109) How microbiome science will transform our approaches to self-care and sustainability with Seed's Ara Katz

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How will a deeper understanding of our microbiome health encourage us to take better care of ourselves and our planet? How has human activity been impacting our earth's world of microbes, and what's at stake if our microbial diversity and richness continue to decrease?

Sharing her wisdom here is Ara Katz, the Co-Founder of Seed, which is pioneering the application of microbiome science for both human and planetary health. You'll hear about what exactly our microbiome is and does for us; how our personal ecosystems relate to our earth's microbes; how microbiome science will shift our entire approaches to self-care and earth stewardship; and more. Let's dive in!

HIGHLIGHTS

[7:21] Ara shares how her experience breastfeeding led her to connect the dots between personal and environmental health.

[18:01] Ara explains what our microbiome is and what it does for us.

[25:51] Kaméa: "How does our individual microbiome relate to our planet's health?"

[26:04] Ara: "We're not in this environment or on this environment—we are of this environment."

[26:47] How using antibiotics in animal agriculture impacts our soil health, which in turn creates a harmful cascading effect on the health of our earth and ultimately, ourselves.

[27:38] Ara: "Everything is ultimately connected... Microbes are the invisible internet of everything."

[32:58] What the impact of urbanization may be on our collective health, given that it leads to decreasing exposures to our microbes-rich living environments.

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1:09.8	It's really recognizing that you are an ecosystem as like you're a coral reef or you're a rainforest.
1:15.1	When you're making choices for food, for example, or whether or not to drink or whether or not to eat sugar, whether or not to sleep, how you process stress.
1:21.3	I mean, these are all things that tremendously impact the ecosystem of microbes that then, of course, have other than turn around and have impacts on our health.
1:31.3	How will a deeper understanding of our microbiome health encourage us to take better care of ourselves and also our planet?
1:39.3	What do we know right now about how human activity may have been impacting our Earth's richness and diversity of microbes?
1:47.3	And what does this mean for sustainability going forward?
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