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Old-school natural medicine, one caller at a time.
Health Naturally with Denis Stewart treats everyday foods as possible therapeutic tools, moving from caller questions into patient, old-school explanations. Its centre of gravity is natural medicine, with recurring attention to herbs, gut health, Mediterranean diet staples, and careful use alongside mainstream care.
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Health Naturally with Denis Stewart is a traditional phone-in health program with natural medicine at its centre. It sounds less like a polished wellness brand than a steady weekly conversation carried by caller questions, presenter prompts, and long explanatory answers. Denis Stewart often begins with a simple food or symptom and then opens the subject outward. Recent episodes make functional foods the main frame. Beetroot becomes a way to discuss complementary support during cancer treatment and the place of food in serious illness. Yoghurt leads into gut health, large bowel disease, diverticulitis, and the older history of sour milk foods. Olive oil and garlic bring the conversation toward the Mediterranean diet and the idea of food connected to longevity. Tomatoes lead to lycopene, blood pressure, and the uneasy line between kitchen staple, supplement, and medicinal extract. Turmeric becomes another example of a common food treated as having wider therapeutic potential. The show is comfortable with specialist terms, but it usually explains them in plain language. It is also comfortable repeating itself. That repetition gives the program a slow, reassuring cadence, as though the point matters enough to be turned over more than once. The health philosophy is clear: nature contains useful remedies, food has been undervalued as medicine, and modern health culture may rely too heavily on costly supplements. At the same time, the program regularly keeps a complementary posture around mainstream care. It talks about cancer, chemotherapy, blood pressure medication, prednisone, antibiotics, and surgery without presenting natural approaches as simple substitutes. Callers add texture, asking about garlic intolerance, inflamed sinuses, nail problems, and practical ways to use remedies. The answers may wander through bromelain, quercetin, myrrh, tea tree oil, goldenseal, beetroot powder, or journal references before circling back. The appeal is not slick certainty. It is the sense of a long-practiced practitioner thinking aloud in public, joining folk knowledge, clinical memory, and selective research into a usable explanation. Health Naturally with Denis Stewart is best for listeners who want alternative health discussed slowly, seriously, and with a strong belief that ordinary foods can carry medicinal weight.
Made for: Suited to listeners interested in herbal remedies, functional foods, gut health, and traditional natural medicine. It will especially fit those who prefer patient explanation over quick wellness tips.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its call-in texture and its sustained focus on foods as practical therapeutic tools. It blends traditional remedy talk, studies, books, and caller cases without losing its homespun radio feel.
Denis Stewart is a natural therapist and hosts this phone-in show about natural medicine.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Denis Stewart connects everyday ingredients with practical natural-health questions while keeping complementary remedies distinct from replacements for medical care.
Health Naturally with Denis Stewart turns familiar foods and herbal preparations into detailed conversations about their possible therapeutic uses.
Beetroot gets serious airtime, and your supplement drawer may get a second look.
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A broad, food-first look at turmeric through the larger lens of nutraceuticals and natural health.
Turmeric enters as the next stop in Dennis Stewart's broader case for functional food, where food is treated as something that may do more than keep the body running.
A calm call-in discussion uses tomatoes and lycopene to explore food, blood pressure, and practical health choices.
Functional foods shape the episode, with tomatoes offering a clear way into Dennis Stewart's view that everyday food can have medicinal value.
Beetroot, raw onion, and garlic anchor a practical case for food as part of health.
Functional foods are framed as a practical case for treating food as more than pleasure. Dennis Stewart starts with Hippocrates, then uses beetroot to move into nourishment, disease resistance, nitric oxide, and an unnamed male reproductive disorder.
Beetroot gets a measured cancer-care discussion, balancing tradition, practical use, and clear caution.
Beetroot moves from familiar burger add-on to a calm discussion of complementary support during cancer treatment. The episode frames it through a March 2021 Journal of Cancer Prevention paper and a wider look at how herbs and foods are used in Germany, then traces beetroot…
A reflective year-end call-in where herbal practice, medical caution, and next year's hinted subjects share the same desk.
Health Naturally ends its 2025 run in a reflective call-in mode, with the host looking back on his work with herbs, his habit of writing up cards instead of using a computer, and the program's planned Tuesday return in February.
A patient radio health discussion moves from hay fever advice to Stewart's herbal approach to chronic sinusitis.
Hay fever leads into a wider discussion of chronic sinusitis in this Health Naturally sign-off, as Amanda McCreed is joined by herbalist Dennis Stewart for a return to earlier advice.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
Herbalist Dennis Stewart advises on natural remedies for various health issues in a phone-in radio show.
Dennis Stewart discusses the therapeutic and nutritional benefits of olive oil and garlic as key components of the Mediterranean diet for promoting longevity.
Dennis Stewart and Amanda McCreed discuss the benefits of warming herbs, garlic, onions, and honey for treating winter ailments.
Dennis Stewart discusses functional foods like tomatoes and turmeric, which have medicinal properties beyond basic nutrition, and takes a call about milk thistle for elevated liver function.
Herbalist Dennis Stewart revisits the herb Vitex agnus castus (chaste tree), discussing its history, European use, and introduction into Australian professional herbal medicine, following listener interest in its benefits for PMS.
["Health Naturally with Denis Stewart closes 2025 with Dennis Stewart listing two 2026 books, Fringe Medicine and a practitioner volume of herb formulations, while saying his practice still runs without a computer.", "Sue from Caves Beach asks about ashwagandha, and Dennis places it in Ayurvedic medicine as a male reproductive tonic that Western products now market for anxiety and stress.", "John from Adamstown gets advice on swollen finger joints, with Dennis recommending GP blood tests, cherry juice, cherry extract, and celery seed extract for possible gout.", "Mary from Walls End raises her son's fatigue and thyroid history, and Dennis says normal thyroid markers do not rule out insulin resistance, blood sugar issues, or the need for an updated endocrinology review."]
Health Naturally with Dennis Stewart on 2NURFM centers on turmeric, functional foods, and nutraceuticals as foods that may help prevent or treat disease.
Dennis Stewart uses Health Naturally on 2NURFM to define functional foods as foods with a medicinal property, then points to tomatoes and turmeric as the day's examples.
Dennis Stewart discusses the therapeutic and nutritional benefits of olive oil and garlic as key components of the Mediterranean diet for promoting long life.
Dennis Stewart discusses the underestimated health and medicinal properties of yogurt, a sour milk food, and its potential in managing diseases like large bowel disease.
Dennis Stewart discusses the importance of gut health and how yoghurt can improve it, potentially aiding conditions like diverticulitis.
Dennis Stewart on 2NURFM uses beetroot as his main example of "functional foods," citing a "Journal of Cancer Prevention" paper and the food's nitric oxide-driven effect on blood vessels.
Dennis Stewart says beetroot is a "functional food" for cancer therapy side effects.
Dennis Stewart reflects on the high points of using herbs in 2025 and discusses his traditional medicine practice without computers.