Conversations with Dr. Cowan & Friends

In this episode, Dr. Tom Cowan sits down with Doug and Stacy—homesteaders, educators, and creators who left city life behind to build a fully off-grid existence rooted in food sovereignty, craftsmanship, and lived experience.
Doug and Stacy share their unconventional journey from suburban living to raising animals, growing nearly all their own food, and building multiple homes by hand—despite having no prior experience in construction, farming, or homesteading. Along the way, they learned directly from their Amish neighbors, adopting low-tech, practical systems for housing, water, heating, food preservation, and daily life. 
Throughout the conversation, they explore:
How and why they left city life and downsized radically
Building log homes and infrastructure from scratch with minimal tools
Living fully off-grid with no electricity, Wi-Fi, or conventional utilities
Raising sheep, poultry, bees, and working horses
Developing rainwater catchment and gravity-fed water systems
Learning traditional skills through hands-on mentorship with the Amish
How lifestyle, environment, light, food, and daily rhythms shaped their well-being
The unexpected growth of their YouTube channel to over one million subscribers
Their philosophy of learning through observation, practicality, and results—not theory
The conversation also covers Doug and Stacy’s Homesteading Life Conference, where they teach others how to grow food, preserve it, raise animals, and step out of the modern “rat race” using real-world skills and common sense. 
📍 Homesteading Life Conference
🗓 May 15–16, 2026
📍 Vandalia, Missouri
🌐 homesteadinglifeconference.com
Tom will be a keynote speaker at this event

This wide-ranging discussion weaves together homesteading, community, traditional knowledge, and a shared belief that the best teacher is direct experience—watching what works and building from there.
 
You can find Doug & Stacy's website here.
YouTube channel here.
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Tom opens this week’s livestream with an update on the upcoming New Biology Experience at Polyface Farm (June 2026):

Registration is still open, with early bird pricing currently available. Tom shares that this annual event will now serve as his primary in-person public talk, replacing his former tradition of presenting at the Wise Traditions Conference. He invites attendees to join him for a weekend of reflections, new insights, and community gathering.
New Biology Experience link here.

A thoughtful Q&A on:
-How can you get rid of gallstones naturally, if you don't want to do a gallbladder flush or have surgery?
-Is taking Ozempic a good idea if your blood sugar is going up?
-What are your thoughts about Epstein-Barr virus and chronic fatigue?
-Are STDs contagious?
-What do you do if you've already had your appendix out?

Tom explores each question in depth, emphasizing the importance of understanding the body's own adaptive strategies and healing intelligence.
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Tom opens this week’s livestream with an update on the upcoming New Biology Experience at Polyface Farm (June 2026):
Registration is still open, and space is limited. Tom encourages those interested to sign up soon to take advantage of early bird pricing and secure a spot for this gathering of talks, food, nature, and community.
New Biology Experience link here.
This session features an extended Q&A addressing a wide range of questions from the community, including:
-Is it time for surgery? A 35-year-old woman asks whether she should pursue a discectomy for a herniated disc after a year of holistic therapies.
-How do you explain that the spike protein isn’t real—especially to someone who believes in conventional biology or health freedom narratives?
-Are there strategies to help with sugar and caffeine withdrawal—particularly headaches?
-What are your thoughts on dental hygiene habits and regular dental cleaning?
-Didn’t Semmelweis prove the germ theory?
-What’s the difference between healthy and pathogenic biofilm in the GI tract?
-What is the cure for a so-called lazy eye?
-Do sperm really carry X and Y chromosomes? And what’s the relationship between heredity, consciousness, and water?
-Does skin cancer come from the sun?
-Why don’t voluntarists and anarchists accept the need for common law juries?
Tom weaves in clinical insights, personal stories, and reflections on the importance of returning to lived experience over abstract theory when it comes to healing. 
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Tom opens this week’s livestream with an update on the upcoming New Biology Experience at Polyface Farm (June 2026)
-Registration is still open, and space is limited. Tom will be joined by New Biology Clinic specialists and enrichment facilitators for a weekend of talks, food, music, and community. Join here.
This session features two in-depth topics:
1. How Money Actually Works
-Tom reads and responds to recent articles from Mises.org, reflecting on the nature of fiat currency, the illusion of central banking, and the political consequences of how money is created.
-He ties these ideas back to a section he wrote on money in Human Heart, Cosmic Heart (2016), describing a hypothetical system where one person creates all the money and inevitably owns everything—a parody of the current system.
The 2 articles that Tom discussed is here.
2. Does H. pylori Cause Stomach Ulcers?
-Responding to a listener question, Tom critically analyzes the famous study by Barry Marshall that claimed to fulfill Koch’s postulates.
-He breaks down the methods used in Marshall's self-experiment.
-Tom contrasts this with a 2025 Harvard article acknowledging that 80–90% of people with H. pylori never develop ulcers, challenging the idea that this bacterium is a singular causal agent.
Q&A:
Was Koch's postulate actually fulfilled for H. pylori and ulcers?
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Tom opens the first livestream of 2026 with New Year wishes and important updates:
- New Biology Clinic welcomed a record 176 new members in December 2025. Tom thanks the community for their continued support and patience as new members are matched with wellness specialists.
New Biology Clinic Connection Session Sign up here.

-Registration is now open for the New Biology Experience at Polyface Farm (June 2026), a 2–3 day gathering of talks, music, food, and fellowship. Attendance is limited, and Tom encourages early sign-up.
New Biology Experience Link.
Ongoing support for Dr. Cowan's Garden and DrTomCowan.com is deeply appreciated.
Highlights from this session include:
-A critical breakdown of a "landmark" Duke study claiming to visualize a virus entering intestinal cells. Tom walks through the actual methods and shows how the study relied on unproven cell cultures and imaging of labeled debris—not isolated viruses.
-Commentary on a humorous and questionable paper linking hydrogen sulfide (flatulence) to reduced Alzheimer’s risk, published in a major U.S. journal. Tom uses this to critique the state of institutional science.
A thoughtful Q&A on:
-Kidneys & Vortexing: Are kidneys really filters? If so, how do they clean themselves? And does this have anything to do with vortexing?
-Is the government always wrong or is everything that the scientists tell us, is it wrong?
-Is raw goat's milk safe for a 5 month old, otherwise breastfed baby as a kind of transition?
-Do vitamins exist?
-How do EMFs make us sick, and how do they mimic viruses?
-Can we restart the thyroid after radioactive iodine treatment?
-Is cloning real?
-What is a staph infection?
-What is the SARS-CoV-2 genome composed of?
Tom closes the session by reiterating his gratitude and excitement for what lies ahead in 2026.
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