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Hello and welcome to the Friday 5, my weekly round-up of the good and useful stuff from the world of well-being.

And if you have been following my social media channels recently, you will know that I have been dipping into the wonderful world of potent and powerful plant extracts, herbal supplements and more to help maintain my own levels of well-being and fitness, not to mention mental health.

And with our immune systems raised to priority level 1 status right now, I thought it would be timely to pay a visit to one of my all-time favourite herbalists, Sebastian Poll.

The legendary plant guru, medical herbalist, founder of Pucker Herbs, those wonderful T-folk and more, as well as the founder of a couple of new and very interesting plant-based initiatives,

the informative and evidence-based herbal resource website called Herbal Reality and a new medicinal seed collection project called Earth Song Seeds.

While still serving on Pucker's Board and Mission Council, a trustee of the Fair Wild Foundation, as well as numerous botanical advisory board positions, Sebastian is a truly wise soul.

And I, for one, especially admire him for his in-depth knowledge of not only Western herbalism, but also his knowledge of both Ayurvedic and Chinese traditional herbs too.

Take a listen, as he joins me here on the lizard well-being show, to discuss the benefits and attributes of the very many plants we should be paying a special attention to right now.

So, Sebastian, such a warm welcome back. It's been years, I think, since we last spoke, because I think you were one of my original guests and contributors when I first started the lizard well-being magazine, which is at least five years ago.

Pile is great to be with you. I know it's been some time. I remember we got together and discussed your launch and to help.

Yeah, totally. I mean, and you have been busy busy. I mean, Pucker tees, I see everywhere. That's obviously going hugely well. So, congratulations from one brown founder to another. I know it's not an easy journey. Are you pleased with all of that?

Oh, yes. I mean, it's been one of the biggest blessings in my life to start with a simple idea and then for so many other people to love what we do.

And it's been great to be part of the health movement really and contributing to how we grow our food and organic movement. So, yeah, it's been really rewarding.

Because you've obviously been in this game as it were for a long time. Let's talk a little bit about your background, because you're very unusual, I think, in the world of herbalism, in that you bring together the Ayurvedic and the Chinese disciplines to Western herbalism.

How did you kind of start that interesting mixture?

I mean, it was, you know, one of those sort of life path experiences that came together through travels, meeting different people, but essentially I got interested in the food I was eating, how that made me feel.

And then I started through practicing yoga to learn a bit about Ayurveda and it came across the wonderful, simple, but expressive language of Ayurveda, which really teaches you like your blueprint, if you like, and it gives you a way of describing the qualities in your life.

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