Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz - The Epicenter of Chronic Disease, and Your Microbiome - With Dr. Zach Bush and Dr. Mindy Pelz

Episode Date: March 21, 2020

Welcome to The Resetter Podcast, where Dr. Mindy interviews experts on everything to do with a fasting lifestyle and beyond! Zach Bush, MD, of Farmer's Footprint, has triple board certified expertise in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice/Palliative care. The breakthrough science that Dr. Bush and his colleagues have delivered offer profound new insights into human health and longevity. His education efforts aim to bring about radical change in the mega industries of big farming, big pharma, and Western Medicine at large.In this podcast we cover: The rise in diseases beginning in the 1990's The Gut-Brain Axis and how to mend it The chemical industry we now call farming Why Roundup and glyphosate is the epicenter of chronic disease Where our crops are really going (it's not to the dinner plate) How regenerative agriculture can help solve climate change Learn more at www.zachbushmd.com , www.intrinsichealthseries.com , and www.ionbiome.com

Hey, Dr. Mindy here. I don't know if I have the right words for this episode. It is literally off the hook, amazing information. If you are really looking for answers to all kinds of health problems, he ties in brain health, mood disorders, autoimmunity, cancer, he ties it all together coming down to one major problem. And if we fix this one problem, we can literally change the health of our world. So this is such an important topic.

This is such an important interview. I think you will see what so many of my resetters saw that his logic and how he walks through this health crisis that we're currently in. It just makes sense. And please, I ask if you are moved by this resetter TV, share it, get it out. We are all in this world together. And you will see how Dr. Zach Bush explains how the, how the, how the, crisis has unfolded with our health and what we all can do together. We can't do it alone. So please share this episode out. It is just, it's life-changing.

Excuses out you let a top ofgy win while stem cells grow and sprout. You cleanse detox and couple-billed-bound. That's what resetting is. Resetters, I am incredibly honored to bring this guest to you today. I want to welcome Dr. Zach Bush, MD, to my Resenter Tribes. So let me just start off by saying welcome. So grateful to be here. So grateful to be with you all. It's always exciting to connect the new community. So thanks for creating that opportunity. Yeah. And I know I've, you and I've talked before, and I've watched a lot of your stuff. And I know community is really important to you. And I think when it comes to health, what I love about this group of people that you're going to to be interacting with over the next little bit is that they are so on fire for their health.

They are so passionate about doing it together. And it's a real pleasure for me to introduce you to this incredible community as well. So welcome. Let's start with this. A big reason why I wanted to bring you on to Resetter TV and I wanted to expose my community to your knowledge is that we are living in a time where we have so many minutes. mood disorders. We have depression and anxiety and, you know, I've got a lot of women going through menopause and we've got teenage anxiety. And there is such a strong microbiome connection that I really would love for you just to speak on that and help us understand how the microbiome really ties into our thinking and our moods.

Fantastic. Before we dive into kind of the molecular mechanisms, which this is kind of interrelated and the intricate co-creative environment of the microbiome in your brain, I want to prove that this is true at the population scale because it can sometimes get down into the weeds and you may, as an audience member, feel like that's some interesting theoretical data or that's some interesting scientific data in a microscope, but how does that really apply to me or my family? And what we can do is back up to a national kind of viewpoint at the United States and say dial back to the year 1900 1910 kind of time frame Freud and his colleagues at that time out of Europe and the U.S. collaborated on really what was the forefront of evidence-based

medicine before we even had that terminology. They did some of the first really aggressive, fantastically done statistical analysis on population health. And so they did it on mood disorders, looking at major depression, anxiety disorders, psychoses. We didn't use the word skis. We didn't use the word schizophrenia at the time but they had different you know terminology for it but these conditions got tracked very carefully in the population and in that beginning of the last century a hundred years ago we saw a prevalence of major depression and anxiety disorders at about one and a hundred individuals fast forward to today and we've hit one and two individuals major depression

incidents of over their lifetime and then a one one in three for anxiety disorder. So extreme acceleration over the last century. And so if we just can now say for sure, the population has had an explosion of mood disorder, when did that really start to accelerate? And it looks like it really started in the late 1960s and revved up through, you know, slow integral increases in the following decades. And then in the 1990s, things started to go vertical. And so we call this is a parabolic curve or asymptote where you start to approach a kind of vertical incidence of a disease process, and that's where we go into a true epidemic. And so you can have a rise in incidents, but when you go into that vertical rise, that's

where we can identify an epidemic. And over that same period of time, 1990s to today in that short 25-year period, we can say that with confidence we've got cancer. heart disease, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue syndromes, chronic pain syndromes, mood disorders, all the way down through childhood brain development and geriatric degenerative neural conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in the children, its autism and attention deficit disorders, have all exploded at the same rate. Wow, we've been very near the same rate. They've all gone epidemic into those vertical curves.

And so that's fascinating and really points to an important truth, which is there was one event that happened in the 1990s that predisposed the entire population in all of our genetic variability, all of our genetic, you know, variants and vulnerabilities. We all got sick in the same 20-year period. And amazingly, this is hitting the younger generations the fastest. And so the children, you should be the most resilient, are seeing the highest disease rates we've ever seen. We're currently tracking somewhere around 46% of children in the United States and other Western countries with a chronic disorder or disease by the time they're 18. 46%, one and two children.

