Ancestral Health Radio

Why forage when you can hop in your petroleum-fueled vehicle and hit the closest Whole Foods?

Well...

1. Because you're smart. And...

2. Because you know better.

You may also know that by incorporating wild foods into your everyday diet that you not only help optimize your health but increase longevity.

Not only are they more nutritious, they're also free and often right in our backyards.

Today's guest will share some of his knowledge about wild foods, the dangers of glyphosate, and the type of work he wants to see with today's online ReWilding community.

Along with those fun facts, you'll also learn:

• Why wild foods are the cornerstone of any neo-ancestral lifeway,
• How to correctly process acorns and why that's important,
• Why women are better "nutrient transformers" than men, and...
• Much, much more.

• The injury that led to Ben's discovery of natural health
• Raw milk, herbs, and the Maine Primitive Skills School
• Ben examines why food is such an important aspect of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
• Ben shares some of his favorite wild foods
• How wild foods protect themselves from contaminants
• Ben weighs in on the low-carb high-fat diet debate
• Ben breaks down how plants defend themselves
• Ben explains how to process acorns
• How to incorporate acorns into your diet
• What Ben believes is the key to human health
• Ben talks about what wild foods might have been without industry
• Why wild food is always better
• Ben shares a few of his favorite food stuffs he likes to buy at the store
• Ben and I explain why you may want to spend more money on sardines
• Why muscles, oysters, and clams are still wild foods even when farm-raised
• Land-based wild green foods vs. wild seafood
• Ben's personal strategy for curbing food cravings with sea vegetables
• The micronutrient that mitigates the side effects of methylmercury
• Ben examines the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio of wild foods to domesticated foods
• Why women are better "nutrient transformers" than men
• Why Ben says he's not a big "almond guy"
• Why Ben has been researching Round-Up and the effects of glyphosate
• Ben goes over the importance of glycine
• Ben's strategies for avoiding and/or buffering the effects of glyphosate exposure
• Ben makes a distinction between processed foods, commercial foods, and industrial foods
• Ben talks about the hamster wheel of modern life
• How Ben would like to see the Rewild Yourself Facebook group grow
• The type of people Ben sees joining the Facebook group and why he believes they join

I am super excited, guys!

Today's episode is going to be really informative -- I hope you have pen and paper ready.

It is with none other than Stolan, the God of Plants, Arthur Haines himself.

It's really exciting because Arthur shares something that's really close to him and something he's really passionate about doing right now...

Which is essentially buying more land and creating a rewilding haven or rewilding community he calls the Human Rewilding Project.

He goes into the 12 Guiding Principles of the Human Rewilding Project later in this episode.

That's number seven, which is building community, on a list of 10 rewilding fundamentals he and I talk about.

On top of that, in today's episode you'll learn:

• Strategies that help you learn your natural ecology,
• How to build musculature and skeletal strength suited for our natural landscape,
• How to treat altered states of reality with respect, and...
• Much, much more.

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• Introduction
• Arthur shares his personal definition of rewilding and his two caveats with defining it
• Arthur breaks down the stigma of the word "wild"
• Why nature immersion is so important to the human organism
• How to find people to help you relearn your natural ecology
• The traits and features of domesticated people
• What is biologically appropriate food?
• What are disinfection byproducts and what do they do to the human animal
• How to get closer to wild food and wild water
• How to strengthen your body using the natural elements
• How Arthur experiences spirituality
• Arthur defines the contrasting differences between a wild community and a modern society
• Arthur defines the 12 Guiding Principles of the Human Rewilding Project
• How the Allegory of the Cave pertains to where we're currently at with rewilding

Are you a mitochondriac?

If you don't know what that means, no worries.

You will be after this episode.

Today's guest, Dr. Jack Kruse — neurosurgeon, mito-hacker, and author of Epi-Paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health — joins me on today's episode as we delve deep into the science of light, water, and magnetism.

Today's episode is long and dense.

And the show notes... are even longer and perhaps more dense.

Jack and I talk water quality, electromagnetism, and why light — or better yet — human photosynthesis — may be more important than food.

