Why Your Health Depends on the Soil with Dr. Daphne Miller

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In college, I read a book called The Soil and Health by Albert Howard. Little did I know, that book would forever change the way I viewed the relationship between dirt, food, bacteria, and human health.Emerging research continues to reveal the powerful influence of the microbiome on our health. Our microbiome is comprised of the trillions of bacteria, fungi, and even viruses present within the body. The balance of these microbes can make or break good health, and you won’t be surprised to learn the food we eat, and more specifically how it’s grown, is heavily correlated to our microbial composition. Today’s guest on The Doctor’s Farmacy is Daphne Miller, a doctor bridging the gap between medicine and farming. Dr. 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. A pioneer in the “Healthy Parks, Healthy People” initiative, Miller helped build linkages between our medical system and our park system and writes her patients “park prescriptions” to get outdoors. She also developed a soil learning lab for health professional at Paicines Ranch in Hollister California.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy.
0:03.0	So feed, protect, conserve on one level, very simple, really, very simple concepts.
0:09.2	And yet they really are the underpinning of our health and of soil health and atmospheric health as we're learning.
0:20.8	Welcome to the Doctors Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and that's pharmacy within FFAR.
0:25.1	I may see why a place for conversations that matter.
0:27.3	Today's conversation is with a friend of mine, an extraordinary doctor, a pioneer in thinking about
0:31.8	how agriculture and health connect, why the soil matters to our health in ways that most people
0:36.9	aren't talking about. And she is really pioneered these ideas in a way that make them accessible,
0:42.0	understandable, and make them important because they are. And we don't talk about them, which is
0:47.3	pretty stunning to me. She's currently a clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco.
0:52.7	She founded Health from the soil up initiative, which is a very cool initiative bringing
0:57.3	healthcare practitioners to ranches and farms to help them understand what's going on in the earth
1:02.6	and how that connects to our health. She written two books, The Jungle Effect, which I read, which was
1:07.4	really cool. It was a science and wisdom of traditional diets where she went all over the world,
1:10.7	looking at what people ate and came up with some really sensible advice that was pretty important
1:15.2	in sort of taking away some of the extremes of what people think about diet. She wrote a book called
1:19.9	Pharmacology, which we're going to talk a lot about today, which is about... It's also within F.
1:25.6	Also within F, right? Pharmacology within F, right? It's right. In fact, there's now an initiative
1:32.4	that I heard about in New York where it's called Farm to Farm, which is at Ph.A.R.M. to F.A.R.M.
1:38.8	where if you go into a pharmacy to get your blood pressure prescription, you can actually get
1:43.2	$30 in food stamp kind of money for the farmer's market, which is great incentive. She's helped with
1:49.4	an order-winning documentary called Search of Balance, which is a very cool decision of the
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