tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17627785049716109242024-03-05T15:03:38.932-08:00Bee's BlogMerri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-21630817736584882092020-01-02T09:56:00.001-08:002020-01-20T02:24:53.493-08:00Veganism is preventing wide spread adoption of regenerative grazing, the most effective action on climate change.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Just WHAT is going on? My social circle is polarized and the subject is almost banned as too touchy. The nicest people I know have been sucked in.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The way out of climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, and growing enough food to nourish a burgeoning population is clear. It’s called regenerative agriculture. For me it is not just theory or what Ive heard but what I’ve practiced and observed daily. But instead of embracing the solution, my friends, environmentalists, are going the opposite way.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1762778504971610924" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1762778504971610924" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1762778504971610924" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ive been accused of pushing meat down people’s throats and of being “adversarial” for raising the real issue of vegan deterioration, admonished with “each to his own” . If only we had that luxury, but as extinguishing our selves and millions of other life forms looms we urgently need more people to eat animal products.</span>I am just one of thousands of former vegans who are reporting they became a physical and mental basket case while abstaining from all animal products.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just who is behind the ever present messaging to avoid eating meat? Well, clue: </span><span style="color: #262626;">Nina Tiecholz
wrote the book <i>A Big Fat Surprise,</i>
working furiously to complete it over an
entire <b>decade</b>, such was the depth of her investigative journalism and
the corruption involved. Nina uncovered that the Co-chair of the EAT Lancet group was Walter
Willet. This document about him is apparently 8 pages long </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/397606854/Walter-Willett-Potential-Conflicts-of-Interest">https://www.scribd.com/document/397606854/Walter-Willett-Potential-Conflicts-of-Interest</a>
and I was unable to see more than half a page without paying for the rest, but
I found: Willet has published 3 vegetarian books and works closely with David Katz, a
prominent promoter of the vegetarian det who receives $millions from food
companies. Under Walter Willet ‘s directorship of the HARVARD TS Chan school of
public health, the school has received between $455, 000 and $1,500,000 from
companies or groups promoting a vegetarian diet or products. The school has
also received between $350,000 and $950,000 from pharmaceutical companies which
presumably would not benefit from a nutritional solution to chronic disease. Willet
rarely discloses any conflicts of interest.<br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Im a Saggitarian, and THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD! I must push back against a raft of fallacies
being believed about meat which is preventing one of the most effective actions
against climate change, and reducing the size of people’s brains so they can no
longer grasp the concepts. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The well funded misinformation campaign is working, and bears all the
hall marks of large and greedy corporations. They just bombard us from all
sides with the opposite of the truth. This tactic sadly works. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Examples of their success: a dear friend identified as an organic meat
eater at a climate change rally in a chat with the 2 young vegans beside her and
was asked in a vicious way “Why are you at the rally if you eat meat?” Huh?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The proprietor of an organic café
struggling to stay afloat turned the café vegan even though we had agreed about
the environmental benefits of regenerative organic animal products and discussed
her concerns over the physical, mental /emotional state of her vegan patrons
and their seeming disconnectedness with the Earth. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">My own niece who has competed a bachelor of science in astronomy tells
me beef uses heaps of water and electricity to produce. Huh?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">At my local organic garden and café the barrista says the take up of plant “milks” is about 40 % . </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">At our farmers markets the majority of organic customers identify with a
touch of pride, being vegetarian. I immediately want to know why. Sometimes I
do ask and get staggering answers like “my father died of bowel cancer” . End
of story, as if meat is carcinogenic, when there is no evidence for that belief
( see below).</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> A lot of my
friends, forest protectors and animal lovers, are strict vegetarians, if
not vegan. I witness with sadness their aches and pains, knowing their quiet
sacrifice has done the opposite of their intentions for animals, the
environment and a safe climate. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Here are a few examples
of accepted beliefs I do not accept, as my FB readers are aware :</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">*Prescribed burning is necessary to remove fuel load and
prevent wildfire.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> *Doctors know what's
best for your health and will cure you with medication </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">* Dietary fiber is essential for GIT health</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">* Meat is bad. fruits, vege, whole grains , legumes , nuts
and seeds are good.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">* Climate change is due to our lavish use of fossil fuels and
would be solved if only we went
renewable. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Well I have different information on all these topisc. It seems that while
tinderbox dry Australia burns and climate change ( CC) awareness belatedly
dawns on more Ozzies, as NZ chokes in smoke from our fires as does Sydney for the foreseeable future, and my sister evacuates from the south coast of
NSW as an area half the size of Belgium is expected to burn this weekend......these
myths need busting urgently.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No doubt renewables are
needed NOW, but far more important is it to EAT for the environment , ie
ORGANIC. We need to get vast areas of soil alive and functioning again as a carbon
sink. We must stop deliberately burning the bush and put out fires fast, as
forest burning is a far greater polluter and contributor to GHG emissions in
Australia than all our fossil fuel emissions combined. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It so happens the best
diet for Earth is not only organic, but it is organic MEAT. Meat and other anial products are the species appropriate diet for us with our huge brains.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To be clear, I abhor factory farms, and refuse to support the water pollution and the cruelty associated
with them no matter how hungry I am late at night and how tasty and juicy I
remember a KFC drumstick.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But grass fed organic meat production is totally different. Eating meat from factory farms is the worst thing
you can do for the planet, but buying regenerative meat is the best ecological and health move you can make. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I wanted to answer all the vegan false claims in one place ( here) but
that would probably require a book, so this piece will not be exhaustive. I
hope to be able to copy and paste the various topics into forums to de- bunk what
our vego friends and sometimes paid trolls are saying all over the place. I
hope you do this too.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Electricity and <b>Water usage</b>
to produce meat is an issue raised against omnivores, but the calculations vary
wildly depending on sources. PETA ( People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) cite
extraordinary numbers such as that it requires 2,400 gallons or 12,000 liters
of water to produce 500 grams of meat. As Joel Salatin says, “Don’t know who
came up with those figures but they weren’t a farmer!” I don’t think they factored in that water
drunk by a cow doesn’t all go into growing muscle, they urinate and defecate and
breath out water laden breath. I know without a doubt our vegetables take more
water to produce than it takes to keep our animals alive. Somebody has done some
calculations and found a bunch of plant
foods including walnuts use far more water to produce per kilo than meat. It
takes 5 liters of water to grow a single almond, yet sales of almond milk are
still skyrocketing as millions of almond trees are dying of drought in
California. In any case there are so many variables from soil health, to
rainfall, to aspect, to housing and growing systems that such a simplified
statement as PETA’s is meaningless. Nevertheless it is parroted by all and
sundry. Amazing that many vegans have pets, which also need to drink water and
eat meat. Cows are the scape goat for everything. There is open warfare by
protestors on animal farms ( we feature on the “Aussie Farms map”) , but did
you know there are more horses than dairy cows in this country ( and presumably
they drink water too?) </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As for <b>energy consumption</b> a ruminant on pasture uses none, the slaughter
and butchering of him can be minimal, packaging & refrigeration and freight
can be minimal for local consumption so what’s the fuss? Carnegie Mellon
University has released a new study showing lettuce production is 3 times worse
in terms of GHG emmissons than bacon,
and that the lettuce is far more likely to become food waste in the fridge and then
create more emissions, Surely the devil is in the details with all these claims, so why do people so
easily accept and live by such sweeping generalizations? </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I acknowledge we are all from different genetic backgrounds, with
different gut microbiomes and have individual needs when it comes to diet, but
feel duty bound to warn people that the vegan diet may not only be as
disastrous for them long term as it was for me ( and thousands of others….look
up EX VEGAN on you tube ) but equally disastrous for the environment UNLESS organic. (Be wise like the <b>O W L</b>
and avoid conventional <b>O</b>ats, <b>W</b>heat and <b>L</b>egumes as these are
often sprayed with glyphosate just before harvest, even in Australia!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Kind to animals? </span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> As for our farm “slaughtering animals for
their flesh” to quote vegans , consider the cost in terms of animal lives with
a plant- based diet. I think someone on a carnivore diet, eating regenerative meat only, would be not only very healthy but would be responsible for only about one steer death a year, where as someone on a plant based diet, usually not 100% organic, would be responsible for tens of 1000's of deaths from microbes up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"A </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(242 , 243 , 245); color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vegan diet minces up or poisons far more
sentient beings than a meat based diet. A study published in the journal of
Agriculture and Environmental Ethics examined incidental death of field animals
that occured as a result of growing and harvesting crops in the U.S. and the
estimate is that 7.3 billion animals die annually. Who determines that a cows
life is more important than that of a rabbit, mouse , turkey or bacteria?" </span><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Beef causes deforestation of the Amazon?</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Eating a steak in Australia, the US or indeed
anywhere but where South American beef is sent ( China, Hong Kong and Russia) makes
not one iota of difference to the rainforests. Cattle farming is not the only
cause of deforestation. Brazil produces 120 million tons of soybeans. Of that,
80 million tons are exported to China who squish soybean oil from them for the
humans and feed the expressed soy cake to pigs. Destruction of Indonesian rain
forest for palm oil is equally disturbing so please check everything you buy as
palm oil is in EVERYTHING Im told, from vegan snack foods to shampoo and conditioner. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We don’t have the land</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> ? </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Could everyone to eat regeneratively
grown animal products? Well around here we do, so lets do the right thing here, locally, before concerning ourselves with what happens in, say, China. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is often levelled that while Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm and Merri
Bee Organic Farmacy may be improving the environment, combatting climate change
and have animal welfare as top priority, not everyone can eat meat from such as
farm, it is not possible to scale up, so the conclusion is .....</span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Da Dumm…..we should not eat meat. To
which I answer: Try us! Who says we
can’t all eat better meat from carbon negative farms? This is the core issue! Cattle
grazing regeneratively has doubled the carrying capacity of numerous farms in
one year so perhaps there is no limit to how much meat can be produced from a
certain number of acres? Certainly there is no limit to how deep topsoil can
go. “Yedoma” soils in Siberia , formed by the grazing of numerous wooly mammoth
and other prehistoric ruminants 9,000 years ago, goes down 40 meters and holds one
ton of carbon under every square meter. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Your read that right. See Pleistocene Park Project </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park</a><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has been measured at White Oak
Pastures ( WOP) regenerative grazing
farm by a “Whole of Life” GHG audit of their beef operation that more carbon is being drawn down than is being emitted.</span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">WOP
beef has a carbon footprint 111% lower than a conventional US beef system, in
fact a negative carbon footprint. To offset GHG emissions from an “Impossible Burger”
you would have to eat some WOP beef! “</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">WOP
beef is a rare climate-positive product and there could be a large net-positive
carbon benefit should this production model replace degraded crop land.” </span> Read the results of the study here <u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/hubfs/WOP-LCA-Quantis-2019.pdf">https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/hubfs/WOP-LCA-Quantis-2019.pdf</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No doubt this drawdown is occurring on all organic farms….. Rodale Institute measured it at 7 tons per
acre per year, but Colin Seis on Winona NSW is sequestering 33 tons of CO2 per
hectare annually. Doesn’t it stand to reason then that we need to increase the acres of land under biological
management? We need everyone’s help to
scale this up, not just an unsubstantiated statement that we are 1 nanno fraction of the
market and it isn’t possible to feed
everyone this way! </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We know @ Merri Bee Organics we could increase our carbon
sequestration and carrying capacity out of sight, if we could go to daily moves
of our livestock. If the demand was there we could pay people to herd. More farms could transition to this model if
supported by your buying dollar, so what are you waiting for? Should we keep
mining coal because as a country we are a small player in GHG emissions? Should
you keep eating from chemically managed crops? [BTW, I’ve been accused of profiting from the “murder” of animals,
so want to state that we profit negative
figures from meat but organic fruit
sales are not too bad. ] </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Here is an article showing how an Australian station has doubled its grass production and stocking rate using Holistic Management. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-01-07/landscape-rehydration-better-than-dams-in-improving-production/11834394?fbclid=IwAR3s76ZbKTMM0xKRX7NST8U_RSr5lR">https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-01-07/landscape-rehydration-better-than-dams-in-improving-production/11834394?fbclid=IwAR3s76ZbKTMM0xKRX7NST8U_RSr5lR</a> <br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It turns out cheaper to eat
nutrient dense organic meat as most meat- based folks end up only
eating twice a day, as opposed to 6 times a day when plant- based and snacking.
Try this at home: breakfast on animal products like bacon and eggs and see how
long before you get truly hungry. Next day breakfast on plant foods like toast or
museli and fruit or any other insulin
spiking food and note how soon you are
hungry again. We find carbs make us hungry.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We are not yet considering energy involved in packaging, transport, blitzing-
gadget- embodied- energy and fuel costs of preparing all those vego meals, but
in any case you could consider a regenerative meat purchase as a donation to
the environment and an investment in your health. “Health ?” you ask with an
eyebrow raised.Yes indeed, meat heals. Of all the diets and super foods and suppements Ive tried to lose weight and gain energy, the carnivore diet is the only regime that is do able long term and therefore gives noticeable results for me at least. There are sound reasons why, but </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">before we leave ecological audits,
consider the costs of disease. In the U.S. , the healthcare system generates 10
percent of the nation’s GHG, whilst current ( poor practice) beef production
only generates 2%. Obviously alleviating certain health conditions takes away from
the environmental burden of disease management. And alleviating the
most common of our expensive chronic diseases is what meat does.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Human Health </span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Human health is a mess, particularly in the U.S., which ranks number 1
in the world for death on the first day of life. Diabetes, obesity, cancer, mental
illness, auto immune diseases are through the roof globally.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Just as when Gabe Brown decided to do the opposite of every conventional
farming practice and found his yields and profitability increasing exponentially,
some very ill people with multiple chronic diseases, 14 years ago, decided to
go against all accepted dietary advice and embark on a meat only diet, the ultimate
elimination diet. And they thrived and
continue to do so, clear of all symptoms, unless they venture to add a plant
food bac in! Today thousands of people are
thriving on Carnivore. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let me quote from the back of a book I just purchased, <i>The Carnivore Diet</i></span><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> “ </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Shawn Baker’s carnivore diet is a revolutionary,
paradigm-breaking nutritional strategy that takes contemporary dietary theory
and turns it on its ear. This diet
breaks just about all the “rules” and delivers outstanding results that address
common chronic issues, such as prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, anxiety and
depression, PCOS, arthritis, and many other ailments of our modern word. At the
heart of the diet is a focus on subtraction rather than addition, which makes
this an incredibly effective and easy-to-follow nutritional plan. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Carnivore Diet </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> reviews some of the supporting evolutionary,
historical, and nutritional science that gives us clues about why so many
people are having great success with this meat -focussed way of eating. It
highlights dramatic real-world transformations experienced by people of all
types. This diet often reverses common disease conditions that have a
reputation for being lifelong and progressive. …….”</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">If you have a rare condition and NEED to eat nothing but plants, this
can be done organically ( though hellishly expensive due to the volumes of this
low nutrient/ indigestible food required)
yet the food miles of a vegan diet are never good. So, the rest of us are going to have to eat more
meat from local regenerative farms to offset your non- local organic diet,
until local organic WA growers of lentils and peanuts and such- like show up. I
am a member of a whole food co op and most of the organic whole foods come from overseas. You could try to grow your
own food organically and this may work, but after 36 years of trying here, it’s
an F for FAIL, and it is only getting more and more difficult thanks to CC. We
have invested in a seeding machine with not just the aim of establishing perennial pastures during
the narrow windows of opportunity we get, but growing pulses and grains. Our
region grows organic oats but currently it is all contracted to a German baby
food company. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Longevity</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Running
counter to suggestions that eating meat shortens your life , researchers have
conducted several formal epidemiological studies indicating there is no
advantage to a plant based diet when it comes to mortality. These include the
"45 and up" study from Australia with a sample group of 250,000
people, the Epic Oxford study which included 60,000 people, and the PURE study
with 135,000 participants. As they are only epidemiological they need to be
taken with a grain of salt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">People in
Hong Kong eat the most meat per person at an average of 750 gms per day, and live
to an average of 85 years. </span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/02/health/hong-kong-world-longest-life-expectancy-longevity-intl/index.html"><span style="background: #f2f3f5; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/02/health/hong-kong-world-longest-life-expectancy-longevity-intl/index.html</span></a><span style="background: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Cognitive function</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Our huge brains are a
wonder of the universe.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> It seems we did not
evolve to eat meat, but evolved BECAUSE we ate meat. Eating animals <i>nose to tail</i> provides
all of the nutrients that a human needs in the most optimal, bioavailable
forms, in the right ratios, without any of the plant toxins.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Plant toxins? Yes. Ubiquitously thought of as innocent, plants have been around far longer than humans
and have developed protection from being eaten, in the form of chemical warfare.
They use oxalates, lectins, gluten, phytic acid, sulphurophanes, glycoalkoloids
( found in night shade family, Goitrogens ( cabbage family) , protease inhibitors
, saponins, Salicylates, and Flavonoids ( which are potentially beneficial at
low doses but at higher doses have been noted to produce genetic mutations,
free radical damage and hormone inhibition. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here is a transcript of Dr Paul Saladino talking to Dr Gundry :</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Paul Saladino: So polyphenols …..They’re
often plants defense mechanisms. They are plant toxins, or they are used as
colorings or pigments in plants. But what we know about polyphenols is that
they’re often compounds that don’t even participate in plant metabolism.
Tannins are a great example.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tannins inhibit digestion in animals. So …
we see this time and time again with polyphenols that have been much touted for
health whether it’s resveratrol or curcumin. When we actually look into the
data, resveratrol has repeatedly failed in human trials and has shown many
negative</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">effects.
It decreases androgen precursors, it’s been shown to create thrombocytopenia
potentially modulate the immune system in negative ways by affecting T Helper
17 cells.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curcumin is much the same, there are over
120 failed randomized double blind placebo controlled trials with curcumin. And
then if we actually look at what curcumin is doing in the rest of the body we
find it can interfere with a potassium channel called the hERG channel. It can
affect DNA replication and inhibit topoisomerases, which are DNA repair and
unwinding enzymes. So this gets back to the idea that imo, polyphenols, they’re
from a different operating system. “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dr Saladino , a classically trained MD who has specialized in
psychiatry, has always looked for the root cause of illness. He ended up going
back to study functional medicine (which looks for the underlying cause of
disease). He has embraced the carnivore way of eating for over a year . His
cognitive function is A1 and his ability to study relentlessly, retain info and
pass it on coherently are so useful.
Here is what he said on the evolutionary evidence for a carnivore diet :</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">….the evolutionary argument
is that humans have been eating a primarily meat based diet for 3.5 million
years. And there’s evidence for this in the fossil record……</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">…. that probably …to change our brains
from an Australopithecus type animal, which is a primate- like animal, to a
homo genus animal like Homo habilis or Homo erectus, was the consumption of a
large amount of meat. ….. very nutrient dense food, which provided all sorts of
special nutrients…. fat soluble vitamins, Omega-3s, DHA, EPA, which most people
believe allowed our brains to grow. Primate evolution proceeded human evolution
for 20 plus million years. We know that eating lots of vegetables doesn’t grow
a brain because primate brains pretty much stayed the same size, 300
milliliters. Some primates have larger brains. But for the most part, over 20
million years of primate evolution, the brain remained the same size eating
primate diets.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And then something really important in
human evolution happened about 3 million years ago, when Australopithecus
became Homo erectus. We started to walk more upright, and our brain exploded in
size. It went from 300 to 600, to 800 to 1000 ccs. And then in the last, maybe
800,000 years, our brain went from 1000 cc to 1500 ccs. So our brains have been
growing. And we know that with these growing brains comes increased complexity
of processing, and human intelligence, higher development of structures and
increased neural networks. And I think there’s a very clear argument that
animal foods allowed this to happen.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">If we go back and we actually look at
fossilized remains, we see stable isotopes studies from Neanderthals and
contemporary Homo sapiens, even 70,000 years ago. What we see is that the
amount of nitrogen in that collagen is so high that it’s higher than any other
known carnivores at the time. These are ..compelling studies to suggest that 70
to 80,000 years ago, our Homo sapien ancestors as they were moving up from
Africa to Europe and contacting the Neanderthal, were both eating a lot of
meat, perhaps almost entirely meat. I would argue that humans are facultative
carnivores. People often want to compare us to obligate carnivores and say,
well, clearly humans aren’t carnivores, because we don’t look like lions and
tigers [but we do use tools and fire. A lot of evidence points to the fact that
we were apex predators who teamed up and used language to hunt and thrive. The
Aborigines hunted mega fauna to extinction and the Siberrian tundra was full of
animals until 9,000 years ago when humans arrived and wiped out the wooly
mammoth and many more species] </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our stomachs are darn acidic [the most acidic stomachs
in the animal world at 1.5 ph]. But we have become, a facultative carnivore.
And what that means is that animal foods provide the ideal nutrition for
humans. But we can eat plants if we need to during times of survival, …, if
animal foods are not around. So it’s this really incredible adaptation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I’m guessing we can do well short term on a plant based diet but
long term we need to nourish ourselves with meat, or nutritional deficiencies
start to rear their ugly heads. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But what about all the studies vegans will tout showing people are
healthier on a vegan diet? Ah, the hierarchy of scientific evidence is
important to be aware of and the involvement of politics in science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(232 , 193 , 162); font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The
hierarchy of evidence pyramid provides an overview of various types and levels
of scientific research, systematic reviews sit at the top of the pyramid,
followed by randomized control trials and observational studies. Expert opinion
and anecdotal experience are ranked at the bottom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So let’s talk about research and epidemiology. There’s experimental
and non experimental epidemiology. Non experimental epidemiology has
traditionally just been called epidemiology. These are population studies based
<b>on food frequency questionnaires.</b>
These are notoriousy inaccurate as people either don’t remember what they ate
or dishonestly answer and fail to mention the tim tams. Sometimes epidemiology
is all we’ve got. But we have to understand the nuance of this because it can
be misinterpreted in so many ways. With epidemiology we are looking at associations
and correlation does not always mean causation. Sometimes correlation can be an
indication of causation. But ideally, these studies generate hypotheses that
are then tested in <b><i>interventional studies</i></b>, a much higher quality
of evidence.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Nutritional studies that are interventional, are very rarely done
due to the ethics and expense of locking people up long term in a metabolic
ward and measuring their intake and vital signs / organ function. The majority
of studies, if not every single study, that suggests that plant-based diets are
beneficial to people in terms of longevity or health outcomes, are non
experimental epidemiology. There is a bias here called <b><i>healthy user bias</i></b>
:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">For the last 70 years, most of the westernized world has been told
red meat is bad for you. So, who by now eats red meat? People that also smoke,
people that exercise less, people that are have lower socio economic status, people
that are rebels. …the James Deans who are saying, “Ah, I don’t care about your
recommendations. I like my hamburger.” Well, is it the hamburger that’s not
beneficial for them? Or the fact that they’re washing that burger down with
Coke, not exercising ,smoking and/ or drinking alcohol? This is the <i>unhealthy user bias</i>, that’s
been associated with red meat. And again, this is all just theory. And this is
why the epidemiological studies trotted out by vegans need to be followed by
interventional studies.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If we look in Asia, there’s so much interesting epidemiology that
shows the reverse trend repeatedly. In Asia, meat is associated with royalty.
So what do we see in the studies in Asia? That people that eat the most meat
live the longest and the best. Asians love meat and live a long time, and the
people that eat the most meat, live the longest. The biggest meat eaters on
Earth live in Hong Kong, followed by New Zealand and Japan. In Japan they have
been decreasing their rice consumption and increasing meat steadily since 1961.
Colin Campbell wrote <i>The China Study</i>, an extremely influential book, and
preaches the exact opposite of this, but
Colin may have done a little bit of cherry picking of his statistics! Multiple
people have done re-analysis of his data and de- bunked his book, which is not
a study in any way. As humans, we always
have a bias.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">While epidemiology has its limitations</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">and RCT’s are far more rigorous, even peer reviewed and published research can
be influenced by “</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias" title="Publication bias"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">publication bias</span></a>”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_in_academic_publishing" title="Conflict of interest in academic publishing"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">conflict of interest in academic
publishing</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. For example, studies
with conflicts due to industry funding are more likely to favor the product of
their sponsors.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">One of the weaker forms of
evidence is “consensus of expert opinion” , yet a report put out by a panel of
experts early this year got SO MUCH air time, SO MUCH promotion, you would definitely
have heard of it. It’s findings were bizarre
…saying we should limit red meat to a
portion the size of a blue berry, chicken to 2 blueberries worth a day, and eat
only a quarter of an egg a day. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Interestingly,<strong> Frédéric Leroy</strong> and <strong>Martin Cohen</strong> published
a powerful opinion piece about the EAT-Lancet Commission's report,
questioning </span><a href="https://www.efanews.eu/item/6053" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0077c5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">their global action against
meat</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> saying: "isn’t it remarkable how meat,
symbolizing health and vitality since millennia, is now often depicted as
detrimental to our bodies, the animals, and the planet?"</span><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">The following summary is by Nina
Teicholz January 24, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">“The </span><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/EAT"><em><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #1e73be; padding: 0in;">EAT-Lancet</span></em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e73be; padding: 0in;"> report</span></a><span style="color: #262626;">,
published by <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Lancet</span></em> last week<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">,</span></em> has been presented as the product of 37
scientists from around the world who gathered to evaluate the science on diet
and both human health and the health of the planet. These are separate
scientific questions that each deserve careful evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">It’s important to note that there are significant
scientific controversies on <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">both </span></em>these
questions. On diet and health, I can safely say that there is an enormous
amount of legitimate scientific dispute surrounding the question of </span><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1437024"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e73be; padding: 0in;">whether a plant-based diet is best for health</span></a><span style="color: #262626;"> and also whether minimizing red meat in the diet is
healthy or even safe. The best, most rigorous (clinical trial) evidence supports
the idea that</span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/397606855/Two-pager-Scientific-Evidence-on-Red-Meat-and-Health"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e73be; padding: 0in;"> red meat does not cause any kind of disease</span></a><span style="color: #262626;">. There are also a number of analyses showing that </span><a href="http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/01/the-eat-lancet-diet-is-nutritionally-deficient/"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1e73be; padding: 0in;">diets low in animal foods are nutritionally deficient</span></a><span style="color: #262626;">, thereby increasing the risk of many diseases and
interfering with normal growth and brain development in children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: #262626;">Evaluating the science on any subject requires convening
a range of viewpoints so that scientific controversies can be fairly evaluated
and discussed. Presumably <em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Lancet</span></em>, an old
and venerable journal, knows this. And yet an examination of the EAT-Lancet
authors reveals that <strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">more than 80% of them (31 out
of 37) espoused vegetarian views </span></strong><em><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">before</span></b></em><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> joining the </span></strong><em><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">EAT-Lancet</span></b></em><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> project.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">This was clearly a highly
biased group, and the outcome of their report was therefore inevitably a
foregone conclusion..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Similar
conflicts of interest exist at the World
Health Organization. Referring to their 2015 proclamation that red meat is a class 2
carcinogen and processed meat is a class 1 carcinogen, (which puts it into the
same category as smoking cigarettes in terms of risk of developing colon cancer),
first know that this was not a consensus decision, 30% of the IARC panel
disagreed with the conclusion. Dr Georgia Ede has done a remarkable job of
sorting through the same data the IARC cited and has determined that the
evidence in support of the claim that meat causes cancer is fairly
underwhelming. You can find Dr Ede’s critique at www.DiagnosisDiet .com. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ive
read it , appreciated her sense of humour and interpretations and have now
truly lost my lifelong awe of scientists. I thought they were smart but I could
have designed better experiments. What relevance do studies on rats have when they are natural grain eaters unlike
humans who only recently began to eat grain? Why confound your human experiment
with orange juice and fail to mention baseline health status of participants? Sloppy work!
Here is the conclusion of gorgeous psychiatrist Dr Ede:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“When you get right down
to it, the only plausible evidence to suggest that red meat might be risky to
human colon health is contained in two, that’s TWO, human studies, both of
which were very small and poorly designed, and therefore unable to give
us useful information about the effects of red meat on cancer risk. These
studies are inconclusive at best, and worthless at worst. Human nature being
what it is, believing is seeing. People looking for reasons to avoid red meat
may view these two studies as concerning. People looking for reasons to eat red
meat may view these two studies as reassuring.Trumpeting to the world that meat
causes cancer on the basis of these two studies is ridiculously irresponsible
and makes a mockery of the WHO. There is ample information to suggest that the
WHO’s report is biased, incomplete, and scientifically dishonest.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt;">For an excellent review explaining
the limitations of epidemiological studies of meat and human health, please see
this article authored by the USDA’s National Program Leader for Human
Nutrition, David Klurfeld PhD: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.05.022" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: black; padding: 0in;">Klurfeld DM 2015 Research gaps in evaluating the
relationship of meat and health. Meat Science 109: 86–95</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">.] Dr Klurfeld was on the IRAC panel and was
frustrated as the panel refused to consider the good quality studies he tried
to present showing no harm from meat. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The
generally accepted lifetime risk of developing colon cancer is 4%. If the WHO
is correct, that risk goes up to 5% and there is a 1% increase in absolute
risk. This is one of the classic statistical numbers games used to scare
people. Hyper insulinemia, abdominal obesity, and chronic inflammation are much
scarier risks . As these conditions resolve for most people sticking to a
carnivore diet, their overall risk for colon cancer likely falls. As pointed
out elsewhere, Asians are big meat consumers but have low rates of colorectal
cancer, but if they move to the United States their likelihood of developing
cancer and getting fat and sick in other
ways goes up. This suggests it is the junk food consumed with the meat, not the
meat! 4.5 billion people live in Asia so we better note their data carefully.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Norwegian Founder
of EAT -<strong> Gunhild Stordalen</strong>, the Australian CEO of the EAT
Foundation - <strong>Sandro Demaio</strong>, Harvard Professor - <strong>Walter
Willett</strong> and the <strong>world-wide headlines</strong> <strong>they
created</strong>, are claiming we all need to go virtually vegan now, but just
as many authorities are saying the diet they have devised is dangerously low in
nutrients, especially for growing children. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Numerous court
cases have found well- meaning vegan parents guilty of starving their children (
sometimes to death) on the vegan diet. Doesn’t this register with our
evangelical vegan friends? </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Some comments on the Eat Lancet Commission’s report<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The ambition of the authors …risks laying the groundwork for further
worldwide increases in malnutrition and food waste”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> <i>
</i>Apparently the methods of dissemination of the report, sent a few days prior
to the editors of newspapers and magazines around the world “under strict
embargo”, fanned media clamour that “the EAT-Lancet commission wanted to achieve, rather
than warn about presumed dangers resulting from the improper use of food and
natural resources." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Science
is not based on opinions: 37 scientists, although authoritative, are not the
scientific community</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Carni Sostenibili</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Full
Article </span><a href="http://carnisostenibili.it/en/considerations-on-the-eat-lancet-commission-report/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0077c5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">James Cameron invested $140
million into his pea protein powder business and helped produce the big budget vegan propaganda
film <i>The Game Changers</i>. Chris
Kresser debunked the film on the Joe Rogan podcast for over 2 hours. Soon
enough the producer of the film, James Wilks, was invited to debate Chris
Kresser on the Joe Rogan show, but totally bullied Chris . Impossible to watch!
Fortunately the “de bunk of the debunk
of the debunk” was then done by Paul
Saladino and Brian Sanders ( Brian produced the doco FOOD LIES). This show was exhaustive too but with the advantage of time
to investigate James Wilks’s claims, the lads did an excellent job, just as
Chris Kresser did on the spot while being bullied . <i>The </i> <i>Game Changers</i> promulgated many myths but one deserves a mention here… the story that we
can obtain enough B12 from eating dirt and drinking lake water. James Wilks
insisted he had a study which proved this, but he omitted the fact that the dirt in the study was enriched with human
manure. The study in Iran is mentioned by Barry Groves below. Only one lake and
only in winter has it been measured to contain much B12 at all. And vegans, if you drink 20 liters a day you will be OK .
In winter. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626;">Look around you next time
you’re in a random crowd, and realize that most of us have done what experts have told us to do for
60 years, we have continuously lowered our meat and saturated fat consumption
during that time, and we’ve increased vegetable oil. How is
it working out for us? Plant foods up, animals foods down, obesity and diabetes
up</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">A study has found that when
vegans were supplemented with 5 grams of creatine a day ( the amount found in
500 gms of beef) they got more intelligent….recall, processing speed etc
increased. Indicators showed that
previously they were operating at a low threshold of cognitive function to
begin with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="boldgrey"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">In general our brains are have been getting smaller . </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt;">Dr Barry Groves points out that “ humans have a comparatively small gut with which to absorb all the
nutrients and energy our bodies need, and a modern low-calorie, low-fat,
fibre-rich, plant-based diet is woefully inadequate as an energy source for our
energy-hungry system to function at peak efficiency. That lack has begun to
show.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Since the advent of agriculture, there has been
a worrying trend as our brains have actually decreased in size. A recently
updated and rigorous analysis of changes in human brain size found that our
ancestors' brain size reached its peak with the first anatomically modern
humans of approximately 90,000 years ago. That t hen remained fairly constant
for a further 60,000 years.<sup>-11</sup> Over the next 20,000 years there
was a slight decline in brain size of about 3%. Since the advent of agriculture
about 10,000 years ago, however, that decline has quickened significantly, so
that now our brains are some 8% smaller.</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This suggests some kind of recent historical
deficiency in some aspect of overall human nutrition. The most obvious and
far-reaching dietary change during the last 10,000 years is, of course, the
enormous drop in consumption of high-energy, fat-rich foods of animal origin
which formed probably over 90% of the diet, to as little as 10% today, coupled
with a large rise in less energy-dense grain consumption.<sup>-12</sup> This
pattern still persists; it is even advocated today: it is the basis of our
so-called 'healthy' diet.</span><br />
<br />
</span><span class="boldgrey"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 15pt;">Vitamin B-12 is only one nutrient undersupplied
or absent in a vegetarian diet. Zinc,
carnosine, carnitine, Creatine, Taurine Cholesterol and Heme Iron are others</span></b></span><span class="boldgrey"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt;">If any more convincing that we have to be a
meat-eating species is needed, there is one other essential nutrient that is
not found in any plant food. That nutrient is Vitamin B-12.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vitamin B-12 is unique among vitamins in that
while it is found universally in foods of animal origin, where it is derived
ultimately from bacteria, there is no active vitamin B-12 in anything which
grows out of the ground. Where trace amounts of vitamin B-12 are found on
plants it is there only fortuitously in bacterial contamination of the soil.
