57. The Soil-Gut Connection That’s Quietly Making You Sick with Zack Bush

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Welcome to Rooted in Wellness with me, Wellness Advocate and Holistic Nutritionist,
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Mona Sharma.
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Together we will take a journey to discover natural healing practices from imbalance to balance,
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guided by ancient wisdom and modern scientific insights.
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I was raised living summers on an ashram, so I learned early on that food is medicine,
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and your kitchen is your greatest source of health care and prevention.
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After facing two heart surgeries, anxiety and weight challenges, I discovered that just
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because your symptoms are common doesn't mean that they are normal.
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Together with some incredible guests, we will explore the power of our mind, body and
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soul connection, returning to our roots to rediscover our greatest well-being.
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What if the reason you feel disconnected, inflamed or unwell isn't in your head, but in
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the soil?
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In today's episode, I sit down with renowned physician and regenerative health pioneer,
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Dr. Zach Busch, to explore the root causes of our modern health crisis, from chronic
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disease to gut dysfunction to anxiety, fertility and immune collapse.
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Spoiler, it's all connected.
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We talk about the rise of glyphosate and chemical farming, how soil depletion mirrors our own
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biological breakdown, and why healing the planet and healing ourselves are one and the same.
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Zach shares powerful insights on mitochondrial damage, tight junctions, leaky gut, and how
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most of what we call healthcare is actually disconnecting us from the intelligence of nature
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and our own innate ability to heal.
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If you've ever felt overwhelmed by protocols disconnected from your body or stuck in survival
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mode, this episode will bring you back to what matters as he paints a beautiful picture
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of what the future may hold for us.
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Dr. Zach Busch is a triple-bored certified physician, founder of Farmers Footprint and
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Ion, which is intelligence of nature, and a global voice for regenerative health and planetary
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healing.
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This morning when I dropped my kids off to school, I love that they've got a gardening
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program, but it's one day weak where they work with someone who comes in for about one
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hour and they get that opportunity to get their hands dirty.
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But outside of that, when I walked my son and my daughter in, there's food programs
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in LA, through L-U-S-D, and when we walk in, we see non-fat, non-organic milk, which
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is basically sugar water, with some pesticides and herbicides, I'm imagining, Doritos, Cheerios,
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coffee cake, and then on the hot bar, there are foods that are sitting in plastic overheat
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for hours and hours, but the time the kids get there and start school first thing in
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the morning.
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And I'm often meant just as a mom, I care deeply about these kids, and I understand
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the value of these programs to put food into these children.
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But I'm also so upset with what we know today, and just the history of what we know our
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constitution needs to thrive in the rise of issues that our kids are suffering from.
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It never seemed so many obese kids on the playground before.
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So can we maybe use that as a segue to your introduction to soil and how that relates
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to the disconnection that as adults, but also children in our schools have to soil today?
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Yeah.
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So this story really kind of got moving, or momentum building in the 1960s, 70s, and
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then really took off in the 80s.
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So following World War II, we changed our relationship to soil deeply.
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For the first time in human history, we started using chemical inputs as a primary way
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of growing food.
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So this was chemical inputs like urea nitrogen and the classic one is the MPK fertilizers
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and nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, largely from fossil fuel sources that were then
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being poured as chemicals upstates into our farm fields to shortcut good soil management,
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things like crop rotation and composting that have been used for tens of thousands of years.
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You would recall we went into the dust bowl in the 1920s and 30s because of overplowing.
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So we overplowed through monoculture crop production in the United States, and we destroyed
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the entire Midwest basically.
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And so we had a whole town that were being buried in what had been top soil a couple years
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ago and was now just fine dust, in particular, they were choking on literally.
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And so we had starvation going in the middle of the United States, which for most people
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is hard to imagine unless you've been to the Midwest in the last couple of years and realize
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we're repeating the pattern.
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We now have deep starvation in the United States, one in five children in Kansas, which is
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our most agricultural state, 90% of the land is used for agricultural use, one out of five
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of its children in that state go to sleep hungry without enough calories at night.
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And so with 20% of your children in your most agricultural state, not able to find food,
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you see this big disconnect between soil, whatever's being grown in it and the human consumer.
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And those got decoupled severely in the 1960s, 70s, 80s.
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So it was overplowing dust bowl, chemical recovery from the dust bowl instead of good
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soil management.
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And so then for 20, 30 years, it looked like a boon and it was like, wow, we just pour
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urea nitrogen and MPK fertilizers in these soils, everything grows green.
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It's going to be a boon.
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We're going to feed the whole world.
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So that's when we kind of rebranded the Midwest as the bread basket to the world and we
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were in feed the feed the world and starvation because American farmers were the best.
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By the 1970s, there were stressors in the system.
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By the 1970s, two decades into this chemical inputs, we were seeing really high rates
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of invasive pests, insects, weeds, et cetera, taking over those farm fields.
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And it turns out that's biology's response to a monoculture is it starts sending in helpers
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to you.
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Nature doesn't understand monoculture, she doesn't understand 10,000 acres of corn, that doesn't
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make any sense in any biologic model.
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That's not a model of resilience, it's not a model of health, that's not a model for survival
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at the biologic level.
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If you don't have biodiversity per cubic centimeter, you lose intelligence, lose repair, lose
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the immune system function of plants, animals, et cetera.
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The solution to that that nature does is creates all kinds of biologic checks and balances
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to make sure that if there's a monoculture we're sending these insects, we're going to
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have these seeds pop up from the deep seed bank and now you're calling them weeds and pests
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when in fact they're nature's response to monoculture.
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So our response to that was when we now need chemical herbicides and pesticides.
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So 1950s and 60s with the debut of chemicals like atrazine and the like that still are spread
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on our crops today.
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But then the real explosion happened in 1976 with the debut of the new chemical and kind
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of granddaddy of the mall, which would be glyphosate, which was the active ingredient
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in the new pesticide or herbicide round up there.
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And so that herbicide took over the world quickly because it was so effective, it kills
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weeds on contact within 24 hours and it kills anything you touch it with.
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So very effective, non-selective killer of green things.
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It seems like an obvious caution flag probably should have gone up.
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What's going to happen when it keeps running a chemical that kills everything green?
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And we didn't ask that question and we just kept selling it as safer than water, which
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was the catch phrase that all the agronomists and the salesmen were using for roundup.
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Even by the late 80s, we were starting to see the consequences of that and that first
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consequences is the symptom that you mentioned, which is obesity.
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And so when we look at kids today, or even the 1980s, there was a sudden change from
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like 76 to 82.
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And during the Reagan administration, Nancy Reagan declared the first war on obesity and
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all of this stuff, with calorie intake per kid hadn't changed from 1978 to 1982.
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What had changed was the ability to turn those calories into fuel.
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Those don't actually run on carbohydrates and fats.
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Humans only run on sunlight and electricity.
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And that sunlight electricity is liberated from glucose and fatty acids, carbohydrates
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and fats by the mitochondria that live inside of ourselves.
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And so mitochondria take these long chains of carbon, break them apart, release the energy
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that's sitting inside of there, and then breathe out the CO2.
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So the single carbons that are broken apart.
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It turns out that glyphosate is an extremely potent disruptor of mitochondrial membrane
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potential.
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And when you disrupt that mitochondrial membrane, it can no longer take calories into fuel.
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And so the obesity epidemic that began in the 1980s was necessary result of poisoning
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the workforce inside human cells.
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So these are tiny little microbes that live inside of human cells.
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The average human cell has 200 of these guys living in there.
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If it's a neuron, there's 2,000 mitochondria per cell will get certain fertility at some
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point in the conversation, perhaps.
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But when you've got 200 mitochondria cruising along in every single human cell, and then
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you suddenly poison those, and they're functioning at 30% lower than they were, 30% of those
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calories coming to the kid are going to get cycled back out of the cell and go stored
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in the liver.
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And once the liver is full of fat, then it will start storing it as visceral fat around
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the abdomen, and then eventually peripheral fat in the limbs and et cetera.
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So that's 1980s and five years in, you see the diabetes epidemic.
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So it was really a break between soil, plant and human, and the big disruptor between
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those was monoculture, overplowing, and then these chemical inputs that would disrupt
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mitochondrial membrane potential.
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I've lost count of the amount of lawsuits against Monsanto, and you were the first person
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gosh, when I found you years ago, you created a chart of the onset of autism, ADD, ADHD, obesity
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with use of glyphosate, and yet still a decade later, lawsuit after lawsuit with thousands
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maybe later.
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Thousands, yeah.
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What are the changes?
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So far none, the EPA Environmental Protection Agency in the United States is required to
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do a public hearing every time they go to re-approved roundup or other related chemicals.
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Our team and many others around the world have testified, every one of those open hearings,
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they happen every two or three years.
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This last one that we attended, there was 196 science teams running around the world
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presenting data.
