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Academy Healing Nutrition

Academy Healing Nutrition

For 40 years, Academy Healing Nutrition has taught that food is medicine — and that the oldest healing traditions on earth hold answers that modern wellness is only beginning to rediscover.

This is where those teachings live. Each episode draws from AHN's faculty — practitioners with decades of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, ancestral nutrition, herbal medicine, and longevity science — sharing the kind of depth that most health conversations never reach.

Whether you're a practitioner, a student of holistic health, or simply someone who wants to understand what your body is really asking for, you'll find wisdom here that's designed to last.

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  • 2 episodes
  • Updated July 29

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  • July 29 · 56 min

    Food as Medicine: Nourishing Digestion, Balancing Your Constitution & Working with the Earth Element

    In this episode, we sit down with Nam Singh, a core faculty member at Academy Healing Nutrition — an ordained Taoist priest trained since childhood at Dragon Tiger Mountain, a practitioner across all eight branches of classical Chinese medicine, and a graduate of the Taipei Institute of Traditional Pharmacology and Acupuncture. Nam has spent decades bringing the wisdom of classical Chinese medicine into the kitchen, translating centuries-old healing principles into food you can actually cook. Together we explore the Earth element of the "late summer" season — how digestion, constitution, and seasonal eating shape our overall health. You'll hear how the spleen and stomach relate to digestive fire, why sweet flavors and fermented foods matter, and how mindful food choices support energy, stability, and resilience. We also unpack the difference between constitution and condition, how emotions like worry affect the body, and why "balance" is really about staying in healthy flux — a distinction Nam draws from his training in the classical (not just traditional) Chinese medical tradition. This conversation is a small taste of how we teach at Academy Healing Nutrition — where ancient wisdom meets modern nutrition science. If it resonates, you can learn more about our Holistic Health Coaching Certification at https://academyhealingnutrition.uk/

  • June 17 · 1 hr 59 min

    Food as Medicine: Origins of the Longevity Diet with Roger Green of Academy Healing Nutrition

    A Live Lecture with Roger Green & Patricia Lopez — Academy Healing Nutrition Most of us have spent years searching for answers to health challenges that conventional medicine couldn't fully resolve. What we were rarely told is that some of the most enduring answers aren't new — they're ancient. And they begin with what we eat. In this opening episode, AHN co-founder Patricia Lopez welcomes you to the world of Academy Healing Nutrition — and hands the floor to founder Roger Green, who shares the principles at the heart of AHN's 40-year curriculum. The same teachings that have guided nearly 1,000 graduates across six continents toward lasting health and meaningful careers. Roger opens with his own journey into natural healing and the foundational mindset shift that makes everything else possible: learning to read symptoms as language, not malfunction. From there, he moves through the practical and the philosophical — the energetics of food, the doctrine of signatures, the five-element theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and what the world's longest-lived cultures have quietly understood about nourishment for millennia. Chapters 00:00Introduction to Academy Healing Nutrition 03:56Roger Green's Journey into Holistic Healing 10:05The Philosophy of Food as Medicine 19:46Understanding Nutritional Energetics 29:58The Role of Traditional Foods in Longevity 39:49Practical Applications of Healing Foods 46:11The Energetics of Food: Yin and Yang 49:00Cooking for Health: Warming Foods and Seasonal Eating 52:30Animal Foods: A Historical Perspective on Nutrition 56:24The Role of Dairy: Quality and Longevity 01:01:41Fats and Oils: The Foundation of a Healthy Diet 01:07:18Herbs and Mushrooms: Nature's Medicine for Longevity 01:11:22The Importance of Stocks: Nutrient-Dense Foundations 01:15:45Avoiding Modern Pitfalls: The Dangers of Processed Foods 01:22:59Nutrient Density: The Key to Longevity 01:29:40The Middle Way of Eating and Fasting 01:34:11Food Energetics and the Three Treasures 01:40:07Doctrine of Signatures and Food as Medicine 01:46:27Understanding Jing, Qi, and Shun 01:52:55The Role of Herbs and Longevity Teas 01:57:59Lifestyle Factors for Longevity 02:01:42Building a Supportive Community for Health 02:07:22Introduction to the Longevity Diet Foundations Course www.academyhealingnutrition.uk