And even that is lost if plants are washed thoroughly before eating them.</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bacteria in the human colon make prodigious
amounts of vitamin B-12. Unfortunately, this is useless as it is not absorbed
through the colon wall. Dr. Sheila Callender tells of treating vegans with severe
vitamin B-12 deficiency by making water extracts of their stools which she fed
to them, thus affecting a cure.<sup>-13</sup> An Iranian vegan sect
unwittingly also makes use of this fact. Investigators could not understand how
members of this sect remained healthy, until their investigations showed that
they grew their vegetables in human manure - and then ate the vegetables
without being too fussy about washing them first.<sup>-14” “Thank you Dr Groves</sup></span></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 11.0pt;">No article is
likely to persuade vegans but if YOU have an open mind you may declare just
like a vegetarian lady at a talk I gave years ago: “ I went in to hospital for a minor op but they
couldn’t do it because my iron was too low. Up until now I have felt too guilty
to consider eating meat but after your talk I‘m going to have a nice steak
tonight and enjoy it” . </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 11.0pt;">If less
people feel guilty about eating meat after reading this, the time spent will
have been worth it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 11.0pt;">We have been
enjoying the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought for far too
long as Peter Ballersted points out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 11.0pt;">I would like to finish by pasting from
De Georgia Ede’s website a forum comment by “Alice”, because she hits the nail
on the head. Commenting on the WHO “meat causes cancer” debarcle Alice says to
Dr Ede:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">“Thank
you for this terrific analysis of the latest 'fear mongering' by WHO. When I
first heard about it, I stood farther back and dismissed it out of hand. When
diagnosed with diabetes; which I recognize as an unwittingly self-inflicted
condition, I did the research and realized quickly the 'traditional' approach
to 'treating' this problem actually exacerbated it; i.e. intent focus on
chemically suppressing the most obvious symptom; high glucose levels, and not the
insulin response to consuming carbohydrate. I stopped eating carb for six
months in a successful attempt to partially rehabilitate my permanently damaged
insulin receptors….. my glucose levels became normal and have remained so
without the use of any medications but rather by adjusting diet and exercise.
My diet is focused on 'clean' meat and healthy fats. In order to accomplish
this I was required to do a great deal of research and I was disheartened to
realize the medical 'industry' and institutions we are supposed to respect and
trust are; in my opinion, criminal organizations operating cooperatively to
simply create profit without consideration of the general health and well being
of the public they were originally meant to serve. The USDA and FDA are run by
"ex" executives of Monsanto and for the benefit of Monsanto. The CDC
and WHO are right in the pot with them and there is no doubt whatsoever of this
reality and their collusion with the pharmaceutical industry. …. I believe our
'health' organizations have been gutted and something very dark has been
substituted for sound medical/dietary guidance and information. As mentioned
below, you really cannot believe a word they say and those who are at the very
top of the human food chain; pun intended, seem exceptionally intent upon
encouraging us all to eat the wrong foods. ….hundreds of studies have proven
sugar; in all its forms, is poison to the human body. We are expected to
believe our primary diet should consist of plant food which is unnecessary and
processed by our bodies as poison? If you feed a cat grain it won't eat it
because it knows grain is not its food, however the cat needs the nutrients in
grain. Mice and birds eat the grain and the cat eats the mice and birds. Many
different kinds of animals eat every kind of plant food. There are approximately
18lbs of vegetative nutrient in each single pound of wild meat. The animals eat
the plants [carb] and we eat the animals. That is how we gain access to those
nutrients. Our bodies were never meant to consume these plants directly and I
see this as one of the fundamental causes of virtually all 'modern disease'.
Notice our hunter ancestors did not stalk carnivores for food. They hunted the
plant eaters ... just like the other carnivores. The rivers of insulin created
by continuous consumption of carbohydrate disrupts the entire; profoundly
complex, human hormonal system leading to the 'progression' of 'diabetes' into
ever increasing destruction of the body. I can only assume the pharmaceutical
indoctrination of a 'medical education' is generally overwhelming critical
thought not to mention common sense” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Please share this article widely.
I don’t have a big budget to promote the real, the actual, game changer----- regeneratively farmed meat. The
information contained above is but the tip of the iceberg , I have more if you want.
Meanwhile, spread it! </span><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is one of the most talked about (and studied) vitamins on the planet. Yet, despite all the scientific evidence, many people are confused about its benefits – thanks to many misleading “nutritional” articles.<br />
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Vitamin C is vital for cardiovascular and immune system health.<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">In the 1980s, Nobel Prize-winning researcher Linus Pauling definitively linked</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8f16/2551a4087f384f901f48ba50ef2dd94b93a8.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e5062; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">vitamin C</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">with heart health – and stressed the importance of sufficient intake daily. Now, integrative cardiologists – including Mathias Rath, M.D., and Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD – are continuing Pauling’s lifesaving work.</span></div>
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Vitamin C deficiency is associated with heart disease</h2>
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In Linus Pauling’s theory, heart disease is actually a manifestation of vitamin C deficiency. And atherosclerosis – with its attendant plaque deposits – is the body’s attempt to heal the cracks in arteries caused by the vitamin C shortfall.Since the 1980s, a host of studies have helped to confirm Pauling’s theory.</div>
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Supplementation with high-dose vitamin C restores heart health in two ways.<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Vitamin C scavenges harmful free radicals that cause oxidative stress, while functioning as an important building block for </span><a href="https://www.naturalhealth365.com/collagen-blood-vessels-2698.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e5062; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">collagen</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> – a protein needed to promote healing, structure and stability in arteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">In a paper published in </span><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Cardiology and Current Research</em><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">, researchers reported that high-dose vitamin C reduces heart attack and stroke by up to 98 percent.</span></div>
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Unfortunately, too many conventionally-trained doctors view high-dosage <a href="https://www.naturalhealth365.com/health-toxins-vitamin-C-1577.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e5062; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vitamin C therapy</a> with skepticism – no matter how impressive the results. There are great myths surrounding vitamin C which I aim to address.</div>
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<span style="color: #2d4758; font-size: 28px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Myth #1: There are no studies on vitamin C</span></div>
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In his book <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Primal Panacea</em>, high-dosage vitamin C pioneer Dr. Levy calls this statement “medical malpractice” and says it would be understandable if voiced by a mechanic or stonemason – but not by a physician.</div>
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Dr. Levy points out that a simple PubMed search yields over 60,000 studies on vitamin C – many of them showing positive effects on human health.</div>
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A board-certified cardiologist, Dr. Levy has written extensively on vitamin C, including a landmark review of 650 peer-reviewed studies on the effect of oxidative stress on vitamin C levels – as well as on the ability of vitamin C to reverse atherosclerosis.</div>
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Myth #2: There is no evidence that vitamin C works</h3>
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Again, this is absurd.</div>
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Dr. Levy references over 1,200 studies showing beneficial effects – and says this only “scratches the surface” of what is known about vitamin C’s therapeutic abilities.</div>
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And, there is a problem with what constitutes a “study.”</div>
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In order to be acknowledged by the medical community, says Dr. Levy, a study must be large, randomized, placebo-controlled and double-blind. <span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Dr. Levy maintains that most prescription drugs currently in use lack this type of rigorous study! So why is vitamin C held to a stricter standard?</span></div>
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Dr. Levy points out that a group of patients being given intravenous (IV) high-dosage vitamin C under closely monitored (hospital) conditions “does not count” as a study – even if all patients are cured!</div>
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To see evidence of vitamin C’s powers, one need look no further than the <a href="https://www.naturalhealth365.com/vitamin-c-sepsis-2202.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e5062; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">astounding success of Dr. Paul Marik</a> at Sentara Norfolk Hospital.<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Dr. Marik uses a mix of intravenous vitamin C, thiamine and corticosteroids to treat sepsis, a life-threatening systemic infection. To date, the groundbreaking therapy has saved 150 patients from almost certain death.</span></div>
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Myth #3: Vitamin C is unsafe</h3>
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With a superlative safety profile (and no known lethal dose) vitamin C appears to be one of the safest substances ever. In fact, natural health experts note that plain water is more toxic than vitamin C. Obviously the truth of that statement would depend on the water supply, and be very true in the case of flouride and chlorine treated water, or ground water in conventional farming areas. Sad.</div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">And, vitamin C seems to be free of dangerous side effects even at high doses.</span></div>
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In its use as a strong antibiotic, or in cases of acute poisoning or potential deadly infection, some natural therapists use doses of 250,000 mg to 300,000 mg a day. This is 3,000 times over the RDA – yet no serious adverse effects have been reported. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The SNAKE BITE treatment </span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Pat Colby is a famous Australian farmer for her use of vitamins and minerals to keep animals healthy and treat acute conditions. She writes of vitamin C :</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">"Early in 1930, an American, Dr Klenner did much research on the use of Vitamin C on humans. In turn a Californian Vet, Dr Wendell Bellfield, carried on the good work with impressive results on all sorts of dog ailments that are generally considered incurable or fatal. Today, in USA, there are now a significant number if Vets practicing alternative Medicine such as this. After studying the literature, I decided that I really had nothing to lose trying Vitamin C on my own farm animals. The first one was a pony, almost moribund, whose blood was later diagnosed as having the largest amount of Tiger Snake venom the Vet had ever seen in an animal. Within 24 hours of being unable to move, and also having considerable difficulty in breathing due to pneumonia, the pony was grazing happily in its owner’s garden, apparently quite healthy. I only had one 30ml bottle of Vitamin C, half of what I would have liked, so I put half of the bottle into each side of the neck by intramuscular injection. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">After that we treated sundry dogs, two cats and several goats including a stud buck. All recovered. A very valuable Alpaca which was being watched by its owner from her kitchen window went down to the dam to examine something. The owners, horrified, watched a large snake rise up and strike it on the nose - the worst place - and thanked her lucky stars the Vitamin C was in the fridge - not still on the shopping list. Rushing out with only 15 mls in the syringe - she injected the Alpaca before any symptoms arose. The snake had looked like a brown or a tiger, the result - happy ending. </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The great advantage of Vitamin C is that anaphylaxis does not occur and the variety of snake does not matter. Vitamin C is cheap, easy to store and taking it on a hunting trip is no problem. All you need is a 20 ml syringe, some largish needles - say No 18 - and the bottle of Vitamin C. It can all be carried in a small wallet on ones belt. In between times it should be kept in the fridge."</i></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">It’s worth pointing out: pharmaceutical medications administered in hospitals kill thousands of patients a year. In fact, a recent Johns Hopkins (U.S.A.) study reports that 250,000 people die every year from medical errors – making it the third leading cause of death in the nation, right behind heart disease and cancer!</span></div>
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So, one has to wonder, why all the “controversy” surrounding a non-toxic substance like, vitamin C?</div>
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Myth #4: Vitamin C causes kidney stones</h3>
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Experts say that vitamin C can – under certain conditions and in certain forms – contribute to oxalate production, which can in turn contribute to <a href="https://www.naturalhealth365.com/kidney-stones-natural-healing-2599.html?highlight=kidney+stones" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e5062; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">kidney stones</a>.</div>
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But, Dr. Levy notes that the presence of high oxalate is not enough to create kidney stones.<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">For many, the matter was put to rest by a rigorous 14-year study of 85,557 women conducted by researchers at prestigious Harvard Medical School – in which</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the team found no link whatsoever between vitamin C intake and kidney stones</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Vitamin C has been further vindicated by additional studies, showing that the nutrient actually lowers the incidence of kidney stones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Sally K Norton is is an expert when it comes to the dangers of high oxylate foods which do in fact contribute to forming kidney stones. Oxylate is a toxin and anti nutrient found in many plants. The "plant based diet" is a cool sounding notion that doesn't stand up to scrutiny because sadly, nuts , beans, grains and seeds are full of toxins and anti nutrients which make them indigestible at best and a cumulative poison in the case of oxylate, which is not able to be broken down by culinary traditions, as soaking, fermenting and cooking .Phytates and lectins can be denatured by these practices but not oxylate. Spinach, silver beet, rainbow chard, chocolate, almonds, kiwi fruit and rhubarb are chockers with oxylate which can chelate minerals from our bones and use the robbed calcium to form sharp, hard crystals of nanno size which lodge in joints and many other sites ( heart, lungs, brain, liver) and accumulate into larger and larger crystals as hard as your teeth! Calcium oxylate crystals can lodge anywhere, but often occur at sites of tissue damage to wreke mayhem. So whatever of your body parts you use a lot are prone to accumulate these little daggers ! And you thought you had RSI, or failing thyroid, or digestive issues. The aches and pains of age may just be due to our ingesting quantities of oxylate day in day out. Here is a clip of Sally Norton speaking on the little known topic of oxylate </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUUPrmqjbI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUUPrmqjbI</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> I will blog on this in near future. </span></div>
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Myth #5: You can get enough vitamin C through diet</h3>
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This is mostly true, unless you ferment! Read on....The current RDA for nonsmoking adults is a paltry 60 mg of vitamin C a day – roughly the amount in one small orange. Although this is enough to prevent the serious medical condition known as scurvy, natural health experts decry it as ridiculously low.</div>
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Of course, more vitamin C is required to combat atherosclerosis and heart disease. In fact, one study showed that it takes 1,500 mg per day to prevent or reverse atherosclerosis in 60 percent or more of the population.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">My approach to vitamin C is to rely on dietary vitamin C intake which you can do by eating organic citrus fruits, red capsicum ( peeled and seeded to get rid of lectin) strawberries, cabbage,broccoli and more. Australian native foods can be very high. Fermented crucifers in the form of kim chee has 100s of times greater amount of vitamin C than fresh cabbage so go the sauerkraut or kimchee daily. Other natural super high C sources include rose hips, Merri Bee Organic Fizz </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Juice ( Lime, Lemonade and Lemon Kombucha)</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bee.winfield/videos/1438319066342711/">Delicious!</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bee.winfield/videos/1438319066342711/">Look! </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">and the super star of all, Gubinge ( aka Kakadu plum) </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/28561849/Native_Australian_fruits_a_novel_source_of_antioxidants_for_food" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">https://www.academia.edu/28561849/Native_Australian_fruits_a_novel_source_of_antioxidants_for_food</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> This research found Gubinge had 938 times more ascorbic acid ( vit C) than blueberry.</span></div>
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Natural sources contain the phenolic compounds and antioxidants that make the vitamin C more bio available. </div>
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I keep a bottle of buffered, tasteless sodium ascorbate powder for emergencies where the body needs massive doses of vit C . Examples of acute conditions include infection, physical and emotional stress, dental issues, smoking (thanks to prescribed burning) spider or snake bite. Others should use it if stressed from alcohol use, medications and environmental toxins – these will drain the body stores of vitamin C. Goats under stress have been measured to make 1000's of times their usual amount of vitamin C. </div>
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Myth #6: Excess amounts of vitamin C are excreted through urine</h3>
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So, myths aside, we know that vitamin C is effective, non-toxic and safe. With heart disease claiming 640,000 lives a year, it seems unsafe <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> to use vitamin C to avoid unwanted health outcomes. </div>
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Time you heard from Merri Bee ! We had a great time at Nannup Flower and Garden Festival, first enjoying Su and David Holmgren's company (and lovin feeding them) for 2 nights, along with 2 wonderful friends from Perth who helped us cope with the many events of the Garden Festival, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/NannupFlowerandGardenFestival/photos/pcb.2975658139141859/2975656115808728/?type%3D3%26theater&source=gmail&ust=1566799877330000&usg=AFQjCNFWOhIJVyIm6Ob-fjB92w859f_4eA" href="https://www.facebook.com/NannupFlowerandGardenFestival/photos/pcb.2975658139141859/2975656115808728/?type=3&theater" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>NannupFlowerandGardenFestival/<wbr></wbr>photos/pcb.2975658139141859/<wbr></wbr>2975656115808728/?type=3&<wbr></wbr>theater</a></div>
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These included a talk on composting on Thursday, 2 farm tours, and making fresh squeezed lemonade lemon juice at the Celebrity Breakfast with Costa, Milli, Guy Jefferies and may more. 100 people tried our lemonade which included lime Kombucha brewed into bubbles, and many returned for more. Thanks to the citrus abundance this year , we will be carting the citrus press to Margaret River markets next Saturday and to Perth Saturday 7th of September, so please start your day right with some yummy and health giving Fizzy Juice. Discount for those like Costa who always have a keep cup in their dilly bag. Also in abundance, thanks to compost, are AVOCADOES and GREENS. </div>
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We’ve just heard news that this block, plus several others w<span class="m_3874556711134814329gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">e have been campaigning for are off the imminent logging plans.</span></div>
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This means that Lewin, Channybearup, Barrabup and Nelson are all safe, for now.<br />
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Deep gratitude and a massive shoutout to <a class="m_3874556711134814329gmail-profileLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/dominique.chanovre?__tn__%3D%252CdKH-R-R%26eid%3DARANVQ4ioRIMhQpLrvZKYdVpf3vR_1_DqC-QObKMPkB21qWA49of9rOezsc0-gWiGnujvJrdOUoD_WiA%26fref%3Dmentions&source=gmail&ust=1566799877330000&usg=AFQjCNGpN46lif0cLq75fJM7nyj9LytaZQ" href="https://www.facebook.com/dominique.chanovre?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARANVQ4ioRIMhQpLrvZKYdVpf3vR_1_DqC-QObKMPkB21qWA49of9rOezsc0-gWiGnujvJrdOUoD_WiA&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Dominique Chanovre">Dominique</a> who has been living at camp almost non stop, Shonas mum <a class="m_3874556711134814329gmail-profileLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/aileen.lynch.1272?__tn__%3D%252CdKH-R-R%26eid%3DARAONcU3MwSZHn8yxIrIYXRJfoFowNA0VgKUAwiBBM6tiy47tEkFD1-ydfEd8cijornqjfDkU56HwCEA%26fref%3Dmentions&source=gmail&ust=1566799877331000&usg=AFQjCNFzJNhw8lrHpHsgKS7X1zZ2HoTiwQ" href="https://www.facebook.com/aileen.lynch.1272?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARAONcU3MwSZHn8yxIrIYXRJfoFowNA0VgKUAwiBBM6tiy47tEkFD1-ydfEd8cijornqjfDkU56HwCEA&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Aileen Lynch">Aileen</a> who has had the very challenging job of organising the camp roster and heading down to camp so often, Mel, <a class="m_3874556711134814329gmail-profileLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/bearheart.shiell?__tn__%3D%252CdKH-R-R%26eid%3DARAQPrQRgybL1ohIwaOePGJrc-oimm987jeOEnzIKh2fcH5J-KX8gmiDxe7Qx0zlUX6CyQFWEBYlXxCk%26fref%3Dmentions&source=gmail&ust=1566799877331000&usg=AFQjCNHTzhprAvmXwMCDiX8w2IT5HGQ_cg" href="https://www.facebook.com/bearheart.shiell?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARAQPrQRgybL1ohIwaOePGJrc-oimm987jeOEnzIKh2fcH5J-KX8gmiDxe7Qx0zlUX6CyQFWEBYlXxCk&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Bearheart Shiell">Bearheart</a>, Ray, <a class="m_3874556711134814329gmail-profileLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/bee.winfield?__tn__%3D%252CdKH-R-R%26eid%3DARC_Zwe4DJ2JMTU6A6hPnj8z2ZkUlcqJUFHye4Ih34pW7ccEmHEOxAAzJ-DEIcFrHaQ6kHoudYQ58mG2%26fref%3Dmentions&source=gmail&ust=1566799877331000&usg=AFQjCNFxLtt9Dl7ExERAlcGTbPJMgwfmRQ" href="https://www.facebook.com/bee.winfield?__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARC_Zwe4DJ2JMTU6A6hPnj8z2ZkUlcqJUFHye4Ih34pW7ccEmHEOxAAzJ-DEIcFrHaQ6kHoudYQ58mG2&fref=mentions" style="color: #385898; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Bee Winfield">Bee</a>, Frosty and all the rest of the 50 or so dedicated people who went to keep camp.</div>
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Thank you to all of you who shared and talked about it. Direct action don’t work without people sharing about it.</div>
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Pack up date and partyyyyy is set for the 7th and 8th September.</div>
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In my opinion, this campaign has been successful so far, because of direct action, and making a massive noise about it. This took literally hundreds of people, and most people didnt get the chance to go to camp, reiterating that direct action takes a team.<br />
No one acted illegally, no one was arrested.</div>
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We sat down and refused to move and a big community talked about it, and as a result we all saved not one but FOUR forests because of it. For now at least.</div>
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We will keep campaigning to get the old growth definition fixed, to ensure these four forests and a whole bunch others are permanently protected.</div>
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I wholeheartedly believe that this is achievable within a year!</div>
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Let’s celebrate and then finish the job! " Well done Jess, Shona and team </div>
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I get a regular farming newsletter from the Warren catchment council in Manjimup . I've long suspected bio char to be a green washing exercise by miners who are receiving ( cheap as chips) our Jarrah forests as fuel for their silicon and aluminium smelters. YEsterday I became aware of evidence to support my hunch. But first let me assure you I have tested bio char, (may I just call it forest ashes?) on my plants, on 3 seperate occasions, and not found any miracle results at any time, </div>
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I put my hand up to be involved in a trial of bio char run by Kathy Dawson WCC, and received several bags of char via her ( she did confirm they were originally from the Kemerton smelter) and instructions were to add 5% char to my seedling tray mix and to one row of orchard trees out of 2. There has been no plant response to date ( 2 years now).Kathy did not receive funding to proceed with the trial and cursed the panel for their short sightedness. I went ahead and posted my seedling results on face book anyway, and some bio char enthusiasts said I did it wrong. Under their instructions I did the trial again and again, nothing . Strangely Kathy said she had seen my photos on face book, but made no further comment. Kathy is now making what is in effect a promotional video for the likes of Simcoa, funded by tax payers, and set to mislead vunerable farmers looking desperately for alternatives to chemical fertilizers.No doubt innocently, Kathy <b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">is putting together a video of biochar use in the south west. This will be a series of short videos of farmers (mostly) using biochar in a range of crops. She will be knocking on doors of people she knows use bio char but is also aware Simcoa is "making a killing out of increased sales (and increased prices) for their biochar which is being trucked out in large volumes" .So Kathy wonders who is using it and how. If you are one of the unknown adopters and would like to have a promo opportunity that will help Kathy in her " mission" as well as promote your business, call her and also make contact with me. The videos will be stitched together by a professional film-maker into a mini-documentary to be screened at th</b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">e </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://anzbc.org.au/&source=gmail&ust=1566799877331000&usg=AFQjCNEFsWDX79Oq5ybK6nk2qxJHGbOjcA" href="https://anzbc.org.au/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">Australia and New Zealand Biochar Conference and Study Tour</a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I am all for the use of charcoal in animal feed and indeed as a vermifuge in humans but the amount you need for a large farm could come from your kitchen stove. We need not help the likes of Alcoa , Kemerton Japanese owned silicon smelter take away our Jarrah forests as fuel at just $11 a cubic meter and profit from the ashes as well! This needs a push back.....</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Im inviting anyone who has run a trial on bio char to share their results with me. You could also share results here: </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/merribeenannup/&source=gmail&ust=1566799877331000&usg=AFQjCNFFHaWEWA-3PR8sfb4r7qD_jgP6hA" href="https://www.facebook.com/merribeenannup/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.<wbr></wbr>com/merribeenannup/</a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> What we really need is a video following the forest to the smelter to the char to the farm and the results. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">One name that appears on most articles espousing the so called miracle of bio char is Albert Bates from the U. S. Wonder if he has interests in mining ? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Finally the<b> Amazon is burning</b>, and would you believe CNN is making divisive commentary blaming eating meat for this! Vegans have jumped on board, but these fires are preparing the way for sugar cane, Acai berry, brazil nuts and soy too. Our real time hero carnivore Shawn Baker so sensibly points out, deforestation for palm oil is more of an issue! And what about </span>mining? Here is Sensible Shawn <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DASxY7MEpf2s&source=gmail&ust=1566799877331000&usg=AFQjCNGmXtQirXYNt4eb63IvHImBmkD0Lw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASxY7MEpf2s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=ASxY7MEpf2s</a> What about Almond production in California ? Listen to this man, he's pretty darn smart. </div>
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You will find a lot of benefits to the planet and your health of eating a predominantly organic meat diet are highlighted in this talk by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=GZ3nNch5TsE">Peter Ballersted</a>, forage agronomist. As he says, <span style="font-size: medium;">Ruminants Rule! </span> </div>
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There are a few ways to grow vegetables that I know of, and
we have tried them all over the last 50 years, starting with when I took <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>over my mums backyard in Melbourne with a
pumpkin plant, which went on (and on) to bear several QLD Blues. I took a large
one on a weekend surfing trip and shared it with my friends raw, BBQ’d and stir
fired. No one else was enthused ( they preferred hot chips) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but for me the growing obsession had begun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And so it was with great interest that I attended a field
trip of the Organic Growers of W.A. last Saturday. The very fine Peter
Langlands welcomed us to his parent’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>historic
Guilford property where he tends a small market garden on the banks of a creek.
Peter read “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery several years back and was
horrified by what humans are doing to the planet. Like when I read the book, he
had to skip over the terribly depressing middle to get to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the end for (hopefully) solutions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He decided to take action and growing organic
veges was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his act. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This delightful young man showed us 20 or more perfectly
straight rows of gorgeous vegetables of nearly as many types, most under row
covers, all meticulously weeded. He had a veritable arsenal of tools: broad
forks, stirrup hoes, a mini rotary hoe which was turned by a cordless drill, 3
types of seeder, etc etc. There was weed mat on the ground with holes burnt
into it at regular spacing for the plants. Micro greens were growing thickly in
other rows, which he cuts regularly with a tiny motorized cutting and catching
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Peter finds he is not big enough to consistently supply
restaurants and wholesaling to shops was tying up too many days of the week,
but he has landed on selling his gorgeous produce every Saturday on the verge
outside, for a set hour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Family, neighbors
and friends are flocking to his popup green grocery…. now supply and demand are
dovetailing nicely. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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So this is <b>method one</b>, intensive growing in very good
soil enriched with compost, kept stirred and weeded by hand and/ or small
tillage machine. He has been disappointed that a certain certified organic
compost he has purchased has contained plastic and glass. He is also mindful
that the plastic- based row covers and weed mat will have to be disposed of
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Let me say now, on my soil I could not get away with <b>method
one</b>, and in most soils of the world the constant disturbance to the fungal
component would not work. Bare soil exposed to the sun after weeding on our
North west slopes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leads to fungi death
and subsequent soil degradation. I am always telling Stewart <b>never bare the
soil</b>, put the weeds back where they came from. Once fungi is gone, tilth is
only achieved by heaps of work. However, in a shady place on a river flat, in a
humid climate and with a good supply of quality compost and fine mulch for top
dressing , Method 1 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>works, maybe for many
decades, and is extremely productive. Obviously many young people like Peter are
embracing this in their own locale and growing clean food for their community, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cheers to them!<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are not so blessed with rich compost- like soil built
up over years of “pasture and grazing” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or forest cover, or alluvial soil… indeed if
you have been gardening like this and notice a decline in fertility leading to
ever- more weeds and pests, let me describe <b>method 2</b>: Full Mulch Cover. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheet composting is another name, and
permaculture founder Bill Mollison espoused it. You can let the weeds go mad in
the rainy season. Preferably just before trouncing the lot with a heavy layer
of wet mulch, you will allow a flock of ducks to graze it down and rid the area
of molluscs and their eggs. Traditionally you start by layering 5 or so sheets
of damp newspaper or cardboard over the grass, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and piling at least 4 inches of weed free
mulch over that. A mix of Leaves, straw, woodchips and a little poultry manure
would be perfect. Emulate the forest floor! Add all your detritus: vacuum
cleaner dust, dog fur, eggshells, small amounts of wood ash. To plant seedlings
you make a hole in the mulch and add a few handfuls of compost . After a year
the soil is transformed, and the garden tightly packed with a diversity of
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality, with our
extremely long ( 10 month now) dry periods, the garden will need regular
watering, but nowhere near the amount needed by method 1 on the same soil. A
year on it will probably be needing more mulch where plants have failed and
there is a bare patch. Initially, plucking protruding kike could be laborious, but it will dwindle if starved of light so keep plucking or piling ( on the mulch) . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any case , whenever it is wet is the time
to mulch again, because <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>microfauna are
always <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>converting mulch to humus in damp
conditions. If they are kept fed on plant sugars and plant debris you won’t
have to bring in more mulch. You will find yourself growing more and more
perennials to save the work of gathering and spreading mulch. Again the ducks
will come in handy mid- winter when they could be let in for a few weeks on
snail detail. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Method 3 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Raised
beds. Wicking beds? Well mulched paths leading around planter boxes. No bending
. Neat! Fill with quality compost, spread an inch of mulch, plant out. Great.
In the case of wicking beds ( please google search for my article on these in right
hand top corner) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you may eventually have
to empty everything out and find the leak but happy days for many years after
the expense and hard work they are to build. A large deciduous tree or trees
that provides light shade (thornless honey locust?, Jacarandah?) over head
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<b>Method 4</b>, follow moving poultry cages…I ‘ll call this
“the Joel Salatin method”. We have made bamboo cages with tarp
or “Gilligans Island” thatch roofs which are hanging together so far and I am
never so happy as when seeding a freshly ploughed , de- bugged, fertilized and
mulched area where the chicken tractor has been for a day. I keep a lidded bucket full of
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>groovy perennial pasture mix, my Hoe Mi ,
a bucket of compost and a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bag of mulch
for thin areas near the tractor. By this method the chooks and I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have transformed kikuyu, cape weed and Guilford
grass <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>infested dirt into chocolate soil
capable of growing deep rooted perennial prairie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In time we will be growing
tons of biomass year round to feed tons more chooks who will lay golden eggs or
chunky roosters for the sustenance of you and your family, or allow robust cell
grazing for a herd of swine. Mmmmm Mother’s pork chops……I salivate. Im off to
grow more rain.<br />
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Please buy organic food ! XXX Bee<br />
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Hardly news, but climate change is real. We caused it. What may be news is we could solve it in 3 years. However, we only have 12 years to solve it or the window of opportunity closes, and we all die.<br />
Soil scientists mired in the chemical approach measure soil
carbon (C) from conventional farms and conclude that soil does not contain much
carbon, and that soil is not much of a carbon sink. That’s what Tim Flannery
says. Nothing to see here.... soil won't save us. <span style="text-indent: -48px;"> Life processes are misunderstood and disregarded by the fellows who are making calculations about climate change.</span> <span style="text-indent: -48px;">If these supposed experts read the recent scientific literature about what the beneficial soil biology is doing down there, they'd find they are misleading us.</span> Flannery and his ilk say that our burning of fossil fuels is the main cause of the elevated
atmospheric C ( the driver of global warming). <br />
But LIVING soil is rare, and it is FULL of Carbon, and in fact, most of the excess atmospheric Carbon came
from agriculture. For as long as the civilization of humans ( about 10,000 years)
the ploughing or tillage done to the carbon rich earth, (by hand ,
with animals and lately with machines) has been oxidizing the soil carbon, sending it off to
the air as carbon dioxide ( Co2). Only very recently have CO2
contributions from agriculture massively increased, now including fossil fueled farm machinery, haulage, packaging, refrigeration and,
worst of all, microbe damaging pesticides and fertilizers.<br />
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There is not a lot of consideration either, by same experts, of the microbial
life in ocean sediments. Marine mud is not the “lifeless plain” as underwater
photos suggest, but is full of algae, bacteria, zooplankton,
protozoans, etc, all eating each other, taking up and releasing C by turns. There
are hot spots on the ocean floor where long ago a whale or massive school of
fish died, these materials ultimately became
squashed into sedimentary rocks and formed natural gas and petroleum deposits which, millions of years later, we extract and burn for energy, putting the old whale's blubber carbon up into the air. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Basics of Climate Change ( CC) </b></div>
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Greenhouse gases (
GHG) such as carbon dioxide, methane and Nitrous Oxide act as a blanket which traps
the heat coming into our Earth from the sun every day, holding in the heat and preventing it from escaping back into
space. We are holding so much more energy in our atmosphere suddenly , that the
energy fluxes from the poles to the equator are huge. These differences in
temperature are expressed as savage windstorms, monsoonal rains, droughts,
hurricanes, extreme cold and of course record breaking temperatures as being
experienced around the world daily. All this is having impact on human beings,
to put it mildly. Im trying to be mild. 😌 There
will be fuel company trolls who deny all this and will slam Dr Elaine just as they
continuously slam Al Gore. They will try to make you question your
understanding of the science you learnt in school, they will make out the
fires, floods, droughts and cyclones are nothing unusual, when of course they
are. Way back when I first heard of the greenhouse effect in school, no scientist questioned these facts. But we just hoped
it would never happen.We thought the world was a big place and human beings
could have no influence on it. When CC finally started to happen, some notorious scientists curiously piped up, belatedly debating the facts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b> That terrible Tillage</b> slices and dices the fungi
and higher level organisms, taking us back to an earlier stage of succession, leaving
just bacteria in the soil. Bacteria alone
do not hold on to CO2. When soil is tilled and the organic matter (OM) is suddenly
exposed, a bacterial bloom feeds on it, releasing huge amounts of CO2.<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">We can always measure elevated CO2 whenever we mix, stir, or break up soil. Bacteria are relatively unharmed by tillage but bigger organisms are often torn apart and become food for the bacteria, in addition to the newly exposed surfaces for the bacteria to grow on. Previously unavailable food such as the bacterial glues which held soil particles together into micro-aggregates add to the foods which make bacterial populations increase. Certain groups of bacteria proliferate in the presence of oxygen and the absence of competition (from say, destroyed bacterial feeding nematodes, ciliates, amoebe and flagellets). Bacteria will always consume and convert Soil Organic Matter into CO2.</span><b style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </b></div>
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<b>To summarize, tillage is the main cause of C leaving the soil and floating above it. </b></div>
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But if we apply soil health
principles and stop the disturbance, we start to get more fungi back in the
soil, then we have the ability of holding and building carbon reserves to
MASSIVE levels. Many enduring tribes of humans, including the Australian Aborigine, practiced humus care, as the name suggests....we humans are "of and for the Earth" deep in our hearts. But we have lost our way and if we fail to drastically change the current moronic practices, our demise will be swift as the soil goes ever-more anerobic, as the structure-building bacteria and fungi are killed by synthetic
fertilizer and pesticides. Resultant compaction and water logging leads to not only salinity and acidification but production of very potent GH Gases such as Methane
and Nitrous Oxide. These get produced whenever improper, <b>anerobic </b>decomposition of plant and animal residues takes place.<br />
Nitrous Oxide
is 300 times worse than CO2 as a GHGas !<br />
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In addition, if we continue to burn the bush in ignorant belief this will protect us from wildfire, we are not
understanding Nature and we are sticking loads of CO2 into the sky as well as polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, aldehydes, respirable particulate matter,
carbon monoxide [CO], nitrogen oxides [NOx], mercury, ozone
precursors and volatile organic compounds [VOCS]. The pollution coming from 1 acre of bush burning equates to the exhaust emissions from 6000 cars ( running)<br />
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Fungi could deal with fuel load, given half a chance.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Here's the thing. Those same experts think soil only goes down about 100 mms (4 inches). This may be true on conventional farms which have strictly bacterial soil. But its perfectly do- able to apply soil health principles and build the soil food web up, deepening the topsoil. The process of soil building accelerates over time. That 4 inches is going to become 40 inches, in time it could become 40
feet deep or even 400 feet deep. How far down can we go, building soil, holding
onto Carbon? Well organisms are found alive and functioning at 12 miles ( 30 kms) deep. Given these facts, we could accidently store too much carbon in the soil, lower the
atmospheric C too much, and bring on an ice age. We have to know what we are
doing. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>How rapidly can we store C in the soil? </b> In one growing season we can store 10 to 20
times more than any of our experts would ever suggest could be held in soil. We
have not even </span><b style="text-indent: -0.5in;">begun</b><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> to take account of
how much carbon could be stored in soil or marine sediments. There have been some
massive mistakes in calculations on this topic so far.</span><br />
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<b>Soil organisms release Co2</b> . Live plants
release Co2, dead plants give off Co2 as they decompose. Every insect, worm,
fungi and protozoa respires Co2. If you are an aerobic organism you respire
Co2. During the day time, PLANTS are doing the opposite. They are doing photosynthesis, taking up that CO2 gas and turning
it into oxygen and carbohydrate , pumping half of the latter underground from whence
it came, to feed the biology there at its roots. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We want to promote the organisms which store bulk amounts of Carbon in the
soil.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> How much C
is in soil?</b> We are at less than 0.5 % Carbon in most farm soil in Australia, down from an average of 8% at white colonization. If society required that agriculture increase the
carbon, every year, by ceasing to till, ceasing
to use fertilizer and pesticides, we would
increase the fungal biomass, we would get back the whole soil food web, we would get better production and better
nutrition in our food, we would be keeping loads more water in the soil because
of the structure, and every year we would be increasing the humus present. The
carbon compounds that are putting away/locking up 500 carbons for every one Nitrogen
are being formed under good management and the percentage of carbon in soil would go
up and up and up. <b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Climate Change –How Big is the problem?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Vostock ice cores go back in history
420,000 years. We can see the 100,000 year ice age and warmer period cycles in
this graph of what the ice core tells us. The amount of CO2 in parts per million ( ppm) in the air and the global temperature track along
together for half a million years. The graph spans 4 ice age cycles. For most of the last 450,000 years the
CO2 has been fluxing between about 190 and 270 ppm, and temp. has been cycling
between minus 8 in glaciation periods and reaching 2 in warm periods. Humanity settled
from a nomadic hunter gatherer life to agriculture in the nice warm Holocence era
which has been around for the last 12,000 odd years. We should be heading into
an Ice Age by now, but in fact the atmospheric CO2 level, as depicted by the blue line has suddenly shot up the side of the
graph to 400 parts per million, completely off the chart, over 30% greater than anything seen in the last 3 million years. </div>
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We can safely assume temperature, which has always followed CO2, is going to continue to do that. <b>Humans were not around 3 million years ago. </b><br />
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Should we be pulling the CO2 back down
to 350 ppm? We could still be in danger at that. Could we bring CO2 down to
back down to where it was before we burnt fossil fuel and started agriculture,
to where we know it is safe? Elaine is certain we can.</div>
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<b>The Soil Carbon Pool.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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At what rate can
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Humans manage 5
billion Hectares world wide. We know we can sequester up to 10 Ton/ha/per year<br />
( shown by research of Dr Richard Teague) * <o:p></o:p></div>
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*<i><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While it may not be realistic to assume that we can achieve this on all
soils today, this may be a possibility in 3 years, from my experience with the most difficult soil and climate in the world. But we need further investment
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This equates to a maximum of approx 50 billion tons a year . Current global emissions are approx.,
18 billion tons per year. That leaves
about 30 tons /year in additional sequestration ….working toward CC reversal.
