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.

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.

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.