And that's in contrast to, if you look at the entire population in the 1960s in those Western developed worlds, we had a chronic disease and burden of about 4%. And so we've gone from 4% of the entire population down to 46% of our children with a chronic disorder or disease. That astounding statistic is really underlying and really pointing to the truth that you've pointed to, which is there has to be one really important thing at the foundation of all of this mood disorder that you're asking about. And so we're going to now zero in on a couple topics within mood disorder, which might be anxiety and depression and children and young teens, as well as the high prevalence of these disorders in the premenopausal, perimenopausal, postmenopausal phases of life. And so just as we've done with cancer, heart disease, on immune disease, I can show you that there's a marriage of the path of physiology of these mood disorders in children versus adults at the very different phases of their endocrine function, their systems of biology and the rest. And so public data, the public health record really proves that we did something in the 1990s to undermine health period. And in that, those categories, we had these mood disorders.

which as glim as that sounds, it also where my brain goes is, okay, so if we created this, we can uncreate this, we can change this. And maybe it's like just changing a few things that will change so many conditions. Precisely. We've got this nutrition movement at a foot right now called the paleo diet and all this, and they're saying, well, if we all ate as cavemen, we would probably be healthier. And the reality is if we just all ate as we did in 1965, we'd all be healthy. Right.

So we don't have to go back to some distant past to remember when people could become healthy on the foods that they ate. Even when I was in undergrad, late 80s and early 90s, we feared the approach of the corn belt football players. The Nebraska football players coming to Colorado would whoop us good so often. We kind of regard these farm boys as like some of other species, like the, the option health. And tragically, if you go onto these farms today, they are some of the sickest populations you can find are farm children. So they are really at the epicenter of what happened in the 1980s and

90s, which is we chemicalized, we created a chemical industry that we now call farming. And so we took farming out of thousands and thousands of years of practices that were in line with natural cycles of earth, regeneration, the natural cycles of soil, water and air, and we removed those qualities. or we gave up on those qualities, and we turned it into a warfare mentality where we started applying literal chemical warfare agents, used to use it as a compound called Agent Orange to destroy the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 50s and throughout the whole 60s and early 70s. And so we decimated those jungles into moonscapes with the chemicals of the organophosphate family with Agent Orange.

And that same company, Monsanto, would then exit the warstates. strategy and move towards the farming industry in the 1970s as the war wrapped up. And they created another organophosphate, just like Agent Orange, that would become known as Roundup or the active ingredient glyphosate. And as we watch the march of that chemical industry, we see the undermining of farm health, ultimately food health, and ultimately population health. And so my laboratory here in Virginia, I left the academic environment in 2010. University of Virginia and before that University of Colorado and started my own basic science laboratories and biotech working in soil and

Microbial Intelligence and out of that experience we've come on to be able to show Unexpectedly that Roundup is really the epicenter of the chronic disease epidemics that we see today and so that Roundup molecule turns out to not be ever patented as a weed killer by Montauntar or any of the other companies instead it's been patented as an antibiotic and And it's antimicrobial effect. It's also been patented as an antiparricide, antifungal, and the like. It kills the microbiome at multiple levels. Interestingly, in their own patents, Monsanto has revealed how this chemical works. And the chemical works by disrupting an enzyme pathway in bacteria, fungi, and plants that

create the essential amino acids. The essential amino acids are the necessary building blocks for all protein. All proteins are the building blocks and the workforces like enzymes of cellular structures throughout the entire, you know, multicellular world. And so whether you're an earthworm or a human, you rely on a very small subset of these amino acids. Nine of the total category of amino acids are what we call the essential amino acids, because we as multicellular organisms like worms and humans can't make these amino acids.

The majority we can. the nine essentials, we are much like the vowels. These are the letters within the alphabet that if deleted start to affect every single word or every single protein that would come out of the construction of those amino acids into their various sequences. And so in the 1980s and 90s,

as we started to infiltrate our food system with this chemical, we started to delete the capacity of the soil microbes and the plants that would grow in them to build the storage or database of essential amino acids. And so the whole planet has begun to misspell proteins. And when we misspell proteins, we diminish function, whether you're a bacteria or a plant.

We can kill you very quickly because these are integral, you know, faculties within you. And so we act as a potent antibiotic, broad spectrum, more broad spectrum than any of the antibiotics we would give a human typically. And so the most potent antibiotic that on the Earth right now is this roundup chemical. and unfortunately, it's integrated into the food and water systems now. We are currently dumping about 5 billion pounds of this chemical into the world's soils. And unfortunately, it's water soluble, which means it gets into the runoff, it gets into the river systems in the oceans, where it evaporates and ends up in our air and in our rain.

75% of the air we breathe in the United States can be measured positive for glyphosate, 75% of the rainfall glyphosate. And so we are breathing it, we're eating it, We're drinking it. It's raining on us. It's raining on our crops. So I really encourage everybody to go towards a organic. And ultimately, as we get the labeling right in our country,

regenerative organic foods for the purpose, not just because it's better for your health, because it will change the industry that's dumping the chemicals into the system. With the obvious reality that if you're eating organic, you're still eating roundup. You're still breathing roundup. It's still raining. Yeah, that's what's going to do in my question.

So eating organic isn't. the total solution if it's ubiquitous in our environment? It doesn't fix your glyphosate toxicity problem. It reduces the level of glyphosate remarkably, but it doesn't get you to zero. For example, we just finished a double-blind placebo-controlled study for restore our dietary supplement line, and in that study, we were tracking roundup levels in the urine of patients. And it's interesting that here's a group of consumers that are actually already on the healthiest end of the spectrum of consumers.

They're already aware of this organic stuff. There are a lot of my followers and stuff like that. And so you distill down the healthiest population. And still, we could not find a single person that didn't have roundup in their urine. Yeah, that's crazy. And so we're all eating, drinking, and peeing out the roundup from our environment, which means it's touching every cell membrane throughout your body. Yeah.

