Root System Medicine: Healing the Whole Person with Herbalist Donnie Yance
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Kris Ashley interviews herbalist Donnie Yance about his holistic approach to healing through Root System Medicine.
What if the most effective path to healing begins by strengthening the person rather than focusing exclusively on the disease? In this episode of **Change Your Mind with Kris Ashley**, Kris sits down with internationally recognized clinical master herbalist and certified nutritionist **Donnie Yance** to explore Root System Medicine—his whole-person approach to botanical medicine, nutrition, spirituality, lifestyle, and integrative oncology. Donnie explains why physical symptoms cannot always be separated from emotional health, stress, sleep, relationships, purpose, and spiritual well-being. He shares how the Mederi model combines ancient healing wisdom with modern scientific research to create personalized systems of care designed to make the body more resilient, efficient, and capable of healthy regulation. The conversation explores adaptogenic herbs, stress recovery, food as medicine, fermented foods, ancient grains, nutritional deficiencies, immune health, personalized cancer support, and the importance of combining different healing tools rather than searching for one miracle solution. Donnie also opens up about a profound near-death experience, his time in a Franciscan…
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