Professor / Doctor Marc Cohen

Wellness Consultant & Biohacker

I bridge advanced science and ancient wisdom and offer simple practical solutions that help you:

Find the FUN!

Make sense of life

Master your mind & body

Tame your toxic load

Live happy, healthy & long

About Dr Marc

Dr Marc is a Medical Doctor, University Professor, Author, Poet, Entrepreneur, Wellness Trailblazer and perpetual student of life, trying to co-create a wellness culture that infects the world with good health. With a Medical Degree along with PhDs in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Dr Marc has spent more than 30yrs practicing and researching holistic health. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many books and technical texts on wellness and natural medicine. He is co-author of “Herbs and Natural Supplements: An Evidence Based Guide” and “Understanding the Global Spa Industry”, and author of the illustrated children’s books “Love & Everything”, “Bing & Bang Begin” and “The Beautiful Mare and the Boy Who Gave Thanks“. Dr Marc is Past President of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (2000-2007), a Past Board Member of the Global Wellness Summit (2007 -2020), Founder of the Extreme Wellness Institute and Beautiful Water, Co-Founder of the Bathe the World Foundation, Co-Owner of Extremely Alive and Maruia Hot Springs, Medical Advisor to Cannatrek, and Medical Director of the Peninsula Hot Springs Group.

Wellness Solutions

  • Home Water Filter Systems

    Beautiful Water sells point-of-use sacred water vessels that produce water that is filtered, structured, balanced and blessed, and can be given away for free and thereby transcend the need for plastic water bottles.

  • Extremely Alive Probiotics

    Extremely Alive Probiotics

    Extremely Alive Probiotic Wellness Shots and Spritzers are imbued with potent, organic leaves, roots, flowers, fruits and fantastic fungi and microbial magic from a wild ferment of diverse probiotic species and polyphenols.

  • Childrens Picture Story Books

    Childrens Picture Story Books

    Pronoia Press publishes consciousness-raising illustrated books for children and adults. These books include: “The Beautiful Mare and the Boy Who Gave Thanks”, “Love & Everything” and “Bing and Bang Begin”.

  • Dr Marc Retreats Maruia Hot Springs

    Maruia Hot Springs

    Maruia Hot Springs is an award winning, off-the-grid, eco-wellness retreat and hot springs resort in the heart of the Southern Alps in New Zealand. featuring natural thermal springs, its own hydroelectric station and a range of bathing experiences in a pristine alpine environment.

  • Peninsula Hot Springs Dr Marc

    Extreme Wellness

    The Extreme Wellness Institute provides consultancy services on wellness products and services, performs collaborative research with multiple universities, and hosts the Extreme Wellness Academy, which offers online courses and in-person retreats.

  • Bathe the World

    Bathe the World

    Bathe the World Foundation promotes the benefits of bathing through research, education, events such as World Bathing Day, and advocating for a world where bathing in clean flowing water is possible for everyone on earth.

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Research Areas

  • mind body breath wellness training

    Mind, Body & Health

    Dr Marc has been interested in yoga and meditation since the mid-1980s when he traveled to India to explore this ancient practices. He has since published numerous original research papers on yoga, meditation, massage and various breathing techniques that include laboratory studies, clinical trials, epidemiological studies and systematic reviews.

  • food herbs and natural medicine

    Food, Herbs & Natural Medicine

    Dr Marc’s research on food, herbs and natural supplements began in earnest when he took up co-authoring the textbook Herbs and Natural Supplements: An evidenced-based guide with Lesley Braun in 2001. Since then he has done extensive research into organic food and many individual herbs and supplements…

  • baby sleeping Integrative Medicine

    Integrative Medicine

    Dr Marc has been involved in integrating complementary medicine into mainstream practice for more than 3 decades and has published original research on attitudes to complementary medicine amongst medical students, general practitioners and hospital doctors as well as complementary medicine use by different patient groups…

  • Water Bathing & Energetics

    Water and bathing have become an increasing focus of Dr Marc’s academic career as well as his personal life. He has published research on hot springs bathing, sauna bathing, the therapeutic use of heat and the ‘bathing biome’, and is now conducting research that aims to eliminate the need for chlorine in commercial hot springs and aquatic centres…

  • Cut Orange in Water Detox

    Lifestyle & Detoxification

    Dr Marc has always been interested in a healthy lifestyle and was involved in running health retreats for Monash medical students in the 1990s. He has published research on the health benefits of health and lifestyle retreats along with the ways to reduce exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and detoxify from past exposures using simple lifestyle measures…