The John Vincent Podcast
The John Vincent Podcast explores ancient healing and modern medicine, asking how old traditions and emerging science can help people live naturally healthy lives. Host John Vincent looks at what modern medicine recommends alongside long-standing healing practices and new hypotheses. Drawing on his experience founding LEON, he examines health in all its dimensions and how politics, economics and profit incentives can affect wellbeing. The show features insights from leading doctors, scientists, nutritionists, healers and practitioners of indigenous wisdom.
Episodes
Brendan Quinn on Mental Health, Psychiatric Care and Why the System Needs to Change
Mental health problems are rising across generations, but is the way we treat them actually helping people recover? John Vincent sits down with mental health practitioner Brendan Quinn to examine the realities of psychiatric care, medication and the systems built around mental illness. Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience across nursing, private healthcare and mental health services, Brendan s
Davinia Taylor on Eating Like a Human; The Discovery That Finally Changed Her Habits Forever And Could Change Your Life Too
What if changing your life didn’t begin with a dramatic overhaul, but with one small decision that made you feel a little more like yourself again?Actress, bestselling author and WillPowders co-founder Davinia Taylor joins John Vincent for a deeply personal, funny and refreshingly honest conversation about food, energy, behaviour and learning how to listen to your body.Davinia shares a period in h
Tony Brown: From Rock Bottom and ECT to Bioresonance, Holistic Health and Finding Purpose
Tony Brown joins John Vincent to share his extraordinary journey from severe depression and psychiatric hospitalisation to rebuilding his health, relationships and sense of purpose. Tony recalls being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, receiving 17 courses of electroconvulsive therapy and eventually finding his way out of hospital with help from an old school friend.After leaving hospital, Ton
Robert Verkerk: Natural Health, GLP-1 Drugs, Big Pharma & the Future of Medicine
What if the biggest problem with modern healthcare isn’t a lack of science, but the way science, regulation and commercial incentives are being used?Dr Robert Verkerk, scientist, ecologist and founder of the Alliance for Natural Health, joins John Vincent for a wide-ranging conversation about natural health, modern medicine, GLP-1 weight loss drugs, personalised healthcare, food as medicine and th
Jonathan Ramalho: Ayahuasca, Psychosis and Rebuilding Your Mental Health
What happens when a psychedelic experience intended to unlock human potential leads to psychosis, psychiatric hospitalisation and a complete loss of trust in your own mind?Jonathan Ramalho joins John Vincent to share the extraordinary story behind Beyond The Pill, his exploration of mental health, psychedelics, human potential and recovery. After years exploring human potential, mental health and
Glenn Harrold: How to Reprogram Your Mind with Hypnosis and Manifestation
Can you use hypnosis to change negative thought patterns, reprogram your subconscious mind and create a more positive life?Hypnotherapist Glenn Harrold joins John Vincent to explore self-hypnosis, meditation, subconscious programming, childhood trauma, manifestation, abundance, consciousness and the power of the stories we tell ourselves. Glenn shares how a difficult childhood, homelessness, drugs
Dr Alan Desmond: What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About Food
What should we actually eat for a longer, healthier life? Dr Alan Desmond, gastroenterologist and author of What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About Food, joins John Vincent to examine the evidence behind plant based diets, ultra processed food, dietary fibre, protein, heart disease, obesity, metabolic health and longevity. They explore why health span matters as much as lifespan, why the mod
Gaz Oakley: Why Growing Your Own Food Can Change Your Life
How did Gaz Oakley go from city-life burnout to a calmer, more authentic life connected to nature?Gaz Oakley, the chef, author and creator joins John Vincent for a powerful conversation about plant based food, burnout, fermentation, herbalism, homesteading, nature deficiency, social media, city life, anxiety, authentic living and the spiritual power of reconnecting with the land.From starting work
Emily English: Why Your Body Isn't a Maths Equation
