About this episode

Maria Noël Groves discusses the importance of gut health and how herbs can support digestion and overall vitality.

Gut health isn’t just about digestion: it’s the foundation of whole-body balance. Clinical herbalist and author Maria Noël Groves brings a practical and deeply empowering perspective to the conversation, helping demystify gut health and showing how herbs can gently and effectively support digestion and long-term vitality. Maria is the author of several books, including but not limited to Body into Balance and Herbs for Gut Health . She is a clinical herbalist and herbal medicine teacher with more than 2 decades of experience and a registered professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. Her business, Wintergreen Botanicals, is based in Chichester, New Hampshire. In our conversation, Maria shares… Why gut health matters—and why it’s about so much more than digestion Key signs your digestion is out of balance (and signs it’s healing) Common root causes of gut issues and what realistic healing timelines look like How herbs support gut health and the microbiome An herbalist’s perspective on heartburn, GERD, leaky gut, and food sensitivities And so much more! You can learn more about Maria Noël Groves and her work here .  Are you ready to take your herbal learning to the…

People in this episode

Guest: Maria Noël Groves

Topics covered

• gut health
• herbal medicine
• digestion
• vitality
• microbiome
• healing

Keywords

• gut health
• herbs
• digestion
• vitality
• GERD
• leaky gut
• food sensitivities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Herbalists Guild, Wintergreen Botanicals

Books & works: Body into Balance, Herbs for Gut Health

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