Here's To Your Health, November 9, 2026

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Here's To Your Health with Joshua Lane with Joshua Lane Urban Herbalism, Breathwork for Grief and Anesthesia Vaccine Debates with Marguerite Dunne and Max Strom Host Joshua Lane explores city-based herbal remedies with Marguerite Dunne, discusses emotional healing through chest breathwork with Max Strom, and reviews medical concerns over hospital vaccination of anesthetized children. Marguerite Dunne and the Urban Herbalist Journey Joshua Lane welcomes herbalist Marguerite Dunne to discuss her book, A Wild Thyme in the City: A Guide to Mothercrafting Healing Herbs for City Folk and Herbal Apprentices. Dunne recounts how her personal health crisis in 1970 led her to plant medicine. As a college freshman visiting the Margaret Sanger clinic in New York City, she began taking birth control pills that severely disrupted her health. After stopping the medication, she suffered forty pounds of weight gain, severe fevers, loss of menstruation, and intense allergies that nine medical doctors failed to resolve. A friend introduced her to Jethro Kloss’s 1939 book Back to Eden and medicinal herbs. Dunne visited Kiehl’s historic New York apothecary to learn directly from elder patrons who possessed traditional botanical knowledge. Within two weeks of using blue cohosh and aletris root, her normal menses returned and her symptoms resolved, sparking her lifelong vocation as an urban herbalist. Botanical Recipes and Daily Practical Herbalism Dunne emphasizes that anyone living in an urban setting can practice herbalism without wildcrafting across vast acreage or brewing complex tinctures. She shares her daily morning smoothie rituals, which blend nutrient-dense herbs such as nettles, milk thistle, oatstraw, red clover, and burdock. Recalling guidance from mentor David Hoffmann, Dunne recommends sassafras as a traditional spring blood cleanser and nettles for abundant minerals. She explains how planting pennyroyal beside catnip naturally deters garden fleas, and advises men to support lifetime prostate health through regular saw palmetto intake. For winter respiratory ailments, Dunne offers a soothing tea recipe combining wild cherry bark, sassafras root, slippery elm bark, and licorice root. Lane and Dunne discuss common kitchen remedies, including raw garlic as an immune booster and mild germicide. Dunne notes that while heating softens cell walls for digestion, eating herbs raw preserves medicinal properties, encouraging listeners to embrace both traditional Western plants and emerging Ayurvedic therapies. Max Strom on Breathwork Mechanics and Releasing Emotion After the station break, Lane welcomes breathwork teacher and author Max Strom to discuss his latest Skyhorse Publishing title, Together We Heal: Alleviate Anxiety and Grief Through the Power of Breath and Belonging. Strom traces his journey back to 1976 when he began studying qigong, later integrating decades of Hatha yoga and Pilates disciplines. He contrasts the physiological and emotional outcomes of various breathing methods. While qigong emphasizes abdominal movement to cultivate vitality, nervous system calm, and longevity, Strom finds it rarely induces emotional release. In contrast, breathing deeply into the chest so the ribcage expands outward like an accordion unlocks deeply buried feelings. Drawing from Chinese medicine principles linking the lungs to grief and inspiration, Strom explains that chest breathwork allows people to safely release emotional trauma they have suppressed for years. Rather than causing distress, deliberate breathing opens an internal pathway for releasing suppressed sorrow, enabling genuine psychological healing. Healing Anxiety Through Communal Grief and Belonging Strom illustrates the connection between unprocessed bereavement and physical anxiety by recounting his encounter with a corporate chief executive suffering debilitating panic attacks. When questioned, the executive admitted his beloved brother had died six months prior, after which he immediately returned to working seventy-hour weeks to evade his sorrow. Strom advised him to stop masking his feelings, dedicate time to mourn openly with loved ones, and incorporate daily breathing exercises, which permanently ended the panic attacks. Strom urges listeners to avoid extreme, aggressive breathing fads that provoke alarm, recommending experienced guides and proper seated posture with an erect spine. Crucially, Strom highlights communal belonging as the missing component in emotional recovery. He observes that modern culture thoroughly trains people to administer physical cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiac arrest but offers zero guidance on consoling someone enduring profound heartbreak. Group support and shared vulnerability allow mourners to shed defensive armor and heal within three to five minutes. Investigating Hospital Initiatives to Vaccinate Sedated Children In the final segment, Lane examines investigative reporting by Dr. Susan Burdick for Children's…

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