295: How Declining Soil Health is Making Us All Fatter and Sicker; the Healing Power of Grounding | Jessica Chiartas, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Jessica Chiartas (@soil.life), founder of Soil Life, is a postdoctoral scholar and educator focusing on the long-term impacts of agricultural practices on soil health, with an emphasis on soil heterogeneity and the development of region-specific soil health indicators.
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| 0:00.0 | What's crackling like in everybody? It's episode 295 of the Genius Life. Let's go. |
| 0:18.2 | What's going on everybody? How you doing? Welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host Max Lugovira, a filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times |
| 0:26.3 | best-selling author. I had the privilege a couple of months ago of heading out to Bakersfield, |
| 0:31.9 | California, a town in California that's known for many things among them producing a huge amount |
| 0:38.3 | of California almonds. And I got to go as part of an initiative led by the Amand project, a multi-year |
| 0:44.8 | farmer-led partnership created to identify more sustainable farming methods and pave the way |
| 0:49.9 | towards a more resilient future for the farming of almonds. We had super delicious food. I got to |
| 0:55.2 | see how almonds were grown, which was the first for me as a lifelong consumer of almonds. It was |
| 0:59.9 | a treat to get to see how they were actually produced. I got to put on a beetuit and go and tend to |
| 1:05.1 | the bees, which are instrumental in the farming of almonds. And I got to witness scientist run |
| 1:11.3 | demos of soil health and the like. And one of the scientists that I encountered was Jessica |
| 1:17.9 | Chartis, who's a PhD, and her insight into all of the many factors that contribute to soil health and |
| 1:25.7 | conversely soil depletion blew my mind a little bit about Jessica. She's a super knowledgeable |
| 1:32.0 | researcher and teacher who works on important topics involving different groups like universities, |
| 1:36.6 | nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and businesses. Her main area of study is how farming |
| 1:42.3 | methods affect the quality of soil and the benefits it provides to the environment. She pays |
| 1:47.8 | particular attention to soil differences in various regions and works on finding ways to measure |
| 1:53.3 | and improve soil health in those areas. We're going to talk about the importance of our soil. |
| 1:58.4 | What soil is composed of? The impact that soil quality has on our nutrition and why we all |
| 2:04.6 | must do our jobs to protect our soil. We're going to talk about how conventional agriculture |
| 2:10.0 | depletes soil and the importance of encouraging regenerative agriculture practices, including adding |
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