Naturopathic medical doctor who practices as a Naturopath, marrying her knowledge and understanding of ancient cultures and traditions with current biology, physiology and modern medicine. Jacob Diaz, aka the Undercover Virologist, is a student of the BioTerrain Model, a certified Naturopath, and a passionate researcher into the many contagion myths blamed on nonexistent pathogens. In this conversation with Dr. Mari and Jacob we discuss: Why we can't eat poop (hint: it...

3 months ago

1 hour 36 minutes

Terrain Theory

Glenn and Eric Meder on the surveillance state, walled gardens, and how we stay free

Glenn and Eric Meder are the father-son duo behind Privacy Academy, which provides online learning and membership services centered around exiting the surveillance state, maintaining online privacy, and ensuring Big Brother and Big Tech do not succeed in weaponizing our digital existence against us. In this conversation with Glenn and Eric we discuss: The State of the (Surveillance) StateHow AI is accelerating the problemThe Big Three ThreatsHow COVID was a wake-up callCBDC, facial recognitio...

4 months ago

1 hour 29 minutes

Terrain Theory

Jon Burras on fascia, Chi, and the New Anatomy

Jon Burras is a massage therapist, yoga instructor, bodyworker and bodymind therapist with over 30 years of experience blending Western medical knowledge with Eastern philosophy and a deep love and appreciation for the world of natural healing. In this conversation with Jon we discuss: The makeup and function of fasciaThe connection between fascia and detoxificationThe only two ways to change your fasciaFascia and the New AnatomyHow healthy fascia is critical to energy (Chi) flowHow to choose...

4 months ago

1 hour 54 minutes

Terrain Theory

Wellness Check #9: On sauna cures, seizure mysteries, and playing Terrain Detective

Co-hosts Ben & Mike check in with their respective primary healthcare providers with updates on their physical, emotional, spiritual wellness, latest terrain integrations, nuance, and more. In this Wellness Check Episode they discuss: Using heat therapy to great effectNon-negotiables on the roadTurning slip-ups into positivesSanctifying sleepThe mystery of the 8 sudden seizuers...and more! Support Terrain Theory on Patreon! Our recently-launched member platform gives you access to a ton ...

5 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes