Explore every episode of the podcast Lila's Herbal Revolution
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| We Took 30 Grams of Ashwagandha a Day for Two Weeks ( With Mason of HerbRally) | 06 Oct 2026 | 01:34:20 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: We Took 30 Grams of Ashwagandha a Day for Two Weeks Mason Hutchison, founder of HerbRally, joins me for a For Science episode where we both took 30 grams of powdered ashwagandha root every day for two weeks. Mason came into this deeply burnt out and walked away feeling grounded from the very first dose. His health quiz scores jumped across mood, energy, digestion, and strength, and his nightmares quietly disappeared. I share what shifted for me too, and my theory that ashwagandha literally gives you thicker skin. We get into why traditional preparation matters, why tinctures and gummies won't get you there, what's really behind the "dark side of ashwagandha" internet panic, and why therapeutic dosing deserves a comeback in modern herbalism. What We Cover: Links and Resources: Connect with Mason and HerbRally 🌿 Stay connected with the herbal community through the HerbRally newsletter! Founded by podcast guest Mason Hutchison, HerbRally shares herbal events, courses, podcasts, plant monographs, interviews, and other resources to support your herbal learning. Sign up and unlock a bundle of herbal goodies, including a 91-page Botanical Anthology filled with recipes, stories, and remedies; Rosalee de la Forêt's Calendula for Radiant Skin ebook; and Heather Irvine's full-length audio class on adaptogens. You'll also get your first 30 days free in the HerbRally Schoolhouse. Newsletters arrive 1-4 times per week. | |||
| I Let the Pernicious Evils In + My Herbalist Identity Crisis | 29 Sep 2026 | 00:24:55 | |
📚 NEW: Herb-Drug Interactions Masterclass with KP KhalsaIf you use herbs and anyone in your life takes medications, this class is a must. KP breaks down how to think about herbs and drugs together so you have a real framework instead of guesswork.Get the class here:https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gyfvDcimchAdRT9Ve08🌀Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE.Join here:skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445🌀I Let the Pernicious Evils In (Plus My Herbalist Identity Crisis)A bonus episode on fall colds, the six pernicious evils, and what the word herbalist leaves outI got sick, and I'm using myself as the case study of what not to do. I'm a firm believer that coming into contact with a germ doesn't mean you'll catch it, and I still believe that. What gets us sick is when our barriers come down. So I'm walking you through exactly how I let mine down (hello, sundress and Birkenstocks in freezing, windy weather), the six pernicious evils from Traditional Chinese Medicine, and how to stay balanced through one of the hardest seasonal transitions of the year. Then I get honest about something I've been mulling over all fall: why the title herbalist isn't resonating with me anymore, and what it means to practice in a way that's rooted in plants but reaches far beyond them.What We Cover- Why exposure to a germ isn't the same as getting sick- Your barrier systems: skin, lungs, digestion, and the layers of immunity behind them- How I got sick this fall, and the mala bead and bread pudding story from years ago- The six pernicious evils in TCM: wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, and fire/heat- How these line up with Vata and Ayurvedic energetics- Living with the seasons: dressing for the weather, warming foods, abhyanga, and doing the opposite of what's going on around you- The herbs I reach for to build resilience: astragalus, guduchi sattva, and echinacea- Why the title herbalist doesn't feel resonant for me right now- Why most herbal content focuses on the plant instead of the person- "Everybody uses herbs, so why do you need an herbalist?"- Practicing in the space that's herbal adjacent but not quite herbalLinks and Resources📚 Herb-Drug Interactions Masterclass with KP → https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gyfvDcimchAdRT9Ve08 🌀 Path to Practitioner Potency → https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about 🪬 pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y 🪷 work together → https://tvnhc.com/start 🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/ Website: tvnhc.comEmail: hello@tvnhc.com | |||
| Lila Gets a Ba Zi Reading with TCM Herbalist Maria Coliviras | 22 Sep 2026 | 01:35:41 | |
On this episode of Lila’s Herbal Revolution I’m joined with Maria, from Green Dragon Healing to get a Bai Zi reading. I had zero knowledge of what was to be revealed before the episode, and filmed it live for everyone’s benefit to see how a real life Bai Zi reading may go. Ba Zi is a traditional astrological assessment used to better understand ourselves and our lives. It can help us with relationships, business, our spiritual work and more. It connects to patterns in our being, and helps us bring our gifts to the world.
