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Terrain Theory

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Terrain Theory is hosted by childhood friends Ben Hardy and Mike Merenda, two seekers on a mission to dismantle the fear-based germ-theory paradigm and illuminate how the body’s terrain—its environment, balance, and intelligence—shapes true wellness. Through insightful conversations with pioneering guests, we reveal how nature’s intelligence, ancient wisdom, and modern science converge in the art of true health and healing. Every episode invites you to reclaim your agency, recognize that you are

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108:10

One Toxin to Kill Us All: Glyphosate, Toxic Load &...

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2026/10/08

What really makes us ill?Once you begin questioning germ theory, another question quickly follows: if germs aren’t the cause of disease, then what is?For past Terrain Theory guests like Dawn Lester, David Parker, Tom Cowan, et al, The answer comes down to some familiar forces: malnutrition, stress, and toxins.In this conversation, we focus on one of the most pervasive of those toxins: glyphosate.Michelle Perro, MD is a conventionally trained pediatric emergency physician whose work gradually moved

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102:52

Cosmic Connections: Tissue Salts, Cellular Health,...

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2026/10/01

When Lisa Strbac first joined us in 2023 to talk homeopathy, tissue salts came up almost in passing. Since then, she’s written an entire book about them. So we invited Lisa back, along with her colleague Natasha Andreo, to give the subject the attention it most certainly deserves..We begin with the twelve tissue salts identified by 19th-century physician Wilhelm Schuessler, how they differ from classical homeopathic remedies, and the notion that all dis-ease can be traced back to mineral salt

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95:40

Don’t Park There: Fear, Attention, and The Field |...

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2026/09/24

Four years after her first appearance on Terrain Theory, Dr. Suzy Harris returns for a conversation that starts with COVID, adverse events, jab detoxification, and quickly moves into much deeper territory.Suzy shares what she has been seeing in her chiropractic and natural health practice, how she approaches lymphatic movement, circulation, detoxification, and recovery, and why she remains open to questions that challenge even the frameworks she currently uses. We also talk about the importance of

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110:33

Rethinking Medicine: Psychedelics, Place, and the...

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2026/09/10

Beana Bern is the founder of Rootstock Retreat, a ten-acre retreat and community in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where she works with psilocybin through immersive medicine retreats and seasonal microdosing programs.In this conversation, we rethink what we mean when we use the word “medicine.” Beana shares her own decades-long relationship with psychedelics and explains why mushrooms can be remarkably efficient at showing us where our pain, patterns, and stories come from...while challenging the idea

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101:14

The Invisible Terrain: Orgone Energy and the...

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2026/09/03

Sharon Daphna is a writer, researcher, and creator of The Chembow, where she documents more than a decade of work with orgone energy, orgonite, atmospheric conditions, electromagnetic frequencies, and the ideas of Wilhelm Reich. Since 2014, Sharon has made and distributed orgonite throughout nine western states, experimenting with what happens when these devices are introduced into environments saturated with artificial frequencies.In this conversation, we explore what might be called the invisible

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94:01

Seriousness Is the Disease: Laughter, Jesters, and...

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2026/08/27

Mike Cardamone is a comedian, writer, filmmaker, and creator of Don't Slap Snooze. Before turning his attention to health, medicine, money, and some of the stranger corners of our shared reality, Mike spent years in advertising writing and producing for major brands. Then COVID happened, he started pulling on threads, and his creative work took a very different turn.In this conversation, we talk about comedy as a way of communicating ideas that facts and arguments often can’t, and Mike makes

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98:54

The Magic Mushroom Problem: When Psychedelics Become...

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2026/08/19

We have been open about our experiences with psychedelics and microdosing and the meaningful role they played in our own journeys into Terrain. But as psychedelics move from the counterculture into clinics, retreats and the mainstream, are we at risk of turning them into another version of the very thing they're supposed to replace: the magic pill?John O'Connor, author of A Short, Strange Trip, joins us for a nuanced look at the psychedelic renaissance through the story of one of its most

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117:56

Your Child's First Terrain Is You | Jenna Cain

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2026/08/12

We spend a lot of time on this show talking about creating healthy terrain through food, light, movement, and the environments we choose. But what if our very first terrain wasn't physical at all? What if our terrain was the emotional climate we grew up in, the words spoken over us, and the stories we learned to tell ourselves before we were even old enough to question them?In this conversation, we welcome pediatric physical therapist, Enlifted coach, and parenting educator Jenna Cain for a

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101:34

Principles Over Protocols: What Terrain-based...

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2026/08/05

What does it actually mean to practice naturopathy through the lens of Terrain Theory?In this episode, we sit down with terrain-forward naturopath Nicky Leach to explore a model of health that looks beyond diagnoses, protocols, and symptom management. Rather than asking, "What's the treatment?" Nicky asks a different question: "What conditions allowed this to happen in the first place?"We discuss why purpose, community, and the stories we tell ourselves may shape our health

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122:17

Timing, Circadian Biology & Environmental Coherence |...

