IN THE INTRO:
- Evolutionary health, symptoms as adaptations, why there's no such thing as the optimal diet, and why we didn't necessarily evolve to be healthy
- One of our last remaining collective/ancestral rituals
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- Why to start herbally & nutritionally preparing for your period at ovulation
- Understanding nutritional needs throughout the menstrual cycle
- Tracking your period
- Coffee & chocolate for the cycling woman- good or bad?
- Iron, blood, oxygen, and women
- How Anja overcame six years of alcohol and drug abuse and built a healthy, healing life
- We share our stories of growing up with an alcoholic parent, and of our mothers' deaths, and what it feels like when you get that phone call we all dread
- A super important but always overlooked perspective on nutrient deficiency in addicts and the role of nutrition in recovery
- It's never too late to change your path
- When Anja found out about her German great-grandmother being the town mystic and Tarot reader, and how this ancestor's sensitivity has echoed down through the motherline
- Food, drink, and herbs for winter nourishment
- Carminitives: a simple, delicious, and healing class of herbal medicine that you already have in your kitchen
LINKS:
BOOKS-
*The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman
*Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
*Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christianne Northrup
*Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain
*The Alphabet Vs the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
*It's OK That You're Not OK by Megan Devine (and her website Refuge In Grief)
*Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner
PODCASTS-
*LifeSpa with John Douillard
*Dr. Gabor Mate on Russell Brand's Under the Skin podcast
Past Medicine Stories episodes mentioned-
*w/ Stephen Harrod Buhner (sensory gating channels)
*w/ Suuzi Hazen (iron, liver, evolution)
*w/ Kami McBride (herbalism, oils, menstrual wellness)
MISCELLANEOUS-
*My video An Herbalist's Perspective on Cold & Flu
*Period Tracker apps
*Dr. Zach Bush
