My usual response to the question “What is Regenerative Food and Farming?” goes something like this: Regenerative agriculture and animal husbandry is the next and higher stage of organic food and farming, not only free from toxic pesticides, GMOs, chemical fertilizers, and factory farm production, and therefore good for human health; but also regenerative in terms of the health of the soil, the environment, the animals, the climate, and rural livelihoods as well. Read more.
Archives for February 2023
On the Frontlines of Pesticide Exposure
Despite decades of research linking pesticide drift to health harm, regulation remains weak and leaves the most vulnerable with few protections. Read more.
EPA is Allowing Poisonous Seeds to Devastate Communities
Years after an environmental catastrophe linked to seeds coated in dangerous pesticides, a local community continues to pay the price. Action Alert! Last year, we reported on an environmental catastrophe linked to the use of pesticide-coated seeds, which were utilized to produce ethanol at a plant in Mead, Nebraska. The toxic byproduct of this process was stored in “lagoons” that polluted the air, soil, and water in and around Mead. Read more.
Most Dementia is Driven by Diet, not Genes
In the days of Hippocrates, diseases were blamed on the gods. He didn’t buy that and explored the causes of disease saying ‘let food be thy medicine’. Nowadays a lot of diseases are being blamed on genes — because knowledge about genes and their effects has advanced tremendously over the last several decades. Genes are the code, or instructions, to assemble proteins, for example to make an enzyme, a hormone or a biochemical such as cholesterol or phospholipids. Read more.
Biotech Babies
Infertility, surrogacy, changing family structures, low milk production, inhospitable and toxic environments, stress, and a myriad of other factors are impacting breastfeeding babies. From the perspective of the baby biota, moms are the microbial stewardesses, passing on the collection of microorganisms that will direct much of the baby’s biology, and in particular, their immunological future. Vaginal births and breastfeeding ensure the inheritance of moms’ microbial wisdom to be passed onto the infant. Read more.
February is “Heart Month” — Why Aren’t We Doing Better?
Each year we make a big to-do about American Heart Month. We’re reminded to eat well, exercise, get our cholesterol and blood pressure checked, and see if we suffer from blood sugar problems. And yet, trends are concerning. We’re making progress in preventing heart attacks, and we’re keeping people with heart disease alive longer through advanced techniques. Read more.
Sitting vs. Standing: Which is Best?
It’s no secret that sitting all day is a problem. Most of us do it too much, often spending more hours sitting than sleeping, a sedentary lifestyle responsible for one out of every 14 deaths. Read more.
U.S. Starts to Discern Between Those Dying From COVID and Those Dying With COVID
There is a difference between dying from COVID-19 and dying with COVID-19. The number of people dying with the disease may be significantly greater than those dying from it. A recent article by CNN medical analyst and Washington Post columnist Dr. Leana Wen made the distinction between dying from COVID and dying with COVID. Read more.
FDA Standing in the Way of Longer Life
Once again, the feds are about to hand a ground-breaking, life-extending supplement to Big Pharma so it can be turned into an expensive monopoly drug. Action Alert! For a few months now, we’ve been telling you about the threat to nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) supplements, which are on the cutting edge of lifespan research. NMN supplements are on the verge of an FDA ban after a drug company, MetroBiotech, claimed it studied NMN as a drug before it was sold as a supplement. Read more.
Do You Want to Die Old or Sick?
We are somewhat indoctrinated by prior generations to eventually expect to spend a few years in the old folks’ home being sick, but how avoidable is that? The associated question I carry around is, “Why save for retirement if all you are going to do is spend it on doctors and hospitals?” Isn’t health the first wealth? Read more.