PODCAST · health
Botanical Biohacking
by Dr. Andrew Miles & Dr. Xuelan Qiu
Discover the tradition and science of plant-based medicine to help you live stronger, smarter, and maximize your genetic potential. www.BotanicalBiohacking.com
Episodes
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Can Religion Help Heal Chronic Illness?
Dr. Andrew Miles breaks down research suggesting that religion may influence recovery, heart health, mental health, and pain in ways modern wellness advice often overlooks. After 20 years in Chinese medicine, Andrew noticed a pattern: people experiencing major turnarounds from chronic illness…
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Your Hidden Mastery
The more carefully experts watch themselves, the worse they get. That counterintuitive truth sits at the heart of this episode, where Dr. Andrew Miles shows why real mastery often looks like clumsiness - and why overthinking can destroy performance, healing, and flow. Drawing from martial arts,...
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Healing Burn Out in a Most Unusual Way
What if the advice to "calm down" is exactly wrong when your system is stuck? This episode explores a remarkable story about Huo Tuo, one of history's most extraordinary physicians, and the idea that some emotional blockages may need activation—not relaxation. Andrew Miles unpacks the legendary...
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Your Eyes and Your Heart
In this episode, you'll learn: - Why the eyes can offer clues about nervous-system arousal - How the pupils, noradrenaline, and alertness are linked - Why narrow, screen-focused attention can keep the mind activated - How widening your visual field may help signal safety and relaxation - What...
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Hidden Borders of Your Life
What if the things holding you back aren't obvious and aren't fate? In this episode of the Botanical Biohacking Podcast, Dr. Andrew Miles explores how subconscious barriers can shape our health, habits, and sense of what's possible. Andrew shares a simple practice that prompted unexpected…
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Grief which Tears the Flesh
Dr. Josh Park and Dr. Andrew Miles Grief does not just live in your mind. It can affect your gut, your heart, and even your immune system. This episode explores how ancient Chinese medicine and modern neuroscience both point to a striking truth: loss can become physical, even when the suffering…
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Liao Fan part 2: The ledger
A fortune teller says your future is fixed, and for most people, that can become a life sentence. This episode explores how one man challenged that prediction, changed his trajectory, and discovered that what looks like destiny may be a pattern that can be changed. Dr. Andrew Miles tells the…
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Seeing Lights
Seeing lights while meditating can be alarming or lead people to fantastical conclusions. Here Danel Zhang, an inheritor of the Wu Liu pai school fo Taoist yogic Alchemy describes what is really happening and I add some musings based on current neuroscience. Neither believe nor disbelieve what…
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Change Your Destiny: Liao fan Part 1
What happens when a fortune teller can name your exam results, your promotions, and even the exact hour of your death? One Chinese scholar's life is shaped by a prophecy so precise it seems impossible to escape. Until the real question becomes whether fate is fixed, or whether the brain learns...
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Why Your Heart Rate Can Make People Trust You or Pull Away
What if the way people respond to you is being shaped before you say a word? In this episode, Dr. Andrew Miles explores how heart rate variability (HRV), nervous system regulation, and emotional synchrony may influence trust, conflict, and connection. From couples caught in escalating arguments…
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Space
The episode delves into the philosophy of herbal use, emphasizing that more isn't always better. It introduces three main approaches to health, highlighting the importance of creating space for healing. Modern health challenges, particularly the 'heart coldness' prevalent in today's society…
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Is Billionaire Brain Training Legit
I paid enough to buy a car for billionaire brain training. Was it worth it?
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Bai Zhi Angelica Dahurica and the white rabbit fairy
A scholar meets a rabbit fairy?? to discover how his headaches are caused by an imbalance in his gut brain axis? Yep, apparently Song dyansty college students were doing shrooms.
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Four Essentials for Expertise
What really makes an expert? 10,000 hrs is not enough, there are four criteria which must be met for true expertise.
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Cannabis Research Isn't Medicine
Nuance matters, remember the faucet.
