432: How nutrient-poor soil affects your health & why Bill Gates is buying so much farmland | David R. Montgomery, Ph.D. & Anne Biklé

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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David R. Montgomery, Ph.D. & Anne Biklé: “We're losing about 33% of our ability to feed ourselves globally each year to ongoing soil loss and soil degradation.” David and Anne, husband and wife duo and co-authors, join mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to get the most nutritional bang for your buck, plus: - What we’re getting wrong with farming & agriculture (~02:00) - How we can nurture the soil & feed everyone (~07:09) - The health benefits of eating organic food (~11:51) - The importance of grass-fed meat (~23:05) - Link between omega-3’s & immunity (~27:35) - How the soil can change the flavor of your food (~31:13) - How to know if you’re a “supertaster” (~35:16) - The connection between soil health & longevity (~39:30) - How to support farmers & rebuild soil health (~42:29) - What Bill Gates is really doing with all that farmland (~45:56) - The link between flavor & your health (~55:31) Referenced in the episode: - David & Anne's newest book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. - UN's 2015 Global State of the Soil report. - David's previous book, Growing A Revolution. - David & Anne's previous book, The Hidden Half Of Nature. - A 1993 study on the mineral differences between organic & conventional food. - A 2001 study on organic crops & vitamin content. - A 2014 study on organic food & phytochemicals. - A study on tomatoes' flavor profile & phytochemicals. We hope you enjoy this episode sponsored by Dame Products, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and
0:05.6	your host. David Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington at MacArthur Fellow
0:12.3	and an internationally recognized authority on Geomorphology. I think I got that right. He lives
0:17.9	with his wife Ann Bicklay, who is also with us on the show today, and a biologist and environmental
0:25.2	planner who's writing his appearance at Nautilus Natural History, Smithsonian, and more.
0:30.8	And today, David and Ann are here together to talk about the amazing new book they co-authored
0:37.9	titled What Your Food Eight, How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Amen. David and Ann,
0:45.8	welcome. Thank you, Jason. Pleasure to be here with you. Yeah, likewise.
0:50.7	So it's great to have you. I love your book. So it sounds like, you know,
0:55.7	in reading the book, it sounds like in order to save the planet, we don't have to eat
0:59.0	live grown fake meat. We'll start there. Yeah, I mean, one of the key things that we really
1:08.5	trying to get across in the book is that the big element of the conversation around, you know,
1:12.4	what to eat both for our own health and for the health of the world around us, literally the
1:16.7	health of the planet, is that we should really be asking about how our food was raised as much as
1:22.4	we're asking ourselves about what it is that we eat. And, you know, as we go into in the book,
1:27.2	though, it was just ways to raise livestock that are, you know, better for the planet than we're
1:31.2	doing now conventionally, and it also try not to be better for us. So, you know, the big argument
1:36.5	I think we would make is that what everyone chooses to eat, we need to think about more responsibly
1:41.6	raising and growing it in ways that benefit the health of the land, the health of the soil,
1:45.4	literally, because that ripples up to influence our health in a positive way when we raise stuff in
1:51.3	a better manner. And I'll say amen to that. So, 100% agreed. And so, if we rewind just to set the
2:02.7	stage a bit, I know there's a long and rich history of things we've done wrong in terms of how we
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