The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Rhodiola

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, y'all, welcome to this week's show. Today, we're going to talk about a really interesting herb. It's an adaptogen. It's one that, I will not say in any way, is it new to Western medicine, but I think it's adaptogenic qualities have really just been, I don't know, popularized in the past 10 or 20 years. Okay, so what's an adaptogen? We've talked about adaptogens before.

Starting point is 00:00:30 You're talking ginseng, Aurelias, various herbs like that, right? Usually rather expensive. Gyna stema is actually my favorite. It's probably the least expensive and most effective of all the adaptogens. I mean, for regular use,

Starting point is 00:00:50 rodeola and does have its specific properties. But gyneastema tea, you can get like, I don't know, five or ten bucks for like a six months worth supply. I mean, it's really inexpensive. Ashwaganda is also an adaptogen that's fairly inexpensive. Oh, go to cola. Yeah, different ones. But when you think of ginseng, I mean, where I live in the mountains in North Carolina,

Starting point is 00:01:15 people have their ginseng patches, and they go out and they harvest that, and that's part of their annual income. You know, in a couple of weeks out there harvesting, maybe a month, they can make $10,000 or $20,000, and they'll shoot you if you go on their patch. You have to be very, very careful. When we get to rodeola, various varieties of it can be quite expensive, and others are fairly common, and there's not really been enough research to kind of sort them all out.

Starting point is 00:01:50 I'll put it that way. It's the same with like the Smilex family. Smilex is your common greenbriar. Also, Smilex, one member of the family is Sasparilla. One of the most powerful adaptogens here is. Some are stronger than others, obviously. But most have not really been research to find out their utility. An adaptogen is an herb that essentially helps manage stress within the glandular system.

Starting point is 00:02:24 That's one way of looking at it. at it. It has certain effects on brain function, it has certain effects on muscle, recovery, and then on environmental or psychological stress. When it comes to, say, ginseng, of course, the most popular of all adaptogens, it was really popularized in the 80s and 90s, mainly most based on Soviet and Chinese research. It had always been known to be a very valuable herb. early America, everybody was trying to find ginseng and grow ginseng and export ginseng. I mean, the entire way that trade was actually open to China. China did not want to have anything to do with the United States, neither to Japan for that matter.

Starting point is 00:03:14 And basically, our Navy took a ship full of ginseng right up into the harbor and a couple of gunships and said, we have more ginseng in this ship than your entire country will produce in a year, and you're either going to trade with us, or we're going to open fire. A, did that in Pershing, you know, Pershing's big black ships. They basically did that in China and in Japan, and not surprisingly, in far less than 100 years, Japan then came and attacked us. They did not appreciate that. And frankly, I don't blame them.

Starting point is 00:03:50 No, I definitely blame them for Pearl Harbor, but, why the hell did they have to trade with us? I mean, they didn't want anything to do with us. And if we'd just left them alone, we'd have been okay and they'd have been okay. Don't ask me. I don't get that part of history. But apparently because England had so much trade with China and India, we felt like we had to have so much trade with China and India.

Starting point is 00:04:14 And frankly, if we'd just minded our own business, we probably would never have had World War II in the first place. I mean, most historians, will admit that had America not gotten involved in World War I, Germany would have won, and England would have lost, and big freaking deal. I don't care about England. I never have cared about England. We fought two wars to get them out of our country, and the Irish have been trying to get rid of them for 500 years. The English are bastards. I mean, literally, I have nothing good to say about England post-1500 or so. Just

Starting point is 00:04:53 absolute jackasses. I mean, they enslaved half the population of Ireland and basically starved the other half to death. Not good. I mean, you know, people told all the Magna Carta this and the... Bullshit. England has been a curse on the face of the earth since King Henry the 8th. Before then, it was a pretty good nation. Before then, England was one of the first nations to renounce slavery. Did you know that? Yeah. It was only after. After England became a Protestant nation that they went around and started slaving people, mainly to the sugar trade. They bought a bunch of Africans from Arabs. They opened up trade with the Arabs.

