Welcome back to the Diet Dr. Dr. Brett Scher.

Now today we're going to have another compilation episode focusing on connecting soil health to human health.

Now we've talked before about the importance of soil health and the environment and whether

was Diana Rogers and her episode on the podcast or a rancher compilation

where we talked to two different ranchers and a bioregenerative farmer and talked about the

importance of soil health just for soil in general but also for the plants they grow and of course

for the environment as well. but now trying to connect those dots

to reemphasize how important those are and connect them to human health because there does seem to

be a connection there so eventually we're going to hear from dr stephan von vliet and his studies that

he's done but first off we're going to speak to a husband-wife team, Dr. David Montgomery and

Anne Beclay, and their authors who have written a number of books that you're going to hear

about and sort of the progression of how it went from, again, from sort of soil to improving

soil health, the plants, and then to human health on their latest book.

But first, so David is a professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington.

He's a BS in geology from Stanford and a PhD in geomorphology from Berkeley.

And his wife, Anne, has an extensive background in biology and environmental planning and in public

health and how the environment

affects well-being and human health. So together they sort of make this great team to talk

about the importance of soil, the importance of geology, and connecting that to human health

individually and to public health. And that's what makes, that's what I think makes their latest book,

What Your Food ate, so interesting.

So without further ado, let's get into the first part of our interview here with David

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