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Meet Your Coach

Welcome to my site! My journey into herbalism began in 1995 when I was 15 through the expert teachings of my Grandmother who was a Holistic Herbalist and Holistic Health Practitioner.

She awoke in me a life long passion to understand the bioactive compounds in herbs, how we can optimally extract and absorb them, and how those compounds interact with our physiology.

Where I differ from other herbalists is that I combine modern scientific research with traditional wisdom to find where they meet.

My herbal sourcing guide and herbal protocols are a distillation of my continual research, personal experimentation, and coaching of over 400 clients.

My Credentials

~ Certified Holistic Health Practitioner
~ Master’s Degree in Nutrition
~ Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
~ Certified Holistic Herbalist
~ Certified Natural Chef

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Herbal Sourcing Guide

Knowing which herb you want to take is only a small portion of the work to get to the benefits you desire. My free Sourcing Guide exists to close that gap and helps you:

1. Choose the correct species of the herb by knowing its specific scientific name.

2. Learn which portions of the herb do what (i.e. leaf, root, berry, etc.).

3. Know how to properly prepare the herb to maximally extract the bioactive compounds (i.e. whether those compounds are water-soluble, alcohol-soluble, or fat-soluble).

From there, I point you to vetted, high quality online sources that I personally use and recommend to my coaching clients.

And here's the part that makes this guide different from nearly everything else online: there are no affiliate links. Not one. The only thing steering these picks is my 31 years of learning what quality actually looks like.

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Herbal Protocols

When it comes to your health, taking a chance is not a good approach. If you search "best herbs for acid reflux" — or stress, or energy, or sleep — you'll be presented with two options: 1. AI answers that are not nuanced and could be totally incorrect (AI hallucinations are still a thing) or 2. 100's of web articles with content that is hard to vet and contains loads of affiliate links.

I built these protocols as the antidote. Each one answers one health goal honestly. Just the herbs that work (including supporting research), what form to take them in (tea, tincture, oil infusion, or salve), when to take them, and no affiliate links.

Every recommendation is tiered on my Evidence Scale, so you always know whether an herb is backed by human clinical research, supported by promising early science, or carried by generations of traditional use — because those are three very different kinds of knowing, and after 31 years of practicing across Western, Ayurvedic, and Chinese herbal traditions, I've learned to respect all three without confusing them for each other.

Browse by what you're facing, and start where it matters most to you.

 © 2026 Tristan Anderson LLC

My herbal sourcing guide and herbal protocols are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.