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Thyroid Reset Summit
2019-03-04 - 2019-03-10 | Online
Thyroid Reset Summit Mar 4th-10th
Be careful with this one, it is headed by keto speakers and you can do better for your hormones with Master Herbalism herbal protocols at the School of Natural Healing.
I don’t promote fad diets, keto has killed many people and damaged many more. David Jockers should be ashamed as with all the people who promote him to protect their financial investments in the keto supplement market eg Ty Bollinger.
Here’s the link Thyroid Reset Summit but be careful because the Health Talks Online platform will also try to pull you into its ‘education’ membership, and I would not recommend what they teach there! Say no to keto and to the type of fasting they are promoting. It’s just inaccurate and irresponsible and should only be done in certain cases under supervision.
I say that as someone who has survived an ‘incurable’ illness with alternative medicine and who has attended these summits since at least 2012 and have seen them turn into marketing events with very little good to offer now.

Immune Defense Summit
2019-02-18 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Hosted by Jonathan Landsman, Feb 18th-24th with an encore w/e afterwards
There is a diversity of speakers here and not just friends from the same marketing group, so it is the good, the bad and the ugly, urging extreme caution here with that because you don’t want to be influenced by the bad and the ugly, very ugly to the point some fad diets like keto are causing real harm and deaths out there, fear of food is happening, people are being fleeced and not getting results – because this is a marketing event, not the real deal. It’s unusual for the host to invite speakers of differing opinions though, as with this event.
So the good speakers include David Christopher director of The School of Natural Healing founded by his dad Dr John R Christopher ND, Master Herbalist and Vitalist. Many of the doctorpreneurs eg Jay Davidson and Chris Shade have based their detox protocols on him but they will charge many thousands of dollars more for the copycat versions than the original herbs – though if someone is on pharmaceuticals they can’t really do meds, that is one potential scenario when they may work, but most of the time doctor versions are a rip off product compared to the Christophers Original Brand eg a colon cleanse then onto Lower Bowel, Kidney cleanse, Liver, Blood&Lymph, only then onto Yellow Dock for heavy metals.
The bad speakers you may not recognise as being bad because they are so familiar to you now, you may not know the original research and sources of their information – the best lie is the one closest to the truth – the bad speakers will quote someone good naturopath from the past and not tell you who it is, it sounds like them, but then they drop in some new mad idea of their own about grains or carrots or apples and make you afraid of food or get you doing monk-like cult-like extreme fasting that was NEVER done in the past, selling you a crock of you know what and people lap it up because it’s in fashion then whammo people get injured and those guys like David Jockers, Tom O’Bryan, Peter Osborne, don’t give a damn about you then!
Keto is a fad, you’ll have lukewarm Michael Murray in the mix trying to urge people to be careful telling them he had to pull the plug on keto himself ,he lost muscle, his biomarkers went the wrong direction but then he’ll tell you head over to the keto guys sites, why not – wtf!? Then he’ll admit it took him 60 years to add potatoes to his diet ‘because the research on them is pretty new’, so one minute he’s saying don’t eat potatoes they are high glycemic index and then the research says oh potatoes are resistant starch immune boosting cancer curing cure-alls, so can you really believe a thing Murray says? No, I don’t. I look at the big picture and the original sources. And Max Gerson had his cancer patients eat potatoes twice a day, the population of Ireland doubled on potatoes. And if you want the truth about grains remember that carbs are a major food group you cannot drop without doing yourself damage, that keto is not fat adapted or fat burning it is switching your metabolism over to ONLY burning fat instead of carbs/glucose that is was meant to burn – that is the only reason these guys hate cars. Dr. John Christopher had a 3 day apple juice cleanse that he used with all his patients, monthly, it saved my gallbladder. The old timers know best, be careful and at best tweak the old good ways to make them better, don’t run off with a fad.
Immune Defense Summit
Master Herbalist Training Level 1 <—get a real foundation in healing

GMOs Revealed
2018-12-11 - 2018-12-20 | Online
Replaying this week Dec 11th-20th with an encore. This is the Patrick Gentempo series, it has aired before but it is still vital information all the more relevant now that Big Pharma owns food, having spent over $60 Billion dollars when Bayer bought out Monsanto.
A chemical company just spend $60 BILLION dollars on the chemical company that sprays our food with glyphosate, as well as genetically experimenting in ways that are not tested and cannot be reversed.
The entire food chain is in danger folks, time to hear this and deal with the information revealed at this event and take action.
Register now to attend the GMOs Revealed event for free

