Dr. Zach Bush is a triple-board certified physician, with a focus on internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice and palliative care. He currently runs a clinic in rural Virginia that focuses on plant-based nutrition and holistic health. He’s an entrepreneur with a mind-boggling array of projects to his resume. So why is he on a podcast devoted to sustainable and organic agriculture? It’s quite a story, as you’ll hear. At his clinic a few years ago, Dr. Bush began noticing that nutrition-based medicine just wasn’t working as he had expected. Some of his patients were just getting sicker. That led him on a journey deep into a dysfunctional and toxic agricultural system that through the heavy use of chemicals like glyphosate is robbing crops of nutritional value, accelerating the decline of human health, destroying the environment and paving the way for mass extinction. Yeah, it gets pretty bleak — there’s talk of disease, cataclysm and collapse — but stick with it — because Dr. Bush is at heart a radical optimist. He believes that regenerative agriculture can save the world by creating healthy soils that will sequester carbon, reverse climate change, produce highly nutritious food and create healthy humans. To further that mission, Dr. Bush has started Farmers Footprint, a nonprofit that aims to transition 5 million acres to regenerative practices by 2025. According to Dr. Bush, all successful revolutions start with farmers.
Brilliant, I am convinced Dr, Zach Bush is right . My farms profit improved immensely 20 years ago when I eliminated bad chemicals ,went organic and pasture for life on permanent pasture. The animals health improved remarkably. So the human health will benefit from the same regime
Humanity faces a vast array of challenges, including: political, social, and environmental. We are fortunate to have some inspired souls who can see the way to a better world. But without our health we wont have the strength or focus to solve any of these challenges. Dr. Bush explains in simple terms why the rates of chronic illness are skyrocketing, and how we can heal our bodies and the planet by simply taking better care of the soil we use for farming. I believe this is the most important action we humans must take, if we want to solve all the other challenges we face.
This is a great podcast. I feel that everyone should listen to this. The time is now to create a regenerative – Food as medicine revolution. We can choose how we want to create a life for future generations.
Great i am transitioning to organic in my cherry orchard. It’s looking very good and I feel so good about the practices so al who eat my cherries are very healthy for their bodies. My soil is very wonderful when seeing Micobes and worms doing their jobs
Humanity cannot live / survive by synthetic chemicals, pills and needles. We need to learn to become one with nature again. The big corporate brainwash needs to stop.