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I've traveled the world in search of medicinal plants and herbs and I've literally encountered thousands of them.
But none quite like rodeo -- It is by far my favorite medicinal plant because of its long laundry list of health benefits.
And now some psychiatrists.
Are prescribing this Siberian -- to their patients.
Who are battling depression.
Two things have gotten 64 year old Juliette Bergmann threw the last ten years her dog Napoleon.
End turning to natural medicine to cope with the devastation she lived through on September 11 2001.
The moment that.
I said Donald.
But I'm past the missiles land.
Kept saying hit us and it'll haunt.
To my best I that I -- -- it -- fat food that's wrong.
An analyst for the Department of Transportation.
-- office was on the 82 floor of the north tower.
But -- -- -- -- bound books from a book based nearby.
Funny bone.
-- intense.
Exclaimed.
-- times oh my god oh my god -- -- gun.
It took -- -- two hours to escape the building.
Which she had worked -- since it opened in 1973.
Pants and flats were -- typical work wardrobe.
But on that day in he'll send a skirt she navigated the smoke filled hallways.
Those odds.
Okay.
And I knew they had been past that now -- guy who managed by myself.
-- also survived the 1993.
World Trade Center bombings and figured she would evacuate the same way.
But two men who worked on the 85 floor wouldn't take no for an answer.
They put in my my hands than the aspects of and I -- that there are looking.
And -- -- and and so then why am I.
As they made it to the mezzanine level in the north tower the south tower collapsed.
The bad guys that -- and then I went off.
And then I -- suffocate pink.
I accept that.
She calls the two men who helped her angels and.
Until then we found that they -- back so it's okay and did accept the bag it's fine.
-- -- -- -- -- Juliette and her angels escapes death that day.
But she was left with severe posttraumatic.
Stress disorder several anti depressants helped for -- while.
But she still didn't feel better.
Aside that that's what kind of -- guy -- methodical pace than mine and mile.
My hands got the Passaic.
That in my speechless.
My movement was nice at all.
She gained 35 pounds and continued taking medication.
After nearly eight years Juliette sought another solution.
At -- stress reduction workshop she met doctor Richard Brown.
He's a psychiatrist.
And the coauthor of the road -- whole revolution.
Julia like.
Some people who experienced on eleven.
Very directly.
You know was very courageous but the -- -- -- and energy to survive.
Produces section drain on the nervous system.
That in their system can be completed in a day.
Doctor brown and his wife Patricia -- Bard who also is a psychiatrist.
Have been studying the -- Brody Lola since 1994.
That's when doctored or -- was sick with Lyme Disease.
She had been told that she would have to retire early.
Because she was so weak and simple tasks like we're calling a phone number became too difficult.
But within just ten days of taking Brody Lola there was a transformation.
We were shocked I had started taking it because we thought it might resources need some energy.
But it also seemed to help the brain -- heal from whatever damage they suffered from the infection.
Rodeo it is and adapt to -- which means that it offers broad benefits to help you cope.
With all forms of stress.
Whether -- brain -- or a must fulfill.
You'll be able to do more and do it for longer and hopefully.
Be more robust and not as susceptible to being damaged.
Doctor brown suggested -- give it a try.
And after just 48 hours she felt a shift.
That's changes.
You dog.
And -- home since -- to.
I got lots of it before Iowa isn't -- of it that.
Eight I was let's say.
We'll look at them without them casesa.
And I.
Juliette says she felt energized and started working out with the trainer and redecorating -- apartment.
Tasks she was too tired and uninterested in before.
Today Juliet takes three rodeo look pills a day and no longer needs anti depressants.
Although this isn't always the case for every one doctor's brown and her bark have had similar results -- -- patience.
So we used a lot in depression.
I've also used the -- a lot for people.
Who.
Are experiencing.
Fatigue or mental -- I would say 80% of people were helped to a greater or lesser degree -- 20% neither they didn't feel anything.
Or rarely they would feel more anxious.
Juliette says she has gotten her zest for life back but she will never forget the day that changed her life forever.
She kept the sweat stained and -- -- clothes she wore on that Tuesday.
Along with a plaque that once hung in her office that was miraculously recovered from ground zero.
She hopes to donate them and her post card collection of the World Trade Center towers to a museum one day.
Now that she's retired she has a long list of things she wants to accomplish.
I who was.
Just.
Going for the motion thought -- speak.
That's.
Who can back and sold today and night and -- and I got the best that -- thought -- And it's.
That's led the -- thinking for the first time since then -- ads.
In my experience with Brody Lola I've never had any side effects some people may feel jittery or experience vivid dreams at first.
Doctor girl -- warns that people with bipolar disorder or other conditions may have adverse effects.
So you should check with your doctor first before starting rodeo law.
For more information visit have a healthy mines dot com.
I'm Chris Killen for Fox News health.