* What is Bai Zi * Traditional vs. Modern Medicine * Is it Woo??? * What are the 4 pillars * Lila’s Very own Chart Reading *How Bai Zi has helped Maria in her own journey https://greendragonhealer.com/https://www.instagram.com/greendragonhealer/ Links and Resources 🪬 Pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y 🪷 Work with me → https://tvnhc.com/start 🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/ 🌀 Path to Practitioner Potency (PTPP) →https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about Email- Hello@tvnhc.com Website- tvnhc.com | |||
| The Lie of SSRIs: A Natural Approach to Understanding and Healing Depression | 08 Sep 2026 | 01:07:25 | |
🌀 Ready to go deeper on today's topic? Join Path to Practitioner Potency, my mentorship community for practitioners who want more training, more herbs, and real dosing guidance beyond what a podcast episode allows: https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about 🌀The Lie of SSRIs: A Natural Approach to Understanding and Healing DepressionI have never felt this topic land closer to home. Friends, family, clients, it feels like depression is everywhere right now, and I wanted to give you both the natural therapies that can help and a wider look at what's actually going on, including the real shortcomings of the conventional model. I share my own history with depression, the myth that natural healing only works for "mild" cases, and why I think that narrative is bullshit. Then we go deep on SSRIs, the studies behind them, and the Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine concepts that explain why depression feels like a heavy, stuck fog, plus what actually clears it.What We CoverWhy natural therapies work across the full spectrum of depression, not just mild casesThe difference between situational, mild, severe, postpartum, and seasonal depressionAyurveda's Sampropti, the six stages of disease, and why catching imbalance early mattersAgni and Sadhaka Agni, the fire that processes emotional challengesNon-attachment, the Bhagavad Gita, and not letting external forces control your stateSSRIs: full side effect breakdown, the black box warning, and why we still don't know how they workKirsch's 2008 placebo data and the 2017 study on serious adverse eventsKapha, Tamas, and Mano Vaha Srotas: the Ayurvedic map of why depression feels stuckTraditional Chinese Medicine angles: phlegm in the heart orifice and liver qi stagnationNutrient depletion and the "empty tank" feeling behind depressionSense organ overstimulation, screen time, and losing the ability to process lifeHerbs worth knowing: cayenne, curcumin, albizzia, rose, lithium orotate, shankhapushpi, bacopaLinks and Resources🪬 Pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 Work with me → https://tvnhc.com/start🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🌀 Path to Practitioner Potency (PTPP) → https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/aboutEmail- Hello@tvnhc.comWebsite- tvnhc.comA Quick NoteThis podcast is shifting from weekly to biweekly to keep the quality high and make room for everything happening in PTPP. I may still release the occasional weekly episode when inspiration strikes, but every other week is the new baseline going forward.Coming Up on Lila's Herbal RevolutionA For Science episode on Bacopa, featuring a therapist trying the herb firsthandA dedicated fall episode with practical seasonal support as the days get shorterThe 30 gram ashwagandha experiment with Mason from HerbrallyA herb-drug interactions masterclass with KP KhalsaSo don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on the fun! | |||
| Ginseng for Fatigue & Natural Birth Wisdom with Doula Sonny | 25 Aug 2026 | 00:51:33 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Ginseng for Fatigue & Natural Birth Wisdom with Doula Sonny This episode is really two conversations in one. First, Lila and guest Sonny Dahood, a doula and herbalist based in New Hampshire, break down a two-week red ginseng experiment Sonny ran for fatigue. She reports unexpected wins beyond just energy, including deeper sleep, fewer sugar cravings, and a "clean" motivated feeling with none of the jitteriness she usually gets from stimulants. Lila explains why ginseng, despite its energizing reputation, can actually be one of the best sedatives in the herbal toolkit when the picture is right. Then the conversation shifts entirely into Sonny's work as a doula. She and Lila get into home birth versus hospital birth, the fear and stigma around out of hospital birth, the systemic issues baked into modern maternity care, and why the way we're born may shape our health for decades. They also cover placenta preservation, herbs used to support labor like black and blue cohosh, postpartum Ayurvedic care, and the postpartum depression and anxiety that so often goes unaddressed once the focus shifts entirely to the baby. What We Cover: Part 1: The Ginseng Experiment
Part 2: Doula Work & Birth
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| Herb-Drug Interactions Aren't What The Internet Says They Are | 19 Aug 2026 | 00:35:12 | |
