A host-led memorial that keeps grief, healing, and affection in the same frame.
This episode is at its strongest when Alison Melody talks plainly about James Van Der Beek, with real affection and real loss behind the words.

Plant-powered healing with a pulse.
Food Heals treats food, advocacy, grief, and self-reinvention as connected parts of a healthier life. Recent episodes move from beagle rescue efforts and vegan arguments to brain health, IBD, cancer loss, forgiveness, money, and action.
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Food Heals is a wellness show with its heart on the table and its politics close behind. It treats nutrition as a doorway into almost everything else: gut health, brain health, animal rescue, grief, money, relationships, visibility, and personal freedom. The show is not quiet about what it believes. Recent episodes move with urgency through beagles bred for experiments, rescuers facing arrest, plant-based medicine, anti-vegan arguments, dietary guideline conflicts, and the emotional work of changing a life. One episode follows the fallout from a rescue of beagles from Ridglan Farms, including the pain of eight dogs being taken back by authorities. Another centers on Pete Ryman and the push to return to Ridgeland Farms for more rescue efforts. The animal advocacy episodes are intense, built around the idea that compassion should become visible action. The nutrition episodes carry the same charge. Dr. John E. Lewis appears in a conversation about big meat and dairy ties, cheese, plant-based eating, and brain health. Dani Ishai brings satire and logic to common anti-vegan arguments, using humor as a way to move people past defensiveness. Josh Deck appears in a gut-health episode focused on IBD, IBS, chronic fatigue, medication dependence, and natural repair. The show also turns inward. A tribute to James Van Der Beek becomes a meditation on cancer, parental loss, Louise Hay, forgiveness, back pain, pancreatic health, and finding sweetness again. A reset episode moves through health, mindset, money, relationships, fear, rejection, confidence, and action. The style is testimonial and persuasive. Short emotional bursts sit beside long, rolling passages of advice. Food Heals suits listeners who want wellness with conviction, plant-based advocacy with personality, and healing talk that keeps asking what someone is actually willing to do next.
Made for: Food Heals is for listeners drawn to plant-based nutrition, natural healing, animal welfare, and personal transformation. It especially suits people who prefer wellness conversations with emotion, advocacy, humor, and clear moral stakes.
What sets it apart: The show does not separate diet from conscience, grief, or daily courage. Its distinct edge is the way it moves from nutrition interviews to animal rescue urgency and then back into intimate emotional repair without changing its core worldview.
Being hailed as "Sex and the City for Food," The Food Heals Podcast brings together experts in the field of nutrition, health and healing to teach you the best-kept natural secrets to being a hotter, healthier, happier YOU! The Food Heals Podcast is hosted by Allison Melody with guest co-hosts like Suzy Hardy, Leslie Durso, Whitney Lauritsen, Sophie Uliano and more – all self-proclaimed natural chicks who will rock your world and change your beliefs about health! This sexy, savvy show provides eco-friendly advice on a variety of issues including the healing power of nutrition, living authentically, turning your passion into your career, choosing the best natural health and beauty products, t…
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Allison Melody connects wellness ideas to action through personal reflection, guest conversations and an unusually wide view of what healing can involve.
Food Heals follows Allison Melody wherever a question about feeling better leads, from food, herbs and chronic illness to grief, forgiveness, work, relationships and animal rescue.
Kale cravings meet beagle rescues and grief, then a firm nudge gets you off the couch.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A host-led memorial that keeps grief, healing, and affection in the same frame.
This episode is at its strongest when Alison Melody talks plainly about James Van Der Beek, with real affection and real loss behind the words.
A brisk reset about action, forgiveness, and getting unstuck.
Food Heals episode 508 lands on a blunt, motivating point: things start to change once a person stops waiting to feel ready and begins moving.
A direct herbal conversation about Lyme, MS, and finding a better fit for chronic illness protocols.
Food Heals frames herbal medicine through chronic illness, with Allison Melody asking Rawls how approaches to Lyme and MS can be shaped around the person instead of pressed into one universal plan.
A beagle-rescue story where preparation, risk, and chosen family carry the emotional weight.
The episode follows a beagle-rescue mission and keeps the stakes personal through Jennifer's memory of fellow rescuers being cuffed, searched, and choosing to give up their own freedom so the dogs might get something beyond cages and experiments.

Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.


Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.

Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.


Host Allison Melody interviews activists Ella Majors and Jennifer Torkin about rescuing beagles from Ridgeland Farms, a facility breeding dogs for animal testing.
This episode is a Q&A session where the host and guest answer audience questions about applying the law of attraction principles to improve health, wealth, and happiness, building on a previous discussion.
This episode explores how coherent water, as promoted by Mario Brainovic of Analema, can transform health by changing water's structure and interaction with the body.
This episode features holistic nutritionist Dane Johnson discussing his natural protocol for reversing Crohn's and colitis symptoms without medications or surgery.
Host Allison Melody interviews Dr.
Food Heals guest Miguel Bautista recalls being spoon-fed at 22 after years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and heart palpitations.
On Food Heals, Alison Melody interviews triple-certified OBGYN Dr.
Food Heals host Alison Melody introduces Dolly, a Ridgeland rescue beagle identified by a numbered ear tag after spending her life in a cage as a breeding dog.
Food Heals host Allison Melody interviews Mansi Goel about joining the Ridgeland Farms Beagle Rescue after receiving an all-caps message only 20 minutes after they met.
This episode tells the story of activists like Jennifer Tourkin who risked arrest to rescue thousands of beagles bred for cruel experiments, highlighting the injustice and inspiring action.
This episode features an interview with Pete Reimann, an undercover investigator at Ridgeland Farms, discussing his journey from mocking vegans to becoming a plant-powered hero involved in beagle rescue efforts.
This episode discusses the rescue of 31 beagles from abuse at Ridglan Farms, the subsequent return of 8 dogs by authorities, and explores the broader issue of beagles being used in animal testing in the United States.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features vegan content creator Dani Ishai using logic and humor to debunk common arguments against veganism and discuss the food industry.
Alison Melody opens with a tribute to James Van Der Beek.
Food Heals opens with a blunt gripe about drug commercials and the strange habit of pairing side effects with polished scenes of rowing and running.
This episode features an interview with Josh Dech, a gut health expert, discussing natural solutions for reversing IBD and IBS through his proven process.
This episode explores how ketones can optimize metabolic health, addressing widespread issues like obesity and diabetes in America.