EMF Health Summit
2018-12-09 - 2018-12-15 | Online
Saving the best summit till last? Perhaps! Lloyd Burrell hosting this, registration is free and you get free gifts and early talks if you register before the end of summit week.
EMF affects us all, life seems dependent on it and our exposure far outweighs the research and stats over time – we know some people are having horrific side effects with it. When I was really ill I could not use a cellphone, it made the side of my head red and very sore. As myself and my mitochondria got stronger I could handle small amounts – I never took on the ‘cellphone lifestyle’ and use it only occasionally but actually someone from an electric company spent over an hour talking to me on the cellphone this week and I could feel the irritation and really regretted it.
When there was a serious illness and mitochondrial issue I could not handle cellphones at all; when I got a bit stronger I could handle cellphones a little, but still not prolonged use.
However, it’s not just cellphones – btw mine was a 3G 2007 little thing, not a super duper 4G or 5G – it’s all electric fields as we now swim in a soup of signals with no regard on behalf of companies or engineers to tidy these things up and make them cleaner with just a little bit of thought – Michael Neuert of emfcenter.com has demonstrated this in his various lectures on the subject. He even offers courses on it. He’s unfortunately not appearing at this summit, but others should open your eyes here too.
Click here to grab you free talks and gifts with early registration, which remember is free. The packages of the summit with the transcripts and videos/audios are available to purchase should someone want to view the material any time.

iThrive Reversing Diabetes & Obesity
2018-11-13 - 2018-11-22 | Online
Rising from the Depths of Diabetes & Obesity
The host Jon put this series together before he’d put in the work or got the results – essentially this was his research before diving in – and when he did start, he totally crushed it and lost 108lbs in the process! Talk about being accountable!
Jon worked with Joel Fuhrmann, this is NOT a ketogenic diet, this is real whole foods and metabolism the way it was designed to operated, not fat blubbing.

Autoimmune Revolution 2018
2018-11-05 - 2018-11-12 | Online
The Autoimmune Revolution, runs from Nov 5th-11th, with an encore w/e afterwards. Hosted by Peter Osborne, who has done summits on this theme in the past where he has been very hard line anti grain however he recently stated clearly on the Healing Power of Foods Summit that ‘we can no longer say gluten is dangerous for everyone’.
No gluten and no grains is fine for someone who is ill, but healthy people often thrive on them and yet a number of speakers like Tom O’Bryan and Mark Hyman still play down the original research by Alessio Fasano of Harvard on that note.
Last year he had a good mix of speakers even including John Assaraf who cured his own colitis, and it was quite interesting. This year the lineup is different with over 30 speakers and related topics covering a wide range of issues:
Lifestyle /Gut infections / Emotional trauma / Heart health & meds / Leaky gut / Dietary choices / Microbiome / Children & food additives / Vaccines / Detox / Autoimmune triggers / Lab tests / Pain / Mind-body / Mold / Diet / Parasites / Lyme / Yeast / Environmental Toxins / Exercise/ Endotoxins / Blood sugar / Thyroid / Brain Inflammation
Register now for your 4 free early talks and transcripts, available till the end of the summit.
Early Talks and Free Gifts
These three early talks have transcripts you can download too – only available for those who register for the summit before it is over! Free!

Jack Wolfson, Paleo Cardiologist – not everyone agrees paleo is a good diet anymore because of the high meat, however some points in his talk are very good. And we must define ‘high’ meat, in Ireland the previous generations did well on it once a day, in American that may be ‘low’ consumption!
Jonathan Landsman shows how you can clean up your lifestyle to reduce autoimmunity, inexpensively.
Pedram Shojai the urban monk shows ways to decrease stress you may not have thought of!

Then we have a couple of free gifts from the host, Ben Lynch these days is saying take your greens even if you have the SNP for MTHFR, most doctors are not hearing him say he is not actually prescribing methylfolate, he is getting people first to eat greens, and then upregulate glutathione – a coffee enema will do that, or you can get liposomal though I don’t know anyone who could afford that!