But I think my favorite part of this episode is when I hit Dr. Kruse with a not-so-brief round of rapid-fire questions hidden near the end. So be sure to stick around.

Full disclosure: I forgot to plug in my fancy-pants podcaster mic and the sound quality isn't what it should be. But sue me. What was I going to do? Tell Jack to start over? I don't think so.

But in today's episode you'll learn:

• Why the time of year and the light you eat under may make food toxic,
• How WiFi effects carbohydrate addiction,
• The three essential pieces of equipment Jack recommends everyone buy, and...
• Much, much more.

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• Jack discusses what sets his online work apart from the rest of the ancestral health community
• Jack breaks down what Quantum Mechanics is and how that affects the planet’s food web
• Why Jack says light is more important than food
• Why people are addicted to poor light environments
• Jack discusses how frequencies of light effect our bodies on a cellular level
• Why proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are linked to light frequencies (340hz) and mitochondrial health
• Why Jack was mocked by a doctor at Paleo FX for eating a banana
• How the time of year and the light you eat under can make food toxic
• What Jack says made his work controversial
• Why Jack pushes people to ask for a farmer’s growth chart at farmer’s markets
• Why farmers want to show you what’s seasonal for your latitude and location
• The problem Jack sees with the ancestral health and paleo movement
• Why doctors are quantifying zip codes and how they’re related to mitochondrial dysfunction
• Why Jack says people on LCHF (low-carb high-fat) diets plateau
• Jack describes why LCHF in a strong UV light environment is an absolute mistake
• The change Jack wants people to understand
• Why people in the stroke belt have so many problems with eye diseases
• Why Jack has found people in the Gulf easier to deal with than people in Nashville
• Why health gurus need to understand the way they deliver their message is part of their problem (it’s not their words)
• Why non-native EMF and blue light can raise blood glucose and insulin
• Why Jack says vitamin D levels are so low in San Diego and LA
• What is a mitochondriac?
• Jack’s prescription for anyone who spends most days under fluorescent lights
• Why you need personal context when describing your health with Dr. Kruse
• Jack describes the big elephant in the room
• Why big names in the paleo industry are spending big bucks on lab work
• Why it’s easier to learn about light, water, and magnetism today than it was 12 years ago
• One reason why research biochemists and research scientists in the paleo community get upset with Dr. Kruse
• What happens to our health when we go from 1g to 5g networks
• Jack shares a story of one of his students and the ill-effects of WiFi
• How WiFi effects carbohydrate addiction
• Jack describes non-linear and the duality of light
• How an electron spin determines free radical signaling
• How power lines change the electromagnetic field 90,000 kilometers above the earth
• Why Jack says drinking Malbec wine and eating blueberries on the beach in Mexico wouldn’t have effected James
• Why is food a half-truth?
• The labs Dr. Kruse suggests James keep an eye as a baseline
• The three essential pieces of equipment Jack suggests everyone buy
• Jack tells a story of hacking his fr...

Did you know that our human cells are outnumbered 10:1 by other microbes and bacteria?

Well... Now you do. :)

And my guest today — Dan De Lion, herbalist and educator over at returntonature.us — shares his personal strategies to help realign our microbial health to it's once robust, prolific environment.

For many of us, we suffer from chronic inflammation of our intestines. Which, in many cases, can lead to more severe health issues down the line.

That's why in today’s episode, you’ll learn:

• The problem with modern sanitation practices,
• The group of herbs Dan recommends we all grow to help combat common infections,
• Dan’s favorite fermented creations that you and I can make in the comfort of our own homes,
• And much, much more...

