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Lila's Herbal Revolution

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by 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

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June 23, 2026

We've Absolutely Bastardized Modern Wheat

<p><strong>We&#39;ve Absolutely Bastardized Modern Wheat</strong></p><p>The gluten conversation is everywhere, but it&#39;s rarely nuanced. In this episode of Lila&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s going on with gluten and why it matters for your health or your practice.</p><p><strong>What We Cover</strong></p><p>→ What gluten actually is and which grains contain it<br>→ Why modern wheat is not the same grain our ancestors ate - hybridization, higher gluten content, and new problematic constituents<br>→ The chemical gauntlet wheat goes through before it reaches your plate - fungicides, growth regulators, fumigation, irradiation<br>→ Why traditional cultures could handle wheat and we can&#39;t - fermentation, soaking, stone grinding, and eating it fresh in small amounts<br>→ The Ayurvedic lens - weak agni, ama, and why modern western lifestyle is dimming our digestive fire<br>→ How gluten is supposed to be digested and exactly where it goes wrong<br>→ Zonulin, leaky gut, and how gluten drives gut permeability<br>→ The difference between a food allergy and a food sensitivity - and why sensitivities are more sinister<br>→ Why allergy testing alone will miss most gluten reactivity and why elimination is still the gold standard<br>→ Celiac disease vs non-celiac gluten sensitivity and the spectrum in between<br>→ The inflammatory cascade - local, systemic, and full body downstream effects<br>→ Gluteomorphins - why gluten peptides cross the blood brain barrier and bind to opioid receptors<br>→ The allergic addict phenomenon in children and why picky eating is rarely just picky eating<br>→ Lila&#39;s personal clinical approach to gluten elimination and why she doesn&#39;t start there with everyone</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>LINKS AND RESOURCES</p><p>🪬 Path to Practitioner Potency→ https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about <br>🪷 work together → <a href="https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date">https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&amp;step=date</a><br>🌿 Subscribe → <a href="https://tvnhc.com/listen/">https://tvnhc.com/listen/</a><br>🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class → <a href="https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL">https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL</a></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>COMING UP ON LILA&#39;S HERBAL REVOLUTION</p><p>Taking A LOT of Shilajit</p><p>The Crying Herb </p><p>&amp; More </p>

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June 17, 2026

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

<p>Read to be a Potent Practitioner? </p><p>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&#39;t just more information. This is clinical confidence, community, mentorship, trainings &amp; more. </p><p> Founding member seats are still open at $33/month, locked in for life. (These will not last much longer) </p><p>Join now at </p><p>https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about__________________</p><p>This episode is for anyone who has ever felt lost in the noise of the herbal space - overwhelmed by information, underserved by what&#39;s out there, or quietly sensing that there&#39;s a gap between what you&#39;re learning and what actually works. I&#39;m getting honest about what&#39;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.</p><p><strong>What We Cover</strong></p><ul><li>The hierarchy of herbalism that used to exist - mom level, grandma level, community herbalist - and why losing it created the chaos we&#39;re navigating now</li><li>The difference between community herbalism, hobby herbalism, and clinical practice - and why the lack of delineation is harming people</li><li>How natural healing has gone soft across almost every modality and what that costs the people who need it most</li><li>The cholesterol guy on LinkedIn - a perfect example of why information without clinical knowledge actively misleads people</li><li>Why book learning and clinical reality can be miles apart - and the specific book moment that crystallized this for me</li><li>The nettle myth - why &quot;diuretic&quot; on a monograph doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s your diuretic</li><li>Why I talked myself out of the content that actually lit me up when I first started - and why I&#39;m done doing that</li><li>Tincture ratios, loading doses, obscure Ayurvedic formulas - the content I always wanted to make</li><li>What Path to Practitioner Potency is, who it&#39;s for, and why discernment is one of its driving principles</li></ul><p><strong>Links and Resources</strong></p><p>🌿 Join Path to Practitioner Potency - founding member seats open at $33/month, locked for life <a href="https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about">https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about</a><br>🪬 pattern assessment quiz <a href="https://tally.so/r/n05N1y">https://tally.so/r/n05N1y</a><br>🪷 work together <a href="https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date">https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&amp;step=date</a><br>🌿 Subscribe <a href="https://tvnhc.com/listen/">https://tvnhc.com/listen/</a><br>🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class <a href="https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL">https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL</a><br></p>

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June 9, 2026

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

<p>✨ Before we dive in — the Path to Practitioner Potency mentorship community is live✨ </p><p> Monthly trainings, live Q&amp;As, case reviews, materia medica, community support, and access to one-on-one mentorship with me. </p><p>Founding member seats are still available with a lifetime discount:<a href="https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about">https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about</a></p><p><br></p><p>Blood sugar imbalances aren&#39;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&#39;ve been to the specialists, tried everything, and still can&#39;t move through your symptoms, this episode is for you.</p><p>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&#39;t about cutting sugar. It&#39;s about understanding the swing, what drives it, and what your body is actually asking for.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This episode is a resource. Save it, share it, come back to it.</p><p><strong>What We Cover</strong></p><ul><li>Why blood sugar imbalances affect everyone — not just diabetics</li><li>The full symptom list and why each one connects back to blood sugar</li><li>The swing — what it is, why it matters, and what drives it</li><li>The liver as your built-in blood sugar buffer</li><li>How blood sugar dysregulation drives hormonal imbalance, estrogen dominance, and PCOS</li><li>The dawn phenomenon and why mornings are so hard</li><li>The Allergic/Addictive pattern — Dr. William Philpott</li><li>What Lila dials in first with clients and why breakfast is everything</li><li>Fat, fiber, and protein — the foundation</li><li>Stabilizing vs. lowering blood sugar — the herbal distinction nobody is making</li><li>Herbs for blood sugar stabilization including licorice, ashwagandha, tulsi, schisandra, astragalus, amlaki, cinnamon, and more</li></ul><p><strong>Links and Resources</strong></p><p>🪬 pattern assessment quiz → <a href="https://tally.so/r/n05N1y">https://tally.so/r/n05N1y</a>🪷 work together → <a href="https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date">https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&amp;step=date</a>🌿 Subscribe → <a href="https://tvnhc.com/listen/">https://tvnhc.com/listen/</a>🧪 Functional Lab Work Master Class → <a href="https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL">https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZTMEPD5KBP4YL</a></p><p><br></p>

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What is Lila's Herbal Revolution?

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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