🌿Herb Drug Interaction Masterclass with KP Khalsa. 👉 https://buy.stripe.com/aFafZgcjr2HM95og019Ve0bHerb-drug interactions are one of the most daunting corners of herbalism, and the fear around them is almost entirely out of proportion to the actual risk. In this episode I'm breaking down where that fear comes from, why it doesn't hold up, and what I actually do in clinical practice instead.Why herb-drug interaction fear can quietly end herbal practice before it startsThe Western medical lens we've applied to plants, and why it doesn't fitThe garlic-and-dogs study that shows exactly how reductionist science creates false alarmA recent conversation with a nursing student that revealed how this fear gets built into medical trainingThe "5 G's and baby aspirin" video making the rounds, and what the evidence actually saysWhy adverse drug events are one of the top 3 causes of death in America, yet drug-drug combinations barely raise an eyebrow onlineThe compliance question nobody's asking: what happens if people actually took every drug exactly as prescribed?My real clinical framework for working with clients on medication: intake, drug mechanism, dosing strategy, and where the real risk actually livesWhy licorice root's scary reputation doesn't match how billions of people actually use itIf you've ever felt frozen by a contraindications list, or you're a health seeker wondering if it's safe to combine your herbs with your meds, this one's for you.✨ Get the masterclass with KP Khalsa Here 👉 https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gyfvDcimchAdRT9Ve08Links and Resources:🪬 Pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 Work with me → https://tvnhc.com/start🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🌀 Path to Practitioner Potency (PTPP) → https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about🌐 Website → tvnhc.com📧 Email → hello@tvnh.com | |||
| Sourcing Herbs Is a Nightmare: Out of Stock, Wrong Form, Price Just Doubled | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:34:17 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Sourcing Herbs Is a Nightmare: Out of Stock, Wrong Form, Price Just Doubled This week I'm talking about herb sourcing, one of the least glamorous but most important parts of clinical herbalism. I run a fully virtual practice, which means I'm not handing someone a plant, I'm handing them a protocol and trusting them to go find the right herb, in the right form, from the right supplier. I talk through why that's harder than it sounds, what can go wrong between writing a protocol and actually getting herbs into someone's hands, and how I've built my own process after years of six-hour sourcing sessions. What We Cover
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| 30 Grams of Shilajit With Fan Favorite Jordan | 04 Aug 2026 | 00:56:38 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 (For Science) Fan favorite Jordan, from the lithium orotate For Science episode joins us once again to do therapeutic doses of Shilajit! This was Jordan's first experience with the black, sticky tar, and we take some live on camera to show you what it's like actually taking therapeutic doses of this very potent, very important Ayurvedic herb. If you want to hear how everything turns out, tune in. 🎥 Watch: How I Like to Take Shilajit → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVA4w66R3B0 What We Cover:
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| Why 'Root Cause' Healing Is Usually Wrong Too | 28 Jul 2026 | 00:53:41 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 There's No Smoking Gun: Symptoms, Root Causes, and How to Approach in Practice Doctors treat symptoms. Wellness culture blames parasites, candida, SIBO, and mold as "the root cause." Lila argues both camps are making a version of the same mistake, chasing an endpoint instead of understanding the terrain that let the problem take hold in the first place. In this episode, Lila breaks down what symptomatic treatment actually is, why root cause healing has its own blind spots, and how the three major herbal traditions she practices from, Western herbalism, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, each handle the tension between fast relief and lasting change differently. She closes with her own approach: not a purist on either side, but a blend built around meeting people where they actually are. What We Cover
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| Albizia (Happiness Bark) for Grief and Mental Health, with Forager Moe. | 21 Jul 2026 | 00:51:08 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 For Science: Albizzia (Happiness Bark), Mental Health & More with Moe A week-long Albizia bark experiment turns into an honest conversation about grief, crying, and what it takes for men to finally let themselves feel it. This episode I'm joined by Forager Moe, who tried a therapeutic dose of Albizia bark (also called mimosa bark, or the "happiness bark") for a week, right alongside me. What starts as a lighthearted compare-and-contrast on taste, sourcing, and foraging turns into something much deeper. Moe opens up about his ketamine therapy experience, his brother's suicide, and what it's been like relearning how to cry as an adult man. We talk about placebo versus real physiological effect, why Western herbalism lags behind Ayurveda and TCM, and how Albizia's reputation as the "grief herb" showed up differently for each of us. What we cover:
Links and Resources: Connect with Moe and see all his awesome mushroom pictures! | |||
| The Ayurvedic Reason You Know Better and Do It Anyway | 14 Jul 2026 | 00:56:56 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Summary What We Cover