So putting this down to like the concept of I'm sitting there with either a teen that has anxiety or I've got some extreme mood disorders. What I heard and what you just said is, hands down, the first thing you need to do is avoid your glyphosate exposure as much as you can, which would be going organic. Second step would be taking a supplement like restore, which I told you before, like I feel like I should walk around with a restore bottle. And like I'm like your biggest poster child because it's miraculous. So can you talk about like what that second step would be and how it would impact mood disorders. Yeah, maybe before I get to the solution, I need to finish painting the relationship

with that microbiome to your brain. Yeah, right. So the microbiome that we're destroying through our farming industry and frankly, also remember your consumer industry. And so up until 1992, the main contributor to your water system of this chemical was homeowners that were spraying ground up onto their driveways to kill the six or seven dandelions. And homeowners are not at all. all concerned about spraying, you know, $20 of a weed killer onto a small driveway,

whereas farmers have to be very judicious with this because it's one of their main costs or inputs. And so they're going to spray far less concentration than the homeowner does. So I'm pretty convinced that homeowners started poisoning each other by the late 80s because we were spraying it into our driveways and sidewalks, roadway systems, our parks and rec systems, our soccer fields. All of our children have been on school fields and soccer fields for 25 years now that have been being sprayed with this chemical. And so now we say, well, why do children have 46% chronic disease? Well, they're literally running around, eating it, rolling in it, wrestling, and, you know,

breathing it when they play soccer or they play rugby or they play football or they go walk the dog in the park or they run around on the playground. They're absorbing it through their skin. They've got it breathing. It's like literally steeping our children in this chemical. And so why does that matter to the brain? This exquisite research has been covered. coming out of universities like UCLA, UCSF, and what they're showing is that the human brain

extends down through peripheral nerves into your gut. And for a long time, we've now for the last 10 or 15 years, we've developed this whole science around what we now call the gut brain axis. And we're now recognizing that any stress that happens to the gut immediately translates into stress in the brain. And vice versa, when the brain's stressed out, it screws up gut function. And so we've demonstrated this two-way communication between the gut and the brains. We call that the gut-brain axis.

We had a belief that things outside of the world like the bacteria and the fungi that thrive in our guts and in our skin and in every orifice of our body was somehow passing information through into the system that would eventually get to your brain. But what UCLA and ESSF have recently done is start to show this exquisite direct connection between the microbiome that is in and around your body and your brain. There's a series of cells that are called the enteric endocrine cells. These represent 10 to 15% of all of the cells that make up your gut lining. Remember your gut's not your stomach.

Your gut starts at your sinuses, includes the entire upper GI tract. I would include the respiratory tract there too, but that's probably controversial. But at least the upper GI system, the stomach, the small intestine in its huge entirety, and the massive colon. And so from nose to rectum, you are this one kind of digestion track, if you will, where you are microbially dominant. You are probably 100 to 1 represented, if not 10,000 to 1 represented in the microbiome to the human cell environment.

So you have this giant tube system. And the tube is protected from your body by a single cell layer. And that single cell layer is half the width of a human hair. And so picture a layer of cellophane, that's half the thickness of a human hair. and that covers two tennis courts and surface area. That's your gastrointestinal membrane or barrier system. Now you put on top of that all your food and the chemicals you ingest and everything else, and you have to absorb what you would like to absorb and keep out what you would like to keep out.

So that barrier system is an intelligent membrane that will try to be that selective barrier to keep the good stuff in or bring the good stuff in and keep the bad stuff out. about 10 to 15% of those cells are not just barriers. They're actually the manufacturer for your neurotransmitters. And so these are the enteric endocrine cells. And so 10 to 15% of that giant cellophane layer produced 90% of the serotonin that gets produced in your body. And over 50% of the dopamine produced in your body. At that point, you think, well, at least the brain makes 50% of its dopamine.

And of course, we're wrong again. 40% of your body's dopamine gets made by your kidney. kidney tubules. And so between your kidneys and your gut, you make 90% of your dopamine. Your gut alone makes 90% of your serotonin. So you start to realize these two major transmitters that have been blamed for your anxiety and depression actually are not at all related to your brain's disease or disorder process. If you have depression or anxiety, you have a deficiency of workforces in the gut. Well, how did that happen? Here's where the data out of these universities gets kind atrippy is in recent three-dimensional imaging at the molecular level, we've been able to show that the human neurons are extending past that cellophane layer and actually listening directly to the bacteria and fungi in your gut.

Wow. It bypasses your barrier system so that your brain can talk directly to bacteria. Simultaneous to that anatomical discovery, it was being discovered since 2014 that if you remove certain bacteria from the gut, those enteric enderic, cells can no longer make serotonin and dopamine. And so you cannot produce the neurotransmitters and your brain cannot listen directly to the full gamut or the full ecology of a healthy ecosystem. When you take an antibiotic, you decimate that microbiome. Amazing studies coming out recently show that one course of antibiotic for an upper respiratory infection or some, sorry, Okay, I'm just don't my water.

Upper respiratory infection or something like a urinary tract infection, you grab that antibiotic from your doc, your chance of a major depressive episode goes up by 24% in the next 12 months, and your chance of a generalized anxiety disorder developing goes up by 17%. With one round, one round. One round. If you now go back to your doctor within that 12-month period period and get a second round of antibiotics.

You had your UTI treated six months ago, and now you go in for your bronchitis or sinusitis. That second course of antibiotics now raises your risk of major depression by 54%, and your risk of anxiety disorder by 44%. And so we are having massive decimating effects on mood disorder through our antibiotic prescription behavior as physicians.

Because of all the disease is the same process, it's ultimately dysregulation of communication and the chronic inflammation, cancer, has the same pattern. And so if you look at the maps that I show in all my lectures, I've put side by side the CDC maps of cancer death with the New England Journal Medicine articles that are showing that antibiotic prescription behavior per state, and you can see a perfect state-by-state correlation with the more antibiotics prescribed per population, the more cancer death we have. And so in those two demonstrations, I've been able to show at the population

level, antibiotic usage from your physician and pharmacy drives mood disorder and cancer death. Crazy. Claps of the microbiome equals human disease. Now let's back up and ask how much antibiotic is being prescribed by our physicians. We're somewhere around in the United States a disgusting 7 million pounds of antibiotic per year prescribed. Not prescriptions, but pounds. What that equals out to is 833 prescriptions of antibiotics for every one. 1,000 man, women and children.

And so we're somewhere around 83% by the numbers of the population, and there's probably some redundancy. It might be closer to 40% of the population where a lot of the population is getting two courses of antibiotics in here. But suffice to say, 833 prescriptions for every 1,000 man, woman child, that's a lot of antibiotic. And so that's 10 to 7 million pounds. But in the United States, we use around 300 million pounds of Roundup. And so we are many logarithms greater in our antibiotic exposure through our farming industry and agriculture and our landscaping and streets, you know, parks and rec services and the rest than we are at risk from our doctors.

And so the real collapse of health is happening from Roundup spraying. We've proved this by looking at the concentrations of Roundup spraying and the water systems in which that Roundup ends up. The largest of these is the Mississippi River. The tributaries of the Mississippi River cover about 80% of the country, or I'm sorry, 80% of the roundup spraying in the country, a footprint of maybe 60% of the country. And so with 80% of the roundup that we spray in the whole country being absorbed into a single water system, it's going to be concentrated ultimately in the last 90 miles of the Mississippi River, which runs from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, Louisiana. And that happens to be called Cancer Alley. That's the highest rates of cancer in the entire developed world by an extreme amount. Interestingly, that deep south was never the epicenter of cancer death in our country up until 2007 hit.

And so in 1997 and before, our cancer death maps were northeast and northwest. And then suddenly in the 13 years between 1997 and 2004, we caused this decimating injury to the microbiome through the Midwest and concentrated, chemical that would wipe out the microbiome of the Deep South, and we would create the highest rates of cancer in the world, and of course, mood disorder is right there. Interestingly, this is worked now by Norm Shealy, who has run the largest pain clinic in the United States for over 30 years up in Wisconsin area, and his pain clinic realized early on in the late 70s and early 80s that an enormous amount of the patients that were presenting with pain had predisposing mood disorder.

And so he ultimately became the biggest center for integrative medicine approaches to treating mood disorder because he figured out that mood disorder happens shortly before chronic pain syndromes emerge. So major depression in a recurrent state will then turn into a chronic pain syndrome if not treated at its core. And so we can say in the population,

if you have major depression anxiety disorders and everything else, and that becomes a recurrent theme, where you're now in your second or third bout of major depression, the chance of you developing fibromyalgia, regional pain syndromes like reflex sympathetic dystrophy or chronic regional pain syndrome disorders, those guys are all could have been captured earlier

and prevented if we had recognized the relationship between the collapse of the microbiome, the emergence of mood disorder, and their march towards that chronic pain syndrome, and ultimately to the cancer that would follow. Yeah. You know, I'm watching the comments that are coming in and everybody's like, oh, my God, mind-blowing. This is, you know, it's such a message that we need to get out.

And I have to tell you, Dr. Zach, the first time I heard you speak, I actually cried. I just had wept because everything you say makes perfect and logical sense. And yet we're all living in this world together. So how do we emerge from that? The connection is so clear and how do we overcome this? Yeah. I'm going to, you know, for full transparency, because whenever you hear my talk or anybody hears my talk, there's a major risk that you're going to think I'm intelligent.

I want you to know that I asked backward my way into all of this information. Yeah, it was a total mistake that I got to the place that I am today. 10 years ago, I was developing chemotherapy at the University of Virginia. So I went from extreme pharmaceutical mindedness to now where I am today and my current mindset around nature is our healer and it's our disconnect from her that's causing this chronic disease epidemic. But to kind of catch you up on how I got to the realization of the roundup through some brilliant people I work with, Dr. John Gilday, number one among them. But he was the one to really figure out this roundup link to the soil and what we were seeing at the molecular level in human cells. but what I had brought to Dr. Gilday was actually the solution to this injury. And I didn't know about this injury.

I didn't know it was going to be a solution to it. I was still in my cancer mindset. But I had found some molecules in soil, namely an actually ancient fossil soil, that were doing some pretty phenomenal things in my clinic. And they were very similar to the molecules I had used in the chemotherapy world, but there was no toxicity to them. And so I had him start studying them under the microscope, and we proved out extraordinary safety levels of these molecules.

And then in the end, when I started putting these into my cancer patients and improved their nutritional recovery after chemo and everything they'd been through, we started to see things that I didn't expect. I had seen, expected to see things in the cancer world. I had no idea what I was going to see shifts in autoimmune conditions, chronic inflammatory states, you know, 40-year decades worth of, you know, GI distress and problems were reversing. And so all this stuff was going into some sort of repair process I didn't understand at all. And so he was bringing all that back to Dr. Gilles' attention.