To sequester 450 Billion tons ( thus getting to “safety”) would take 15 years.
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Atmospheric CO2
is absorbed by plants during photosynthesis and is used to produce exudates. The
exudates feed microorganisms which then multiply and then, continuing their symbiotic
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<b>We need to be
growing forests </b>which are a fungal dominated soil systems. Tree roots go down
hundreds of feet, and carbon can be pumped down to grow 25,000 km of fungal
hyphae per meter cubed of forest soil. The older parts of the hypha are often covered in a solid carbon material, forming a pipe which remains <span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">for hundreds of years</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">, even if the fungi dies. Imagine the possibilities for CO2 re uptake by the soil! At a guess, only about 3 dozen scientists know about all this. An Ag Department guy once told me Dr Christine Jones had lovely ideas but they were hopelessly optimistic. I know he was sincerely sad about that, as I was a friend of his daughter. This man believed what he had been told. Turns out his bosses in the Ag department ridiculing Dr Jones had only factored in the carbon a tree stores in its biomass, not the carbon it sends out into the soil to remain forever as stable humus, once complexed by soil food web critters. He had not heard about the LIQUID CARBON PATHWAY.</span></div>
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<b>We need to be growing Prairies </b>. Let us mimic
the grasslands where hundreds of pasture species fed millions of ruminant
animals to produce 20 or more feet of carbon rich soil. Got to have the right
fungi, got to stop buying fertilizer in order to stop the one of the most polluting industries we do: manufacture of fertilizer. Those factories uses massive amounts of fossil fuel and water in fertilizer production. I know, because the Perdaman urea plant was planned for Collie. The proposal fizzled because of the carbon tax introduced by Julia Gillard. I will be forever grateful. And yes, you guessed right, urea fertilizer kills many fungi when applied. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Pre-industrial safe levels of CO2 .....280 pp million. </div>
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Current annual GHG emissions total approx 19 billion Tons ( net of natural absorption factors)</div>
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To get from the current level of 410 ppm down to 350 ppm ( deemed the SAFE level by a consensus of climate scientists) we need to deal with the backlog and sequester 60 ppm, or approx. 450 Billion Tons plus the additional ongoing 18 Billion T /year </div>
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<b>CAN THIS be DONE? </b></div>
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The amount of Carbon that has left the Earth's soils in 12,000 years of cultivation is conservatively estimated at 133 billion tons. The soil carbon pool is currently approximately 2,500 Billion tons.</div>
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It is perfectly possible to put back at least the 133 BnT into this relatively large Carbon pool, and would be an increase of only 5.2% in the carbon pool. </div>
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<b>Could we put back the 450 Bn T into soil to get us to that "safe " level?</b> That would represent 18% of the carbon pool. Of course we can! This would be a walk in the park for soil fungi! Better to die trying than not try at all. </div>
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If we manage 5Bn hectares world wide, and we know we can sequester up to 10 T/ha/yr when just considering the top 100 mm, think what could be absorbed all the way down desert tree roots 80 meters long. 50 (Bn Tons) becomes 500 at one meter, 40,000 Billion tons at 80 meters. </div>
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If Elaine's calculations are correct, and assuming all arable land goes organic tomorrow, within one growing season
we could put one third of the elevated CO2 back down in the soil. Within 3
years, if we can mobilize human beings to grow forests on all the steep land
and perennial pastures on the flat and low lands, we could get all that carbon
excess back in the soil. Dr
Ingham is no fool. She holds enormous knowledge of soils
and is one of the great minds of our time. Cell grazed grasslands, are determined to sequester carbon even faster than forests by another great -brained and lovely person Dr
Christine Jones. Allan Savory agrees and says we can only do this with the help of grazing animals.</div>
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Oh, btw, another little mission, we must also treat the polar ice caps with fungal compost tea to prevent the
thawing organic matter from going anaerobic , to build the structure as the
permafrost melts, so catastrophic amounts of nitrous oxide and methane are not produced in stagnant, poorly
drained, thawing peat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A few weeks ago I would have felt all this was idealistic to
the max. As steward of the worst non- wetting dirt in the world, in a region experiencing 30 years of rainfall decline and extremes of temperature thrown in, I would have
believed the task of growing forests and perennial pastures to be impossible in
the short time we have left ( 12 years on the current path before we reach the point
of no return, according to Ingham ) . I couldn’t even grow weeds in some places
over winter. That is shocking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However a Phenomenon has occurred. There I was struggling to
keep cactus alive with daily watering in what we are now calling “Little Egypt”,
but I decided to have a go at planting some Chief Seattle Corn, which was in danger
of losing its viability, in an area previously grazed every afternoon by chooks. I also dreamed
I might grow some pepita pumpkins with it, as I had been able to germinate a
few of some organic ones I bought. Beans would make it the traditional “3
sisters” of Native Americans. So I went into the dusty dry patch we call pink
locker, and made some furrows in the dry, grass- covered soil. The dry grass
mulch was there because I had allowed the bulky winter cover crop rich in
legumes, to dry off and die there. I placed
the mixed seeds in furrows, covered them with a cm of very nice MBOFDV compost,
watered and waited.We put a misting of
compost tea on a few days after the first photo was taken. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Carbon Neutral</i></b> is a
company buying up farms and selling them to business people very cheaply who
are planting trees all over the farms, and in so doing are obtaining $ carbon credits. I met a couple who have
purchased 3 such farms in a planned wildlife corridor. Their trees are growing
well, some were direct seeded, others were planted as seedlings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Would be ever so grateful if you could look in to how you can build topsoil by growing
plants. It is going to take a lot of growing plants to save our bacon. Towards
this grand goal of saving the human race we have volunteer jobs aplenty here: seed collecting and saving, composting, watering , nursery construction, potting, planting, tree guard install, rodent
trapping and animal care to name a few. Please talk to 10 friends about this
and work out a plan or hook up with someone
else’s plan. I don't know about you, but I'm galvanized. Elaine's leadership could Save the World yet again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-30964019867327279472019-01-06T09:06:00.000-08:002019-09-18T08:03:30.975-07:00Carnivore diet....another fad or the polar opposite of the vegan diet (with a myriad of benefits).<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ive been known to wield hoses around this place for so long that I get blisters on my palms, but there is one large place I
never have to water, and that is the 1000 square meter</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“humungus” garden. That’s where the perennial
grasses have grown really tall with hardly any rainfall and no irrigation. They were germinated in a
furrow of compost and survived their first year, they are now taking that soil
to the next level in fertility, and their roots should eventually go down 60 feet !!! Liquid
carbon ( as they photosynthesize the carbon in the air into carbohydrate) is
leaked out through the entire root system to feed the bacteria and fungi
attached to those roots. This is how the hugely fertile soils of many the
United States were built..... a combination of millions of animals ( bison, horses, deer,Caribou etc) and 1000’s of species of pasture plant, and dazzing diversity of soil life from micro to macrofauna.</span><br />
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Boysen berries and
raspberries grow near my few species of special grass and we have not had to
water ONCE this season, and the soil is still damp. It takes a while to find
the soil as it is covered by a foot of biomass. This is what we hope for over
the whole farm. Imagine, the animals will never need hand feeding again as they feast on abundant green biomass year round. It won’t
happen overnight but it will happen. With climate change now being talked about every time I turn the radio or TV on, it must be really bad. And yes, it is. We planted seeds late today into the lane way the pigs have been in for a few days. They've been eating down the previous crop of peas and oats, and digging as they do. It is early spring and I expected that soil to be damp. Sadly it was dusty dry. We threw copius amounts of compost over the mixture of seeds. We were doing this in some light rain, and gathering darkness, and tomorrow morning I will mulch the lot with grass clippings. Then we will hope the sunflowers, beans , pepitas, corn, millet, lentils and chickpeas come up and grow . Might get just enough rain over night on that super absorbent compost to make some magic happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">The hummungus garden soil developed over 3 years by applying compost, compost tea and
the soil health principles. What are these principles? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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Armour on the soil...keep it 100% covered , 100 % of the time.<br />
Minimal disturbance<br />
Biodiversity above and below ground<br />
Keep some living green plants all year long ( go the perennials!)<br />
Animal integration<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">For a full explanation come to our soil course, Nourishing Soil in November : </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/539099406833694/">https://www.facebook.com/events/539099406833694/</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As we are regenerating
the soil over the whole farm using grass, microbes and animals, we are extremely grateful to those
who buy our pork, beef and lamb at Margaret River farmers market (unless its our monthly market @Perth’s City Farm.) To find out our next market and to order sides of meat please contact us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">We wish it were not so, but at some point it became shameful in today's world to eat lots of meat, as our ancestors did. Why is the mention of "the carnivore diet" repugnant to many, and where and when did the VEGAN MOVEMENT start? Well it started decades ago and stems from religious ideology and propaganda by the breakfast cereal manufacturers. You know the old fire and brimstone preachers? One such preacher was female founding figure in the Seventh Day Adventist church. I don't care to remember her name, as she was a nutter who scared young children. One youngster who at a tender age of 12 went to work for her, typesetting her messages to the Adventist church members , was a certain master Kellog. He spent 4 of his early teen formative years in her employ, during which time he developed a fear of sex that lasted his lifetime. He grew up to be a doctor, who mutilated boys and girls genitals to prevent them from committing the "sin" of masturbation. Dr Kellog and his brother followed this religion and believed a vegan diet helped people of all ages to stay free of the "desires of the flesh". The bro's Kellog later invented a pile of plant based food products including soy milk and flaked and high heat extruded grains which they later marketed as breakfast food. No doubt Kellogs cornflakes and the rest did disrupt one's hormones, therefore rendering one lustless and infertile. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Later on, chemical companies supplying inputs to Agri business, notably oilseed, grain and sugar producers, soon saw the opportunity this religion afforded them. Under their considerable influence, Nutritional Guidelines went from being animal product based to almost entirely plant based. The result? The masses indoctrinated by TV commercials joined the devout Adventists in having their " base desires" curbed along, with their lust for life. A woeful litany of chronic illness including depression, anxiety , obesity , type 2 diabetes and auto immune disease is being seen in the cornflake /weetbix eating population.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Weston A Price is one of the few mobs out there who have been championing fatty meat consumption for ever,
and copping considerable flack. Despite their science backed activism for nutrient
dense food, the vegan trend is not going
away. However I predict a rapid crash of the vegan wave. You see, over the
festive season I have managed to get some reading in, and what I am about to
share just may turn your world around. Researching this I realized my own programming, and I am not one to absorb very much mainstream
media at all. Drum roll , clashing of cymbals and gongs…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;"> Many very sick people are consuming an all
meat diet and recovering from years of chronic auto immune disease in less than
a month. Yes. Do not let this powerful knowledge slip through your fingers! Any
person or friends/relations of people suffering years of osteo or rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia,
depression, bi-polar, severe acne, asthma, food allergies , Chrones, ulcerative
colitis, inflammatory bowel, SIBO, cancer, diabetes, obesity, autism, anxiety
conditions, OCD, ODD, ADHD, ADD, Hashimoto’s, coronary heart disease, or any
other of the 200 auto immune diseases plaguing the civilized world, get this: The front runners have been living on nothing
but various fatty meats, salt and water for more than 14 years. They
found relief from their symptoms within a month, some in just days, and if they
add just a tiny bit of well- cooked vegetable to their diet, their symptoms
return immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Dr Natasha
Cambell McBride in her Gut And Psychology Syndrome lectures says exactly this, that
an autistic child can become completely normal, healthy and thriving on a diet
of just bone broth, meat, eggs and sauerkraut
JUICE, as long as they avoid all plant fiber. Just a whiff of anything <b>plant</b> brings back their autism symptoms, overnight.
The hope is that they will eventually re- gain the numbers of friendly bacteria
in their gut needed to properly digest plants but while their intestines are
populated by all the wrong bugs, the out of control opportunistic flora will use the fiber in that
well- cooked centimeter of zucchini as a
substrate to proliferate and produce their dastardly toxins that derange the
brain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Our distant ancestors
ate plant and animal products, stole eggs, scavenged carcasses and had a brain
weighing 300 odd milliliters in size. Along came an ice age, the plant part of
the diet was soon gone. We had to learn to follow and hunt the animals that
could live on lichens found under the snow. They were fatty animals because
they had to have so much insulation. I guess desperation got us working
together to bring down animals, and our big brains grew bigger as hunting skills and therefore diet improved. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Archeologists digging up ancient camping
grounds find huge amounts of bones, along with the stone tools
used for breaking open bones to access marrow. Cave paintings from all
corners of the world depict hunting scenes, nowhere pre- Holocene did anyone
paint a fruit tree on a cave wall. Then there are coprolites …. fossilized
human manure. There are no fruit seeds or plant fiber found in coprolites, just
all the animal products you can poke a stick at ( eggs shells, feathers, fish
bones, other small bones etc) During this
frozen time human brains grew rapidly to be a colossal size ( about 1400ml ) considering
our body size and small gut in relation to
other mammals. We didnt evolve to eat meat, we evolved BECAUSE we ate meat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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settled agricultural societies occurred about 10,000 years ago and we shrank a
little in stature and brain size about then, living on less meat and more grain
than hunter/ gatherers. The ancient Egyptions lived as they do today in Egypt....mainly on bread and beans , eggs, chicken and fish occasionally, some honey, salad and tahini. Sounds healthy but compared to their hunting and gathering cousins, the newly settled agriculturalists suffered from heart disease, fat bellies and diabetes. Some doctors blame the grains.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Seems like
no one criticized meat until 4 decades ago. Not only religious ideology but Dr Ancell Keyes came along. He, though </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">not a
medical doctor, had a hypothesis, backed up only by the data from countries he
cherry picked to include, that animal fat caused heart disease. The hypothesis was never
proved, but it gained as much publicity as pro GM scientists do today. These low fat notions came to dominate our lives. Eggs were out, margarine was in, vegetable oils
were healthy, fats were blamed for every disease. To make low fat food palatable, sugar was added. We now know Ancell was paid by the
oilseed, sugar and grain producers, and the “healthy eating food pyramid” that persists to this day, is upside down. Recall that Monsanto /Bayer sells chemicals and big agricultural
machinery to the cropping industry. What's a bet </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">They </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">are behind todays government backed push for veganism. This may seem a stretch too far, but not if you watch</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">The Oiling of America</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;"> here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ0WJOQzrgg&t=5s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ0WJOQzrgg&t=5s</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">It is sad to realize that after 10,000 years of agriculture, our brains
are now smaller than the frozen cave men we occasionally dig up. The vegan diet is so popular,yet is against
all science and common sense. There is evidence that vegetarianism is causing people's brains to shrink. A study was done on volunteers aged between 60 and 83 years old. The cohort’s brain
size was measured at the start, then 5 years in to the study. The vegan’s
brains were the smallest in the group and had lost 5% of volume over the 5
years between tests. Meat eaters brains remained the same size. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">It may
surprise some that there is a clinic called Paleomedicina in Hungary, using a
ketogenic/palleolithic diet ( mainly meat with 30% “ancestral plant foods) to resolve chronic conditions such as obesity,
epilepsy, diabetes, hypertension, auto immune diseases </span>(asthma, allergy,
hypothyreosis, eczema)<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">, cancer
and those <b>suffering from being medicated</b>…..nb.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">From their
website:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 106%;">“Rehabilitation of chronic
diseases is most effective when the diet is limited to our real physiological
needs. Eating fruits and vegetables does not form part of our physiological
need but are associated with risks. Plant foods can only be regarded as
"relatively" safe when certain plant food items are consumed and only
in limited amounts. ….. Altogether clinical experience was derived from about
4000 patients.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 106%;">Here is their therapeutic
tool: </span>”A Diet exactly confined to
our needs” <o:p></o:p></div>
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•Animal foods include red and fatty meats, fat and offal preferably
from pasture-raised animals<o:p></o:p></div>
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•Fat:protein ratio about 2:1 (in grams)<o:p></o:p></div>
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•No nitrates, nitrites or other additives in meat products<o:p></o:p></div>
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•Plant foods only include certain fruits and ”paleolithic” vegetables
from organic sources<o:p></o:p></div>
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•No artificial sweeteners but honey is allowed in moderation<o:p></o:p></div>
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Black and herbal tea
are excluded <o:p></o:p></div>
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Coffee is allowed only after full regeneration and in moderation<o:p></o:p></div>
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•Eggs are initially excluded in those with highly elevated intestinal
permeability and/or vaccines during the preceding 6 months<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We believe that the Paleo Ketogenic Diet ( PKD) is the only
evolutionary adapted diet for humans.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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They perform an Intestinal permeability test at 4 weeks. Tapering
of medicines is coordinated by the Paleomedicina team ……<o:p></o:p></div>
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NB : Overmedicated
patient (5≤ medicines and/or beta-blocker, psychiatry drugs, antiepileptics, steroid,
biological therapy, immunosuppressant): the patient needs to enter the rehabilitation center for some time to be tapered
off these drugs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We never experienced side-effects or vitamin/mineral deficiencies
due to the PKD. Our longest follow-up is 7 years. The diet is safe in pregnancy
and in lactating mothers. Weaning infants onto the PKD is safe and easy too.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Intestinal
permeability –a key issue <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Normalization of the intestinal permeability is of crucial
importance. ….No other medical intervention or diet has so far been shown to normalize
pathological intestinal permeability.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Efficacy<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Chronic civilization
disorders, including autoimmune diseases, are reversible when highly adhered to
the PKD. Reversing autoimmune diseases of the CNS, however, takes much longer.
In cancer patients tumor growth can be stopped and formation of metastases can be
prevented. In some patients we also experienced decrease in tumor size”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">The ketogenic
diet was originated in the 1920s as a therapy for epileptic children and it
worked in many cases. It is very high in animal fat, contains some protein and low carbs from fruit and non starchy veges. Many people are trying this and/ or the all meat diet and are feeling “AMAZING”. The meat diet certainly is super simple. A return to the way our distant ancestors
ate means no sugar, no processed foods and an organic diet rich in animals
fats. That’s got to be a good thing. Within a month all cravings for carbs
cease and a sense of calm is noticed, some people find 2 days in this happens. In reality it maybe that withdrawal from processed foods mean Roundup ingestion ceases. This alone has great benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;"> Well, like an elimination diet.
As the Paleomedicina Rehab states:</span> <i>“Every
human is able to eat and utilize animal meat and fat (except for a few genetic
conditions which already emerge in infancy and usually cause early death)</i>” .[I would add that there is a mammalian meat allergy triggered by a tick bite.] The take home message is that meat is easily digested and its nutrients well absorbed. Strange then that vegetarians have always banged on about <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;">meat being hard to digest and “putrifying in the gut”.
Actually it is plant foods that we cannot digest, and undigested plant matter “rots”
into formaldehyde and phenols if you happen to lack a good set of gut microbes capable of digesting plant fibers. Thanks to Roundup residues on food for preferentially harming our beneficial microbes, that population is now significant.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;">Meat is so well absorbed, very little reaches the colon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;">Constipation is also a groundless fear, although during the transition over the first few weeks negative effects on bowel movements and energy levels could be experienced. Dr Paul Mason at the Low Carbs Down Under conference held in Australia showed that a zero fiber diet resulted in zero constipation problems. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/.%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUO4P9ADI0&t=259s">see here </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Our huge
brains need short chain fatty acids, and these can come from beneficial gut
microbes turning a substrate of indigestible plant fiber from purple fruits and
veges into butyrate, or we can get it
more directly from consuming animal fats. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Gorillas are
large animals with huge bellies and quite small brains. They have a very long caecum
and colon which is full of bacteria, working away on their exclusive plant leaf
diet to produce fatty acids. We on the other hand are a primate with a comparatively
short colon, an almost non -existent caecum (called an appendix) and a much
larger brain which needs a quarter of our body’s energy to run. Organ meats are
the most nutrient dense food there is....liver even has vitamin C. Animal foods provide fat as an ideal fuel for
our brains. They supply structure and nutrition for you to make all your
hormones, neurotransmitters and replace/rebuild all your damaged tissues
including tendons, bones and teeth. Many on the nutrient dense carnivore diet
report their teeth get stronger. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">If contemplating
going carnivore, be assured that science is showing no advantage to being
plant based. In a study of 8000 people
followed for 18 years, it was found vegetarian dieters have higher mortality rates than meat eaters from
dementia and breast cancer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Published in
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a study called <i>Mortality in vegetarians and non-vegetarians</i>
took a decade of mortality data from 28,000 vegetarians from several countries and
found no survival advantage to being vegetarian. The Heidleberg study results
were released in 2002. In it, 2000
people were followed for 21 years. Vegetarians lived longer than vegans and
occasional meat eaters outlived them all. In another study of vegetarian 7<sup>th</sup>
Day Adventists, hip fracture rates were twice that of meat eaters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Dr Michael McGregor is the feeble poster child of the vegan movement, he is endlessly quoted by them, but this man some years ago posted one of his lectures entitled " 40 year old vegan dies of a heart attack" . All the preceding statistics come from his talk. He concluded that his plant
based followers should take supplements of Omega 3 and B12 to have a chance of
living as long as meat eaters. .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">On an all
meat diet you are getting maximum nutrition and emotional eating doesn't come into it. Snacking on modern, semi- poisonous non- food when
feeling low or anxious, is a trap. Who can forget the mars bar scene in Woody
Allen’s <i>Annie Hall</i> ( was it ?)</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> A “fast” on meat, or an actual fast on nothing but salty water, seems to be like a factory reset, it brings you back
from obsessing about carbs. It eliminates excesses, addictions and emotional eating. As meat is deeply nourishing, the carnivore diet can reverse the
numerous deficiencies most modern people have. In most people, bones and the brain have shrunk from long term malnutrition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reports are rolling in from near and far that just about all health problems get sorted on the meat diet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beans, peas, grains and other seeds all come packed with substances designed to deter critters from eating them: eg lectins, phytates. You can reduce lectins to safe levels by repeated soaking and disgarding the water, and then HIGH HEAT treatment, so boiling rapidly for at least 10 minutes. You can soak and ferment grains to reduce phytates. Hence Sour dough bread is one of the best ways to consume whole grains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">People with severe gut dysbiosis who suffer terrible conditions like those
mentioned at the outset could give the Carnivore diet a try for a solid month and see what happens. Carnivore eliminates all food additives, Roundup- laced processed foods,
gluten and casein so gives the body a rest from dealing with these toxins. With boosted nutritional status, thousands of people are finding enormous relief on the simple regime of beef, salt and water. Some then experiment by adding back other meats and fish, then progressing to re -introduction of fruit, then vegetables, one food at a time. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">As each food is added, any symptoms are noted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">This
is essentially the GAPS introduction diet, but with GAPS we add home made fermented
vegetable and dairy probiotic cultures
from the beginning, but at first <b>just
the juices</b> of these. No plant fiber is allowed at all while the gut heals and seals on
the nutritious bone broths. But this healing only takes a few weeks usually. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There
are proponents of carnivory that have preferred sticking with nothing but beef, salt and
water for 9 years, to the debilitating disease/s they suffer when trying to add plants
back in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">People trying
GAPS or the all meat, zero carbs diet often discover food allergies they didn’t
know they had, which have been causing their health issues all along. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">In summing
up, my anecdote: I tried a spring cleanse for a month which was essentially vegan .... and at the end I sustained a severe knee injury . Later I tried the carnivore diet and when I finally managed to comply for a few weeks ( it was hard going without fruits ) I noticed at the end a considerable improvement in my energy, mental clarity , mood and joint mobility. It was scary as I thought I would get scurvy and magnesium deficiency so I started eating plants again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;"> Another few weeks of study and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I now know that plants are not the innocent (sometimes super) foods they have been painted. They have chemical defences against being eaten. Plant toxins include the lectins and phytic acid mentioned above but there are more, including: gluten, acylamides, sulphurofanes salicilates, glycoalkaloids and oxylates. Many vegetables are quite new to the human diet. Many suspect the nighshade family of making their knees play up. Dr Georgia Ede has a very interesting website and does great talks and should you wish to follow up more on the toxins in plants go</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdRBFiBWQZQ&t=322s">here</a>. Oxylates are a particular nightmare hardly ever mentioned but Sally K Norton is an authority on this, and the information is startling. <a href="https://sallyknorton.com/">https://sallyknorton.com/</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It turns out that your body doesn't need much magnesium when it is not digesting sugar! Similarly with vitamin C, when you are not dealing with daily plant toxins you dont need much vitamin C ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The main message of this post is DON'T be SCARED of MEAT or FAT. Being a classic slow learner, it has taken several weeks of positive report reading on www.meatheals.com to gain trust in meat and somewhat lose my long held, misplaced trust in fruit and veges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">So I will go on this diet again but not forever, because, as Dr Natasha says, animal foods feed you, plants
cleanse you….and we need both. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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joint deterioration) and depression. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>A life
saving diet</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJlCjayk1HQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJlCjayk1HQ</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Kelly Hogan
,exclusive beef eater for 14 years <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7U8Qv_0Lrk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1nOgUYywnjOMoEJ4iO_pteJuSlAaKV4N_KzpHL80Ak_EF3eSjkZNhVj7A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7U8Qv_0Lrk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1nOgUYywnjOMoEJ4iO_pteJuSlAaKV4N_KzpHL80Ak_EF3eSjkZNhVj7A</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Amber O’herne
is another lady who lost weight, regained her fertility and got better from bi polar with a carnivore diet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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physical performance and joint health , also very enlightening thoughts on how we do science <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3tfLVF7Y0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0l3cKG5idOtFQRVMvvqEcDkjtrcU7cI2ZtODwHpUBHySxJZGnGlyksA6k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3tfLVF7Y0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0l3cKG5idOtFQRVMvvqEcDkjtrcU7cI2ZtODwHpUBHySxJZGnGlyksA6k</a></span></div>
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Merri Bee Organic Fungal Dominated Vermicast ( <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk531625632">MBOFDV</a> !)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oils aint oils, soils aint soils and compost ain't compost! I've heard sawdust and synthetic fertilizer referred to as compost. So how do you tell a really good compost? Plant response may be misleading if synthetic fertilizers have
been snuck into a poor commercial compost. One thing's for sure, any compost wrapped in plastic doesnt even fit the scientific definition of <i>compost </i>which is “an <b><span style="font-size: large;">oxidative</span></b> decomposition of a mix of organic materials”. <i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dr Elaine Ingham.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the same
manner as traditional European bakers closely guard their sourdough culture,
passing it on in the form of a lump of dough to be
treasured down through the generations, Merri Bee Organic Farmacy’s fungal
dominated Vermicast is a treasure containing living organisms most rare and valuable. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since
studying under Dr Elaine Ingham, U S
soil microbiologist, in 2014, we’ve been devoted, (some say obsessed) with
creating quality compost. Knowing the key to quality
is DIVERSITY, we have scoured the seaside, the ancient native forests, visited gifted
long- term practitioners of the composting art, sent off to scientists in America and joined secret societies in
the quest for special microbes. Biodynamic preparations are a recent
addition which has taken our compost to the next level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But the
backbone of our compost production is a huge diversity of <i>green</i> plant materials both native and exotic, a plethora of mature
complex <i>brown </i>materials and a myriad
of high nitrogen materials …..the manure , hair, scales feathers etc from not only
our 8 species of organically fed and managed livestock but untold species of wildlife
both land-based and marine. Interestingly it has been noticed by scientists that Quenda manure makes native plants grow twice as tall . </span></div>
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in the right ratio and at the right moisture content to be an ideal breeding
ground for the organisms which are introduced by inoculating the heap with some compost
from a previous batch. We make our compost mindful of air quality at the time
and needless to say do not use manure from conventional farms which would
likely contain antibiotics, worm drenches and GM, or at least Roundup treated feed. We monitor temperature, turning
when needed to expose all parts of the heap to temperatures above 55 C to kill pathogens
and weed seeds but not exceeding 68 C in order to maintain the beneficial
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couple of years to achieve the Holy Grail of fungal dominance, and as many
years again to breed up significant biomass of fungi, bacteria, protozoa, microarthropods, beneficial
nematodes and composting worms to go
to work on a few tons of new materials a week, gradually turning them into the black
gold colloidal humus you now behold . In the
famous line from Alan Sandler’s Happy Gilmore, “ <i>this is high quality hand made
shi*t</i>” ! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This fact isn't lost on local farmers who have purchased a 20 liter bucket and made a lot of very effective compost tea with it. They state that the results were totally worth the $100 cost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Please don’t
let your Soil Food Web mini critters dry out! Neither should they be left in a waterlogged
state or stored in plastic to go anerobic, nor should they be exposed to excessive
heat or cold suddenly. </span>Care must also be taken not to expose the
organisms to ultra violet light. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If it dries out slowly , some critters will go dormant and can be enticed
to become active again when moisture levels are bought back to something like a
wrung out sponge, but many will die. Neither should you store MBOFFDV for
longer than 6 months as by then the woody debris, ie the fungal foods, will be
digested into humus and your S.F. Web critters will start getting hungry. Rather than being held in storage in a shady place, they
would prefer to be active in the garden where mixed mulches will feed them and living
plant roots provide food through root exudates. Worms can get on with aerating the soil and transforming organic matter into humus, the carbon rich storage place for nutrients and water in the soil. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Merri Bee Vermicast is the ideal inoculant for your own compost heap or worm farm, where the
organisms will happily come out of dormancy and breed in the presence of food,
water and air, when the temperature and humidity is right for their individual
species. You can put a handful of </span>MBOFDV
in a bucket of soil- temperature <b>unchlorinated</b>
water, stir one way a while and then the other, creating a vortex then chaos,
for 5 minutes or so. Most of the organisms should now be swimming in the water. This extract can be poured on your favorite plants. You should see a response in 3
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A twenty litre sack of MBOFDV could be applied to a <b>damp</b> garden bed of about half a square
meter . Make sure it is damp throughout the profile, not just on top. Gardening is
best done in the early morning or at the end of the day, to avoid UV . Mulch
well, plant seeds and or seedlings, water well and stand back! The plant growth
hormones, humic and fulvic acids in MBOFFDV can cause a flourishing that seems
quite magical. The nutrient density of your plants demands you fence out any birds or animals that may raid your crops. The value of this produce in health dollar terms will certainly make it cost-effective to build a fence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Using our vermi cast on your garden will begin
or enhance a process that might take 3 years or more to complete.....the process of transforming
poor, dysfunctional soil into a fully functioning fertile soil. MBOFFDV is a slow
release fertilizer and works as a pesticide and fungicide. It contains predatory
nematodes that feed on root feeding nematodes. The heaving throng of beneficial
aerobic organisms will cover soil particles and plant surfaces, protecting them
from disease and pest. At the same time the VAM Mychorrizal
spores contained in MBOFFDV will germinate, grow towards plant roots, latch on
and begin to grow out into the soil, thereby extending plant roots to obtain so
much more nutrient and even funneling water to the plant. The plant, well fed
with every trace element and macro mineral it needs (which the fungi and
bacteria have unlocked from the sand,silt,pebbles, clay and presented in
plant available form) will resist pest
attack, frost damage and drought. The plant will make sugary root exudates out
of atmospheric CO2 to feed the fungi in exchange for specific minerals it
dissolves from rocks. This means your soil is now a carbon sink feeding your
family nutrient dense foods whilst addressing climate change. WOW! Special pseudomonas bacteria will decompose
toxins. Many of the billion bacteria per
teaspoon full of vermicast will create bio slime or glues which form the microaggregates present in good soil. These "building bricks" of soil are joined by fungi and their glue "glomalin" in to macro aggregates and voila! The all- important crumb structure is created, ensuring
your soil will soon absorb and hold water better, dramatically reducing irrigation costs . At the Farmacy we have
gone from daily watering to weekly or even monthly at the 5 year mark. Placing a
trowel full of MBOFFDV at the bottom of a planting hole is good practice to
build the structure in the deeper layers of your soil. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just a wiff of our
product will start the 3 year process, and will usually give a noticeable plant response in under 3 weeks, but a 50 mm layer of MBOFFDV on any soil will pretty
much immediately transform a difficult, dysfunctional soil into a fertile one. As usual, cost versus
time applies. If you spend a lot, you don’t wait so long. </div>
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500 ml of MBOFFDV costs $5.00 plus postage (express postage to anywhere in Australia ) of $8.55 if required . 3 kgs will cost you $ $22.00 plus postage of $15.00 Fifteen liters weighs approx. 10 kgs, costs $70 and 20 litres $80 and weighs approximately 13 kgs. A cubic meter costs $2000.00<br />
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Just one application
of a compost solution made in a bucket as above will begin the regeneration of good soil as long as you maintain a mix of green living plants, a mulch cover and water.
