Lila's Herbal Revolution

Lila Swanberg | Clinical Herbalist
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Lila is a clinical herbalist here to make natural healing potent again. And these are the conversations making it happen. Both sides of the fence are failing — and flailing. Conventional medicine has missed the mark, and the alternative health and wellness scene has become a mess of internet health gurus, bloggers regurgitating bad information, wellness marketing machines, and dogmatic opinions. Here we help you find what's been missing in your health journey. The potency needed to move the needle and prove that natural works. Get ready to find the tools, the knowledge, and something about

  1. 47m ago

    For Science: Albizzia (Happiness Bark), Mental Health & More with Moe

    Are you a practitioner looking to deepen your clinical skills and build a thriving practice? Join Path to Practitioner Potency, my mentorship community for herbalists and health practitioners → https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about For Science: Albizzia (Happiness Bark), Mental Health & More with MoeA week-long Albizia bark experiment turns into an honest conversation about grief, crying, and what it takes for men to finally let themselves feel it. This episode I'm joined by Forager Moe, who tried a therapeutic dose of Albizia bark (also called mimosa bark, or the "happiness bark") for a week, right alongside me. What starts as a lighthearted compare-and-contrast on taste, sourcing, and foraging turns into something much deeper. Moe opens up about his ketamine therapy experience, his brother's suicide, and what it's been like relearning how to cry as an adult man. We talk about placebo versus real physiological effect, why Western herbalism lags behind Ayurveda and TCM, and how Albizia's reputation as the "grief herb" showed up differently for each of us. What we cover: Moe's experience foraging and preparing Albizia bark versus flower, and why sourcing and growing conditions matter for medicinal potencyThe placebo effect, the nocebo effect, and where Lila draws her ethical line around it in practiceWhy Western herbalism is the weakest of the three major herbal systems, and how Ayurveda and TCM fill that gapMoe's ketamine therapy journey: dissociation, neuroplasticity, and processing loss he didn't know he was carryingHis brother's death by suicide, and what it's like navigating grief and mental health as a manLearning to cry, unlearning the "men don't do that" conditioning, and why emotional suppression has a costAlbizia's reputation as the happiness bark, and whether that connection to joy and childhood memory holds upLinks and Resources:🪬 pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 work together → https://tvnhc.com/work-with-me/🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class → https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL

  2. 6d ago

    Why Ayurveda Exists — the case for your spiritual brilliance

    Summary This episode is the spiritual case for why Ayurveda matters, not a technical walkthrough. Lila breaks down why this 5,000 year old system gets dismissed by modern science, the real tension between "cleaning the mirror" and "spreading the light," the three gunas that govern your mental state (sattva, rajas, tamas), and the actual Ayurvedic causes of disease, including the concept of prajnaparadha, crimes against wisdom, knowing better and doing it anyway. She also teases the three doshas as a preview for a future deep dive episode. Why Ayurveda and yoga are sister sciences, and how Ayurveda supports the yogic path without requiring anyone to buy into itWhy calling Ayurveda "unscientific" misses the point of what it actually isThe difference between treating a diagnosis and treating a personThe full Charaka Samhita quote on Ayurveda as a lifelong journeyCleaning the mirror vs spreading the light, and the real tension between the twoThe three gunas: sattva, rajas, and tamas, and how to recognize which one is driving youSattvic foods and herbs that support mental clarityThe actual causes of disease in Ayurveda: too little, too much, or the wrong typeCrimes against wisdom (prajnaparadha): knowing better and doing it anywayMisuse of the senses and what happens when you suppress your body's natural urgesWhy Ayurveda prioritizes the middle path over extremesA first look at the three doshas, vata, pitta, and kapha, and the difference between your constitution and your current imbalance Resources 🧠 Path to Practitioner Potency (join the community) → ⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about⁠ 🪬 pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y 🪷 work together → https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date 🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/ 🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class → https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL📺 Ayurveda Vs. Western Medicine TED Talk → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTvEK1sVi0