And in his Ph.D. mindset, he quickly started putting the pieces together to say, what could we be doing at the population level? That could be reversing so many, you know, chronic disease situations. And so he was the one that tied this all back to the leaky gut phenomenon. And leaky gut is actually at its core what happens when you ingest Roundup. And so it has the antimicrobial properties. It kills bacteria, fungi, both in the soil and your gut, to leave you depleted of your microbial workforce. But then it does further direct damage to the human biology

by destroying the Velcro or the tight junctions that bond all those billions of cells into that two tennis courts of surface area. And so as that cellophane turns into a sieve, you start absorbing everything from your environment inappropriately. And what it results is a massive amount of inflammatory response. Now you're reacting to the pollen you breathe, to the dust you breathe, to the water you drink, to the dairy you consume, to the food you eat, to the kale that you eat. All these foods start becoming inflammatory to your body and you start to develop severe irritable bowel syndrome, esophageal reflux, ulcerations, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, Crohnage disease, ulceritis, autoimmune conditions, thyroid, arthritis.

It's just, you know, now just all start spooling out from an overly inflamed, overly activated gut that's no longer protected from the outside world. And so we, once we kind of drill down to, okay, here's the epicenter. Here's ground zero of the chronic diseases. Loss of microbiome, destruction of the immune system. Okay, we lost him for a moment. I'm sure he will come back. There you are. Go ahead.

I lost you for a moment, but you're back. Sometimes I do that. I jump into it and I'll do it and come back. Is there part of dealing with me? But keep going, yeah. Your word of life. All right. So as we look at these three pieces, so you've got the collapse of the microbiome, the sudden leak and loss of

barrier to the outside world as your tight junctions fall apart, and then your immune system overwhelm happens. That's the three pieces that are fundamentally at ground zero. If we then watch the trickle-down effects back to mood disorder, it turns out that the blood-brain barrier and the kidney tubules and the whole vascular tree are tied together by the same tight junctions. And so it turns out that as glyphosate hits your gut and creates leaky gut, within minutes, you have leaky brain and leaky kidneys. I haven't heard of the leaky kidney. I've never heard that, but makes perfect sense. It's all the same protein structure and all vulnerable to that round-up injury. And so we've been working to show that the microbial intelligence that we're pulling out of the soil can actually reverse all of that.

And so first of all, we create a boom in the microbiome when we put these carbon resources back into a biologic system. So we can diversify rather than simplify which the probiotic industry does. Probiotics create a monoculture in your gut. You don't want three species of bacteria. You want 30,000 species of bacteria. And so we don't have a probiotic that actually works to diversify. your flora. At best, there's little tiny band-aids that you can throw on momentarily. If you stay on a probiotic, it's actually been recently shown and published in cell,

that it actually narrows the microbiome just as badly as the antibiotics do. So, probiotic industry needs to disappear as soon as possible. In contrast to that, if we give no microbial micromanagement, instead just give back the communication network that coordinates behavior between the species, then we get balance and diversification happening. And so again, this is soil and... intelligence coming back into play in biology. When we add that to human cells, they immediately

start making protein, enzyme that are responsible a detox, doing genomic repair. It's just an incredible event. And interesting, these molecules don't do anything on their own. The supplements that we now derive from them are the only supplements in the market that try to do absolutely nothing. They are trying to be completely passive players in biology

to give back the wireless network that you would correlate very much so with your cell phones. Your cell in their body is very much like a cell phone, has all of the machinery inside of it to transmit and receive information from the greater organism. But if you lose the wireless communication network from the microbiome that we now know is transmitting information between cells,

you now become an isolated cell phone. With seven miles away from the closest cell phone tower, you suddenly can't connect, and the whole cell starts to stagnate. Your software can't update, you can't communicate with you can't communicate with any other humans on the planet, you start to become an isolated and lonely entity.

What you have just become at the biomedical standpoint is a cancer cell. A cancer cell only becomes cancer when it comes totally isolated from its environment. And so first to do that, you have to cut all the tight junctions, which is what Roundup does. The World Health Organization is now finally identified

as a probable carcinogen. You need to delete the word probable out of there. It is a carcinogen. Finally, we're seeing massive court cases agreeing with that. And the massive lawsuits, we can be able to be a carcinogen. out against Bayer last weekend and against Montaante last fall. And so finally, the science is catching up

with the legal system. But we have a carcinogen that's creating lonely cells and simultaneously killing the microbiome that would produce the communication network or the wireless communication that would help one cell speak to the other. And so in really one chemical, we've got the perfect isolating chemical

that we've created. And hasn't that been what we've, we've seen at the macro level. Humans, 7 billion on the planet, never more of us here, are more isolated than we've ever been. Despite the internet, Facebook, Twitter, all these connective devices, I would argue we've never seen a higher level of loneliness,

isolation, suicide, et cetera, in our civilization. And so really fascinating that at the microbial level and at the human cell level, we get isolation and loneliness. And the result is immediately at the macro level, isolation, loneliness, egocentrism. We forget we're part of a larger human organism called Homo sapien. We lose the identity as species.

We choose nationalistic paranoia over globalist thinking and all of the rest. And so we really see this outpouring of anger, hatred, fear mongering, everything else in our politics, paralleling the mood disorders that we see in the individual patient, paralleling the biology of collapse of information stream at the cellular level.

