Today we have on the show Dr. Jillian Stansbury, the Medical Director of Battleground Healing Arts located in Battleground Washington. She has served as a professor of botanical medicine and natural products chemistry at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland Oregon for over 30 years, and was granted the prestigious Order of the University Award for her academic achievements in 2019. We discuss the different biochemical compounds taken from plants and put into modern pharmaceutical drugs and that the whole idea is to find that compound which is just right to patent and insert into medicine. There are various herbs that can help with metabolic syndrome and we talk about what those are and how they can help you. We discuss the pros and cons of coffee and tea, coffee’s pros being that it can help you break up fats in the liver, but cons being that it has acids which can negatively affect your stomach, it can make your blood pressure go up, and it's diuretic.

The importance of bioactive compounds in medicine 1:57
50% of all pharmaceutical drugs come from natural products 6:16
The importance of heart health 7:38
Metabolic syndrome 12:55
Herbs that can help metabolic syndrome 17:12
Coffee and Tea for heart and liver health 22:17
Examples of a metabolic regimen diet 24:30

“Once you’ve lost your elasticity, there’s no known cure for that. People have heart transplants and something extreme and heroic like that, but there’s no pharmaceuticals, there’s no known remedies to reverse hardening ‘of the arteries’ or reverse heart disease once it’s full blown.” 15:22