EP 102 - Healing Autoimmune and Regenerative Farming with John Manins

Host Matt interviews John, a New Zealand–born entrepreneur and farmer, about the experiences that shaped his skeptical worldview, including a rural barefoot childhood, his parents’ early cancer deaths, and a youth spent around agricultural chemicals. John recounts leaving school, working in sales, earning a marketing degree, and pursuing competitive running until an injury ended his Olympic hopes. He describes a colon cancer scare during intense work stress, rejecting recommended chemotherapy due to limited benefit, and adopting an ancestral lifestyle. After developing severe spondyloarthritis, he stopped methotrexate and prednisone, used breath work, meditation, cold exposure, visualisation, and emotional work with Matt’s guidance, and defined “healed” as being able to run again. John also explains founding Fair Traders, launching his bone broth brand Starkers, practicing chemical-free regenerative and natural sequence farming on his property, and promoting the Rehydrate Australia documentary about restoring landscape hydrology.00:39 Kiwi Roots01:46 Faith and Loss03:37 School to Chemicals06:26 Running Dream Ends08:04 Cancer Wake Up11:00 Autoimmune Crash13:47 Healing Without Drugs19:55 Emotions as Medicine22:28 Fair Traders Origin28:25 Buying the Farm33:49 Starkers Brand Story35:56 Simple Bone Broth Pitch36:44 Regenerative Farming Mindset38:06 Weeds Roundup and Soil Life44:41 Organic vs Regenerative Methods46:38 Plants Mycelium and Monocropping48:04 Cows Methane and Feedlots51:41 Veganism and Real Food54:09 Supplements and Gut Reset59:09 Rehydrate Australia Documentary01:09:13 Topsoil Crisis Resources:IG - @get.starkers@tallaganda_farmRehydrate Australia:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TsNsf_B1HkK0XE2IDjyAd3Nl7N7FUS3D/view?usp=drivesdk