Those plants could very well initially be weeds. Welcome them, embrace them, be glad they
are hosting your mychorrizal fungi and creating shade and plant residues. Do
not use any icides or synthetic fertilizers but let your greenery grow. Mow or graze them off just before they set seed or go rank<o:p></o:p><br />
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. Soon they will have
improved your soil so much they will not be needed any more and fruit and veges will flourish instead of weeds. It is the trio of soil microbes, animals and plants that co-evolved and built the soil on which all life depends, and all 3 are needed to regenerate deep, loose, fertile soil with ideal PH, good drainage yet water holding capacity, resistance to erosion and the ability to grow plants with health building properties. You and/ or friends
and family will flourish as you eat salads covered in probiotic organisms. They
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We stand by our
product so much so that we will happily eat a spoon full in front of you, rub it
on our face and drink an extract, if you insist. The billion bacteria contained in a teaspoon
are all beneficial as pathogens were killed at 55 during the composting
process. The slime on an earthworm’s
body is a supreme sanitizer and wipes out bad guy e coli and other such pathogens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soil borne probiotics are becoming recognized as having
medical applications. <span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://merribeeorganicfarm.blogspot.com/2018/08/kiran-krishnan-yourfriendly-bacteria.html"> Read more here </a></span></div>
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A man ( it would be) suggested I should just let my let my
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If you would like to learn more about soil regeneration with soil health principles, using a microscope to assess compost, making a compost tea over many acres, and creating
your own quality compost please consider doing our 2 day course "Symphony of the Soil in May" which will be held on May 25th & 26th, 2019. You receive my e book <i><b>Nourishing Soil</b></i> on sign up. Please email for further details merribeefarmacy@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></div>
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MBOFFDV does contain composting worms and eggs and thousands of other soil dwelling species<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">more numerous than humans on the planet. I entrust them to your care. If you treat them well they will bring you great joy through good health from beautiful plants which will in turn attract beautiful birds, insects, darling little reptiles that eat slugs eggs, and many more. Wishing you a thriving inner and outer ecosystem based on the Soil Food Web.</span><br />
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are really happy to receive your empty vermicast sack back for a discounted re - fill. </span>Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-31956056958272812442018-10-30T07:44:00.000-07:002020-01-15T08:15:25.895-08:00Symphony of the Soil <span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-family: "raleway" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.95px;">A forest requires no human maintenance and no inputs of fossil fuel energy, pesticides, herbicides or fertilisers to create an abundance of life. By modelling our edible and medicinal gardens on the principles of a forest, we too can also have low maintenance, low input gardens – gardens with all the diversity, resilience and beauty of natural systems</span><br />
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<span style="color: #545351; font-family: "raleway" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 19.95px;">We have been growing a permaculture here for many years, and severe climate change has been experienced in the time, scientists say to bring back lush and rainy climate we need to plant heaps of vegetation. Dr Christine Jones stressed over and over that we need to have green plants all over the ground all summer, plants of any kind will do. If all you have is weeds, be glad you have something.</span></span><span style="color: #545351; font-family: "raleway" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.95px;"> I've been saying the same. But its highly likely you would prefer strawberries and walnuts to double gees and paddy melons. So, in attempts to grow yummy and nutritional stuff, we came up against the fact that our soils are too poor now to grow anything much but weeds. If you add fertilizers and non wetting agents and any number of other products designed to help grow good looking plants, you in fact make things worse and stuff up the waterways and oceans as well. Plus the produce lacks flavour. Thanks to CC we were struggling to grow food and fodder from 2008 until 2 years ago. We had implemented lots of great strategies but the final (?) piece of the soil improvement puzzle was making really great compost and compost tea.</span><br />
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Dr Dietrich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Klinghardt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>treated 50,000 patients in Germany and the
United States. He is a trail blazer in the health word and Jeffery Smith
introduced him as a “Demi -God” because at many health conferences the queues
go out the door as people line up to hear the latest amazing therapies constantly
being <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unearthed by Dr Klinghardt .<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr K began by stating
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chronic illness has hugely increased</b>
in the last 20 years. The leading cause of death now is no longer heart disease
or cancer but neurological disease. The health span , or the number of years we
have as a healthy individual before we succumb to chronic disease has shrunk to
60 years and is shrinking by another 2 years per annum. So by next year the
“health span “ of a typical human will be 58 years. This rapid decline is due
to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">toxicity in the food chain</b> ,
and electro magnet radiation, or <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">EMR</b>,
the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“electro smog” emitted by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wifi, cordless and mobile phones and the like
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The focus has been very much on glyphosate for those
studying the demise of our health, and Dr Stephanie Seneff was mentioned as a
genius who has been able to explain some of how glyphosate damages the human body.
Stephanie has always been concerned about the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>autism epidemic, as her friend’s child is
autistic, and until she attended a lecture by Proff Don Huber ( an eminent
plant pathologist)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she did not know
autism was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strongly linked to glyphosate
use. Certainly the correlation between rates of autism and use of glyphosate is
extremely close. Professor Don Huber<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>alerted Dr Seneff to some of the consequences of Glyphosate, the active
ingredient in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>many herbicides . Developed
by Monsanto, it has been off patent for 20 years now so is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being made by many companies world wide. Is not
just a herbicide but a crop treatment commonly used now. As with so many
speakers at this conference Dr K’s first advice was that <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>everybody should eat as
organic as possible to minimize exposure. </b>Keep your devices on airplane mode too, as much as poss.</span></div>
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Now what follows may seem over the top to a healthy young
person, and you can stop here, as long as you promise to go organic and GMO
free. But to the many afflicted with a chronic disease I am sure the following
information is vital, so please read on. Dr K had some fascinating facts to
share so please keep reading if you are tempted to think a bit of processed food
isn’t going to kill you. How wrong. Dr Terry Wahls has figured we need to eat 3
heaped platefuls of organic chopped greens a day <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to stay healthy, as well as organ meats ! That’s
a wake up call for everyone, no? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her Ted
talk is even more relevant today than it was when I first posted about it on
this blog years ago. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc&t=305s">See her talk here </a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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The main damage Glyphosate does is to our microbiome. Round
up is dozens of times more potent than glyphosate due to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">adjuvants</b> in it’s formulation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less than 2% of a person is human, the other
98% of us is bacterial DNA. The 2% of us which is human cells may not be
affected as said the Monsanto scientists, as indeed we don’t have the shikimate
enzyme pathway. Microbes however, are very sensitive to the chemical. Same goes
for wifi, it is the microbes that are most harmed during exposure to EMR. We
have evolved to have special microbes in and on all our surfaces: sinuses, skin,
ears, eyes, genitals, in our gut, and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
our brain. Apparently our great intelligence is due to microbes in the brain
and as the glyphosate kills those bacteria our intelligence is diminished (
more anon). By destroying the microbes that co evolved with us, quite simply our
health is ravaged. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Brain and thyroid are 2 places targeted by Round Up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treatment however, should be aimed first at
de-toxing or unburdening the gut microbes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By consuming extracts of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">peat
moss</b> (fermented plant material millions of years old) we find that the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>humic and fulvic acids in the peat moss<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>extract <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the glyphosate out of the gut bacteria,
liberating them. There are only animal studies so far showing this but I for
one am interested.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Glyphosate combines strongly to Aluminum
and Fluoride ( oh great) to lodge in the pineal gland and thyroid, with
devastating effects. We use <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sauna
therapy</b> as a tool to remove the toxic molecules from these sites. </div>
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chlorella, a marvelous algae, is excellent at binding mobilized toxins. Chlorella
has been <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">shown to detoxify mecury, lead, cadmium and pesticide residues.
Similarly, brown seaweed called </span><span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Laminaria Japonica (Holu Kombu) has these
properties and has been fashioned into a product called </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Modifilan. It contains <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and radioactive elements to its molecules and secreting them from the
body.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to stimulate the immune system. Promoting apoptosis, Fucoidan can help to
eliminate naturally harmful cells from organism.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A warning about mobilizing terrible toxins</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">: reactions in some people can be hard core:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a forum I found the following from Dr
Klinghardt on chlorella <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Side effects: most side effects reflect the toxic effect
of the mobilized metals<br />
which are shuttled through the organism. This problem is instantly avoided by<br />
significantly increasing the chlorella dosage, not by reducing it, which would<br />
worsen the problem (small chlorella doses mobilize more metals then are bound<br />
in the gut, large chlorella doses bind more toxins then are mobilized).<br />
<br />
Some people have problems digesting the cell membrane of chlorella. The enzyme<br />
cellulase resolves this problem. Cellulase is available in many health food
stores<br />
in digestive enzyme products.<br />
<br />
Taking chlorella together with food also helps in<br />
some cases, even though it is less effective that way. C.vulgaris has a thinner<br />
cell wall and is better tolerated by people with digestive problems. Some<br />
manufactures have created cell wall free chlorella extracts (NDF, PCA) which<br />
are very expensive, less effective - but easily absorbed."<br />
<br />
Good luck! The other thing I use that is similiar to chlorella to detox is
modifilin. Its a bit more gentle”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So , if chlorella treatment gives
you pain, try the seaweed Moifilin, or another binder such as <b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lava Vitae </span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(high silica Zeolite)
This can be given <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in addition to
chlorella (or instead, if chlorella is not yet tolerated): start ¼ teaspoon
twice daily between meals, slowly increase to 4 times/day away from all food or
vitamins. Available from <a href="http://www.kiscience.com/"><span style="color: #2c2e61;">KiScience.com</span></a>. With zeolite Dr K says some are
some brands are toxic, but some a great and the KiScience brand is approved by
himself. Gosh, coming back from poisoning is never easy is it. </span><span style="color: #474747; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">For
further information on de toxing and chlorella visit <a href="https://klinghardtinstitute.com/protocols/klinghardt-detox-support-protocol/">https://klinghardtinstitute.com/protocols/klinghardt-detox-support-protocol/.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The procedure to remove glyphosate is to load people with
chlorella ( for dosage see link above. If unavailable the maximum is 40x
200mcg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tablets ) 5 minutes after taking
coriander. This should be about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 and a
half hours before getting home for the day, then get them to exercise until
they sweat, then stick them in a sauna for five or 10 minutes. In the first 5
minutes in a sauna 90% of the fat and water soluble glyphosate and other toxins
will come out through the sweat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
should then have a cool shower (15 degrees C, ARRRHH! ) to close the skin <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pores, whilst lathering<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with a safe soap to remove the toxin from
their skin before the glyphosate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>re-absorbs, which it wants to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other component
to this de tox is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">oil pulling</b>, where
you take a tablespoon of organic olive or coconut oil and swish it around your
mouth for 5 minutes. This is part of Ayurvedic medicine and old Russian
protocols. Apparently when fat soluble toxins are mobilized they are more
difficult to get out than water soluble ones. The whole of our blood supply
circulates through our gums several times every 15 minutes. So vigorous chewing
and swishing of the oil around the gums creates an ion exchange membrane, where
the fat-soluble toxins can leave from the blood and enter the oil in your
mouth. So of course, you must spit out the pesticide laden oil after 5 minutes
of this active swishing. Dr Klinghardt recommends one does the oil swishing
while in the sauna to save time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Another method of de toxing from Glyphosate Dr K describes as
exciting due to its efficacy, it is by using ingesting a homeopathic dose of
glyphosate. You can use homeopathic copper to drive excess copper out of the
body, a homeopathic dose of aluminum moves out aluminum… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but how do you get a homeopathic dose of Glyphosate?
Russian and German colleagues know that nearly everyone has glyphosate in their
urine, especially after exercising. So the therapy consist of weeing into a
bottle, washing out the bottle with water a few times, then filling the bottle
again and drinking it. Several studies have shown this efficacy of urine
therapy. It was practiced in Russia years ago. Napolean went to war in Russia,
and lost most ( 90%) of his soldiers to Bartonella, but in the hand to hand
combat with the Russians, the Russians lost only 5% of their men to this
infection. They were resistant because their General Korsakoff was a homeopath
who directed them to do urine therapy to drive out the toxin from their body.
There is virtually no urine left and there is no taste in the water, but this
is apparently a powerful remedy. Not exactly charming, but cheap and easy to
do! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I will add here what has been said on this blog before, that
juicing before breakfast and 3 times weekly Epsom salts baths or foot baths are
safe and gentle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chelating procedures
recommended for children by the great Dr Natasha Cambell McBride. Slow and
steady wins the race. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The force that blocks our de-tox enzymes the most is
exposure to wi- fi in the home. Go back to a landline phone. Use an ethernet
cable, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and/or reduce the time your
router is on to the bare minimum. Certainly turn it off at night, as after all
it is like having a mobile phone tower in your home. Shield your house from the
neighbour’s beams. Dr K says “It is absolutely stunning how people recover”
when EMR is removed. The ideal treatment for any illness is a combination of
bio -physics and biology. Russians are more into healing with magnetic fields,
infra red light, sound waves etc. They do not expect to take pills to get
better, interestingly Americans are the opposite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Autistic kids often have no glyphosate in their urine. This
is because their body has no capacity to excrete the toxin. As we go through
the arduous treatments outlined above we see a little glyphosate appearing in
urine and hair samples as the gut microbes responsible for elimination are
built up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A trickle becomes a flow, “you
know you are doing the right thing, and the child gets better” says Dr K. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The liver health is closely interwoven with gut microbes
health. We can point to the fact that if we give someone with liver failure a
fecal transplant, they get better. What we see commonly is the bacteria needed for
liver health have been killed by the glyphosate. It is the sick or absent
bacteria that are the reason fatty liver syndrome develops. Significant affects
occur on the liver, on the pancreas, the gut and ultimately the brain due to
microbe decimation. There is meant to be a “cross talk” between the micro<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RNA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and the immune system. The communication isn’t happening because the
microbiome is damaged by glyphosate, so we get devastating immune system
dysfunction , eg: we loose immune tolerance, we get allergic to everything,
symptomatic to Epstein Barr, to Lyme’s,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>retro viral activation…..all hell breaks loose when we loose the
microbiome, the most precious thing we have, the 98% of us which is not us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The way our DNA is transcribed is regulated by the
epigenome, and the major part of the epigenome is the micro RNA, which is
created by the bugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>98% of the micro
RNA that programs our DNA (ie which turns on and off our genes) is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from bugs in us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not separate
from the food that we eat, because our microbiome changes according to what we
eat. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The RNA from plants</b> also programms
our DNA. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many
of us turn to natural therapies in later life, most often because we are
diagnosed with something serious.…what a pity we didn’t always live with health
in mind and pass on the best version of our DNA and genetic make up to our
decendents. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So it is very good to go foraging daily in an organic garden or
permaculture from childhood on.<br />
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The plant leaves in an organic garden or farm focused on
soil health are covered in beneficial bacteria which also play a powerfully
protective role in us, just as they do on the leaf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is where we get back to the concept of the
peat moss mentioned in the beginning….. and the concept of ancient soils and
the sets of microbes they contain which have long disappeared from the farming
landscape. At least 2 other speakers at the conference were selling a product
extracted from ancient soil. Before spending the big freight $ to obtain a
bottle of ‘’Just Thrive” or “Restore” I might <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>look at coal from Collie under the microscope!
I know<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Collie</b> was a special place to
the Aboriginal people and one of the very few people on Earth who can tell you
what Collie was like before it was a coal field spoke to me at a protest rally
we attended in Muja 14 years ago. This elder had grown up fishing in the Collie
River which teamed with sea food at the time. OMG imagine her sadness. Even
fishing in the ocean near the mouth of the Collie River miles away in Bunbury
today is banned as seafood there is contaminated with chemicals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If fulvic and humic acids do for us what they
do for the plant kingdom I am thrilled, because Ive seen firsthand what these
gigantic carbon molecules can do. Check out our corn experiment which trailed a
spoonful of my friend Haydn Gunningham’s magical compost. As a modern day
composter I hope I have introduced some of the best ancient microbes the planet
can offer (from the remnants of the old growth West Australian Eucalypt forest)
to our compost so that they may turn todays organic matter into humus. Humus is
a rich butter-like colloidal soil compound full of humic and fulvic acids which
are known to decompose recalcitrant pesticide residues such as heptachlor,
dieldrin and DDT, among other highly beneficial effects in soil. That eating
humus could have the same beneficial
effect in us is astounding. The word “Humans” means of and for the
Earth. May we humans return to serving the Earth in great numbers ASAP. One
thing anyone reading this could do is contact the McGowan government and get
them to halt the destruction of these ancient forests today. I could write to
them daily. Not only is our Jarrah forests being decimated to provide the fuel
for a Japanese silicon smelter, the prescribed <b>burning</b> and burning of the
aftermath of logging is contributing enormously to climate change. Air quality
directly affects soil microbes and compost quality too. Less than 17% of the trees cut down end up as
sawn timber. This outrage must stop. See WA Forest Alliance for further
information. <span style="background: white; color: #006621; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://waforestalliance.org/">waforestalliance.org</a></span> But I have digressed from the interview ….<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are not separate from the food that we eat. The healing
properties of many herbs are actually due to the sets of microbes on their
leaves. Dr K’s brother is a psychiatrist, and he shared the results of several
studies on the effect on depression<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
St John’s Wort compared to Prozac. Half of the studies showed the St John’s
Wort had the dramatic healing effects on <b>depression</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the herb is known for. The other half showed
no effect at all. It turned out the that in the studies where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the fresh leaves were consumed, the healing
was vastly superior to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prozac. Studies
where tinctures (where the leaves are soaked in alcohol)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were used had no effect at all. I will just
insert a warning here that St Johns Wort is similar to SSRI anti depressants in
that there is a small number (5%) of patients with over methylation issues
causing their depression, who react very badly to both. See my relevant blog
post for further information by searching in the top left search bar. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So the healing properties of dandelion are because of the
bacteria on the leaves rather than the nutrients found in the leaves. This is an
emerging science which brings to light that everyone should have a herb garden.
These bacteria are talking to our gut bacteria. A couple of papers are out now
on this topic, one looked at Echinacea and found superior healing effects
occurred after ingestion of fresh leaves. When we eat salads, we get very
little nutrient from it. We cannot absorb much of the nutrient in the raw food
because the fiber is indigestible to us, and there is little nutrient to start
with ( compared to animal products for instance).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we absorb less than 5% of the nutrients in
salads BUT!!! the leaves you consume are covered in healthy bacteria, locked on
in a biofilm which isn’t easy to wash off. This is dependent of course on how
it is grown [conventional<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>produce may not
have any bugs, or worse, be populated with bad e coli, salmonella etc, opportunists which thrive in the absence of competition. This
is why people are increasingly getting food poisoning from factory farmed
foods. BW] A lot of people who have clearly been exposed to that ubiquitous
herbicide are populated by Clostridium Difficile ( C Diff) golden staph and so
fourth and the good bugs in them have gone. Glyphosate selects out the good
bugs to kill! Anti bacterial soaps being forced on many kindy kids as Education Dept policy apparently act in the same way, targeting the beneficials and leaving the pathogens alone. Perhaps this is why they are known endocrine disrupters?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Neurological disease such as Alzheimers, cancers below the
diaphragm, as well as thyroid cancer are all linked to glyphosate use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Cancer Alley” <span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">is
an area along the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Mississippi River</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> between </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana" title="Baton Rouge, Louisiana"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Baton Rouge</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">New Orleans</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Parishes" title="River Parishes"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">River Parishes</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Louisiana</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, which contains numerous industrial plants. Locations in
this area with clusters of cancer patients have been covered by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media" title="News media"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">news media</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, leading to the "Cancer Alley" moniker.</span> Wherever
GMO round up ready crops or big areas of wheat, legumes, sugar and potatoes are
grown we find high levels of disease because <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>these are sprayed to dessicate the crops as a
pre harvest treatment . In terms of infant mortality the highest number of
babies who die on the first day of life per pregnancy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is in the United States, the country <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the highest rate of exposure to the herbicide (and
wi f?) Death from dementia in women has increased 660 % in the last 20 years.
Serious data points, and Dr K says electro smog and glyphosate are entirely
linked to Parkinsons in men and Alzheimers in women. According to a court
ruling we cannot Round Up <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>caused this
but have to say that “correlation does not equal causation”. However causation
is scientifically near impossible to prove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a clinician, Dietrich says “Let’s use common sense”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sees daily in his practice that when glyphosate
has been moved out, a cancer goes away or an autistic child starts talking for
the first time….he knows this is not just correlation. He has experienced that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sickest people show no glyphosate in their
urine until de tox practices are implemented. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The only reason we are in this mess is that the medical and
science and agronomy associations, the regulatory bodies, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the media, the scientific journals,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>etc have all been invaded by the chemical
industry. “How long did it take for tobacco to be accepted as carcinogenic?” he
asks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tiny amount of Glyphosate lodged
in the pineal gland will give you insomnia for the rest of your life and insomnia
leads to cancers and many other diseases, when will there be a public outcry
against this substance so cheerfully dispensed ? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.farmgate.online/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fotolia_104167582_XS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="424" height="212" src="https://www.farmgate.online/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fotolia_104167582_XS.jpg" width="320" /></a>The sad thing about glyphosate is it was first patented as a
chelator and an antibiotic, and it aims to decimate the life in the soil, and
the vitality of the food. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spinach</b>
used to be a good source of iron as Pop Eye the sailor man knew, but
conventional spinach now has NO iron content at all! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr Klinghardt <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has so
much knowledge and integrates it to bring us amazing understandings. He spoke about
a 600 page report commissioned by the German government. Fritz Albert Pop is a
leading physicist who had already published papers about how you could measure
the vitality of food by it’s light emissions . He was commissioned to study the
difference in terms of light emissions between GM and organic food. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GM had a dramatically less light, and the
light<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was also distorted. Fritz<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>handed over his report to a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>government official who read it then reported
to her superior. She was let go of that day, the study was shelved and has
never been made public. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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A study was done
on bio photons coming from many species of animal’s brains. Rats are a smart
creature but their brains give off one single bio photon per minute that can be
measured outside<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the brain. In the human
brain, one single neuron gives off several million bio photons per second! Bio
photons are intended to communicate….with what or who ?</div>
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Who knows as yet. But
what we do know is that without the bacteria that are meant to live in our
brain, these bio photon emissions cease, and our intelligence fails to develop.
That microbes are responsible for what makes us so special on this planet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is mind blowing to me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Human endogenous retro viruses” is the direction Dr
Klinghardt’s work is going. Awakening dormant retro viruses which have been
kept dormant in us for hundreds of thousands of years by the beneficial gut
bacteria we co- evolved with, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but are
now wiped out……hmmm ….what a scary concept. Perhaps the subject of a future
blog? Jeffery Smith used the analogy of a world war where the Jedhi’s ( good
bacteria ) are losing. All of their knowledge and intelligence and good will is
being dismantled in people <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>consuming
glyphosate. This could be a really depressing conversation if we did not have
the de tox protocol as outlined above. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr K has been involved in experiments where a certain pest
is decimating a crop field, and a single individual of the species responsible, say a beetle, is killed and placed in a laser beam. The beam<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is then waved over the field. Within 24 hours this “death signal” has
effectively removed all beetles from the crop. Wow! There are much more
intelligent ways to deal with bugs than chemicals. The laser treatment works
for pathogenic bacteria and fungi as well. Farm chemicals are completely out- dated states Dr Klinghardt. His friend, a German soil professor,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has developed an Old Mayan method of lacto fermentation of manure which turns it into the richest soil within 3 weeks. So many better ways! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The future of crop protection and fertilization is in physics and
biology , not chemistry. Sadly scientists developing these new and better techniques
are scared for their life about speaking up,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>as is Dr K. Many of his colleagues have been found at the bottom of a
river with bullet holes in the chest.<br />
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The anticipation is with Round up and other microbial poison
strategies out there , the devolution in the human race many of us have
observed , ( eg. numbers of autistic kids double every 5 years ) will continue.
Life expectancy has peaked and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is now
going down. We are allowing things to be messed up before we even understand
them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Biodynamic and organic farming is all about fostering the healthy microbes in
the soil, on the plant and in our gut. Said Dr Klinghardt, lets look not at how
Glyphosate damages the liver or the thyroid or the brain, lets look at what it
does to the microbes, because this is a far deeper damage. Once these microbes
are extinct from our body they are very hard to get back. This is why Dr
Natasha recommends that chronically ill people consume daily probiotics for the
rest of their life. Dietrich Klinghardt said “Glyphosate is pretty much
responsible for every modern illness.“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
final <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recommendation is that we
disconnect from wi fi and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">re- connect
with Nature</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all need to spend as
much time in natural unspoilt places on our Earth. Find them, commune with the
microbes there, and be in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your happy
place. With that I will turn off my informative Wi Fi and go to my happy place
in the compost rich soil, and grow you all some more greens for juicing. <o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-1130369983242225502018-08-21T03:20:00.000-07:002018-08-22T01:13:55.777-07:00<br />
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Kiran Krishnan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ Your
Friendly Bacteria are your Greatest Health Ally”<o:p></o:p><br />
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Kiran is a self- confessed geek who has been researching the
gut microbiome for the last 12 years, working at product development and
clinical research. He has worked in the microbiology/ food safety area for 20
years. He wants to understand the role bugs play in wellness. He has 11 human
clinical trials on his probiotic formulation going on currently. The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vast majority of probiotics on sale are based
on assumptions that a collective effect is of benefit, when only the individual
probiotics have been studied, whilst the combination of several of these in a
pill have not been studied. As Kiran says, we don’t know if they compete with
each other or are antagonistic to each other. I think his approach is much
needed.<o:p></o:p><br />
Humans are fascinatingly complex large animals. Our bodies can adapt to abuse and just keep on coping and adapting and coping some more. Our brains are particularly amazing.</div>
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How is it that humans are so spectacular? In 2007 the human
microbiome project was begun with a $150 million contribution of funding by the
U.S. government. It’s been found that we use 3.5 million bacterial genes for
adaptions including increasing the capacity of our brain. We have incorporated
bacterial DNA in a way that prevents disease in a few different ways: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1) by coding for hormones and proteins ( eg
serotonin is produced by gut bacteria) 2) by using Micro RNA which can turn off
and on genes 3) by bacterial metabolites <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our bodies need. Eg cellulase: we eat plants
made of cellulose. We can not make the cellulase enzyme to digest them but our
colonies of bacteria can. We are omnivores who can eat a whole range of things
but often we can only get benefit from them because bacteria in us process and
break down the food. We are picking up DNA from new bacteria all the time.
Japanese people have developed a capability to digest seaweed thanks to their
ingestion of related bacteria with sushi. <o:p></o:p></div>
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M<b>odern life</b> is attacking our microbiome. Think WiFi, antibiotics,
food additives (preservatives colours and flavours) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>body care and cleaning products<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( shampoos,cosmetics, cleansers and perfumes with
rare exceptions are all toxic) and of course the farm chemical residues and GMos
in all processed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“foods ”. Birth by
C-section means baby does not get inoculated with good bacteria from the
parents through the natural birth canal and this is devastating to the child’s
future health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immunization and formular
feeding only further the damage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now we are realizing how many diseases are related to a
damaged microbiome. Alzheimer’s , Parkinsons diabetes, obesity and mood disorders
are the result<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> of a </span>messed up or “dysbiotic” microbiome which can begin a disease process way before
the signs of disease show up. For eg every Parkinson’s sufferer had
constipation for many years before the neurological symptoms began.<br />
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<b>Fecal
transplants</b> FT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( implanting the fecal
matter from a healthy person into someone with a chronic illness) have revealed
a lot of new information: A very thin lady who ran marathons regularly suffered
from colitis. Doctors wanted to perform surgery on her bowel. Someone suggested
a FT, which she went ahead with. Her colitis cleared up within a few days but a
month later she had gained a lot of weight. On the same diet and the same
exercise routines the lady became chubby for the first time in her life. It
turned out the donor of the FT was overweight. In another case, a rat received
a FT from a patient with Alzheimer’s and autism who walked in circles all day.
The rat began to walk in circles all day too. Another patient had a strange
gait all his life. A FT cured the palsy and corrected his gait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another example involves an autistic child
who had no speech. Two weeks after a FT he began speaking normally. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kiran attends about 45 conferences a year on the microbiome and
absorbs and reports on the latest scientific findings. <b>Increasing the diversity</b>
of our microbiome is deemed to be most important. This word <i>diversity</i> is
popping up everywhere. Examples from my world: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are finding that a mix of 17 species of cover
crop plants makes a way healthier soil than just 3;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the more diversity in a garden the more
resilient it is, the more diverse ingredients in a compost heap the better the
compost grows plants. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the
advice is to <b>eat a varied diet</b>. They say that our ancestors ate 400 to 600
types of food throughout the year, while we tend to subsist on about 30 foods,
available year round. My personal hunch is that a small range of food types is
OK when grown in a very healthy environment , (ie a soil alive with large
numbers and great diversity of microbes)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These foods of provenance will be covered in really good bacteria and
perhaps <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>give you the huge diversity of
bacteria you require to ingest for health on a daily basis. Why do I think this?
Well, Weston A Price on his travels to isolated native people in the early
1900s described incredibly healthy folk in Swiss glacial villages eating only
rye bread and cheese and butter for most of the year, but the butter was
extremely high in vitamin A. These people had no fruit and vegetables in their
diet at all as they lived above the snow line and the summer was very short.
They had only a little beef and milk to break the monotony of their cheese and
ryebread staples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also visited
Islands north of Scotland where all that would grow was oats, and the people
were again in superb health, on nothing but oats and fish. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Within the M’Biome there seems to be KEYSTONE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A study done on the antibiotic Amoxyllin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>showed that an hour after a dose of Amoxyllin, 99% of gut bacteria in
humans are decimated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after 12 hours
the bacteria begin to bounce back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, the question is what types of bacteria and in what ratios? Usually
nasty opportunistic bacteria breed up into large populations in the absence of
competition and this is how health problems arise. The researcher very
interestingly found that each of many bacteria he incubated individually with
the antibiotic survived, but a collection of these different bacteria all died
on exposure to the AB. Kiran hypothesizes that there are “key stone” species
that are like pillars that hold up and protect the entire microbiome….perhaps
they produce metabolites that most of the M’biome use? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it seems that the M’biome functions as an
elaborate ecology, and if you kill some significant species the whole lot
collapses. Like if earth worms died out due to climate change, or honey bees became extinct due to pesticides, where would this leave us? Struggling with no wetting soil, raging CC and a very limited diet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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different microbiomes because our mother’s gut floras were different. There is
only a 30% similarity between people’s microbiomes. One thing that is the same,
we are exposed to good bacteria in the environment that have the capacity to
survive our gastric systems ( most bacteria coming in do not survive this) and
once in the gut, hatch out of their cacoon that may have protected them for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>millions of years prior to entry into our
mouth. So they hatch in the small intestine and go to work for us. Some of the
best bacteria for soil and us are in the Bacillus family. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One example is Bacillus Subtilis. Their
natural home is in the gut but out in the environment it forms an endospore, a thick
calcified armour, where it may survive the passage of time thorough all sorts
of extremes of weather/PH/ Salt concentration, in other words….” Habitat”. Some
of these endospores have been found still viable in 250 million year old salt
crystals. They have been successfully plated (brought back to living, breeding
condition on a petri dish) after all that time. Another Jurassic Park- type
event occurred when the stomach contents of a fossilized honey bee encased in
amber was drilled out and some organisms were successfully plated after 50
million years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The amazing powers of
bacillus don’t stop there. Kiran went back into war records to discover that
the German army fighting in North Africa were being decimated by dysentery.
They noticed when the locals started feeling sick they ran and looked for dried
camel dung and ate it! They would get better very quickly. Camel dung was sent
back to Germany and microbes identified. Bascillus Subtilis was discovered in
the dung and found <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be protective
against dysentery. It has been marketed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>as a cure for dysentery for the last 60 years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
these Bacillus are like the Jeddhi knights who get through our stomach juices
in their protective armour, then <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lodge
in the duodenum to emerge and fix our gut flora for us. They do a thing called Quorum
Sensing …they find over grown and pathogenic bacteria, sit next to them and
produce about 25 kinds of antibiotics to kill them off. They then produce
substances like prebiotics which breed up the good bugs that are left. These
are amazing bugs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another keystone pillar species is Bacillus Clausii, a
fabulous bacillus which has been around for millions of years also. B Clausii <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has been a prescription drug since 1958, it
fights salmonella and upper respiratory infections . It very <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>powerful at boosting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our mucosal immune system . It up-regulates
your immune system and fights off bad bacteria and has been marketed in Latin
America and Europe since 1958.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Consuming fermented vegetables as in sauerkraut and Kimchee
on a daily basis is like taking probiotc pills but far greater numbers and often
diversity of bacteria is found <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in fermented foods. The
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>veges<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>have to be organic to have the lactobacillus on them that starts the
fermentation off in the right way. Home made probiotics are cheaper of course
than pharmacy pills. Sometimes though, very rare, very beneficial microbes are
discovered and put into pills for sale. I may buy some. Getting great sets of
organisms given to us by friends such as Haydn Gunningham and Brent Burns was a
turning point for our composting operations in the early days, their donations really
helped us to make a You Beaut compost forever more, as did collecting a
teaspoon of soil from old growth forest, so indeed , why not open up
my digestive tract to a potentially wonderful new species which may colonize
it and do me a world of good? <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is also important to consume PRE biotic foods, which
contain the indigestible fiber which make it through to our colon to feed the
colonies of bacteria which use it for food. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fermenting this resistant starch , the good
bugs turn <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it into beneficial acids like
butyrate, as mentioned in a previous blog on the Dr Stephen Hawrelak<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>workshop. Looking at traditional cultures, (
although not many are left) may reveal more practices which boost the
microbiome. Indigenous peoples ate a huge range of food and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also did not (or do not ) live in a society
that is based around killing bacteria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Glyphosate is an insane example of this, it is an antibiotic which kills
the good bacillus preferentially, but leaves the negative E coli, salmonella
and botulism to thrive ( and proliferate they will, as they are unchecked by the absent good guy bacteria ). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Inside us is a surface area 150 times higher than our skin,
covered in mucous which is populated by zillions of bacteria. These trap
substances coming in from the environment, examine them make decisions : welcome them through, tolerate them or mount a fight ? This first thick band of
bacteria living in the mucosal layer are a protective coating for the gut
lining, which is only one cell thick ( the lining cells are called epithelial cells) .
