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Welcome to Only the Best Herbs, the podcast where the ancient wisdom of herbal healing
meets the groundbreaking discoveries of now 2024.
My name is Ryan Bolda, and today we're weaving a story of nature's power in our modern world.
So in this episode, we're going to be diving into the heart of all natural medicines, the
community and exploring the trends that are reshaping our approach to wellness, a journey
through a time-honored tradition of cutting edge research.
Let's talk about Nutraceuticals, a dietary supplement.
2024 is going to see a surge in holistic health solutions with organic herbs playing a pivotal
role.
This is a source from Jiva Organic.
But what makes these herbs so special?
Is it their purity?
Perhaps their potency?
Or maybe it's the ancient secrets they hold.
We are also witnessing a fascinating trend in dietary supplements.
Ingredients like esquanda and elderberry are not just buzzwords, they're leading a revolution
in natural health, backed by a healthy growth rate in the wellness industry.
The source is from VitaQuest.
How do these herbs work their magic, and what secrets do they unlock in our bodies?
2024 is about the story of holistic well-being.
It's all about embracing full body health, physical, mental, and emotional sources, the
Puritan.
How do natural medicines fit into this narrative?
How do they weave together the tapestry of our overall health?
Stay with us.
We're going to unravel these mysteries, explore the enchanting world of natural medicines
and its herbs.
It's a story of nature's resilience, its ability to heal, to harmonize, and it's a story you're
about to be a part of.
Like we say, brew your favorite herbal tea, settle in, perhaps even get a blanket, let's
embark on this journey together.
You're listening to Only the Best Herbs, 2024, and we're really going to start getting things
going.
Don't go anywhere.
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All right, so picture this, right?
Ancient herbs like turmeric and ginseng, once confined to traditional medicine cabinets,
are now taking center stage in modern health supplements.
It's a beautiful dance between the old and the new, a synergy, and it's more than just
a fad, it's a lifestyle revolution.
Well, it's all about rediscovery, right?
In a world where synthetic solutions and quick fixes are the norm, these herbs offer a promise
of something pure, something grounded in the earth and in history.
Now, let's take a moment to appreciate ashwanda, as we talked about earlier.
A herb that's not just surviving in the modern market, but now it's thriving.
Known for its stress relieving properties, it's becoming a go-to for those seeking a
natural way to unwind.
Remember how we were talking about elderberry?
Not just a berry, it's a symbol of nature's ability to heal and protect, especially in
times of seasonal changes.
A berry, strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, none of which have anywhere close to this
amount of medicinal benefits is elderberry.
With that name, I see ancient wisdom, right?
Like we've been talking about, elderberry, they're elders.
In history, they're always talking about elders.
Elders are people who hold great wisdom and guide people in positive and prosperous directions.
They're supposed to be like the key holders, right?
They're supposed to make decisions in the village or in the community, you know, in
these old times, the elderberry.
So even back then, people knew there was something intriguing about this berry.
And I would love to know a whole segment on elderberry because it's not something a lot
of people know about.
Okay.
But now, we're going to imagine a world where these herbs are part of our daily routine.
A world where we turn to nature first, not as an alternative.
The primary source of healing.
This is the world that's unfolding in 2024.
A world where the line between traditional and modern medicine is not just blurred, it
is now intertwined.
I love it.
As we continue our journey, we'll also explore the role of technology in this herbal Renaissance.
From advanced extraction methods to innovative delivery systems, technology is not replacing
the essence of these herbs, but rather enhancing their potency and accessibility.
I had just kind of mentioned technology and plants.
So we're going to take a step out here into the great outdoors and we're going to put
a little bit of a digital twist on it.
The field of digital botany is transforming how we identify and understand medicinal plants.
With AI-powered apps, researchers can now accurately identify plants and their potential
health benefits.
A crucial step in harnessing nature's healing power.
If you want to learn more about that, there's this article called Plant-Based Medicine and
Pharmacology.
It's an introduction.
It's from NCBI.
It's a fascinating read.
I would look into it.
Now that we're going from the outdoors to the lab, let's talk about growing these actual
medicinal plants.
Hydroponics and aeroponics are not just for your high techs.
They are also revolutionizing how we cultivate medicinal herbs.
These methods allowed for precise control over the growing environment, leading to higher
quality and more potent herbal remedies.
Aeroponics and hydroponics have been around for some time.