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They are showing that it's a carcinogen showing it disrupts endocrine dysfunction, showing
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it disrupts immune system function, and at the end of it, the director of the panel
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from the EPA, USDA that was there, stood up and said, it turns out that all the science
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representing is very interesting, but it has nothing to do with our regulatory process.
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We can't turn your science into a regulatory decision, but we appreciate things.
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Our question was, well, where's the regulatory form that we can fill out to turn the science
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into that, and she literally said, there is no form, and so that's the kind of situation
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we're dealing with, which is a quote-unquote regulatory agency that seems to be tasked
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with watching for the safety of our food and environmental interactions, and yet they
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don't even have a regulatory process in place, such that the scientists, not paid by them
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or anything else, could actually put into use the science that we've proven.
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So there's just these fundamental blocks of a lack of interest in the government to
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actually enact something that would equate to a wellness program, ultimately you have
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a government that is protecting special interests, and that's been decades in the making
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in, so this is not at all specific to the EPA or the USDA or food, it's really across
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the board.
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You have special interests shaping the way in which a corporatocracy has developed here
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in the United States.
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The sad conclusion of that is not so much economic or industry, the sad conclusion is it's
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our children that are suffering under the weight of this failure to respond to the science,
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and for that I think that the only path forward that we have found as a group is storytelling
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back to the consumer, that we have to change the thing, we can't wait for any government
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to take responsibility for this, we have to take radical responsibility for our households,
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for our communities, for our schools and the rest.
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That is something that makes you so unique, something a really, you know, any person
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who listens to you can feel a spark ignite of wanting to change, you've obviously taken
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it to such a level to realize like you feel almost helpless, right?
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And so we start trickling back down, and you know, in my world the education that comes
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with educating parents and just people about where a food comes from, and the manifestation,
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you know, if you talk about the crops that are sprayed most with glyphosate, when it
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comes to wheat, corn, soy.
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Yeah, soy beans, probably king of them all, all the legumes are very high because they're
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used as a desk in an additional wheat killer.
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So your lentils, your chickpeas, soybeans, all those need to be dry before they're harvested
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or else they mold and can't be transported and can't get the market, especially in
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your more northern climates, northern United States, and very high in your hometowns up
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and Canada there, a little enormous amount of glyphosate residues are put into those foods
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to try those crops at the end of the season before the winter sets in.
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So you got to get that crop out of the ground before the first snow is hit.
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And so you're in there's rush of the farmer and, you know, the change in growing seasons
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makes this even a higher risk situation for every farmer is that, you know, the seasons
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are literally shifting with this climate change that we're in right now.
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And so more and more farmers are finding themselves suddenly, you know, forecast two weeks
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of head of schedule that there's going to be a big storm coming in, but if they get
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out there and they spray their entire soybean crop with roundup within 24 hours, that thing's
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looking dry and then get that thing harvested two days later and they save the crop.
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And so it's really out of the extreme vulnerability that we've put our farmers into financially
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that these kind of damage control tactics are taken that end up putting really high residues
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into our food.
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And that's ultimately poisoning the whole world.
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And Japan, I think, was the very first country to completely ban the importation of any
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crops with roundup residues in there and ultimately banned North American crops.
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And then Germany followed that other European countries started to follow that.
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And so they switched their red basket from the United States and Germany and the others
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in Europe switched to Ukraine.
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And within a few years, the Ukraine war started.
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And we move in with BlackRock and Biopole.
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Their farmland are now transitioning all their farmland from organic to chemical agriculture.
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So this is a pattern that continues to happen is that the relationship between soil, food
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and humans is the biggest power play on the planet.
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And if you control that, you control humans because that residue, that high residue in many
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of these crops that you mentioned are the things that undermine our brains, creative
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capacity, our sense of identity is actually undermined.
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And that's what our lab has done the most work on is really, instead of doing the correlations
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of you spray this much roundup and you have this much disease, we've now spent the last
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15 years detailing out every single cellular pathway that roundup is directly affecting
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human cells and how that leads to disease subsequently.
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That gets pretty fascinating in the end because the very first injury that glyphosate does
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to the human cell is breaks the tight junctions that gut lining in the blood brain barrier.
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The tight junctions look like Velcro, their complex proteins that look like a hook in
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the eye of the Velcro.
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call the gut lining.
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It's one cell they're thick, half the width of the human hair.
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between the outside world and your bloodstream.
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And that thin barrier blows apart when glyphosate touches it and so our lab is first really
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detailed out that relationship between leaky gut and the presence of glyphosate in very
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tiny residues.
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We're now showing mitochondrial changes in tight junction changes as little as two parts
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per billion, which is the lower threshold of detection of this chemical.
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air you're breathing, 10 parts per billion, so the air you're breathing, the rain that's
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falling, all has enough to start to undermine your tight junctions.
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interesting is that when tight junctions break, what's literally happening at the physiologic
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biological level is you're losing your identity.
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And now you look at the mental health crisis, you look at people's sense of identity today,
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very easy to control us if our tight junctions are all broken and we're leaking.
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Yeah, despite our best efforts.
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So we're going to dive into the gut microbiome, but you know, you mentioned all of these foods
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that seem like these steeple natural foods from nature that we should be able to trust.
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I'll never forget when I was pregnant before I really understood glyphosate, mothers
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are told to eat oats, lots of oats every day, and then to help with your breast milk,
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eat more oats, and then learning that it was one of the most broad crops with glyphosate.
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Now if you go down any aisle at the grocery store, when we look at all of the food snacks
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that are labeled healthy and natural and have fiber and fruits and veggies and stuff
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like that, the first ingredient is oats.
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front.
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Is there meaning to organic anymore for buying these things?
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Is organic lentils going to put me at less risk than regular lentils?
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It is less risk.
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Your difference might be 10 fold in the amount of residues that you're being exposed to and
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that's a big difference.
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So it's a yes or always organic and the caveat to that is the work from the environmental
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working group, EWG, they have the clean 15 and the dirty dozen.
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The clean 15 are ones that you probably don't need to spend the extra money on organic
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because the residues are not different.
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those foods doesn't leave the food with much more residues.
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Fortunately, some of those are my favorites like avocado.
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So in avocado, organic and non-organic probably no difference at all.
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The residues are minimally the way strawberries, you're basically just poisoning your child.
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If you put a strawberry on the plate that's not organically grown, it's just the amount
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of residues are off the charts, apples, number two usually behind it.
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But you can go to the dirty dozen and glance across that list.
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It does change a bit season to season, which ones on the top, but those 12 are pretty consistent.
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So once you get that in your head of grocery shopping, you're like, all right, dirty dozen,
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I'm always going organic.
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Clean 15, I'll save the money, go conventional grown.
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So all of those make a difference.
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But when we started the film that was set out to show the relationship between glyphosate
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spraying and cancer rates in the United States, specific to the Mississippi River, which
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was about 85% of our chemical residues end up in that one river, and the highest rates
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of cancer in the entire world are the last 90 miles of that river.
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any up in that last 90 mile miles between Baton Rouge and Orleans, Louisiana, and you've
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got farmers that are on their fifth cancer before they die, you know, it's just unbelievable
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loads in those farmers in particular, but even just the general communities that are
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around there.
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It's just cancer, cancer, cancer.
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So we set out to tell that story and we were devastated when we watched the soil testing
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in our very first film that we stopped that way up in the headwaters up in Minnesota.
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We watched the organic soils performing way less well than the conventional soils that
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were chemically agged, managed.
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The story has to be go beyond organic.
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And so for there, we're looking at regenerative permaculture, biodynamic farming practices,
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and there's a lot of variations of those from continent to continent, from people group
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to people group.
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now in Africa and other large areas.
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It doesn't work.
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markets, so everything's organic that grows.
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the continents and biodynamic and farming kind of fits into that.
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become part of the deeper solution.
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We need super healthy soils, and there's nothing in the organic certification that says
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anything about soil, nutrient density, food quality at all.
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All it says is a long list of things you don't do.
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I don't spray that.
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I don't spray that.
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I don't do that.
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It doesn't really inform the farmer on how to actually create healthy soil or nutrient
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dense food.
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And that's where the regenerative movement is starting to get traction as communities and
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individuals are really starting to demand that for their children.
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And so that's your local farmers market.
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It's a CSA, which is a community-supported agricultural project where you usually sign up
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as a subscription to a farm box.
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And every week you get this incredible box of seasonally locally grown, you know, regenerative
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vegetables, fruits that are growing out of there.
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A lot of those farmers that are growing direct consumer aren't paying the money understandably
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and maybe appropriately to the USDA for the organic certification.
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What's your inspiration?
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Gov is the farm and take advantage of that those farmers in your community.
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Can we come in on Saturdays with our kids and get them exposed to the farm and show them
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how things are done that can help you weed for the two hours, you know, whatever that is.
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So I think that that's the opportunity we're looking at is go beyond the organic label
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and start to really get re-engaged with soil itself.
