Ancestral health, told through lived stories.
Wise Traditions is a warm, interview-led show from the Weston A. Price Foundation, centered on traditional foodways and holistic health. Recent episodes move from mineral balance and raw milk to home birth, regenerative farming, vaccine mandates, and contested COVID-era medicine.
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Wise Traditions is an interview-driven health and food show built around the ideas of the Weston A. Price Foundation. It has a homespun rhythm. Conversations tend to start with a guest’s lived experience, then widen into a larger case for traditional food, farming, family life, or medical choice. Recent episodes cover mineral depletion, hormonal health, fertility, weight loss, raw milk, regenerative farming, home birth, elimination communication, and the search for nutrient-dense food. The show also spends real time on politics. Vaccine mandates, state-level medical freedom laws, COVID-era hospital care, and skepticism toward public health institutions appear as recurring concerns rather than side notes. That gives the show a distinct edge. It can feel warmly pastoral in one episode and sharply oppositional in the next. The common thread is a belief that modern systems often pull people away from the body’s needs, family knowledge, and nature’s patterns. Guests are usually given room to explain how they changed their minds. Sarah Kleiner describes moving from a restrictive diet toward a more seasonal approach. Mia Rofrano talks through unconventional motherhood, birth, and infant care with unusual intimacy. Molly Englehart’s episode presents regenerative farming as a force that overturned earlier assumptions about food, environment, and culture. Leslie Manookian discusses state legislation and organized medical freedom activism. Ken McCarthy brings a more severe conversation about nurses, hospitals, and COVID-era care. The show’s strength is its patience with testimony and its clear sense of mission. Its risk is the same thing: listeners looking for mainstream medical framing or careful institutional balance may find it too advocacy-minded. For the right audience, though, Wise Traditions feels like a steady gathering place for ancestral health, food freedom, and tradition-minded wellness.
Made for: For listeners interested in traditional diets, raw milk, regenerative farming, fertility, motherhood, and holistic health framed through personal experience. It especially suits people already open to skeptical conversations about modern medicine and public health policy.
What sets it apart: Wise Traditions stands apart by mixing practical ancestral nutrition with explicit health freedom advocacy and long, personal interviews. It does not separate food choices from farming, family, culture, or politics.
The Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions podcast is for those who seek optimal health based on traditional wisdom. We believe that vibrant health cannot be cultivated in a lab, engineered through modern technology or found through "improving" nature. On the contrary, "Life in all its fullness is mother nature obeyed," as Dr. Weston Price put it. We can learn from healthy societies of the past how to live healthier lives now. The Foundation's podcast is an invitation to follow traditional food and health ways to live our best lives. Our host and producer, Hilda Labrada Gore, interviews experts on a wide variety of topics—ranging from nutrient-dense foods to improving mental health to…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Wise Traditions connects ancestral-health beliefs with the practical choices people make around food, fertility, parenting, and public policy.
Wise Traditions turns interviews about health into detailed conversations about the routines, beliefs, and personal histories behind them. Hilda Labrada-Gore asks guests to explain choices in lived terms, from elimination communication and home birth to seasonal eating, mineral…
This is where your pantry, hormones, birth plan, and state legislature all end up at one table.
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A state-by-state medical freedom campaign that stays concrete until the politics widen.
Leslie Manookian lays out how an Idaho bill was revised to be more neutral so it could travel as a model for any state, then follows the coalition that grew around it.
A warm, steady handoff that casts Kendall Nelson as a ready successor and broadens the show’s scope.
Wise Traditions treats the microphone handoff as a calm, appreciative moment. Hilda Labrada Gore praises Kendall Nelson as a strong communicator, points to the cowboy movie, and credits that work with reaching millions who might otherwise have missed the information.
A personal fertility story casts weight loss as a byproduct of nourishment, seasonal eating, and feeling supported.
Weight loss comes through in this Wise Traditions episode as a side effect of feeling better fed, not as the main pursuit. The guest describes trying to get pregnant in her early 40s after two years of carnivore eating, weight gain, thyroid down regulation, and disrupted…
A personal account of unconventional motherhood, where bathroom cues and a birth pool become acts of connection.
Motherhood is seen up close here, in the small signals of an 18-month-old who needs the bathroom and in the larger questions that gather around birth.
A practical mineral conversation linking stress, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and hormonal transitions with everyday food and life.
Stress and mineral depletion form the through line of this Wise Traditions conversation, as the guest connects stress responses with magnesium loss and then widens the lens to processed sugar, whole food sources, sodium, adrenal function, potassium, thyroid hormones, and…
A warm foundation history centers parents' letters, submitted photographs, and the Healthy Baby Gallery.
Sally Fallon Murrell uses the Weston A. Price Foundation's 26th year as a point of return, tracing how the organization began, how her son's cooking class fed into its early momentum, and how Nourishing Traditions and Weston A. Price's work shaped her thinking.
A warm Wise Traditions handoff turns a hosting change into a conversation about trust, voice, and continuity.
Wise Traditions frames its handoff as a matter of trust, voice, and continuity. Hilda Labrada-Gore reflects on more than 10 years with the show and points to Sally Fallon Morrell as a model of courage, while Kendall steps forward from her Weston A.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
Hilda Labrada-Gore hosts her final episode of the Wise Traditions podcast after over 10 years, officially passing the hosting role to Kendall Nelson.
Sally Fallon Morell, founding president of the Weston A.
This episode features Beth Lambert discussing her peer-reviewed research on reversing autism spectrum disorder in twin girls through Documenting Hope's approach to healing chronic health conditions in children.
Ken McCarthy discusses his book 'What the Nurses Saw,' examining unethical medical practices and systemic issues in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic based on nurse testimonies.
This episode features Leslie Manookian discussing her work on the Idaho Medical Freedom Act and strategies to resist big tech, big pharma, and government overreach through local action.
Sally Fallon Morell discusses the Make America Healthy Again movement, focusing on traditional nutrition, vaccination concerns, and policy changes needed to improve family health.
On Wise Traditions, geologist Greg Wrightstone argues that a warming trend began more than 300 years ago, before major human CO₂ emissions.
She explains how the Idaho bill was made more neutral so it could apply to any state.
Hilda Labrada Gore opens warmly.
Sarah Kleiner shares her personal journey of using a seasonal, balanced approach to nutrition to improve fertility, lose weight, and enhance overall health by aligning with the body's biology.
This episode features Mia Rofrano discussing her unconventional holistic motherhood practices, including elimination communication and bucking conventional wisdom in pregnancy and parenting.
This episode features regenerative farmer Molly Englehart discussing how nature challenges modern societal lies about humanity's impact on the environment, population control, and health.
Wise Traditions episode 568 with Nina Marie Rueda focuses on the "four lows pattern"—calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium—using a pregnant client with thyroid issues and twin pregnancy as the opening example.
This episode explores why young people are turning to real foods like raw milk for healing, featuring Will Witt's personal journey from politics to health advocacy after a health crisis.