Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

Agriculture is the single biggest impact that the humans have on the planet.

Farming and ranching food production is the thing we do with the greatest impact on the planet.

Soil degradation is a global problem and the implications are pretty massive.

The balance of our climate, ecosystems, food security, and health are all on the line.

In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with bestselling author Miriam Horn

as she shares one farmer's efforts to rebuild the ecosystem of his soil using regenerative agriculture.

And you really, you know, in your book, rancher or farmer fisherman,

you really kind of made the connection between the food we eat and the environment,

which a lot of people don't make that connection.

You found an extraordinary farmer, a multi-generation farmer who had an awakening,

Justin, cough, and he changed his whole way of practicing agriculture in the Midwest

in basically the grain belt.

And tell us about him and how he had his awakening and what he's done and how it's transformed his farm and those around him.

Well, so Justin is a fifth-generation farmer and he went to college just when there was this explosion in soil microbiology.

When people were really starting to understand the complexity and the importance of the soil microbiome.

So that was the focus of his study.

And I was understanding this incredible what one of the farmers calls a little city underground,

where everyone's working together, where fungi and bacteria are working together to nourish the crops,

to hold the soil, to build carbon in the soil, to trap water, to protect human health,

to protect plant health, to do all these critical things.

So, so Justin came back from college understanding that his most important job was to take care of those microbes.

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