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My guest today is Joseph Pitawanakwat. Now this was a really great conversation and it basically happened in two parts. The first part is about Joseph’s journey of rediscovering his culture’s traditional plant medicines and some of their applications. Joseph is particularly focussed on working with those suffering from addiction so we get into that in some detail. The second part of the discussion is about a meat based diet and how Joseph has been able to use carnivorous diets to reverse disease in some of the populations he works with in Ontario. If you like this discussion please be sure to like, subscribe and all that good stuff. With that here’s my discussion with Joseph Pitawanakwat.

00:00:00 Diabetic Neuropathy at 18
00:00:53 Intro
00:02:06 How Joseph came to plant medicine
00:06:50 Addictions and nicotine
00:12:20 How indigenous knowledge was passed down
00:13:50 Other addictions
00:17:18 Understanding plant medicine
00:21:18 Anishinaabe People, Wild Rice, Megafauna
00:24:56 Language and hidden wisdom
00:28:50 Diabetes in First Nations communities
00:34:05 Traditional knowledge vs colonialism
00:37:30 Wild Rice
00:40:32 Carnivore as an elimination diet
00:42:49 Carnivore and alcoholism
00:48:23 Carnivore vs low carb
00:51:06 Raw foods
00:53:40 Response to Vegan Arguments
00:59:05 Nature and hunting