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I think the regenerative word is something that really matters.
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I hope we see more of that and more people understanding that and I want to dive into that
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because you and I were at an event at one commune with Jeff and we're talking about
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farmers and the challenges that farmers are faced with and growing up, you know, farmers
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in our house, we would believe there are first line of defense when it comes to our health
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care.
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If we don't have food, we can't eat and I'm sure for most of our listeners most of us
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probably couldn't just land on a farm tomorrow and know how to run it and know how to
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grow things without using chemical pesticides.
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When you talked to us about the state of farming today, because I think people are
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understanding, yeah, get to know your farmers, go to the farmers market and stuff like that.
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What is the impact of genuinely building relationship with these farmers who are struggling?
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That's become a one-word definition of regenerative agriculture or regenerative anything is relationship
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and if we don't begin there and we start to say, well, regenerative farming is 15 feet
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cover crop, no plows, seed drill, now you're regenerative, which is what's happening
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around the world right now and has a new regenerative organic certification from Patagonia
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and Rodeil Institute, collaborated to create that ROC, and there's actually 250 other
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certifications that are coming down the pipeline at farmers and farmers are fed up with
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that.
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They're just exhausted of them.
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The burden of proof and the burden of, you know, metroking and reporting, all falling
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on them is really just beyond, you know, fair, we need industries, the cost, the time,
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the labor of making that cert and so basically you're pushing little farmers out every single
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time.
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So every certification is going to be not good for the small farmer and we're seeing about
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6,000, 8,000 family farms go out of business every year in the United States now and largely
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that's not due to just the cost of certs or whatever is due to a lack of secession and
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a lack of finance access or capital access and the reason they can't access capital is
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that if they have run out of the runway for chemical farming, which all of the farms
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in the United States are now just one crop, one season away from failure, so 50% of farms
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are now one crop away from bankruptcy, 50% of our farms.
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force for 30 years under chemical agriculture, which means they have to basically have their
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land on ICU life support at increasing cost every single year.
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There's less life because you sprayed more chemicals in and you treated the crops with
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more chemicals on top.
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So you killed the biological life force within the soil systems and so now you need more
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ICU care.
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If you've ever been in three days in an intensive care unit, you know that's going to
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break your bank.
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You can spend a million dollars in a week and on one patient in the ICU and that's what's
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happening in farms.
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You can spend a million dollars a year on soil inputs now on a single family farm trying
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to resurrect dead soil.
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And so that cost is driving farmers down, so why do they do it?
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US government to create expectations or demands for at the banking level for USDA crop insurance
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and USDA crop insurance is not able to be provided to somebody who's jumping out of the
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conventional farming matrix.
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great product for my consumers.
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They can't get bank loans because they can't get USDA crop insurance.
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They're neighbors spraying the heck out of their environment and the food and everything
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else with chemicals that are killing our children.
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They'll get bank loans all day long.
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They take out banks.
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all of their chemical inputs for the year and pay for all the diesel for driving the trucks
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all over the ground, diesel the second largest chemical behind their precise and pesticides
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really on on any farm.
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USDA crop insurance, which is actually more like a subsidy than it is an insurance program.
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The farmer who decides they're going to do the right thing, they're in the same drought.
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They might still get crop out of the ground because the regenerative organic always does
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better in drought, but they might have a third 30% less.
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That 30% less was their margin.
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at each point of crop insurance bank, bank loans for the inputs.
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And ultimately, a deeper problem now is ownership of their own land.
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A lot of farmers have had to sell their land and are now leasing the land back from other
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owners.
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the piece of land or the farmer.
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They're just using either as a tax shelter or as a long term, you know, covered real
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estate play.
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And suddenly, well, it's the three year out or exit strategy for the fund.
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So the farmer just doesn't get their lease removed.
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And now they're out of luck.
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And they got to go find another piece of land and start all the way over because the
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certifications are for the land, not the farmer.
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And so these are some of the deep lesions we have that are keeping farmers taking 100%
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of the risk with no support from government or peoples.
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And that's why meets your farmer, know your farmer is critical.
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You've got to rebuild this whole farming system from the ground up at the level of human
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relationship.
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Zach, if this was front page news, which it should be, there would be more activism.
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There would be more awareness.
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There would be more people kind of making informed choices every single day.
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I mean, the fact is it is often on the front page news, some, you know, the Monsanto, you
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know, things are always there.
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$260 million settlement for a cancer case.
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It's on our front pages and people are not changing their behavior.
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And so I don't think headlines or science change people.
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And I've just become very convinced over the years that that's the case.
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So what does change people is human story.
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So for farmers for a plan, which is our nonprofit front arm, that's really reaching for our
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engagement with consumers, households, communities and farmers.
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It was farmer stories that were really changing the needle.
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And so we are incredible film team led by an extraordinary woman, Leah, my husband,
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would lay a shot all over the place and create a whole series of short documentaries that
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are three to five minutes long, really digestible on social media and like a farmer's telling
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their family transformation when they change from chemical agriculture into these more holistic
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practices.
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And everyone of them makes you cry.
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They just like the passion of these farmers, the dedication, the risks they took, the
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extremity of their situation that led to their decision to change their behavior and take
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all the risks in making the change.
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It's usually has to do with their children ending up in jail or their child diagnosed with
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leukemia or some other horrible thing that's happened in the family, which is the trigger
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to make the change.
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And then they make this change.
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And nature comes leaping up out of there and wraps their arms around these families.
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And these families find themselves in abundance just a few years later.
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And so that story of farmers saying I went from absolutely at the bottom to abundance
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in a three year period really caught traction, especially those stories where we started
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to see that the farmers there were making the change back to good farming, soil practices
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and then going direct to consumer relationship, we're inspiring the children to come back
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to the farm.
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And so the farmer that's been doing conventional farming and just selling commodities to the
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big market has no idea on how to build a brand, a logo, a website, their kids do because
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their kids got sent off the farm when dead does and they know social media, they know
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marketing strategy.
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So we've seen a lot of kids come back to the farms to start these direct consumer brands
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very successfully and are starting to take over these farms in big ways around the country.
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And so that next generation of kids who left the farm and are coming back to the farm,
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I think will be part of this revolution of regeneration.
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I'm part of the farmers footprint community.
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Thank you.
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If anyone listening, it's an incredible resource not only for information, there are workshops
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that they give tools in order to grow your own food.
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There are, there's so many different practitioners and farmers that you can hear from to continue
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to be inspired.
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So thank you for that.
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Yeah.
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I would go ahead and just a second pump on that is that backyard gardening course.
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So this is gardening one-on-one for somebody who doesn't think they can grow house plant.
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And so this is how you go out back, dig up that monoculture that you have in the backyard
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called Kentucky Bluegrass, put in a small strip of food and then grow that to a
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larger portion of your backyard every year.
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It's so simple and it's so inspiring.
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And if a child doesn't like vegetables, it's only because they've never grown a vegetable.
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And so watching your kids get engaged, watching the household taste real food a few times
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a year even starts to change the way in which that household has a relationship back to
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nature.
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So super potent.
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It's a one-on-one course.
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It's super short time commitment to get through that knowledge base and it's just inspiring.
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It's the best.
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This footprint is how I got my Sunday broccoli.
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Somebody had posted a time lapse video of how grew up broccoli grows and my son wanted
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to grow broccoli.
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So we lived somewhere where there wasn't a garden.
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So we got a big planter and we grew our own broccoli that year.
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So yeah.
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There you go.
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Change is life.
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You said a powerful word which is connection and connection to myself but also to my community
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and to nature was such a big part of my healing.
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Talk about our connection to our soil and what I'm recalling right now is I was on a trip
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to India.
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Was that a spice plantation?
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There was a woman there wearing a t-shirt and it said in nature we trust and this plantation
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was run by women and they took us on a tour to understand how to grow the plants, how
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the herbs, how different spices would grow different times of the year and why the seasonal
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aspect was so important because the microorganisms that were within the soil could actually
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communicate to our system at different times of the year to support our immune system.
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Yes.
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This is before I came in nutritionist.
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Yeah.
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The soil to human health is a direct relationship.
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So we now know that every human disease roots back to a disruption in the microbiome.
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The microbiome is a description of the soil system of the human body.
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There's certainly a micro-macrobiome in soils globally and water systems, everything else.
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But as a catch term, as it's been used in the lay press and everything else, microbiome
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is usually pointing back to the human soil system.
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So that's the gut, skin, and now we know every single organ system of the body, even your
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brain has a normal microbiome living within it to help nurse made it into its optimal health
512
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and that bacteria and fungal, protozole community is producing many, many useful things, obviously
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nutrients, but also detox enzyme pathways, enzyme pathways for feeding and addressing inflammation,
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enzyme pathways that will kill cancer cells, all kinds of wonderful things.
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They also produce the communication network.
