About

Dr Greg Emerson is an internationally recognised integrative medical specialist, founder of Treat the Cause Clinic (now closed) and Director of the Mitochondrial Ayurveda Yoga and Biohacking Institute in the Northern Rivers region of Australia.

Specialising in complicated multi system disease, Dr Emerson’s investigative approach looks for the root cause of disease which involves untangling the web that has led to disease.

He is a senior emergency medicine specialist and has trained in undertaken postgraduate training in:

Nutritional and Environmental medicine with the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM).
Specific targeted nutrient therapies in mental illness, behavioural disorders and autism with the Walsh-Pfeiffer Institute.

Bioidentical hormones and anti-aging medicine with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.

Allergies and sublingual desensitisation with the Pan American Allergy Society (PAAS).

Heavy metal toxicity and biological detoxification with the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) which is the world’s leading integrative medicine organisation.

Wilderness Survival skills with multiple organisations, including ex Australian Special Forces (SAS) personnel and Native Americans in Arizona.

Dr Emerson is a senior specialist in Emergency Medicine and in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine and a consultant in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, He is also one of the founding members of the Australian Chronic Infectious Disease Society.

He is an active member of the US based Wilderness Medical Society and a Fellow of both the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. He is also a past senior lecturer, examiner and board member for the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, and past examiner for the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine.

For 18 years he practiced in several large public hospitals including two years as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, senior specialist at the Royal Brisbane Department of Emergency Medicine and as the Director of the Wesley Center for Hyperbaric Medicine in Brisbane. He participated in helicopter retrieval of critically ill patients for the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) in Canada and the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia for over eight years.

In 1997 he published the Western world’s largest epidemiological research paper on pesticide poisoning and has written extensively in the medical literature on carbon monoxide poisoning and diving medicine. He is the author of the chapter on decompression illness in the prestigious Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine. In 1997 he published the first ever research on the pharmacodynamics of sedative drugs in a hyperbaric chamber. In 2008 he co-authored a research paper on the use of intravenous magnesium in cardiac arrhythmias which was published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

Over time his focus and fascination transitioned to discovering how scientific research, particularly into the mitochondria and microbiomes, was validating many traditional health practices. This he found was especially in terms of our need to re-connect with the rhythms of nature. He qualified as a yoga instructor and opened the Mitochondrial Ayurveda Yoga and Biohacking Institute (MAYBI) in the natural beauty of the Northern Rivers Area of New South Wales. He now works there full time writing, studying, teaching yoga, meditation, breath-work and cold thermogenesis, growing produce to use in his bespoke whole-food and herbal Promethean Health Products and running 1/2- 5 day immersion programmes.

Dr Greg Emerson - Mitochondrial - Biohacking - Yoga

These programmes can include guided yoga (usually on a local beach), meditation, breath work, cold thermogenesis (usually at a local waterfall), state of the art biohacking (HOCATT sauna, PEMF, whole body infrared light therapy, meals, herbal infusions, visits to some of the Northern Rivers best cafes, his signature tonic coffee and a half day workshop at the famous Harvest Cafe in Newrybar which can involve any combination of cooking lessons from one of their chefs or local wild food foraging or a guided visit to a local regenerative farm supplying the cafe with produce).

On a personal note, Dr Emerson is a proud father, enthusiastic skier, certified PADI dive instructor, ex-professional basketball player, wilderness survival instructor and yoga instructor. He is passionate about sustainability, self-sufficiency and the use of science to validate many traditional health practices., He teaches yoga. breath-work and cold thermogenesis in Northern New South Wales and wilderness survival around Queenstown and Wanaka in the South Island of New Zealand.

When he is not away on wilderness cold water adventures, you will find him at home on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, growing aloe vera, custard apple, dragon fruit and various herbs as he continues to turn his suburban back yard into a food forest.

Qualifications Summary

MBChB - Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
DipObs - Diploma of Obstetrics

DipDHM - Diploma of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

FACEM - Fellow of the Australian College of Emergency Medicine

FACNEM - Fellow of the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine

Philosophy

How would you like to optimise your health, increase your vitality and delay the ageing process?

We are about helping you optimise your health and vitality. It’s about moving the metabolic see-saw back towards anabolism (building) and away from catabolism (breaking down). It’s about not worrying about how old we are chronologically but about focusing on how we feel, look and perform, and how much energy we have to enjoy life. If your health has already suffered, then now is the time to rebuild and reclaim your health, and learn how to prolong it.