Starting point is 00:05:40 There's another good idea, right? Let's get involved with Muslims. Opened up trade to the Arabs, shipped a bunch of Africans and Irish, off to places they didn't want to be, and forced them to work in sugar plantations. to make rum and candy. And what do you do? I mean, the English basically said, we're English, so we rule the world.

Starting point is 00:06:02 We bailed their asses out in two world wars, sacrificed tens of thousands of American lives, and had we not, there would never have been Nazis? Yeah, that's right. If we hadn't gotten involved in World War I, Hitler would never have come to power. Had we never got involved in World War I,

Starting point is 00:06:21 there would never have been a communist revolution in Russia. So because of the freaking English, assholes like King Charles, who I don't even call him King Charles, he's just the inbred git with the big ears, okay, assholes like that, we propped up England, we helped create Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and that led to the Maoist revolution in China and set us up for the next hundred years of war. 50,000 Americans killed in Vietnam. Why? Because we helped England in World War I.

Starting point is 00:07:04 And then we helped out France in Vietnam. Why? Tell me why. Why did we ever have to get involved with anything England was doing? Because they talk nice? Is that it? Because they talk nice. and they sip on their tea and have fancy suits. You know, honestly, and you know, I'm the third English. I'm saying this as a person who's actually my great, great, great-grandfather, maybe add another great to that, was Lord Cheshire.

Starting point is 00:07:34 I'm actually directly descendant of the House of Wessex. Like when you watch Robin Hood and you've seen King Richard Lionheart, that's like my great, great, great-great-great-grandfather, etc. King Edward the Confessor, Aeroath and various names I cannot pronounce. I would have every reason to be proud of England and to be a proud person of English descent. Were they not such horrible people?

Starting point is 00:08:01 And, I mean, truly, England is a horrible, horrible country. And now they sold out their own people, and there you have it. I mean, you know, they brought in all these Muslims, you've got rape gangs and all that. They don't care. the ruling class of England is horrible. The countryside, the common people are great. I've had so many great English friends from place.

Starting point is 00:08:23 One of my best friends, you know, that I talk with all the time is from Cornwall. I love England and English people. I hate their ruling class and especially Parliament and the Prime Minister and their freaking ridiculous, illegitimate king. The House of Windsor is not the legitimate monarchy of England. England. There has not been a legitimate monarch in England in almost 500 years. But anyway, where was I going with that? Gin Singh. Yes, Jinzing is very important for the Russian studies and the Chinese studies showed that it would help recover, athletes recover. Improved athletic

Starting point is 00:09:06 performance, improved muscle recovery, enhanced immune system, um, uh, breathing, uh, uh, breathing, better oxygen absorption, and all that. Okay, so that's essentially what an adaptogen does. And there are a lot of them. And a lot of them are not as expensive as ginseng. Some of them are really weird, like corticeps. Corticeps is actually a mushroom that is parasitic to insects. The mushroom, the fungi, mycelium, whatever, will actually establish itself in the body

Starting point is 00:09:40 of an insect, and then the mushroom will burst right out of it. It's freaky. It's like something, it actually zombifies its host. I mean, literally the mushroom takes over the insect and then grows out of its body, okay? Really weird, okay? A lot of them are really common, like briars. I mean, literally green briars. But we're going to talk about rodeola, which you've probably seen before, and you may know it as stone crop. Now, uh, it may know it is rose root, okay? Rose root is another common. name let me get a sip of water here oh I tell you I just get so worked up I mean so-called King Charles doing his little visit the other day pisses me off I mean I am you know half Irish and and my English side of my family is House of Wessex these people I have nothing but contempt for them nothing but contempt I mean my ancestors fought in the world revolution and in 1812 and fought hard and were, I mean, people were slaughtered and we're, yeah, I had my great-grandfather.

Starting point is 00:10:52 It was in World War I. He told me what happened. And that was for the freaking English. We had no dog in that fight whatsoever. Okay, I'm not going to go down that road again. I am going to hold myself back, but I have nothing but contempt for the ruling class of England. I'm also part French. I have nothing but contempt for the ruling class of France. From the French Revolution on, it has been one of the worst forces in this entire world. France is a horrible, horrible player in world affairs. Got a little Spanish heritage.