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And so our supplement that we derived from fossil soils is called ion, intelligence of nature
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being the whole story there, nature builds its intelligence through biodeverse systems.
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So when you get enough species of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, playing in the same environment,
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they each contribute to a massive communication network and that communication network is something
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that Bob chemistry level called redox singling, but it's really working like your cell phone.
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And so we've got roughly six billion cell phones on the planet right now or something.
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And so those six billion cell phones have our absolute useless as a communication tool
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if the wireless communication network's not there and that wireless communication network's
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not coming from your cell, it's coming from the towers that are spaced out every couple
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kilometers of its 4G, every couple blocks if it's 5G, so you've got all these cell phone
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towers everywhere that are the wireless communication network that connects the cells together.
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Human biology works the same way, except it's way more magnificent instead of a few billion
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cell phones, your 70 trillion human cells in a single body coordinating relationship
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to around 14 quadrillion mitochondria inside another 1.5 quadrillion bacteria outside
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the cells and the numbers just go on and on, so you've got this astronomically complicated
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system and each of those cells, again, are not building the cell phone towers, cell phone
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towers are made by the microbiome of soil and gut, that system is building this redox system.
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And so you take 70 trillion cells into a single organism if your wireless communication network
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is up. And so if you kill the soil, you lose the cell phone towers, now all of your cells
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are isolated. Isolation cells is the root of disease, we call it, you know, chronic inflammation,
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things like this, but it's ultimately isolation. Yeah, I heard you speak about the internal
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terrain of our body and how ion can support this. And it's been about five, four or five
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years now that my kids have been taking ion, it's something that I add to their morning
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water to take to school every day. And I swear for my son and for myself, I took us from
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experiencing issues with digestion to feeling a sense of normalcy after some time. Can you
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talk to us about what you've seen in the lab? Like I would love to get in your brain,
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the incredible team that you have, you can see when you found ion and what it did to the
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human body, what did you see? Miracles, none of us had ever seen anything like it, you know,
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collectively in our laboratory, our scientists had, you know, came out of 120 years of time
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under a microscope. And so we just assume we were at the top in Johns Hopkins University
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of Virginia, like we came in the best programs in the world. And we had been staring at
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microscopes. John Gilday built the microscopes of modern medicine, like he's just a genius
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level coming out of Hopkins and everything else. We started seeing cells repair. And that
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has never, never really been seen before when you see complex cellular systems. What a dream.
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So, so we were just shocked to watch this happen because it's never been seen before to see
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complex other systems rebuilding three dimensional tissue. And the implications were huge. It was
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like, wait, if this can happen, then really anything can happen. And that started to answer how I
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had seen so many miracles happening in clinic, you know, and I'd seen them happen nice use in
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other places. How does the system suddenly self repair? How do you have phenomena like spontaneous
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remission worth, you know, stage four cancer goes away in a day. The fact is the body is constantly
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healing. It's a healing machine beyond comprehension. But we've never seen that happen in a petri dish
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because petri dishes are ultimately studying science in monoculture. And so you'd grow a single
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type of cell. And then you study the heck out of that and pretend like you understand the whole.
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And the fact is by the nature of it being a monoculture study, you are studying a fallacy,
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you are studying something that is a non natural system. So basically the last 70 years of
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science is all bunk. We don't have a single piece of truth in any of that because it was all
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monoculture study. I'm so curious to know so many of us are visual people, you know, if we saw
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how things function this ecosystem inside of us, how it worked. If we were in tune with what it
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meant to have, you know, these holes in our microbiome because of our outside world, I think that we
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would probably be more engaged. And in a world right now where we've really lost track with what
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it takes to heal, my biggest mission is to help people understand that their body can heal
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itself. That you are your healer, not the world around you, not the fad, the protocol, or
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this fantastical supplement that you've heard. But when it comes across products like ion, where the
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intention is to simply restore, to restore the body, to enable the system to come back on track,
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to function at its best, and then to see so many people kind of reap the rewards from it. This
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is where I want to really get the word out. You also have a product for pets also, which I think
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is so important because I think that's a necessity for so many of us. But I think that would you
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agree that nutrition science has kind of gone off track? In the same way, monoculture being the
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story again. So when we started dumb down nutrition to mononutrients, calcium or manganese or magnesium,
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it said, well, we need more magnesium in the diet. And then we just, you know, create a bunch of
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magnesium, pour that into body or vitamin D. We need more vitamin D. So here's a 50,000
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unit vitamin D capsule. I've seen health improve with vitamin D monoculture for a period of time.
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But if you don't start to change the environment around it, you start to imbalance the body.
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Vitamin D is a little bit lucky that the body actually takes that in an inactive form. So it's
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a little bit hard to overwhelm the body with vitamin D. This is probably not your best example,
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but magnesium would be an example. Your vitamin Bs are probably your most potent example of an
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overdose. And so your B complex or your B vitamins are supposed to be quite traced in your food
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system. And then the USDA comes up with the things as well. Actually, this is the minimum amount of
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vitamin B we should have. And since everything's processed food, our Americans aren't getting
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enough B. So we'll give them USB vitamin B complex. And those vitamin Bs are kind of the backbone
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in them, any kind of daily multivitamin. And so you got vitamin As, you got vitamin B, you got a
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little C in there, you got some D. And then maybe you got a touch of K in there. But that ADEK
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with megados B is your typical multivitamin. And the stories are unfortunate around there. The first
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big clinical trial, the largest clinical trial ever done in humans coming out of the United States
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with the Women's Health Initiative, WIH. That study was 120,000 women studied for 25 year period.
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It was huge study. Massively expensive to do was the most definitive study we've had in nutrition
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science within the US. And what it showed published years later, because they didn't want this data
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to disrupt the industry, I think. But years after the data was collected, it was finally published
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that the daily multivitamin had increased mortality in these women by 9%, which was worse than smoking.
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And so we've known since 2010 that multivitamins are killing women. And yet every single commercial
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billboard, everything else, multivitamin, this or that. And so megadosing the body, whether it be with
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chemical herbicides or our supplements, this mononutrient approach, the body is really in a
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folk and effective and in fact harmful. So what is I on? And why are we calling it a supplement?
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The only reason we're calling something because the FDA doesn't have a category is called soil.
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If we could call it your daily soil dose, that's what we would call it. Because it's the only
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supplement on the market that doesn't do something to your cells. Every other one is like turning on
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gene compound, gene signaling pathways. It's disrupting other signaling pathways. Vitamin D is
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a potent steroid. These are all turning a lot of things on at the steroid level. So that's why
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megados, vitamin B or megados, anything is ultimately going to be disrupting or imbalancing a
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complex symphony of a human cell system by using these megadoses. Ion doesn't do anything to the
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cells. It's just the cell phone tower. So it doesn't tell the cells to do anything literally.
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So it's the most passive supplement on the marketplace because it's really not functioning as
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a supplement. It's functioning as a foundation of communication. And then the cells will do with
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that information what they will, which is always repair. And so it takes just seconds of the
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communication and towers being up. And suddenly the tight junctions are being produced protein
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synthesis and not only protein synthesis, but the coordinated process of taking those 13 different
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proteins and turning them to complex velcro shapes that are actually functionally act within minutes
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is what we were blowing our mind of the microscope. We didn't know that could happen that quick.
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We didn't we thought that best like six days out from a cell repair of a deep injury to the
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tight junctions to see it three six minutes out completely back not only to normal, but actually
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better than normal was defying logic for us. And so it took us years of doing this over and over
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and over again before we came to terms with the fact that human bodies are healing machines at a
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rate we can't imagine. We've set just fundamentally lost communication. So that's happening at the
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serial level, but to your best example, the macro level is an autistic child. Yeah. When this
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product hit the autistic community globally, miracles broke loose because the supplements not
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doing anything to a child. It's not fixing autism. It's not doing anything to fix the microbiome.
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It's simply helping the systems of the bacteria and your God speak to the cells inside your body,
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speak to the mitochondria inside of those cells. And so you're storing communication across
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these different cellular communities and that relationship rebuilding leads to an instantaneous
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process of biology. And so a supplement that doesn't do anything to human body is letting these
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children suddenly reveal how intelligent they are. And we saw children go from nonverbal to
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suddenly speaking a full sentence in a week. They hadn't even ever said a word and they know how to
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speak and not only how to say a word, but they never had to learn how to speak. They just spoke.
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And so this is going at the same thing that we see at the serial level is you don't need to teach
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a cell how to build a complex protein that's inherent within the cell. You don't need to teach
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which child how to speak. It's inherent within their experience of being human. When the communication
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cell phone towers go back on, the system does its most genius thing. And so watching on
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a microscope or watching a child's begin to speak to his mother for the first time is a super
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charged moment of understanding the miracle life. It is hyper intelligent, always ready to improve,
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always ready to heal. It's these moments that remind us it's like we have to make the shift back
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from thinking to knowing that we are capable of healing ourselves. And it's more stories like this.
