Tonight on NHPPA Talk Forum: A Powerful Reprise on Medical Freedom and Our Health System

Join us live tonight, Wednesday July 22 at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET for a Special Reprise of NHPPA Talk Forum

No one can catch every episode of every broadcast, so we are excited to reprise these important episodes of NHPPA Talk Forum. This week we are sharing an important conversation with Dr. Sean Caesar and Natasha Lissos.

Dr. Sean Caesar brings 45 years of experience in family medicine, palliative care, emergency medicine, and integrative approaches. He lays out the widespread nutritional deficiencies across Canada, especially vitamin D, vitamin C, magnesium, and lithium, and shows how these gaps drive problems with immune function, brain health, bone strength, mood, and chronic illness.

Natasha Lissos, a certified nutritionist and researcher, adds practical steps. She explains how diet, targeted supplementation, and the realities of our modern food supply can close those gaps.

This Talk Forum episode cuts through the noise and makes clear why informed nutritional choices are central to health freedom.

Jason Dahl will be in the live chat. Watch along, share your thoughts, and ask questions.

Shawn’s Intense New Substack Article: You Don’t Actually Own Your Body

Regain Ownership of Your Body

Shawn Buckley’s new Substack article powerfully advances the NHPPA’s mandate to protect access to natural health products and defend informed choice against regulatory overreach.

Shawn explains how government restrictions and censorship strip Canadians of sovereignty over their own bodies. By limiting access to natural remedies and suppressing truthful information, authorities decide what treatments we may know about and use.

He shares the stories of Karen and of Nelda, both of whom suffered severely on chemotherapy drugs like methotrexate, which are now regularly prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis. They found relief through natural remedies after the conventional system offered only suffering. Similar accounts filled the Health Charter Tour last yer.

The article exposes how Health Canada classifies remedies as drugs, restricts label claims, and hides broader evidence, while natural options like Truehope’s EMPowerplus remain censored.

Read Shawn’s full article on Substack today. It is essential for understanding the fight for health freedom.

World’s Greatest Health Show Speaker Spotlight

Kim Umphrey: A Natural Journey

Kim Umphrey, owner of Health Matters in Edmonton, has spent 22 years building more than a store: She has built a community hub for natural health:

Her journey started young, shopping in health food stores with her grandfather. A seminar by Udo Erasmus sparked a lifelong passion that led to a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and, eventually, her own business. Today, Health Matters offers trained staff, ongoing education from manufacturers, naturopaths, and scientists, and real guidance that big-box and online retailers cannot match.

But Health Canada’s rules silence that guidance. Even when evidence supports simple, effective options like magnesium for cramps or quality sleep, Kim and her team are restricted in what they can say. Rising costs, counterfeit risks from online shopping, and overbearing regulation now threaten the survival of local health food stores across Canada.

Kim’s story is personal and urgent. She knows the joy of helping people reclaim their health. She also knows the frustration of censorship and the real fear of losing her business under Health Canada’s proposed self-care framework.

Local health food stores are irreplaceable. They protect wellness, jobs, and community resilience. Kim’s message to Ottawa is clear: step back. Let Canadians keep access to natural remedies without impossible regulations.

Watch Kim’s full talk from the World’s Greatest Health Show and hear why independent health food stores matter now more than ever.

Shawn Buckley Has Submitted NHPPA’s Official Brief to Health Canada

Health Canada is At it Again. A New Proposal Will Add More Friction Than Ever for Natural Practitioners

The Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate is the federal body within Health Canada that regulates natural health products.

NHPPA President Shawn Buckley has submitted a brief to the Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate opposing its proposed NHP Compounding and Raw Materials Policy.

Compounding is the preparation of customized natural health products by qualified practitioners to meet the specific needs of individual patients.

The proposed policies add new conditions that practitioners must meet for compounding to qualify for exemption from federal rules.

These include

• Demonstrating therapeutic need or lack of commercial alternatives
• Ensuring compounded products differ from licensed NHPs
• Following specific labeling and packaging rules
• Allowing inspectors to assess practitioner decisions.

These policies are illegal overreach. The Natural Health Product Regulations are clear. Compounding by a health care practitioner is exempt from the definition of manufacturing when the ingredient is a natural health product and is used for a patient. There are only two legal requirements. No other conditions exist in law.

The two legal requirements for the compounding exemption under the Natural Health Product Regulations are:

1. The ingredient must itself be a natural health product.
2. That natural health product ingredient must be used for compounding at the request of a patient.

The proposed policies intrude on the practice of medicine. That practice falls under provincial jurisdiction. Health Canada has no constitutional authority to impose them or to insert untrained inspectors into doctor-patient decisions.

These changes would restrict practitioners’ ability to access quality ingredients and provide customized treatments. They threaten access to natural health options that many Canadians rely on.

The submissions explain the legal flaws in detail and call for the policies to be withdrawn completely.

Read Shawn Buckley’s full brief on the proposed policies.

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