How does a teenager pushed into a toxic diet culture by the modelling industry end up a three-time Number 1 bestselling nutritionist on a mission to make healthy eating feel normal again?Em the Nutritionist aka Emily English, joins John Vincent live to make the case that nutrition has been made far more complicated, frightening and expensive than it ever needed to be. She shares how a single comme
Vex King: Why You're Chasing Purpose the Wrong Way
How does someone go from homelessness, poverty and violence to selling over 3 million books worldwide? Number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Vex King reveals the single mindset shift that ended his victim story, why your sense of purpose only ever exists in the present moment, and the "spiritual ego" trap that keeps so many seekers stuck. Recorded live, this is one of the most honest conve
Health and Capitalism: the need for wholeness and how LEON will help
When I started The John Vincent Podcast, I did not know I was going to buy back LEON. I recently did so. And it gives me a whole new way of helping you enjoy natural health. And a very practical perspective on how we need to become aware of how everything is linked.When I started The John Vincent Podcast, I did not know I was going to buy back LEON. I recently did so. And it gives me a whole new w
The Pivot to Prevention: 2 NHS Doctors Quit Their Jobs to Help You Put Health Back Into Your Own Hands
In this episode, I am lucky to have spoken to two doctors and pioneers in preventative medicine.Claire Merifield and Alasdair Scott were doctors in the NHS for years. But after being disillusioned by the medical system, they realised what their patients really needed was preventative, personalised healthcare. So they set up Selph, using their respective expertise to create a system with which they
Your Skin Needs More Love: Adapting For The Season and For Your Body Type w/ Weleda’s Elizabeth King
In this third episode recorded at the Integrative and Personalised Medical Congress 2025, I spoke with Holistic Facialist, Elizabeth King.Elizabeth is Weleda UK's Esthetician Education Lead and has specialised in the anthroposophic-based holistic approach to caring for the skin for over 24 years. An experienced trainer, Elizabeth has created Weleda’s Ofqual regulated, CFI Level 4 Certificate cours
(Pt. 4) How Your Mind Will Heal You (if it knows what to fix) with Dr. Leo Pruimboom
This is the final part of my episode with Dr Leo Pruimboom, a pioneer in cPNI. I was incredibly lucky to speak with him at the 2025 Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress. Our conversation offered me a new understanding into how much health we can have access to if we know how to truly sense what our bodies are telling us, and how to manage the consequences of modern inventions. His person
(Pt. 3) How Your Mind Will Heal You (if it knows what to fix) with Dr. Leo Pruimboom
This is Part 3 of my episode with Dr Leo Pruimboom, a pioneer in cPNI. I was incredibly lucky to speak with him or our 2nd episode at the Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress 2025 who kindly hosted us. Our conversation offered me a new understanding into how much health we can have access to if we know how to truly sense what our bodies are telling us, and how to manage the consequences
(Pt. 2) How Your Mind Will Heal You (if it knows what to fix) with Dr. Leo Pruimboom
This is Part 2 of my episode with Dr Leo Pruimboom, a pioneer in cPNI. I was incredibly lucky to speak with him or our 2nd episode at the Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress 2025 who kindly hosted us. Our conversation offered me a new understanding into how much health we can have access to if we know how to truly sense what our bodies are telling us, and how to manage the consequences
(Pt. 1) How Your Mind Will Heal You (if it knows what to fix) with Dr. Leo Pruimboom
Today’s episode is with Dr Leo Pruimboom, a pioneer in cPNI. I was incredibly lucky to speak with him or our 2nd episode at the Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress 2025 who kindly hosted us. Our conversation offered me a new understanding into how much health we can have access to if we know how to truly sense what our bodies are telling us, and how to manage the consequences of modern
Menopause: A Holistic Approach with Julie Gough (IPM Special)
Welcome to the first of three special podcasts in collaboration with the Integrative and Personalized Medical Congress (IPM), who kindly hosted us at their event, bringing together cutting edge doctors, experts and healers from all areas of health and medicine. The first of the series is with Nutritionist Julie Gough, who shares her insight from guiding herself, and her clients, through menop
