Hello there!

I’m Helen, a clinical herbalist with a passion for making health and wellness feel easy to understand, accessible, and for helping you understand your body so that you know what is best for yourself.

I started learning about herbs and health about 25 years ago after losing my only brother to his medical care; it took me a very long time to get over his loss and I wanted to find a way to prevent what we had gone through as a family from happening to anyone else- if there was a way to prevent it. The more I started researching and learning, the more I realized that there are a tremendous amount of things we can control in our day to day lives, beginning with our nutrients (our diet) and with filling in the gaps of what we may be missing (dietary supplements, herbs) and with using plants and plant medicines to help us heal (outside of emergencies).

I studied cellular and molecular biology, fell in love with physiology, and began down a path of learning Ayurveda, the ancient medical system of India_ one of the forefathers of Eastern Medicine that does such a wonderful job of incorporating lifestyle, your personality, your genetics, and everything that makes you unique into what should be the rituals and foods that keep you the most balanced. I finished my program in India where I did weeks of intense hospital rounds and clinical internships, and came home to my very western city of LA to open a practice.

I quickly realized that we want alternative and eastern medicine to behave as the same ‘quick fix’ medicine that we use allopathic medicine to be, and that my Old World perspective wasn’t going to be much help in a world view that wants efficacy with little effort or investment. I dove into Functional Medicine, a system that studies health and focuses on lab testing and physiology in order to prevent disease. This blend shifted me from an old world herbalist into a research and data driven clinician, which ultimately led me to complete my Master’s in Herbal Medicine Product Design and Manufacture- which is a long way of saying that I know how to make medicine.

As a clinician, I sit down with you to interpret your symptoms, read your labs, assess the experience of health that you are having, and I build you a carefully planed protocol to help you find balance. I also formulate products, work with start ups, consult on product development, conduct scientific research, develop innovative dietary supplements and have a knack for marketing. My strengths in formulating herbal medicine include considerations to proper phytochemical constituent extractions, safety, dosing, toxicity, Good Manufacturing Practices and interpreting analytics. I have spent a lot of years making medicinal extractions, herbal oils, Ayurvedic skincare products and in blending customized formulas for the specific needs of clients, and it is what I love to do the most.

In clinical practice, I focus on what health looks like —for you. Most people want to be healthy, but they aren’t sure what that feels like, how to get there, or what it even takes to reach that point. I look deeper into symptoms as signals for imbalance and search to find the reason they are showing up. I make an effort to explain your physiology back to you so you understand how your lifestyle may be contributing to your discomforts, and to help you understand how simple changes can have a massive impact. This empowers you to make decisions for your health from a place of intuition, balance and stability, it helps you trust your body more, and it teaches you how to listen to what your body is trying to tell you so that you can always make a good decision for your health. You are a bio-individual and there is no one else like you walking this planet, and this is something I highly respect and consider when making my recommendations.

There are no magic pills to getting you healthy, but there is a way to tune into making your body run in its most efficient way possible- the way it was designed to. Herbs are amazing at getting you there, but it is your efforts that make the biggest difference. This is the central focus of my practice.

Everything in your life should support you feeling your best.

*Helen Magnani, AWP & HHC is a wellness practitioner solely working to educate you on your health options. She does not claim to cure or treat specific diseases. Please consult your primary care physician before beginning any alternative healing program, before starting on a new supplement or herbal regimen, or before adding any new dietary supplements to your existing medications.

All information is intended for educational purposes only.