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Hello, I'm Kimberly King, and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, we've all heard of our three no glands, but we don't all know how important they are, well, it's time to find out on today's show how to keep them working the best they can, plus later, we'll tell you what's going on around town and what's new at mother's market, but first step, Randy brush is a licensed registered nurse, organic and biodynamic farmer and herbalist, and he is the co-founder of organs wild harvest. Randy is extremely passionate about health and healing and the natural way, and we welcome him to the mother's market radio show.Ready, how are you?

Doing well, thank you. Thanks for having me.

Thanks for being here. Why don't you fill our audience in a little bit on your mission and your work before we get to the show's topic.

Well, my mission now is I have become much greater than just even being in her farmer, and that is that for the last 22 years, we've been organic and biodynamic farmers over the last eight years, and at this point in time, it's bigger than that because I'm very concerned about the health of the Earth and the planet and the water, and the plants, and the trees and the animals and everything else, and so on that level, I've really worked to develop a way to help heal the soil and help the land to come back to productive values like it used to be back in the old days, when the old farmers used to put me or on their farms and they actually grow correctly, and so it's now a very deep passion and it's a very deep mission that we need to save the seeds we need to protect the soil, take care of the plants and heal the people in that's the environment that we now live in, and like that healed the soil too.

Well, today we were talking about adrenal health and are... I understand that you have developed a line of meter, Demeter demerits, a certified biodynamic product that addresses the health issues related to chronic stress and adrenal depletion. Yeah, that's correct. And basically, as the biogenic farmer, the practice is about an infirm and they're very much parallel to practice sinner-able medicine on people, so... What better way to do things than that?

And so my line is developed around all the things that come from chronic stress on a daily basis in our American society, from adrenal depletion, to inflammation, to sleep disorders, to digestive problems and all of that, and so everything that we do is... Grow on right here, right on my farm in Central Oregon, and so it's a very hands-on practice that we do, we don't import anything to the farm, and so we grow all the herbs, they're all either certified organic and biodynamic, and to those products, we add a biodynamic alcohol, and then a variety of different flavors to enhance the activity, for example, with a product that would be good for sleep, we actually add a little lavender scent to it, so when you smell that lavender, of course, it helps you to relax and go off to sleep a.Great, could you give me a quick overview of what dimitar certified biodynamic is all about?

Well, Demeter certified organic, recall the brainchild of a gentleman by the name of Rudolf Steiner, who was a philosopher and physician in Europe in the 1920s, he was practicing there and working as a philosopher when it was during the introduction, basically what was called the Green Revolution, which was actually the introduction of pesticides are resides and chemical fertilizers to the farms in Europe, the farmers came to him and they were very concerned because not only were the old insects were dead, but also the birds and also a lot of their cattle weren't a boarding cabs and so he taught them the system of biodynamic farming that actually would loud the farm to heal itself and come back to... Back into a natural environment like it should have been in the first place, and long story short, is now a worldwide organization, a certified a practice of biodynamic farming that does all those things looking at the farm on that level.

And I know you said that right in the very beginning, it's a passion of yours about healing... The farm healing itself. Could you please take a few minutes and explain to what chronic stress is and how it affects the body, and especially the journal, Gloria, happy to. First, to understand what chronic stress is, we need to understand what acute stress is, and we've all seen it or heard it on the radio or on TV or as seen, where two or three people, I'll go pick a car up off someone in a car accident and then you look at each and, how do we pick up 3000 pounds?

Well, for those things to happen, which is a lighter thing, flight thing that comes from adrenal glands, your heart rate increases, your brachial dilate your eyes, you can see better, you have a bunch of blood sugar that goes into the system, so suddenly you have super human strength of which we've all known, if we didn't have that in our bodies, the tigers and the bears were, they've eaten us up years ago, thousands of years ago, and so... But for all those things that happen, other body systems have to shut down, and so the immune systems told to shut down, the digestion is slowed down and shut down, and there are high levels of blood sugar that jump up, and... So if this happens on a daily basis, and suddenly you have inflammatory disease, you have auto-immune diseases, you have digestive disorders, we have sleep disruption, you see all these things that are common in our society today, living a stress light, a lot of people have trouble sleeping at night, a lot of people wake up in the morning and have no energy, don't feel good, when nature has an answer for all of these things, it's there, these plants were put on this Earth for us to use... The problem is, we as a society have lost that vital connection with the plant world, we know what longer understand even little kids probably don't even know where the eggs come from from the chickens, and so we live in a very sterile environment and we should be eating dirt once in a while, you know, and you said belittle, baby should be allowed to crawl around on the dirt, and so stress... We have all these plants and products or herbs that are... Address all those issues from adrenal depletion to inflammatory disease, to sleep disruption, and they all kind of fill in this area of stress-related disease processes did arrive from living under chronic stress of which we all know we're victims of... Right, right. So yeah. The difference between acute and chronic. And so I guess what I was gonna ask you about is, how does that affect with the adrenal gland, what can we do to help that... What are you offering for... Well, basically what happens with chronic stresses that your cortisol levels remain in very high levels all the time and or eventually the adrenals begin to fail, and so there's different stages of adrenal health, most of us are in a stage two or three failure at one point, I felt like I was in a four, which is in pretty bad shape, you don't feel good in the morning when you wake up, you don't sleep good at night, and so there's a bunch of herbs called adaptions that help the body to adapt to stress, and these herbs have been used for thousands of years, all the way from Arabic medicine to Chinese medicine, the European medicine, to help really work at and help the body to come back to a normal state of being or what we call homeostasis.

So yeah, those adaption. So homeostasis, how do these adaptions help to improve... Adrenaline me ask you that again.

How do these adaptation... Do these adaptions improve the body's ability to adapt to stress and things like that, and it's specifically Adrenal Health, is that... And it's one of the interesting things about adaptions that they're able to create balance in homeostasis, and so they really directly a work on the neural indices stem, which are our glands From the testes, ovaries to the adrenal glands that set on earth, kidneys to the Imus, to the pituitary to thyroid, all the other parts of the body that work in conjunction, and so it helps create a balance, it was... For example, Oshawa gon is a good example of that.

It's an herb that will help you go off to sleep at night and yet wake up in the morning and be energized, and it's an old irrevocable spent around for 5000 years, and so basically for that purpose, linemen medicine, what they say is, this gives you the strength of the horse. And so, my feelings are, is a great herb for the older adult population that you know you just don't feel good in the morning, you don't sleep well at night, you have low energy, you have inflammation setting in, and so it's amazing thing of adapters, they're able to create balance.

If your cortisol is too low, it'll bring it up, if it's too high, it'll help bring it down, and it's one of the things that once again, it kinda goes back into another level of really looking at what plants do, but plants actually understand what to do once they get in our bodies.

We just don't understand it anymore, and so the fun thing about that is that you see these profound results with people that have had chronic illnesses for a long time, and then you start working with these herbs and it's like, Oh my gosh, they come back to normal and it's like... That's really an exciting part of it.

So kind of what you're saying, these adapted, They adapt, they kind of adapt and they adapt to your needs, and so it's almost... And I know that many guys probably think sounds crazy, but the pills is a... And it is true that these plants have consciousness too, and so once they get in our bodies, they know what to do, and these are help and your body recognizes this is something useful rather than putting the placebo or putting in a candy-coated, whatever you might be on any lever, from OTC to pharmaceuticals, which are just saying elective constituents, these plants have thousands of active contusions, so they balance, create a balance within the body to help the body, hell and profound ways. Justice nature intended from the very beginning, so how do you take this in the form, is it a supplement or what is an adapted... Well, there's adaptation. We do it in many different ways. We have encapsulated herbs that are adaptive, for example, Oshawa and is a really good example of that.