Starting point is 00:11:31 Spain has gone off the deep end. They've totally sold out to the Muslims and the globalists. And unfortunately Ireland, but, you know, Ireland. hasn't had any say in its own government in almost 500 years. Ireland and Scotland have been ruled by the English for a good 500 years and have had no representative government. Let's just put it that way. You know, you can say, oh gosh, I'm going down that road again.

Starting point is 00:12:02 I'm not that big on democracy. You know, what's the old saying? democracy is when three wolves vote to eat two sheep. I mean, majority rule does not make it right. Our founders formed a constitutional republic, purposefully, purposefully rejecting the concept of democracy. Anybody that says, you know, democracy's in peril, we have to protect democracy.

Starting point is 00:12:30 Democracy is not a good thing, okay? Democracy is specifically, specifically condemned in the Bible. you know in the Bible the Hebrew people Jews whatever you want to call them we're supposed to have God as their only leader and when they said we need a king he said okay you can have a king but you know this is what's going to happen and they went for it anyway but actually a monarchy is better than democracy if I had to pick one over the other I'd take a monarchy any day over democracy because I don't want mob rule. I mean, you want mob rule?

Starting point is 00:13:09 Go to the worst side of town and see if, you know, five or six people want to mug you. That's mob rule. Constitutional Republic is a fairly decent system of government, but it's always going to tend toward democracy. I mean, it's like DeTockville said. He said, democracy can only last until the people realize they can vote themselves money out of the treasury.

Starting point is 00:13:36 You know, there's really no good solution other than, you know, let God be in charge. But then in order for that to happen, there has to be one established church. And right now we have 50,000 Christian denominations in the United States, each of which disagrees with each other. So, anyway, if we wanted to go back to Christendom, A lot of y'all would have to start going to my church. I got to tell you. That's just all, I mean, I'm Catholic.

Starting point is 00:14:12 A lot of y'all would have to start going to my church if we're going to go back to Christendom. And I don't see that happen any time soon. You have to have a leader that speaks for God. And it's only one. There can only be one. Otherwise, one's right and one's wrong. And they can't be both speaking for God. Right.

Starting point is 00:14:31 Anyway. But, I mean, what's happening? in Ireland, Scotland, I mean, the English have literally destroyed those two great Celtic nations and made them into lapdogs. And now they're not even answering to England so much as they're answering to Brussels. It's just horrible. I mean, horrible. Literally, since about 1,500 or so, England has been a pox and a plague on the world. And I don't know why. I mean, you turn on what?

Starting point is 00:15:09 PBS. Ooh, so, you know, fancy English people. Why are we worshipping the freaking English? We literally fought two wars to get rid of them. Great. They talk nice. They drink tea. They have beautiful suits.

Starting point is 00:15:24 You have to admit that. I actually refuse, I will not put on a suit because I refuse to wear English clothes. I used to have to for my job. I said, that's it. You know what? If I absolutely have to get dressed up, I'm going to do like my heritage and put on a kilt. It would be an Irish kilt.

Starting point is 00:15:42 It wouldn't be a Scottish kilt, even though I got a little Scottish heritage too. But it would be one of those just plain brown ones, you know? I mean, I'm not going to do that because I have skinny legs. So anyway, I wear blue jeans. I'm an American. Damn it. So anyway. It seems, wow, am I going far afield?

Starting point is 00:16:01 today. All right, let's get back to Rodeola. And I'll try not to mention the English anymore because I literally can't discuss England. Modern ruling class of England, not even modern. I mean, do you have any idea about the genocide

Starting point is 00:16:19 England committed on its own people who refused to become Anglican? I mean, they slaughtered thousands of their own people and confiscated their property. That's what happened to my family. That's why They left England.

