Aug 30, 2026 3-5pm ET
Sunday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
This Sunday Conversation comes to you from Las Vegas and the 45th annual American Naturopathic Medical Association convention, where I reconnect with my good friend Neil Schultz, a board-certified naturopath, homeopath, and practitioner of homeoprophylaxis. Whenever Neil and I get together, you know homeopathy is going to be part of the conversation, but this time we go much further into the questions confronting parents who want to make informed decisions about their children’s health.
Neil is presenting at the convention on a subject that couldn’t be more timely: options for parents who don’t want to vaccinate. One of the challenges we discuss is that many parents have reached the point where they know what they don’t want to do, but they’re left asking what they can do. Neil approaches that question from a much broader perspective, looking at nutrition, lifestyle, emotional well-being, homeopathy, and particularly homeoprophylaxis.
We dig into the distinction between vaccination and genuine immunity and discuss why measuring antibody titers doesn’t necessarily tell the entire story of immune function. Neil explains his understanding of homeoprophylaxis and the work of Australian homeopath Dr. Isaac Golden, who trained and certified him in this approach. Whatever your position on vaccines, viruses, or infectious disease theory may be, this conversation raises a larger question: why shouldn’t families be allowed to investigate and choose among different approaches to supporting health?
And that brings us directly to freedom. Bodily autonomy, informed consent, and religious liberty aren’t side issues in health care; they’re foundational. You and I don’t have to agree about every medical intervention in order to agree that human beings should not become property of the medical establishment or the state. I have no problem with disagreement. I have a very big problem when disagreement becomes an excuse to take away somebody else’s right to choose.
Neil and I also look back at some of the contradictions that have helped people question conventional assumptions, including outbreaks occurring within highly vaccinated populations. We discuss the controversies surrounding the MMR vaccine and why the COVID years caused so many people—including practitioners within natural medicine—to reevaluate what they had previously accepted about public health authorities, pharmaceutical companies, and the medical establishment.
Yet this conversation isn’t simply about what we’re against. One of the encouraging things we’re seeing at this year’s ANMA convention is growth. Attendance is up, new technologies are being demonstrated, practitioners are exchanging ideas, and traditional naturopathy and homeopathy continue attracting people looking for non-drug approaches to health. There is something powerful about gathering with people who are willing to question, learn, experiment, and share what they’ve discovered.
We have some fun exploring that resurgence in homeopathy as well. Neil shows me a newly created deck of 54 homeopathic reference cards designed as a practical guide to commonly used remedies, and we discuss educational efforts aimed at introducing homeopathy to families and even children. Neil also tells me about the two-day pre-convention class he teaches, where students don’t simply learn about remedies—they actually prepare their own homeopathic kits. His latest class processes more than 2,500 bottles in a single six-hour day!
Technology is also becoming part of this changing landscape. Neil and I talk about frequency-based assessment tools and other emerging approaches being demonstrated at the convention. Conventional medicine may have difficulty reconciling some of these ideas with its existing paradigm, but the concept that biological systems involve electrical and energetic activity isn’t going away. The exciting question is how these discoveries can eventually give individuals greater ability to understand and support their own health.
Ultimately, Neil and I keep coming back to something deeper than any particular remedy, technology, or health philosophy. Freedom matters, but so does the responsibility that accompanies it. We have to educate ourselves, listen to that God-given intuition, seek truth even when it is unpopular, and remain willing to stand for the freedom of people with whom we may disagree.
And through all of it, there’s another medicine Neil and I can certainly agree on: Vitamin L—love. After decades of friendship, homeopathy, naturopathy, convention adventures, and plenty of laughter, it’s always a blessing to spend some time with my brother Neil Schultz. And we’re just getting started, because there’s one more conversation coming from Las Vegas before we wrap up this special Sunday edition.
We wrap up this Sunday Conversation from the American Naturopathic Medical Association’s 45th annual convention in Las Vegas with another family reunion, this time with my dear friend Anne Archer Butcher. If you’ve been with us for any length of time, you’ve heard Anne and me talk about the Monicor and the extraordinary journey she and her husband, Alden, have been on. But every time we get together, there seems to be something new to explore, and this year’s ANMA gathering gives us a perfect opportunity to see how much the conversation around energy medicine has changed.
Just a few years ago, even mentioning energy medicine could get you dismissed as a quack. Anne and I are seeing something very different now. Practitioners at the convention are actively looking for technologies they can incorporate into their practices, and people are lining up to experience the Monicor for themselves. Even with only five or ten minutes available for demonstrations, Anne says people are returning hours later or the following day to report what they’ve experienced and ask how they can get one for themselves.
We talk about one of the things that makes the Monicor especially intriguing to practitioners and families: simplicity. As the technology has evolved, the interface has become easier to use, including automated sequences designed to make it accessible even to people without extensive technical training. Anne explains that Dr. Luba has continued improving the system while allowing existing devices to receive upgrades, rather than forcing owners into a constant cycle of buying new equipment.
But technology is only part of this conversation. Anne and I spend a lot of time talking about stress, emotions, and the energetic patterns we carry. At the convention, they’re running a short “happiness” program for attendees, and Anne shares how practitioners have incorporated similar programs into their work. That naturally brings us back to my recent conversation with our mutual friend Dr. Bruce Lipton and his message about belief, subconscious programming, and the enormous influence our perceptions can have on our lives.
And then there is Alden’s story, which is impossible to separate from Anne’s involvement with the Monicor. Seven years ago, doctors were dealing with his stage four metastatic melanoma and privately told Anne that he might have only two weeks to live. Anne immediately refused to allow that prognosis to be spoken in front of him. She understood what Bruce Lipton has taught for years: words and beliefs matter, especially when they come from someone we have been conditioned to regard as an authority.
Anne and Alden subsequently incorporated the Monicor into their approach. Anne recounts that after roughly ten weeks of using it twice a week, his doctors found no remaining cancer. That experience changes the direction of their lives. Rather than keeping what happened to themselves, Anne decides she has to tell people about it, and her background in publicity gives her a pretty good idea how to do that. What begins as one family’s search for answers becomes a mission to introduce more people to energy medicine.
What I especially appreciate is the idea of bringing these tools beyond exclusive clinics and into communities. Anne tells the story of a woman who owns a Monicor specifically so she can send it to people who need help. We talk about churches, practitioners, community healing centers, veterans, and others who might benefit from greater access to technologies like this. For me, that is where health freedom becomes something more than a slogan. It’s about decentralizing healing and putting useful tools directly into people’s hands.
We also discuss the emergence of energy-focused wellness centers and the growing interest among physicians, naturopaths, athletes, and other practitioners. Anne points to the work being done through Evolte Life in Texas and the efforts to make these technologies available in underserved communities. There is still plenty to learn, and Anne is careful to acknowledge that every person’s body and experience are different, but the willingness to investigate these approaches is expanding dramatically.
What strikes me most as we finish our time together is how much the landscape has changed. Ideas that once existed far outside conventional conversations about health are increasingly being explored by practitioners and ordinary people alike. The question is no longer simply whether energy plays a role in biology. More people are asking how we can understand it, measure it, and responsibly use technologies built around it.
It’s always a blessing when Anne and I get together, and this conversation is a fitting way to close our weekend in Las Vegas. From homeopathy and health freedom with Neil Schultz to energy medicine and the power of belief with Anne Archer Butcher, this Sunday Conversation is ultimately about expanding our understanding of what’s possible and giving people more tools to participate in their own healing journey.
Remember Friends, The Power to Heal is Yours!