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2026/07/29

How much of our health and terrain is shaped not just by what we eat or how we avoid toxins, but by the timing of our activities and choices? The when of our lives. In this episode, we sit down with Avi Jacobson, co-founder of Kintsyougi and one of the creators of the CRD Challenge—a simple three-week experiment that introduced thousands of people to the principles of circadian biology. Built around practices like morning sunlight, reducing artificial light after dark, eating with daylight, and

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143:42

Tuning the Human Instrument & The Science of...

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2026/07/22

We often think of health as something that's built through food, movement, sunlight, sleep, and the choices we make each day. But what if one of the most influential forces shaping our terrain isn't something we consume, but rather the people we surround ourselves with?In this conversation, we sit down with author, explorer, and former Global Citizen executive Michael Trainer to explore the science and philosophy of resonance: the idea that our nervous systems, our biology, and even our

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111:05

Magic Pills: The Skeptic's Journey Into Homeopathy |...

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2026/07/15

When filmmaker and homeopath Ananda More first encountered homeopathy, she dismissed it as pseudoscience. It wasn't until an unexpected experience while traveling through India that her certainty began to unravel. Years later—even after becoming a practicing homeopath herself—she still wrestled with the question: "is this all simply placebo?" That honest skepticism became the foundation for Magic Pills, a documentary exploring the science, stories, politics, and controversy

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139:28

Disease Begins In The Heart: Stillness & The Middle...

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2026/07/08

Tommy Hughes returns to the Terrain Theory Podcast for a conversation that builds on our first exploration of Classical Chinese Medicine and takes it into even deeper territory.Drawing from the ancient medical classics, Tommy explains why Chinese physicians believed disease begins in the heart, how chronic emotional patterns can eventually become physical pathology, and why the body's symptoms are often the final chapter of a story that began years earlier. Together we examine the Chinese

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102:53

Everything We Forgot About Hemp | Anya & Jacob Smith

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2026/07/01

Cannabis has become one of the most polarizing plants in modern history, but hemp may be the more important story.In this episode, Ben and Mike sit down with Florida cannabis cultivators Anya and Jacob Smith of Green Smith Family Farms to explore the remarkable versatility of hemp and why so much of its history has been forgotten. The conversation moves well beyond CBD and THC into living soil, terpene diversity, clean cultivation, and why the health of the growing environment may directly influence

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126:56

Victimhood, Mindset & The Stories That Shape Your...

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2026/06/24

Change your mind? More like change your mindset.In this episode, we sit down with Mark England, founder of Enlifted, to explore the relationship between language, breath, mindset, and health. Mark argues that mindset isn't some abstract self-help concept: it's simply the story we tell ourselves about our lives, our bodies, our relationships, and our circumstances. And when those stories become rooted in fear, victimhood, or the belief that we're somehow broken, they can shape

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108:19

We're Here to Teach Nature | Mike Winner

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2026/06/17

Mike Winner has spent decades exploring the intersections of health, consciousness, philosophy, technology, and human potential. Many listeners know him as the longtime co-host of Alfa Vedic alongside Dr. Barre Lando, but his latest project, TerrainTV, may be his most ambitious yet: a centralized platform designed to bring together some of the most influential voices in the Terrain movement.In this conversation, Mike joins Ben and Mike for a wide-ranging exploration of the BioTerrain Model, the

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94:52

The Body Doesn't Lie: Osteopathy, Flow & Energy...

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2026/06/10

What happens when the illness that nearly killed you turns out to be the catalyst for your greatest healing?Dr. Caroline Hartridge began her medical career firmly rooted in the conventional system. But after years of unexplained symptoms, a missed diagnosis, and a near-death experience during medical school, she found herself questioning everything she thought she knew about health, healing, and the human body.A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, craniosacral therapist, Reiki practitioner, and health

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110:40

Pets and Terrain: Fasting, Homeopathy, and the Role...

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2026/06/03

Most veterinarians spend their careers learning how to diagnose disease. Dr. Maureen Ann McMichael became interested in a different question: why was the animal sick in the first place?A board-certified veterinary critical care specialist and former veterinary school professor, Dr. McMichael has worked in emergency medicine, academia, and specialty practice for decades. Along the way, she began questioning some of the foundational assumptions of modern veterinary medicine, from nutrition and chronic

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64:00

The Body Follows the Mind: Near-Death, Energy Healing...

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2026/05/27

What happens when a near-death experience completely rewires the way you see the world?Before Pearly Montagu was working with trauma, intuition, reflexology, and energy healing, she was living a very different life in corporate finance and global shipping. But after a devastating boating accident and profound near-death experience in her late twenties, everything changed. What followed was years of chronic pain, nervous system dysregulation, deep meditation, inner work, and ultimately the emergence

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149:22

Cancer's Root Cause: Healing Psycho-Emotional &...

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2026/05/19

Is cancer a random genetic accident, an isolated physical event, or a message arising from unresolved stress, suppressed emotion, relationship conflict, and deeply rooted patterns carried through a lifetime?In this episode, we sit down with Paul Leendertse and Aria Konrad of the Root Cause Institute for a far-reaching conversation on the psycho-emotional and spiritual dimensions of cancer and chronic illness. Building on our recent exploration of Toxin Sequestration Theory with Patrick Coles, this

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