There is another band of denser, thicker mucous called Mucin 2 right next to the
epithelial cells which is devoid of bacteria, it is a “no go zone”. This layer
can be broken down by bad bacteria. Dysbiotic flora can make holes between the epithelial
cells, and BT toxin from GM corn can make holes right through the cells. In either
case we call this condition "leaky gut". <o:p></o:p></div>
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Good bacteria actually feed us the proteins which form tight
secure junctions between membrane cells throughout our body. If the epithelial
cells sense any bacteria in Mucin 2, or bacterial components or half digested
food, clostridia,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>toxins<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>etc near them, they freak out and call up an army to
fight them. The ensuing battle causes INFLAMMATION which further destroys the
gut lining as collateral damage. Lipo poly saccharides (
LPS) is a toxin produced by pathogenic bacteria, which enters the blood stream and causes a inflammation response. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Chrones disease, irritable bowel disorder and many more digestive disorders are
driven by damage to the mucosal immune system. The genes for the manufacture
of the 40 proteins that create tight junctions between the cells are turned off
and on by bacteria. The structure of the mucous layer is controlled by
bacteria. This bacterial layer is called by Kiran “Ground Zero of disease” because the
root cause of the all chronic disease is due to problems in the mucosal layer
and tight junctions in the gut. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In a double blind placebo controlled trial <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of his probiotic formula they took <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>normal, healthy, young (av.23 year old) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">college students</b> in the prime of their
lives. Surprisingly 55% of them were found to have leaky gut. The researchers
got them to eat a meal (from McDonalds I believe) and soon after measured the
inflammatory cytokines in their blood. Chemical markers of inflammation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the form of 12 kinds of cytokines go through the roof whenever someone with leaky gut eats a meal. "CD 14" activation
has now been shown to be the primary driver of many disorders, it sets off the
pathology that causes most illness in fact. Traces of CD 4 inflammation marker were still in the blood of the students with leaky gut 2 weeks later.......it took more than 2 weeks to recover from that one meal.
In real life however we keep going though the drive thru….. we keep eating
these meals, and the body never recovers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kiran asked himself <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Can
we ingest a bacteria<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that heals and
seals the gut lining? If we can do that and stop the flow of toxins into the
bloodstream, can we allow the body to recover? ” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the college students there was a 60%
reduction in the inflammation markers after 30 days on the probiotic. No
dietary interventions were done in the study. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A month on Kiran’s Probiotic also <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>led to a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>40% reduction of tricglycerides ( liver fat),
meaning the liver was not under the same burden as before in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trying to get the triglycerides out of the
blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the subject of the liver,
there was a study done on rats . They were fed the weakest solution of
glyphosate, it was in parts per trillion. The rats developed non alcoholic
fatty liver disease ( NAFLD). The FDA and FSANZ (food safety authorities) allow
humans to be exposed to levels of glyphosate 470,000 times higher than the
levels which gave the rats NAFLD, when adjusted for body weight. NAFLD leads to
liver cancer, cirrhosis of the liver etc. The gut permability changed MCP1 ,
which indicates inflammation in the gut lining. The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>scientists <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saw a significant reduction in MCP1 after 30
days on the probiotic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inflammatory
cytokines are the driver of Parkinson’s, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and so on.
Bacillus Subtilis reduced inflammatory markers such as CD 14 cytokines and triglycerides,
signalling a significant reduction in mucosal immune response. <o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Obesity </b></div>
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Another aspect of the study was they looked at the hormone
Ghrelin, the hunger hormone that signals you to eat. It should drop <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when the stomach is full . A constant high
level of this hormone is linked to obesity. When the students were hungry
Ghrelin was measured as “high “which is normal, but a 2000 calorie meal did
nothing to drop the Ghrelin level in the student’s blood. After 30 days on the
probiotic formula that Kiran is testing,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>this hormone <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dropped by 50% after
eating the same 2000 calorie meal, meaning the communication between the gut
and the brain via the vagus nerve seems to have been re-established. Lipopolysaccharide
is a toxin produced by bad bacteria and is known to interfere with
communication between the gut and the brain, and the ghrelin signals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seratonin plays a role here too, because as
it increases, this triggers those “stop eating“ signals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bacillus Clausii and B Subtilis both work to re- establish
regulatory T cells. These cells dampen an over enthusiastic immune response (
the cause of asthma, excema, hay fever and food allergies all the way up to
auto immune disease like Lupus, Chrones disease etc) Seratonin production is
also stimulated by our champion spore forming bacilli. They also boost
populations of another group of good bacteria, the Akkermansia . Akker monitors
the outside world . Lean people with low inflammation , good over all immunity ,
who are at low risk for heart disease and who enjoy longevity have high
populations of Akkermansia inside them. <o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Antioxidants</b> </div>
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One more hero in the good army within is Bacillus Indicus.
It is a first class carotenoid producer, meaning it takes your food and turns
it into powerful antioxidants like anthocyanins, Luteins, alpha and beta
carotein and Astaxanthin.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;">A whopping $5 million Euros worth of studies were conducted to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;">discover the </span>bacteria that produce disease- fighting, bioavailable, very potent antioxidants. </h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;">What’s good about antioxidants?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;">In the gut , having high levels of Anti-Oxidants there will help us deal with ageing, inflammatory bowel disorders, bowel and other cancers, mental illness, all of which result from oxidative stress. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">The "apple" or natural version of these carotenoids is created by Bacillus Indicus. It </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">10 X more powerful in terms of its antioxidant capability than the antioxidants available in shops. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">The apple version as opposed to synthetic versions of carotenoids </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">is fat soluble and water soluble, which improves absorption by the body.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"> We were told to eat our veges for vitamin A, but in fact </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"> humans are not good at extracting carotenoids from foods….we can eat a ton of carrots but get very little carotenoids from them. However if we have the B Indicus at work within us, we have an antioxidant factory creating potent and bioavailable antioxidants every day. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;">This is natures hard core antioxidant. It was discovered after looking at pink animals: pink Salmon, flamingos, krill and prawns obtain their eye-catching coloration either by eating shrimp (which feed on astaxanthin-rich algae, or eating the algae directly. However they all turned out to have the Bacillus Indicus in their gut as well, which produce so much carotenoids that they are expressed on their skin as bands of orangey pink colour. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "source sans pro"; font-size: 16px;">A bit more about the amazing <b>Astaxanthin</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "source sans pro"; font-size: 16px;">Scientists say that astaxanthin benefits include anti-diabetic, anti-obesity, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging and immune system-enhancing properties, and natural healers may advise it to improve vision, ease joint pain, enhance heart health and even minimize facial wrinkles! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "source sans pro"; font-size: 16px;">The outstanding <b>antioxidant</b> capacity of astaxanthin has been estimated by scientists to be 6,000 times more powerful than vitamin C, 800 times more powerful than the enzyme CoQ10, and 150 times more powerful than anthocyanins (the beneficial bluish-purple pigments found in blueberries).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "source sans pro"; font-size: 16px;"> It enhances gap-junction channels and improves the vital ability of healthy cells to communicate with each other -an essential function in inhibiting cancer development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apoptosis is the programmed destruction of damaged or dysfunctional cells. However, cancer can elude this beneficial process – meaning that its cells can survive and multiply unaffected by apoptosis.</span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reinstating the mechanism for apoptosis is what we are after, and </span><span style="font-family: "source sans pro"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"> studies have shown that astaxanthin promotes apoptosis in both oral and liver cancer cells.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As Jeffery Smith points out, the number 1 reported
improvement or reversal of disease when switching to an organic diet is that
digestive health improves. Specific negative impacts of GMOS and Round Up seems
to be gut dysbiosis. With the help of star bacilli <span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">the dysbiosis may be able to be reversed.</span></h3>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mitochondrial health and
the ageing process<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Aging is driven by Oxidative Stress. Pathologists looked at cells
of a 90 years old and of a 5 year old <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
asked “what is the difference between these individuals?” In the 90 year old,
95% of their mitochondria were dysfunctional. When energy (ATP)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is produced from glucose and fatty acids in
the mitochondria within each of our cells, a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>byproduct is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the formation of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“super oxides” . These are like heat to your
car engine. They have to be quenched by antioxidants , which are like the oil
in your engine. If the oil is not there, the engine will be destroyed by heat.
If anti oxidants are not in the cell, the mitochondrial “engine” may be
damaged. Glutathione, peroxidase, and other antioxidants produced by B indicus
reduce the damage to the mitochondria. Who knew products of the microbiome help
the mitochondria in all our cells? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we
are killing the engines of our cells, lethargy may lead on to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dementia and vascular diseases such <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heart disease. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A study in Italy showed that Round Up ready soy beans <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fed to mice accelerated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the aging process .<o:p></o:p></div>
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Amongst the 11 clinical trials <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being carried out on Kiran’s probiotic product
“ Just Thrive” there are studies on acne, gum disease, rheumatoid arthritis ,
diabetes, and more. The break down in the mucosal lining starts the damage to
so many systems in the body, as you can see by this seemingly unrelated list.
Thrive probiotic contains the 4 endospores of Bacillus we have looked at above.
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I was very impressed with Kiran , he is a real bacteria
nerd. If I was going to buy a probiotic off anyone, it would be him. He is
showing with study after study that by using these keystone species we can
recover from exposure to Round Up. He gives the credit to Nature and says “we
are just smart enough to have respect for nature”. Such a different attitude to
the Biotech scientists who operate under false assumptions and in ignorance
whilst thinking all the while they are clever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Im guessing you are a bit of a nerd to have made it through this
article. Kiran will be publishing studies on the effects of Round Up on the
microbiome very soon, and I will be ringside when he announces results. I will pass the findings on to
you. Thanks Jeffery Smith, thank you Kiran Krishnan. Please email me for how to
order "Just Thrive" at a special discount. We can share the freight. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I just purchased the recordings of Jeffery Smith's</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <b><u><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">Healing from GMOs and Round Up</span></u></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The 20 presenters </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">and Jeffery as always, were excellent! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> So leading edge! As the time </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">for purchasing the series has </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">elapsed, thought I would record the highlights , so please read</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>Larry Bohlen </u></b> is a rocket scientist, a NASA engineer working on</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> the Hubble telescope back in the day, at the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Earth Science </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Centre which focused on the Earth. Larry was partly responsible</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> for the first and for a long time </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">THE ONLY photograph of the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Earth from space. Looking at our small world from far far away,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> and seeing the first </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">images of such human caused damage to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> the biosphere as the hole in the ozone layer, smog over cities </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">and</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ( Im guessing ) pollution of oceans from space, Larry was </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">deeply moved. The growing realization that we are </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">fouling our </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">one and only nest sparked Larry to ask what could be done to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> stop the global effects of agribusiness </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">on nature and human </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">beings. He left NASA and co -founded the non profit </span><br />
<b style="font-size: small;">Health Research Institute</b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ( HRI ) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">HRI have established that Round Up is everywhere in the United</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> States, the first country to grow GM crops.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> It is in the soil, in the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> air, in ground and surface water, in the food and in rain.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Alarmingly, 60 to 100 % of rain </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">samples contained Round Up. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">This means to save and use water in tanks near farming areas is hazardous, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">and I will warrant the situation is similar </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">here in OZ. Don't drink rain water if you live under a flight path , in a farming area, or in a suburb full of ignorant </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">gardeners!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> It is not surprising to find that most people have</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Round Up in their body. The company is currently measuring the amount of glyphosate in people, their pets, on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> farms, in livestock, in farmers; and is conducting testing for councils and for academic researchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> In a sample of 1000 health conscience- tending individual urine donors, 86% of the people had detectable</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> glyphosate and its main metabolite ( AMPA for short) in their wee. Researchers say AMPA is more potent than </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">the original glyphosate molecule. The average level was half a part per billion. The range went from “ not detected”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> to a the highest result of 33 parts per billion. The chap who took the prize for the highest level was a heavy </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">consumer of mung beans. Poor guy, trying to eat right! But he and I didn’t know that legumes can be extremely </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">high in round up these days. I did know they would be irradiated if from over seas, and most are. He came back to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Larry for another test after removing mung beans from his diet for a month, and his glyphosate levels had dropped </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">by 95%.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Organic diet</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Only 14% of the thousand U.S. individuals tested in this citizen science experiment did not have glyphosate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> in their urine, and these people identified as being committed to eating organic food exclusively. The lowest</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> “level- of- organic” eaters had the highest levels of glyphosate and its highly toxic breakdown product, so a direct </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">correlation was found between industrial foods consumed and levels of glyphosate. We will get into the significant health ramifications later in this series, but touch in them below.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">High alert foods.</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The food that had the biggest affect on people was oats. OATS had 1254 parts per billion glyphosate. Like the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">pulses (which for us in Australia come mainly from Canada, so they are also irradiated before entering our country)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> cereals such as Oats, barley, wheat and rye crops are dried down or dessicated with Round Up so they don’t</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> mould and are easier to harvest. So we find high levels in cereal crops. Proff Don Huber highlights that glyphosate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> concentrates in the growth points of plants, so the grains have concentrated levels. No one is yet sure why oats</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> manage to accumulate so much, when exposed to the spray which is applied just days before harvest. Farmers </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">are told that using the herbicide as dessicant also prepares the land for the next crop (by eradicating weeds). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> And many farmers still believe the sales pitch that it is harmless. (To wit, see the latest review sitting on our</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Merri Bee Organic Farmacy face book page by a young man from a local winery His is our </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">only bad review and you can read his comment for yourself. Hint: a nice review or 3 would make it leave the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> top position and “disappear” ! And this ignorance should be disappeared !! ) Similarly indoctrinated young </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">farmers, taught agronomy at Monsanto- funded universities, are who we have outsourced food growing to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Apart from cereals they are using round up on kiwi fruit, sweet potatoes, irish potatoes and sugar…. just before </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">harvest. So wheat and black strap molasses are on the list of “high alert” foods. This is tragic as oats are a </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">calminative food, which also gave energy to people and animals. Similarly, pulses and wheat were original super </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">foods. Bread was the staff of life because it made the whole grain wheat digestible by a fermentation process</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ( sourdough ) which pre digested the anti nutrient “phytates” in whole wheat but released the huge list of nutrients</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> found in wheat. Wheatgerm is comparable to liver for the array of minerals and B vitamins it contains. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Whole grains are no longer a health- building, healing food, unless (of course) organically grown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">If you doubt that this Round Up dessication process is going on in Australia, Dayle Lloyd of Dumbleyung assures</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> me his neighbours are using it. Dayle emailed me a copy of the permit. See the 2 permits below and note that </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">anyone, anywhere and any time can obtain a permit …..and wave at you if you question them .</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Honey</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Another superfood that if produced near farmlands is possibly health damaging! Bees love canola flowers , and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">the bees end up having learning disabilities (from ingesting “Round Up Ready” TM canola flower nectar ?) and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> cannot navigate back to the hive. The bees also need lactobacillus (as we all do) in their gut, but glyphosate knocks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> out these most essential beneficial bacteria FIRST, leaving the normally small populations of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> pathogenic /opportunistic gut bacteria alone to proliferate. Therefore bees can be surrounded </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">by food but starving to death as they can no longer digest food. Think of the rise in Chrones disease in our </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">young people in recent years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In Canada, a leading cultivator of GM crops, sales of honey have plummeted by 50% amid concern </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">that the integrity of the product has been compromised.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">LONDON (AFP)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“……A three-year study by Professor Hans-Heinrich Kaatz at the University of Jena found that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the gene used to modify oil-seed rape [canola] had transferred to bacteria living inside honey bees.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The findings undermine claims by the biotech industry and supporters of GM foods that genes cannot</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">spread. …..</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The honey bee population in the US has collapsed, putting in jeopardy $14 billion worth of</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> horticultural and pasture crops (lucerne and rye). The flowers of apples, soft fruits, kiwis, almonds </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and many more, won’t set fruit without bees as pollinators. If there is no pollinator there is no fruit. ….…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Pollination/fruiting is lowest near GM crops, whilst organic fields, where GM is banned, are </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>unaffected.”</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Australian bee breeders have enjoyed selling pollination bees to American almond orchardists for good money</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> in recent years. Sadly our bees die 2 weeks after arrival , shortly after achieving the pollination. Due to the toxic </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">environment created by American orchardists there is an ongoing business for Oz bee keepers, for now.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Organic honey in Larry’s tests of some 50 plus foods turned out to have 95% less glyphosate then honey produced </span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">near </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">GM crops.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The honey from our native forests is gold, proven to be equal to Manuka honey in its medical applications.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Right now we have to stop the damage to this honey industry by none other than the WA government who on one</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> hand are promoting our native honeys whilst thwarting the industry on the other hand by continuing clear felling </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of Karri forests and harvesting of Jarrah at an accelerated rate. They are also hell</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> bent on continuing the burning </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">program started by Terry Redman , former leader of the government. Controlled </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">burns are these days way out of </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">control and burning the entire individual tree right up into the canopy. I have never witnessed this before after 40 </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">years of living in the south west forest region and will be waiting in trepidation to see if the massive trees so </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">thoroughly scorched this year, will regenerate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>NAFLD</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From research into fatty liver disease, where rats were fed a diet containing only point one of a part per billion </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">glyphosate, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">we know that the majority of people in Larry’s study had levels that exceeded the amount in the rats </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">in whom </span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">non alcoholic fatty liver disease emerged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: black;">Endocrine disruption. </span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The dose maketh the poison?</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Endocrine disrupters such as Glyphosate are actually more dangerous at extremely low levels than</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"> at high doses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This is because the body doesn’t recognize these very tiny amounts as foreign , mistaking them for its</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"> own </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">hormones, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">and does not mount a defense response. In certain toxins the higher the dose, the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> higher the toxic</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> affect. But in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">tiny doses ( say parts per trillion) some toxins do more damage to us.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> Beware the U shaped curve of the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">endocrine disruption effect baby. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And so much for Monsanto’s false claims that Round is biodegradable! It lasts 22 years in some soils. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For maintaining such falsehoods and choosing to defend these in court they were found guilty in Frances </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Supreme Court. ….but only fined $28,000 Euros. See the opening scenes of the documentary </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“The World According to Monsanto” .</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">PETS </span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">15 dogs and one cat ‘s wee were tested and found to have very high levels. 50 times the average of human beings !!!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Why? Dogs drink from puddles, they roll and play in the grass. Dermal exposure and penetration through the</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> paws is suspected, among other factors in their food. Incidentally levels reached through this skin absorption route</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> was way higher </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">than expected by Monsanto scientists who studied skin exposure of Round Up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> There was a study of farmers, ones that wore gloves had 10 times less glyphosate within them that those who did </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">not. Dogs are also eating kibble high in Round Up residues. Horse feed is also chock full of GMOS . Could there be </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">American sugar beet pulp , legumes , corn, soy, cottonseed oil and Western Australian canola meal in your pet’s </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">food? Definitely we know the Mt Barker so called free range chickens refuses to deny in writing that their chickens</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> are </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">eating WA canola meal, the residue after </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">the oil is expelled in a certain Pinjarra factory. The canola is likely to be </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">GM, and therefore dangerous. Leg injuries in horses were correlated with those eating these GM feeds or those</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> drenched in Round Up before harvest : soy, corn, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa. All of these are GMOS</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> in the U.S. Race horse owners invest millions in their horses and a champion could break a leg on these poor diets. “Science Life” was a dog food ( maybe still for sale) which was super expensive and promoted by vets trained at Monsanto funded universities. It harmed dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">FERTILITY…..glyphosate binds manganese to its molecule and creates manganese deficient food. Mn deficiency is</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> linked to poor reproductive health. Non gmo feed for both livestock and humans leads to higher conception rates </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(and in animals) larger litter size.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another salient point from Larry and Jeffery: 90 out if 92 couples on an infertility program were put on organic</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> diet. All conceived ! The 2 percent that did not conceive did not follow the protocol! </span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The GOOD NEWS </span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Can you avoid Round Up? Yes, as Larry has shown, the primary exposure is from food. By keeping to an organic</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> diet, you can stay free of this devastating chemical. After 2 weeks on an organic diet over 90% of the chemical </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">has left your body. That still leaves 10 per cent , and in subsequent posts I will report on the findings which show</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> that the gut microbes responsible for REMOVAL of toxins from the body are wiped out by Round UP as well, a </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">little confounding factor for you. I have not mentioned that rates of Parkinsons disease in young males has </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">skyrocketed in recent years and that Alzheimers in women has increased over 600% in the last 20 years, and </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">that neuro-degeneration has recently become a bigger killer than cancer. Main suspect…..Round Up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> I can not cover everything in one post but urge you now to minimize the damage to your DNA and major organs </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by going organic now. And don’t fall off the wagon with a lentil salad or conventional oat muslie bar! Be wise </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">like an OWL ….watch out for conventional Oats, Wheat, Legumes .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Before people howl that they can not afford organics, can I ask you to get real. In this world the Americans, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Poms, Canadians and Aussies are eating the most industrial food and expect to spend a smallest proportion </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of their income on food. In most populations of the world , people expect most of their income to go on food.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> To live or not to live in the grooviest locations with most exhorbitant rent is one choice we have, and if I could</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> afford organic food I wouldn’t be making it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For 20 years Donna Farmer studied Round Up as a Monsanto toxicologist . She lied on TV, saying that </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“as a mother and a scientist, I can tell you it is safe”. Privately ( as released in documents later subpoenaed</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> by attorneys ) it was found that: she had gone through an article eliminating a link to miscarriages, wrote </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in internal memos “we cannot be sure it doesn’t cause cancer”; obviously knew that there had been </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">dose- related deaths of lab animals in trials; and was cognizant that tumor formation was likely to be linked </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to Round Up. These are the people that have all the media space! These are the people that trash the reputations</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> of independent scientists who show inconvenient truths about Round Up. Are you going to support this mob with</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> your food dollars, or support those farming sustainably? Are we going to support and promote those working hard </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> to </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">care for people </span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">and environment? Your support could ensure that they are still here doing what they do when </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">fuel and super market shelves dry up.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Bill Mollison decades ago implored us to withdraw our support from agribusiness corporations, declaring</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> agriculture to be the most destructive force on Earth. Join me as a neo peasant in the op shop and in the fields on</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> a quest to </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">weaken the 5 corps controlling food and health. We will no longer outsource our food growing to them!</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Surely together we can create communities that support organic farmers, who </span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in turn nourish us with nutrient dense, real food. After 35 years of food forest development I can say Permaculture </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">works </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">. To us health is simply our most valuable asset and can't be left up to Big Ag and Big Pharma..</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> We in this country are so lucky to have the space to grow our own food, but for those without land, could you </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> rent a part of someone's </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">big back </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">yard by paying them some weekly veges? Wonderful activist people have created </span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">community gardens you can join, or get into container gardening. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> where we learn from a leading</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> functional medicine doctor who is having amazing success de- toxing his patients from Round Up. </span><span class="HOEnZb" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #888888;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And later Sayer Ji talks about RNA silencing ....O M G!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some days I feel hopeful that a better world is coming. Cheers, Bee</span></span><br />
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-18849797344030332342018-07-29T18:57:00.003-07:002018-07-29T18:57:55.811-07:00Why Organic? Recently a young lady in year 11 emailed asking for help with a school project. I answered her written questions finally this morning, and here they are :<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the reason to
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Aside from the having a safe living and working environment for
my family, our animals and local wildlife <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>organic farming turns out to be far more
profitable. While studies such as the Rodale Institute’s 30 year Farming Systems
Trial have shown that yields are slightly less in organic systems, profitability
is higher. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since 1996 there have been
only<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 occasions when amendments ( lime
once in 2005 and mineral fertilizer in 2003) have been used by Merri Bee
Organic Farmacy. We now know that even those purchases were not necessary and
indeed did harm to the soil microbes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We also eat extremely well, enjoy good health ( we are now
nearly 60 years old and feel better than when we were young) and derive a lot
of satisfaction from providing great tasting and health giving <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>food to our customers. I especially like to
hear the many comments we receive such as “My child would not eat broccoli ( or
eggs, or pork) until they tasted yours”. We are also proud to show our flourishing
farm, alive with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>biodiversity, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to visitors and point out the many natural
closed loop cycles operating here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps the greatest reason to go organic is climate change.
Soil is the biggest carbon sink on Earth besides the ocean, but only if it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">living soil</b>. Conventional farm
practices involve pesticides, fertilizers and often ploughing , all of which
harm soil life. Only soil microbes, working in conjunction with plants and
animals, can save us from catastrophic climate change now. Studies show that at
worst, organic farms sequester 7 tons of carbon dioxide per acre per year from
the atmosphere. Far better rates of 33 tons CO 2 per hectare per year were
measured by MacQuarie University on a farm in mid NSW called Winona, operated
by Colin Seiss . Using a technique he originated called <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“pasture cropping”, Colin is growing his
topsoil faster and faster every year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conventional
farms are a significant carbon emitter by contrast . Dr Christine Jones
calculates that if all farms in just Australia turned to biological ( organic) management
, so much carbon would be sucked out of the globe’s atmosphere that climate
change would be reversed in just a couple of years! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several other leading scientists world wide concur.
We believe if every person decided to eat only organic food ( by growing or
buying it) the crisis <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>climate change and the current crippling epidemic
of poor health would abate in short order.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you take to be classed as organic?</b></div>
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We became certified organic by NASAA in 2003, beginning the
process in 2001 with a year of “ Pre certification”, followed by a year when we
were called “in conversion”. I first of all attended a 3 day workshop <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>called “converting to organics”. I needed to
pay something like $1,000 to enter the process, complete a written “organic management
plan”, draw up farm maps and write out detailed recipes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and procedures for the jams and pickles we
sold. I also had to keep a farm diary and all receipts for organic inputs
purchased. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to find supplies of
organic grain for our animals, which to this day is our greatest expense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not a conventional farmer ever, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but worked as an Education Assistant. Thus
began a long journey over many years where I began to absorb <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more and more information about the dangerous
chemicals and practices applied to mainstream <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>food . I learnt about the use of Agent Orange
on sweet potatoes to prevent them sprouting, genetic modification , food irradiation
and how a very common herbicide sold as biodegradable and safe for 30 years
turns out to be extremely toxic and persistent. I realized that the 5 global <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agribusiness corporations not only aimed to
control seed supplies and sell billions of tons of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>agri chemicals but had interests in selling health
care products, particularly chemo therapy and cancer detection machines. We are
no longer certified organic with NASSA but still comply with all organic
standards and claim organic status. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How are your
practices different to conventional farming?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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To grow a crop the conventional agronomic advice will often
be to first of all obliterate all life in the field <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>down to the microbial level with a fumigation
treatment aimed at eliminating disease fungi and bacteria. This is somewhat
like taking an antibiotic. Our approach the very opposite, and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is to increase the beneficial soil biota (
microbes such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa , nematodes, microarthropods and
mites and macro life ) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with a well made compost . The beneficial microbes
outcompete the disease organisms , and supports insect life which often deals
with pest infestations at the larval stage before they become a problem. We
rely on microscopic fungi to extract minerals from rock particles and deliver
them to our crops , which in exchange feed the fungi sugars derived from the (
excess) carbon dioxide in the air. We have millions of earth worms working for
us too, and their manure contains vast quantities of plant available nutrients.
Important to note that these beneficials are wiped out by fertilizer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We use techniques such as planned ( crash or cell) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grazing , multi species cover crops, poly
cultures, agro- forestry <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and compost tea
to boost micro flora over the 70 acres were run. In short we aim to increase
the biodiversity on our farm, keeping 7 animal species and growing over 100
species of useful tree and countless more types of shrub, herb vine, fungi <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and ground cover in food forests. We are able
to manage all this through a good permaculture design. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have you faced any
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Marketing can be our weakest link. The false claims of
competitors are always sucking in the unwary consumer. We have found that those
who focus most on marketing often have the worst product. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our case our products are excellent but not
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mass media is
controlled by the 5 companies controlling food and health. These extremely
wealthy corporations <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can and do pay
scientists to conduct “studies” which find no superior nutritional status in
organic food. They buy media space to say how wonderful is GM food, how
organics is a waste of money etc. There is also the duopoly of Coles and
Woolworths which compete very well against farmers markets. A plethora of food
laws require us for example to stamp every egg we produce, create nutritional
tables on labels and pay a host of fees and costs which are difficult to comply
with on the small scale we operate, but are easy for supermarkets to do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many products we would like to sell but
the paperwork, inspections, fees and the changing infrastructure requirements make
it too difficult. As but one example, we use to make ice cream from our Jersey
cows cream and the wonderful egg yolks in abundance in spring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Authorities first approved our commercial kitchen
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over 14 years now, moving into mainly fruit and vegetable sales where harassment
from authorities is least. We have something delicious in our food forest to
sell all year round. We intend to expand our farm shop focus in the near future
but will continue to enjoy attending weekly farmers market in Margaret River
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Bio char is described by various promoters as "a miracle" and to read these accounts you would think it was a silver bullet for all mankind's problems. Proff Tim Flannery was quoted in Pip Magazine as saying</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> " Biochar may represent the single most important initiative for humanity's environmental future. The biochar approach provides a uniquely powerful solution, for it allows us to address food security, the fuel crisis, and the climate problem, and all in an immensely pra</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">ctical manner" . The article was written by Albert Bates, author of "The biochar solution". I would like to research his links to mining. </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I had already posted poor results in my trial of bio char on face book, but Ozzie of the year Tim's words convinced me to re-do my experiments, using this time PREVIOUSLY activated bio char ( I soaked it in compost extract for 4 hours) as admonished to do by miffed enthusiasts. I posted my photos showing again no appreciable difference in seedling size with bio char or without. Again, bio char lovers were upset and one said 'you have to wait 2 years to see a difference'. Oh really? Thats hardly the miracle as described by Alby Bates who says to mix biochar through compost "..and add in to your soil and watch your crops power" . We also hear about yield increases of up to 30 % . That surely means in the same season? No one mentioned a long waiting period. </span></div>
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Don't like to quash enthusiasm, don't like to offend friends who love the idea of bio char, but it has never made sense to me to burn wood that could be chipped and made into wonderful water holding humus. Particulate matter (smoke) and carbon emissions are put into the air to manufacture the bio char that is most commonly available round here. In fact most W.A. bio char comes from our Jarrah forest having been sent to smelters as fuel, smelters such as Simcoa Silicon smelter, the largest in the world. It could never be justifiable, this destruction of unique and endangered Jarrah forest that miners buy so cheaply ( $11 a cubic meter) to burn and to then make even more money from selling the burnt wood as "bio" char to desperate farmers. So is there some <span style="font-family: inherit;">enormous and reliable benefit to farmers to make this even a little understandable? Well no, results</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> are unpredictable and sometimes detrimental, never to mention problems of application of bio char in the wind. To quote a paper </span></div>
<i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">"Over the past decade, biochar soil management has seen
a surge in activities related to both research and development (Lehmann and Joseph 2015; Ok et al. 2015).
Even though our knowledge has considerably advanced,
the effects of biochars on crop growth still appear unpredictable, with in some instances increasing while in
others decreasing yield responses (Liu et al. 2013;
Jeffery et al. 2015a). To a large extent, this is a result
of widely varying biochar properties (Enders et al. 2012;
Schimmelpfennig and Glaser 2012) as well as of variable soil properties and environmental plant requirements. Some biochars may increase crop yield, whereas
others may decrease yield for reasons that are readily
explainable using known responses of crops to for example altered pH or salt contents (Van Zwieten et al.
