A Plant A Day

Complexity science is quietly changing the way we think about nutrition, health, and medicine, and botanicals are right at the […]

Cistanche tubulosa, also called Desert Ginseng, is a holoparasitic desert herb with thick, succulent, flowering spikes bearing dense yellow to

Butea superba is a robust, perennial Southeast Asian climbing shrub from the Fabaceae family, with stout, twisted stems, tuberous roots,

Botanists described a stunning new species, recently, Barleria thunbergiiflora, uncovered during a National Geographic expedition to the highland grasslands of

All month we’ve been talking about the “sexy” hormones (testosterone, estrogen & progesterone) because that’s what Valentine’s Day hype is

Vitex (aka. Chaste tree, Chasteberry; Vitex agnus-castus) is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the Mediterranean region and

Continuing with my Hormones theme for this month, let’s focus in on how we think about menopause care and HRT.

Native to Indochina and the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma longifolia) is an adaptogen that has been

Often called “Peruvian Ginseng”, Maca (Lepidium meyenii, syn. L. peruvianum) is a herbaceous biennial in the Brassicaceae family (the same

We’re staying ‘hot and heavy with hormones’ this month, and today it’s the men’s turn. ➡️ Testosterone is having a