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Thank you for shedding light on that because people need to hear the why outside of to see
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another bottle on their counter. And I don't hear a lot of doctors asking why certain people are
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deficient in vitamins. It becomes very prescriptive or in worst case scenarios if there's some,
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you know, symptoms or diagnoses that often come with prescription medication instead of understanding
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well, why is their deficiency to begin with? And if we are that disconnected from nature and you
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talk about this ecosystem within us as I understand that is connected to the ecosystem around us,
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we're completely disconnected. Yeah, isolation is described down at the physics level. So even before
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you have a biological cell, it happens down at the atomic level of a single atom. And it's the
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second law of thermodynamics says any system left in isolation increases its chaos. And so I think
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that's a good description where we're at as human species, but also as a planet, as we have
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fundamentally disrupted the communication networks that built complex community at the
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serial level and at the social levels. And with that disruption of communication comes
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isolation with isolation comes chaos. And so we are seeing an increase in chaos in our children's
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mental health in our economic policies and stability globally. We have the US dollar and other
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Fiat currencies collapsing actively. We have governments going to war all over the world
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as kind of a last ditch effort to stimulate their economies. And that kind of mentality is a
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symptomatic ultimately of the steeper loss of relationship. How interesting. So you just took
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this like, you know, global ecosystem and all I'm thinking as, you know, again, I can always
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reference the ashram just from my own experience. I feel like Eastern medicine has known this all
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along. They take something so macro, but they bring it back into the internal state of being
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recognizing that our internal state on more of an esoteric level is a reflection of our
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external world also. And so when we're taking down this like turbulence within us,
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it hasn't Eastern medicine illness all along. It's, you know, ring the body back on track in order
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for healing to take place instead of constantly adding more or recognizing that we're getting sick
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because we feel because we're disconnected because we've lost our sense of self and connection
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to the world around us. I would say every human knew this. We're up until very recently
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the last century, really. And so only in the last hundred years do we lose track of that reality.
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You know, if you look at any indigenous practice, whether it's the KILTS or Eastern Europe or,
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you know, Western Europe, herbalism, plant medicine, all of this was normal day-to-day activity.
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Every single culture used fermentation as a front line of dispense against disease. Every
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single culture developed, spent enough time outside that the plants would talk to them to tell
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them what in their biosphere is there from a distantly. And so these long-term relationships of
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largely women in nature were, was connecting the intuition of this. And so we point a lot to Eastern,
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you know, traditional healing arts as something different than Western, but in fact, the only reason
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that it looks that way is the Western blue apart that phenomena so thoroughly. And in fact,
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demonized all of it by 1910, something called a flexionary report, which the Rockefeller said
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commissioned and it paid a single doctor to write this whole, you know, expose a quote-unquote
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on herbalism and, you know, kind of ancestral healing arts as woo-woo, you know, as kind of witchcraft.
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And so that one article that came out of the one large publication of the Flexionary Report in 1910
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was really the demise of the Western connection to their thousands of years of tradition of
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herbalism and natural medicine. And so it's all people's. All people's knew that this earth was
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here for our benefit, to be our benefactor, not our enemy. And it's only this last 100 years
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where we came to, through the English language, to define nature as everything in the
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firmament of the earth. Minerals, plants, animals, as opposed to humans or anything humans have made.
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That's Oxford English Tictionary. And so when we put not just outside of nature, but in a
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opposition in nature, humans and everything humans have made, then you see us, you know, kind of express
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the Western civilizations we do today. And the Eastern Civilization simply didn't have a flexionary
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report. They never damned their own 9,000 year history of Ayurvedic nutrition out of India or,
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you know, Tai Chi and Chikung or, you know, any of these practices is raky out of Japan or
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acupuncture out of Japan, China, Ireland, all having their own thousand plus year history of
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these techniques. So being human is to know earth. We lost our humanity when we disconnected from
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earth. And so this raging inhumanity that we have within ourselves is expressed at every level
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of society. But I think really most viciously inside of ourselves, we are so mean to ourselves.
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We are so brutally judgmental on ourselves. We're so brutally unloving to ourselves. We tend to,
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you know, serve everyone outside of ourselves, our jobs, our social groups,
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well, away before we take the time to slow our breath down, drink something that's from the earth.
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Sit down and smell the soil. You want any antidepressant to go out on the woods, lay down on the floor.
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And that's what they do in Japan. That's what they do in, you know, a lot of European countries now,
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it's called forest bathing. And they've now found this to be way more effective than any antidepressant
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ever put on the market. It's just go lay down in the woods 10 minutes a day and you'll be your
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major pressure will be gone. And so it's just these stupid simple reintegrations of nature into our
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daily lives that have become such a rarity in the day-to-day life of somebody in the West Reserve.
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I'm smiling at stupid simple because I can feel, you know, a lot of people, I'm sure,
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they listen, I myself can listen to a podcast in my world, especially now, we can get,
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it's very easily easy to get overwhelmed. There's so much information and a lot of that information
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I'm feeling is just further distraction. And I feel like a lot of this distraction and education
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that's going out there and maybe even a lot of the choices that we're making, they're all driven
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by fear, fear of aging, fear of getting sick, fear of not having enough, fear of the next pandemic,
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fear of so many things. And maybe it is judgment that's causing us to drive from fear, but,
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you know, through your story and how you shifted your career, did you have to move through that
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ego process of shifting out of judgment into a more compassionate space for yourself in terms
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of helping other people understand how they had to heal? Because what I don't want people to walk
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away from is listening to another podcast where somebody else has a protocol when what are your
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use speaking to is more the intelligence that exists within people that they simply have to be
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willing to recognize. And in order to recognize, it's almost like there's a lot of work that has to
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come in quieting the judgment of the mind and the perceived ideas of what you've been brainwashed
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to thinking that you need to do, whether it's two hours at the gym or the supplement protocol or,
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I don't know, like, how do we make this shift? We can't hang out with Zach Bush every day.
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Yeah. Well, we created an eight-week program. It's called Journey. Journey mentions a
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kealth with the message that health, like you said earlier, comes from within. It's the only place
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you can come because that's actually how you came to be. We talked about mitochondria inside of a
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human cell. Two hundred of them, less as a neuron than there's two thousand, unless it's the
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egg of the woman and then there's six hundred thousand. Nearly, you know, we're well over half a
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million mitochondria inside a single egg. It is the brightest thing that the universe does. Biology
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or life is inherently logarithms brighter than the sun. So the difference between physics and biology
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is the intensity of light per cubic centimeter. You have to have a concentration of light energy
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over nuclear power by another logarithm or two before you get to a biology and then to get to
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multi-serrow life like a tree or a human, you have to have a 10x again. And it was the mitochondria
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that allowed for that 10x to happen. A bacteria and fungi don't have mitochondria. They have to use
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fermentation rather than this respiratory process that the mitochondria use. So picture yourself
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10,000 times more energy per cubic centimeter than the sun. That's what life takes to generate
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itself. And so when we start to look at where does health come from, it ultimately comes from a
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complex ecosystem that has mastered the ability to concentrate light energy per cubic centimeter.
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And that's a dance between the chlorophyll, which are little mitochondria inside of the tree,
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the soils and microbiome of the earth or the human gut. And then the mitochondria living
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beyond them. And it's the passage of the carbon, you know, battery of carbohydrates and fatty acids
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moving sunlight into higher and higher concentrations as you move from chlorophyll to microbiome to mitochondria
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into the human cell environment. And so the concentrated light energy is ultimately how you define
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life. And that's where your health comes from. And so our eight week program really focused on
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what are the daily routines? And it's not eight different biohacking tools. What are the daily
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routines that your body is naturally doing before human technology came along to really master this
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light concentration? And it comes down to a couple of really fundamental pieces. And the first one
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in our course, the first week is called B and that week is all about becoming you. And what we
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have now sorted out through, you know, kind of our new understanding of 9,000 years of Chinese medicine
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is that at the fundamental foundation of disease is an emotional trauma and a stored emotion that
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blocks the communication network from happening. So step one on the journey to becoming more humane
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society and rediscovering our humaneness is going to be releasing our emotional trauma. And so to
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do that, you have to forgive yourself. And once you forgive yourself, you have the opportunity to
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forgive other people around you, but it has to be gotten from from within. So what that starts to
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look like is a deep apology to yourself. I am so sorry that I have put everybody else in front of
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you. I'm so sorry that I have made short term convenient decisions on what I would put in my body.
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I'm so sorry that I've covered my face with, you know, 126 carcinogens every day because I'm
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afraid of the beauty that I was created with. I was afraid it wasn't enough or went on. And so
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I'm so sorry that I have, you know, made short term decisions to to underrepresent my truth at
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every single angle because I don't feel like I have a voice in circles or communities. So go
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through that list of apologies and really own that space to yourself as nobody else is fault.
