Aspire Natural Heath

Can simple natural therapies help serious diseases? “If you provide the nutrition, and take away the waste products, cells will be healthy” --Dr. Nancy Welliver, ND In this episode DrG talks with Dr. Nancy Welliver about the use of simple natural therapies and going back to the roots of natural medicine. They discuss: -Nancy’s journey into mastering hydrotherapy (water therapies) -How spa culture in the USA is completely different from the historic traditions in the rest of the world -The 5 pillars of natural medicine - movement, nutrition, life balance, herbs (teas, foot baths, gardening), and hydrotherapy -Nancy’s story - how she came to natural medicine -Nancy’s personal health journey with lupus, and how she treated it without using pharmaceutical drugs -Will simple natural therapies work for “real” “hard” diseases and problems? -The importance of discomfort -The “purpose” of illness -The value of insomnia -Two ways of looking at illness - pathology (“what’s wrong with the body”) versus responsive ph