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Secret to my practice style
A clinical case study with my approach to practice management interwoven into it. Follow this if you want to enjoy exponential growth. Kind of do it, if you only want to grow a little. Do the opposite if you want to be spinning your wheels in 20 years still out trolling for new patients.
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How I escaped a burning skyscraper in China
How I escaped a burning skyscraper in China
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Tech Bro Stoicism is Weak
Discover what is missing from modern remixes of stoicism and how looking deeper can lead you to have a richer and more fullfilling life.
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What Ancestral Diets Get Wrong and How to Fix Them
There is one glaring oversight that is hijacking anscestral diets from being truly beautiful.
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Can we finally measure qi?
Can new imaging finally provide objective measurement of qi?
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Why You Should Make Casinos (And social media) Your Guru
What if you could reverse engineer the way even wealthy people can be brought to ruin and use that as a guide for success? We explore casinos and social media and turn the predators into our teachers.
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Aphrodisiac Bacteria?
Discover how to cultivate sexy bacteria to help you heed the call of spring this mating season.
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Permission to Thrive
How do we lose the innate instinct for self care? How do we start thriving again?
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Natural Athleticism
Like a stringed instrument your connective tissue can get out of tune leaving your uncoordinated, in chronic pain, and accident prone. Discover the simple concepts behind an ancient exercise ritual to get undeserved strength, speed, and flexibility and restore your natural athleticism.
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Oregano
Used since at least the bronze age, this common kitchen spice may deserve a second glance.
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Mold Remediation and Health with Ben Wiscombe and Brehan Crawford L.Ac
Mold remediation specialist Ben Wiscombe and Brehan Crawford L.Ac discuss internal and environmental mold remediation, how it contributes to chronic illness, and what to do about it.
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Twilight States
There is a waking dream which underlies logic as the sea beneath a boat. We think much of the boat and perhaps too little of the sea and her tides. Logic and genius alike are built upon these dreams and symbols and the more we deny them the hungrier and more dissatisfied we become with life. It…
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Robert Chu on simplicity, the Yi Jing, and Tung Style Acupuncture
Robert Chu PhD. L.Ac, QME has specialized in Tung and Classical Acupuncture methods for over 20 years. He is the founder of the International Tung's Acupuncture Research Association. ITARA He lectures Internationally and is an adjunct professor in the DAOM program at Emperor's College and...
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Healing with Poisons
Dr. Yan Liu explores the role of poison in medicine from the levels of acute care, chronic care, and the tradition of nourishing life for supplementing body and brain function. We dive into the darkest aspects of medicine in order to illuminate it for the future.
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Scumbag Celebrity Doctors:
Tom Whalen MD and Brehan Crawford discuss scumbag celebrity doctor Mercola and common natural health scams linked to misinformation.
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Mushroom coffee
Discover how to make mushroom coffee that will make an significant impact on your mental performance, creativity, and clarity.
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Honouring Yin with Brodie Welch
Brodie Welch is a Licensed Acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist, and self-care strategist. Brodie helps self-aware, high-achieving women break the cycle of stress, overwhelm, and self-sabotage so they can enjoy the lives they're working so hard to create, and truly embody self-respect.…
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How your immune system can repair or destroy your brain with Dr. Ayla Wolf
Just ...listen to this one. Its a little over an hr and well worth it.
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Why Big Pharma Can't Heal You (Yet)
Modern Medicine still rests on the old biology. This has been a tremendous gift, but its only part of the picture. It leaves a lot of diagnostic noise which makes treating chronic disease challenging. The new biology looks at the body as a series of ecosystems and seeks to cultivate them like a...
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Anxiety Relief, NRF2, and Free and Easy Wanderer (Xiao Yao San)
Anxiety and Depression are linked with inflammation. Key regulator of the cellular antioxidant response NRF2 may play a role. Discover how an ancient herbal formula may help us better understand the relationship between depression and inflammation as well as the role of metabolites as possible...