Starting point is 00:16:34 I mean, every college, every hospital, that was all confiscated from the Catholic Church. Oxford, yes, was once a Catholic university, and they slaughtered everybody. They hunted down priests like dogs. People, common people who wouldn't convert were beheaded in the public square. Look up, you know, Thomas Moore, if you want to read the most prestigious, lawyer in England, a counsel to the king, put in prison beheaded because he wouldn't renounce the Catholic Church. There was nothing good about England. Nothing. Nothing good at all. At all. Not in the last 500 years. All right. So, rodeola rose root seems to have been mostly used in

Starting point is 00:17:27 Russia, especially in Siberia, and in Scandinavia. It is a cold weather plant. But it's not actually included in the Russian herbal books that I have. And I've yet to find a good Scandinavian herbal book written in English. So if I ever do, maybe I can get you some more information on it. Most of what I have comes from the older English herbalist, yes, pre-so-called reference. and Germans. Germans were very aware of what herbs were being used in Russia and Ukraine and Poland and such as that. But there is one ancient reference and it's from D.S. Cordes, the Greek herb list from, what, 2,500 years ago, who wrote about sedums.

Starting point is 00:18:24 These plants are seedoms. Seedoms are a large family. And this one was specifically called Stonecrow. stone crop because it usually grows out of very rocky soil with very high elevations, but I have seen it actually growing wild in the sand hills of North Carolina. I mean, so it does have a fairly wide range, actually. The escort, he said, rodeo-radiocs grew in Macedonia during his era. And it was called rose, what is it, rose something, rose root, rose root. because when bruised it smelled of roses. So that's actually how it gets its name,

Starting point is 00:19:06 and that's how we can identify this seedom as opposed to several other sedums, which include edible plants and weeds and different things, right? So he said it was useful for those aggrieved with headaches. Bruised and applied with a little rose oil and applied to the forehead and temples. It is called rhodida, I guess. He said this herb was known to the end.

Starting point is 00:19:31 ancient Greeks as being of Macedonian origin, which would seem to indicate that it was more a medicine of the Balkans. He didn't actually write that. That's actually a commentary. So even going back to ancient Greece, stone crop or rose root or rhodiola was being imported into Greece from the Balkans, which of course are central and northern Europe. Well, really, you could say the Balkans start like really. at the Italian border, but I mean, you know, it was an import. So it kind of tells you it was

Starting point is 00:20:06 seen to be pretty good medicine even, I mean, 2,000 years ago. They were importing it. Wikipedia actually had a pretty interesting entry on this. It said in Russia and Scandinavia, R. Rosea, or Stonecrop, has been used for centuries to cope with cold Siberian climate and stressful life. It is also used to increase. physical endurance and resistance to high altitude sickness. There you have it. That is an adaptogen. That plant helps you cope with a harsh climate altitude sickness and a stressful life, as they put it. And I would imagine if you lived in Siberia a few hundred years ago, you had a quite stressful life, a quite stressful life indeed. In Chinese medicine, it is called Hong Jing Dan.

Starting point is 00:21:04 That's probably not the way it's pronounced, but that's the way it looks to me. In, let's see, 2012, the European Medicines Agency on Literature, Concerning the dried extract of R. Rosea stated, the published clinical trials exhibit considerable deficiencies in their quality. Thus, well-established use cannot be accepted. It said, traditional use is an adaptogen for temporary relief of symptoms such as stress and fatigue and sensations of weakness is appropriate for traditional herbal medicinal products, the longstanding use as well as the outcome of clinical trials supports the plausibility of the use of the mentioned herbal preparation in the proposed indication, which is a very complicated way of saying, hey, it looks like it works. but we're not sure.

Starting point is 00:21:57 We don't have enough evidence. Well, that's pretty common with adaptogens. Going back to ginseng, let's say you have three men about the same age. Okay? Yeah, we'll say that the same age. One of them is recovering from sickness or injury. He's in really bad shape.

Starting point is 00:22:19 One of them's a high-performance athlete. And the other's an average guy. just, you know, you know, sitting around a little too much, fairly healthy, nothing, no big deal, right? The sick weak person recovering from injury taking ginseng is likely going to show great results. They're going to get healthy real quick. The high performance athlete, probably going to have a little bit better muscle recovery, a little bit better oxygen absorption. may increase his performance, athletic performance, by what, 5%, 10%. He'll know the difference. He can see it in the time, but it's not going to be anywhere near as dramatic as the guy who was sick, weak, injured.

