Medicine Stories

Understanding & Recovering From Life-Changing Burnout - Clara Belize Wisner

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Energy loss happens gradually and then suddenly, creating confusion and the fear that you might never recover. My guest and I have both spent time in ...

What Real Life Nourishment Looks Like - Ashley Wulkan

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After our recent episode together- The Epidemic of Women Undernourishing- Ashley and I received a flood of questions, so we decided to speak again and...

The Energy To Heal: Why Metabolism Matters Most - Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How well is your body turning food into fuel? At its core, every function in the body depends on cellular energy- your ability to convert carbohydrate...

Beyond "HRT or Not?": Supporting the Bodies of Future Wise & Well Grandmothers - Jane Hardwicke Collings

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Perimenopause & menopause are often framed as a problem to fix- and the conversation quickly collapses into a single question: HRT or not? But women's...

The Epidemic of Women Undernourishing - Ashley Wulkan

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Many (if not most) women today are- often unintentionally and without realizing it- undernourishing to the point that our basic biological needs are n...

The Liver Flush Trade-Off (Is It Right For You?) - Sena Maria & Dr. Suuzi Hazen

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Thousands of people report major improvements in their health after doing the liver/gall bladder flush, but can it be harmful? The answer is- it depe...

The Peak Is Not the Path: The Physiology of Lasting Healing - Sena Shellenberger

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Healing is often framed through the lens of heroic breakthroughs, peak experiences, and emotional catharsis, but this episode centers a steadier path....

Modern Midlife Hits Different (Especially for Mothers) - Jessie Harrold

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Midlife is a powerful threshold, one that is often misunderstood or endured in shame and solitude. In this episode, we explore the in-between terrain ...

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26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Felt cute, will definitely delete later. New Mythic Medicine website!- use coupon code MMBF20 for 20% off everything until 12/3 Healing Waters: Nature...

First Blood & Lost Rites of Passage - Kami McBride

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Menarche- a girl's first period- shapes how we experience womanhood for the rest of our lives, and the lack of initiation most of us experience is its...

TCM's 7yr Timeline of Women's Life Transitions - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you notice metabolic changes around age 35 and/or 42? Does perimenopause even exist? Is there an ideal childbearing window? Why are humans one of ...

Reshaped by Parenthood: Families, Fathers, and the First Year - Rachelle Seliga

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Birth opens the door, but what comes after walks you through it. Many new parents find themselves moving through the first year feeling lonely, confus...

Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: A Mother's Story of Love and Loss - Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021 Tara and her family got the knock on their door that every parent fears most. In the days that followed they discovered eighteen-year-old Mila...

Women Making Medicine for Healing & Connection - Kami McBride

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My most beloved herbal elder and I talk about our favorite subject- women throughout time using plants for self care, family healing, and community co...

Nourishment Lost: in Culty Spaces, Self Induced, & Culturewide - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga-...

German New Medicine: A Lot of Magical Thinking & A Little Bit Culty Too - Demetra Gray

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GNM is an alt health trend that has grown in popularity in recent years. It is attractive to so many (including me and my guest, once) because it ackn...

Elemental Inheritance: Minerals & Metals in Modern Life - Niecia Nelson

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What metabolic patterns did you inherit from your parents, and what may you have passed down to your own children? Many behavioral issues, and even wh...

Fertility is a State of Being: Metabolic Wellness Through a Woman's Lifespan - Niecia Nelson

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fertility is not just the ability to conceive, but is an indicator of overall health and the capacity to nurture life; it is how we extend genetic str...

Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese Medicine holds that women's bodies are 10x harder to heal than men's, as our reproductive system is biologically much more precious and metabo...

Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The times are unprecedented and there is no template for the future. We all feel this, and we feel the overwhelm of information, influence, and opinio...

The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing exemplifies the magic of nature more than honeybees. They are insects yet their colonies are akin to a mammalian being, they produce numerous ...

Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I'm still alive." To be in relationship with those who've gone before us is a deeply human way ...

Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It is estimated that half of all Americans have chronic health issues, and yet these conditions are new to the human species. What has happened? And h...

Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Healing is communal. Settle in softly for this wide-ranging conversation with my most requested guest. Sophie and I talk chronic illness and trauma, d...

Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The sun rules the rhythms and the well-being of all life on Earth, and humans are no exception to this rule. With the very recent (evolutionarily spea...

Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Suuzi has been one of my best friends for 15 years, and our lives have taken parallel tracks recently- deeply interested in health & natural living fo...

The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We can't talk about fascia, the connective tissue that touches every single cell in the body, without talking about water, memory, and the quantum inf...

Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth - Aimee Aroha

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our modern disconnection from land and lineage mirrors the culturally normal- but biologically abnormal- separation between mother and baby, parents a...

Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How we eat (not just *what* we eat) is how we receive life, and our state of nourishment determines everything from our fertility to how we perceive t...

Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kids today face more challenges- and are showing more signs of distress- than ever before. Parents must learn to effectively co-regulate, repair when ...

Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The plants have so much more to teach us than what has been written down by others; there is another level of wisdom that can only be accessed by dire...

Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Earth-centered cultures have always held that each person is born into this world with their own unique gifts and strengths, but this knowing has been...

The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We were made from our mothers, who were made from the earth, which is made of stardust, which is made of minerals. A well mineralized body heals itsel...

Cervix is Self: Reconnecting to Your Inner Oracle & Record Keeper - Denell Barbara Randall (Cervical Wellness)

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The women's embodiment movement tends to stop at the womb, but cervix lies even deeper and contains an abundance of information about where we've been...

The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory (w/ special guest Kami McBride!)

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sacred to the goddesses of old, known to all ancestors who occupied the Northern Hemisphere, and beloved by wise folk and herbal healers from the Ice ...

Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The cell is the foundation of life, and biological science is clear on what our cells need to most efficiently generate the energy that runs our bodie...

Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Psychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant a...

Embodied Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'Donoghue

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please listen to Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled first. Our ancestors were in constant biochemical conversation with the world, and so are we...

Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Canceled

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Let us step out of the mass psychosis of cancel culture and remember compassion, tolerance for differing viewpoints, and recognition of the deeply com...

Coming Home to the Mushroom Elders - Amanita Dreamer

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Amanita muscaria says "Hey bitch, what's up?", you listen. Also known as the fly agaric, this most culturally significant fungi of all time has b...

What I'd Be Without You: My Mother's Life, Death, & Legacy of Love

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this meandering medicine story, I share about my mama's unexpected death in 2015, the unbelievable coincidence of losing my father-in-law the same ...

We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In thi...

Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Calvario

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Herbalism is an outlet for creative expression, a tool for community care, and a pathway to our own inner knowing. Let us revel in the freedom we have...

Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John's Wort

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

St. John's Wort has evolved over millennia to capture the ultimate expression of sunlight on our planet and turn it into the molecule hypericin, which...

Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In these times, we all need all the healing help we can get. How lucky then that an infinite source of renewal and vitality lies just beneath our feet...

Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For most of human history, herbalism hasn't had a name. It was just a way of life, part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ance...

Nature's Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rachelle Garcia Seliga

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do we support thriving life on earth through the pathway of maternal health? Our physiologic design is the inarguable truth, but in today's confus...

Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing - Akilah S. Richards

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If the phrase "school wounds" stirs something inside of you, or the words "crisis schooling" describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, o...

Mythopoetic Womb Release - Samantha Zipporah

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Your ancestors are with you every time the portal of the womb opens; our blood connects us to our lineage, to the mythic archetypes that hold me...

Holistic Abortion Options

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From time immemorial, women and wise folk have carried the knowledge of how to manage fertility. From menstruation to contraception to birth to miscar...

Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper - Isabel Friend

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium." -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel prize winner We return to the endlessly fascinating and enormousl...

Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health - Dr. Carly Nuday

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We've all heard that we're about 70% water by weight, but we are almost 100% water by molecular count. Water is the most abundant *and* the most myste...

I Forgive You: A Story of Loss and Transformative Healing - Amy Mea Woodruff

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"If I could give my life for hers, I would" -Cheree's murderer, expressing remorse at his sentencing. I first interviewed Mea on Episode 6, when she t...

Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft with Yourself - Rupam Henry

10 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The health of the mouth reflects and predicts the health of the rest of the body (and our emotional, spiritual, and ancestral wellbeing too). Everythi...

Cultivating Resilience with Home Herbalism - Kami McBride

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Relearning ancestral skills is the best antidote to the fear and chaos of these times. Let's recreate a culture of simple home healing and feed the ri...

Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human - Nadine Artemis

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In a brilliant act of human photosynthesis, our cells evolved over millennia to receive and transform information from the source of all life on earth...

Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us - Rosalee de la Foret

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It is our ancestral inheritance to know and work with the plants growing around us. Tending to, nurturing, and gleaning nourishment and medicine from ...

When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana Young

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Slowness Medicine is being experienced by the collective consciousness on an unprecedented scale, we can more clearly than ever see that the frenet...

Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Modern medicine now recognizes the menstrual cycle as the fifth vital sign. By simply paying attention to what our periods are telling us, we greatly ...

Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, & Human Ecology - Sajah Popham

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

These times call for potent healers. If you're feeling the call of the plants, this episode is for you. IN THE INTRO: There is no right way to be an ...

Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One - Rachelle Garcia Seliga

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We cannot talk about collective health, planetary health, or the health of future generations, without talking about the health of mothers. As Rachell...

The Boundaries of the Unthinkable are Wavering - Charles Eisenstein

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The old stories that have guided our recent ancestors are falling apart, and we live in a time of great upheaval and division as we grope for a new gu...

Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, & Remembrance - Judith Berger

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

My favorite herb book has been out of print for decades, but is now available again! In celebration, I had the extreme honor of interviewing the autho...

Poisonous Plant Spirit Medicine - Kathryn Solie

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Poisonous plants have long been misunderstood and even forbidden, yet they hold a special medicinal power. Let's do as our ancestors did and carefully...

Real Talk on Marriage, Plants, Kids, Business - My Husband, Owen Lindsay

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Owen never thought he'd be a dad, neither of us planned on getting married, and we had no idea that our love for plants would play such a big role in ...

Highly Sensitive People are the Psychedelic Plants of the Human Realm - Lola Pickett

09 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Empaths are trending right now; let's dig beneath the surface into what it really means to be empathic and/or to have a highly sensitive nervous syste...

Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination - Sharon Blackie

26 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Myth is the power of place speaking, and the story threads that made meaning and held guidance for our ancestors can be found anew and re-woven for ou...

Healing Herbal Oils: How To Make and Use Them - Kami McBride

05 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Every woman throughout time has taken some kind of plant and some kind of fat, put them together and used it as medicine. Herbal body oils are the One...

Decolonizing the Mind: You Belong to Your Ancestors - Tamira Cousett

22 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Embodying the blessing of being a child of diverse lineages, being rooted first in our ancestral stories and second in our cultural narratives, embrac...

Maternal Mammalian Ecstasy: The Ancient Hormonal Blueprint for Optimal Birth and Bonding - Sarah Buckley

08 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Through untold eons mammals have evolved a beautiful birth-giving physiology based around a complex cascade of hormones that are released during labor...

Kneeling to the Earth: Herbalism is Remembering - Rosemary Gladstar

24 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Soft power, honoring our elders, and banishing imposter syndrome by remembering that we're in service to the earth. IN THE INTRO: Honoring the lineag...

Grieving the Spirits of the Land & Bringing Healing to the Ancestors - Mariee Siou

08 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mariee Siou's music is medicine for the living and medicine for the dead, a direct portal both to and from the ancestors and the land spirits. In this...

Rose Medicine: Softness & Strength From the Queen of the Flowers

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Humans have been joyfully engaging with rose medicine throughout the ages. This luxurious herb works on so many different parts of the body and spirit...

Sex, Trauma, Magic, & the Ancestors - Pavini Moray

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Remembering that our ancestors can guide us because they've done this all before, relating ancestral healing & communion to our sexually traumatizing ...

The Deepest Magic: To Know Yourself, Know Your Ancestors

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You come from a long line of healers, midwives, songstresses, herbalists, dancers, birth-givers, artists, and wise folk.  You are a direct descenden...

Animism: Coming into Kinship with All Life - Daniel Foor

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are in relationship with plants, animals, fungi, mountains, metals, fire, bodies of water, spirits of wind and weather, deities, human ancestors, s...

A Plant Spirit Healing Story

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a vulnerable and very personal story of how a plant friend recently stepped in to create a bridge of communication between me and my mother, w...

You Are Your Own Healer: Earth Intuition & Self Knowledge - Asia Suler

03 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Asia Suler talks about how being in relationship with the aliveness of the earth brings us deeper into ourselves, healing within the complexities of c...

