Podcast Summary

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Episode: 1KHO 648: Raising Free Families in a Sick Care System | Dr. Stanton Hom, Future Generations
Airdate: December 12, 2025
Host: Jenny Erich
Guest: Dr. Stanton Hom

Episode Theme & Purpose

This episode explores how families can reclaim agency in health and parenting, particularly in a system Dr. Stanton Hom describes as “sick care” rather than true healthcare. The conversation focuses on challenging prevailing cultural and medical narratives, empowering parents to make informed choices, and the importance of holistic approaches, lifestyle, foundational wellness, and time outdoors for children’s development. The host and guest critique the rigidity of conventional medicine, especially with respect to pediatric care and parental autonomy, and present alternative frameworks rooted in empowerment, prevention, and belief system shifts.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Dr. Hom’s Journey: From Military to Holistic Care

• Background: Dr. Hom shares his experience as a West Point graduate and former Army officer who, despite being physically fit, discovered through his brother’s chiropractic lens that he was unhealthy in more subtle but significant ways.

  • “I was fit, I was strong, I was fast, I was smart… but I wasn’t healthy.” (01:17)

• Transformation: After embracing chiropractic care, nutrition, and nature, he experienced a “reset” in mind and body, transforming from chronic dysregulation to optimal health within months.

  • “Six weeks in, I felt like… you hit the reset and it turns over, you’re like, ‘whoa.’ Like, my nervous system and my body kind of reset.” (02:50)
  • “My brother's like, dude, I think you’re my healthiest patient.” (03:25)

• Educational Struggles and Healing: Dr. Hom recounts childhood struggles with dyslexia, social anxiety, and selective mutism—challenges he says healed alongside his nervous system regulation, directly connecting learning and mental health with physical health and environment.

2. Challenging the “Sick Care” System & Parental Autonomy

• Rigidity in Pediatrics: Jenny shares her personal frustrations with pediatricians unwilling to make exceptions or respect parental input, especially around vaccination schedules, calling this rigidity “tyranny.”

  • “In general, to me, that feels like tyranny. That’s all I want to say.” (09:09)

• Freedom-Focused Care: Dr. Hom defines it as empowering patients to need doctors less over time, focusing on self-healing and informed choice, not simply following mandates.

  • “Freedom, focused care... is care that is focused on helping patients need me and all doctors and all systems less over time.” (10:03)
  • “We should be working ourselves out of a job by empowering patients...” (10:10)

• Medical Authoritarianism: The discussion highlights discrimination and judgment faced by parents who deviate from standard medical practices, with Dr. Hom framing these as violations of fundamental rights.

  • “There are people that actually believe that we don’t have the fundamental rights to raise our kids.” (13:42)
  • “If it is, then freedom-focused care… stands in opposition to that.” (14:10)

• Genetics vs. Environment (Epigenetics):

  • Dr. Hom debunks the myth that most conditions are fated by genetics, emphasizing epigenetic influence—how lifestyle and environment shape outcomes.
  • “Do you know how many things are actually genetic? Like purely genetic, inherited... it’s less than 1%.” (14:44)
  • “There’s control above the genes... the environment and lifestyle.” (21:02)

3. The Power of Shifting Belief Systems

• Beliefs Underpin Health Choices: Dr. Hom and Jenny both discuss how inherited beliefs about parenting and medicine limit options and outcomes.

  • “Sometimes I don’t even think families would know... the core here is that I need to shift my belief system.” (00:58)

• Potential for Change: Both share personal stories of accidental encounters (chiropractic with a brother, a doula’s comment about natural birth) that led to major shifts, emphasizing hope and the possibility of rapid transformation.

4. Critiques of Medical Practice: Data and Control

• Hospital & Pediatric Requirements: Jenny tells of feeling pressured after a home birth, facing surprise and even threats from medical staff who hadn’t encountered her choices.

  • “They said they had never seen a home birth baby. I was like, come on. Like this… isn’t that out of the norm?” (30:07)
  • “My midwife was like, you should probably do it because they might call CPS...” (29:55)

• Data Collection Concerns: Dr. Hom discusses the lack of transparency in what happens to children’s data from common hospital tests.

  • “When you take this test, your child’s data goes into a database…” (31:03)

• Escaping the System: Both highlight the value—and challenge—of finding care outside the medical mainstream, noting the existence of patient advocates and alternative providers.