The Truth About Keto
**Also important to note is a number of speakers and doctors have now come out against keto eg on the Healing Power of Foods summit recently we had:

Naveen Jain, of Viome
David Katz, who promotes something closer to the Mediterranean diet and is writing a book called The Truth About Food

As well as others who directly call Keto a fad diet, some state the dangers more subtly:

Michael Murray lost muscle and his biomarkers went the wrong direction and he had to pull the plug on keto
Alan Christianson promoted the benefits of white potatoes aka resistant starch
Neal Barnard and Joel Fuhrman do ‘everything that keto can do and do it better’.

Unfortunately David Jockers is high profile at this current summit again, despite having admitted people really need to do a thyroid test before doing keto, it can screw your thyroid, women don’t do well on it, and unless you do it ‘right’ you’ll be in trouble yet many people don’t do it ‘right’ and even those who do, like Michael Murrary, were still in trouble.
What You Should Know

Autoimmunity is on the rise in modern life as chemicals increase and nutrition decreases.
People are not getting help with it in conventional medicine.
Sometimes horrific conditions are cured by simply removing one trigger people didn’t know was causing their condition – sometimes it’s as simple as removing gluten or some other food the person was sensitive to without realizing.
Also there are now tests to determine these things, that your local doctor usually does not know about – they are specialized functional medicine laboratories.
There are some dietary fads and unnecessary fear of food going on at the moment

Register for the autoimmune revolution here

Home Medicine Summit
2018-10-15 - 2018-10-21 | Online
The Home Medicine Summit
The Home Medicine summit runs from Oct 15th-21st with a two day encore afterwards. It is hosted by Marjory Wildcraft who founded the Grow Network. She is an author known for the video series ‘Grow Your Own Groceries’.
The Grow Network are dedicated to teaching people sustainable living, how to grow food, do homesteading, build soil, raise livestock, and natural medicine including herbs and first aid.
There are 6 free gifts for registering for the event, registration is free, the day’s talks air free for 24 hours though it is possible to purchase the event to view later in your own time.
Day 1: Speaker Line Up

Sayer-Ji was good on nightshades, they discussed what vegetables and fruits belong to that group and there were a few surprises, as most people know tomatoes and white potatoes and eggplants, but it also includes cayenne, goji berries and Ashwaganda! So the bottom line was there are hug benefits to this food group and maybe do a simple elimination test avoiding them for a couple of weeks then introducing them one by one, eat for one day then wait to see any reactions over the next few days. And see if you can add them back in. He didn’t however seem to be aware of the powerful effects of cayenne for the heart, for stomach ulcers, for stopping bleeding – that is the sort of wisdom and experience you get at The School of Natural Healing.
I’m looking forward to the other talks at this summit, I’ve looked into my own insect repellant in the past but always open to new ideas. I’m also looking forward to the first aid talk as this guy is very experienced in it.
The free registration gifts include:
5 Kitchen Spices That Turn Your Meal Into Medicine
Seed Saving Guide
Edible Flowers: Culinary and Medicinal Uses
The Ancient Art of Raw Vinegars
The Top 10 Survival Crops
The Miracle of Garlic
I’m currently performing my own garlic miracle having spent the last 4 days fighting a serious tooth infection. I don’t have access to antibiotics so must use garlic. I could see the infection turn around and retreat. I’m experienced with this over the years. This is possibly my worst infection to date, it normally does not take 4 days! That’s a good reminder to have your herbal first aid kit ready stocked for times like this!!
Check out the School of Natural Healing foundation course here.
Register for the Home Medicine event by the Grow Network here

Healing Power of Food | Michael Murray
2018-10-13 - 2018-10-21 | Online
From Oct 13th Michael Murray will be airing talks on all types of diet currently in vogue, having interviewed the different proponents of each diet

Keto
Paleo
Vegetarian
Vegan
Nutritatarian
you name it!

Many of these diets will contradict each other and he refers to each speaker as ‘an expert’, it’s sort of like an ecumenical gathering of diet gurus! However I’d disagree with calling all of them ‘experts’ as some of them can be dangerous, for example we’ve had Elle Russ and David Jockers at the Fix for Female Hormones summit admit that Keto can really screw with your thyroid ‘if you do it wrong’, and huge numbers of people ‘do it wrong’ , and have thyroid issues before they even start! Then there’s the whole ‘is it really good for you at all’ thing that I think needs to be properly established over time!
Then we have vegetarianism vs meat vs veganism, that dispute has been going on a very long time with some people even waving lab tests saying they’ve nutritional deficiencies because they avoided meat while others say going off meat was their salvation and yet again others saying ‘it’s an individual thing’ and there is no one diet for everyone – however, listening to each guru out there on the summits you could easily be led to believe there ‘is’ one diet for all…!

