Everybody, Dr. Axe here. Welcome to show this week. We have an incredibly brilliant doctor

that I followed for a long time. His name is Zach Bush MD. He is a renowned multidisciplinary

physician who really focuses on internal medicine, endocrinology, hospice care. And also

he is a world-recognized leader in study of the gut microbiome and also how that relates

to human health, the soil, our food systems, and regenerative agriculture. One of the things

that I was so excited to connect with you on here, Zach, was sort of this connection

between us and the earth. But everyone, again, you know, want to welcome here, Zach,

Dr. Zach Bush. Thanks for joining me.

It's amazing. So glad to be with you and the audience here, Josh. And it is an exciting

time. It's an exciting revelation, revolution moment in human history and science as we've

come in the last 10 years to stumble upon a really disruptive fact, which is the human

cell is not at the center of human health, which is similar to perhaps finding out that

the earth was not at the center of the universe 400 years ago. So we have this really, you

know, challenging new perspective that the microbiome, the bacteria, the fungi, the protozoa,

all these single cellular organisms that constitute the workforce within our bodies and cost

you really the cellular soil system that would allow life to emerge, whether we be an

earthworm or a dog or a cow or a human. We are the result of the soil that we live in

on levels that we just couldn't ever have imagined before this advent of genomics. And

it's really this technology of being able to genetically sequence the human body and

genetically sequence ultimately the microbiome, the bacteria and fungi within our gut, where

we started to really realize that our concept of human was misplaced. We had thought that

we were this, you know, finite number of 20,000 genes that we received from mom and dad

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