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The mindbodygreen Podcast

422: The best herbs for your blood sugar | Herbal medicine expert Bill Rawls, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bill Rawls, M.D.: “A lot of people think of herbs as weak versions of drugs, but it's like comparing apples and oranges. We can gain the benefits of both.”  Bill, an herbal medicine expert and bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the must-have herbs for your overall health, plus: - How Bill overcame Lyme disease using herbs (~01:01) - How to use plant medicine in your everyday life (~10:07) - Why deforestation is bad for health care (~18:17) - The best herbs for your brain (~31:44) - How detoxifying herbs can help balance blood sugar (~35:43) Referenced in the episode: - Bills book, The Cellular Wellness Solution. - Follow Bill on Instagram. - A study showing around 70% of our pharmaceuticals came from plants. - A study on herbs & cancer prevention. We hope you enjoy this episode sponsored by Dame Products and Sonos, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

0:07.1

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0:10.9

how it stands up perfectly on a desk for business calls and has a larger cover screen for emails,

0:16.5

but we've got one in the studio so our sound engineer Brian is distracted. He's not even listening,

0:21.6

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0:29.6

available now at Samsung Business Shop.

0:34.4

Yeah, very good. Perfect take.

0:37.3

Hey everyone, today we have Dr. Bill Rawls who's been practicing medicine for over 30 years

0:43.9

and the author of a new book which I love to title the Cellular Wellness Solution,

0:50.8

tapping to your full health potential with the science-based power of Earth. So today we're

0:57.6

going to go all in on Earth. Welcome Bill. Hey, thanks Jason. Pleasure to be here for sure.

1:03.9

So let's start with your personal health journey. In the book you talk about this powerful moment,

1:10.1

it's beautiful. You're on the beach in North Carolina at age 47, but then something goes wrong.

1:16.9

So let's start there. What happened and how has that experience shaped you?

1:21.0

Yeah, you know, it's the story of this conventional physician who's now promoting

1:26.7

herbs, which it's kind of weird, right? And we have these life things, changing things that

1:33.0

happen and they push us in our journey that we don't expect. So, you know, 37 years ago,

1:39.0

I went to medical school and came out and went into obstetrics and gynecology because I really

1:45.7

enjoyed the wellness aspect. You know, it was dealing mainly with healthy people bringing life

1:51.1

into the world, but the deal was I practiced in a small town where you had to take call every

1:57.6

second to third night. And I was on one of those people is if I had somebody in labor or somebody

2:03.6

was in the hospital, I just didn't sleep. So 15, 20 years, I rarely slept for every second to

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