Drake Peterson of Iration Launches Health Media Network ‘Wellness Loud’

For the past 10 years, Drake Peterson, Iration’s lead trumpet player and percussionist, has woken up and gone about his days with what he described as “weird symptoms.” Of what, he wasn’t sure, until five years ago when he learned that he had been living with Lyme disease for more than a decade. Following this discovery, Peterson took medications that he says “didn’t do anything for me, and they were probably just destroying my body.” 

Then he met a friend named Courtney Swan, an integrative nutritionist (MS) who shared with Peterson how to take on a holistic lifestyle. Holistic healing is a comprehensive practice of finding the root of a mental or physical malady and correspondingly addressing it from mental, physical, spiritual, and social standpoints. It is the opposite of allopathic healing, the healing system most commonly recognized in our society that involves medical doctors and nurses battling inflictions with drugs, surgeries, and other medicinal treatments. 

Holistic healing  isn’t as well known, at least not as much as Peterson wants it to be. He began producing a podcast with his friend Courtney Swan called Realfoodology, in which she speaks with experts on how America needs to change the way it’s eating and the positive impacts that it can have on our bodies. Within two months, Realfoodology exploded into the list of Top 10 health and wellness podcasts. As Swan amassed more and more guests to her show, Peterson reached out to many of these experts, among them was Dr. Tyna Moore, a regenerative medicine expert, who now hosts the Drake Peterson–produced podcast The Dr. Tyna Show.