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| From Vomiting Calamus to Dumping My Tinctures: Mistakes I Made Early On | 08 Jul 2026 | 00:53:37 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 From Vomiting Calamus to Dumping My Tinctures: Mistakes I Made Early On In this episode I'm getting honest about the early missteps that shaped me as a clinical herbalist. From buying ashwagandha and shatavari in the wrong form to choking down half-ground herbs in my kitchen, to dropping fifty bucks on a bougie Sedona shatavari tincture that had barely any herb in it, these are the lessons I wish someone had handed me instead of learning them the hard way. I'm also getting into the times I threw myself out of balance experimenting on my own body, including a cayenne experience that dried me out and a calamus dose that ended in a full night of pitta style vomiting before a public talk. Plus why I stopped making folk method tinctures, why I finally built my clinical reference document, and the moment I realized I couldn't save everybody who wasn't ready to be saved. What We Cover:
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| Oxalates, Lectins, and Phytates: How We Grossly Misunderstand Anti-Nutrients | 30 Jun 2026 | 00:49:32 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Stop Blaming the Spinach: A Clinical Herbalist's Take on Anti-Nutrients The carnivore and biohacking internet has decided that plants are trying to kill you. In this episode of Lila's Herbal Revolution, clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic practitioner Lila takes on the anti-nutrient narrative being pushed by figureheads like Dave Asprey and Paul Saladino, and offers a different read entirely: anti-nutrients are not poisons, they are signals. If you cannot tolerate them, that is information about your terrain, not evidence that the food is your enemy. This is the real clinical picture of what is going on with lectins, oxalates, phytates, and the rest of the compounds being demonized online, and why it matters for your health or your practice. What We Cover ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LINKS AND RESOURCES | |||
| We've Absolutely Bastardized Modern Wheat | 23 Jun 2026 | 00:37:42 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 We've Absolutely Bastardized Modern Wheat The gluten conversation is everywhere, but it's rarely nuanced. In this episode of Lila's Herbal Revolution, clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic practitioner Lila breaks down why all of a sudden nobody seems to be able to handle gluten anymore, and no, people aren't making it up. From the hybridization of modern wheat to weak digestive fire to gluteomorphins binding to opioid receptors in the brain, this is the real clinical picture of what's going on with gluten and why it matters for your health or your practice. What We Cover ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LINKS AND RESOURCES | |||
| The Hierarchy of Herbalism, Myths & Confusions | 17 Jun 2026 | 00:30:39 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 This episode is for anyone who has ever felt lost in the noise of the herbal space, overwhelmed by information, underserved by what's out there, or quietly sensing that there's a gap between what you're learning and what actually works. I'm getting honest about what's broken in herbalism, why book learning and clinical reality can be miles apart, and why I stopped waiting for someone else to fill the void and started building it myself. What We Cover
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| Why Brain Fog, Anxiety, PCOS, and Weight Gain All Trace Back to Blood Sugar | 09 Jun 2026 | 00:56:32 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 If your blood sugar is swinging, your symptoms are singing. Blood sugar imbalances aren't just a diabetic concern, they are one of the most prevalent and overlooked drivers of chronic, complex symptoms in the modern population. If you've been to the specialists, tried everything, and still can't move through your symptoms, this episode is for you. In this episode, Lila breaks down why blood sugar dysregulation is likely behind more of your symptoms than you realize, from poor sleep, anxiety, and brain fog to hormonal imbalances, PCOS, weight gain, ADHD, and POTS. This isn't about cutting sugar. It's about understanding the swing, what drives it, and what your body is actually asking for. Lila shares her own clinical and personal experience with blood sugar dysregulation, including what she discovered using a continuous glucose monitor, why she dials in blood sugar with nearly every client she works with, and the one thing she always addresses first. We also get into the herbal conversation, and the critical distinction between herbs that lower blood sugar and herbs that stabilize it. Because for most people dealing with swings, those are not the same thing. This episode is a resource. Save it, share it, come back to it. What We Cover
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| Mushrooms Changed The Course of My Life | Microdosing Psilocybin | 02 Jun 2026 | 01:00:25 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 In this episode I'm pulling back the curtain on my personal journey with magic mushrooms, the first time I felt truly present, the trip that made me quit my corporate career, and how microdosing became a thread woven through my path to becoming a clinical herbalist. I also get into where I see this medicine fitting in clinical practice. This is a very requested topic I get from clients and listeners.
