The Healthy Herb Podcast

Brighid discusses the humble beet as a super food for menopausal women. This common food has many benefits. It improves cardiovascular, brain, hormone, digestive, joint and libido health. Discover them anyways that beets can make you healthier and fun ways to prepare it!

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Now that we have covered what foods are best to eat for menopausal women, we need to know what the best ways to prepare them are. Are raw vegetables better than cooked vegetables? How do we get the most nutrition and easiest assimilation of foods? Brighid discusses 5 ways to best prepare food.  She also reads an excerpt from the book Botanical Medicine for Women's Health by Aviva Romm.  Brighid offers her favorite beet salad recipe and why it an important vegetable for menopausal women to eat.

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Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Do you already eat these foods?  How can you get more of them into your diet?  Why are they important for building health as we age?  Plus Brighid shares about gifts of menopausal emotional swings and a lemon tahini dressing recipe.

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What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find out! It's simple and delicious. Plus a bonus recipe at the end of the episode for an easy weeknight vegetable dish.

Brighid starts the episode with an excerpt from Susun Weed's book The New Menopausal Years:  The Wise Woman Way.  She then speaks about where her personal perspectives on healthy eating derive from, what she considers the healthiest diet, tips and tricks to get there and a recipe for Sweet Potato Brown Rice Fritters.

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Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopausal years. In this episode, Brighid delves into how menopause and perimenopause are defined, for better or worse.  She talks about the history of the definitions and the surprisingly recent look at the stages of menopause by the medical community.

Enjoy this offering of information and inspiration for women who want to move through menopause with health, vitality and personal power.

Send an email to [email protected] with questions, stories or resources that you want Brighid to share with this growing community.

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Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, and elecampane, plus excerpts from Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger are read.

Botanical Anthology Autumn

HerbRally Nourishing Infusions course

Herbs with full podcast episodes:

rose, hawthorn, sage, rosemary, mugwort, elecampane

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Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine.

Learn more about coffee with The Plant Wonder Collective on their instagram and on their patreon Study Circle.

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Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an herb garden for skin care, sip a cordial.

Botanical Anthology Spring Edition 2024

Botanical Anthology print version

Solidago Herb School

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Hawthorn is classically known as an herb to strengthen and improve heart function, but there is so much more this beautiful shrub has to offer us. An herb steeped in folklore of love and protection, hawthorn has benefits to our nervous system, connective tissue, digestion, and more! Learn how to prepare this plant to make easy home remedies that build health throughout the body.

Hawthorn is the herb of the month this February for the Plant Wonder Collective.  Learn more about what the Plant Wonder Collective offers to help you discover more about Hawthorn and other herbs on their instagram, at their study circle on Patreon, and their website where you can find Botanical Anthology.

You can reach out to Brighid Doherty on her instagram, website, Facebook, or email [email protected].

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The taste of herbs tells us a lot about the actions of the plant. Brighid Doherty and Meghan Rhodes talk about this and other interesting topics about herbalism.

Meghan Rhodes is a qualified herbalist who has helped over 80 people start living herbalism, making healthier, safer solutions for themselves and their families a reality. As the founder of Rhodes Roots & Remedies, she has written 10 course books, authored the books Easy Herbal Remedies for Infants and Slow-Infused Self-Care, as well as developed a unique four season sense-based herbalism course and journey, Awaken Herbal Wisdom.

Meghan’s practice of herbalism is rooted in the belief that we must remember, reclaim and relearn our knowledge of our bodies, our autonomy and how to work with plant medicine in order to bring control of our own health back into our families and homes for a sustainable future for ourselves and the planet.

Meghan is a member of both the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy and the Ayurvedic Professionals Association.

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