Kerry Hughes, M.Sc., RH(AHG), FDN-P

Ethnobotanist, Clinical Herbalist and Author, Kerry Hughes – with a 20-year record-of-success in natural products- is driven by a tenacious fascination with the potential health enhancing role plants and nutrients can play.

Kerry’s love of natural products has compelled her to write and speak frequently on a variety of subjects. Her writing includes the recently published Botanicals With Benefits: Establish a New Relationship with your garden (2021), as well as these in-depth text books: Socio-Ecological Systems and Decoloniality: Convergence of Indigenous and Western Knowledge (Springer, in press); The Incense Bible, Taylor & Francis (2007), one of the first scientific reviews & examinations of incense, The Health Professionals Guide to Dietary Supplements, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (2006), a peer-reviewed guide to herbs and nutritional supplements, and Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements, Haworth Press (2002) an in-depth text-book on the medical aspects of many of our top supplements. Additionally, she has authored over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on various natural product topics.

Kerry is an Ethnobotanist, a Functional Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P), a Registered Herbalist (AHG), and an Advanced Australian Bush Flower Essence Practitioner. She is also a formulator for several top herbal brands, a teacher at the Berkeley Herbal Center & The Herbal Academy of New England. Kerry has a background in Ethnobotany and Biochemistry, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, and a Master of Science degree in Agriculture with an emphasis in Ethnobotany and Soil Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.

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