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*These are the areas where I see the most consistent and meaningful clinical impact. Mushrooms are particularly powerful when stuckness is rooted in trauma or something herbs alone cannot touch, they create conditions where things can shift. A microdose is anywhere from 60-250mg of dried Psilocybe cubensis. It should be subperceptible, meaning no tripping, no hallucinations, walls are not moving. You should be able to drive, work, and go about your day. What you might notice is a shift in mood, slightly sharper perception, or emotions coming closer to the surface. Start low. Work your way up. 125mg is a good starting point for most people.
*Some recommend you run your protocol for 8 weeks on, 2 weeks completely off, sometimes incorporating a macrodose periodically to support deeper integration. Worth knowing about as a framework if you respond well to more structure. Links and Resources | |||
| A Raw and personal look at the Peptides Craze (Reta, GLP-1's & More) | 26 May 2026 | 00:58:03 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 The Peptide Conversation You Won't Find Anywhere Else Peptides are everywhere right now, the GLP-1s, the gray market stacks, the bro science YouTube rabbit holes, and almost nobody is having the honest, whole-body conversation about them. In this episode, Lila brings her clinical lens, her personal experience on Retatrutide, and some real talk about what the mainstream peptide conversation is completely missing: eating disorder risk, muscle and bone loss, the Ayurvedic constitutional angle, and why weight loss and health are not the same thing. What We Cover
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| We Took 30 Grams of Turmeric Every Day for a Week | 19 May 2026 | 00:35:01 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Let's cut the internet noise and have some real conversation about turmeric! Today I'm joined by specialist guest, personal trainer and nutrition coach Nick Medlock to discuss our week of taking 30 grams of turmeric per day! I know plenty of people in the herbal community just fell out of their chairs at a dose like that, but THIS is how I practice and get results with clients. Effective dosing. (Under the guidance of a practitioner of course) p.s. The information provided by Lila's Herbal Revolution is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your health regimen. Now some quick turmeric myths you need to know about:
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| Tea, Tincture, or Decoction: Why Prep Method Changes Everything | 12 May 2026 | 00:41:33 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Herbal Preparations Matter More Than You Think | Teas, Tinctures & More Most herbal advice tells you which herb to take. Almost none of it tells you how to take it. In this episode, Lila breaks down the most common herbal preparations, tinctures, teas, infusions, decoctions, powders, and capsules, covering the real pros, cons, and clinical reasoning behind each one. If you've ever wondered why your herbs aren't working, the answer might not be the herb. It might be the form. What We Cover
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| One Week on Lithium Orotate — with Jordan Dobson | 01 May 2026 | 00:40:17 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 When most people hear "lithium" they think psychiatric drug, black box warning, and blood tests every three months. But lithium orotate is a different compound entirely, one that has been quietly used in natural healing for decades, first researched by German physician Hans Niepierre in the 1970s, and largely dismissed by mainstream psychiatry because the system had already standardized around lithium carbonate. This week on For Science, my partner Jordan and I both took lithium orotate for over a week, titrating up to a moderate dose of around 15mg elemental lithium daily, and reported back on what we noticed. Spoiler: we kept taking it after the experiment ended. What We Cover
