355: Lessons from (Ab)original People
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
There is a wisdom in ancient health and lifestyle traditions that has unfortunately been cast aside, leading to deterioration in the overall wellbeing of many aboriginal communities. Dr. Kama Mico, Co-founder of Under the Shade, has been exploring root causes of health crises in a number of indigenous people groups.
Today, Kama shares what she's witnessed first-hand among the indigenous people of Elcho Island -- an embracing of overly-processed, "modern" food ways that has made them sicker. Many of us all over the world have also adopted these changes to our detriment. Kama reminds us that we can all return to more natural dietary choices -- eating food from nature, instead of food from factories, for example -- to reclaim our health and vitality. And she shares stories and lessons learned from the (ab)original peoples that can help us live our most vibrant lives today, wherever we are.
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| 0:00.0 | To me, the principles in this are really very simple and just logical that we are made to |
| 0:05.4 | be eating food that God made, not factories, like it's really simple and I think it just |
| 0:10.0 | makes sense to people, but it's not what's presented. |
| 0:18.8 | From the Western A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 0:24.0 | in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:26.7 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 0:31.4 | health. |
| 0:32.4 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 0:40.4 | Australia's Aboriginal people are considered the world's oldest living culture. |
| 0:45.2 | There is a wisdom in their health and lifestyle traditions that has unfortunately been cast |
| 0:50.4 | aside and overshadowed by dominant culture. |
| 0:54.4 | This is episode 355 and our guest today is Dr. Kama Miko, a medical doctor passionate |
| 1:00.6 | about community development and preventative health. |
| 1:04.0 | She stepped outside the Western model of healthcare to focus on a deep exploration of root |
| 1:08.5 | causes of health crises, especially those in remote communities. |
| 1:12.8 | She spent eight years living on Elko Island, a remote indigenous community in northeast |
| 1:18.3 | Arnhem land, Australia. |
| 1:20.6 | Women's work focuses on using experiential education and the framework of traditional |
| 1:25.3 | diets to empower people to reclaim their vitality. |
| 1:28.8 | She is the co-founder of Under the Shade, an organization committed to provide transformational |
| 1:34.0 | educational opportunities for indigenous and non-indigenous people. |
| 1:38.8 | Today Kama shares what she's witnessed firsthand among the indigenous people of Elko Island. |
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