Everyone thought it was really cool.
People were getting better results.
People got more into it because it added food dimensions.
You can really get down to the science and nuts and bolts.
I think techniques like hydroponics and aeroponics have really advanced our understanding.
I'm hoping to get some farmers and growers on here that can explain or maybe go into
depth about what you need to look for, what you need to do, how to do it, steps you need
to take with aeroponics and hydroponics.
You really have to understand the process.
You have to keep the pH balanced.
You have to oxidize the water.
You have to make sure your ratios of your nutrients are right.
You have to do boosters.
You have to clean your plant.
You have to trim.
You have to do techniques to help build the plant.
I don't want to say you force it, but you can do that with any plant.
Make it stronger in certain places.
Then you have to worry about the roots, microbials.
It's basically really fun stuff if you're a home grower.
Let's talk about some extraction techniques.
CO2 extraction, game changer.
This method is not only more efficient, but it also preserves the integrity and potency
of the plant, ensuring we get the most out of every leaf and root.
We have an article from NCBI if you want to learn more about that.
CO2 extraction, definitely have to know what I'm talking about if you're in a medicinal
field, CO2 extraction.
Here's something truly awesome that I love to talk, I just heard about and it's really,
really cool.
We got plant-based vaccines.
This technology is not just innovative, it is literally a beacon of hope for global health.
Plant-based vaccine technology offers a cost-effective, accessible solution, especially crucial for
developing countries.
For more information on this, plant-based COVID-19 vaccines, current status, design,
and development strategies, got this from NCBI as well.
Now we're going to change things up a little bit.
We've had a structure of the show where I gave information, studies, just relevant,
useful information to the community.
I like doing that.
I get to keep that part of the show.
However, I might switch some things up.
Maybe I'll put it in the middle of the show instead or maybe at the end of the show instead.
If you're in the Facebook community and you have any ideas about moving forward, please
voice your opinions.
Let me know.
If there's anything you think I should be talking about more, if there's anything I
should be talking about less.
I'm trying to hear feedback.
I want to hear feedback because I got season three coming up and season three is mostly
going to be interviews of relevant people in the industry, important people too, important
people in the industry.
I'm really excited to be on there.
I want to make sure that the people who listen to this show get what they want or they are
hearing the content they want to hear from a show like this.
I take this very seriously.
I work very hard on this stuff.
Being a business owner and being a podcast host isn't the easiest thing in the world.
I want to know what I can do better.
I don't get enough time to really focus in and dissect a hundred percent what's going
on with this podcast, but I do care enough to make sure you guys are entertained and
getting what you want from the show.
With that being said, in February we got a giveaway coming up in our group Only the Best
Herbs.
You'll find it on Facebook really easily.
It's a Facebook group.
Just join real quick.
We'll get you in and you can start communicating with people in the community.
We're starting to get things going more.
We got some moderators.
A couple of the admins are going to be getting a little bit more involved as we pick things
up.
We've got this giveaway going.
We're looking for guests for season three still.
We got quite a few lined up, but we got some openings still.
We're trying to get more people on.
I also wanted to talk about this past giveaway I did.
If you follow me or you follow the show, if you follow closely, you'll know that I just
did a giveaway in one of our, I want to call them sister communities, but yeah, I guess
I would just call it sister community.
We did the giveaway.
It was 10 days long.
It was during Christmas time to New Year's.
I think it did really well.
We had a lot of participation, a lot of participation.
It really blew me away because I've never really got to host an event like that before.
It was very humbling.
I hate using that word.
I hate using the word humbling, but it was very shocking, I guess.
It would be a better word.
We got a lot of participation.
There was a lot of free entries.
There was also paid entries because that's just how life works.
There's free stuff and then there's paid stuff.
I wish life was different, but that's just not how it is.
First and foremost, there's a lot of free entries.
Then we had the paid entries and we had some participation on that.
We had a day where you could donate $10 or you had a day where you could donate $5.
You could have a day where you donate any amount in $1 increments.
We ended up getting close to our goal.
It was probably around $135, which our goal mostly was to just cover the shipping costs
to make sure we can do the event in the first place, get all of these prizes sent out.
Our grand prize was quite a few things.
It was a lot, a lot.
Actually the box is in front of me right now, so I can tell you.
We got two bags of gummies, two bags of Simply Professional formula nutrients.
