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Why Viruses Are Crucial To Life On This Planet, The Link Between Air Pollution, Glyphosate & Pandemics, Loss Of Biodiversity (& What We Can Do About It) & More With Dr. Zach Bush.

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

bengreenfieldfitness.com/zachbush

Zach Bush, MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care.

He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems. Dr. Zach founded *Seraphic Group and the non-profit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and planet.

During this show, we get into the viral pandemic, the George Floyd crisis, how we can save our planet, your microbiome and how to treat it properly, and much, much more.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Zach's thoughts on the global reaction to the coronavirus pandemic...7:30

-Whether or not we should fear viruses...10:00

-The importance of viruses to life as we know it...18:30

-How dramatic changes in the production of food in 1976 led to the current pandemic...26:25

-Why COVID-19 became a global pandemic...53:49

-An informed and rational response to the current COVID-19 pandemic...1:03:00

-How regenerative farming differs from organic farming...1:17:15

-What the Black Lives Matter movement can teach us about the earth's microbiome...1:23:00

-And much more!

Episode sponsors: Kion Serum, Butcher Box, Pique Tea, Lucy Nicotine Gum

bengreenfieldfitness.com/zachbush

Transcript

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, scientific orthodoxy that germ theory

0:07.2

somehow applies to viruses that somehow these antibodies are critical to our balance with

0:11.9

these viruses, and we know this just isn't intrinsically not true.

0:15.3

The bloodstream of the human is full of viruses.

0:18.1

We have a very huge misperception again that viruses are germs like bacteria.

0:23.6

Biology is always looking for the next best adaptation, and you are an extraordinary example

0:29.0

of this Ben, and I would say your whole audience is.

0:31.8

Pelt, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.

0:43.3

My name is Ben Greenfield.

0:45.2

Welcome to the show.

0:49.2

All right folks, you have been asking for him repeatedly, and I now bring you Bated

0:57.1

Breath.

0:58.1

My podcast is today, Dr. Zach Bush.

1:00.8

I love talking with this guy.

1:02.2

He has a very unique perspective on the viral pandemic that we have been going through, and

1:07.2

I've loved my interviews with him in the past.

1:09.4

You are going to eat up the show notes today.

1:11.8

So definitely go to the show notes.

1:13.0

And listen to some of the other interviews and videos with him that I'll put in the show

1:16.4

notes.

1:17.4

He's just a wealth of information.

1:18.4

I love getting a chance to talk to Zach, and I'm super happy to be able to bring this

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