#253 Sensational Spices and Healing Herbs and with Simon Mills
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
I love chatting with Simon Mills, he has a wonderful breadth of knowledge across the huge spectrum of different herbs and spices. And he can talk eloquently and sensitively about them, in a manner respectful of both the traditional beliefs and uses of them, as well as the science that may or may not support their claims.
Today we talk about the use of spices and what extra benefits they may be adding to our diets beyond simply “antioxidants”.
We talk about bitters and tonics and why they may work.
We explore how spices may impact our gut microbiota and potentially influence their health benefits.
Rosemary and sage on the brain, ginger for colds and how traditional antiseptics worked.
Simon Mills is a University of Cambridge graduate in medical sciences who has been a herbal practitioner in Exeter UK since 1977. He has been a complementary health pioneer from the inception of the term in 1979, and later in the fields of integrated health, selfcare and social prescription. He is now focusing on education through the public websites herbalreality.com and for professionals working with co-author Prof Kerry Bone at millsandboneacademy.com
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle. |
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| 0:12.0 | I think there's something else we've forgotten, you know, I hinted |
| 0:14.9 | out it earlier. You have a fever, but then you need to recover. Nowadays we go straight |
| 0:20.1 | back to work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not the way it should be. You do need a recovery time after you've fought a battle. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:53.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. I love chatting with Simon Mills. He's got this wonderful breadth of |
| 1:11.6 | knowledge across a huge spectrum of different herbs and spices |
| 1:17.0 | having worked and researched in the fields for so long and he can talk eloquently and sensibly about them in a manner that's respectful |
| 1:27.0 | to both the traditional beliefs and uses of them as well as the science that may or may not support their claims. |
| 1:35.0 | And today we talk about the use of spices and what extra benefits they may be adding to our diets beyond simply antioxidants. |
| 1:43.7 | We talk about bitters and tonics |
| 1:46.1 | and why they may work for the liver. |
| 1:48.8 | We explore how spices may impact |
| 1:51.2 | our gut microbiota and potentially influence their health benefits in that manner, |
| 1:56.5 | Rosemary and sage in the brain, ginger of a cult and how traditional antiseptics will have worked as well. |
| 2:04.0 | Simon Mills, if you don't know, is a University of Cambridge graduate |
| 2:07.7 | in Medical Sciences who's been a herbal practitioner |
| 2:11.2 | in Exeter in the UK since 1977. He's been a complementary health |
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