2010; Rajkovich et al. 2012) and short-term N limitation
in N deficient soil (Clough et al. 2013). However, we
also observe a distinct lack of mechanistic insight into
how properties that are shared by many biochars affect
plant growth." </i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"> The full article can be found here</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">: </i><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>11104_2015_2658_Article-1..5</i></span><br />
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Worse than wasting good fungi food by burning wood, some folks are burning chook pooh to make bio char! This is outrageous use of the blue skies of our planet as a dump for things too toxic to leave in a heap on the ground. Broiler hen manure contains arsenic, would you believe? Manure from factory farms is implicated in cancer clusters in schools nearby those farms in the U.S. Someone in Serpentine had a mountain of meat bird poo they had to get rid of and rang me, offering to transport it to our farm. I asked if their birds ate GM food and if they were fed arsenic as is common in that industry. He didnt answer but swiftly hung up. I'll take that as a "yes". </div>
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" From a NSW govt website :<br />
Slow pyrolysis utilises a kiln that is heated<br />
externally to achieve temperatures of<br />
between 400 and 6000°C. The biomass is<br />
held at these temperatures for over 30<br />
minutes. Slow pyrolysis yields two key<br />
products, biochar and syn gas. The syn gas<br />
is a high energy mixture of methane,<br />
hydrogen and carbon monoxide which is<br />
combusted to generate the heat required to<br />
dry and pyrolyse the biomass, with surplus<br />
gas being available to generate renewable<br />
energy, such as electricity.<br />
What can be used to make biochar?<br />
y Forestry and crop residues<br />
y Poultry litter wastes<br />
y Animal feedlot wastes and some biosolids.." </div>
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Oh great! Burning not only the mountains of broiler bird manure but human waste too ? ?!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In 2014 I went to a lot of soil conferences and kept my ears out about biochar. Dr Maarten Stapper said the benefits you see last only 2 years and are due to the ash factor, but once that’s gone there is no ongoing benefit. I understand this is in contrast to compost which introduces beneficial microbes to the soil which can stay around performing their eco services for thousands of years. </span></div>
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Dr Christine Jones said into the microphone at Kojunup conference a year ago that the magical terra pretta was in fact magic because it was worm castings. She said there was a big trench at the back of the Mayan/ Inca villages and all the rubbish was thrown into it over centuries, and in the humid climate worms thrived amongst the weeds, branches, dead bodies, poo, wood ashes from the fire pits, rotten watermelon, broken pots, and more. Very stable humus resulted from raging earth worm populations. Their castings, as we all know (or maybe we don’t yet) give a lasting benefit to any plant . Dr Jones mentioned with disappointment the heaps of funding going towards bio char and said that in her opinion it is money wasted.</div>
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At a later conference the wonderful Walter Jehne said that he himself had granted funding to a bio char project in Narrogin, (something like 7 million dollars) many years ago. They were going to generate electricity with syn gas by driving off the hydrocarbons under high heat and little oxygen and were last seen looking for a market for the medical grade charcoal ….unfortunately he didn’t describe the outcome of the project but was clearly disappointed and was subsequently impatient with bio char enthusiasts statements veiled as questions . He didn’t encourage a questioner who was greatly excited about bio char. Dr Jehne responded that organic matter(OM), forerunner to humus, is a better option for farmers. Humus has more negatively charged micro sites for cation exchange, attracting positive ions like calcium, magnesium, zinc etc. He said O.M. is easy to get hold of with very little expense to the farmer and doesn’t add to that CO2 legacy load in the air causing all our climate and nutrition troubles. The Bio Char Bloke argued the point saying that a bio char experiment was going on in Manjimup with dairy cows eating it. The dairy farmer was reporting that he had a fantastic population of dung beetles taking the bio char down in the ground all year, had stopped using vet chemicals and purchased fertilizers, and everything was going great on his farm.</div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I piped up and said the same positive observations could be made on our organic farm </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">we also have dung beetles </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">burying every bit of pooh emanating from every rear end at our place and we have not purchased lime or fertilizers nor needed a vet</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> or drench in decades, have wonderful pasture growth on little rain. ....but we don’t use bio char.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> These wonderful outcomes in the Manjimup trial may be due to other things which have changed on the farm as this farmer gets educated......may be he has dropped artificial fertilizer? </span></div>
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Elaine Ingham is completely bored with bio char, says it is a lot of hype. Her team bought several bio chars and tested them and found them all completely ineffective at promoting plant growth, and they were all in fact highly toxic. She points out that humus has enormous surface areas for bacteria and the rest to hide and feed in, far more than charcoal.</div>
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Even though Elaine completes the hat trick of my favorite soil gurus putting the wet blanket on the fire ignited in many by bio char, my friend Jeff Nugent was using biochar and I was impressed with his garden. So I did a little experiment: Several plants were potted up in soil in one pot and the same soil with bio char in another pot. I was disappointed to see no difference in the two, even 12 months later, and we had thoroughly mixed the charcoal in advance with urine as Jeff recommended. Maybe Jeff was doing more than biochar for his garden?<br />
Yes, charcoal has been used medically for centuries as a vermifuge, and a jar of it in the fridge or your compost toilet absorbs odours, but the good ol' BBQ can easily supply all your ash and charcoal needs for medical uses, and even enough for soap making needs, no worries. I think if anyone has wood waste a-plenty it would be better for all of us if they were to buy a HANSA chipper ( great machine!) than a pyrolysis machine. Chipping and composting the wood in combination with manure from feed lots would make for far better rates of carbon sequestration and fertile soil regeneration. They could also grow shitake mushrooms or other forms of fungi. Those saddled with huge amounts of thinnings from stumped eucalypts could sell them as firewood, a more ecologically sound fuel than natural gas or coal generated electricity. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Last time I spent a couple of days researching on google and you tube for the answer to the question "Does Bio char work"? the net conclusion was "NOT OFTEN" . </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">As for scientific trials showing the efficacy of bio char, I can leave that to a team of experts who have reviewed all the literature on biochar and concluded that there is a small net benefit to using bio char of about 10 %. Would more benefit have been achieved by composting the starting ingredients? The jury is still out. The abstract of their meta analysis said this :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...<i>. experimental results are variable and dependent on the experimental set-up, soil properties and conditions, while causative mechanisms are yet to be fully elucidated..... </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can delve right in to the review </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/36453566/A_quantitative_review_effects_biochar_application_soils_crop_productivity_using_meta-analysis.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1522233271&Signature=K2H53Vg2sJePT62pWYjz%2BZwprj0%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DA_quantitative_review_of_the_effects_of.pdf">here</a>. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">rang APAL soil laboratories in South Australia and spoke to the scientist on duty. I asked whether it would be possible for a farmer to "cheat" a soil test for carbon, by mixing bio char into the sample. He said no, not with the standard Wakley Black soil test used, it only measures ORGANIC SOIL CARBON in the form of humus,humates, microfauna and humic acid. These living things and humic substances are the real soil carbon which holds on to water and minerals, and charcoal does nothing to lift levels. BTW, I have heard nothing from any bio char protaganists wanting to share their trial results with us. The challenge remains open. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Dont be sucked in, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">realize there is an economically failing native timber industry looking desperately to justify its own existence and to make a buck, and there are miners ever eager to increase their social licence in order to expand the scars they make on the land. Beware the green washing . Pyrolysis machines apparently do not produce much smoke but they are very expensive and few and far between. Most of the "bio" char being shipped out from Simcoa in vast quantities is the burnt remains of our precious Jarrah forests . "Bio" char has brought our native animals closer to extinction.</span></div>
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So is charcoal a wonderful benefit to farmers, a climate change solution, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> the single most important initiative for humanity's environmental future"? ......</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> or is it, as this article reveals, </span><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/24/biochar-climate-change-solution-or-greenwash-nightmare?fbclid=IwAR3Vk-PWq9u482vimU80ukwu5EOEtb19PGH_V0eu0NDne4LTGfIPf3K0ah8" style="font-family: inherit;">a green washed nightmare?</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-72407796336699259832018-03-15T22:02:00.002-07:002018-03-15T22:02:44.663-07:00Meet your Microbiome Workshop March 11th 2018<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Meet your Microbiome”</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a 7 hour workshop I attended on Sunday
March 11<sup>th</sup>, by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Jason
Hawrelak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The event was a sellout, with naturopaths,
enlightened GP’s and no doubt many parents resolutely seeking help for their
children with issues such as autism. The man really knows his stuff after a few
decades of being a researcher and practicing clinician. I have tried to put the
info in a nutshell, but it still came out at 7 pages and many of the terms
would have to be googled by the average Bear . If you are a busy person you can
cut to the chase and see the recommendations (which handily are not that big to
write if you use those pesky acronyms) in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>highlighted sections below. I seriously hope
this helps the parents who need to help their kids and don’t have time for
study.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have time for
an in depth report, plus my allusions to soil health thrown in, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>great! Read on….<o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Gill Sans",serif;">Probiotic Advisor</span></strong><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Gill Sans",serif;"> is a website <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>developed by Dr Jason Hawrelak of Illuminate
Natural Medicine. Illuminate Natural Medicine is based in Hobart, Tasmania,
Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "Gill Sans",serif;">I
overheard that Jason’s waiting list for new patients is something like 2 years.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Probiotic Advisor.com is designed for Naturopaths so they can
gain guidance in which purported probiotic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>products contain the most effective strains of
beneficial bacteria for certain conditions, judging by the research to date. Jason
is certainly a stickler for research in this area. This is HIS THING! <o:p></o:p></div>
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He has been studying gut microbes for a few decades and in
his introduction regaled us with a story from his past in which he tried out a
“pre-biotic” diet ( one that fosters the growth of certain beneficial bacteria)
on a group of patients, being mainly female office workers. Unfortunately for
them and all around, they farted…..and farted….and farted. I immediately liked
him. He learnt that what sounds great in the lab doesn’t always work in real
life. You can go on the website and listen to his fascinating, myth busting,
evidence based presentations on pro-biotic foods and supplements. <a href="https://www.probioticadvisor.com/">https://www.probioticadvisor.com/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There is</b> what is
being described <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">now</b> as a new organ
in the human body. It weighs between 1 and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 kgs and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>contains a range of cells which all work together for a common goal. It
has more than 150 times the genes contained in the rest of our body, and 10
times the number of cells. These cells are engaged in a lot more biochemical
reactions per day than the liver, so it is an extremely active organ. This
organ’s function can be modified by diet ( it likes a big diversity of whole
unprocessed foods) , surgery and medication; it can be negatively impacted by
junk food and lack of exercise ; and all aspects of the body can be effected by
it’s function. It is called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the human microbiome</b>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be called the gastro intestinal
tract (GIT)eco-system, or gut biota as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a number of
companies now offering to analyse stool samples, and for a fee ranging from
$700 down to $150 for U Biome ( and they sometimes have specials half that),
you can get a report on the make up of your own <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gut flora based on nothing more than a
cottonbud swiped across used toilet paper , posted back to the company . It is
really easy to do in the case of UBiome which I used. You then log in and
complete a survey , or a series of surveys if you choose to, which adds to the
body of research ( so I did) . Some weeks later you receive an email and may
log in to see your results. Of the thousand bacteria identified so far that
live in the gut of humans , you will probably have about 160. Your gut biome <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is as individual to you and is your thumb
print, and you have similar communities unique to you living in your navel,
ears, eyes and hands…….everywhere!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first part of the workshop was about examining the pros
and cons of the various laboratories /companies <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>offering this service to Australian
practitioners and individuals . Some labs are still using older techniques of
culturing bacteria on petri dishes. As Dr Elaine Ingham from the soil
microbiology world explained , only 5 % of soil organisms will actually grow on
a petri dish in isolation from their habitat and associates there, and it is
the same for the human microbiome too. So Elaine prefers direct microscopy in
which you make a wet slide with a drop of soil and water mix, and look at it
under the microscope. This is good enough for farmers who can learn to identify
the various groups of organisms visually. For the gut microbes, most of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which die in oxygen and light, the modern
technique of identification is DNA analysis. Each company has a library of
bacteria etc and computers can match the DNA of the various bugs to the
library. Some companies have better libraries than others. What was
disconcerting is the exercise where we looked at results of “samples” from real
patients from various companies. They were all very different but later Jason
shocked us by revealing that this was one sample sent to 4 different <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>labs!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However if you understand the strengths and
weaknesses of each lab you can read behind the lines and get a good
understanding of what is going on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We then went through the good,
the bad and the ugly bacteria that resides in most people’s gut, and what they
are up to in there. You may have heard of the recent operation which can be
done at Fiona Stanley hospital and others around the country which is the
faecal transplant, or which doctors call "<a href="https://www.livescience.com/52542-fecal-transplants-science-update.html">fecal
microbiota transplantations</a>," or FMTs, colloquially “transpoosion” or
poop transplant. This is used to treat stubborn cases of things like obesity, inflammatory
bowel disease and chronic diarrhea caused by Clostridium<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Difficile . This method of treatment came
about because of articles like this: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“ When the feces of one mouse was transplanted to another mouse,
the recipient mouse either gained or lost weight. But can these transplants —…—
have the same effects in humans?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Live
Science<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We don’t yet have the data to
answer that question but early results have been encouraging. But what is
interesting is the difficulty of finding good donors. The ideal poo donor is a
home birthed ( definitely not C section delivered ), breast fed, unvaccinated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>person whose mother and father were not in the
habit of using medicine , even the contraceptive pill. This person will eat at
least 40 whole plant foods from an organic farm or garden a week, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>drink pure rainwater untreated with chlorine and
have never used cosmetics, factory made soap, body care or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cleaning products, deodorants, air fresheners
etc. Neither would they have used the really bad- for- biomes antibiotics, Panadol,
Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs, ( NAIDs, ) or Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs)
. Obviously they have steered clear of recreational drugs and never drunk alcohol
to excess. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plastics and heavy metals
would not be in their environment, and just for good measure, they are not
exposed to EMR so have no mobile phone and use the internet by ethernet
cable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years ago I would think
this person would be boring, smelly and have oily hair, but now I know just
water, vinegar and baking soda satisfactorily take the place of the normal
arsenal of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>personal and home “care” products,
and such a person would be beaming with happiness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Jason has met just the candidate who could
poo for the world. He is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from Europe and
is an extremely happy, lovely <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>guy of 51
years of age in great health. What a pity the unscathed are so rare. In most of
us from the minute of birth where we inherit our parent’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>s
microbiome, which can be faulty often, modern life simplifies our populations
of microbes even further. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I certainly was
compromised and had arrived at the workshop dejected as I had received my
sample results from UBiome a few days before, and they said I was heavily
tilted to firmacutes which is associated with obesity in mice. Worse, I was on
the 17th percentile for diversity of microbes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was only one person at the workshop with
less diversity than that, she got a score of 7 percent, meaning 6 % of the
total world population who have sent in samples to U Biome have less diversity
than her, and 93% have more. Jason asked whether this person had taken antibiotics....
and yes, she had taken a cocktail of 3 recently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Ubiome report said I
had only 0.01% of lactobacilii, and added that I should eat grapes and
berries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In response I stuffed myself
with iced vo vo biscuits. For goodness sake, Ive struggled against surgar
addiction and been on a 99% sugar free for a couple of long years. We <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had just been through berry season where I
live on all kinds of raspberries and blackberries, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prior to the sample taken in February. I eat
out of a garden year round! I should have been awesome! Still mortified by my
result I publicly blurted out to Jason<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"What about me? I'm on the 17th percentile, live on an organic farm
growing in excess of 100 species of fruit, nut and vegetable, haven't had an
antibiotic in 30 years nor any other medication....and I went on ....I eat
kimchee and sour dough spelt all the time! I demand a re-count!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Jason immediately asked about my early life
- diet and antibiotic use...Yes, well that was all very S.A.D. ( stands for
Standard American/Australian Diet ) and 3 times antibiotics saved my life as a
young adult, plus the vaccinations, fluoride , chlorine, mercury fillings, and
all the rest we are all exposed to (unless we or our parents take steps to
avoid or reverse). Well I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">had</i> worked to
improve it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all over a long time, and had
even had my mercury out via a biological dentist specializing in this procedure
( Dental on George, East Fremantle) about a year ago. At morning tea a few
people kindly expressed their sympathy for my poor diversity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said "Thanks, but I feel good…..?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the day moved along we went through the
various bacteria phylums. After the beneficial functions of each group was
explained, we divided into 9 groups and found the member of our group with the
lowest percentage of that bug, and the person with the highest reading. It was
then that I started to feel better. First, Dr Jason said another study had
found just the opposite about firmacutes in obese mice. YAY!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, we learnt that lactobacilii are only
found in very low concentrations in the best of us, and do a powerful lot of
good even so. Then it became apparent that some of the very beneficial bacteria
we had been discussing were in enormous numbers in ME! I was the highest in the
room for microbes that make butyrate. I was often the lowest in the bad bugs we
covered. As the highest and the lowest in the room were all written up on the
board, despair gave way to pleased curiosity…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stacked up against a room full of Naturopaths
pretty well! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">For Faecalibacterium, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Jason's power point slide said these were
of major importance as butyrate producers and the highest percentage he had
seen was a 25. He will have to re- write that slide as mine was 37.7 ! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Rhuminococcus score did not appear so I
took that as a zero but later just now found under the advanced tab an Excell
spreadsheet with Rhuminococcus family on the list in a concentration of 39.6
percent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As my score went up on the
board on a few occasions Dr Jason asked our group "Who got that?"
"Me again !" said I proudly. I was off the Richter scale for some
really good bugs, which is why I guess I was not very diverse. But I have ZERO,
NADA, Bifidobacterium, and Eubacterium and as any yogurt pot reader knows,
Bifdiobacter are really important. At least there is room for improvement and I
am excited by the possibility that I will get these up soon and may feel
FANTASTIC. Meanwhile I am so glad to have done something right by my microbes
who make butyrate because that is important to mood and the integrity and Ph of
the colon, keeping it acidic.This keeps many pathogens in check as they need an
alkaline habitat to breed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Interestingly, one should
stop eating fermented food of great benefit such as kimchee and yogurt for 2
weeks before doing the UBiome test, because we want to know the indigenous
populations which have colonized your gut. Myth buster Jason emphasized that “you
can not re- seed, re- populate or populate your gut with probiotic foods”. There
is no argument there with my heroine Dr Natasha Cambell McBride, originator of
the GAPS diet . She also says people with severe gut imbalance (such as the
kids with autism she has been able to completely cure on many occasions) need
to eat these fermented foods regularly and take a good probiotic supplement
daily for life, as sometimes a person’s vital microbes have been permanently extinguished
by heavy metals ( in vaccines) medication or pesticide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the soil we know that
good bugs don’t come back magically after local extinction by fertilizers,
ploughing, fire and pesticides, you need to re-populate the good critters with
a spray of compost tea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am reminded of the saying “To err is human,
to really stuff things up requires a computer”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It seems to really stuff up your health requires intervention with pharmaceuticals.
Today many doctors are just following the advice of the pharmaceutical company
reps. that visit regularly and drop off glossy brochures on the wonders of
their company’s drugs. I gained the impression from Sunday that Naturopath’s
caseload comes mainly from people who have been terribly harmed by modern
medicine. Similarly, to really bugger up your soil requires Agri chemicals, the
other arm of Big Pharma., and they have agronomists and Ag departments and
other salespersons dispensing misinformation worldwide. This is seriously
screwing with our climate, make no mistake, and we should all be buying nothing
but organic produce if we want to survive the next decade as a species. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imbalances of the bacterial </span><span style="background: #EEEEEE; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: .15pt;">communities
either in or on the body is called<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dysbiosis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It is where communities of
pathogens, usually kept in check by beneficial bacteria, proliferate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: .15pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is
associated with many diseases of the GI tract :</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Alcoholic fatty liver
disease, antibiotic associated diarrhoea, chemo related diarrhea, Clostridium
Difficile ( C Diff) associated disease , Coeliac disease, Crohn’s disease,
Diverticular disease, Irritable bowel syndrome, liver cirrhosis, Non alcoholic
fatty liver disease, radio-therapy associated disease, SIBO, Ulcerative
Colitis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Non GI conditions include
Alzheimer’s disease, Anxiety, Asthma, Atopic eczema, Autism, Chronic fatigue
syndrome, Depression, kidney stones, Metabolic Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis,
Obesity, Parkinsons, Rheumatoid arthritis, Type 1 and type 2 diabetes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dysbiosis is diagnosed
primarily using the patient’s medical and dietary history. Anti biotics,
chemotherapy, radiotherapy, proton pump inhibitor use, non steroidal anti
inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs) can all bring on dysbiosis. So can very high
stress levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So can restrictive diets,
which are low in whole, raw, plant food diversity: so the S.A.D. or Western
-style diet of breakfast cereals and white bread ,biscuits,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>foods fried in oil etc, or some renditions of
the ketogenic, high fat/ low carb , high protein /low carb, high processed
carb, low fiber, low FODMAP diets could also be the cause. Specialised stool
testing as mentioned above can also diagnose dysbiosis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">By boosting populations of
the good guys, life is made uncomfortable for the bad bugs. This concept is
familiar to those who have done<span style="color: #1d2129;"> our soil courses as
this is just what happens in the garden. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Antibiotics
in people corresponds to Round Up and a myriad of other “icides” in farming,
users of which wipe out the good with the bad, and the bad come back quicker
and cause mayhem with PH, bad gases, alcohols, formaldehydes, phenols and the
like. In soil these kill plant roots. In people they can form brain poisons,
carcinogens, and other agents of dis- ease. One example of a toxin made by bad
GI T microbes is Lippopolysaccharides (LPS), aka endotoxin. This toxin makes
for leaky gut and is found in the blood of alcohol binge drinkers in high
concentrations, but also in people who don’t care what they eat and fall prey
to the foods of commerce. It leads to low grade systemic inflammation, altered
Kynureine /tryptophan pathway, brain inflammation via CNS cytokine production,
compromised blood brain barrier ….all of which can lead to depressed mood,
heart failure, Alzheimer’s and more. There are concepts here some of us may
need to google for sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Conversely
those who have strong gut walls with tight junctions between cells ( and these
healthy cells are created by butyrate) , who have a balanced GI ecosystem and
who consume a fibre rich diet, have only miniscule amounts of LPS in their
blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Many a case
of severe depression lasting 7 years has been triggered by antibiotics. Garlic
is an example of a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wonderful food and
antibiotic because it targets and kills baddies but leaves alone the good guys,
even promoting populations of some beneficial microbes. No wonder garlic is
almost a cure all plant in ancient and modern Herbals. Another point
highlighted on Sunday was that medicinal herbs are very effective, containing
polyphenols which make their way to the colon to do their work. Eg.,herbs to
increase bile production were prescribed to patients by Jason and he knew they
were working because<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a stool sample
showed populations of bile- eating bacteria had gone way up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">So it seems
microbiota diversity is as important in us as it is in the soil. Diversity is
the spice of life, and diverse colonic microbes = a healthy ecosystem. Lack of
diversity is associated with body wide inflammation and the list of diseases
mentioned above. At last we come to the HOW TO FIX section:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Jason says, to improve your diversity take <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prebiotic supplements</b> daily and eat at
least 40 whole , raw and unprocessed plant foods a week, with emphasis on the
polyphenol rich, black or dark coloured ones. Each different <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">variety</i> of apple or eggplant counts towards
the tally. Proteins such as meat, eggs and fish although excellent do not count
towards your 40 plus per week, however the curry powder you cook them in , or
dandelion coffee or coffee beans you wash it down with, does. We found it very
easy to reach 60 plant foods available, either fresh , or fermented or in
storage on Merri Bee Organic Farmacy in any given week. We also found without
changing a thing we were consuming 50 such foods a week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">I would caution that it would be good to read and follow
the GAPS diet initially. Dr Natasha Cambell McBride says fibre can equally well
breed bad bugs if you or your loved ones are host to large populations already
and are suffering autism, schizophrenia, ODD, OCD and other results of this
condition. In serious cases like these we heal and seal the gut first. You must
start with a bone broth fast of 3 days duration, very soon adding small but
increasing amounts of home made yogurt and sauerkraut juice to the broth. Big
note here courtesy of Jason: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">VAALIA brand</b>,
( by Parmalatt company) yogurt is the only yogurt available in Australia which
has 3 types of fantastic bacteria in it. Use as your starter, or buy yogurt
from us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Breaking the fast you can add meat to the broth next.
Then slowly introduce vegetables, watching for return of symptoms. For full
details of the protocol I highly recommend Dr Natasha’a book . After 25 years
in a busy clinic treating kids with autism she knows how hard it is to have
your child eat anything let alone purple carrots, however she has a chapter
devoted to getting around this, eating disorders and more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Gut and
Psychology Syndrome </span></i><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">( GAPS)
. I get my latest copies from the Wordery for $28 delivered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">You Tube abounds with free talks by Natasha</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> . </span><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cONYR7vAD-A&t=132s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">However if you have healed and sealed your leaky gut
already with a bone broth fast , these are the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prebiotic supplements</b> and the daily amount recommended: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Acacia tummy fiber ….10 gms a day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Lactulose (obtainable from chemists as a syrup) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>….5 mls a day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Partially hydrolysed Guar gum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( made from a bean grown in India) PHGG<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…….5 gms a day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Galactooligosaccahride (GOS) ……………… at least 3 gm a
day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fructooligosaccharides
( FOS) ………………….at least 3 gm a day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">The last 3 would be available from health food stores
or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Herb </i>or my fave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Josh Axe</i> online<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Here
are some biome friendly foods<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Fermented
dairy such as yogurt and the even more powerful Keiffer. Fermented vegetables
like sauerkraut and kimchee, well fermented kombucha. Build up from a teaspoon
daily as the die off reaction, in which bad bugs are killed off by the good
army and release poison, can be severe.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Foods rich in pre biotic FOS include : **Jerusalem
artichoke, *Yacon, *Chicory, **Asparagus, *Burdock, dandelion, *Onions, **garlic
( * all available fresh, organically grown, from us, in limited amounts. **
means in abundance usually , but climate change is not helping) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Foods rich in GOS include lentils, legumes of all
kinds, fresh beans, *beetroot, **brassicas ( that’s your kale, cabbage, radish,
rocket, bok choy etc), pepita or pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, *Linseed, LSA
mix, buckwheat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Pre-Biotic
like foods include </span></b><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">green
tea, dark cocoa, almonds and brown rice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Resistant
starch</span></b><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;"> rich
foods include raw potatoe ( grate some, squeeze out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and drink the juice), and raw green bananas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Retrograde
resistant starch </span></b><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cooled down cooked potatoe, baked or steamed
being good as the starch hasn’t been thrown out with the cooking water. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Now to the benefits rendered to us by some ‘key
player ” bacteria, how to boost them with food and thereby correct dysbiosis.
And thanks to Jason, the following is all backed up by plenty of research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">Polyphenol
rich foods</span></b><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-shading: white;">
include: *Black elderberries, black currants,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>*blueberries , *Cherries, *strawberries, **blackberries ( U pick)
**purple plums, **apples, *black grapes, flaxseed meal, *chestnuts, hazelnuts,
*pecans, black sesame/tahini, *purple carrots, red cabbage, spinach, broccoli,
*red onions , *orange and red carrots, red rice, black rice, *red and black
quinoa, *sourdough rye bread, *black olives and olive oil</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The good guys <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Probiotics
or “pro<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life microbes” do the following
for us:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*modulate
the immune system : protect against allergy development and up-regulate non
specific immunity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*promote
normal gut motility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*improve
nutritional status: B vitamins, Vitamin K, mineral absorption ( eg calcium,
magnesium, zinc)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">* energy
salvaging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">* ”Xenobiotic
metabolism: polyphenols, phytoestrogens, glycosides” … maybe half a day on
google?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*Colonization
( by bad bugs) resistance”. Ie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they
increase your immunity to invasion by pathogens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*Blood
glucose control and insulin sensitivity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*Produce
short chain fatty acids ( SCFAs)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">* Weight
management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">*Mood
management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">* Good impacts
on our inflammatory milieu<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Examples of the
star <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good Bacteria include <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Bifidiobacterium spp</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Takes away stress
response, do </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">polyphenols
transformation</span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> ( important for activity of many medicinal herbs and
absorption of dietary polyphenols) <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ideal
population <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>> 2.5 to 5%<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To RESTORE, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk508955291">daily
consume pre biotic supplements as above, polyphenol rich foods, pre-biotic
-rich foods, pre-biotic like foods, and resistant starch foods. Cover your
needs until indigenous populations return by having kimchee and Vaalia yogurt
daily.<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lactobacilus Spp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Short chain
fatty acid ( scfa) production and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>lactate production for inhibition of pathogens. Ideal population is 0.01
to 1% . To increase , take lactulose at higher dose such as 15 ml daily, phgg. </span>Get
into those green tea and dark organic cocoa <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">pre-biotic and polyphenol rich food and drinks too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Konjac glucomannan”, and here again I call on the inimitable
Dr Axe</span> to explain about this purported weight loss herb: <span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">https://draxe.com/glucomannan/ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Akkermansia <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Good populations associated with healthier metabolic status and better
outcomes from weight loss interventions. This is my kind of microbe! High fat
diet decreases this bacteria BUT, HUGE BUT!!, they are INCREASED by the GOOD
fats from *avocados and **grass fed organic </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">animal products <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rich in n-3 fats</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">, the omega-3 family derived from the
essential fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid. These two </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-style: normal;">fatty acids</span></b></em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> are
'essential' because they cannot be made in the body. Also to</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">increase</i> Akkermansia levels : FOS,
lactulose, red fruits such as *pomegranate, *red grape seeds and skins, red
apple skin, Lignonberries and red dragon fruit . Seems red things <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>breed up Akkermansia. Hypothetically
also…slippery elm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Considered an important
indicator of GIT health. The most abundant bacterium in the GIT of healthy
adults, comprises 10 to 15% ( but remember I was 37.27 before the iced vo vo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>episode) . The major butyrate producer.
Amazing benefits of butyrate in the gut include: intestinal wall integrity as
opposed to permeability , decreases visceral sensitivity and systemic
inflammation. Populations negatively affected by gluten free diet ( sorry) low
FODMAP diet, chemo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">To increase: GOS, FOS,
lactulose, PHGG, apple pectin (stewed apple with skin on) high fiber diet with
regular lentil based meals ( hippy slops), Psyllium husks, buckwheat, soaked
oats as opposed to cooked oats for their resistant starch, Polyphenols, and
probiotic supplementation with Bacillus coagulans and bifdobacterium longum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are Roseburria, Blautia, Eubacterium, Rumninococcus, intestibacter,
Pseudobutyrivibrio, coprociccus, Anerostipes, Subdoligranulum spp. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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look at a bad guy…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">E Coli</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> is interesting because even within
the same species and strain, with a few genes turned off it can go from a
pathogen that causes death<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to a
beneficial bacteria which induces gut cells to produce more serotonin ( which
fixes constipation) and also to manufacture vitamin K. It makes one shudder to
think how glibly the genetic engineers are cutting and pasting genes with happy
abandon as if they have a clue what they are doing !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">To DECREASE pathogenic E
Coli, it is thanks to God, the same ol’ high fibre whole foods diet is your
answer. Plus <span style="color: #1d2129;">daily consumption of pre biotic
supplements, polyphenol rich foods, pre-biotic -rich foods, pre-biotic like
foods, and resistant starch foods. Make sure to get kimchee and Vaalia yogurt
daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Here’s to
our collective impending super health, strength, energy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and longevity my friends. Best wishes, from
Bee at Merri Bee Organic Farmacy Nannup 0897561408<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-9866165776357227032018-01-26T06:59:00.000-08:002018-01-26T06:59:02.218-08:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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This feels like my life's work. Thirty plus years of revegetating cleared properties in WA has taught us what lives and what fails. Here I present a handy guide for permaculture designers .</div>
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White Sapote, Palms ( I like Jelly and Chilean minature coconut palm), </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oak, Honey Locust<b>, </b><span style="color: #00b050;">Bunya Pine, Stone Pine, Pinyon pine, grafted
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wetter places , <span style="color: #00b050;">Eucalypts ( good structural timber
species are spotted gum, Yellow stringy bark, Ironbark, Rose Gum, Sugar Gum,
Jarrah and Wandoo), Large Bamboos # $ :
Good ones for timber and edible shoots round here include Bambusa Olhameii, B. Textilis, B. Tuldoides, B
Malingensis and Dendrocalamaus
latiforus, D.Membraneous, D.Strictus
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as they prefer there own company and are alleopathic. Oaks in the fire sector
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<span style="color: #00b050;">Olive $, </span>Pomegranate$, Desert Ash # $, Fig $#,
Chinese date $ Mulberry, the water
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<span style="color: #00b050;">Loquat; carob </span>*#$; Capulin cherry M, & high wood value &
its fruit decoys birds, stone fruit, apples , Quince, Medlar, <span style="color: #00b050;">Frankinsence and Myrrh </span>M.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Shrubs and hedgerow plants: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="color: #00b050;">Summer vigorous Jerusalem
artichoke, Banna grass$#, sugar cane #, sorghum$#, Winter vigorous globe
artichoke Coprosma #$, Ugni, Feijoa & common guava ( can get to 3m high), cherry guava, Ugni, </span>Sea
Buckthorn <span style="color: #00b050;">M (very high in Vit C ) Old man Salt Bush
# $ , </span>Hawthorn M<span style="color: #00b050;">; scented geraniums;
lavender; wormwood, Mugwort & southernwood M; Drought tolerant group which
provides fibre for cordage, sugar sap etc : New Zealand Flax, Red Hot Poker (
nectar for birds and bees). The prickly brigade of cattle proof fencing plants include some bamboos, Agaves, Aloes M, Opuntia (
prickly pear)#$; Euphorbia tetragoni, prickly
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reduce evaporation from ponds, (mulberry can feed fish and ducks with silkworm
larvae & fruit ); the fast growing coppicing
trees poplars and willows weeping, Chilean
( tall but can look straggly )and Osier …all animal fodder # ; <span style="color: #00b050;">blueberry, </span>thornless Boysen berry, youngberry ,
raspberry, <span style="color: #00b050;">Valerian, Self heal, comfrey#$, mints
such as Vietnamese, peppermint, spearmint; Gotu Cola and Brahmi herb M (
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<span style="color: #00b050;">Chinese water chestnut , water spinach or Kang Kong,
Taro and Lebanese Cress; Mulch plant /water
fern Azolla </span>* <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and comfrey and yarrow M #*, culinary
herbs shallots, garlic , majoram, sage, rosemary, oregano, thyme, fennel, Fenugreek
*, lemon grass, mints, rhubarb ( heavy feeder) all M; tansy, Echinacea, Wood Sage, Clary Sage, M,
Day Lily, asparagus $; Hyssop, borage, Angelica, liquorice, German
Chamomile, chicory, dandelion, calendula, St Johns Wort, poppie, foxglove, ( digitalis, beware, can be poisonous) . These
are all M for medicinal but a herbalist should be consulted. There are any more
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potatoes, Jerusalem artichoke . </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b>Vines </b></span><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hardenbergia *, Deciduous Kiwifruit and grapes, choko, lab lab
*& scarlett runner bean * which are
winter dormant , evergreen passionfruit , banana passionfruit , Wisteria * Jasmine,
honey suckle #$ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Weed
suppressants include N fixers Running Postman, Kennedia, vigorous Lab Lab bean,
nastursium, sweet potatoe, pigface $ ( edible fruit ) Lippia, Wandering Jew ( nutritious
vegetable if it is the blue flowered one) Red (M) and Arrowleaf
Clovers, delicate but sweet scented lawn chamomile, everybody’s favorite
STRAWBERRY, wild strawberry too. Don’t forget
sedums and succulents which are C4 plants which sequester carbon well, plus the delightful spring flowering bulbs
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human food </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">: <span style="color: #00b050;">winter crops : broad beans* peas*, chickpeas, flax, oats,
wheat , barley, rye, vetches and trefoils. Summer: corn, sunflower, amaranthus,
millet, buckwheat, pumpkin, quinoa, flax again, alfalfa, comfrey , stinging
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perennial pasture species for cell
grazing between swales</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="color: #00b050;">Chicory, tall wheat grass, Fescue, cocksfoot,
phalaris, Panic ,Timothy and Rhodes
grasses, Margarita and Sanarini French Serrdella*, Siverado Lucerne*, Arrowleaf
clover*, self seeding annual purple vetch. All the above are growing in our
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are a <b>Botanical and Fauna Ark</b> keeping all of
the above plant species and our collection of vital nutritional and medicinal
plants and native plants is growing every year. We have seeds for sale of many of
them and are making tons of compost, for
propagating by vegetative means, the rest. If you
are interested in working with us in the nursery please contact us via face
book <a href="https://www.facebook.com/merribeenannup/">https://www.facebook.com/merribeenannup/</a>
, email <a href="mailto:merribeefarmacy@gmail.com">merribeefarmacy@gmail.com</a> or phone after dark & lunch time on (08)
97561408. We’re at the Margaret River Farmers market most Saturday mornings. Merri
Bee Organic Farmacy can be seen on Google Earth .We are also looking for team
members available to take part in Eco Restoration Camps. This urgent work involves planting, mulching and seeding to create food forests on degraded sites throughout
the south west. Many hands make light work and lots of fun, so please contact
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<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Merri Bee Farmacy organic cooking
fats : Tallow & Suet <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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stable and nutrient-dense natural GOOD fat </span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> from our own </span><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">100%</span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">grass-fed,
free-range</span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,</span><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> organic</span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> ,</span><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> naturally
raised </span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sheep and Jersey cows,</span><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> free
from </span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> hormones </span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> chemicals</span></strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of factory farmed animals.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">These golden fats are produced using our unique low-heat ceramic rendering and advanced fine-clarification system that allows our culinary oil to meet the highest standards to produce a pure, premium grass-fed cooking tallow. Similar products are very expensive but our tallow is the easily affordable healthy alternative to questionable fats and vegetable oils.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; color: #666666; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">Tallow is an excellent cooking oil with high smoke point (420
degrees) stable at high temperatures, and does not create the free radicals
that are a concern with vegetable oils. ideal for <b>frying</b>,
r<b>oasting, basting, sautéing </b>and for using in place of butter or
margarine in<b> baking</b> recipes. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt;">Pure culinary tallow from grass fed stock is <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">biologically compatible</span></b> with our bodies largest
organ, our skin</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.
