Health from the soil. An idea that’s been around for a long time, but with no agreed way to measure it. How can we quantify biological interactions? In this case, clues are in the links between microbial interactions between soil and our bodies.
Nutritionists are now uncovering how the microbiomes of soil and our bodies are strongly linked. Body health can come from soil health. We discuss how to enable this and also ask, what is health?!
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Plus we discuss the issue of hydroponics reducing microbe levels..Plants are more than a collection of nutrients. Like u, they are a microbial balance! Eric explains this very nicely.
See Eric’s video channels https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3w193M5tYPJqF0Hi-7U-2g
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Introducing Dr Eric Berg
02:06 What is health?
03:33 Dr Berg explains the importance of the microbiome
05:41 Defining soil
06:55 I describe my dig/no dig beds trial
07:50 Dr Berg talks about the benefits of eating plants grown in healthy soil
09:42 The health issues from synthetic fertilisers and hydroponic growing
11:42 Dr Berg explains a new test he is going to be doing on the biochemistry of a plant, and talks about a plant’s microbes
14:28 Watering vs. raining for giving plants moisture
15:37 More on NPK fertiliser – an experiment described in the book ’Soil, Grass and Cancer’
18:00 More on growing hydroponically
19:04 We discuss the book ’Nutrition and Physical Degeneration’ – about not eating processed food, and eating some fermented food
20:39 ‘Health from the land’
22:53 Soil being linked to health
24:01 How/where to access food grown in healthy soil, ‘living soil’, and how to create the demand for it
28:36 Outro
Find out more about no dig growing in my book https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/no-dig
And on my website https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk
Filmed August 2023 at Homeacres, Somerset, UK by Edward Dowding, on a video link to Dr. Berg in Virginia, USA.
Special thanks to my friend Di Hooley for recommending I contact Eric. She also recommended the collaboration with Richard Vobes.
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