Dr Greg Emerson­ proud father, medical specialist, permaculture farmer, sustainable living advocate and wilderness survival enthusiast. He is interviewed regularly on America’s most popular health television programme because of his dedication to finding the underlying root cause of illnesses.

When not working in his clinic he is tending to his garden, caring for his animals, roaming the wilderness or practicing his survival skills.He is a consultant in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, a senior specialist in Emergency Medicine and in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Dr Emerson played professional basketball for five years. He is a certified P.A.D.I. dive instructor. On a personal note he is an enthusiastic skier and wilderness explorer. He has trained in wilderness survival skills with ex Australian Special Forces Personnel and the Apache in Arizona. He teaches energy biohacking techniques, resilience training, wild food foraging , traditional food preparation and survival skills in the mountains and lakes around Queenstown and Wanaka in the South Island of New Zealand.

 He lives on his 50 acre organic permaculture farm deep in the Gold Coast hinterland. He is passionate about sustainability, self ­sufficiency, neo-­aboriginal life ways, wilderness survival and wild food foraging. He breeds Senepol cattle, Huacaya alpacas and Boar goats.

Dr Emerson got sick from poor nutritional advice combined with a very stressful lifestyle. We discuss Acute medicine and natural medicine. “You will never prescribe your way out of a poor lifestyle.” We talk about heart health, epigenetics, and the causes of heart disease.