Starting point is 00:23:10 The average guy may not show any difference whatsoever. And that's true with just about all adaptogens. It really depends on the conditions. Now, if that average, average guy maybe has a little issue with impotence, he may see a big benefit from it. But if he doesn't, how the heck is he ever going to know, right? When things just work as they should, adaptogens don't seem to show a lot of difference. And that's why it's so hard to show clinical trials on adaptogens. So the development of in use of rodeoas medicinal herb is really something about which we can only speculate because mainly used by preliterate cultures and then came in from,

Starting point is 00:24:01 you know, the Russian and Balkan tradition. But it's also been used by indigenous peoples in, well, Europe, but a variety as well as, I believe, the Andes and very similar traits there. More than likely it was spread throughout Europe by urban spice traders. or gypsies. Gypsies, of course, would have had very much access to the regions where Rodeola was growing, and they would have been traveling around and trading it. So, just not a lot written down about it. But Plants for Future says, medicinal use of rose root, though little known as a medicinal plant,

Starting point is 00:24:47 rose root has been used in traditional European medicine for over 3,000 years, mainly as a tonic, Modern research has shown that it increases the body's resistance to any type of stress by regulating the body's hormonal response. Its use has been shown to have protective effects upon the neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine in the brain. It improves neurotransmitter activity by inhibiting their enzymatic destruction and preventing their decline caused by excessive stress hormone release. That's, yeah, yeah, that's pretty definitive right there. that's how it's helping the body deal with stress. Essentially, we're talking cortisol and such. Rose root also enhances the transport of serotonin's precursors into the brain,

Starting point is 00:25:36 and studies have shown that the use of this herb can increase brain serotonin by up to 30%. That's super important. That means it's actually as effective, maybe more effective than most medications for depression and anxiety. for that matter. The root is adaptogen. It has enhancing effects upon physical endurance and sexual potency. A decoction of the flowers has been used to treat stomach aches and intestinal discomfort. The raw flowers have been eaten in the treatment of tuberculosis. So I do want to stress, this is a very interesting, very potent, not as strong as some adaptogens, but very useful herb. if I was looking at someone that had depression this would

Starting point is 00:26:25 along with maybe St. John's ward would be yeah those would be two of my like top five go-to herbs if I was looking at someone with anxiety I would also look at this one and maybe I would combine it with Aschwaganda because Ashwaganda is so very good for anxiety but again we're talking both physical and mental stress and increase athletic and sexual performance So that's for men mostly.

Starting point is 00:26:53 So the late herbless Michael Moore, and one of these days maybe I'll give you some of those herbs for women that are good for that as well. Got to give a big caveat on there because some of them can be very dangerous. Any herb that increases uterine contractions, we'll say, could also cause a miscarriage. So we'll have to be very careful in discussing such a urinary. herbs because they can be quite dangerous. So a decoction of flowers used to treat stomach aches and intestinal discomfort. The raw flowers have been eaten in the treatment of tuberculosis.

Starting point is 00:27:31 I think I just said that. So anyway, the late herbalist Michael Moore included it under adaptogens. He was really one of the first people to really write about it a lot in the United States. By the way, I heard from one of Michael Moore students yesterday, a seven song, herbalist up in New York. Really good herbalist. He was giving me a hard time over something. and I thought that was awesome. I referred to him as a hippie type of guy, and he's like, oh, so I'm a hippie. I'm like, yeah, yeah, dude, you're definitely, you're definitely a hippie.

Starting point is 00:28:04 Anyway, my class notes from Michael Moore's Southwestern School of Botanical Medicine State. Cedoms, he included rodeo with seedoms, and he had several seedoms in that category. Just like I said, there's several members of Smilax that can be similar to Sasparilla or Aurelia. Several sedums can actually be fairly common. Ones really can be similar to rodeolo. They just really haven't been tested a whole lot. So he said it lessened stress of adrenal exhaustion. This exhaustion due to adrenals not ex...

Starting point is 00:28:43 Okay. This is exhaustion due to adrenals, not exhausted adrenals. that's a little hard to say and it may be even harder to comprehend so let's say you're in a high stress situation for a very long period of time you're in a war zone or you grew up in Chicago you're used to gunfire and crime and the world's about to fall apart in any second your adrenals can actually become exhausted that's what we call adrenal exhaustion you begin to kind of run out of adrenaline, essentially. You become, and it makes you feel very tired, and you don't react to things as you would normally.