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This is this is what you've chosen to do on a daily basis and we can all say we've got a trauma
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path or we can all map our trauma patterns and all of this. But the fact is we have to begin at
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the I'm sorry and the speed at which for illness can come is so lovely. And so I believe that the
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new humanity is going to emerge from from the speed of forgiveness. And I think it can happen
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instantaneously because I've seen it happen. I've seen people forgive themselves at the hospice
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bed and two days later not have cancer in their body. It has to be getting at the reconnection
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to self. Yeah. I love that you brought that up. I ended up getting into NLP. NLP so I could
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just help my clients understand. I learned very quickly that people would book a call with me.
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They would want to know the perfect diet supplements, exercise. And within a few minutes,
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they would be met with tears when I asked them about when's the last time in your life that you
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felt peace or happiness and joy. And I hope that listeners really take this in because how can you
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keep feeling the body with things that you're trying to feel avoid with without acknowledging that
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there's a sense of unhappiness or disease ultimately within you. I think a lot of people carry
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that suffering. Even the source of judgment, why do we judge other people so often and often
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comes from our own feeling of feeling not enough in this world and what a sad place to to be.
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And I know that you've witnessed so many people. I'm really into the idea of quantum healing.
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The knowingness of the body to kind of recalibrate itself when you get to a point of almost
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nothingness and what that feels like and a piece that comes with that instead of the attachment
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that we have to everything in our world. So I love that you brought that up because it's really
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an opportunity for all of us listening to this to pull back to pull back and maybe see how we can
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simplify to the stupidly simple things every day. Yeah. And ultimately to find yourself you do
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have to be witnessed. And so even though it's an inside job of finding that apology and moving
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to forgiveness, it's very hard to have an objective viewpoint of who you are until you're witnessed.
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And what we've seen again and again is nature is that perfect witness. And so it's hard to find
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a human that can see you because of the ego dual that happens there. But the tree that you lay
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down under can witness you. And when you make yourself vulnerable enough to be seen by the tree,
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healing is just around the corner. I find myself with my clients understanding my
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mitochondria in my own healing and my heart palpitations for crying out loud. I was on antibiotics
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every year from the age of three till about 16, two, three or sometimes four times a year for
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chronic tonsilitis and strepthro until my mom with her arthritis found functional medicine doctor
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and then I haven't been on them ever since doctors never asked me about that and my gut microbiome
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at the time of my heart palpitations. They didn't ask me about my digestion. They didn't ask me
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about my chronic anxiety, sadness or depression at that time. But when I got, no, no,
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years later looking back at my time at the ashram, what I was doing was inviting light back into my
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body. Nature wasn't part of the protocol. Living was built into nature. Sunlight wasn't part of a
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morning ritual. It was just part of everyday livelihood eating food with high prana and life
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force energy with no ingredient labels was just a known part of healing conversation with others
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with no cell phones at the table with something that allowed us to connect to people year after
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year and then of course tuning into our body and welcoming light through meditation or breathwork
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as you've mentioned or even chanting or humming or singing or dancing. I really look back and I
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see that time in the visual that I have is just light feeling me up again. It was like this feeling
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of source energy and last year I had to recall remind myself that it shouldn't take going to the
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ashram to feel like I've connected to source sources around me every day. But I live in an environment
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that doesn't necessarily, you know, we're in a building hundreds of feet off the ground right now.
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I'm disconnected. We're out of sunshine. We're on our screens constantly. I'm not chanting every day.
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So it's up to us to invite these practices in our life to feel more light. Can you share that
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analogy of light with two things that I pretty speak about? One with water but also with the
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cancer patients that you've worked with? Yeah. So the light energy again is the definition of life.
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So life is the concentration of light energy. So you're spot on and we were used to these words
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of panna or Chi and things like this now and kind of the zeitgeist of the culture in many community
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and what we're really speaking to is life force and so how much energy per cubic centimeter is there
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and so the practices that were in all of these traditional, you know, religious practices,
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spiritual practices, et cetera, really revolved around the breath, the vibration of the body,
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and somatic movement. And so whether that was chanting or dance or mudras, this was all built in
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with this kind of inherent intelligence and this what it would take to support a human body
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and ultimately we're all spiritual beings. And nobody needs to go have a spiritual experience
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because you're going to have a spiritual experience for the rest of eons because you're a soul.
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And so the purpose of this for a period that we call human life is to have a body and that's
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where we're really missing it with this kind of neospiritualism that's moving through the world
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right now is we are kind of trying to go have that consciousness experience from our plant medicine
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or from a yoga really what those practices were supposed to do was to get us into the body instead
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of escape the misery of the body or escape the misery of a monoculture society. And so we need
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to reverse that we need to stop trying to escape and use spiritual escape as a as a recreation
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and we need to start manifesting a society from our spiritual experience. And so we need to
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reverse the polarity immediately we need to build a society based on our experiences of our
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spiritual reality. And so you mentioned quantum healing that's that would be my definition of
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quantum healing is re manifesting the biology from our long term energetic slash spiritual reality
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so the energetic spiritual reality is you have a soul that has a distinct identity within space
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time and its connection to the whole and so every time a patient goes across the veil at the end
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of life and then comes back from their near-death experience they tell stories of that sense of
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I am connected to everything everything is oneness but I am still me and I know that I'm completely
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accepted. So that experience of I am I am outside of the body I am inside the body but I always am
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that I am identity is the the template by which you created yourself in your mother's womb so
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that massive brightness of a woman's egg 600,000 mitochondria discharging light at the moment of
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conception quantum entangles you with an identity at the at the soul level and now you build a human
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body in which every single cell that will come out of that egg 70 trillion strong right from the
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get go and then those will die and repeat their lifespan you know every two or three days if it's
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the gut lining every three months of deliver every seven years of the brain so your body's constantly
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regenerating those 70 trillion cells to be new again stem cells and just normal cell proliferation
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and so you're re-birthing and you're re-birthing and you're re-birthing day and day and day and day
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out you're re-birthing your body to that original identity and so when you start to diminish that
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light within the human body three antibiotic use which does one course of antibiotics increases
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your risk of major depression by about 24 percent two course of antibiotics with 52 percent
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increase in major depression in the next 12 months so you start giving a kid antibiotics every
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year as you were experienced anxiety and depression are inevitable that is a direct result of the
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anti-biosis the anti-biotic means against biosis biosis is describes the interrelationships that
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make life possible so when you take an anti antibiotic you're disrupting the relationships by which
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life is made possible and so they at least is truth in advertising but we just didn't look up the
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word and so when we could have put our children in antibiotics we are destroying the relationships
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within our body that make life possible and so that's undermining their light energy per cubic
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centimeter and the neurologic consequences show up very quickly which is the anxiety disorder sleep
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disorders depression the the immune system shows up right there with allergies immune dysfunction
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hyperreactivity and then right below that you've got the chronic fatigue chronic pain syndromes
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and then you have the nerve degenerative conditions ALS MS Alzheimer's Parkinson's all of that
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is just less light per cubic centimeter all of it is undermining the biosis of human life
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through an antibiotic culture that's pouring about 30 million pounds of antibiotics into our
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children through our doctors offices every year in the United States I think weights to 890
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prescriptions per every 1000 pupils in the United States every year it's 890 prescriptions for
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every 1000 so 89% of the population being exposed to antibiotics by the numbers the sad thing is
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that 30 million is dwarfed by the 300 million pounds of antibiotics that are put into our food
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system through herbicides and pesticides so just a dismal amount of anti biosis going in our food
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and soil treatments in our pharmaceutical management of human health and our clinics all the way
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down to the husbandry of our poultry and the high intensity production protein industry and
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everything else feed lots etc and so we've got just currently just in pesticides alone around
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4 billion pounds a year and so it's inevitable that our children and adults have major depression
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of the rates of doing anxiety disorders in the wash because everything else and ultimately we drive
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it down to the point where we are today is as you put enough of that antibiotic into the system
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you collapse fertility and so by the early 2000s we were seeing this explosion of fertility we had no
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idea how about it was going to get today one in three males in all western countries is infertile
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by sperm counts one in three females at least in Saudi recent numbers were showing 67% China you're
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closer to that number so somewhere two out of three women are infertile in many countries worldwide
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now by not enough light energy inside of the ovum and so if the egg does not have 600,000
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thriving mitochondria to create the light she can't quantum entangle that soil and so this is
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where we're at today is there's not enough energy to connect human biology to the spiritual reality
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that we stem from and so this is a scary moment that we call extinction where we uncouple humans
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from the real I am the real identity that we all carry at the soil level I don't think we're
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going to be big food or big pharma in our lifetime I think we will I think that in 10 years we will
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have a completely different world that's going to be so beautiful we can't imagine and do you think
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that this is going to be led by us illuminating the world with our love and compassion and connection
