No.1 Herbal Medicine Expert: This Over The Counter Drug Is Quietly Killing You & They’re Lying About Medicinal Plants!

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Is the root of every illness your gut? Could 5 simple herbs replace your medicine cabinet? Natural remedy expert Simon Mills reveals the herbal medicines that doctors overlook, and the herbs, spices, and daily habits to use instead! Simon Mills is one of the most respected herbal practitioners of our time, with nearly 5 decades of clinical experience treating patients. He created the term ‘complementary medicine’ in the 1970s, has served as a special advisor to the UK House of Lords, and currently works as an Advisor and Author at Herbal Reality. He explains: How antibiotic resistance could kill millions and what natural remedies can do instead The #1 hidden cause of chronic illness (that no one’s talking about) How a common kitchen spice could kill 99% of cold viruses The 8 plants that are threatening Big Pharma’s bottom line The ancient medicinal plants we’ve been lied to about, and how to use them 00:00 Intro 02:15 The Power of Medicinal Plants 05:15 Why Medicinal Plants Help Like Paracetamol Does 06:32 How Western Culture Is Getting It Wrong 11:34 Why People Should Care About Medicinal Plants 13:56 Helping 10K+ People With Plants 13:58 Patients Simon Has Helped 15:38 Case Study: Healing Through Plants 22:51 The Gut Controls Almost Everything 26:45 The Dangers of Becoming Antibiotic Resistant 32:38 Alternatives to Antibiotics 38:52 Alternatives to Cold Drugs 51:47 Vitamin D and Zinc for Infection Protection 55:37 Garlic Benefits 59:07 Remedies for Chronic Pain 1:02:12 Arthritis Relief Medicinal Plant 1:08:25 Should We Take Anti-Inflammatory Pills? 1:12:00 The Superpower of Purple Vegetables 1:16:37 Your Diet Recommendations 1:17:33 Keto Diet and Sugar 1:19:34 Keto Diet and the Menstrual Cycle Link 1:22:08 Can PCOS Symptoms Increase From Sugar? 1:23:31 Medicinal Plants to Increase Fertility 1:26:51 Healing Benefits of Echinacea, Frankincense, and Myrrh for the Upper Body 1:33:48 Water Fasting and Long Fasts 1:35:08 Cancer Prevention 1:37:13 Cardiovascular Health Improvements 1:39:00 Benefits of Turmeric Consumption 1:41:35 Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Postbiotics 1:43:24 The Shocking Benefits of Curcumin 1:50:27 Cocoa Powder Healing Benefits 1:54:44 Shocking Link Between Alzheimer’s and Green Tea 1:56:39 Cholesterol and Statins — Is There an Alternative? 2:02:04 Omeprazole 2:08:29 How to Keep Up With a Fast-Changing World You can follow Simon, here: Instagram - https://bit.ly/4mmYAOh Herbal Reality Instagram - https://bit.ly/4fA1jRF Herbal Reality Website - https://bit.ly/46KVgaz You can read a selection of articles by Simon Mills, here: What is herbal medicine? - https://bit.ly/45iYvDF Are herbs safe? - https://bit.ly/453v35U The Diary Of A CEO: ⬜️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ⬜️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ⬜️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ⬜️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ⬜️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ⬜️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Shopify - https://shopify.com/bartlett ExpressVPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/DOAC and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's so funny because when you look at the guys, that's never a topic of conversation. Yeah. What you look like? Yeah. Did you watch the football last night? It's never about, I'll watch your skincare routine. Whereas women walk into a room and because we've been taught to be pitted against each other. Yeah. Not always, but sometimes there's, oh my God, you know, I can't. It's a bit of a barrier. Yeah, yeah. and it shouldn't be there.
0:01.1	We should be trying to change that stereotype, believing that there is space for everybody. That is the most widely prescribed drug in this country, and I believe in the US also. But the list of problems accruing from long-term use is beginning to grow and is serious cancers,
0:38.5	dementias. But the other thing is that once you're on it, it's really difficult to come off
0:42.8	it. And that's not all. We use far too many antibiotics and that's coming a serious health issue now
0:48.0	because a number of people dying from antibiotic resistance infections is beginning to
0:52.6	rise dramatically.
0:55.2	It's quite frightening.
1:00.2	So are there alternatives on this table that I should also consider as a form of medicine?
1:04.3	Oh yes. And most of these ones I'm going to be talking about have a pretty immediate effect.
1:05.9	Now have a bite of this.
1:07.3	Whoa.
1:12.3	For almost 50 years, Dr. Simon Mills has pioneered how we think about natural medicine,
1:17.4	earning global recognition as one of the most respected and influential herbal practitioners of our time.
1:18.5	These things have medicinal properties.
1:20.9	So let's start with dark chocolate in terms of long-term brain health and cardiovascular
1:25.6	health.
1:26.3	That's what the best medicines around really oh yes
1:29.1	the next one is garlic and in some parts of the world they use garlic instead of penicillet in fact
1:34.6	there was an old trick where if you had enough garlic breath and you could kill various pathogens just
1:39.4	your breath wow and then there's this to reduce your cholesterol levels this can can really help with your eye side. This is your blood flow. Gut health. High vascular health. Now this is one of the ones to watch in terms of long-term brain health. Rosemary, we actually did a clinical trial on this. And all you need to do is press it and sniff. So you can see why some of this stuff already is powerful. Now we have some more to to go through and this is where it gets interesting. There's a lot of people listening who will want to hear this. Coffee. Oh God. What do I need to know? So. Quick one before we get back to this episode, just give me 30 seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the
2:18.5	show week after week. It means the world to all of us and this really is a dream that we absolutely
2:22.5	never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel
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