Starting point is 00:29:30 You kind of go from like one to a hundred in the blink of an eye, and in the interim, you're just like worn out, okay? It's a lot more than that, but I'm just kind of giving you a brief overview. There's also exhaustion due to adrenaline stress. That's more a short-term environment. you're in a hurricane there's a good example I've been in one recently so for you know 24 hours you're in this horrific storm with you know 75 mile per hour winds and the rain's flooding and trees coming down and the next day you're just like a zombie right you're exhausted actually from adrenaline that's where the sedums that's where the rhodiola seems to help uh lessons at adrenergic stress and

Starting point is 00:30:20 and lessens exhaustion. Physically good for muscle tone. Stimulates thyroid, so it's good for hypothyroidism. Also, aschreganda, it's good for hypothyroidism. I kind of combine these in my mind sometimes. Improves lipid metabolism in the liver, improves efficiency of the central nervous system

Starting point is 00:30:42 and muscle reaction, causes actually fewer waste products in the bloodstream. so you can get the same amount of energy from, I mean, you can get more energy from the same amount of calories when you take it as opposed to if you didn't. Helps with blood sugar. It's a mood elevator, as we said, it has serotonin enhancing properties, boosting properties. Helps with depression. May help bladder cancer. Slightly hypertensive. It can raise blood pressure. Several of the adaptogens do. Corticeps especially. Mild stimulant, kind of like coffee. And sometimes you'll see rhodiosephs. included in stimulant pills, you know, that you might, truck drivers might use, you know, the more, but sort of the natural version of them.

Starting point is 00:31:30 I don't know if any of you all have ever had experience with those, but having what's been a musician and then a journalist and being on the road, oh, golly, I was putting more than 20,000 miles a year on my vehicle on the road constantly. And, I mean, that wasn't even a busy year. I just happened to remember writing that down on my taxes when I was taking my deductions. Yes, there were BC powders and little pills that were taken to get through the night and gallons of coffee so I didn't fall asleep at the wheel. Yes, sometimes you did have those in there and oh boy, did I go through some tobacco.

Starting point is 00:32:12 Coffee and tobacco. Lived on it for a while there. Yeah, can't do that anymore. my heart did not appreciate that lifestyle let's just put it that way so um rose root the root is used of course crushed plant material though the top of the plant is strongly anti-inflammatory and perhaps all sedums not just rose root have that property because they all contain chrysilic acid radio is an adaption rhodiola is an adaption type herb that supports the immune system And let's see, he included in his list of stimulants to non-specific resistance.

Starting point is 00:32:55 These herbs tend to lessen the degree of metabolic stress from whatever the cause. Aurei-a-simosa that spiknard, astragalus, Siberian ginseng, panics, ginseng, Shisandra, rhodiola, or cedom. And, oh, what I haven't even mentioned before. S. Integrifolia, that's called King's Crown, that's very, very little known adaptogen. He had a specific interest in this field. Michael Moore really did a lot of interesting work on adaptogens. It was, anyway, so Physicians Desk Reference for Herbal Medicine amidst rodeoia

Starting point is 00:33:38 from the thousands or, I don't even know, 3,000 pages or whatever. But then the website, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Does list it, it says grows in cold regions, high altitudes in Europe and Asia, long history of medicinal use in Russian Scandinavia, traditionally used to increase endurance, work performance, tolerance of high altitudes, treat fatigue, weakness, and other symptoms. Today, rhodiola is used to promote, is promoted to increase. Let's see if I can say that right. Today, rhodiola is promoted to increase energy, stamina, strength, and mental capacity to improve athletic performance,

Starting point is 00:34:22 resist the effects of stress, and help manage depression, anxiety, and other symptoms. And they said some preliminary research has been done on rodeoli as components, but few rigorous studies have been done in people. And it says there isn't enough evidence from studies to allow conclusions to be reached. Okay. But they did look at safety. They said rodeola has been used safely in studies lasting from six to 12 weeks.