The Dreaming Channel & Remembering Ourselves Home - Toko-pa Turner

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are entitled to a (re)membership with the holy, the never-ending and ever-evolving wisdom of dreams, and guidance on the path of remembering oursel...

Ancient Medicine & the Love of the Ancestors - Atava Garcia Swiecicki

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We each carry our own unique ancestral medicine, and can (and should!) spend a lifetime uncovering it. A teacher of herbal, folk, and indigenous medic...

Kitchen Herbalism: The Body Remembers - Kami McBride

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Herbalist Kami McBride is back to dive even deeper into the uses of plant medicine for long term vitality and well being. This time we focus on home &...

Healing Our Indigenous European Ancestors - Lyla June

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Our task as European-ancestored people, seeing what's been hidden beyond our short-sighted view of history, and why healing isn't possible in the abse...

Ancestral Legacies, Lost Cultures, & Personal Mythmaking - Janelle Hardy

22 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The stories that call to us, the ancestors who live in us, the cultures that are lost to us, and so much more... IN THE INTRO: Self care and energy h...

Magic Makes Us Human & Plants Keep Us Rooted- Rebecca Altman

14 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How strategic inefficiency can make us more efficient, knowing your personality type, and being deeply rooted in place. IN THE INTRO: What time can d...

Giving Life to Songs & Babies - Alela Diane

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Most artists, and working women, keep their parenthood separate from their work and creativity. Alela Diane is bucking that (unnatural/inauthentic) tr...

Womb Wisdom, Addiction, & the Way of the Wounded Healer - Anja Robinson

03 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IN THE INTRO: Evolutionary health, symptoms as adaptations, why there's no such thing as the optimal diet, and why we didn't necessarily evolve to be...

Root Cause Medicine & Breasts as an Intuitive Center - Anja Robinson

23 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the Intro: Living among the California wildfires $200 herbal medicine giveaway! The beautiful complexity of the female body In the Interview: Th...

Word Witchery, the Ancestors, & Tarot - Sanyu Estelle

30 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Why to always work with the ancestors first, diving deep into the meaning of the words we use, and more... In the Intro: A word about this podcast No...

Otherworld Openings: When the Ancestors Call

08 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In which I ramble about some of my ancestral resonances, the blocks I've had around exploring parts of my heritage, and what happens when we step thro...

Seaweed: Deep Medicine for Earth, Ocean, & Humans - Angela Willard

24 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The potent healing offered by seaweeds and mushrooms, the vibrational power of names, and the unique intelligence that lies beneath the surface of thi...

Anti-Racist Genealogical Research (for Everyone) - Darla Antoine

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

People of color have limited genealogical resources with which to find their ancestors, while people of European descent's ancestors gave up their eth...

Ancestral Reverence as Devotion to the Earth - Daniel Foor

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Your body is your ancestor altar, how hungry ghosts affect the living, the earth as the repository of ancestral wisdom, & more... In the Intro: Cleat...

Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll

27 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Herbalism is vast, the second song of a plant, a powerful stone medicine story, and more... Maia Toll spent a life-changing year apprenticed to a trad...

Plant Spirits & Deep Remembering that Speaks to the Bones - Fay Johnstone

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Practitioner, Herbalist and Reiki Master with a passion for helping people and plants grow together. She believes that re...

The Profound Medicine of Healing Herbal Oils

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The simplest and most potent form of herbal medicine that I know, so easy to make yourself at home, so powerful and immediately relaxing... Herbal ...

You Are Magic & Fear is Never the Truth - Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

 In the Intro: Books to live by Mitochondrial meanderings The deep ancestry of all humans In the interview: The sound of the thing you are called ...

The Medicine We Carry - Lola Venado

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the Intro: I share an ancestral story  How I define spirituality The food your bones are made from Herbal body oils & elderberry elixir In the I...

Herbalism, Menstruation, & Innate Knowing - Kami McBride

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the Intro: My number one herb book My healing pilgrimage to the skull of a blue whale I say somthing that's hard to say Edible & Medicinal Flowers...

Reclaiming Kitchen Wisdom & Ancestral Healing - Darla Antoine

23 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Calling in the grandmothers! The more dependent we are on the industrialized food system- and the more entranced we are by diet culture- the further r...

Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating - Suuzi Hazen

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our denatured modern culture doesn't work for our Paleolithic human bodies, as the epidemics of autoimmune issues, degenerative disease, and so many o...