  3. Jul 8

    From Vomiting Calamus to Dumping My Tinctures: Mistakes I Made Early On

    Want to learn alongside a whole community of practitioners instead of white-knuckling it alone? Join Path to Practitioner Potency, my mentorship community for herbalists who want real depth, not another surface-level course. Details to Join here: https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about _______________________________________________________________ In this episode I'm getting honest about the early missteps that shaped me as a clinical herbalist. From buying ashwagandha and shatavari in the wrong form to choking down half-ground herbs in my kitchen, to dropping fifty bucks on a bougie Sedona shatavari tincture that had barely any herb in it, these are the lessons I wish someone had handed me instead of learning them the hard way. I'm also getting into the times I threw myself out of balance experimenting on my own body, including a cayenne experience that dried me out and a calamus dose that ended in a full night of pitta style vomiting before a public talk. Plus why I stopped making folk method tinctures, why I finally built my clinical reference document, and the moment I realized I couldn't save everybody who wasn't ready to be saved. What We Cover Why herb form and part used matters more than most retailers let onMy ashwagandha and shatavari cut and sifted disasterRaw guggul resin versus processed guggul, and why I ended up burning mine as incenseThe fifty dollar Sedona shatavari tincture that taught me to stop paying for packagingHow cayenne pushed me into a hot dry vata pattern and what that taught me about energeticsMy calamus overdose story and the vomiting that came with itWhy I finally built my own clinical reference document, and why you should start yours todayLearning that not everyone wants to be saved, and letting go of the need to convert peopleBuying herbs I never used and the herbal waste that came with itWhy I stopped making folk method tinctures and who I trust to make them insteadMoving from timid dosing to confident clinical dosingWhy I created Path to Practitioner Potency Links and Resources 🪬 pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 1:1 Work- New Clients Start Here → https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date🌿 Subscribe to the Podcast! → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🧪 Foundations of Care (Self led 30 day program) → https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/SYL59RV6HVE6Q Contact: Hello@Tvnhc.com Coming Up on Lila's Herbal Revolution We've got episodes ahead covering high doses of shilajit and albizia. If there's something you want covered, reach out!

  4. Jun 30

    Stop Blaming the Spinach: A Clinical Herbalist's Take on Anti-Nutrients

    Stop Blaming the Spinach: A Clinical Herbalist's Take on Anti-Nutrients The carnivore and biohacking internet has decided that plants are trying to kill you. In this episode of Lila's Herbal Revolution, clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic practitioner Lila takes on the anti-nutrient narrative being pushed by figureheads like Dave Asprey and Paul Saladino, and offers a different read entirely: anti-nutrients are not poisons, they are signals. If you cannot tolerate them, that is information about your terrain, not evidence that the food is your enemy. This is the real clinical picture of what is going on with lectins, oxalates, phytates, and the rest of the compounds being demonized online, and why it matters for your health or your practice. What We Cover → Why the term "anti-nutrient" is a framing device, not a medical term, and why fiber technically fits the same definition → The figureheads driving the "plants are trying to kill you" narrative, who they are, what they claim, and where it falls apart → Lila's clinical theory: anti-nutrients regulate mineral balance in plants, and may be signaling mineral and gut imbalances in humans → Lectins, oxalates, phytates, goitrogens, phytoestrogens, and tannins, what each one actually does in the body, the benefits, the risks, and how to mitigate them → The breaking research on phytic acid and gut barrier integrity that the carnivore crowd is not talking about → Why oxalate reactivity may be a signal of mineral insufficiency rather than evidence the plant is toxic → Hormesis, the well-established science of why small doses of plant "stressors" build resilience instead of breaking the body down → The nocebo effect and conditioned food hypersensitivities, how fear of food creates real, measurable physiological reactions → Why long-term elimination diets can deepen the very sensitivities they claim to solve → Traditional food preparation as ancestral wisdom, not a biohack, soaking, sprouting, fermenting, and cooking → The Ayurvedic lens, why the same food is medicine for one person and aggravating for another → Why terrain, not the food itself, determines what a person can tolerate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READY TO GO DEEPER? 🪬 Practitioner? This is exactly the kind of clinical nuance we work through inside Path to Practitioner Potency, live trainings, Materia Medicas, case reviews, and a community that holds complexity instead of black-and-white thinking. Join us → https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about 🪷 Health seeker navigating your own complex or chronic symptoms? Let's figure out what your terrain is actually telling you. Book a 1:1 → https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?p=687fe8ff1d74953b01249bcb&step=package 🌿 Don't miss an episode → https://tvnhc.com/listen/ 🧪 Want to understand your own labs instead of guessing? Functional Lab Work Master Class → https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMING UP ON LILA'S HERBAL REVOLUTION Taking A LOT of ShilajitThe Crying Herb& More

