Crazy Superfoods You've Never Heard Of, The Little-Known Libido-Enhancing Berry, Remineralizing Your Body With Lubricating Plant Oils & More With Kuaui Farmacy's Doug Wolkon.
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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I first met Doug Wolkon when I was visiting Kauai and was convinced by big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton to go visit a favorite local farm of his called Kauai Farmacy. I was immediately blown away by the vast array of over 80 varieties of organic healing plants and food orchards…
…along with a team of incredibly knowledgeable herbalists and gardeners; a closed-loop vermiculture feeding system (worm compost farm), honeybees, butterflies, and other pollinators; wildfowl; environmentally-compatible farming (water-catchments, permaculture guilds, and more); and medicine-making systems (solar-dehydrators, low-temperature herb-curing, herbal teas, tinctures, hydrosols, salves, honey, capsules, and more).
Everything is done by hand at the Farmacy, including brewing homemade fertilizers from the plants they grow. They seed, propagate, plant, hand-harvest, artisanally-craft, and package all the herbal products they grow right on the farm. The fresh and pure nature of the herbs ensures high quality, potent, consistent, and effective plant medicine straight from the source.
Since that visit two years ago, if you've been following me on Instagram and elsewhere, you've seen me using ample amounts of Kauai Farmacy powders and tinctures in my recipes, along with products such as their salves and hydrosols for joint and skin health. Rooted in the wisdom of Hawaiian La’au lapa’au, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and the tribal indigenous, the potent herbal plant medicines harvested from the rich, volcanic soil of Kauai just seem to have a very unique and special energy.
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Doug pursued a ten-year career in private equity finance in Connecticut. Before moving his family to Hawaii in 2007, Doug published The New Game, an economic theory and strategy for sustainable communities.
Doug co-founded Kauai Farmacy in 2010 with his wife Genna, and they currently live there with their three kids. The Farmacy is a seed-to-cup tropical herbal oasis spanning four acres and consisting of what may be the most diverse collection of plant medicine in the western hemisphere.
After spending the last 10 years experiencing the power of fresh plant medicine for both himself and his family on a daily basis, Doug thrives on a high-fat, ketogenic, 100% raw-food diet. Doug believes Kauai Farmacy's vertically-integrated herbal medicine model is a budding example of what needs to be the future of a more sustainable, preventative-care-focused healthcare industry.
You can click here to shop Kauai Farmacy, and use code GREENFIELD15 to save 15% on any products on their site, including those you'll discover below.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-What brought Doug to Kauai ten years ago...
-First days on the farm...
-What you don't know about noni...
-Honey made out of noni fruit...
-What makes a spice "high grade"?...
-Ways to hydrate and remineralize your body you may not have thought of before...
-Ginger: the most popular plant medicine in history...
-A potent yet gentle to fortify your skin...
-How to create your own medicine farm Doug Wolkon style...
And much more!
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Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Doug Wolkon or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/foodasmedicine and one of us will reply!
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | There's just, you know, backyard gardening with permaculture systems spread throughout |
| 0:08.1 | designed to build soil and nourish the plants. Of our food as medicine is what allows the fuel |
| 0:13.9 | in our body to be used in such a way where our performance can be that next level. Using it on |
| 0:19.3 | the daily and not waiting till something breaks or something else to get fixed, but rather building |
| 0:23.7 | that immune system up so strong that your awareness is in tune with your body that your ability to |
| 0:28.9 | make the best choices for you on a day-to-day basis. |
| 0:35.8 | Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, |
| 0:44.4 | biohacking, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:48.1 | You guys know I talk about the microbiome and probiotics all the time because there is so much |
| 1:01.2 | BS and misinformation in the probiotic space when I heard about this company called Seed |
| 1:08.8 | and interviewed their amazing team of crack scientists over there with leading academic partners |
| 1:19.0 | across microbiology, immunology, genetics, metabolomics, and gastroenterology. I realized |
| 1:25.9 | somebody had actually formulated a probiotic that I like. It's a patent to delivery technology |
| 1:32.8 | to ensure the probiotic arrives at its final destination. No loss, no misconnections, because it's |
| 1:39.7 | engineered in this special cap called a Viacap, which not only contains some prebiotics and it |
| 1:47.5 | helps to feed the probiotic, but it shields it against oxygen and moisture, heat and light |
| 1:52.9 | and stomach acid. So your probiotic strains get delivered and this is near unheard of, |
| 1:58.5 | alive and well to the end of the small intestine to then be delivered into the colon, |
| 2:03.2 | where they give you all those health benefits, including probably the most important, |
| 2:08.9 | very, very nice bowel movement, regularity, and stool consistency, and ease of expulsion |
| 2:14.5 | and bowel movement comfort. So enjoy it. It's called the Seed Probiotic, and I'm going to give you |
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