Soil Microbes and Gut Health, Gut Links to Immune System and Brain

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We have talked quite a bit about soil microbes and gut health on the podcast this season. In this episode we talk about what benefits the no dig method specifically gives your gut. EG shop homepage: https://growepic.co/3OJRDbH EG book collection page: https://growepic.co/3QzUKUX EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/3Qij0dP Connect With Charles Dowding: Charles Dowding has made no dig popular with millions of readers and viewers. They love how it’s good for the soil, healthy for plants and easier plus time-saving for them. His growing methods are applicable for small areas and large ones, and are used worldwide. Since 1982 he has created and cropped four no dig market gardens on varied soils from stony to silt, and on two types of clay. Currently he grows vegetables on 0.35 acres/1300 meters 2 in Somerset, SW England, for local sales of salad leaves and vegetables. He has written 14 books, runs a YouTube channel and Instagram account, has created and sells online gardening courses, writes for gardening magazines, and gives talks plus courses at home and abroad. Instagram YouTube Facebook Twitter Pinterest Website Online Course Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I don't know about you listening, but I will admit freely that over the last couple
0:16.1	of years I have had some issues with my god, maybe the stress from the business, maybe
0:20.7	the diet, who really knows.
0:22.7	But maybe we'll find out in today's show, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:27.0	We have Charles Dowding back on the show.
0:28.5	I'm excited to talk about this one with you, Charles, because we've gone through no
0:31.9	dig.
0:32.9	We've gone through more classical gardening topics, and now we're getting to one that kind
0:37.8	of goes into our own health as well.
0:39.8	Yeah, which is where we want to be, really, and that's where I got into no dig gardening
0:44.9	a long time ago, because I love the produce and it makes me feel good to eat fresh vegetables.
0:50.1	But until recently, I didn't know much about why I was feeling so good doing that.
0:54.8	I didn't know about the relationship with gut, our gut, our intestines to the soil.
1:00.4	I mean, that is becoming no such a common topic, and it's brilliant for gardeners, because
1:05.9	it's realised how the gut biomextical, which is the mild usually is the gut, is so similar
1:10.9	to the soil bio.
1:11.9	I mean, what a great connection.
1:14.6	So if you harvesting produce from your garden, it's going to have some of those lovely
1:19.2	microbes, the invisible microbes on it, which is going to bring health to your gut.
1:24.4	And what could be better?
1:26.6	So there's two little anecdotes I want to share with you here.
1:30.6	One is someone we just had on the show.
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