
Nathan Riley
Nathan Riley, MD, FACOG is a board-certified holistic OBGYN and home birth doctor who runs Beloved Holistics in Louisville, KY and hosts the Born Free Method podcast.
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Jun 2, 2026
158. MyMaine Birth: Hospital Trauma and the Pull Towards Free Birth, a doctor's honest perspective with Nathan Riley, OBGYN
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16:30AngelaHOST
What are your thoughts on that?

Nathan RileyGUEST
I do think that many women, as I mentioned, many women choose to have a free birth because Because they've been conditioned to be afraid of the hospital.

Nathan RileyGUEST
Anybody working in this sort of megalithic industrial complex, this medical industrial complex, is going to see this as, this is the only safe way to do it.

Nathan RileyGUEST
but they don't realize that it's actually, there's a stark contrast between being kept safe and feeling safe.
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44:06AngelaHOST
So what are your thoughts for people in situations like this?
Ep 214: Exposing the Most Dangerous Childbirth Myths & Procedures with Dr. Nathan Riley
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Nathan RileyGUEST
because, you know, we've taken now living tissue from a person, just like I said, with lab work, we take biopsy, we take this tissue.

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Now we're going to, we're going to slice it up, add a bunch of stains and chemicals, put it under a microscope and And this is how we're diagnosing disease.

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There are certain instances in which somebody might argue that for this cancer, we can say that we saved this person's life and this and that.

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But that is also a very, very imperfect part of the allopathic model of cancer diagnosis and maintenance, let's just say.

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Merck smartly, instead of saying, they weren't smart because they end up advertising that this prevents cervical cancer, but instead of studying whether or not this actually modifies your risk of getting cervical cancer, let alone dying from cervical cancer, they say, well, let's use these other endpoints, SYN2 and SYN3, because we know, I'm using air quotes on my end if you're listening, that that's going to lead to cancer.
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146:21Alec ZeckHOST
Like obviously the environment is much better, but when it comes to like the hierarchy of authority, when you are stepping foot onto someone else's turf, versus them having to step foot into your turf, that completely changes things.