Yeah, and it makes perfect sense because we're physiologically disconnected. And within ourselves, that would totally make sense that that would play out in our outer world. So how do we fix this? I'm watching the comments coming through and people, you're blowing everyone's mind as you normally do. So thank you so much. And yet we have to, I think any solution always starts with awareness. And then we got to wake people up and now what do we do? Fantastic, yeah. So certainly on the biotech side, companies are doing very well. We've developed the human line of supplements, Restore, is the name of the supplement that you mentioned. But we've also developed incredible supplements for the food industry. And so we go into initial sales to the large ag system in June at the global vet health group. We've spent the last four years getting approved as a low-risk drug in Canada. It turns out you have to be regulated.

as a drug to go into the human food chain. And so we've gone through all the science rigor and everything else necessary to get there. And so we get our NN number at the end of this month. And we will be getting this product into your food chain, which is going to immediately reduce the stress of those animals in the feed lots, et cetera. And I hope it's a stepping stone to real humanitarian management of our protein production systems of the poultry swine and the beef industries that are just horrifically, catastrophically painfully mean to these animals.

So we've got to get a higher ethic in this industry, and we hope that this is the science and the industry of communication at the cell level was our slippery slope into a higher ethos of animal care as we go. And so these products are going to hit the market. The human ones already gone global. We're in over 120 countries. In the United States, we're sold in over 900 physician offices

as kind of frontline management for health and disease prevention. And just so everybody knows, that's your referencing restore is what you're referencing. Yeah, and I cannot say enough about what a game changer restore is for a functional medicine doctor like me. Like, it is a game changer. And people ask me all the time, like, how long should you be on? You know, how long do I need to be on it? Some people say, I don't really notice anything on it.

And I just say, keep taking it, keep taking it. Because of everything you just said. Yeah, those are a couple of great points. Number one, you know, how long do I take it until we change the industry? And so until we stop spraying these chemicals and under our environment, we're going to be reliant on these compounds from the soil. I think it's pretty fascinating that the only place that we find these carbon molecules and insufficient diversity is in soil that's about 60 million years old or older.

That's pretty fascinating because what we've shown is that it functions as the antidote, if you will, to Roundup. Because if you put it on a cell membrane that's been damaged by Roundup, within six minutes, you see regeneration of the proteins that have been damaged. And you see that leaky sieve start to zipper back together in just minutes. And then within six to eight hours, you've surpassed the original integrity of that membrane. Within six days, we're measuring levels of resistance across those membranes that have never been recognized as possible. We're the first laboratory in the world to be able to create high transepithelial resistance in kidney tubules. And so from gut all the way to kidneys, and we've proved it out on blood-brain barriers as well. So gut, blood-brain barrier and kidney tubas all come back online, creating these resistant barrier systems of intelligent barriers by reconnection to this wireless network.

And let me remind you that Restore does nothing. It doesn't actually prevent disease. It doesn't treat disease. it doesn't do anything intentionally. It's actually inspiring, and this is the thing that gives me goosebumps more than anything else. All it's doing is reconnecting you and all of your 70 trillion cells to your intrinsic capacity to heal. You have all the intelligence and all the machinery to heal yourself from anything. It doesn't matter if it's cancer, heart disease, mood disorder, you name it.

You have all the machinery to repair that into infinitum. The only time we see disease emerge is when there's a failure. of communication. Yeah. And I believe that's true in our politics as well. The only time we see war is when we have a complete collapse of communication between humans. And so we need to learn from this and start to integrate information technology at the macro level of connecting humans.

And our company is working on that very actively to reinvent the internet, take it away from the big advertisers, take big data manipulation and commoditization back into our own hands, and say, we the people own the data, we the people control our internet, we the people control our space and we're going to connect humans just as we would connect cells together with restore, and we're going to restore civilization, not just human health. And so that's my big dream. That's my big passion right now where I put a lot of my focus. But second part of your question there around, or second answer to your first part of the question there around, how long do we take this is I would like to invite all of you to as fast as possible put my biotech companies

out of business. I do not, it is boring for me, frankly, to go and pay, fossil soil and turn it into the freaking supplements and get that into your hands in a bottle that you go and drink. What inspires the hell out of me is imagining that your grandchildren and my grandchildren will instead go into an environment where the first thing that they are taught as they enter preschool is how to grow a plant. The second thing they're taught is how to get lots of plants growing in communication. And then by the time they're in high school, they're studying microbial quorum sensing and the intelligence of complex micro ecosystems and how they create intelligence and human beings to create a higher level of consciousness and behavior in their generation. That's my dream. And so help me get there,

we actually need to change first the farming industry. We can't have 46% of our children with a chronic disease. And unfortunately, one in 30 children with autism. Our rate of autism is climbing so fast now that we're going to hit one in three children with autism in the United States by 2035. 16 years from now, one in three children with autism. spectrum disorder. That population will not be able to be the creative, productive group that we need them to be. But when we support the health of those autistic children, we find them to be the biggest outside the box thinkers that have ever existed. I do believe there's a silver lining on this autism syndrome and that they will be the angels among us. If we create the space for them and we

put resources around them, give them health back, they're autistically wired moms, will come up with solutions we've never dreamed of when we're wired like we are. And so put my biotech companies out of business as soon as possible by healing the soil so their children will heal and they can fix the bigger problems that will come down the pike at them. And so how do we do that? Yes, exactly. In February, we launched Farmers Footprint, which is a nonprofit. We have launched a multinational approach to educating farmers who are currently stuck.

