Mary Ruddick | Tribal Wisdom in Modernity: How Birthing + Gut Microbiome Impact Your Entire LIFE
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 690
How does tribal wisdom inspire modern practices to nurture health and well-being in ourselves and our children?
Mary Ruddick, Researcher + Ancestral Nutritionist, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 690, to explore the correlation between chronic illnesses and the modern lifestyle, how traditional tribal practices foster resilience and well-being, and why C-sections disrupt essential bacterial transfer crucial for a baby’s gut and immune health.
"The places that I go are very traditional. They have not been colonized. They're not wearing T-shirts. They are not dire. They're not hungry. They are the highest version of us. There aren't divorces or cheating. I haven't seen drug abuse or alcoholism. They're quite happy units." - Mary Ruddick
In This Episode, Mary Ruddick Uncovers:
- (01:30) Chronic Diseases Are Misunderstood
- (08:05) Tribal Culture
- (15:10) Raising Children with Love + Safety
- (19:00) Tribalism in The West
- (24:50) Traditional Ways of Birthing + Raising Children
- (33:30) How to Heal C-Section Born Babies
- (41:40) Gut Microbiome Health
- (49:55) Moving Through Chronic Illness
- (56:50) The Hero's Journey
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| 0:00.0 | Kids are being born into a world that they are not equipped for. |
| 0:04.0 | In many places, it's 50% or higher of C-section, and those are usually from women that have |
| 0:10.5 | already had antibiotics, but even if they hadn't, they're going to have IV antibiotics during |
| 0:14.8 | the C-section. |
| 0:15.8 | So when they nurse, the children are not going to get the same microbes that they would have |
| 0:19.8 | before. They are what protect us from the elements. |
| 0:22.7 | They are what make us feel happy. |
| 0:24.6 | They are what help us bond. |
| 0:27.0 | Mary Ruddick is an ancestral nutritionist, international keynote speaker and writer. |
| 0:32.5 | If you have a very tall male with a very short female, that is a recipe for a C-section. |
| 0:38.2 | How so? |
| 0:40.6 | When we depart from the really intuitive, natural ways of living with tribalism, the child is |
| 0:47.4 | impacted at such a young age. |
| 0:49.1 | They spend essentially the rest of their life just repairing because they came into the world |
| 0:53.2 | in a way that they weren't |
| 0:54.7 | designed for. The places that I go, they're very traditional. They have not been colonized. They're not |
| 1:00.6 | wearing t-shirts. They're not dire. They're not hungry. They are the highest version of us. There |
| 1:05.5 | aren't divorces. I haven't seen cheating. I haven't seen drug abuse or alcoholism. And so they're quite happy units. |
| 1:12.6 | We have a culture in less than 100 years that went to a group of folks that don't bond, |
| 1:18.6 | therefore they don't have children, and a group of folks that can't, |
| 1:21.6 | even though they want to. |
| 1:22.6 | Can you imagine in a couple of generations what we're looking at. |
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