It contains naturally occurring </span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">fat soluable Vitamins A, D, K</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, and</span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> E</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> and important fats
such as</span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, so has</span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> anti-cancer </span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,</span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> anti-inflammatory
and antimicrobial properties</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. One example of the importance of fat is that a diet high in grass fed
cholesterol is a precursor for our skin to manufacture vitamin D instead of
burning when exposed to sunlight. This vitamin promotes good sleep and fights cancer. Vitamin D in adequate amounts such that you maintain between 60 and 80 </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">nanograms per ml of blood, </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> is nearly
impossible to obtain from diet. Sun bathing in the middle of the day is essential to get enough Vitamin D to prevent cancer and
other auto immune diseases. Yes, this contrasts with the usual health advice. So, lo, we have discovered one reason for skyrocketing rates of skin cancer is indeed completely false information , parroted by well meaning health professionals who do not suspect this " information" is designed to promote, not prevent, disease. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Vegetable oils and spreads such as canola and
sunflower oils have replaced good fats in most households in recent times.
The Paleo, GAPs, Nourishing </span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">Traditions,</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> WA Price and traditional
real foods movements have rediscovered the </span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">key
benefits</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> that
these nourishing fats play in our diets and their </span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">essential</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> role in </span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;">developing
children’s bodies </span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and</span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , serif; padding: 0in;"> brains</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Our good fats can also
be used topically, making a soothing balm for skin conditions such as eczema. Albeit somewhat messy, but to alleviate their children's suffering and allow the family a good night's sleep while promoting health, not destroying it with steroid creams...some are willing to try.</span></div>
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Jersey cows and sheep thrive in the pure air from 2 oceans down in Karridale, naturally
deriving sea salt from unusually lush pastures (the result of planned grazing and fertilizer -free management</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> ) We have not yet begun the programme started at Nannup of reinoculating paddocks with compost tea .....home brewed to introduce
beneficial soil biology which naturally boosts fertility . Your purchase supports our farms to
demonstrate that organic farming is sinking excess atmospheric carbon into regenerating
health topsoil for nutrient dense food and the amelioration of climate change.</span></a></div>
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-62147232159028120362017-11-10T05:27:00.001-08:002017-11-22T18:11:01.760-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Reading an old edition of Nannup’s local paper "The Telegraph" from 2004 in the heat of the day ( yes, the 34 degree heat and humidity of early November, following severe wind storms in August, a bone dry September and a bone chilling October ) I was struck by what a caring society we were. We were worried about climate change. People in high places were talking about sustainability. The Carpenter gov. had not so sustainably decided to install a de sal plant but at least the Yarragadee was saved from watering Perth's lawns, hooray! Recycling was a big deal in Nannup and Rosco Bartrop who had volunteered week in week out for years to sort rubbish and receive and deliver recyclables from householders, wanted to be paid $15 an hour for some of this work because the shire now had a grant to deal with waste. Sadly he was turned down when he should have been rewarded for his huge contribution. Back then, the shire was in the act of building a gravel hardstand to receive and process green waste at the tip. Yep, PROCESS. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How things have changed….and how jaded we have become. Virtually nothing is recycled now, Australia wide. If you missed 4 Corners on how the maffia are paid to dump our rubbish in the bush through a company called Clean Away….</span><a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2017-08-24%2Ftrashed%2F8839920&h=ATNWP3B9yaWZZqTt3IXrlXtLhiQUvSc3FeSkX5xAtmgo6bzaQy6IjWysg8HVrYrtjDPx-M3DNuv-PM719O_Oj0r4A8scKKfpCkPZzdeq0yV2NJ9cJORTxnFtvMtq8lb4akYJvbtgv95RWIwGVpVAXklNMuhiywHbKjF7Sjim2ZRWfkCPtFGwuF51IprQsIRI_RAYfWwv7_h9fbYiGm7De8lZqd575GOMDMbvO5kgNSLkTxqd32Ia4FGLE-NjKjTiolyXup1xqtsIj-gMv7zy-IkiM9UGqhljedML" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-24/trashed/8839920" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-24/trashed/8839920</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’ve read that the Nannup Shire intends to engage the now infamous CleanAway here in the near future! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Today the Yarragadee water from the Thomas Rd NAnnup bore is sent to 10 towns where there are no water restrictions. We are rapidly draining the aquifer but as long as the voters can wash their cars and dogs without a care, that's all that matters. Today Nannup <b>burns</b> the communities ever- increasing piles of green waste , green waste grown with aquifer water?. A veritable mountain accumulates as trailer load after trailer load of grass, leaves, branches and whole logs arrive daily. Those August storms mentioned brought down dozens of huge trees, ten in our street alone, ironically during my speech to council calling for saving old growth Barrabup forest. Remember this: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Forests moderate everything. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">So we put our precious organic matter up into the blue sky. We are so lucky to have a blue sky, China doesn't . I have been at the tip near the heat and smoke , furiously shoving piles of grass clippings in bags while a big grabbing machine was working right next to me dumping this wonderful organic matter on a blasted fire. These days a man with a dump truck, (he seems contracted by the shire?) brings tons of large branches to the tip for burning , not processing. I am so distressed at this contribution to CC that we just spent a fortune buying a bigger chipper and have invited everyone to bring their green waste to our place for processing. Only 3 people have done this so far. What happened to the Shire's plans to process green waste? Excuses given that people will dump naily and preserved timber, but has there been any attempt to educate? I try but am edited down to 300 words .. A lighted match is the cheapest option but take a look at the smoke, these choking green house gases were seen all the way to the coast. Thanks for photos of the Nannup tip inferno by Rachel Wedd </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Im tired of JADED and IGNORANT people making dum decisions with no regard to the environment and climate change. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Im SO GLAD Margs council is looking greener , and Im glad some nice people have got back onto council in Nannup and that one jaded councilor Ann Slater who couldn’t care less about Barrabup forest is rightly GONE. Other right wing conservatives got in by the skin of their teeth. A few more good people on council and we might get wise decisions. I want Nannup to walk our sustainable talk and be a leader in this area. Build us a road and hard stand and pay a few guys full time to put green waste through a chipper, we will compost it. Rosco, do you want a job mate?</span>Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-86144432442636016302017-08-16T18:00:00.000-07:002017-08-16T18:00:15.939-07:00Permaculture starts with the soil<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-6cae3a65-ed9c-1590-d272-4d1f798448f5" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soils ain't soils, and trying to grow food in Western Australia's kikuyu infested dust is just plain heart breaking. Much of Merri Bee Organic Farmacy was degraded like this , we had non wetting sand on the flat bits and steep clay hills bereft of topsoil on the rest. We could still grow stuff when in the good old days it rained, but when rain stopped falling that much in 2008, formerly easy crops to grow failed. CC was not a hoax! With the help of Dr. Elaine Ingham we are converting our soil back to the luscious, productive chocolate crumbs no doubt was at white settlement by teaming with microbes. Where this 3 year process is complete, LIVING SOIL holds 10 times its own weight in water, no longer needs to grow weeds, produces abundant disease- free plants and ( as a huge bonus) just happens to cool the planet whenever the sun is shining. By using the billion year old partnership of animals, plants and fungi ,our farming has entered a new phase of abundance. We now strive to show others the way to regenerate soil, for a myriad of benefits to ecosystems, people's health & profit margins. The smallest things on Earth are turning out to be the most powerful on our farms and in the medical world. Beneficial gut flora are realised now to be key to mental and physical health. Catalyst Gut Reaction 2 part series explored this 2 years ago. Working with biology to grow food as medicine means better nutrient density & keeping qualities and forgotten flavours. Higher vitamin and mineral content is the result of increasing concentrations of microbes. ….as is carbon sequestration. .Monoculture cropping often relies on ploughing , poisons & fire which all destroy soil microbes , making 99% of farms emmitt rather than sink carbon. We aim to demonstrate the alternative.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Perennial food plants have many eco system benefits over annual cropping so we are developing food forests on Nature's model. Merri Bee Organic Farmacy is a permaculture that's been evolving over the past 32 years. With over 90 species of fruit on our 10 hectares beside the Blackwood River in Nannup, life is easier. The ever- expanding garden of Eden supports us, our animals, and loyal customers who care for the environment, animal welfare and their own vitality. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;">We are so grateful to them and excited be part of the growing fair food movement. Besides supplying real food, we now teach soil building skills so we can all grow in health and happiness in a safe climate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Reeling from global warming since 2008 we purchased an additional 20 ha in a supposedly wetter region ( Karridale) in 2012. Both properties are tested free of pesticide residues & heavy metals. We were certified organic for a decade and continue to manage the land organically. The information age has enabled us to absorb & then apply the discoveries of visionaries: Dr E. Ingham ( soil microbiology ) the late BC Mollison (design, earthworks for water harvesting and more) Gabe Brown( multi species cover cropping) Colin Seis ( pasture cropping) & Allan Savory ( cell grazing) . Tons of green waste (normally burnt at the tip) are re recycled into compost, full of beneficial microbes.The microbes are multiplied in a vat of aerated water & this "compost tea" is sprayed on paddocks. Then microbes unlock minerals, build structure & (with perennial pasture species planted in the wake of chook & pig tractors) atmospheric carbon is sequestered along deep roots. The land is now absorbing rainfall, a dramatic improvement! Swales collect any escaping overland flow in downpours & grow abundant forage for the herd of 5 animal species. Bio fuel is generated from pig manure. The combination of multi species fauna and flora, plus 7 acres devoted to wildlife, ensures clean, fresh water feeds into the Blackwood year round.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> What have been our challenges along the way? What solutions did we come to? Our challenges are mainly to do with climate change: hungry wildlife and increasing pestilence, plus I have to say increasingly pesky food laws, did put a dint in income .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A rapidly heating and drying climate necessitates hand watering of newly developing soil/garden areas, a major time drain: our irrigation season now goes for 10 months a year, not 2 months in summer as was the case up until 2008. Water issues preclude using reticulation, so flood irrigated pits, swales and huglekulture areas are being developed. Carbon is the sponge which holds water & minerals, and the need to irrigate daily has reduced to weekly in improved soils, plus our well fed plants naturally resist pest attack.Fungi and bacteria feed our plants the full array of nutrients, and this confers frost and disease resisitance as well . Soil this good takes 2 or 3 years to develop and we have not yet found a short cut. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupVqX5ROS8h1DzprkNs-DOxCbfkoHfgAYFxYHw6-p3cqZVdUqp4cdfSA39lv9WelQeMVnJ4gazDIJWgiJT-1Fdtax0IIxUp85qnt08ne5kp5qe5P8nvO4mmCt_he0EM6IUQzSb5ZO3ZQ/s1600/S2050001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupVqX5ROS8h1DzprkNs-DOxCbfkoHfgAYFxYHw6-p3cqZVdUqp4cdfSA39lv9WelQeMVnJ4gazDIJWgiJT-1Fdtax0IIxUp85qnt08ne5kp5qe5P8nvO4mmCt_he0EM6IUQzSb5ZO3ZQ/s640/S2050001.JPG" width="640" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our remote rural location means attracting decent permanent workers is difficult, with so many young people affected by health issues. We rely on travellers from overseas through WWOOF, HELP X programmes etc. Over decades we have learnt to: communicate well, spend the time on initial training, be flexible and use the talents & passions of the individual, to make the workplace nurturing & fun and to be assertive and goal- focused from the start. We have had amazing people help us a lot. We face the challenges of many farmers such as our advancing years however, I feel better now than I did when i was 20! Supermarket food prices have not risen to any extent in 30 years, while the cost of fuel, labour, rates and charges has gone through the roof. Encouraging consumers to invest in the health benefits of food grown in live soil as opposed to "dirt plus fertilizer" is our aim. One bug is the false claims of competitors. Organic grain for our animals is in short supply due to bad seasons & lack of growers It is expensive but we think chemical free is worth it….when you know that conventional grain crops rely heavily on round up and are aware of it’s effect on gut microbes who protect us from cancer and 200 other auto immune diseases, you find the money. We seek alternatives to grain which can be grown on site such as acacia seed, amaranthus, quinoa , kangaroo grass etc. "Insect hotels" are harvested to provide the otherwise expensive protein needs of our stock. We selectively breed good foragers.</span></div>
<br />Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-25877508441218968352017-08-14T19:56:00.005-07:002017-08-14T20:06:34.186-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Soil Health, Human Health</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Many of us are ailing today. I believe we can fix our selves, our soil and we could just be in time to save our beautiful Earth. But we have to hurry! It will take a lot of education, a lot of unlearning of misinformation and an openess to new ideas. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Here is a very personal story of recovery of the land and the people on it. Please Share !</span><br />
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<h1>
Introduction<o:p></o:p></h1>
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We come from the Soil. “From dust you come, and to dust you
shall return” say the scriptures of major religions and the stories of Indigenous people
who have survived for thousands of years .<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“This is my body says” the old Native Americans….and indeed
we are a reflection of the soil that produced the food that built our bodies
and brains. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All enduring tribes have taught their children and grand children “look after the soil,
and the soil will look after you” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Humus gone , Humans gone<o:p></o:p></h1>
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But today in the developed world, the food that builds most
children’s bodies is in a terrible
state. At white settlement this country’s soil was alive with 30% of its weight being living
microscopic and macroscopic critters, the average carbon content was 8% ,
although scientists say some places were as high as 28%. The
“soil” of nearly all West Australian farms has a carbon content now of only
half a percent. The humus is gone. The dirt is just holding up the plants and
lots of artificial fertilizer and lots of water are needed to grow a crop. Nothing
is recycled. Ironically synthetic fertilizers attack the indigenous soil
microbes (that did fertilizing for free) and grow unbalanced plants which attract
pests. Pesticides kill more than the target. The manufacture of chemical pesticides
and fertilizers uses tons of water and fossil fuel contributing to Climate
Change ( CC) There may only be several species of pathogenic bacteria and fungi
in very conventional, “productive”, poisoned soil, where 200 years ago stood a
Jarrah and Marri forest or grassland where the soil was heaving with beneficial
bacteria, fungi, protozoa, micro arthropods, nematodes and thousands of species
of <i>macroscopic</i> creatures ( macro means you can see with our
naked eyes, microscopic means…well you
need a microscope to these.) Collectively the living things in soil has been
dubbed “ the Soil Food Web” by Dr Elaine Ingham, eminient soil microbiologist from whom we learnt
HEAPS! Microscopic organisms will often
be called microbes in this talk, mainly because I don’t want to get tongue
twisted and say micro orgasms! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Only 1 in a hundred
farms are organic or bio dynamic where we can expect the soil to be a lot more
like the native soil …. far more alive. If you want to learn how Mother Nature
grows plants , visit a forest , a native prairie or a biological farm, or keep
listening! Nature uses the ancient trio
of plants, animals and soil microbes to build and maintain humus. Humus is the
black sponge in the soil, the storage place for water and minerals, home of
trillions of microbes. It is around 70% carbon, which use to be in the air. It
got there by carbon capture and storage driven by microbes. Many a civilization
has risen to great heights on the back of humus. Unfortunately many of these civilisations
didn’t maintain their humus, or carbon levels and crashed. Easter Island is one
example. I think we are all aware that the entire human race is threatened now
with extinction from climate change, desertification and biodiversity loss. I
have been to the middle east lately, the cradle of humanity. Once a forest, now
just shifting sand and bare rocks after 8,000 years of bad farming practice.
Deserts are growing all over the world at an alarming rate. Need to stop being
a desert making species and start to build <b>humus</b>,
because we <b>humans</b> are made of and
for the Earth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Before Elaine<o:p></o:p></h1>
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We were organic for decades but did not know about biology
until recently. When we first brought
our little 27 acre place in Nannup in 1985, the good biology had been
extinguished for, oh , 15o years , when it was first cleared , burnt , ploughed
and supered, It was not until we got the best available microbes back into the soil from a nearby forest that
everything improved in leaps and bounds. It was marginal steep land. We did all the right things, cover crops,
composting ( inexpertly we now know)…. I was thinking it would improve since it
was no longer getting regular applications of super phosphate and what- not
which I knew killed earthworms, ( although my X husband, trained in
horticulture , was known use to use
Round Up here and there and even urea and NPK fertilizers…..note the “X”!) and
it was improving but very slowly. Friendly farmers in the district predicted
that because I refused to use super
phosphate (and stinginess prevented Mr Winfield from using it) that our cows would get chalky bones after
the phosphate bank in the soil ran out in 7 years time. BUT This did not occur.
That was interesting. With the greatest sincerity these same farmers advised us
in the beginning to use the latest great
thing: Round Up “because there are no residues of it after 2 days, and it is so
safe you can drink it” and without using Round Up “ you will not get much to
harvest for your efforts” . They had been marketed to ….brainwashed. I was fortunately always suspicious of round
up and only once (years after splitting with Steve) let a friend who swore by
its safety and efficacy put it on my feijoa patch to get rid of the kikuyu that
was driving me nuts. To my disgust the kike came back 6 months later, and I
never used it again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CC<o:p></o:p></h1>
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So the land was looking OK with no inputs for 20 years
except seaweed and wood chips and chook food, no crippled cows. On weekends we
grew a permaculture, a food forest with 90 species of fruit and nut tree, berries
beans and herbs under them, timber trees, pasture for sheep, geese, cows, pigs
and alpacas. All going fine. In 2008 ,
change became apparent and we were suddenly going backwards. We realized our soil wasn’t even getting wet
in rain events. The only thing thriving was kikuyu grass and it was taking
over. We had to learn more about soil. I did Dr Elaine Inghams on line soil
microbiology course in 2014 at great expense ( and greater now...it costs
$8,000 to do the course today) but it
was worth every cent. What we learnt about microbes and it was a game changer.
We now water once a week in summer instead of 8 hours of every day, pests and
weeds have dwindled, no damage from drought and frost, we are laughing. This has led me to be standing here, because I want
everyone to know about microbes. I believe the smallest things on Earth are the
most powerful and important to our health and can heal the world from all the
damage humans have done to it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My life in 5 mins<o:p></o:p></h1>
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I am Bee, born 1959 ( which makes me 57, ( I
tell you this so you don’t sit there doing the maths when your supposed to be
listening…)I would love to be standing before you as a vibrant product of an
organic farm, but alas, I was born and raised in the outer suburb of Melbourne,
Mt Waverly: a sea of brick and tile. How I longed for living things! A visit to old Aunty Dot Orpwood’s farm in the
country one Christmas day when I must have been about 4 or 5 was the highlight
of my childhood, there were chooks and vege plants and I discovered peaches
grew on trees for the first time. We ate plum pudding with sixpences in it and
later I cuddled up to the dogs lying by
the loungeroom fire to end a perfect day. So began my hankering to live in the
country. But back in the nature- less suburbs we started most days with a bowlful of cornflakes or weeties,
sometimes coco pops, always snuck half a cup of sugar on to it …mum never found
out. The standard school lunch was a bleached and preserved white sandwich with
an apple or shrivelled orange that tasted
like moth balls. ….mum chased flies around the house with a pump action
sprayer full of DDT….the morning
fluoride pill Mum dutifully gave us which was in addition to the fluoridated
and chlorinated water supply. No wonder I was very sickly and suffered from ear
and throat infections one after another, for which later on there was always a
course of antibiotics dispensed by our local GP, Dr Harms. I kid you not, that
was his name. I suffered from severe anxiety
starting in grade 6, no one knew. Although I tried to tell my mum. No doubt my
parents had mercury fillings too, and did their best. I came through that at 15. On the good side my grandparents on both
sides were angels who I believe still care for me even though they have passed
on. We always had lamb chops and 3 veg every night and mum did sometimes make
porridge and one day she threw a Readers Digest on my bed and said “ there’s an
article in this you might like” And so I
got to read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring… and decided to be an organic farmer.
Possibly the worst assault to my health was 8 mercury fillings at the tender
age of 7. Realizing now that mad hatters were mad because they worked with
mercury, I see that the course of my life was gravely affected by sheer
madness. I became a vegetarian at 16, even though I suffered from a strange
mouth disease when taking this up . My first husband was a mung bean eating
hippy when I met him at 18, and he insisted we go vegan. After a few months of
veganism I decended into my second bout of debilitating mental illness and was physically ill from every passing flu for weeks
at a time. Falling pregnant with my first child in this state of anorexia dash nervous
breakdown ….my body just took over and
it demanded meat, much to the Leo husband’s shock. We did not get on so well
after that, he didn’t like the more assertive me. But the madness continued, I had 4 children to
him! Skipping ahead 5 years and 3 kids later, we bought our little 27 acres in Nannup in 1985. We
straight away planted fruit and nut trees, being devotees of Bill Mollison ,
and we also had inherited about 12 very old citrus and stone fruit trees. So things
were looking up, and my first 4 children
ate well. We went fishing often, were keeping chooks, milking a cow, making
tons of yogurt, bottling and drying
fruit etc . I was a fulltime mother and my
children were my world. All too soon the eldest started leaving home and soon
after I split with their father after 17 years. About then I had severe PMS which went for 7 years ( remember
the DDT, it is an endocrine disrupter) I
had a few short term disastrous relationships after that, was really sucked in
by one guy I thought was wonderful . Well, presto, along came my 5<sup>th</sup>
child , now 17 . I will just call him L. J . I graded potatoes at his father’s workplace,
probably around the time of conceiving. Imagine
the poisons I was absorbing through my hands doing that job! Maybe you cannot imagine the amount of
pesticide, Yarragadee water and Chinese fertilizer used on a spud farm,
particularly this one which produced seed potatoes. I believe they dessicate
the crop with round up right before harvest.<o:p></o:p></div>
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L J <o:p></o:p></h1>
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In the partner stakes
I ‘d certainly had no luck . IF only I had heard Bill Mollison say what I heard
him say on a few months ago on You Tube. He was speaking in 1983 about an
aspect of African tribal law and interpreted it thus “ screw who you want to,
but who you have children with is a matter for the whole tribe to decide” Ok,
so I didn’t have the internet, I didn’t have the guidance of elders . L. J.’s dad
turned out to be a charming psychopath and there I was , now a single mother of
a very hyper active kid. And worse, I couldn’t get a pension because I had 20
acres of land. I had to think of a way to make ends meet. It was all very hard with
a colicky new born and no income, but a Busselton shop, Bay Organics, said they
would buy eggs from me as long as they were certified organic. Somehow I found
the money and time to become certified organic, I bred up lots of chooks and
ROOSTERS, which was a nightmare as I had to kill the roosters….but eventually
started selling eggs to Bay organics. I use to faint at the price of the
organic veges in bay organics, hurry out with my little pay check into coles
over the road and buy the way- cheaper veges and all the rest there. About a year
after becoming certified organic, my child covered in excema was now 3 and my
luck suddenly changed when Stewart K Seesink jumped out of his gravel-
delivering truck and into my life. Little did he know what he was in for. We have been life and business partners for 13
years now and Stewart is my wings and my rock. And little by little we learnt
the importance of eating organic. A little too late for L J though. He was a
very challenging child. He could climb onto a roof or fall into a water tank before
he could walk. He was obsessed with
dangerous knives and matches which I put on top of the fridge, but turn your
back and where was he ? Sitting on top of the fridge. He was a very fussy eater, and suffered from
terrible nightmares nearly every night . He did a lot of sleep walking<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">.</span> Long story short, and if you would like the longer story please email me and I will send you all the gory details ( merribeefarmacy@gmail.com) L.J turned out to have many health issues and left home at 14. A friend put the GAPS book
into my hands and I read about my son on page one. And I discovered ODD could be helped by the GAPS diet. HE had certainly fallen through the gaps at school and the gap in our medical knowledge which is thankfully starting to close. </div>
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I felt sure I had the cure in GAPS and now days
my child is back in WA, and but he wasn’t returning our calls. With recipes in
the book I made lots of bone broth and
kimchee and stored it in the freezer ever hopeful of connecting with my son and
correcting his microbes, but really we didn’t even know where he lived. I just
hope and pray that someone else gets through to him. We are waiting for a miracle.<br />
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In that hope, I have been studying flat out for him and for
you,. Why for you? Well, I believe nearly all people today have inherited faulty gut flora, and I
know that Im not alone in having a child like mine. If autism hasn’t touched you yet, how about auto immune
diseases, 200 of them and the incidence rates are skyrocketing. One out of every 3 people will get cancer today while 60 years ago it was a rare disease that
affected 1 in 100 . Alzheimers, alcoholism, allergies, anorexia, Add ADHD
Depresssion, schizophrenia all on the rise along with our atmospheric carbon dioxide level. 350 is considered the
upper limit for a safe climate, but we just keep going up and up, we are now at
410? We canot adapt to changes this
rapid. Forget adapting. We have to fix.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How about that all we have to do to reverse climate change
completely and stop the cancer and
autism epidemic is to grow our food ORGANICALLY
using biology? If everyone did that we would return to a safe
climate within 5 years and auto immune diseases such as cancer would be a thing
of the past….. because a living soil sequesters carbon and nourishes plants and
therefore people with the full array of minerals. A plant or person so well fed
needs no inputs from the 5 corporations controlling food and health. Sure , the
land and our gut is going to need a lot of natural therapy. For the land that
is compst tea and cell grazing and multi species cover crops. This heals
erosion .For the people it is healing and sealing the gut wall , similarly eroded
and leaking, with a bone broth fast and then introducing probiotic foods like home
made yogurt and sauerkraut. Our first step is to cut the chemicals. This is a
big task, even our drinking water contain fluoride and chlorine in drinking
water. Farmers are in debt and brainwashed as are their bankers who insist they
use “best” agronomic practice. Who here avoids fluoride and chlorine? I suspect
you do, or you wouldn’t be here, you’d be watching footy on TV thinking the
government was looking after you. Voting Liberal or Labour , swinging back and fourth every several years, reading the papers and watching the news.<o:p></o:p>Compliant as a lamb.</div>
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Dr Elaine taught us a lot about the miniature unseen world
in the soil and all the amazing services provided by beneficial microbes and
how everything goes wrong when they aren’t there. So we have now begun to understand
about the unseen human microbes and
their affect on physical and mental health…… and a summary of this is information
is I want to impart today. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It turns out that the life in the soil, the state of soil
microbes, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk490184026">the number, diversity composition of the
various species populations in any given soil (ie its good guy to bad guy ratio
) determines a soil’s fertility</a>. Fertility profoundly affects plant growth of course. And
it seems, the diversity and composition
of the various populations of critters living in and on a person (ie the good guy to bad guy
ratio ) determines that person’s health .<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>As Hippocrates said
2,400 years ago , “All disease begins in the gut”. </b><b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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When we are born, we are sterile, a new born has no gut
microbes until the very moment of birth
when he or she passes through the birth canal and swallows bacteria. So
we inherit our gut flora from our
parents. Both parents. Father shares his microbes with the mother on a regular
basis. A healthy set of parents passes on a normal gut flora to their child ,
who thrives . C section born children are not so lucky and are often populated
by the bacteria found on the latex gloves of the nursing staff! The naturally
born child who gets lots more good bacteria, fungi and protozoa from colostrum and breast milk soon has a
flourishing gut flora . And it happens that when a seed germinates and puts
forth it’s very first little root into the soil, it gets colonized with
mychorrizal fungi immediately and if it does not, it is bound to be a
sickly plant . It will need life
support….it will need to be fed soluable fertilizer and will always be malnourished
and a target for pests.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Permaculture to the rescue<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">It
seems as our world gets more and more toxic, and as our diet in the western
world relies on less and less species of food plants, our gut flora gets less
and less diverse. A</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="color: #333333;">modern person from a developed
country has a simplified microbiome of about
500 species. So like a reflection of our Earth’s ecosystems which are being
eroded and turning to desert at an alarming rate, our internal gardens of flora
are less diverse and quite sparse . Like a boring Mt Waverley pebble and pampas
grass garden. </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The SAD or standard
American diet I grew up on did make me sad and sick and I want to say that
since growing our own food and living almost entirely from our permaculture for
the past 10 years now <b>I feel better now than I did when I was 20 !
I feel deep gratitude to Bill Mollison</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1>
Get Mercury out of
your head<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Another great step I took was to get rid of my
mercury fillings at a biological dentist. I nearly chickened out because of the
cost but Dr Natasha said somewhere you will never get rid of candida until you get
rid of mercury. This is because the body tries to destroy toxic stuff and if it
can’t it stores them in safe places like in fungal biomass, in your hair and
body fat. I had tinea for 4 years. The day after my amalgum removal the itch
stopped, soon after the skin healed up and has been fine ever since. I also
lost 8 kg pretty easily over the next month, to my delight. Obese mice ate the
pooh of skinny mice and got permanently skinny so we now think there are skinny
microbes at play. Converslel the fermicutes seem over represented in fat people
and are possibly keeping them fat. Demanding
their host eats ice cream and timtams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tribal Life<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The SAD diet is a far cry from what our
ancestors ate, and there is luckily still a couple of tribes today who live a
hunter gather life. The HADZA of West Tanzania have been studied a lot recently
and Jeff Leach was one scientist who joined them for 3 days to see if his
microbiome would change. Baseline poo
samples were taken before he went to live as one with the Hadza. He said “nothing
is wasted or killed unnecessarily, but they eat an amazing variety of plant and
animal species (around 600, most of which are birds) compared with us in the
West. My other lasting impression was how little time they spent getting food.
It appeared as though it took just a few hours a day -- as simple as going
round a large supermarket. Any direction you walked there was food -- above, on
and below ground.”After three days of a forager diet his gut microbal diversity
increased a stunning 20%, including some totally novel African microbes, such
as those of the phylum Synergistetes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
bad news was, after a few days, his gut microbes had virtually returned to
where they were before the trip. Jeff says we have to try <a href="https://theconversation.com/east-african-hunter-gatherer-research-suggests-the-human-microbiome-is-an-ecological-disaster-zone-73668" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006598;">re-wilding</span></a> our diet
and lifestyle, be more adventurous in your cuisine plus reconnect with nature
and its associated microbial life. </span>Well we have to do something,<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the graphs show such an exponential growth in
Autism that Dr Stephanie Seneff says that by 2032 every second child born will
be on the Autistic spectrum ! In the U S in 1970 , before Round Up appeared,
one child in 10,000 had austism, in 2007, 1 in 100, In 2013, 1 in 50 . This is
an over whelming burden on society. So what on Earth is going on, why might
this be? The healthier the person, the greater his diversity of gut microbes. </span>Why
did human gut flora diversity dip in 1940, and then dip again in 1975? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The rise of autism and the rise in
the amount of Round Up used on food crops correlates almost exactly . </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Graphs
plotted by Nancy Swanson plot many diseases against round up used on farms.One
of the biggest users is the U.S. A. who’s infant mortality rates are one of the
highest in the world, behind Haiti and Guam. <b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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BRAIN STORM <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why are our gut microbes so damaged? LIST <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pesticides, artificial fertilizers, C section, medicine:
ANTIBIOTICS ,the contraceptive pill, Panadol and Tylanol being some of the
worst, food additives preservatives colourings and flavourings, chlorinated
water, fluoride, <span style="background: red; mso-highlight: red;">alcohol</span>,
detergents, shampoos, soaps conditioners, hair dye, make up, deodorant,
perfume, air fresheners, new car smell, BPA in plastic drink bottles and tin
cans, slow death by rubber duck,
formaldehyde and flame retardants on soft furnishing and clothes, baby
formula, smoking, heavy metals eg
mercury from dental amalgums and vaccinations,
lead from petrol, cadmium from clothing dye, GMO’s but the worst and
most pervasive and dangerous of all…….Round Up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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EMR ? It has been measured to promote growth of pathogenic
fungi or “mould” in homes, most unhealthy. EMR possibly damages bacteria and
every other cell , a lot of Russian research supports this theory. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I will just invite you now to think about you life, maybe identify toxins in your or a close
friend or family member’s life, and whether you (or they) were harmed.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s an old saying “You are what you eat” …. Perhaps we should say “You are what you
digest” What we digest and absorb is a function of what critters we co exist with, so we are the reflection of
our gut microbe garden. HEre is a paragraph from a paper which shows how exciting this research is: <o:p></o:p></div>
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In <span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">5 human </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial" title="Randomized controlled trial"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">randomized
controlled trials</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> from July
2016 found that certain commercially available strains of probiotic bacteria
from the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifidobacterium" title="Bifidobacterium"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Bifidobacterium</span></a></i>and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus" title="Lactobacillus"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Lactobacillus</span></a></i> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera" title="Genera"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">genera</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">(<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._longum" title="B. longum"><span style="color: #0b0080;">B. longum</span></a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._breve" title="B. breve"><span style="color: #0b0080;">B. breve</span></a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._infantis" title="B. infantis"><span style="color: #0b0080;">B. infantis</span></a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._helveticus" title="L. helveticus"><span style="color: #0b0080;">L. helveticus</span></a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._rhamnosus" title="L. rhamnosus"><span style="color: #0b0080;">L. rhamnosus</span></a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_plantarum" title="Lactobacillus plantarum"><span style="color: #0b0080;">L. plantarum</span></a></i>,
and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._casei" title="L. casei"><span style="color: #0b0080;">L. casei</span></a></i>), when </span></span><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_administration" title="Oral administration"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">taken by mouth</span></a></span><span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> in
daily doses of 10</span><sup><span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 107%;">9</span></sup><span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">–10</span><sup><span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 107%;">10</span></sup><span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_forming_unit" title="Colony forming unit"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">colony forming
units</span></a></span><span style="background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> (CFU) for 1–2 months,</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> possess treatment efficacy (i.e., improved
behavioral outcomes) in certain </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system_disorder" title="Central nervous system disorder"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">central
nervous system disorders</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> –
including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety" title="Anxiety"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">anxiety</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder" title="Major depressive disorder"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">depression</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum_disorder" title="Autism spectrum disorder"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">autism
spectrum disorder</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder" title="Obsessive–compulsive disorder"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">obsessive–compulsive
disorder</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> – and improved certain
aspects of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory" title="Memory"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">memory</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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OK, so we have the rise and rise of disorders starting with
A : Alzheimer’s, Allergies, asthma, ADD
,ADHD, Anaphylaxis, atopic excema, autism
and auto immune diseases ( 200 including diabetes and cancer) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr Natasha Cambell McBride,
Russian medical doctor, neurologist and brain surgeon…. went back to
university to study nutrition when her own son was born with Autism. She has ended
up curing completely with diet. For the last 20 years she has run a busy clinic
seeing hundreds of children with Autism. She saw in every case there was more
than one issue , there were co morbidities of
excema , food allergies and always there were digestive disorders. She
asked what the underlying problem is causing our
children, in greater and greater numbers, to be susceptible to these
behavioural and physical disorders in varying combinations? <span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> What was
going on? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1>
<span style="background: white;">The services provided by a HEALTHY GUT flora<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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We co exist with about 10 trillion microbes , they are in us
, on us and we need them and they need us, ie it is a symbiotic relationship.
