Soil Health, Human Health
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. Here is a very personal story of recovery of the land and the people on it. Please Share !
Introduction
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 .
“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.
All enduring tribes have taught their children and grand children “look after the soil,
and the soil will look after you”
Humus gone , Humans gone
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 macroscopic 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!
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 humus,
because we humans are made of and
for the Earth.
Before Elaine
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.
CC
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.
My life in 5 mins
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 5th
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.
L J
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.Compliant as a lamb.
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.
As Hippocrates said
2,400 years ago , “All disease begins in the gut”.
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.
Permaculture to the rescue
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 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. 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 I feel better now than I did when I was 20 !
I feel deep gratitude to Bill Mollison.
Get Mercury out of
your head
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.
Tribal Life
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.
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 re-wilding our diet
and lifestyle, be more adventurous in your cuisine plus reconnect with nature
and its associated microbial life. Well we have to do something,
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. Why
did human gut flora diversity dip in 1940, and then dip again in 1975?
The rise of autism and the rise in
the amount of Round Up used on food crops correlates almost exactly . 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.
BRAIN STORM
Why are our gut microbes so damaged? LIST
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, alcohol,
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.
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.
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.
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:
In
5 human randomized
controlled trials from July
2016 found that certain commercially available strains of probiotic bacteria
from the Bifidobacteriumand Lactobacillus genera (B. longum, B. breve, B. infantis, L. helveticus, L. rhamnosus, L. plantarum,
and L. casei), when taken by mouth in
daily doses of 109–1010 colony forming
units (CFU) for 1–2 months, possess treatment efficacy (i.e., improved
behavioral outcomes) in certain central
nervous system disorders –
including anxiety, depression, autism
spectrum disorder, and obsessive–compulsive
disorder – and improved certain
aspects of memory.
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)
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? What was
going on?
The services provided by a HEALTHY GUT flora
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. 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.
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.
Vitamin K2 is known to prevent and even reverse
arteriosclerosis and is notoriously difficult to obtain from food sources, except
in fermented products. Bacillus subtilis is
a bacteria that produces the K2, a species found in cheese and natto
Another common K2 producer
is Escherichia coli, 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.
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) in food is almost exclusively
found in animal products, and especially in shellfish, crustaceans and beef.
The most famous B12 producer is Lactobacillus reuteri,
But there are other B12-producers such as Propionibacterium
freudenreichii subsp. shermanii is used in
cheesemaking to create CO2 bubbles that become the round holes
in cheese like Emmental and Jarlsberg cheese.
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.
Vitamin B9 (folate or folic acid) is usually found in
fresh (uncooked, unfrozen) leafy vegetables. One of the best is
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.
Vitamin B2 (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. One of the most efficient at producing riboflavin
is Lactobacillus
fermentum, 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 B12 synthesisers P.
freudenreichii and L. reuteri.
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.
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.
Your Army would fight for you
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.
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.
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.
The entire gut lining
is renewed every 2 weeks . 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 microvilli
or brush
border which is normally full of digestive enzymes as well. So people become unable to digest dairy and gluten.
They get passed through partially digested as caseo morphines and gluteo
morphines…..these cause havoc when they reach the brain.
Normal gut flora digests proteins, ferments carbohydrates
and breaks down lipids and fiber. Without
our good microbes all the best food and supplements in the world are not going
to be absorbed.
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 Round Up.
Malta banned it coz it probably causes cancer according to the
WHO, Sri Lanka 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. The Netherlands well they are just
smart, have a green government that actuallu represents the people and Argentina has banned it because birth defects and infertility are linked with
aerial spraying on extensive GM soy
plantations.
…. 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.
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 shikimate 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. 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. Besides this
Round Up causes disruption to the gut and the depletion of
aromatic amino acids and another important protein methionine.
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. 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 4th 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.
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. Surfactants
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. 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. Have you
noticed friends or family getting more and more difficult and strange over the last 15 years? Let me
know after.
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.
Less Neuro
transmitters
Tryptophan
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..
Farmer suicide is rampant in this
country . A QLD study 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.” Could the ubiquitous herbicide have anything to do with
that figure?
Tyrosine 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…..
Other biological effects of Round Up include:
Mitachondrial impairment ( these are the
energy center for every cell in the body….chronic fatigue here we come )
Folic acid production. Lactobacilli Plantarum is a huge producer of
B9 or folic acid along with a few bifdo species. Harmed by Round Up.
They grow biological ingredients for
vaccines on agar plates made with gelatin from GM fed cattle. Some vaccines therefore contain Round Up and heavy
metals and are very damaging.
Disruption to the endocrine system.
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!
Dr Stephanie Seneff says Round Up
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,
I could go on, but time doesn’t allow.
Summary
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. 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.
The CURE for people !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
85% of all food you eat should be savoury. Bone broth should
feature in meals daily as stews, soups casseroles.
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.
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.
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.
Small oily fish are important and cod liver oil should be
taken daily at maintenance level
A probiotic ( orthoplex I am told is good and also biokult)
could be a good idea for a while.
Avoid all home and personal care products unless certified
organic ( with reputable logo) , use bicarb of soda as a deodorant….it works!
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.
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.
Avoid EMR ( all
screens, mobile phones, high voltage towers baby alarms, remote controls.)
Avoid eating out!
The National Toxics Network has a phone app which helps you
make buying choices.
Lastly avoid the company of people who make you feel
inadequate, guilty or sad. Seek out healthy people who make you feel happy!
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.
The Cure for Soil
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We are being poisoned by lots of things but the worst is Round Up.Just as the plants die slowly of starvation when they are sprayed, so our good gut bacteria on which we depend (to protect us from cancer, parasites, bad bacteria, viruses and pathogenic fungi, plus maintain gut wall and digest our food) are slowly wiped out by Round UP. One of most important group of beneficial bacteria , lactobacillus, uniquley need manganese which they use as a de toxifying element. Glyphosate chelates manganese in the soil in which Round Up ready crops are grown. So our beneficial bugs are slowly lost, which allows the overgrowth of pathogens . We can take small amounts of healthy soil from ancient forests and grasslands and breed them up, we can re inoculate our farms with these beneficial microbes and the land can become a carbon sink, sucking down carbon through plants once more. Please support those who are doing this and grow as much as you can as well. Happy gardening.
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.