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with each other yes I think we're going to about to forgive everything yeah and I say that because
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I'm sitting here gripping my legs I can feel my blood pressure rise with you know the rise of these
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catastrophic things that are happening just mentioned children and the suffering that's there
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and I don't think that getting angry is a proactive way to take action any longer I think that
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if we can kind of lead with some compassion so for listeners who might be feeling overwhelmed
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maybe who have the urge to get angry and get other people angry can we kind of go through some
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of the the key things the key components that we've discussed today the simple things that we
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can incorporate to our day to day life and how to live so we've mentioned you know the importance
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of getting to know farmers and regenerative farming and farmers for print and organic at the food
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level we've mentioned sun gazing star gazing tree gazing every single day and our connection to
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nature and to soil we've mentioned our connection to neighbors on a human level and even you and I
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sharing this experience today having these conversations being solution based may even think that
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your perspective over the future has changed in the past few years since we've spoken also but
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what are some other simple things I'm sure people ask you all the time what can I start doing
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whether it's the tight junctions within my gut microbiome that I want to heal taking ion what are
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some simple things that I need to know to return to nature to heal is as simple as the breath again
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slow down your breath right now slow it down take a deep breath in let it all the way out
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01:05:50.620 --> 01:05:53.980
and then you'll realize you didn't actually take a deep breath and now take a deep breath in
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all the way up all the way up all the way up hold it at the top hold it and feel this
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CO2 rising your bloodstream the CO2 is so good for everything carbon dioxide your bloodstream is a
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major stimulant regeneration and release of all kinds of good things and I'll let that breath go
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and let it just ease out of your body ease ease ease all the way down all the way down hold it
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the bottom and now just gently release the breath to fill up in a very slow pace let the breath
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come into you instead of you pulling it into your body like water trickling down a stream with
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oxygen flowing to every cell in your body until you're at the top of a breath again and then
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just gently let it out let it flow back out of you deflating and now feel the stillness of the
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bottom of that breath and let the air just trickle back into you gentle inhale and now if you're
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fortunate to have somebody in your environment look them straight in the eye look how much light
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you can see inside of that person everything's brighter that's where the sunlight shines through
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look somebody in the eyes and you'll find out there 10,000 times brighter than a sun if you look
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long enough in those eyes you'll start to cry and you'll fall in love again ultimately with yourself
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and so it's as simple as slow down the breath look somebody in the eye for a couple minutes
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if you don't have somebody around you you're blessed to have nature out there so walk outside go
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to a local park or streetscape and just lie down on your back and stare up through that branches
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of the tree up with the sky feel what it feels like to have an earth at your back she's got your
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back she's got you and there's a sky up there with a father son up there that's pouring light
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01:07:33.740 --> 01:07:39.420
energy to ignite life once again here so put yourself between the mother and the father and
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let yourself be re-nurtured into the child that you wish you had been before and repair yourself
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repair yourself through the breath through the witnessing of somebody else's eyes through the
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witnessing of the tree above you and the sky behind and you're going to begin a journey and you're
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going to find something really spectacular which is life is infinitely long when you slow down
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the breath and you can live 10 days for every day you live if you slow that breath down and start
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to see the beauty in each other's eyes the light within each human being tells maybe a reflection
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or ultimately an evidence of the light within yourself and then let that start to be your warming
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center feel the heat within your belly if you can't find it there find it within your chest
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and then let that body start to build heat again and if you don't know how to build heat to start
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breathing deeper and the temperature will rise and then start moving in different new ways
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outside nature which might look a lot like dance around a campfire we now know that when you look
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down in the campfire and especially if you can join the experience with song or dance you turn
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on stem cells you turn on telomeres which extends your capacity of a cell replication all kinds
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of beautiful things and so it takes so little to get there and so I would say start with the breath
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connect another human through the eyes or to nature beneath the tree and let yourself be seen
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and if you really let yourself be seen you'll start to regenerate the original design that you
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knit together in your mother's womb and you'll begin again thank you for that I feel like
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remembering and if anyone tried that practice if you notice tears coming to your eye it feels
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like your soul's way of saying thank you like thank you she remembered she got out of her head
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and into her soul and now we're back and she's got a body right now yeah that's amazing
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we're gifted with a human body right now and and there's nothing more miraculous than these bodies
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and I and then if you're fortunate enough to have a female body you've got this in spades but both
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male and female you have a sight when placed deep deep down in your core that would be called the
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womb and then Chinese practices is called the danciano the source of the soul or the seed of the soul
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and that's the silent place within you and that's where your creative force comes from whether you're
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creating a child within your womb or creating the next song or the lyrics or the next self expression
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it's gonna come from there and so if you learn to live from there the creative genius that's
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01:09:57.340 --> 01:10:01.100
gonna come out of you will be unstoppable as you start to create the world that we all
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on live in thank you yeah I think at a time when you know what do they give everyone brought to my
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knees and sadness over witnessing what's happening in the world and then recently coming back into my
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body and this knowingness again really the miracle of just having this vessel to go through life
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with and to experience just like witnessing children right who are still in their knowingness playing
941
01:10:23.660 --> 01:10:28.300
the note that they came into this world with unapologetically and then remembering that for for
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myself has been the greatest healing of all so thank you for that super potent all right with some
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amazing viewers and in some questions so worrying if you're listening she's a nurse practitioner
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she's passionate about a holistic wellness with your vision for the future of healthcare I think it's
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gone that'll be the symptom of a healthy society where we no longer build schools and hospitals but we
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instead build farms and communities that are connected to that soil and in that we eliminate the
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need for either the school or the hospital or pray for the day where you just you're sent to a
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place to breathe and meditate and be with other people maybe hold their hand Virginia she has says
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what are three daily habits to really live a fully detoxed life how can we keep up with this
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accumulation that we have breath and hydration are your first one and two there so you breathe out
951
01:11:14.460 --> 01:11:20.060
most of your toxins and then you will eliminate the rest your sweat your own feces and so it's really
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01:11:20.060 --> 01:11:25.900
the motion of life if you picture you know really good running rivers they can get get the soil
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systems cleaned quickly a lot of rain a good running river you can detox anything and so bathing
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01:11:32.380 --> 01:11:38.620
your body in original waters so getting out in rivers getting in you know natural lakes ponds and
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oceans get out in nature and bathe that body and then hydrate with real living you know water
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and the easiest way to do that is eat your liquids and so something like celery is a potent way
957
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to hydrate the body because it's living water it's been organified in in the cells of the plant
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into that jail light quality holds an enormous amount of electricity where's the water in your cup
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not much going on there's and as far as his electrical potential at all and so most the water
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we drink is actually quite dead and can actually dehydrate us then rather than rehydrate us and so
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that's where a little bit of salt and a little bit of lime inside the water so you have
962
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living water in the same way you know eating your water through your vegetables is a really
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and through our is a very potent way to hydrate the body beautiful food for the sense because
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it's grown in sunlight and can you have our water just for a second in a world where especially
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after the early fires if we're filtering reverse osmosis spring water delivery activating
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our water in the sun what do you recommend prayer just take some moment of intention moment of
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01:12:40.860 --> 01:12:46.220
you because you're brighter than a sun your energy field is enormous it extends far beyond the
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01:12:46.220 --> 01:12:52.460
human body and so you wrap your wrap your hand around the glass and just recognize what it is
969
01:12:52.460 --> 01:12:57.740
this is this is the fluid that communicates between the quantum field and biology this is the
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01:12:57.740 --> 01:13:03.260
connection force between my soul and my body is is water and so this is the translation between
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01:13:03.260 --> 01:13:06.940
my soul and body and therefore I'm going to give reverence to this connection to my original
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01:13:06.940 --> 01:13:11.180
source to my original identity and I'm going to put my love into this water I'm going to change
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the structure of this water by just loving myself realizing that you know today I'm doing something
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good for myself today I'm going to take a sip of this water that's been held within my own human
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01:13:19.340 --> 01:13:24.620
hand and I'm generating so much light energy that I can transform this into something that's
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01:13:24.620 --> 01:13:29.100
medicinal for me so not always going to hydrate me it's going to cure me and so this water is now my
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medicine and I'm going to drink that in gratitude beautiful intention gosh I do that for my kids
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01:13:33.660 --> 01:13:40.860
but not for me yeah okay all right one more from Stacy I wanted to bring this one up because
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she's found some incredible healing through her elders my mother's getting older and doctors told
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01:13:45.980 --> 01:13:51.820
her you know it's part of aging right they're putting on more medications and stuff like that
981
01:13:51.820 --> 01:13:56.540
when anyone who's that autoimmune disease you have a deep connection to your body and what's
982
01:13:56.540 --> 01:14:01.020
going on and what feels good and what doesn't feel good so for people who are understanding maybe
983
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how to modify their diets how to get into nature is there anything else that they can understand about
984
01:14:05.580 --> 01:14:11.020
their wisdom of their body and healing autoimmune conditions this is tecaterina auto immunity is
985
01:14:11.020 --> 01:14:18.060
the chronic expression of allergy and so when your body becomes allergic which means reactive to
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the outside world it will eventually get confused as to what's outside an inside and so that's
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the breakdown of that tight junction boundary ultimately and so we all started getting allergic
988