Check out The Healing Power of Foods now and see what the proponents of each diet have to say for themselves.

The Truth About Cancer | A Global Quest
2018-10-09 - 2018-10-18 | Online
I’ve done Gerson Therapy, it saved me from becoming bedridden and confined to 24/7 care in a nursing home while still in my 30s, due to medical error. So I know there is a lot of good to some of the therapies coming up in this series.
Gerson therapy has been around over 80 years and slaps the ketogenic diet in the face as it involves a lot of food! 3 meals a day and a minimum of 6 juices a day, a minimum of 3 coffee enemas – once you understand how this therapy works you will see much of the other advice out there in the health world today for what it is , you will have a much better perspective – you will see who is cherry picking aspects fo the therapy, who is making silly theoretical claims about coffee enemas that just aren’t borne out by the many people who take them!
This is your chance to catch up with the TTAC docuseries which airs one episode each night free for 24 hours and will have an encore w/e afterwards.

Rewire Your Brain to Think Thin
2018-10-02 - 2018-10-12 | Online
Register now for this Rewire Your Brain to Think Thin event in its 6th year with Marna Thall, don’t forget to catch Rita Marie Loscalzo’s talk! And Ann Louise Gittelmann’s recipes! A good outline of the subjects to be tackled in a weight loss strategy. Use your brain to research some of the things being said. I cannot recommend Keesha Ewers approach, as she pushes hormones unnecessarily.

Fix for Female Hormones Summit
2018-10-01 - 2018-10-07 | Online
Airs free the week of Oct 1st-7th, host Misty Williams. Interesting line-up of speakers. More details coming soon.
Register here for Fix Female Hormones summit to get 3 free talks including one by Chris Shade of Quicksilver Scientific, the detox king.

Awakening from Alzheimer's
2018-09-21 - 2018-10-02 | Online
Sept 21st through Oct 2nd, 12 nights, 12 full interviews. Each available for 24 hours and there will be a replay on the w/e following, Oct 5th-7th.
We’ve had a number of ‘reversing Alzheimer’s and dementia’ summits and docuseries in the last year and all of them are very welcome when there is such firm ‘practice’ out there NOT to reverse or even prevent Alzheimer’s or Dementia. I was told there was no hope way back in 2004 and was just lucky to have seen Prof. Basant Puri lecturing on EPA at that time. Also lucky in that I got a solution that did NOT involve the ketogenic diet, which is a dangerous diet often touted as a ‘cure-all’ or ‘the only cure’, but it isn’t.
That said, at least we are talking different ways to actually reverse the damn thing lol, whereas most people I know are just declining and being medicated by their regular doctors into worsening states of decline, and their family members taking absolutely no precautions in terms of changing their lazy junk food lifestyle to prevent it even when it runs in the family – perhaps because of the ‘myth’ / medical belief that you are tied into your genetics – they still haven’t boarded epigenetics onto the medical Noah’s ark there yet!!
I can fully recommend Michael Breus on sleep and ‘the power of when’, except for what he says about melatonin and pain remedies – both of those things can be dealt with better, the body can be made produce hormones again even afer 30 or after 50, and pain can be resolved in many ways either at a neglected overlooked cause or even hypnosis for pain relief, which at least won’t have the side effect of destroying your liver or sleep depth.
Register now for this free event

