Medicine Stories

By: Amber M Hill
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  • Remembering what it is to be human upon the earth.
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Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Social Sciences
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  • 115. Nourishment Lost: in Culty Spaces, Self Induced, & Culturewide - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

    115. Nourishment Lost: in Culty Spaces, Self Induced, & Culturewide - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
    Feb 17 2025

    Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga- what drew her in and, eventually, how noticing the state of nourishment of those deepest into the cult precipitated her exit. We then catch listeners up on our midlife metabolic meltdown hEaLinG jOuRnEyS and what path we’re taking forward as we continue to recover our vitality and deepen our understanding of why women’s bodies are so metabolically expensive.

    Patreon bonuses for this episode include an extended conversation w/ Suuz about the reaction to the German New Medicine episode (114) & how it surprisingly kindled a discussion amongst patrons about a remarkably similar ideology, a 10% off coupon code for Suuzi’s grass fed, grass finished liver pills, and a chance to ask us questions. Also photos of Suuzi in turbans!

    Dr. Suuzi on Instagram

    Mother’s Best Liver Pills

    Amber’s Nourishing Motherlines Substack

    Amber’s website MythicMedicine.love

    Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz

    Amber/Mythic Medicine on Instagram

    Medicine Stories Facebook group

    Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Kimberly Ann Johnson on Whose Body Is It

    Breath of Fire Kundalini cult/Guru Jagat documentary

    The Rooted in Resilience podcast and specific Minnesota Starvation Experiment episodes with Kathleen Stewart

    The Energy Balance Podcast

    Cronometer nutrition tracking app

    How to Not Get Fat on the “Pro-Metabolic Diet”: a guide for switching to nourishing foods while avoiding fat gain by Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment

    Eating a “Pro-Metabolic Diet” Will Not Heal You: an appeal for having context to understand the big picture by Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • 114. German New Medicine: A Lot of Magical Thinking & A Little Bit Culty Too - Demetra Gray

    114. German New Medicine: A Lot of Magical Thinking & A Little Bit Culty Too - Demetra Gray
    Feb 5 2025
    GNM is an alt health trend that has grown in popularity in recent years. It is attractive to so many (including me and my guest, once) because it acknowledges the role that emotions and trauma play in physical health and symptom manifestation, something that mainstream medicine still somehow refuses to do. But just because some aspects of an ideology are true and helpful does not mean that the entire framework is valid. Critical thinking and humility are essential tools for navigating information overload and complex frameworks, especially when it comes to health. The allure of certainty and specialized knowledge can lead people to adopt rigid belief systems that don’t hold up to critical thinking, and the the zealotry of believing that your group’s belief system will save the world only further strengthens unconscious confirmation bias (along with other logical fallacies common in GNM- loading the language, heads you lose tails I win, us v them thinking, bizarre antisemitic conspiracies, etc). But what might be most worrisome about this growing movement is the purity mindset demanded of its more extreme adherents- the belief that nothing outside of us can affect us if only we believe strongly enough in our own omnipotence and prove our righteousness and purity by attaining a total lack of symptoms. What is viewed as radical sovereignty and empowerment is really just outright magical thinking reinforced by an absence of humility, mystery, and the reality that ultimately we are not in control of what happens to us. The body is not a closed system; we are deeply embedded in overlapping ecologies. This episode has been years in the making, and I have been asked time and time again for my take on GNM. When I was sent Demetra’s essay on the subject I knew that I had finally found the right person to have this conversation with. Her past cult experience, and my years of deep dives into culty thinking and behavior, provide a lens through which to view this phenomenon. Though we do not claim that GNM is a cult in the traditional sense, cultishness is a spectrum and GNM is definitely on that spectrum. Also its tenets are demonstrably false, and have led to death in some cases. NBD. In our Patreon bonus conversation Demetra shares her cult story- joining what she thought was a good thing, slowly realizing it wasn’t, leaving, being attacked by the leader and other members, and the long “deprogramming” and stabilization process that all cult survivors undergo Demetra’s essay The Culty Fraud of German New Medicine Dr. Moss’s report German New Medicine- Hope or Hoax? Demetra’s podcast Impolite Company on Spotify and Apple Amber’s Nourishing Motherlines Substack Amber’s website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Mentioned in this episode: Tension Myositis Syndrome Cell Danger Response A Little Bit Culty podcast (the best!) Cult documentaries (by no means an extensive list)- The Vow (NXIVM), Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, Breath of Fire (Kundalini yoga), The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin Steven Hassan’s BITE model Cult expert Robert Jay Lifton
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • 113. Elemental Inheritance: Minerals & Metals in Modern Life - Niecia Nelson

    113. Elemental Inheritance: Minerals & Metals in Modern Life - Niecia Nelson
    Jan 13 2025

    What metabolic patterns did you inherit from your parents, and what may you have passed down to your own children? Many behavioral issues, and even what are usually considered personality traits (like that of high sensitivity), can be linked to mineral imbalances and overall health.

    Heavy metals often accumulate in individuals due to stress, compromised metabolic function, or ancestral imprints, not necessarily always due to direct exposure. Heroic detoxification protocols should be approached with caution, as forcing the removal of metals without addressing underlying nutrient deficiencies can have unintended consequences.

    Let us welcome in the medicine of sitting with the right questions as we collectively navigate information overwhelm, and walk slowly together toward ever deeper levels of self attunement and inner resourcing.

    Links for Niecia:

    Niecia’s HTMA packages

    Eat To Go Deep course membership

    Niecia on Instagram

    Links for Amber:

    Medicine Stories Patreon (extended convo w/ Niecia + more)

    Nourishing Motherlines Substack

    Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz

    MythicMedicine.love

    Mythic Medicine on Instagram

    Medicine Stories Facebook group

    Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Lead Safe Mama
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    1 hr and 35 mins

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