The Wilderness and Wellness Podcast · Ron Waline

Dr. Ben Page: You Heal You! How Natural Medicines and Ways of Being Support the Holistic Health of People and the Planet

·1 hr 5 min·4 clips

A homemade comfrey salve helped Ben go from a broken big toe to playing basketball in 10 days.

Ron opens by framing the podcast as a place to reconnect with the natural world. That reconnection, he suggests, can support personal health, community health, and the health of the earth. Dr. Ben Page joins as a father, husband, entrepreneur, and chiropractor with a strong interest in natural healing and ancestral health. His story starts at home. A broken toe led him to make comfrey salve in his backyard, and the result was a kind of healing he could feel firsthand. That experience helped spark Consuelo LLC. The company rests on the idea that nature is our medicine and that it supports the body’s own healing capacity. Ben explains his view that meat and fat are fuel and nutrition. He also treats plants as medicine. Those ideas are not left hanging as theory. They are tied to the way he lives and the way he works with other people. He talks about helping people understand health and their place in nature. He also talks about helping them understand how healing can happen more fully and how it can hold over time. He has written The Four Pillars of Health. He has also written a book about how nature heals, the ways it supports healing mechanisms, and how it helps us recover faster. The conversation keeps returning to a simple thread: nature does more than comfort. It helps, participates, and supports repair over time. Ben speaks about wanting people to truly enjoy life while staying healthy through time. Ron matches that tone with a warm, receptive style. The exchange gives the guest room to explain his path without being hurried. It also lets the practical side of the work come through. The closing stretch includes a personal report of using the salve and stretches and noticing improvement. That ending gives the episode a lived-in, testimonial feel. It also reinforces the show’s larger interest in healing tied to land, plants, and bodily experience. The discussion keeps circling back to one steady claim: nature is not separate from wellness. It is part of it.

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A warm case for natural healing that starts in the backyard and widens to the whole body.

The episode follows Dr. Ben Page, a father, husband, entrepreneur, and chiropractor whose interest in natural healing and ancestral health begins with a backyard experiment involving comfrey salve for a broken toe.

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You want a calm, nature-rooted conversation about healing that feels lived, not polished.

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