Welcome to World of Wellness International
Our founder's vision
Prof lan Brighthope, MD., FACNEM
WOW Founding Director
lan has acted as an advocate of doctors practicing Complementary Medicine for over 40 years. He has over 4 decades of experience treating patients as a doctor as well as training doctors and publishing books to give the general public a broad understanding of the importance of nutrition and ‘vitamin' therapies.
Professor Brighthope's lifelong ambition is to help change the way medicine and healthcare is practiced for the benefit of the public and to see nutrition, nutritional and environmental medicine and herbal medicine become the building blocks and keystones to world health and peace."
What we offer
Courses
Education is at the core of WOW's mission. We offer a professional level of training and certification for both medical professionals and lay people alike. This includes intravenous vitamin C workshops, courses on managing chronic conditions with vitamins and mineral, and enhancing home preparedness with first aid education.
Zoom interviews
Every fortnight we interview a person of interest, from traditional health professionals, to natural healers to community leaders. WOW members can ask questions via the chat function. These interviews are recorded then uploaded to the website, so members can watched them at any time.
Sunday events
WOW holds regular Sunday events in Melbourne. We in invite a range of health professionals to speak, from integrative GP's to natural therapists and entrepreneurs. After woods there is Q & A and a social catch up for our members.
Ian's interviews
Ian Brighthope is a prolific author, public speaker and educator. He is Australia's longest serving advocate for natural therapies, and has had a highly successful career both treating patients and conducting research. Ian began challenging health bureaucrats during the AIDS crisis and has proved repeatedly that boosting the bodies natural immune system is the most effective way to treat infectious diseases. Ian is regularly interviewed by Australian and international journalists where he shares his wealth of experience and a positive view of the future.
Books
Ian's five published books are available to members as downloadable PDF's. We also have an extensive list of world class books to help you navigate todays world. These include books unveiling the secret networks of global corporate interests and linking the epidemic of chronic disease in the West with increasing exposure to man made chemicals. Books can give a voice to personal stories of grief and growth over the past four years. They can also show the way forward, for people who believe in free trade, free speech, personal responsibility and smaller governments.
Directory of services
Looking for a Doctor who will look at your entire health and take into consideration your personal values, not just tick boxes and flick you a script in two minutes? What about a dentist who understands the risks of heavy metals and instead works to build healthy gums that will support good dental health? We have a growing directory of modern health professionals, who's income comes from look after their own customers, not just rubber-stamping government policies.
Courses
Education is at the core of WOW's mission. We offer a professional level of training and certification for both medical professionals and lay people alike. This includes intravenous vitamin C workshops, courses on managing chronic conditions with vitamins and mineral, and enhancing home preparedness with first aid education.
Zoom interviews
Every fortnight we interview a person of interest, from traditional health professionals, to natural healers to community leaders. WOW members can ask questions via the chat function. These interviews are recorded then uploaded to the website, so members can watched them at any time.
Sunday events
WOW holds regular Sunday events in Melbourne. We in invite a range of health professionals to speak, from integrative GP's to natural therapists and entrepreneurs. After woods there is Q & A and a social catch up for our members.
Ian's interviews
Ian Brighthope is a prolific author, public speaker and educator. He is Australia's longest serving advocate for natural therapies, and has had a highly successful career both treating patients and conducting research. Ian began challenging health bureaucrats during the AIDS crisis and has proved repeatedly that boosting the bodies natural immune system is the most effective way to treat infectious diseases. Ian is regularly interviewed by Australian and international journalists where he shares his wealth of experience and a positive view of the future.
Books
Ian's five published books are available to members as downloadable PDF's. We also have an extensive list of world class books to help you navigate todays world. These include books unveiling the secret networks of global corporate interests and linking the epidemic of chronic disease in the West with increasing exposure to man made chemicals. Books can give a voice to personal stories of grief and growth over the past four years. They can also show the way forward, for people who believe in free trade, free speech, personal responsibility and smaller governments.
Directory of services
Looking for a Doctor who will look at your entire health and take into consideration your personal values, not just tick boxes and flick you a script in two minutes? What about a dentist who understands the risks of heavy metals and instead works to build healthy gums that will support good dental health? We have a growing directory of modern health professionals, who's income comes from look after their own customers, not just rubber-stamping government policies.
Building a new Australia
Connecting with aligned communities
The World of Wellness is connected with the natural health and medical freedom groups around Australia.
Together we co host a number of events including book launches, medical conferences, overseas tours and fund raisers.
WOW has its finger on the pulse, and we keep our members up to date with
the latest medical and legal trends, both locally and abroad.
We also offer them a directory of aligned health services, from
integrative GP's to IV vitamin services. This enables people to quickly
and easily find the health practitioners that have their values.
Together we are building a new future for Australians. One where healthy
lifestyles and a wholistic approach to medical conditions are the main
focus.