And frankly, they are trapped against the. their will in an economy that forces them to grow genetically modified crops. We're teaching those chemical GMO farmers how to make the transition independently to their own economy and become independent again in food production. And to do that, we need your help. And so Farmers' footprint has become this extraordinary avenue through which consumers can suddenly be plugged back in directly to our food producers. These farmers are the most inspirational problem solvers you will ever.

meat. They do not want to be growing chemically filled foods for you. They want to grow real food. They want to actually heal their family's soil because they know that that's all they have to pass on to their future generations. 8,000 farms a year are going out of business in the United States. 8,000 farms of, you know, average sizes between 300 and 3,000 acres. And so we're losing millions and millions of acres of farmland every year now. And unfortunately, from a homeland security standpoint, we aren't even selling that to Americans. Most of that is being bought up by international conglomerates. Russia, China, and other countries owning our most prime farmland because we can't keep our farmers in business. The whole lie that's coming out of the chemical

farming industry is saying that we have to feed 7 billion people, therefore we need GMO. Right. GMO crops don't even feed humans. All of our crops look at Kansas as our biggest corn producer in the country. percent of the land by square miles in Kansas grows GMO crops. 90% of the food that's consumed in Kansas is imported into the state. They don't even grow their own food. The extraordinary thing is one in four children in Kansas goes to sleep hungry. We literally have starvation going on in the most agriculturally active environments of our nation.

Not only are we not feeding the world with those GMO crops, we aren't even feeding our own. It is an absolute humanitarian crisis going on on the ground right there. And we are finding that by just getting consumers to support through very mild amounts. We're looking at $100 per acre, $100 to sponsor an acre of dead, chemically abused land. Within one season, within one 12-month period, we can get that land back to where it was before the 1980s. And so we can regenerate 30 to 40 years of ecosystem and everything else in a single full cycle of cover cropping and animal husbandry on that land. And so an incredible opportunity for us to co-create with Mother Earth, to reverse the toxicity, create truly regenerative land, which, by the way, is capable

of within the next 10 years reversing our entire CO2 footprint that's contributing to the global warming. Wow. Wow. And so we can solve global warming, starvation, food industry, the medical system at large through one practice, which is regenerative farming, much different than organic farming by the end, by the way. Most of the organic farms in this country have worse soil than the chemical farms. We are abusing the soil in our organic practices just as badly as we are in the chemical industry. And so our education system, and we have partners that have been doing this for decades, they're extraordinary experts in the industry. We're just now scaling them by putting consumers back in direct support to these farmers and educational systems.

Our goal is to regenerate 5 million acres over the next six years. We need your help. Bring $100 for every one of those acres, and we are not just talking consumers. We've got large corporations, even hedge funds, and impact investors now coming alongside of us. And so every dollar going in is inspiring every stakeholder in the industry realizing this. Why?

One of our biggest first supporters is Adobe Acrobat, a software company. Why are they aware of this? Because they are a national company that needs 11,000 young people to keep pouring through their doors to innovate the very front edge of information technology. They are seeing the collapse of productivity of their workforce. It's getting harder and harder to find healthy, and it's getting much harder to keep those employees healthy once they're hired. So these large corporations are realizing that they are a major stakeholder in the need

for regenerative agriculture. And so Adobe has come along and invited all 11,000 of their employees to donate to Farmers' Footprint, and they match every dollar coming in. And so their employees and their company are all recognizing their stakeholder interest. Now coming along, we have United Healthcare. We're speaking to their CEO on Friday. And so they have 16,000 employees. They want to do a similar program there.

We have hedge firms from New York to San Francisco that are coming alongside us with impact investment dollars. The reason is, is because we've already demonstrated that you can convert about a $40 per acre net under chemical farming commodities market pricing. you can actually produce $400 to $500, $10x the economic return on that acreage by going regenerative. And you'll create economic resilience because instead of one or two economic streams coming out of sell your soybean or corn, you actually have six to eight revenue streams coming off that land that are actually year-round. And so you eliminate the needs for this huge risk of the farmer to take these huge bank loans to get them through the year to pay off suddenly when their harvest comes in. If their harvest fails, hail, et cetera, they fail completely.

That's when the U.S. government steps in with the Farm Bill, which then pays out through what's called the crop insurance, which is not an insurance program at all. It's a welfare system for failing farms. It turns out that the welfare system won't pay you out unless you're growing. The Farm Bill supported agricultural items of alfalfa, corn, soybean, all these genetically modified crops. Because the banks are not protected without the crop insurance, they won't lend the farmers money to do regenerative agriculture. And so they have to grow corn and soybean to be able to borrow the money to grow craft models

that poison the earth and don't ever end up on a dinner plate. Most of those commodities, where is all that corn and soybean going? I forgot to tell you that. It's not going to dinner plates. Most of it's actually going to the fuel industry. It's going into ethanol and as fuel additives. It's going into plastics production. It's going into your clothing in the form of polyesters and all the apparel industry.

We don't even grow food. We grow plastics. That's where all that corn and soybean is ending up. A small percentage that then ends up is crappy feed for our dogs, cats, and our animals at large. But there's so much chemical residue in those corn and soybeans at the time of harvest that it's very dangerous to put that into the food system of humans. And so we keep it kind of sequestered away. chronic kidney disease is now the leading cause of cats that's developed over the last 15 years as we've contaminated their food supply.

I'm sorry. My daughter is like a super passionate dog person. Current numbers of cancer and dogs right now is that for every 1.64 dogs, less than 1 and 2, there is a case of cancer now. And so we're nearly at 100% of dogs now with cancer because of what we've done. under their food. And so it's, you can't measure the humanitarian crisis on the human level. But then when you start to expand it out to what's happening to chickens and the horror that they go through in that short lifespan that they have, the horror of being a pig in a swine

factory or the horror of being a loved animal that's fed poison every day unintentionally by their owner is just on every level wrong. And so my outcry to you, This just help the farmer. The farmers are so good. I'm sorry, this doesn't usually happen to me. No, no, I'm so appreciate your passion. The farmers, when they hear these lectures, it's so emotional for them. Can you imagine realizing that you're poisoning the world?