The largest colonies of bacteria are in our gut, an adult carries around about
2 kgs of microbes of all types : fungi, yeasts, bacteria, nematodes and
protozoa. It is a highly organized microbial world with certain species
predominating and controlling others. In a healthy person we have 3 groups of
microbes: The Essential or Beneficials, the Opportunistic and the Transitional.
You’ve read the names of beneficial bacteria on the sides of yogurt pots:
Bifido, Lactobacilli, Propioobacteria, good trains pf e coli,
pepptostreppptococci, enterococci, There are like your knights in shiny armour.
The functions they fulfill are so vital to us that if our gut was sterilized we
would probably not survive. They protect you against pathogens like parasites,
viruses and bad bacteria, they make vitamins, digest and absorb our food,
inactivate toxins , suppress carcinogens, neutralize nitrates and phenols,
inactivate histamine, chelate heavy metals and remove them through the
elimination system , and play a vital role in the appropriate functioning of
our immune system. <span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our intestines are home to between 500 to
1000 of bacterial species but it was far more in the distant past as Ozi the Ice
Man 5,300 years old, attests. And he wasn’t all that healthy a member of the
village by all accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The delicate balance
between our bugs play an important role in our well-being, digestion, immunity,
mood, but also in the production of certain vitamins. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K2" target="_blank"><b><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vitamin K<sub>2</sub></span></b></a></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is known to prevent and even reverse
arteriosclerosis and is notoriously difficult to obtain from food sources, except
in fermented products. <b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_subtilis" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bacillus subtilis</span></a></i></b> is
a bacteria that produces the K<sub>2</sub>, a species found in cheese and natto
</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: #FAFAFA;">Another common K<sub>2</sub> producer
is </span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli" target="_blank"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Escherichia coli</span></a></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, which has a bad reputation for being a
cause of food poisoning, but is usually harmless in small quantities, and the
good guys do keep them in check.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<br />
<b><span style="background: #FAFAFA;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vitamin B<sub>12</sub></span></a></span></b><span style="background: #FAFAFA;"> (cobalamin) in food is almost exclusively
found in animal products, and especially in shellfish, crustaceans and beef.
The most famous B<sub>12</sub> producer is <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_reuteri" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lactobacillus</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>reuteri</i></span></a></b>,
But there are other B<sub>12</sub>-producers such as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propionibacterium_freudenreichii" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Propionibacterium
freudenreichii</span></a></i> subsp. <i>shermanii</i> is used in
cheesemaking to create CO<sub>2</sub> bubbles that become the round holes
in cheese like </span></span><span style="background: #fafafa; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Emmental <span style="color: #333333;"> and </span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlsberg_cheese" target="_blank"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jarlsberg cheese</span></a></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <br />
<span style="background: #FAFAFA;">Other gut bacteria who make B 12 are
Acetobacterium, Bacillus, Clostridium, Flavobacterium and Lactobacillus,
although Bacillus and Clostridium both have a few pathogenic species too.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: #FAFAFA;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folic_acid" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vitamin B<sub>9</sub></span></a></span></b><span style="background: #FAFAFA;"> (folate or folic acid) is usually found in
fresh (uncooked, unfrozen) leafy vegetables. One of the best is </span><br />
<span style="background: #FAFAFA;">Lactobacillus Plantarum. It is found in
sauerkraut, fermented sausages, pickles, brined olives, Korean kimchi,
sourdough, stockfish, as well as in some cheeses. That may explain why people
who never eat fresh leafy vegetables are not necessarily deficient in folate.</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="background: #FAFAFA;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboflavin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vitamin B<sub>2</sub></span></a> </span></b><span style="background: #FAFAFA;">(riboflavin), which is mostly found in meat, eggs,
dairy products and legumes, is synthesised especially by bacteria that belong
to the Lactobacillus, Streptococcus and Enterococcus genera.</span> <span style="background: #FAFAFA;">One of the most efficient at producing riboflavin
is <b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_fermentum" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lactobacillus
fermentum</span></a></i></b>, which is found in sourdough and in many probiotics.
It is also noted for its ability to reduce cholesterol levels and to act as an
antimicrobial and antioxidative. Other good producers are the above-mentioned B<sub>12</sub> synthesisers <i>P.
freudenreichii</i> and <i>L. reuteri</i>.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The next group are the opportunists, shady characters which
the good guys keep in check. The beneficials tightly control populations of
species that have names like staphloccoci, strepolcocci, Clostridia, any one of
which can cause terrible health problems as mentioned, if they get out of
control. Whose heard of C Difficille? Some bad bacteria make terribly potent
toxins. I met a lady who had no hands and feet because a flesh eating bacteria
had proliferated in her, she went into a coma and woke up to find they had had
to amputate her extremities. OMG. This is why we really must not only get our gut healthy but learn how to make
compost properly and only breed up the beneficials.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thirdly the transitionals are various microbes from the
environment you swallow in food and drink. IN a person well protected by
beneficial bacteria they pass through the digestive tract without doing any
harm, but if the beneficial bacteria population is damaged , they can cause
disease. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Your Army would fight for you</span></b></div>
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OK, so bacteria are a major nutrient suppliers and without a
good gut flora, the gut wall is not only unprotected but is malnourished. Think
of the layer of good bacteria coating the very convoluted surface of our gut
wall (which has an absorptive surface
the size of a tennis court) is like the grass on a paddock. Without that thick grass
or turf, the soil is unprotected and may erode in the next strong wind or rain
event. So it is that the gut wall can erode when our good guy flora dies. A
chain of degenerative changes in the wall structure takes place which further
impairs its ability to digest and absorb nutrients.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Epithellial cells called enterocytes coat the villi , these
are the very cells that complete the digestive process and pass nutrients
through to the blood stream. Very important work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These enterocytes always have to be young and in good shape. Born in the crypts
they move up to the top of the villi over the course of a week and are then worn
out and are shed off. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The entire gut lining
is renewed every 2 weeks . </b>Animal experiments have shown that when the
beneficials aren’t there in abundance these new cells don’t have nourishment.
They are not as numerous , healthy or well formed. In fact they are misshapen
and often cancerous , twisted and deformed. This means the gut wall is not as strong
as it was. Without our good gatekeepers the whole structure of the gut wall
changes , the villi degenerate and are unable to digest food properly. The hair of an enterocyte is called <i>microvilli</i>
or <i>brush
border</i> which is normally full of digestive enzymes as well. <b>So people become unable to digest dairy and gluten</b>.
They get passed through partially digested as <b>caseo morphines</b> and <b>gluteo
morphines</b>…..these cause havoc when they reach the brain. <b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Normal gut flora digests proteins, ferments carbohydrates
and breaks down lipids and fiber. <b>Without
our good microbes all the best food and supplements in the world are not going
to be absorbed.</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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We have looked at the modern- life causes of a dwindling
microbiome . It is the opinion of Dr Stephanie Senneff and Anthony Samsel that
the greatest cause of soil and human microbe depletion is <b><span style="font-size: large;">Round Up.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160715/local/malta-set-to-ban-probable-carcinogenic-weedkiller.618884"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malta</span></a></span><u><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> banned it coz it probably causes cancer according to the
WHO</span></u><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/sri-lankas-newly-elected-president-bans-glyphosate-monsanto-roundup-deadly-chronic-kidney-disease-increased-5-fold/5451936"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sri Lanka</span></a></span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Banned glyphosate because
it was linked to a five-fold increase in the prevalence of chronic kidney
disease (CKD) throughout Sri Lanka’s farming communities.</span> <span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/netherlands-bans-monsantos-roundup-to-protect-citizens-from-carcinogenic-glyphosate/5451552"><span style="color: #585e71; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Netherlands</span></a></span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> well they are just
smart, have a green government that actuallu represents the people and </span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/30000-doctors-in-argentina-demand-that-glyphosate-be-banned/5445542"><span style="color: #585e71; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Argentina</span></a></span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">has banned it because birth defects and infertility are linked with
aerial spraying on extensive GM soy
plantations.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…. It is a Broad spectrum biocide. Kills all
life! There are only a very few bacteria
resistant to it, and one agrobacterium has been used to GE the crop plants corn,
cotton, canola and soy, sugar beet and alfalfa. Round Up is a registered
antibiotic, also it was first patented in 1970 as a chelator, a substance that
binds up minerals. Depletion by chelation of the nutrients manganese, iron,
selenium, cobalt, zinc means GMO crops are deficient in these nutrients vital
for both us and our beneficial bacteria. Iron anemia , LJ has it and Stew’s
Dad, (who uses Round Up in his yard) he has to have transfusions because his
iron is so low. Any connection to his beloved herbicide? Micronutrients or trace elements such as the
last 3 are only needed in tiny amounts but are essential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Round Up virtually kills all plants
by starvation, they die slowly of mineral deficiency, so it takes a month to work. It does this by
disrupting the </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">shikimate</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> pathway in
plants. Monsanto claims that because humans do not have the shikimate pathway
it is perfectly safe for us. But ! We depend fully on our beneficial gut
bacteria who DO HAVE and use the shikimate pathway to synthesize vital aromatic
amino acids for us and themselves: Tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine. </span>Lacto
bacilli are established quickly after birth in the gut of a healthy infant, they digest milk and out compete bad bacteria. Lactobacillus are unique
because they use manganese as a de
toxifying element, so they die off to our peril.<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Besides this <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aromatic amino acids and another important protein methionine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So Ingest Round Up and no, you don’t get a big reaction, in fact
you don’t perceive anything has happened to you, but it slowly, by many mechansims, takes away
nutrients critical to us.</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It takes a
while for it to reveal its deadly weapons, and it is interesting that Monsanto
experiments upon which government regulators based their approval for this
herbicide, only went for 3 months. It is in the 4<sup>th</sup> month that aggressive
cancers appeared in the whole of life study on rats by Giles Seralini who got
them ingesting 3 levels of Round Up and
GMO corn. It didn’t matter how tiny the dose, the effect was the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Round Up harms our beneficial bacteria
preferentially! An example is lactobacillus
we mentioned earlier which needs manganese and will die off without it. With
LActoB off duty, some of the pathogenic bacteria get out of control,
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa for instance, use glyphosate as a food, and are unharmed
by any anti biotic you can poke a stick at. So they breed up. What a mess! The
gut becomes inflamed and corroded by the mechanism described above ( impairment
of enterocytes), and as our own immune
cells do battle with pathogens by chemical warfare, collateral damage is done
to further destroy our gut wall until it
can not absorb food to any degree.<b> Surfactants</b>
in Round Up are the other active ingredient which are highly toxic and are
agents which get the glyphosate the cells, they are burnt hydrocarbons and are
corrosive to cell walls. This does nothing for our gut wall.<b> </b>Pigs subjected to GMO feed in experiment by Dr Judy Carmen, got terribly
inflamed stomachs. We also know from pig farmers in the US that their pigs
became irritable and aggressive on GM feed. Lab technicians speak of mice and
rats who started cowering in the corners of their cages and or biting each
other and handlers after GM feed was introduced to the laboratory. <b>Have you
noticed friends or family getting more and more difficult and strange over the last 15 years? Let me
know after.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember the harmed beneficial
bacteria are no longer making Tryptophan,
Tyrosine and Phenylalanine which are so crucial to our well being. We can only
get these aromatic amino acids via plants or microbes, we cannot make them.
This is only one of the ways the glyphosate molecule messes us up the
production of neuro transmitters. It
interferes with the production of Methionine as well. From methionine we get
Sulphur and Sulphur is very important to the body. A deficiency of Methionine leads to Sulphur deficiency and shortages again
of serotonin, melatonin, dopamine, and melanin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"> Less Neuro
transmitters<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b>Tryptophan</b>
is a precursor for Seratonin and Melatonin. Melatonin controls the sleep /wake
cycle… take note all insomniacs or mothers of teenagers who seem to be most
active at 2 am) . Seratonin deficiency
is linked to depression, obesity, Altzheimers, Autism, violent
behavior, all of which are on the rise..
<b>Farmer suicide</b> is rampant in this
country . A QLD study </span><i><span style="background: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">done “by the Australian Institute for Suicide
Research and Prevention has found the rate of suicide among farm workers,
including farm owners and employees aged between 15 and 65, is more than double
than that of the rest of the population.” </span></i><span style="background: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Could the ubiquitous herbicide have anything to do with
that figure? </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tyrosine</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is a precursor
to Adrenaline, Melanin and Dopamine . Dopamine deficiency causes Parkinson’s
disease, Skin is protected from UV rays by Melanin. It is also important to
thyroid hormone…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Other biological effects of Round Up</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Mitachondrial impairment ( these are the
energy center for every cell in the body….chronic fatigue here we come )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Folic acid production</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. Lactobacilli Plantarum is a huge producer of
B9 or folic acid along with a few bifdo species. Harmed by Round Up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They grow biological ingredients for
vaccines on agar plates made with gelatin from GM fed cattle. Some </span><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">vaccines therefore contain Round Up and heavy
metals and are very damaging. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Disruption to the endocrine system.
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Impairment of critical liver enzymes (
cytochrome P450) This makes our liver unable to de toxify other harmful
chemicals we are exposed to, one of its main functions!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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likely impairs synthesis of sulphate and sulphate
transport. Sulphur is a key nutrient
and we are all suffering from a
deficiency. Many systems: Blood, brain, muscles all critically depend upon
sulphate,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I could go on, but time doesn’t allow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Summary<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> We are
all in grave danger from the glyphosate molecule which wrecks fundamental
systems in every living thing. Today many families have gut microbes in
disarray and with each new generation it
gets worse. When beneficial species of gut microbe are knocked out by the
effects of modern life, as we have seen,
other pathogenic opportunistic species take over. They are disease- causing
because their waste products are very toxic. Without the beneficial bugs which
digest food into nourishment for cells, new lining cells of the gut wall are
malformed, and holes appear in the gut wall. A permeable gut means
a river of toxicity in the blood stream leading to the brain coming from
numerous sources<b>. </b></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I believe we
can fix our selves, our children, our soil and maybe be in time to save our beautiful Earth. It
will take a lot of education, a lot of unlearning of misinformation and an
openess to new ideas. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The CURE for people ! <b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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The GAPS book by Dr
Natasha Cambell McBride is a very detailed self help book for GAPS families and
individuals. GAPS stands not only for gut and psychology syndrome but gut and
physiology syndrome , so really there would not be many people alive today who
would not benefit from reading this book
and adopting the protocol. Here in brief is the sort of measures which
will help a GAPS child or adult improve if not fully recover. The body has
amazing capacity to heal and the younger a child is, the higher the chance of
full recovery. Tragically, some drugs (
pharmaceutical and recreational ) do irreversible damage to the gut microbiome
and there is little chance of improvement if these have been taken for a long
while. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Remove the toxins from our diets, our air , our water,
oceans and soil. Get mercury out of your
teeth by a biological dentist. Get yourself a rainwater tank or very good
filter , get yourself a garden bed, get out into the fresh air if you can find
some, ( we are lucky we live on the coast with a prevailing breeze coming off a
very big ocean, pity people up wind of Perth and Wagerup), and begin to heal
and seal the gut with a bone broth fast for 3 days. <o:p></o:p></div>
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De toxify slowly: Swim in the sea or at least paddle your
feet for at least 2o mins once a week, or have a salt bath with a cupful of
Epsom salts and a cup full of bicarbonate of soda. A mixture of Activated
charcoal, bentonite clay and sauerkraut juice removed glyphosate from the bodies
of cattle in an experiment, this could be useful to us . Liposomal Vit C is excellent to help de-
toxify any poison from heavy metals like lead and mercury to snake bite.
Exercising and saunas are great.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Religiously avoid all processed food and drinks as they all contain GMOS and Round Up
residues . Wheat, sugar and potatoes, unless certified organic, are dessicated
right before harvest with Round Up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cook from scratch at home. Use organic ingredients and real
salt as in Celtic or pink Himalayan salt. Fry in organic grass fed animal fat
or coconut oil. Never buy vegetable oils
unless it is olive or avocado and then use only raw on salads, not heated. Good
fats should be abundant in the diet. These include organic and therefore grass
fed animal fats ( butter, goose, duck, chicken, lard, suet ,tallow) organic
fresh nuts, olive oil and avocadoes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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85% of all food you eat should be savoury. Bone broth should
feature in meals daily as stews, soups casseroles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Introduce fermented foods gradually. They are essential.
Organic, Raw dairy keiffer, sour cream , ghee, butter, yogurt and cheese are
fantastic. Also home made sauerkraut and kimchee, beet kvass and well fermented keiffer water and kombucha are good. Recipes
appear in the GAPS book. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Eat organ meats such as liver 3 times a week. Organic eggs, meat
and poultry are great. Look for logo or know your organic grower is genuine. Insist
on seeing tax invoices and inspect the farm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After a 3 day fast on bone broth only, a cup full every
hour, if you have normal digestion you can add sourdough whole grain bread, potatoes
and whole grains eaten with plenty of good fats. If you have digestion issues
like diarrhea, irritable bowel etc keep to the following vegetables , avoiding
starchy ones : pumpkin, carrot, celery ,beets, chard, choko , zucchini, garlic
in small amounts, capsicum, celery, cabbage, broccoli, cauli, kale, herbs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Small oily fish are important and cod liver oil should be
taken daily at maintenance level<o:p></o:p></div>
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A probiotic ( orthoplex I am told is good and also biokult)
could be a good idea for a while.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Avoid all home and personal care products unless certified
organic ( with reputable logo) , use bicarb of soda as a deodorant….it works! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Drink pure water and Freshly made juices before breakfast
which should be at 10 am. Cleansing is done by the body between 4 am and 10 am
during which time ripe organic fruit and water and vegetable juices will help
you cleanse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go for walks and or garden daily. Early morning starts and
early nights are ideal , keeping rhythm with the sun. Sunshine very important
to vitamin D production whch protects you from skin cancer. Avoid sunscreen
unless certified organic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Avoid EMR ( all
screens, mobile phones, high voltage towers baby alarms, remote controls.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Avoid eating out! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The National Toxics Network has a phone app which helps you
make buying choices.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lastly avoid the company of people who make you feel
inadequate, guilty or sad. Seek out healthy people who make you feel happy! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Please write down these names of people I trust: Dr Joseph
Mercola, Dr Stephanie Seneff, Dr Natasha
Cambell McBride, Prof Don Huber, DR Suzanne Humphries. ( vaccination, vitamin C
) and Dr Elaine Ingham (Soil ). They are all over you tube, start listening to
what they are saying about Round Up. It is just fantastic that we have access
to these people and their research. <o:p></o:p></div>
<h1>
The Cure for Soil<o:p></o:p></h1>
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8<sup>th</sup> , 2017. <span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> I hope
you will also share this post and bring a friend to Soils for Life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Join us at the very special Habiba Organic Farm, Nuweiba for a
10 day <i>Permaculture Design Certificate </i> course with a dynamic
team from Western Australia: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is Permaculture ? </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Genius originator of the
Permaculture concept, Bill Mollison, said “it is about designing sustainable
human settlements. It is a philosophy and an approach to land use which weaves
together microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals , soils , water
management and human needs into intricately connect productive communities.”</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;">Your teachers will be from Western Australia. The wonderful Mr Olly Watkins ( drummer, exuberant facilitator, primary school teacher , permaculture consultant who makes learning fun ); Mrs Nada Watkins ( electrical engineer with a passion for waste reduction at source and renewable energy systems); and Ms Bee Winfield (owner operator Merri Bee Organic farm for 30 years, permaculture teacher, soil life coach and author of “Nourishing soil – a growers guide to regenerating fertile soil”) . </span>Olly, Nada and Bee will incorporate hands-on exercises to make a fun and interactive course that will leave
you with the basic skills you need to design and set up our own permaculture
system.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This intensive course will cover:</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The principles and ethics of
permaculture</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using zones, sectors, and
elevational planning to save energy and resources</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Techniques to harvest and hold
water in the arid landscape ( soil regeneration, wicking beds, swales, covered water impoundments
and grey water systems)</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weeds and herbs (their uses in
the nutrient cycle)</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Integrating a diversity of
animals such as poultry, rabbits and goats into your growing systems. </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nutrient cycling with hot
composting and worm farming, multi species cover crops and pasture cropping with perrenials.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Designing low- energy -use
human settlements in the desert</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">zones 1 and 2 : Influencing
microclimate around the house and veggie garden in arid lands</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orchards and woodlots from seed
collection through to propagation and establishment</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The course runs from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
each day .</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Fantastic accommodation and 3 meals a day is all included in the ridiculous early bird price of a mere $600.00 Get in quick! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Secure your spot on this exciting adventure in the birthplace of civilization by visiting <a href="http://www.habibaorganicfarm.com/contact">http://www.habibaorganicfarm.com/contact</a> </span></div>
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-36670354954075609992016-09-28T10:17:00.001-07:002016-09-28T10:20:12.137-07:00Permaculture Course in December in Egypt . <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> Permaculture has a lot to offer in Earth repair and care of people. </span></div>
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<a href="https://scontent.fper2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14463126_934394583332751_8151633115271445497_n.jpg?oh=da8b72c3323714f6756e1cf3aa4e8f91&oe=586F6268" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://scontent.fper2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14463126_934394583332751_8151633115271445497_n.jpg?oh=da8b72c3323714f6756e1cf3aa4e8f91&oe=586F6268" width="451" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Join us at the very special Habiba Organic Farm, Nuweiba for a
10 day <i>Introduction to Permaculture</i> course with a dynamic
team from Western Australia: the wonderful Mr Olly Watkins ( drummer, exuberant facilitator, primary school teacher , permaculture consultant who makes learning fun ); Mrs Nada Watkins ( electrical engineer with a passion for waste reduction at source and renewable energy systems); and Ms Bee
Winfield (owner operator Merri Bee Organic farm for 30 years, permaculture teacher, soil life coach and author of “Nourishing soil – a growers guide to regenerating fertile
soil”) </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is Permaculture ? </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Genius originator of the
Permaculture concept, Bill Mollison, said “it is about designing sustainable
human settlements. It is a philosophy and an approach to land use which weaves
together microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals , soils , water
management and human needs into intricately connect productive communities.”</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N04on81hgQI/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N04on81hgQI?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Olly, Nada and Bee will incorporate hands-on exercises to make a fun and interactive course that will leave
you with the basic skills you need to design and set up our own permaculture
system.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This intensive course will cover:</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The principles and ethics of
permaculture</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using zones, sectors, and
elevational planning to save energy and resources</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Techniques to harvest and hold
water in the arid landscape ( soil regeneration, wicking beds, swales, covered water impoundments
and grey water systems)</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weeds and herbs (their uses in
the nutrient cycle)</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Integrating a diversity of
animals such as poultry, rabbits and goats into your growing systems. </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nutrient cycling with hot
composting and worm farming, multi species cover crops and pasture cropping with perrenials.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Designing low- energy -use
human settlements in the desert</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">zones 1 and 2 : Influencing
microclimate around the house and veggie garden in arid lands</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #777777; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orchards and woodlots from seed
collection through to propagation and establishment</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Course Times </span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The course runs from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
each day .</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Accommodation and 3 meals a day is all included in the early bird price of a mere $600.00 Get in quick! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #777777; font-family: "open sans" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Secure your spot on this exciting adventure in the birthplace of civilization by visiting <a href="http://www.habibaorganicfarm.com/contact">http://www.habibaorganicfarm.com/contact</a> </span></div>
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-30792508679910501932016-03-18T02:54:00.002-07:002016-04-17T22:05:01.284-07:00<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Have you
ever wanted to grow your own shiitake mushrooms?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Shiitake
are high in proteins, vitamins and minerals and low in fat. They are used
around the world to help improve the immune system, improve circulation and
reduce cholesterol. There is evidence that shiitake may help in inhibiting the
growth of cancer tumours.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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shiitake on logs is the traditional method of production. Research carried out
in Australia in recent years suggests that the log grown method produces
superior fresh shiitake.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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are traditionally grown on oak logs. The word ‘shiitake’ literally means
‘oak-mushroom’. Australian research has proven that shiitake can be
successfully grown on many types of eucalypt <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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to this workshop to learn the method of inoculating logs and growing these
versatile mushrooms for nutrition, fun or even commercial use. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Time: GAther at 9 for a 9.30 am start. Goes till 1 pm. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cost: $45.00 includes morning tea <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Teacher: </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mr Julian Sharp </span></b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;"> </b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;">Julian is a great native forest defender, having gone to court recently to successfully stop bauxite mining exploration in our beautiful Karri forests. He brings his expertise in growing shiitake from both Victoria and Pemberton, and sees this workshop as a great opportunity to get a cooperative style log grown shiitake industry happening in the south west, for people to get involved in at whatever scale or level they wish. Julian </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">will supply a
range of suitable farm grown eucalypts for host logs, shiitake plug spawn,
beeswax......</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">and inform us on log grown shiitake research
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mushrooms?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shiitake are high in proteins, vitamins and
minerals and low in fat. They are used around the world to help improve the
immune system, improve circulation and reduce cholesterol. There is evidence
that shiitake may help in inhibiting the growth of cancer tumours.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Growing shiitake on logs is the traditional method
of production. Research carried out in Australia in recent years suggests that
the log grown method produces superior fresh shiitake.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shiitake are traditionally grown on oak logs. The
word ‘shiitake’ literally means ‘oak-mushroom’. Australian research has proven
that shiitake can be successfully grown on many types of eucalypt <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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acacias and poplars.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Come along to this workshop to learn the method of
inoculating logs and growing these versatile mushrooms for nutrition, fun or
even commercial use. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Date: Sunday April 30<sup>th</sup> Time:
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-20910563480212255992016-02-04T09:17:00.000-08:002016-03-19T10:00:14.152-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I was kicked out of home at 16 for building
compost heaps in our backyard in the Melbourne suburb of Mt Waverley. Earlier,
Dad had taken me to a psychiatrist in an attempt to rid me of what he thought
was a rare personality disorder, but the composting obsession proved incurable.
Now I’m 57, and a steaming hot compost
heap still enthralls me: the way it takes stinky waste products and turns them
into black gold ( humus). I love that a mass of red wriggler worms
can demolish a cow pat in half a day and that a throng of soldier fly larvae
can devour a sheep’s hide and guts just
48 hours, and be themselves returned to the soil (via some chooks )soon after.
And that out of all this decay comes another generation of healthy plants, and another joy of my
life, food! I wanted to be an
organic farmer from the age of 10. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I arrived in Nannup as a very young, mung bean- eating hippie in the early 80’s
and after a foray in a commune which
promised cheap land upon which to follow
my dream ( but delivered lots of hassles) , me and my first husband moved on to 27 acres in Nannup,
inspired by Bill Mollison to start a Permaculture. I am still here, having raised a family of 5
children. That, and working for a living
, meant Permaculture was on the back burner for many years. Near the end of
that 17 year marriage I constructed
a passive solar mudbrick house out of recycled materials. The house
is still standing and the permaculture
surrounding it has grown upwards and outwards: magnificent now with
towering bamboos and pine nut trees, spreading oaks, chestnuts and hundreds of
other species of fruit, nut , timber and native
plant. I met my darling Stewart 12 years ago and we
suddenly became full time organic farmers, ditching our outside jobs
pronto, thanks to the rise and
rise of farmers markets. Our Permaculture yields
building materials , all our food and an income year ‘round. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an island and climate change hit us in about 2007. Terrible climate
change. Our usual winter efforts to extend the food forest were now beset by failure due to
drought and heat . Things just died even though we spent 8 hours a day hand
watering over prolonged summers. It is so hard to watch this formerly lush
district turning to desert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">It became clear we needed to work on our
soil. In 2013 we invested heavily in learning the latest in
soil science from Dr Elaine Ingham ( eminent soil microbiologist) In 2014
we re-named the farm “Merri Bee Organic Farmacy” because whole food grown biologically
is the best preventative medicine. Like
canaries in the coal mine our children are reflecting our impoverished and toxic environment and have a lower life expectancy than ours. This is obviously unprecedented and tragic and
the cause is diet . Teaming with local Naturopaths we’ve been joyed
to supply parents with good food to help their ailing children, but really we
want to feed people organic food exclusively 2 years before conception to
prevent problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">With a degree of compost tea success so far, we now run courses in Permaculture ,
water harvesting , and soil creation , and our
focus is farmers. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In the South West of WA, just a few
thousand farmers control 55% of the land area, and thus <span class="textexposedshow">our local climate! Green plants are the original and
still the best carbon capture and storage mechanism on Earth. They
pump carbon underground whenever the sun is shining, but surprisingly,
this only happens in natural systems where the soil microbes are intact. But
99% of farmers clear most of these carbon -sequestering microbes from their land with chemicals . Peer
reviewed and published science shows GM crops use 15 times more chemical than
usual! </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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soil carbon by just 1 per cent, the entire globe’s legacy load of carbon in the
air would cleared away into the soil, and a safe climate would return.</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">So good soil </span>is powerful. It is key to our
health, wealth, happiness, energy and intelligence for generations of our
family to come, it<span class="textexposedshow"> can uniquely
solve not only the environmental emergency but the health crisis (which
is really an agricultural crisis) .Only good living soil can stem the
pandemic of mental and physical disorders which threatens to bankrupt the
richest nations .</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Bill Mollison said it beautifully : “All our problems can
be solved in a garden”. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Permaculture
people know trees make rain and know how to repair ecosystems, we know that you
don’t need fertilizer and pesticides to grow food, (forests show us that)…. but
our voices are not heard above the din of chemical company myths. Farmers have
been subjected to the lies of the 5 companies controlling food and health since
the Green Revolution. Monsanto (‘feeding
the world, one lie at a time”) has been in control of the media, regulators and
governments for 6 decades now. We are proud to follow Dr Elaine
Ingham who courageously “de- programmes” brainwashed farmers the
world over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">We
are in the middle of “6 X” (the sixth mass extinction event on Earth) with species from beneficial soil microbes to the large animals becoming extinct, many we suspect even before discovery . Cloistered in the city or even on the coast, most people have no idea of how
close to extinction WE are. The cause is toxics, and GM crops
use even more chemicals than conventional.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the need to cook organic, not the planet? If not, I hope my story will be food
for thought for you and yours.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762778504971610924.post-33371813393532984102015-07-15T07:26:00.000-07:002016-02-04T09:20:16.964-08:00Merri Bee Organic Farmacy Two small properties in Western Australia, 10 hectares in Nannup ( the mythical town of “Seacliffe” in the movie “Drift”) and 20 hectares in Karridale, constitute Merri Bee Organic Farmacy. Operators Stewart Seesink and Bee Winfield are together creating a permaculture, a natural system of perennial abundance to satisfy human needs for food, shelter, energy , community and wilderness forever. They believe Hippocrates was right when he said 500 "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be they food". Organic food is powerful preventative medicine.<br />
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The cleared, steep and degraded piece of rural land in Nannup has largely been restored to abundance over 30 years.<br />
"When I first came here there were only 5 trees. It was over grazed by horses and covered in doublegees” says Bee. The first 8 years were spent pulling them out, but the paddock furtherest from the house never got weeded. But the double gees died out naturally never to return. A valuable lesson was learnt. Doublegees like other prickly or bitter plants, are natures way of protecting soil from over grazing. The lazy solution to doublegees turned out to be simply understocking and getting a healthy cover of mixed plants in various stages of growth and decay on the soil all year round.<br />
Bee designed and has now largely implemented a ‘closed loop’ system in which the yields and by-products of one enterprise are used to satisfy the needs of another. On this mixed farm, nutrients are constantly circulating and water and energy are harvested by multiple elements. “We aim to return perennial vegetation to the land, then gradually introduce animals as the trees and other plants establish. This mimics a natural ecosystem’s biodiversity but uses food plants and animals from all over the world. In a forest you have the conditions soil microbes need to thrive and therefore you maximize the transformation of nutrients into plant available foods.” The couple now produce food with forgotten flavours and medicinal qualities because the soil biology is coming back.<br />
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Stewart and Bee make their living solely from farming ,selling from the produce of their permaculture of over 100 species of rare fruit and nut trees, at the Margaret River Farmers market most Saturdays, and delivering to loyal Perth customers once a month. They enjoy the contact with "their families" watching kids they help to nourish grow. Bee says kids have the best palate and often send their mums back to get Merri Bee eggs, pork , lamb or kale. Yes, kale! Their mums appreciate produce with long keeping properties and marvelous aromas.<br />
Their other passion is creating space for wilderness and seeing wildlife returning.<br />
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The food forest also not only supports wildlife but the farm livestock: chooks, pigs, ducks, geese, sheep, alpacas and jersey cows as well . Acorns are popular with the sheep, pigs and cows, as is sheoak, poplar, willow and coprosma. Says Stewart “ What we’ve discovered is that cows like to browse trees, not just grass, and unlike grass, many trees are green all year round. Its the trees and perennial pasture plants with deep roots that bring up minerals from the subsoil which keeps our animals healthy. They are also photosynthesizing year round, therefore pumping carbon from the air, and injecting it deep into the soil all year round.<br />
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Bee and Stew grow cereal grains on areas previously “ploughed” by the pigs ... broadcasting wheat and mulching over the seeds by hand. They don’t like to rely on fossil fuel and heavy machines, preferring to use animal “tractors” which fertilise, weed and turn a profit or food. They are constantly refining low energy methods of growing.<br />
Says Bee “Neither chemicals nor artificial fertilizers have been used here for the past 20 years. Trace element lick blocks, seaweed, biodynamic grain and woodchips from Western Power line clearing are the farms only inputs. We compost green waste of neighbours and make compost tea as well”<br />
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The BD grain for supplementing the free range chooks and pigs diet is the expensive input, costing $500 a ton, with freight also $500. Bee said “We think it’s worth the cost to have no chemical residues in their feed"<br />
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. There are an estimated 50 million types of soil bacteria and 50 million types of soil fungi which do amazing ecological services. They are capable of reversing climate change, but they are sensitive to agrichemicals and ultraviolet light.Climate change in this South West corner of W.A. is very obvious to anyone who has had their hands in the soil in the same district for a few decades. It is crippling and I think this issue has got to be tackled full on”<br />
Bee thinks the role farmers and gardeners can play in literally saving the planet, is huge.<br />
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“Clearing and cultivation of land has reduced average soil carbon levels from around 8% to 0.7%, and obviously that carbon has entered the atmosphere. We are into reversing that , regenerating soil with CO2 through plants. Sustainable soil management strategies such as cell grazing can rebuild soil carbon levels, turning agriculture from a greenhouse gas liability into a carbon and methane sink."<br />
Bee says that anyone who makes compost is meaningfully offsetting GHG emissions and breeding menthantrophic bacteria which "eat" methane.<br />
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Stew added “What has been destroyed can be repaired. We now know the importance of vegetation to rainfall and know how to repair ecosystems .... we just have to get cracking on it on a massive scale.“<br />
Both Stew and Bee are involved in permaculture teaching and consultancy, with<br />
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Stew specialising in placement of access roads and water harvesting earthworks such as swales. Bee conducts regular farm tours and composting workshops and particularly welcomes youth and conventional farmers to come see what strategies inspired by permaculture 's founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren have achieved here.Merri Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467562508945963963noreply@blogger.com0