Gardening For Life

Eat to Live

Jenna Fuhrman, Dr. Fuhrman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Why should you grow your own fruits and vegetables and actually work with dirt? Ask a green thumb how they feel about gardening, and they will tell you it's a mood elevator. In the Blue Zones, regions of the world where people live longer and healthier, outdoorsy lifestyle with moderate physical activity is credited for their less stressed and longer life. Now according to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, we're intrinsically tied to the health of the planet. And that helps explain why we enjoy nature, reconnecting with the earth, and, well, growing plants. On this episode, Dr. Fuhrman and his daughter Jenna talk about the many benefits of gardening, how our health relates to the health of the soil, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to the Eat to Live podcast. I'm here with my dad, medical doctor, nutritional expert, Dr. Furman.
0:24.6	Hi, everybody. And I'm here with my daughter, Jenna, my middle daughter, who's an expert in everything. That's why he invited me on this podcast.
0:27.6	Right.
0:28.6	We're going to talk about all things healthy living and today's topic.
0:32.6	Well, we're going to talk a lot about gardening and the benefits of soil and what to do and how our health
0:39.2	relates to the health of the soil. You asked me the most amazing quiz question and I can't believe
0:44.7	I'm embarrassed to say that I got it wrong, but could you repeat it? I found it so fascinating.
0:49.0	It's that we're talking about the factors that lead to human longevity and which is more related to being a healthy
0:56.3	centenarian let's say which is a person that lives to 100 person lives 200 but at least has
1:02.1	their full mental faculties and has a life not a person who's like which are two very
1:06.5	centenarian right so we want to have a great healthy life expectancy not not just live long, but live healthy with our full physical ability, mental ability to fully enjoy every day we're living. That's what we're all about. And that's what my niche in the field of health care is not to give people advice for the masses, not to give people what they want to hear, but to instruct
1:28.3	people for those who want to know what's the best thing to do, to be in the best health
1:33.3	possible, to extend their lifespan the most with their full mental and physical capacity.
1:38.3	And I'm saying that the same lifestyle that makes for the longest lifespan also has the strongest ability to
1:46.2	reverse disease to be used therapeutically to enable people to get well from
1:49.7	serious illnesses and that's really I always tell people this that is my
1:53.6	motivation and why I am so passionate about this healthy lifestyle and the
1:57.4	Nutriarian diet is that I don't want to decline with age. I don't want my
2:02.1	quality of life to decline at all. So I eat with such vigor every day, eat these nutrient-rich
2:08.0	foods so that I won't decline and I know I'm protected. It feels so good to know that you're not
2:13.1	going to get sick in your future life. You have confidence. you have, you're not fearful, and you fully
2:19.2	can enjoy your everyday your living. Most people my age can't really, we have as much fun.
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