Like, it's too much information to handle. It's too intense without the promise that we're all in this together. and the recognition that we as consumers created this chemical industry, we outsourced our food production. In 1945 at the end of World War II, we were producing 40% of our food chain in our backyard gardens and called Victory Garden Movement. Now we are growing less than one-tenth of one percent of our food.

We have become so lazy, so disconnected from food production. And so in addition to helping the farmers and supporting them, with not just your money. They're actually not interested in handouts. It's the opposite. They want to partner with the world. And so the hedge funds and all these other investment funds are working with us now to create investment strategies

where you as consumers will ultimately be able to invest in your farmers rather than just give to them. And so we're going to go through a period of a pure nonprofit where you're directly pouring your love into these farmers and supporting them. But know that our organization is quickly working to create private sector solutions. investor-based solutions that will empower you to become partners to these farmers, which is really what they want.

They don't want a hand out. They want good business, and they want to be part of good business. And they will solve our biggest problems. I guarantee you the physicians and the scientists that are studying molecular biology will not solve our health crises. They cannot because they are not at the root cause the problem. Your farmers will solve the problem of global warming, of the collapse of the ecosystems on the planet at large. Keep in mind that we are currently losing one species to extinction every 20 minutes. The rate at which we are collapsing biology on Earth has never been witnessed, at least not under human hands. There has been five other great extinctions on the planet.

Only one of them hit 97% of collapse of biology on the Earth, and we're on track to be another one of those 97% death events. Extraordinarily, if you look at the biological collapse of human function, even just at sperm levels in Western countries, our sperm levels have dropped between 52 and 58% in just 20 years. As we continue down this trajectory, we currently have about one in three males that are at risk of being infertled by low sperm counts.

And as we go down another 20 years, we'll have some 60 to 70% and another 40 years, we hit some 85% to 90% of males infertled. You extract that out to 70 years from now, and we hit human extinction. Through the pressures of chronic disease and the burdens rising therein, coupled with our infertility rates, we will be extinct in 70 years. Frankly, for my heartbreak over the animals and for planet Earth itself, I can't wait for us to disappear,

unless we're willing to transform. I do not want restore or any other substance to improve human health unless you are willing to transform. If you're going to continue in your current consumer behavior and accelerate the death of the planet, I don't want you to have restore. have restored. I want Restore to be a pivot point for you. I want it to be a realization moment that you are the natives of change on this planet. And as a consumer, you drive the boat, to the farmers you drive the boat, you drive the boat on all massive companies. Two weekends ago, I was in celebration mode with my company because after pounding this drum for years, we see 55% of the stockholders in Bayer revolt and give a vote of non-confidence to their CEO for having bought

Monsanto and do what they're doing. And so we are shifting massive mega billion dollar corporations through consumer awareness. And so if you're going to take restore, do me a favor and don't be part of the problem, become part of the solution for humanity, which is going to be rising consciousness to realize that you need to make sure that everything you do in a day, you take Mother Earth into consideration. You wonder about your footprint and your positive, co-creative, regenerative capacity to work with her to make more life, not less on earth. Amazing. Amazing. I'm speechless, and I really want to honor your time.

And let's leave with this. So if you're touched by this interview, please do one of two things. Share it out and donate. And give us some action steps. Is it farmer's footprint? They go and donate and get involved financially. Is there other ways to get involved other than financial? Absolutely.

Farmersfootprint.us is the nonprofit website, and coming within the next eight weeks. So continue to fuel our efforts. We're still, we only have one paid employee. So all the money's pouring right into all of this effort to get coordination on all these levels. But we have a town hall local activism packet coming out that's going to equip you as a consumer with the PowerPoints,

the print material need, the docu-use We have the first 22-minute documentary film available to you. And so you can create a town hall event in your school, your community, your church, and take these resources. Amazingly, Kim from Irvine, California, and her little nonprofit, has made available her entire notebook on how to get Roundup banned from your entire county. And so all the steps you need to take and the science you need to give, and importantly, the alternatives to Roundup that your parks is, and municipality regulatory groups need to use instead of the Roundup. And so it's a solution-based packet that gives you all the steps to get Roundup banned from your county. It worked in Irvine, California, and just worked in the entire county, Miami,

the largest county so far to ban Roundup as an entire county. So become part of that revolution. If we can get 15% of counties in the United States to ban this chemical, we will collapse the whole industry of this chemical. demand. So let's make you guys natuses of change. Your support's vital to our growth, but you ultimately are the real solution kind of force out there for the revolution to really happen. Yeah, and we can find all that on farmers' footprints. That's where everybody goes to get that. Yeah, yeah. Well, again, so, you know, from the bottom of my heart, like, I just am so grateful for you. I'm just grateful for what

you're doing and how you show up in the world. And we will definitely, the resetter tribe is a, is a mighty force, and we will get this out to the world for you. So thank you for being here, and thank you for doing what you do. Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you all. You give me hope. It's the movement of the forces, this is the movement of the troops that gives me a sense of there is still hope for our humanity to reintegrate into nature and a co-crate a process and really regenerate. So thank you for your your passion and your attention tuning into this. Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks again. Blessings. That's what it's all about.

Good fast cycle and fast types out. That's what it's all. That's what resetting is all.