8/11 RECORDING | Supplements for longevity, sleeping through the night, making your own medicine and more
Show notes & recording herein
SHOW NOTES
This week’s topics included:
Supplements for longevity, and what I recommend as a foundational protocol
Mucuna pruriens (aka “dopamine bean”) dosing
Herbs, supplements and other suggestions for support sleeping through the night
“Medicine making” — creating your own tinctures, gummies, and otherwise. Plus how to find and read herbal information for extracting the right active compounds in the right base.
Bonus Q&A
References:
SPMs: Metagenics & Big Bold Health (code RACHELLE15)
Four Sigmatic Focus (code SUPERNATURAL for 15% off)
Form Nutrition: Zzz’s and protein
The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide, Thomas Easley, RH (AHG) & Steven Horne, RH (AHG)
American Herbalist’s Guild Member Books (American Herbal Pharmacopoeia Monographs, Roy Upton, RH, DipAyu)
Leave questions for next week’s session in our Open Thread, here.
Timestamps:
2:33 herbs and supplements for general health, longevity, and long-term use
5:17 Overall recommendation: Support any compromised systems
7:06 Quercetin
715 SPMs
8:08 NAC / NAD
8:41 Berberine
14:21 Herbal recommendations for longevity
16:10 Resveratrol
17:06: recap
17:27 Calorie restriction
20:43 Mucuna prurien
24:05 dosage guidelines for mucuna prurien
26:30 Waking up in the middle of the night
28:04 disrupted blood sugar
30:15 Bedroom cold & dark
31:29 herbs and sups for sleep
37:19 Choosing monographs and finding the right method of processing herbs
38:28 Finding an herbal monograph
42:29 How can I make my own TCH products
50:18 How do you use kratom
Video Recording
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