This episode is all about how to safely use herbs for your health. In this episode I will discuss how to find an herbalist, quality control, how to use herbal remedies to improve our health, and herb and drug interactions both positive and negative.

In this episode we do a deep dive about the Thyroid Gland. We meet with Tricia Perez of Mama's Essentials. She is a Clinical Western Herbalist at Acupuncture & Herbal Therapies, Certified Flower Essences Practitioner, and a Health and Wellness specialist. While guiding herself into remission from Graves’ Disease and Graves’ Eye Disease through focused changes to her lifestyle, she developed some life-changing herbal products that have supported the healing of herself and her loved ones. Of heightened interest to her is how the gut microbiome is affected by the foods we eat and how this, in turn, affects most of our body functions. She loves to work with all clients, but takes a special interest in people dealing with auto-immune, hormonal, and adrenal fatigue issues. Tricia is currently the School Director at Traditions School of Herbal Studies, where she completed her training in Clinical Western Herbalism, and also teaches a monthly Anatomy lecture series.

This month Bob explores the do's and don'ts of herbal approaches to cancer. This is a must listen to for anyone going through surgery, chemo or radiation or even if you are trying to avoid all three.

Today's episode is focused on working with kids and herbs. Ruth Glass is a clinical and folk herbalist and also an instructor for Traditions School of Herbal Studies. She holds two degrees in education and she is a graduate of the Traditions School of Herbal Studies. She completed the Chinese Herbal Program and the Western Herbal Program and fills in as a supervisor for the Western student clinic. Ruth specializes in teaching herbal medica, herbal medicine making, and herbal first aid as well as bioregional herbalism. She is currently the president of the local chapter of the American Herbalists Guild and is the chapter coordinator of all the American Herbalists Guild chapters. She offers children’s and elder nature programs as well as herbal creative writing which integrates herbalism, writing, and music.

In this episode we get to explore the often neglected realm of mental and emotional health. Herbalist and soon to be Acupuncture Physician Sierra Nank shares with us her many years of experience in working with people struggling with mental and emotional health. She talks about the role of herbs, diet and lifestyle in getting things under control as well as some things to stay away from, herb and drug interactions and so much more.

This episode we explore healthy eating concepts based on science, clinical experience and energetics. Likely the most important part of wellness and the most debated. Here we mix energetics, experience and science to create a new understanding of health/healthy that is easier for all.