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in that early 1990s when we started desiccating our wheat and other crops with roundup so suddenly
989
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the residues of these chemicals got very very high on our food and we used to start breaking those
990
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tight junctions so leaky got lead almost immediately to gluten sensitivity or gluten allergy and then
991
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ultimately gluten and triggered autoimmune disease which would be celiac disease so all that
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happened 1991-1993 started spraying the wheat 1991 and so that pattern of losing the community
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that that boundary event and losing the healthy relationship between outside inside is your
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foundation of autoimmune disease so the beginning of reversing that is rebuild your boundaries and
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so you have to do that at each of the levels you have to build it back at the cellular level so
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get the cell phone towers back up and running if you want to reintroduce your daily soil take your
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daily soil dose with ion that's going to within minutes start to knit things together at the cellular
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level but then we you have to do the emotional air you have to eliminate that loss of self identity
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at the cellular level that you induced through your own self abuse so there's something that you're
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doing in underlying autoimmune disease that's undermining your biology in regards to your own self
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and voice thinking kind of that inner voice that's destroying you and in the thyroid being the
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classic one there the autoimmune disease of thyroid one in four children one in four women or
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I think it's one in five actually one in five girls in the United States with thyroid antibodies
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by the time she's age 12 was a study that was done almost 20 years ago now and so with that many
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women with an antibody to their thyroid gland which sits in what's called the fifth shock or the
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communication network of the body you know what the self think is which is my voice is not valuable
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I'm going to suppress my voice and I've learned to be rewarded in society by keeping myself silent
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and so I'm going to suppress that voice you cannot heal your thyroid with that syndrome I don't
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care what you take you have to begin at the cellular level to start to support that where I'm
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but until you've cleared the emotional belief that your voice is not important that thyroid disease
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is going to stay there so really getting to the root cause of the root cause at the emotional level
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and then ultimately finding that self forgiveness and moving towards a cycle energetic or psycho
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an energetic emotional relationship to wholeness right you had to be whole to be able to make
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yourself together as an identity and the moment you die you're going to find out your whole
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there's no way you begin on hold between the time that you knit yourself together in your mother's
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womb in the moment that you die those are the book ends of reality everything else in between is
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the surreal experience of believing that you're not connected to everything and not whole that's
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what you're trained between ages three and five and that's what we call the terrible twos
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basically right and so the child who's screaming on the floor kicking at three years old is
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dealing with the cognitive dissonance of parents and society telling them that they're not enough
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absolutely yeah whole meat right connection and closing I think that this is a great question
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Stacy we're talking about solitude as we've mentioned today and now shipping off our elders
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and the wisdom that I find myself craving through conversations like this but also through
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the parents grandparents that I don't have and and beyond so talk to us about the wisdom
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that we need to hold on to right you've worked with so many people at the end of their life and the
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wisdom that they carry how can we connect to this wisdom is largely around listening what I watch
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so many times in hospice so my last specialty was hospice I was admitting 80 patients a week to
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die did that for four years so when you've seen thousands and thousands of patients go through this
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process you would think I think at the logical level like okay if I was told that I had three weeks to
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live I would run around to all the people I love how much I love them I want to spend every
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waking minute with the people that I love and I would definitely want to like watch my favorite movie
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and I want to have like my favorite meal every day and I never saw that happen oddly I watched people
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spend more and more time in silence and listening as soon as they got diagnosed and that's where
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the forgiveness happened and that's where the spontaneous remissions happened but it's also where
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the peaceful letting go of the body happened where you suddenly slow down and instead of going to
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now check on whatever your to-do list was you actually watched the steam rising off your T for an
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hour and I would watch somebody who is about to die spend a whole lifetime of silence they spend more
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time witnessing the beauty around them and feeling it inside their body in those three weeks
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than they had in the previous 80 years it's a warning to us that we're missing the secret of life
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by racing around by rushing around by missing the beauty of reality the people that I've seen live
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very long and happy lives have an overwhelming curiosity for the beauty around them and they are
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constantly looking for that next experience of witnessing beauty and they stay very youthful
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until the end and I was blessed with two my great-grandmother and her daughter my grandmother were two
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women that just showed me that in space they knew how to be alone in nature they knew how to be
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alone at the dinner table they were about my great-grandmother this single for the last
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single for the last 52 years of her life or something like that her husband died of a hard
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tack when he was quite young she never remarried and she was the happiest most joyful person I ever
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knew incredibly socially active but only because she knew how to be in peace for living in her own
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house for 50 years wake up on her own walk out into her own garden cut the flowers make a little
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bouquet make the same cup of tea and appreciate that every day and so you will live long and healthy
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when you slow down and witness the beauty stunning tell us something that you're excited about for
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me I'm really excited about me I think all the projects that I have going right now
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I'm super interested to see who I actually am in human form and I get to see a little bit more of
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each year now and I'm been blessed to start these seven days immersive experiences just finished
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one up in Costa Rica this past week have another one coming up it's got some slots in it still
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if you want to join but I'll be in northern United Kingdom at a incredibly magical location up in
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Yorkshire it's stunning brought in hall is just a story place and so you're going to a mythical
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realm to experience yourself and seven days of self is one of the most exquisitely beautiful
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things that you'll ever find and I just got to watch 120 people forever change because they
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they discovered how old they are and I just really know it was really nothing more incredible as
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human being than to be witnessed to somebody else stepping into their wholeness and
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it's it's a lot like the beauty of watching a four-year-old in wonderment playing by themselves
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under a tree so happy and so fulfilled without a wand or need in the world because they're so
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immersed in the smell of the soil that their feet are in or the mud puddle that they've got their
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their trucks driving through or whatever it is and they're in that space and that's what I
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got to watch 120 dollars becoming child again in their wholeness and I'm I'm ready to die now
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seeing everything like it's it's enough you know once you get to see that you know you you came
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what you came to do as a human when you get to witness that and so I think we could all just
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wonder how fast it is to correct the system seven days to correct you know 50 years of wandering
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in the desert and seven days of self and suddenly everything makes sense because it all was there
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all along and it was really awakening up it was waking up and and remembering rather than some sort
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of detox protocol or you know biohacking trick or whatever it is it's just it's none of those things
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those I've never seen one biohacking trick ever make somebody whole it does not work it's always
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putting somebody outside of themselves it's always them chasing the next technology I think that
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we'll look back in 20 years and find out that one of the you know the second only to Western medicine
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was the biohacking movement and distracting humans from their wellness and we've got to end it now
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think about what would happen if you if you were a bank and you suddenly had your computer systems
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hacked and you suddenly lost all of the wealth that had been compiled there for all of the people
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that you cared for and all the people that were your clients and now wonder at how we think that
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it's going to feel different to biology when you go and hack her if you go in there and tear
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her bolts and take all of the wealth because you feel good for a moment because you got your
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little high from your cold plunger your super breathing or your you know red light exposure or your
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quantum light therapy like I mean it's just endless number of things now you just had a high you
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just had a drug experience that took you out of your your innate wellness your rooted wellness
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that you're speaking to and so we got to get real we got to stop believing that these billion
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dollar industries were actually out for our good they're actually just out to create wealth
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you know environment where everybody's in scarcity and everybody's afraid there's not enough of
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life and so if somebody comes along it says you can live 280 degree 80 years if you take their
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supplement they haven't breathed in a long time and if they would just slow the freak down
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and sit with you and look at you our eyes for two minutes you'd both be crying and you'd both
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live longer for that. I could not believe that. Rather fewer years being with the people that I love
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feeling whole again my energy is just buzzing I hope some of you felt that today I can now see the
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journey of our story to just bring us to this moment from acknowledging what's happening into the
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in the world to searching for solutions that are outside of ourselves which ultimately
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and how it hasn't even my journey it's coming back to self and the radical permission that you
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have to take to love yourself again and to be with others and letting them see you for who you
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really are takes a lot of courage but in those moments I'm sure what you experienced just recently
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in Costa Rica when you get to those moments nothing else matters it's like all of these
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illusions and fear and scarcity that exist around you just shatters falls to the ground it goes
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away you're so present to the joy of life in this insane gorgeous vessel that you get the people
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that you get to be with and the children that you get to be with thank you for today we're going
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to link out to everything please go to Zach Busch MD dot com to find you the farmers footprint
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get your eye on learn more about Zach's incredible programs and online courses also you do a lot
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it you show up in this world quite a bit for a lot of other people and I just want to acknowledge
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that because you inspire a lot of people thank you it's a honor to be part of this community called
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human yeah can we have you back thank you more