  5. Jun 23

    We've Absolutely Bastardized Modern Wheat

    We've Absolutely Bastardized Modern Wheat The gluten conversation is everywhere, but it's rarely nuanced. In this episode of Lila's Herbal Revolution, clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic practitioner Lila breaks down why all of a sudden nobody seems to be able to handle gluten anymore - and no, people aren't making it up. From the hybridization of modern wheat to weak digestive fire to gluteomorphins binding to opioid receptors in the brain, this is the real clinical picture of what's going on with gluten and why it matters for your health or your practice. What We Cover → What gluten actually is and which grains contain it→ Why modern wheat is not the same grain our ancestors ate - hybridization, higher gluten content, and new problematic constituents→ The chemical gauntlet wheat goes through before it reaches your plate - fungicides, growth regulators, fumigation, irradiation→ Why traditional cultures could handle wheat and we can't - fermentation, soaking, stone grinding, and eating it fresh in small amounts→ The Ayurvedic lens - weak agni, ama, and why modern western lifestyle is dimming our digestive fire→ How gluten is supposed to be digested and exactly where it goes wrong→ Zonulin, leaky gut, and how gluten drives gut permeability→ The difference between a food allergy and a food sensitivity - and why sensitivities are more sinister→ Why allergy testing alone will miss most gluten reactivity and why elimination is still the gold standard→ Celiac disease vs non-celiac gluten sensitivity and the spectrum in between→ The inflammatory cascade - local, systemic, and full body downstream effects→ Gluteomorphins - why gluten peptides cross the blood brain barrier and bind to opioid receptors→ The allergic addict phenomenon in children and why picky eating is rarely just picky eating→ Lila's personal clinical approach to gluten elimination and why she doesn't start there with everyone ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LINKS AND RESOURCES 🪬 Path to Practitioner Potency→ https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about 🪷 work together → https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class → https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMING UP ON LILA'S HERBAL REVOLUTION Taking A LOT of Shilajit The Crying Herb & More

  6. Jun 17

    If a Gap Exists, Fill It - Herbal Chaos and the Community I'm Building

    Read to be a Potent Practitioner? The Path to Practitioner Potency is the mentorship community built for herbalists, and natural healing practitioners who want to practice with real clinical confidence. This isn't just more information. This is clinical confidence, community, mentorship, trainings & more. Founding member seats are still open at $33/month, locked in for life. (These will not last much longer) Join now at https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about__________________ This episode is for anyone who has ever felt lost in the noise of the herbal space - overwhelmed by information, underserved by what's out there, or quietly sensing that there's a gap between what you're learning and what actually works. I'm getting honest about what's broken in herbalism, why book learning and clinical reality can be miles apart, and why I stopped waiting for someone else to fill the void and started building it myself. What We Cover The hierarchy of herbalism that used to exist - mom level, grandma level, community herbalist - and why losing it created the chaos we're navigating nowThe difference between community herbalism, hobby herbalism, and clinical practice - and why the lack of delineation is harming peopleHow natural healing has gone soft across almost every modality and what that costs the people who need it mostThe cholesterol guy on LinkedIn - a perfect example of why information without clinical knowledge actively misleads peopleWhy book learning and clinical reality can be miles apart - and the specific book moment that crystallized this for meThe nettle myth - why "diuretic" on a monograph doesn't mean it's your diureticWhy I talked myself out of the content that actually lit me up when I first started - and why I'm done doing thatTincture ratios, loading doses, obscure Ayurvedic formulas - the content I always wanted to makeWhat Path to Practitioner Potency is, who it's for, and why discernment is one of its driving principlesLinks and Resources 🌿 Join Path to Practitioner Potency - founding member seats open at $33/month, locked for life https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about🪬 pattern assessment quiz https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 work together https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date🌿 Subscribe https://tvnhc.com/listen/🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL

  7. Jun 9

    The Sweet Thing That's Always On My Radar: Blood Sugar Balance and Your Symptoms

    ✨ Before we dive in — the Path to Practitioner Potency mentorship community is live✨ Monthly trainings, live Q&As, case reviews, materia medica, community support, and access to one-on-one mentorship with me. Founding member seats are still available with a lifetime discount:https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about Blood sugar imbalances aren't just a diabetic concern, they are one of the most prevalent and overlooked drivers of chronic, complex symptoms in the modern population. If you've been to the specialists, tried everything, and still can't move through your symptoms, this episode is for you. In this episode, Lila breaks down why blood sugar dysregulation is likely behind more of your symptoms than you realize — from poor sleep, anxiety, and brain fog to hormonal imbalances, PCOS, weight gain, ADHD, and POTS. This isn't about cutting sugar. It's about understanding the swing, what drives it, and what your body is actually asking for. Lila shares her own clinical and personal experience with blood sugar dysregulation, including what she discovered using a continuous glucose monitor, why she dials in blood sugar with nearly every client she works with, and the one thing she always addresses first. We also get into the herbal conversation — and the critical distinction between herbs that lower blood sugar and herbs that stabilize it. Because for most people dealing with swings, those are not the same thing. This episode is a resource. Save it, share it, come back to it. What We Cover Why blood sugar imbalances affect everyone — not just diabeticsThe full symptom list and why each one connects back to blood sugarThe swing — what it is, why it matters, and what drives itThe liver as your built-in blood sugar bufferHow blood sugar dysregulation drives hormonal imbalance, estrogen dominance, and PCOSThe dawn phenomenon and why mornings are so hardThe Allergic/Addictive pattern — Dr. William PhilpottWhat Lila dials in first with clients and why breakfast is everythingFat, fiber, and protein — the foundationStabilizing vs. lowering blood sugar — the herbal distinction nobody is makingHerbs for blood sugar stabilization including licorice, ashwagandha, tulsi, schisandra, astragalus, amlaki, cinnamon, and moreLinks and Resources 🪬 pattern assessment quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 work together → https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date🌿 Subscribe → https://tvnhc.com/listen/🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class → https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL

  8. Jun 2

    Mushrooms Changed The Course of My Life | Microdosing Psilocybin

    ✨ Before we dive in - the Path to Practitioner Potency mentorship community is live. Monthly trainings, live Q&As, case reviews, community support, and access to one-on-one mentorship with me. Founding member seats are still available with a lifetime discount: https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about In this episode I'm pulling back the curtain on my personal journey with magic mushrooms - the first time I felt truly present, the trip that made me quit my corporate career, and how microdosing became a thread woven through my path to becoming a clinical herbalist. I also get into where I see this medicine fitting in clinical practice. This is a very requested topics I get from clients and listeners. Why I think the institutionalization of plant medicine is a problem worth paying attention toMy personal history with mushrooms - presence, grief, quitting my career, and what actually changedThe ski slope metaphor for neuroplasticity - what mushrooms actually do in the brainWhere I see psilocybin fitting clinicallyWhy anxiety is a sister emotion to excitement and what that means for microdosingEvery major microdosing protocol broken downMy mom microdosing her microdosesWhen to put the mushrooms downDepression*Anxiety*Getting unstuck*Emotional processing*OCDMigraines and headachesAddiction - alcohol, tobacco, opioidsNeurodegeneration and dementiaLife-threatening illness and end-of-life anxiety*These are the areas where I see the most consistent and meaningful clinical impact. Mushrooms are particularly powerful when stuckness is rooted in trauma or something herbs alone cannot touch - they create conditions where things can shift. A microdose is anywhere from 60-250mg of dried Psilocybe cubensis. It should be subperceptible - meaning no tripping, no hallucinations, walls are not moving. You should be able to drive, work, and go about your day. What you might notice is a shift in mood, slightly sharper perception, or emotions coming closer to the surface. Start low. Work your way up. 125mg is a good starting point for most people. 1. Intuitive Protocol Dose as needed, as calledNo fixed schedule - tune in and ask if it's a yes or a noBest for: people who are already reasonably body-aware and self-directedThis is my personal approach2. Daily Protocol Dose every day like an herb - on until you don't need it anymore, then doneNo days off, no fixed end dateBest for: people dealing with something acute, those coming off SSRIs, anyone who needs consistent support while making a significant shift3. The Fadiman Protocol Dose every third dayBest for: beginners, people who want a conservative approach, those wanting more integration time between dosesExample: dose Monday, off Tuesday and Wednesday, dose Thursday4. The Stamets Protocol 5 days on, 2 days offBest for: people wanting more consistent support with built-in integration days*Some recommend you run your protocol for 8 weeks on, 2 weeks completely off, sometimes incorporating a macrodose periodically to support deeper integration. Worth knowing about as a framework if you respond well to more structure. _______________________________________________________________ 🪬 Take the pattern assessment quiz: https://tally.so/r/n05N1y 🪷 Work with Lila: https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date 🌿 Subscribe to Lila's Herbal Revolution: https://tvnhc.com/listen/ 🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL 🌀 Coming Up on Lila's Herbal Revolution 🌀 Blood Sugar Deep Dive A conversation with an herbal convert Experiments with special guests and even more special herbs like Shilajit, Albizzia (happiness bark), Ginseng & some Complex Ayurvedic Formulas!

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Lila is a clinical herbalist here to make natural healing potent again. And these are the conversations making it happen. Both sides of the fence are failing — and flailing. Conventional medicine has missed the mark, and the alternative health and wellness scene has become a mess of internet health gurus, bloggers regurgitating bad information, wellness marketing machines, and dogmatic opinions. Here we help you find what's been missing in your health journey. The potency needed to move the needle and prove that natural works. Get ready to find the tools, the knowledge, and something about

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  • Creator
    Lila Swanberg | Clinical Herbalist
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Lila Swanberg | Clinical Herbalist
  • Show Website
    Lila's Herbal Revolution

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