We got a pack of seeds from Ruga Monteto from Dead Inside Mycology.
We got quite a few goodies in here.
We got some stickers, samples and coupons from our company, Surgeons LLC.
There's a bandana in there.
It's quite the package.
Even the small packages are pretty generous.
The best part I think about this whole giveaway that we did was everybody who participated
in the paid entries got is getting a participation gift.
It didn't matter if you donated $1 or you donated $100.
It's a participation gift and it's a thank you from myself and our company here in this
podcast because it's all intertwined.
From our community to our business to me, it's just very appreciated.
That's why we're doing it.
We got about 29 total participation gifts going out and three grand prize winners and
two, we have one grand prize winner and two small prize winners.
We also had three micro-sized winners as well.
So three, two, one, so six plus the other 20.
So we have 30 prizes going out, 30 people who paid in and got involved and just spoke
volumes to me.
That's a really awesome community.
The admins to the group founder, they're all awesome there.
I wanted to apologize if I insulted anybody.
This community specifically, they pride themselves on being a completely free community and doing
things out of tradition.
I think I mentioned this before.
They refer to themselves, the admins do at least, as a tribe or the tribe.
So given that name, people share things.
I understand.
I wish I could live in that reality, but given I have a business, I can't not be about money
and then be about money at the same time.
So I try to keep it as a balance.
I really hope that everyone who participated enjoyed it.
And yeah, congratulations to everyone who won.
Don't go anywhere.
You're listening to only the best here.
I also wanted to talk about THCV.
THCV is a new product that we are offering at our store, SurgeonSolution.io.
THCV stands for Tetrahydrocannabinivirin.
Everything with THC starts with tetrahydro or tetrahydro.
The endings are just all kind of skewed a little bit.
It is a very remarkable compound found in the hunt plant.
It is related to THC, but THCV is very distinct.
It is non-psychoactive, so you don't have to worry about getting high or anything like
that.
The real exciting thing is its energy boosting properties.
So you can imagine a natural surge of vitality.
It helps you conquer your day with a renewed optimism and a renewed view on the world.
I use THCV.
I can't say I use it daily, but I do like the effects.
The effects are exactly what it states like.
You get bursts of energy, but you're calm at the same time.
It does suppress your appetite.
When I use it, I definitely don't get hungry at all.
It really is a game changer for weight management.
It has a unique ability to suppress your appetite.
Ongoing studies, though, suggest its potential in regulating blood sugar as well as reducing
inflammation, just as a lot of hemp-derived cannabinoids do.
If you're trying to maintain a weight, that might not be the best idea.
THCV has been linked to helping users lose weight by suppressing the appetite, like we
had mentioned.
If you're ever looking for some help along the way, let's say you're interested in THCV
and you just say, hey, I don't know enough about this, go on our website.
ThetationSolution.io.
Get some information on it.
Talk to our AI.
We'll get you going on the right direction when it has anything to do with THCV.
We can send you samples.
We can send you additional samples.
We do it all.
We do it all if it has to do with hemp, seeds, nutrients, glass, accessories.
If I haven't mentioned, we're also looking for guests on the show.
I have a very exciting guest coming up here.
We're recording in February, so I'll probably release it in early March.
We've got a really special guest that I'm going to talk about a little bit before we
do it.
She has a very extensive history.
She is located in the UK.
She practices all types of alternative medicines or alternative practices, I suppose would
be her best way to describe her.
She's an award-winning voice actress.
She's very talented and her voice is just incredible.
I'm sure you have most likely heard her voice somewhere before, possibly in an EDM song
or maybe on a commercial.
When you hear her voice, you'll know who I'm talking about because it's very distinct.
Getting back to the story part of the podcast, last I had mentioned I was going to talk about
this meeting I had with this independent film producer.
There's no bad blood between us.
I liked working with him.
I wish I could work with him again.
He's really cool.
He's really funny.
However, I just know better working for moving.
I just know better moving forward that it's not a good idea because it was leading to
somewhere I did not want to go.
One day, it's in between.
It's right after I found out about this song.
You can go back on the podcast and figure out what I'm talking about, but there was
a song that I feel was made that was directed towards me.
I didn't know how to take it.
I don't want to say I was shook about it, but I was just really confused on how I got
brought into this in the first place.
No one really was telling me what's going on.
I just didn't understand.
I got this text from the independent film producer.
He had just got back from shooting my products and shooting this artist all around the world.