The long term vision of WOW
Grass roots reform
WOW is not just a social group or an education platform. We don't just make video's about current affairs or react to the latest Canberra policies.
We are absolutely serious about changing the entire fabric of Australia's health industry. For too long it has been in the grip of out-of-touch bureaucrats and pharmaceutical-controlled lobby groups.
Both Doctors and patients have suffered as education and informed consent has been suffocated. Instead of asking questions both Doctors and patients are being increasingly told to just 'keep quiet' and 'follow orders'.
At the same time that bureaucrat salaries are gobbling up increasing large amounts of funding set aside for healthcare, profits for the global pharmaceutical industry are soaring.
Meanwhile, the health of our nation is deteriorating. Australians are now sicker, fatter and have higher rates of suicide than at any time during our nations history. Our bodies are overwhelmed and confused by a sea of pesticides, GMO foods, micro plastics, and artificially created pharmacy medications.
Good health is our birthright. Strong bodies and minds are how we build this nation.
WOW is looking to recruit a million members to help us drive this movement of reform.
Training the next generation
CPD points and tax deductions are available for health care professionals
All health professionals will be able to claim CPD points and tax deductions for our Wednesday Zooms, Sunday talks and training courses.
For example:
Our Vitamin C course is tax deductible and offers 5 hours of CPD points.
Watching our library of Zoom interviews with health professionals will contribute to CPD points.
The WOW $35 membership fee is tax deductible.
The $5 admission fee for Sunday talks is tax deductible.
Looking for IV cannulation courses? We have quality training providers we can refer you to.
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Fellow Membership
Thank you for joining the World of Wellness as a 'Fellow!' Membership to WOW will give you access to a growing range of services, including:
A curated directory of wide ranging health professionals who support natural therapies and ethical patient focused care
Lists of healthy foods, herbs and vitamin suppliers and consumer health technology
On line courses on first aid and other courses
Information on the latest protocols for treating vaccine injuries
Academic papers and books proving the effectiveness of natural therapies
Blogs
Vale Olivia Newton John
“I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.". - Olivia Newton-John.
Introduction:
Olivia’s father Bryn was born in Wales, won a scholarship to Oxford, became a multilingual academic and during World War II worked as MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park. Her mother Irene was born in Germany and had come to the UK with her family in 1933, to escape the Nazi Regime.
Oliver was born in Cambridge in 1948. Her family migrated to Australia and she grew up in Melbourne. At aged 14 she formed an all-girl group called Sol Four, with three classmates. She also appeared on Australian TV talent shows.
In her teens she moved to London and in 1966 Olivia recorded her first single, “Till You Say You’ll Be Mine”. She toured nightclubs in Europe, performed backup for other bands.
She released her first solo album, “If Not for You” in 1971, then “Banks of the Ohio” which was a top 10 hit in the UK and Australia. She then moved to the USA, had a string of hits and starred in the highly successful movie “Grease”.
Olivia’s experience with cancer
Olivia was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. She focused on natural treatments, and became partial owner of the Gaia Retreat and Spa in Byron Bay, New South Wales.
In 2008, she started to raise funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
“To create this wellness center where people who are going through cancer could go and do the things I had done when I had breast cancer was a big passion for me… I did massage and meditation and yoga … all the things that would help heal me and keep my spirit positive.” Olivia Newton John.
In 2017 it was discovered that the breast cancer had returned and metastasised to her lower back. She was an advocate for the use of medical cannabis to help with bone pain.
On 8 August 2022, Olivia died at her home in the Santa Ynez Valley of California. She was 73.
The Olivia Newton John cancer and wellness centre is now part of Austin Health. It opened in June 2012, beginning as an outpatient ambulatory centre then expanding to provide inpatient ward care.
She led the focus on wellness and the importance of physical, emotional and spiritual support not only for the person going through a cancer diagnosis but their carers, families and friends. Todd Harper, Chief executive at Austin Health.
60 Minutes interview with plant medicine expert Amazon John Easterling:
What our members say
Colby Hickey
"I enjoy the WOW meetings because they give me inspiration and motivation for my health. I started going to the meetings at the end of last year and have been almost every week since. They are a great way to be in a community of like-minded people. The lock-down period in Melbourne was very difficult for me and others- I felt isolated and not myself. The period of being in lock-down kept us more depressed and unable to stay positive. We lost our sense of hope. The community of the WOW group reminded us of our hope and gave me faith in the right direction once more. My outlook was improved greatly with the WOW meetings, thankfully."
Ina
"My Friend suggested the WOW to me as we shared the same feelings about the current Health system. I was welcomed with open hearts and an understanding not felt by our usual medical practitioners...There is a power in us that gets denied by the current health care and I congratulate the WOW for returning to real care for a Human Being. The World of Wellness is an important part of our life to share our journey of continued health and well-being through meeting like-minded people with a real interest in the individual and their personal and educational approach. The world needs an overhaul of the current system and I can see and feel that the WOW will be just that for the future."
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