Dr. Fred Preventza, welcome to the podcast. It's been such an honor to follow you, to learn about you.

I wasn't always into, I didn't even know what regenerative agriculture was or any of that stuff until I heard Paul Check talking about the soil health and things like that years ago, maybe 20 years before I had heard, you know, you were already steeped in it.

But, you know, from a fitness perspective,

from a health and wellness perspective, tying the health of our animals to the health of the

soil, to the health of us was a unique concept to me. And Paul talked about that in his, in his

VH, it was on VHS, flatten your abs forever. I thought I was going to watch it to try to get shredded. It was all in the

microbiome and the health of the soil and how the quality of life that you take from, whether it's

plants or animals. So I just loved that. And then a food ink came along maybe 20, 25 years ago and

Joel Salatin was in it. And that was such a, such a beautiful visual expression of what it meant to see things living in harmony,

you know, and then what's the opposite of that, which is what we see mostly everywhere.

So lots to talk about here. I've also loved your recent essays on, you know, talking about the

full length of your life and what it means to be in your, you know, in your place and this

part of your life and where you're going next.

So I can't wait to dive in all that.

But please tell us, what was life like growing up for you?

What shaped you as a person and got you into the education that you wanted to dive into

so deeply?

Okay, we'll do, Kyle.

First, let me just thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you here today.

It's a wonderful, and what you just covered is the essence of how we're changing our views of health, huh?

I think how when I look back over my lifetime. So to answer your question,

you know, from when I was a young child, as young as I can remember, if it was alive, it

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