We grow that Ash Wigan to ride on our farm in Central Oregon, and so it's not only growing on a biodynamic level, but it's also grown here in the United States, what I feel is very important, and so the more local you can get the plants to grow in the area, live or starring printing to understand, those are the arms that will help you maintain health and vitality too, so... Right, and that's... Right, so you're growing it right there.

Well, this is very interesting information, and right now we have to take a quick break, but there is more with Randy in just a moment, don't go away, we will be right to... And welcome back to the mother's market radio show. And we wanna remind you that if you've missed any portion of today's show, you can find us on iTunes by searching mother's market or download the show from our website, mother's market dot com, click the link for radio and listen to the past shows, plus download our Healthy Recipes and money savings coupons, all available at mother's market dot com. And now back to our interview with Oregon Wild harvest founder Randy Boris, and Randy, you mentioned that chronic stress affects the immune system, and could you go on a little bit more detailed at this... Sure, I probably wanna back up just a little bit and talk about acute stress first, and all of us have heard this at least one time in our life, if not more, and as I was so stressed out, I got sick. Absolutely textbook.

Stress does shut down the immune system, if this happens on a daily basis, eventually the immune system doesn't know how to react properly to stressors within this body, within your body, and so suddenly you develop things like inflammatory disease, autoimmune disorders, lupus, you name it, basically all product of chronic stress on a daily basis, and so basically with auto-immune disorders and things like that, adaptions once again, play a very vital role in that, because they not only interact with the neural intercostal to help your glands function better, but they also help balance with the immune system, so it actually, it helps the two to get together, and so the glands being I called the thymus gland, that's here in the middle of our chest, and he's the capital of the immune system, and so what if he's told every day, we don't need you anymore, we don't need you anymore. Pretty soon he said, Well, I guess I'll go on vacation. So suddenly, when that happens, the communication between the immune system and the autoimmune system and all of that other stop starts to break down, and that's when we have things like inflammation set in, and most older adults have some form of inflammation, some sort of form of inflammation, and so that's basically what happens and you also... You're more prone to colds and flu, you don't feel as good all the time, you're gonna catch things easier, and so these are just help to bring that back to a real balance and allow you to be healthier for long-term... Thank you for understanding. And it's true that we are all going through some sort of stress... Absolutely, every day.

Or we can't escape it. So we have to learn how to live with it. Yes, yeah.

So what about adaptions and how can they help with immune health... Well, adaptions actually in conjunction with other herbs like for example, OSHA Ganda combined with the struggles, which is another Tony adaptor denier helps to build and strengthen the immune system, so it has a more proper response to disease process when it happens, and so you actually... You get well faster than you normally would have on that level, does that make... Good enough sense, I think. Yeah, yeah, so you're combining, is that kind of a combine to... But the adaptions give them original, and there's the many adaptions, the list is an Oshawa Ganda, holy Basel, there's a maratha list goes on and on of adaptive curbs that all provide that type of support to the body in some way. American Jensen is a good example. Elite caucus or Siberian ginseng, as it used to be called.

So it really kinda depends on the person, what their ailment is, and you would really have to personalize it... Yeah, and you do, and it's like I always tell people, there's so many adapters, just try one, pick one off the shelf and try it, and in most cases, you're gonna get some results, but if you try a few, you'll find one that really fits you because every herb is different and every personality is different, and so basically herbs have personalities too, and so there's a personality herbs be personality is happy once they're sad UBS or speed herbs or hot herbs, there's cold UBS. And so learning how to... A lot of times it's just if you just smell it and it smells good, it's probably gonna work, it's gonna work well, 'cause we're very connected with the plants, and so problem is what I say, I said earlier, we've lost that connection and we need to gain it back, it's vital to our health, spital to our future. We're at the verge of a health care crisis like we've never seen it's coming, and we all know it, and so the good medicine still comes from the earth, and it always... Well, well, thank you for being the one that's telling us and reminding us that we need to be out there to get dirty, you already play in the dirt... Yeah, playing the dirt. Well, you also mentioned earlier that digestion is also affected by stress, and could you explain what, what I can do to help improve digest in using these tonics?