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• Dan describes his early childhood growing up in New Jersey
• Dan talks about how you can help support his latest project (a foraging herbalism roving van school)
• Why Dan says sanitation has become a problem
• Dan explains where microorganisms occupy space in and on your body
• How we’re consuming minute amounts of antibiotics through factory farming
• James shares how natural remedies helped cure a past infection
• Dan explains intestinal inflammation and the many reasons we get a porous intestinal wall
• Alternative anti-inflammatory herbs that can act like aspirin
• The effects of antibiotics on the body
• The problem with eating dry, brittle food
• How cows create protein from bacteria
• A few of the main roles bacteria play in both our nutrition and mood
• Should they throw out biology books due to the new science of the microbiome?
• The pancreas and appendix’s role in mediating bacteria
• The problem with isolated bacterial strains
• The importance of synergy in herbalism
• How Dan might help someone with a staph infection
• The importance of officinalis herbs
• Preventative health care versus acute condition health care
• The differences between teas, infusions, decoctions, tinctures, salves, and balms
• How the FDA regulates herbalism
• Maintenance dosing versus heroic dosing
• How the vagus nerve impacts our enteric nervous system
• How we need to change our perception of the communication within our bodies
• Neural tissue in unexpected areas
• What Dan says about people going to the store to buy Activia
• The benefits and drawbacks of pasteurization
• The benefits of making homemade yogurt on your countertop
• Commercial versus homemade fermentations
• How Dan makes a few of his favorite fermentations
• What to look out for when making your own fermentations
• Conscious omnivory
• Why Dan says you should splurge on buying healthy foods rather than procrastinate until it’s too late

According to the SSA (Self Storage Association), the United States has upward of 50,000 storage facilities, more than five times the number of Starbucks. Right now, at this very moment, there are 7.3 square feet of self storage space for every man, woman and child in the nation. That means that it is physically possible to have every American stand—all at the same time—under the total canopy of self storage roofing.

Woah.

But what does that mean?

That means that we, as Americans, are consuming so much stuff that we literally don't know what to do with it all, other than throw it into a dark room to be forgotten or sold to people who want more stuff.

And if that's not enough, check these statistics out:

• The average American throws away 65 pounds of clothing per year (Huffington Post).
• The average American woman owns 30 outfits—one for every day of the month. In 1930, that figure was nine (Forbes).
• The average American family spends $1,700 on clothes annually (Forbes).

[STAT CREDIT (and full article): http://www.becomingminimalist.com/clutter-stats/]

Again, this is telling me that we, as a consumerist culture, have gone ape shit. Instead of hunting and foraging, we're spending and buying.

What happened to creating something from nothing? Using your hands. Getting dirty. Making mistakes and figuring stuff out for yourself?

That's why I'm so excited to have Blake Ward of the Seed store to join me on today's episode of Ancestral Health Radio to discuss the art of working with your hands, of craftsmanship. This, tribe, is the beginning of a series called "The Maker Series."

No; it won't all be linear. Next week won't feature some badass blacksmith (although, if you know someone who might fit the bill, please email me at [email protected]).

But I will be featuring people who have dedicated their life to working with their hands to create something that transcends their brand and ushers in a time where people are respected for creating small-batch goods and services.

I'm calling not just American's out, but everyone: What do you create that adds value to your tribe?

In today’s episode, you’ll learn...

• The difference between cannabis and industrial hemp,
• How to foster creativity and reciprocity through what Blake calls "collaborative community",
• Practical tips and personal insight on how to become a maker, and...
• Much, much more.
• The frustration that caused Blake to buy a sowing machine and begin Seed
• Blake and I recap the horrors of the Rana Plaza disaster and the unfair labor practices in third world countries
• Why certain manufacturers install bars on windows of multilevel buildings
• Blake tells of future plans moving forward with Seed
• Blake discusses how "community made clothing" can shine a light on textile waste
• What's the difference between marijuana and industrial hemp?
• The benefits of hemp fabric and its the similarities hemp has to its animal fiber cousin—merino wool
• Why Blake believes it's the producers and makers that change the world, not the consumers
• How to foster creativity and reciprocity through what Blake calls a "collaborative economy"
• The common mistake that held Blake back five years before finally starting Seed (I struggle with this, too)
• The course Blake took three times a week that dramatically improved his sewing skills
• The juxtaposition of the workers in Blake's manufacturing facility versus the nightmarish labor conditions in India (this is what you really pay for)
• The missing elements in yoga, mountain, and athletic apparel that led to the design of Seed's most popular piece of clothing—the antidote pant
• How Vibram Five Fingers are similar to Seed's antidote pant
• Why there is a Sri Yantra on every pair of sacred seed collection antidote pants
• Blake gives his best piece of advice towards becoming a maker