Conversations on Health Freedom

Leslie Manookian, Health Freedom Defense Fund

Health Freedom Defense Fund founder and president, Leslie Manookian, presents Conversations on Health Freedom. Of all the basic rights that human beings possess, none is more sacred than that of bodily autonomy. Topics covered with her guests include the primacy of the individual, and ethical principles such as informed consent as a means of advancing society to a place where every individual is free to pursue education, employment, worship, or participate in society free of coercion, threat, or pressure for his or her personal health care choices.

  1. 03/31/2025

    Conversations on Health Freedom with Alan Rodrigues and Amy Shyer

    Are we nothing more than trillions of cells containing DNA or is there some hidden force that directs life? Professors Amy Shyer and Alan Rodrigues's ground breaking research reveals how cells organize themselves thereby challenging reductionist and technocratic approaches to mainstream biology and our very understanding of life.   0:00:00 – 0:05:16 – Intro and Alan/Amy’s Bios 0:05:16 –  0:09:17 – How there is so much more to learn about life and health 0:09:17 – 00:14:19 – What is “Morphogenesis”, why does it matter? 00:14:19 – 0:20:40 –  Observations that defy material explanation 0:20:40 – 0:23:44 – Materialism, controlling life, profit motives 0:23:44 – 0:30:58 – Alan and Amy’s research – seeing life as more than molecular machine 0:30:58 – 0:35:38 – Needing to consider how collections of cells relate to each other 0:35:40 – 0:38:30 – Leslie’s remedies versus high cost alternatives 0:38:30 – 0:42:21 – Movies of cellular ecology, self-organization 0:42:21 – 0:50:03 – Epigenetics – the key link between genes and environment 0:50:03 – 0:53:36 – Cellular ecology readouts to understand chronic disease 0:53:36 – 1:05:52 –  Historical context behind the blind spots in biological thinking today Amy on Twitter: https://x.com/AmyShyer Alan on Substack: https://substack.com/@alanrrodrigues Alan and Amy’s lab website: https://shyerrodrigueslab.com/

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Health Freedom Defense Fund founder and president, Leslie Manookian, presents Conversations on Health Freedom. Of all the basic rights that human beings possess, none is more sacred than that of bodily autonomy. Topics covered with her guests include the primacy of the individual, and ethical principles such as informed consent as a means of advancing society to a place where every individual is free to pursue education, employment, worship, or participate in society free of coercion, threat, or pressure for his or her personal health care choices.