Starting point is 00:34:48 possible side effects do include dizziness and dry mouth. And that's, you know, anything that creates your blood pressure and heart rate can do that. They said they didn't know if it was saved during pregnancy or anything like that. It was included in that book you may have seen. It was all over the internet a few years ago. The so-called Lost Book of Verbal Remedies. I hate the title, but it was really darn good herb book, actually. okay I'm not going to speculate I yeah darn good book overpriced I think AI had a little bit to do with its put together

Starting point is 00:35:27 so let's take that with a grain of salt I don't know for sure but boy it was everywhere a few years ago and so I had to get a copy of it and just see what it was all about because everybody was raving about it and you know it was pretty darn good I have to admit not as good as my books but pretty darn good So they said Rodiola-Rosa also called Golden Root, Rose Root or Arctic Root can sometimes be difficult to find it like sea cliffs and high elevation

Starting point is 00:35:55 sandy areas in the northeastern America Europe and Asia It's also in South American At least one variety of it It's rather solid after it It's in the Crassalachia family Or stone crop

Starting point is 00:36:10 Likes cold weather often found in sunny river and stream bank snow beds and rocky shelves. So medicinal. Powerful adaption, good for lifting mood and increasing mental concentration. It regulates the body's reaction to stress and normalizes hormones. Rodeola's effects are often best at lower doses. So it's important to start with a lower dose and increase it only if needed.

Starting point is 00:36:33 Very important point, actually, because it can't increase blood pressure. So you don't want to go with a high dose of it. They said it's good for physical endurance and sexual potency, as they call it. Promotes sexual health, libido, and stamina. may increase fertility, maybe, I don't know. Increases energy levels, decreases strenuous exercise, the effects of strenuous exercise in the body. Good for physical strength and endurance.

Starting point is 00:36:56 Good for adrenal fatigue. We've already discussed that. Helps with healthy thyroid function. We've discussed that. Release anxiety and depression. We discuss that. Do not take with prescription antidepressants. Very important.

Starting point is 00:37:10 Yes. Yes. Yeah. They can interact. I mean, it's increasing serotonin, whatever we say, 30%. You can have an issue. It has been used to help with stress from PTSD. And I thought that was very interesting.

Starting point is 00:37:26 It said rodeola regulates the brain hormones that cause anxiety flashbacks and other symptoms of PTSD. Start with a low dose. It's the main reason I included that, because so many people have an issue with it now. Has been used to treatment of tuberculosis. Okay. Okay, and they do have a warning.

Starting point is 00:37:45 Don't use if you have an autoimmune disorder. Because it can stimulate the immune system. It can actually stimulate a flare-up of your autoimmune condition. Also, don't use with ACE inhibitors, anticoagulants. Could interfere with sleep. So best to take in the morning. I think, yeah, that's a darn good book, actually. Too much hype.

Starting point is 00:38:07 A horrible title. But, yeah, they're darn good book. Okay. I give it my grudging endorsement. So anyway, good, useful adaptogen, mildly bitter herb, anti-inflammatory, immune-supporting properties. Unfortunately, most of what you're going to see online is absolute crap. All kinds of fanciful marketing claims about immortal Vikings and such. It's just a good adaptogen herb.

Starting point is 00:38:40 definitely should be studied more and so anyway look into it I just one of the one of the most useful herbs for some conditions that can be fairly hard to treat otherwise so let's just look at it that way if you have an issue that it would help with maybe give it a try see how it works for you and and if I stress you out and and piss you off talking about the English, go take some rodeola. You'll feel better. Okay, that's not official medical advice. You may not feel better at all.

Starting point is 00:39:17 But I'll feel better. Anyway, y'all have a great week, and I'll talk to you next time. The information in this podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition. Nothing I say or right has been evaluated or approved by the FDA. I'm not a doctor. The U.S. government does not recognize the practice of verbal medicine, and there is no governing body regulating herbless. Therefore, I'm really just a guy who studies herbs. I'm not offering any advice.

Starting point is 00:39:51 I won't even claim that anything I write or say is accurate or true. I can tell you what herbs have been traditionally used for. I can tell you my own experience, and if I believe an herb has helped me. I cannot, nor would I tell you to do the same. If you use an herb anyone recommends, you're treating yourself. You take full responsibility for your health. Humans are individuals and no two are identical. What works for me may not work for you.

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The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Rhodiola

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