Qigong Global Summit
2018-09-18 - 2018-09-20 | Online
Qigong Global Summit Sept 18th-20th
Qi Gong, Tai Chi, martial arts for health and healing, the gentle bodywork side of things, as health so often focuses on nutrition we need also to get the body moving and yet vigorous exercise isn’t possible for many people recovering from illness.
How Medical Qigong is defined
Medical Qigong is an ancient form of Chinese energetic medicine, and is one of the four main branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), along with acupuncture, herbal medicine, and medical massage.
What is Qi Gong?
Here is some of the interesting stuff said about it at this event:
”…A daily Qigong practice, available to everyone, can immediately lower stress, increase energy, prevent illness, and support you in rejuvenating your body, mind, and spirit.
With Qigong, you can learn to bring healing energy — known as “qi” or sometimes written ‘chi’— to particular parts of your body to transform anxiety, stress, and disease into self confidence, inner peace, and optimal health.
As your body responds by doing what it’s designed to do — heal and re-balance itself — blockages in your flow of qi disappear and your full life force energy moves smoothly, radiating out into all aspects of your daily life.”
And they have seven stated learning goals with this event:
How to tune in to your body’s subtle distress signals before your health is compromised & becomes a crisis
Simple health exercises from China and Tibet that protect, support and boost your health & immunity
Helpful breathing exercises to relieve PTSD & boost your health
The concepts of energy (qi) flow and how it plays a role in the physical, mental, & emotional systems in the human body
Ways to discover, experience, circulate & build your life force energy
That qigong can be used as a self-defense modality
Methods for accessing your fountain of “dynamic happiness” in the modern world<—with caution, I personally am promoting it as a form of exercise, not a new spiritual path though people are welcome choose whatever philosophy they like.

Pregnancy & Motherhood Summit
2018-09-10 - 2018-09-17 | Online
Register free for this event now and pick up your 3 early talks and transcripts, available free till the end of the summit.

Remedy | Herbal Medicine Documentary
2018-09-05 - 2018-09-13 | Online
9 part docuseries running from Sept 5th-13th, encore w/e 15th-16th. One episode playing each night, streams free for 24 hours but Episode 1 is available all week long.

The host is Nick Polizzi:

Here is the episode schedule:

Speaker Line-Up

As you can see there is a mix of herbalists from different traditions as well as researchers and doctors. I favor the vitalist master herbalist tradition over some types represented here as it is more straightforward and I never warmed to herbal approaches that dwelt on hot and cold conditions, I always seem to be all of them!
Some familiar faces to me are:

Rosemary Gladstar, I’ve taken some of her courses at Learning Herbs, it is lovely and very motivational but I always found The School of Natural Healing to be better for healing results in difficult cases.
Lise Alschuler, she’s a doctor in the functional medicine world and does TAP Integrative.
David Wolfe, Daniel Vitalis, Sayer-Ji, Pedram Shojai very common speakers on the summit circuit.
Stephen Harrod Buhner has written two famous books: Herbal Antibiotics and Herbal Antivirals

Register for this herbal medicine event now: Remedy Ancient Medicine for Modern Illness

IBS & SIBO SOS Summit 2018 | Shivan Sarna
2018-09-03 - 2018-09-09 | Online
The Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth summit rolls out from Monday Sept 3rd-9th 2018, with an encore replay of all the talks the following w/e Sept 15th-16th. There are 44 speakers at this event, with top dedicated experts in the SIBO space eg Dr. Allison Siebecker, Dr. Steven Sandberg-Lewis, Dr. Pimentel. These people educate the functional medicine doctors, such is their level of expertise. The host is Shivan Sarna, who ran this event last year and it was one of the best events on the summit last year too.

3 Free Early Talks and a SIBO Cookbook & Registration is Free!

Remember these talks come with free downloadable transcripts:
*Note: Tom O’Bryan’s talk isn’t all about bashing gluten this time, though the title of his talk should be expanded to say ‘what one bite of gluten can do to someone who is gluten sensitive!
You’ll see both camps of the dietary divide represented at the summit, the ultra low carb keto as in David Jockers, who at the previous summit referred to how much his pregnant wife in her third trimester is ‘allowed’ eat now that she is so far in her pregnancy and eating for two – a piece of sweet potato, carrot, and a handful of berries – such a starvation diet is not for everyone and I’ve shown in the Addiction Summit that for every 1 thing Keto diet can do, there are easily 10 other things will achieve it simply without the extreme diet and lifestyle!

4 Free eBooks from Speakers with Registration
*An important one to note here is Allison Siebecker’s IBS and SIBO Differential Diagnosis eGuide.

These eBooks are in exchange for signing up to the speaker’s email list, it is optional and you can choose which ones you want and also you can unsubscribe if you feel you are getting too many emails after the summit 😉

So we have MamaZ, Michael Murray – who is nutritionally polar opposites to the sort of diet David Jockers promotes! Bear in mind while there is some promotion of keto on this summit an attempt has been made to balance out different dietary approaches. And there’s an eBook by Razi Berry.

Speaker Line-Up: 6 Talks per Day

IBS & SIBO Summit Purchase Bonus Gifts
