322: Herbs For Energy, Healing, & Vitality
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Herbs are the undervalued helpers in our diets. Sure, they spice up our foods and beverages, but they also play a role in supporting digestion, mood, and healthy immune system function. Jenny McGruther helps us explore their role in the diet and in our health. Jenny is a nutritional therapist, herbalist and the author of three natural foods cookbooks: The Nourished Kitchen, Broth and Stock, and Vibrant Botanicals, her latest cookbook which features culinary and medicinal herbs.
Jenny tells the story of how her own struggle with anxiety led her down the path to explore the world of culinary and therapeutic herbs. She explains how herbs have different vital properties (some stimulate, some relax us, for example) and how understanding these properties can help us choose the herbs that might be the most beneficial for our bodies. She gets specific about herbs that help the body handle stress, like astragalus, and offers advice about which herbs to start including in the diet.
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| 0:00.0 | The straggolus is a, he used the woody part of the root, so it's a root, and it is what |
| 0:06.3 | we call an adaptogen. |
| 0:07.9 | An adaptogen is an herb that helps your body respond to various stressors, whatever those |
| 0:13.6 | stressors might be, so they could be external stressors such as traffic, tough relationships, |
| 0:19.9 | anything that is contributing stress to your body, as well as stressors such as viral illness. |
| 0:25.4 | It's a really interesting herb, so it works along the HPA axis, which is your body stress |
| 0:31.1 | response system, and it helps to kind of buffer your body against all of these stressors. |
| 0:37.7 | In addition to that, it has some antiviral components as well, which are worth looking |
| 0:43.0 | into. |
| 0:44.0 | So if your body is, you know, stressed by illness or the stifles or whatever, it's a great |
| 0:47.9 | art to choose. |
| 0:55.0 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 1:00.2 | in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 1:02.9 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 1:07.5 | health. |
| 1:08.5 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 1:16.5 | Herbs are the undervalued helpers of our diets. |
| 1:20.3 | Of course they spice up our foods and beverages, but they also play a role in supporting digestion, |
| 1:26.8 | mood, and healthy immune system function. |
| 1:29.7 | This is episode 322 and our guest today is Jenny McGrathar. |
| 1:34.1 | Jenny is a nutritional therapist, herbalist, and the author of three natural foods, cookbooks, |
| 1:40.3 | the nourished kitchen, broth and stock, and vibrant botanicals. |
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