How Your Health Is Connected to Soil Health

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

You may be surprised to learn that we see genetic crosstalk between the bacteria we harbor in our bodies and the bacteria or microbes within our soil. In fact, food acts as a language helping the two communicate. In this minisode, Dr. Hyman speaks to Drs. Daphne Miller and Jeffrey Bland about the evolving understanding of soil’s incredibly important role in creating, and maintaining a healthy ecosystem—for both the environment and our bodies. Dr. Daphne Miller is a practicing family physician, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Founder of the Health from the Soil Up Initiative. She is the author of two books: The Jungle Effect: Healthiest Diets from Around the World and Farmacology: Total Health from the Soil Up. Dr. Jeffrey Bland is the father of the Functional Medicine movement. With his wife, Dr. Bland founded The Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991, a nonprofit organization focused on educating healthcare practitioners on effective approaches to treating and preventing chronic disease. Dr. Bland has authored five books on nutritional medicine for the healthcare professional and six books on nutrition and health including The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life, Your Health Under Siege: Using Nutrition to Fight Back, and Genetic Nutritioneering. He is also the principal author of over 120 peer-reviewed research papers on nutritional biochemistry and medicine. Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Daphne Miller: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrDaphneMiller Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Bland: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrJeffreyBland

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0:00.0	coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	I wish that everybody who decided to become a doctor or nurse or a nurse practitioner,
0:09.5	just any kind of healer and health care, spent two years working with ecologists or farmers or
0:18.7	someone who works with natural systems. By the way, we are one. Yeah, we are one and it's farmers
0:26.4	who really are coming forward and saying there are principles of soil health that are super
0:33.6	important not just for protecting soil and for protecting the environment but also for protecting
0:41.2	and nourishing humans. Hi, I'm Kay Aparoet, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast.
0:47.4	As a functional medicine doctor, Dr. Hyman focuses on treating the body as a system rather than
0:52.4	treating the individual symptoms. In this many episode, Dr. Hyman explores how this
0:57.6	application of systems biology extends beyond our body's inner workings to its interaction with
1:03.1	the natural environment. Here's Dr. Hyman in conversation with family physician and founder of
1:08.3	the Health From the Soil Up Initiative, Dr. Daphne Miller. You're describing this sort of broad
1:13.7	range of things where you're seeing the harm that our current agricultural production system does
1:18.6	to the workers because of toxic use of chemicals, because of poor working conditions, because of
1:24.8	being almost indentured servants and human rights really is a huge issue there. At the same time,
1:29.8	we're hurting the soil that we grow our food in. So our soil is depleted, our food is depleted,
1:36.3	and then the food we are growing is commodity products that are turned into processed food like
1:42.3	corn, wheat, and soy that end up causing all this chronic disease on the other end of the spectrum.
1:47.6	And it's a huge problem and everything's connected and that is some of the beauty of your work where
1:52.0	you actually are connecting the dots between all these things that don't seem connected. Like,
1:58.4	what is the micro biology of the soil have to do with us? And you talk a lot about this in your
2:05.0	work and I'm fascinated to sort of dig into this because I want to get a little bit deep right away
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