9/15 RECORDING | personal show & tell, SSRIs & psychobiotics, pregnancy safe herbs, IBD, cannabis complementary herbs and much more

Show notes & recording herein.

SHOW NOTES

This week’s topics included:

• Some personal notes about my meditation study, plus books and apps I’m immersed in right now

• Pregnancy-safe herbs

• The serotonin theory of depression and the meaning of the latest meta-analysis stating that serotonin doesn’t cause depression

• Psychobiotics

• IBD

• Seasonal allergy treatments

• Herbs complimentary to cannabis

• Red light therapy (and some other skin tips that I’m personally into)

Timestamps:

• 3:49 The Waking-up app

• 6:15 Books I’ve been loving lately

• 10:37 Herbs for pregnancy and nursing 

• 13:28 Take on low serotonin levels and depression link 

• 23:41 Psychobiotics 

• 28:30 Herbs for IBD

• 37:40 Herbs for seasonal allergies 

• 42:50 Herbs to compliment cannabis

• 43:44 Herbs to compliment: lavender

• 45:10 Herbs to compliment: Bback pepper & rosemary 

• 46:03 Herbs to compliment: echinacea and action on the endocannabinoid system  

• 45:43 Herbs to compliment: black cohosh 

• 48:11 Red light therapy for skin

References:

• Scott Tusa | Buddhism & Meditation Mentoring

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

• The World of Tibetan Buddhism, The Dalai Lama

• Transcend, The New Science of Self Actualization, Scott Barry Kaufman

• Waking Up app — a new operating system for your mind. (One free month.)

• Herbs in Pregnancy: What’s Safe, What’s Not?

• The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence

• Depression May Not Be Linked to Low Serotonin, New Analysis Finds

• Endorphin supplement in the Supplements I’m Testing protocol

• Supplement. Endorphin.

• Understanding & Conquering Depression, Huberman Lab

• Psychobiotics: Mechanisms of Action, Evaluation Methods and Effectiveness in Applications with Food Products

• The future of psychobiotics

• Functional mushroom blend (of 10! I love this one)

• Supernatural Gut Health Class

• My supplement selects for gut health

• Podcast: CBD in Wellness & Herbal Allies to Cannabis, with Maria & Jane (2019)

• HTSI’s new beauty columnist and facialist Adeela Crown nominates her anti-ageing all stars (trigger warning: these aren’t herbal)

• Higher Dose Red Light Face Mask

• Solawave SolaWave Wand

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