5. Redefining Health: The Role of Chiropractic and Neurodevelopment

• Spinal Health in Children: Dr. Hom discusses the overlooked connection between posture, spinal health (especially the cervical curve in the neck), and neurodevelopmental issues.

  • "Spinal degeneration… in the form of loss of normal cervical spine lordosis… is a primary factor in causing neurodevelopmental delays in 1 in 6 children today.” (47:35)

• Functional Testing: He explains simple functional tests used in his practice to assess nervous system health:

  • Surface Electromyography—measuring brain-to-muscle connection.
  • Infrared Thermography—assessing blood flow and neural inflammation.
  • Heart Rate Variability—measuring vagus nerve, prefrontal cortex, and autonomic balance.
  • “I would argue that 90% of our kids, chronic illnesses are coming from… the neck. From the cervical spine and from the connections up and down from the brain.” (53:03)

• Chiropractic & “Miracle” Stories: Dr. Hom shares patient experiences where chiropractic adjustments led to transformations in behavior, cognition, and wellbeing.

6. Nature as Medicine

• Nature as Essential, Not Optional: Both reiterate that time outdoors is not a therapy but an essential environmental input required by our bodies for health—deficiencies manifest as modern health problems.

  • “Nature is providing a sufficient level of environmental demand that our systems… demand.” (57:41)

• Prevention and Power: The consistent message is that restoring children to a more “natural” environment (including exposure to nature, movement, nutrition, and supportive care) can prevent symptoms and conditions, shifting from treatment to true prevention.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Medical Freedom:

  • “If you cannot stay with a pediatrician because you don’t do the full vaccination schedule and they’re going to kick you out… what else would that be called [other than tyranny]?”
    — Jenny Erich (37:20)

• On Chiropractic & Healing:

  • “Chiropractic provides an impulse into the nervous system to restore healthy communication between the brain and the body… A healthy, more regulated, self-healing nervous system has a completely different outcome than one that’s totally dysregulated.”
    — Dr. Stanton Hom (54:01)

• On Empowerment:

  • “If you open the window a little bit bigger, there’s way more possibility for the root cause healing than our conventional system and conventional science has allowed you to believe.”
    — Dr. Stanton Hom (26:49)

• On Generational Change:

  • “It’s not a movement until you create enough of an infrastructure that it builds an economy that drives that new pathway.”
    — Dr. Stanton Hom citing mentor Kevin Jenkins (41:54)

• On the Power of Nature:

  • “It’s not that nature treats anxiety. It’s that children who have a healthy amount of nature… just don’t have that to the degree that most others do.”
    — Dr. Stanton Hom (58:44)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:44 – Introduction and Dr. Hom’s personal journey from military medicine to holistic care.
• 08:56 – Discussion on vaccine injury, freedom-focused care, and medical tyranny.
• 13:20 – Genetic determinism versus epigenetics; critique of the medical model.
• 20:25 – The modern trend of children “feeling old”; rise in chronic illness among kids.
• 29:47 – Crisis in pediatric care post-home birth; institutional rigidity and parental disempowerment.
• 34:25 – Value dissonance between parents and providers; seeking aligned care.
• 47:35 – The importance of spinal health and early neurodevelopment.
• 53:03 – Discussion on root causes of chronic illness; brain/spinal connections.
• 57:41 – Nature as an essential input for healthy child development.
• 59:53 – Prevention versus treatment and the empowering role of holistic providers.
• 64:32 – Childhood outdoor memories and family legacies.
• 65:38 – Future Foundations course and continuing education for families.

Calls to Action & Resources

• Find Dr. Hom:
  • Future Generations Podcast
  • [Future Foundations Course](link to be included in show notes)
• Track Your Time Outdoors:
  • Inspired by the 1000 Hours Outside movement, encouraging families to set goals, track time in nature, and prioritize outdoor, screen-free experiences.

Overall Tone

The conversation is candid, forthright, and encourages parents to question — and where needed, reject — the cultural status quo on child health. Both host and guest are passionate, hopeful, and focused on empowering families through practical information, stories of change, and an unwavering belief in parental wisdom, children’s resilience, and the natural world as a cornerstone of wellbeing. There is no shaming; rather, there is empathy for those “still in the system,” and inspiration for everyone looking for a change.

Closing Reflection

Dr. Hom sums up:
“It’s miracles from beginning to end… so much of it stems back toward shifting belief systems. And you can change a lot.”
— (63:53)

Edited and summarized by [Podcast Summarizer], preserving the voices and dynamic energy of Jenny Erich and Dr. Stanton Hom.