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Corydalis topicals with Eliz Erman-Britton
Corydalis has been used for pain and was a major herb in formula for opiate addiction following the Chinese opiate wars. Discover how its use as a topic can relieve pain and enhance quality of life for those suffering from sharp or throbbing pain associated with blood stasis.
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Five Stages of Digestion with Wade Lightheart
Wade has lived in ashrams, competed at the Mr. Universe as a drug free vegetarian, written several books, and co-founded a nutrition company. He's also served as an advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute. Why is this good for you? Because you get to discover how enzymes can help you look...
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Our 10 Star Rating System for Legit Natural Medicine.
This is our filter for tradition and science in natural medicine. This is a huge time saver that can save you from wasting time and energy. It helps keep you focussed on the time tested, evidence backed natural health practices that actually work.
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Jin Zhao on The One True School of Classical Chinese Medicine.
With his Ph.D in the various schools of Chinese Medicine, Dr. Jin Zhao is uniquely positioned to reveal the one true school of Classical Chinese Medicine.
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Is idealizing ancient Chinese Medicine holding you back? Jin Zhao weighs in.
Dr. Jin Zhao is a 5th generation doctor with his Ph.D in the history and development of schools of thought in Chinese Medicine. He is a professor and a very busy clinician who sees over 200 patients a day. He holds that mastery is not about esoteric knowledge or secret techniques, but better...
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Tiger King, Horny Cat Ladies, and Toxoplasmosis
In this whiskey fueled discussion kilt clad Herbalist Brehan Crawford discusses The Tiger King, Horny cat ladies, and a dangerous parasite linked to behavioral changes. Discover the herbs shown to kill this parasite.
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Temperature, Herbs, and Gene Expression
After a round of antibiotics Cathy felt exhausted and was losing her memory. Her job was suffering as a result. By using herbs to "warm" her gut she recovered. What is behind the thermal nature of herbs? Recent studies have shown that it may have to do with gene expression with regard to...
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White Gibbon's Secret to Agility
Stillness gives birth to movement. We explore a top down and bottom up approach to aligning the major joints of the body (seven stars) for greater tensegrity and then springing into life with white gibbon footwork. I then talk about the fabled "Lightness skill" of martial arts fantasy and explore...
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Pandemic Garden -Patchouli, huo xiang
Patchouli, aka Huo xiang is great for damp loving pathogens and you can grow it fairly easily. We explore its cultivation, uses, and recipes.
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Tantric Secrets for Quarantine
I learned some amazing Tantric Sex Secrets on Qing Cheng Mountain. If you apply these I guarantee it will improve your entire life. Discover where Tantra, Daoist sexuality, and botanical medicine converge and how you can apply this internal alchemy immediately.
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How to stop a virus using breathwork
We can't always reach for medicine. We can't always depend on others for healthcare, but as long as we are breathing, we can adjust our breathing to halt viral transcription. This is knowledge every human should have to keep our global tribe healthy.
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Dr. Sandra Subotich's 3 Herbal Formulas for Covid-19 Relief
Dr. Sandra Subotich got a call from an old friend. Her partner had just returned from Mardi Gras and was infected. Soon after she fell ill. Discover the three herbal formulas which she used to break the fever and return back to a normal life.
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Corona Virus Covid-19 Successful Case Study
Dr. Jin Zhao has been working with a team of TCM doctors to successfully treat patients with the Corona virus (Covid-19) both in an integrative setting and using botanical medicine alone.
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Dr. Ayla Wolf and Dr. Clayton Shiu on Neurology and Chinese Medicine
Dr. Ayla Wolf and Dr. Clayton Shiu discuss neurological testing and Chinese Medicine as well as their upcoming classes.
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Discover the tradition and science of plant-based medicine to help you live stronger, smarter, and maximize your genetic potential. www.BotanicalBiohacking.com
HOSTED BY
Dr. Andrew Miles & Dr. Xuelan Qiu
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