Sure there. So if the digestive system is shutting down on a regular basis, not told, and we see it daily, and we see it in the news articles, we see it and in advertisements on TV, the stomach problems, and especially with the young women these days, they've never seen young women have digestive disorders like they do now, and it's a common side of stress when you get stressed out, your stomach quite work and your digestion stops, and so chronically on a daily basis that would build up and add to all types of problems from... And the inflammatory disease sets in to at the same time... So you have inflammatory bowel disease. If Crohn's disease, all of these things are a direct relation to stress in our every day environment, and so I have a couple of biodynamic tonics that address those issues.

The other thing with that is that when your digestion shuts down, you no longer produce digestive enzymes, so the food gets stage, and so I have an herb called Happy billing, which is a digests bitter formula that actually improves the production of digestive enzymes, and on top of that I added her like Brock and dandy line and artichoke, and actually help with supporting the liver in helping with elimination and helping the BOAC to work better. And so it's a really taster, it tastes really good. We... One thing I've done with all these tonics as I made him taste great, and so if it tastes good, people would come back and use it and it'll work, as if it's gonna taste nasty, then no one's gonna wanna use it to say, Oh this... I can't do that.

Right.Ranganathan, I have another one that actually is directly right, that too, this called is an herb for liver support and it's called... I can't remember the name right now, royal flush of all things, and say on that one, that one basically is an Erb, the supports liver function and liver function is in parity for a good digestion, produces all the bile, it also detox the body on a daily basis, and so, liver support is a big piece of that puzzle to stay healthy and well, is to clean your liver, because the liver has a really big job, what the liver has to decide is this, is... So all the blood from your digestive system goes to the liver, and the liver has to say, Oh, here's a protein, here's a carbohydrate, here's the vitamin K, what's this red dye number five doing in here, Oh, here's some chemical pesticides, and there's chlorination in my water... Oh my goodness. And so the deliver can't figure out what to do with it, or can't break it down, it stores it and it stores it in the bile salts. And so herbs like Brock dandy line milk, this will actually improve the production of bile, flushes the liver out, it gets into your intestines and is eliminated the next morning and your waste products and so... Amazing thing.

Why do you think Daniel lines continue to try to grow through the bricks and the streets, because they're supposed to be here for us, and what we do, we put round up on them, it's like, Oh my goodness, why are you spray into... It's such good medicine. And Danish does that do dandy line is a very specific herb for liver health and liver support, and that it's a Send... Provides a nutrition delivery as it works as a better... Helping deliver to detoxify. And on that level... So what about brain health?Brain health.

It's a good question. Brain Health, once again, you bring it full circle back around herbs like turmeric that are very specific as anti-inflammatory, most brain disease is from inflammation, and inflammation creates Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson Disease, and all other levels of that, and so, recent studies are showing that fairly therapeutic levels of herbs like turmeric, actually help reduce inflammation in the brain and actually help slow down Alzheimer's disease, these are clinical trials that are being done at this very day, and so a wonderful Erb, a wonderful product has been once again, and I evening's been around for a thousand two years.

Wow, yeah, that's great.

And it helps with inflammation to sogndal comes right back around every time, so... Could you explain to me what complementary herbs are... What we're using for it.

