The Truth About Nutrient-Depleted Food: Why Regenerative Farming Matters with Ramstead Ranch | Ep367
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.9 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Imagine eating food that not only nourishes your body, but also heals the planet. In this episode, Erin is exploring the transformative power of regenerative farming with Stan and Eileen from Ramstead Ranch.
Together, they break down how regenerative agriculture goes FAR beyond the “organic” label and why it matters for your immune system, gut health, and chronic inflammation. There’s an often-overlooked connection between soil health, animal welfare, and your body’s nutrient absorption!
You’ll learn what makes food truly nutrient-dense, how industrial farming practices have stripped our food of bioavailable minerals, and simple questions you should ask your local farmers if you want to navigate your food choices with curiosity and care.
In this episode:
- The differences between “organic,” “pasture-raised,” and truly regenerative food practices
- How modern farming depletes soil and why that matters for your nutrient intake
- What “grass-fed AND grass-finished” actually means (and why it’s crucial)
- The surprising role of soil microbes in your immune system and gut health
- How to ask the right questions when sourcing food - even if you’re not a farmer!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | a farm, a ranch, is part of an ecosystem. |
| 0:04.5 | And if any part of that ecosystem is suffering or diminished through the activities of farming |
| 0:10.0 | and ranching, every part of that ecosystem is diminished. |
| 0:13.8 | And so we want the animals to be optimally healthy. |
| 0:17.3 | Likewise, we want the land to be optimally healthy so that the people are optimally healthy to help facilitate it all as well. |
| 0:24.4 | And so it is all intrinsically linked and we want to take care of every aspect of it. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K because we do things a little differently around here. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical |
| 0:37.7 | experience as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call |
| 0:42.5 | intuitive functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence |
| 0:47.2 | of your body. This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to heal, |
| 0:53.5 | and this show is going to show you how. |
| 0:55.9 | If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with |
| 0:59.8 | a friend because you never know whose life you might change. |
| 1:03.7 | Hello, my friends. I have such an awesome episode for you guys today. I'm talking to Stan and |
| 1:09.0 | Eileen from Ramstead Ranch. They are a regenerative farm |
| 1:13.9 | based out of Spokane, Washington. I love following them on Instagram. They are a must follow. |
| 1:20.3 | Their Ramstad Ranch on Instagram. And they just provide such rich education about the importance of farming practices and how we grow our food, |
| 1:32.0 | but they do it in such a warm and welcoming way. I'm always sending their content to all of my |
| 1:38.6 | friends, just because it's just like such feel-good vibes, but also extremely educational. |
| 1:43.4 | And that's why they came on the show. |
| 1:45.1 | I wanted to bring them on for a couple of different reasons. One is that most of us by now know |
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