He told me that he wanted to meet up.
Here's a story within a story because I want you to understand this part.
Back when I first started working with him in the summer of 2022, he asked me to get
him a filet-o-fish sandwich from McDonald's or something, or a double filet-o-fish sandwich.
Knowing this guy, his attitude, he's just kind of a dick sometimes.
I just thought he was just saying it to be, you know, thought he was just being an asshole.
I told him, like, man, I'm not getting you a filet-o-fish sandwich.
I probably would have got him a filet-o-fish sandwich, but then he proceeded to make it
into this thing where it's like, oh, you don't have any principle, and I'm all about principle,
and I can't work with people like that.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Where is this coming from?
And somehow he twisted that into, I don't even remember how he twisted that completely,
but I just remember it happening.
So this time, he wants to have a little meeting in his van because he lives in a van, and
he asks me to pick up some food.
So with that story in mind, I'm like, all right, I'm just going to grab some food because
I'm not trying to have a conversation like that.
So I grab some Coney Island, classic Coney Island food, some fries, chili cheese fries,
I mean, some chicken hanis, chicken lemon rice soup, the whole kitchen with me.
And you know, we're eating, and we start having this conversation.
He's telling me about this idea he has, and his idea was to use my story, my backstory
in my company, as the base for releasing this artist's album that they just shot around
the world.
And in a way, it is a good idea.
I think it would have been a good idea if we did something like that.
However, he proceeds to tell me, hey, I need you to fund it as well.
And it was just like, kind of a low blow, like, all right, you have this idea that you
want to do with me, you want me to work on it with you, you want me to do this, but now
you want me to fund it too.
I can't, I just can't even really explain.
We're a year and a half, well, actually, we're almost two years in business.
We're not even fully, we're not even fully rolling yet, you know?
So it just kind of blew my mind.
But I did like the idea.
I just didn't like the idea of someone using what I'm doing, making a story about it.
I can't let someone do that without me giving my side of the story.
So of course I tell them, fuck no.
And you have to remember that there's other influencing factors as well.
There's the song.
So I'm pissed off about this song and I know he has something to do with it.
I know it, like in my soul, I know he had something to do with it because that's the
only link, right?
It's not too hard to figure out.
And it was just like another low blow.
So it wasn't really even the fact that he wanted me to fund it or he wanted our company
to fund it.
It was just like an additional F you.
Like I got this song that sounds like that's like insulting as fuck.
And then you want me to pay for this short film about me in the company.
It was just wild.
We just had to think, we sat back and thought about it and we're just like, this is just
insulting.
So we had, you know, we had to do something about it.
And this podcast was a perfect opportunity to get it out there.
We have most of it on the paid subscriptions because it is sensitive information in my
eyes.
It is sensitive information.
So I can't always give out free episodes.
But however, I have mentioned season three is going to be free.
So that was like, that's kind of like a weird story that that happened in all of this.
And I wanted, I thought it was also interesting too.
But basically I was really insulted.
So I ended up blocking him.
I'm gonna be completely honest.
I have no problem blocking anybody.
My blocking is good.
I will do it at any time.
I do not care who you are.
I give people like one chance.
That's it.
I think I'm messing up before.
You know, show me, you need to show me your true colors up front.
I'm gonna end this on a good note.
I want to take a moment to thank you, our wonderful listeners for joining us on this
journey through the world of natural medicines and alternative practices.
Today we've explored fascinating herbs, heard inspiring stories and dive into practices
that connect us more deeply with the healing powers of nature.
So remember the path to wellness is as diverse and unique as each one of us, whether it's
through a new herb you've learned about today or an alternative practice you're considering.
I encourage you to embrace this journey with an open heart and mind.
If you're just beginning your journey in the natural wellness, take it one step at a time.
There's a whole world of knowledge and healing out there and it's okay to explore it at your
own pace.
And for those who are seeking and for those who are well on their path, keep nurturing
your connection with nature and your body.
Your experiences and knowledge are invaluable and they might just be the guiding light for
someone else on their path to wellness.
Remember only the best herbs is more than just a show.
It's a community, space where people can all come together, learn, share and grow.
We value your input, your stories and your journey.
Feel free to reach out to us with your experience, questions or even just to say hello.
Until next time, take care of yourself and one another, embrace the power of nature,
stay curious, stay inspired and most importantly, stay connected.
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