Sure, yeah. complementary as for adapters, complement. The activity from the adaptions are herbs that actually... Let me think how to say this. So a complement ers are, if you can reduce a person's reaction to stress, then you're gonna reduce the demand on their dream glands, and so herbs that are coming in, so through soothing to the central nervous system are actually herbs that would complement the activity of the adaptions and so, for example, if the herbs like skull cap, which is an old traditional adaption called a nerve or nerve tomato, tomato, whatever, that it actually helps soothe the central nervous system, and I've had a lot of moms call me and go, You know, I can take a couple of capsules of skull cap about 30 minutes before the kids come home and I sell right through it, it's a great... It's just enough to take the edge off, but yet not sedate you, and if you add another capsule that then it'll help you go off to sleep at night, and so those are also in our bio-dynamic tonics that are grown on our farms in central Oregon, and so I have a sleep formula called and several others that work on that same level, so once again, you come back around, you look at skull cap, you look at passion flower, oats, all of these different herbs are very common and soothing to the brain into the central nervous system, and as I said earlier, if you can reduce your action, reaction of stress and you're gonna have a lot better response to that stress and less demand on the internal glands, our bodies work on Circadian rhythms, basically, when you wake up in the morning, your cortisol level should be pretty high, by afternoon, they should start to drop down, and by evening when we go off to bed, they should be very, very low. The problem with us these days is that you're up in the morning, you're off to work, you're back in the evening, you had the kids, the dogs and the cats and everybody defeat, then there's laundry to do, and then you lay down in bed and go, Oh, what about the bills, and you start worrying about the bill, and so there's herbs like this, like the valerian, the skull cap, we have sleep formulas that actually called Sweet Dreams, that'll help you go off to sleep at night, and you wake up in the morning refreshed. And so it's sleep deprivation number one, another thing that gives you really bad health if you don't sleep well at night, then pretty soon you start to get it and you don't feel as good as you do, you have no energy, you don't have... Your sleep patterns are too inconsistent, and so we need at least a good straight four hours at the minimum, every night of REM sleep that helps you go into that deep sleep where your body, in your mind actually replay so herbs to help to do that without... This big hangover thing that comes with some of the pharmaceuticals and some of the over-the-counter drugs, and it doesn't affect you that way, it's just a lot different and helping to reduce stress. Well, that's good to know. And so it sounds like you have addressed the basic needs of someone who's living with under chronic stress, but we also, how close do you feel that is most important? That one can do, what can you recommend to stay healthy? What can I recommend to stay healthy, you don't want me to get me started on this one... Well, number one, you know by organic food, number one, number two, do you not eat processed food, things like that, clean water is in parity for health exercises in party Farhat, if you don't have a healthy diet, it doesn't matter the herbs or any medicine that people may be trying to take... They're not gonna work as well if you don't have a good foundation with good food and your belly, meaning lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and good... Plenty of exercise then. We're never gonna be healthy.

So get up protein the TV, take a walk in the evening. As a lot of people say, You take a walk and clear your head... Absolutely, it clears your mind. You get new blood flow to the brain, and so on that level, it's very important, more so than anything, but that my mission now is bigger than that, and that's what I'd like to talk just a couple of minutes here at the end, is that we're in an environmental crisis right now, and our land is polluted, the soil across the United States is dead of life is basically grows on fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides which end up in our food and end up in our bodies. And so, even for global warming, organic farming and biodynamic farming both help to sequester carbon, and that's an important thing to talk about, because if we stop using all the fossil fuels to this day and stopped... Went to completely clean energy. Where is the carbon? It's still in the atmosphere, how do we get it back down to the soil, if we can get 2% of the farm ground in the United States as organic, we're gonna start to bring more carbon out there that we're putting in is at simple. And so now my mission is working with local commercial farmers and letting him know, put a cover crop in in the winter time, and the next thing to do, I'm trying to get... I'm working in the future to get subsidized money from the government to pay the farmers to grow these cover crops, because it's our answer to the problem, or Mother Earth in trouble. The sea is gonna be dead in 50 to 60 years, I might think I'm crazy, but look at the statistics, look at this research, it's showing it global warming is a big deal, so I'm trying to do my part from by and land, talking to the farmers and farming organically and biodynamic arise that we have these plants here for the future and we are hearing in the future, so... Wow, well, good luck to you, and thank you for what you are doing. And you are making a difference.

That's very important.

Yeah, very important.

My kids, grandkids, boys.

I want him to have a good place to live.

Well, you're definitely making an indelible mark, thank you so much for your time, Randy, and some great advice, and we really appreciate your knowledge and look forward to having you on again, but in the meantime, you can get more information on Randy and his website. It is Oregon's wild harvest dot com, and we look forward to your next visit.

Thank you so much, thank you.

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