Jungian Analysis: Free Yourself From The Unconscious Forces Controlling Your Life
In the pursuit of wholeness in our wellbeing, I spoke with Vanessa Gillespie, Jungian Psychoanalyst, about our emotional, mental and spiritual health through a Jungian lens. What became abundantly clear is just how much our subconscious runs the show, and how Jungian Analysis provides frameworks for living a free and fulfilled life. In this episode you’ll learn:What the psyche is, and wh
Getting To The Bottom of Gut Health: Fix Your Internal Climate Crisis
In this episode, Mr James Kinross reframes my understanding of "gut health".He takes me into the evolving world of microbiome science, explains our ‘internal climate crisis’ and how we can heal ourselves with surprising lifestyle shifts. Mr James Kinross is an expert in the microbiome, a researcher into probiotic and prebiotic therapies for colonic health, and is a Colorectal Surgeon at OneWe
The 12 Week Year - A John Vincent Quickie
Welcome to my first John Vincent Quickie.Quick, digestible and applicable ideas to equip you for a more fulfilled, whole, life.Today, I am with Philip Dodson at Plaw Hatch Farm in Sussex, and we talk about the idea conceived by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington in their book 'The 12 Week Year', and how it has helped me re-frame my goals.Phillip introduced me to this approach and it enabled me
Beautiful skin, healthy skin: Dr Ellie Rashid has your back
Dr Ellie Rashid is a Consultant Dermatologist at OneWelbeck Skin Health, and Allergy and Clinical Lead for the complex Hidradenitis Suppurativa service at St John’s Institute of Dermatology. She specializes in a wide range of dermatology conditions, including paediatric dermatology, hidradenitis suppurativa, acne, eczema, psoriasis, and pigmentation disorders. Ellie is also joint training program
What's the Point? Acupuncture and Purpose with David Leeds
So far on The John Vincent Podcast, I’ve come to realise the perhaps surprising importance of our emotional and spiritual health on our physical health. Acupuncture is a treatment that pays attention to all of these areas, and is a tool that can allow us to live a more whole, fulfilling life. On this episode, I talk with David Leeds, a 5 Element acupuncturist that practices in Brooklyn, NYC.
Ultra-Longevity: Play your cards right with Dr Mark Liponis
In this conversation with Dr. Mark Liponis, bestselling author and longevity expert, we dig deeper into the science and lifestyle practices behind his book Ultra-Longevity. Mark has a gift for making complex ideas about aging and the immune system feel accessible and actionable.This time, we explore how aging actually works: what happens internally when you age, why it often happens in sudden
Mind how you feel: what your emotions are trying to tell you
Mel has for the last twenty years helped run the Alliance for Natural Health. We talk about how Mel became a renowned advocate for how nature can heal us, and for the power of our emotions on our physical health. Or rather how our emotional health and physical health are as entwined as any natural ecosystem. We hear about her ill health as a child and young adult, and how the medical orthodox
Ultraprevention: insights from 25 years of Canyon Ranch medical retreat
Dr Mark Liponis has a deep curiosity for the human mind and human condition.He was an emergency room doctor, has written some of the most respected books on prevention and longevity and for 17 years he was the medical director at Canyon Ranch, one of the US most highly regarded health resorts.On this episode, we hear from Dr Liponis what it’s like being a doctor within the current system, and he s
Fasting with Dr Ash Kapoor
My first guest on The John Vincent Podcast is Dr Ash Kapoor. We talk about fasting – why you might want to try it, and what to expect when you do.Dr. Ash Kapoor is a practicing clinician and a scientist with a deep curiosity about the human body, root cause analysis and a determination to understand what is happening at a cellular level.Because Ash is going to be a regular here, we
Why we are here - a (not short but hopefully useful) introduction to the podcast
I want to introduce myself, introduce my podcast, and share the only one thing that I've ever learned in my life. And how this one thing has set me on a journey that I'd love you to come on with me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