Step 1- Reconnect to the rhythms of nature. Mind, body and spirit.

Step 2 - correct the underlying hormonal, metabolic and microbiological defects.

Step 3 - Biohack the metabolism and environment for optimal performance.

Many of us, despite leading a relatively healthy lifestyle, choose to ignore the warning signs of impending problems. We then find that the illness does not respond well to focused, symptom based, diagnosis driven therapies. To restore health and vitality, the focus must always be on discovering the underlying cause of the illness. The search can initially often be disheartening and frustrating. However, to maximise the chance of recovery, it requires a refusal to accept that there is no answer.

My mission is to uncover the secrets to maximising the body’s natural defenses against illness, accelerating recovery and delaying any decline in health and vitality. To encourage prevention of illness, rather than waiting for it to appear and then treating it with drugs or surgery.

Our average life expectancy has increased, however our quality of life has decreased because of the epidemic of chronic degenerative diseases associated with the ageing process. As a population, we need to move from “living short, dying long” to “living long, dying short.” Degenerative diseases such as hypertension, osteoporosis, heart disease and diabetes are now so common that we have come to accept that they are a natural part of the ageing process.

We accept that they start when we turn 40 and that we will need to be on a considerable amount of medication by the age of 60 to keep us mobile. Social proof is one cause of this— when we are unsure how to be healthy and what to expect from the ageing process, we look around to see what everybody else like us is doing and expecting.

I do not believe that degenerative diseases, illness and cancer are inevitable consequences of ageing.

We all desperately need to raise our expectations. Many populations overseas expect to be fit, healthy, free of medication and full of energy at age 100.

Nor is your future set in your genes. Your genes provide your body with guidelines, not rules. Recent evidence proves that our lifestyle and environment have a significant role to play in the ageing process and also determine the amount of damage inflicted on our genetic material. The more damage to our genetic material, the faster we age and the more prone to cancer we are.

You can decide to start valuing your health now or wait until you have a wake-up call from a major illness or degenerative disease. The problem is that most of these diseases have a very slow fuse and develop insidiously over a long period of time. By the time you are aware of the illness, the degenerative processes may have been progressing for years.

The bodies healing system is like flying an aeroplane with an autopilot- it’s a much better flight with the autopilot switched on making minor adjustments all the time, rather than frantically trying to turn it on as the plane freefalls.

Prevention is a much more effective strategy than treatment.

In ancient China, doctors were remunerated according to how few sick patients they had in their community. They were teachers of health, rather than treaters of symptoms. That’s how it was then, that’s the way it should be now.

Podcasts

Longevity Medicine

Why shift workers should get danger money. How important melatonin is for cancer and dementia prevention. How the gut cleans the brain. What our Tyrant Brain wants to do and eat all day and how important it is that we develop new neural pathways in our neocortex.

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Journey from professional athlete to mitochondrial psychonaught

Why I was a successful professional athlete, why understanding mitochondria is critical to optimal health, why I love cold water so much and why seafood and mushrooms are critical in our evolution.

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Riding in the Saddle and not the Armchair

Speaking with Chris Desmond from the ‘Uncomfortable Is OK” Podcast, Dr Greg Emerson shares his 7 principles of health.

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Chronic Infections and Autoimmune Disease

Dr Greg Emerson discusses the role of chronic infections and mould in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease. He also discusses the challenges of being both a doctor and a permaculture farmer.

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From ER Physician to Functional Medicine and Permaculture

Dr Greg Emerson discusses the lessons learnt on his 30 year journey from a senior ER Physician to a Functional Medicine Specialist, Permaculture Farmer and Wilderness Explorer.

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The Finasteride and Low Testosterone Catastrophe

Dr Greg Emerson discusses his experience in correcting the biochemical imbalances that may contribute to the catastrophic problem of low testosterone levels in some uses of the prescription drug finasteride

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Intermittent Fasting, Mitochondria and Brown Fat

In this Podcast Dr Greg Emerson discusses how intermittent fasting improves energy and weight loss.

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Conquering Lyme Disease with Dr.Emerson

In this podcast Dr Greg Emerson discusses why Lyme disease is often mistakenly diagnosed as Fibromyalgia (and other pain/joint disorders). Why conventional treatments often don't work. His 12 step process for kicking Lyme disease and why he gave up his farm to become a nomad.

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Root Cause Movie

Dr Greg Emerson was recently featured in Root Cause - a movie length documentary with expert opinions from cutting edge doctors and dentists from around the world, that exposes the true health effects of the root canal procedure.

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