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| The Body's Veto — When Liver Congestion Shows Up as Acne, Mood, and Migraines | 24 Apr 2026 | 00:32:08 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 The Spiritual Root of Physical Symptoms, and the Organ That Bridges Both Worlds This episode started as a liver deep-dive and became something more. Lila explores the concept of the body's veto, the idea that our physical body will intervene when we aren't listening to what our life, relationships, work, or environment are asking of us. Anchored in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic frameworks, this episode connects the liver's physiological role (processing over 500 body functions, from hormones to emotions) to the patterns Lila sees in complex clients: stuckness, overwhelm, and symptoms that don't resolve until the deeper layer is addressed. You'll walk away understanding why your liver might be at the root of your skin issues, migraines, hormonal imbalances, road rage, and more, and what to actually do about it. What We Cover
Links and Resources 🪷 Want to find out what it's like to work together? → https://tvnhc.com/start 🌿 Subscribe to Lila's Herbal Revolution → https://tvnhc.com/listen/ 🌐 Website → tvnhc.com 📧 Email → hello@tvnhc.com Coming Up on Lila's Herbal Revolution | |||
| A Month on Alps Nicotine Pouches | 17 Apr 2026 | 00:31:48 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 In this debut episode of the For Science segment, I dedicate my body to science and spend weeks experimenting with nicotine pouches, the wellness world's latest controversial obsession. I share my full personal experience, break down what the research actually says, and give you an honest herbalist's take on whether the cognitive benefits are worth the hidden costs. WHAT WE COVER:
LINKS AND RESOURCES: 🪷 Ready to work 1:1 with Lila? Book a session and get personalized support for your health journey. https://tvnhc.com/start 🌿 Subscribe to Lila's Herbal Revolution. Never miss an episode. https://tvnhc.com/listen/ 🌐 Visit the Website tvnhc.com 📧 Email hello@tvnhc.com COMING UP ON LILA'S HERBAL REVOLUTION:
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| How I Blew Up My Life and Became an Herbalist | 08 Apr 2026 | 00:23:48 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. 🌀Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 Today we cover origins. The origin of this podcast, the origin of how I became a clinical herbalist, the origins of it all.I want you to get to know me better so I can get to know you better. I was anxious as a kid. Moody as a teenager. I crash dieted my way through high school, worked two jobs through college, and spent most of my twenties chasing a life that looked good on paper. By the time I had the title, the property, and the relationship, I was the worst I'd ever been. I'd lost my period. I was purging. I wasn't sleeping. And something inside me just kept saying, this isn't it.So I blew it all up. Left the partner, left the career, and started over.If any of that sounds familiar, if you've been the person who looks like they have it together but knows something is off, or you've tried a hundred things for your health and none of it has really stuck, I get it. I was there.This episode is the full story. How I found herbalism, what it cracked open in me, and how I ended up building a practice around the thing I couldn't find anywhere else: real answers that actually hold up.Lila's Herbal Revolution is a new podcast from clinical herbalist Lila Swanberg. A follow up to her first podcast, Herbalism Uncensored, that she did for over 30 episodes with co-host Alicia Hawes. This podcast is going to get experimental and give you a new look into all the facets you need to know to make natural healing one of the most meaningful endeavors of your life.Welcome to Lila's Herbal Revolution.📍 Interested in exploring your health?✔️ Take the free Pattern Assessment Quiz → https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/829732/158777877666465500/shareLinks and Resources🪷 Work with me → https://tvnhc.com/start🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🌐 Website → tvnhc.com📧 Email → hello@tvnhc.com | |||
| Welcome to The Herbal (R)evolution- Teaser | 05 Apr 2026 | 00:03:02 | |
🌀 Come Join us In the Path to Practitioner Potency Community. After multiple requests for mentorship I launched this program to create a space for herb learning. If you are a practitioner, student, podcast fan, this is the place to go deeper, ask questions, get support, join monthly trainings, Q&A's, Learn new materia medica, Experiment with herbs and more! This community is designed to fill in the gaps I see in the natural healing space. The ones that prevent it from all coming together, making sense and applying it IN PRACTICE. Join here: skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445 🌀 Welcome to Lila's Herbal Revolution This is the teaser episode, a quick intro to what this podcast is, what we're covering, and why I'm making it. We've got a lot in store. Links and Resources | |||