Just as pests don’t attack healthy crops, disease doesn’t take hold in a human body that is nutritionally balanced. With one foot in the world of agriculture and the other in medicine, Dr. Arden Andersen is in a unique position to observe the connections between soil health, food nutrient density, and human health. Dr. Andersen is a holistic family and occupational medicine physician in Gladstone, MO. Dr. Andersen possesses a unique understanding of the link between soil/ crop health and human health.  He works both as an integrative family doctor and a soil and crop consultant with clients and speaking engagements across the US, 8 countries and two languages.  Dr. Andersen has authored several books including Real Medicine-Real Health, Science In Agriculture, The Anatomy of Life and Energy In Agriculture, and Food Plague. He lectures around the world on the link between soil and human health, on public health issues and real preventive medicine.  He has firm grasp of the underlying causes of illness and disease, environmental health and the contribution to human and animal illness and disease, the link between soil/human health and climatic issues, pandemics and the underlying solutions needed to return harmony and health to all living systems. This is a wonderful time to be alive…the equipment, products, and people that we have now that we didn’t have, even 30 years ago…we CAN have better quality food, and we do have the capability to completely reverse the problems on the planet today.   In this episode… Dr. Andersen’s background and early influences connecting nutrition with health, from the soil to the doctor’s office Nutrition in food is influenced not only by the condition of the soil, but also by the presence of toxins which interfere with our nutrition With a higher nutritional balance of soil (and resulting food), the amount of environmental toxins present in the plants grown in those conditions decreases Municipalities sell their “biosolids” to farmers, who are attracted by the cheap NPK source, and end up poisoning their farms and soils with pathogens, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, degrading the soil further Electromagnetic qualities of plants and how that affects their nutrient uptake If we can maintain an appropriate nutrient balance in the soil, paramagnetism helps to stimulate biological activity—beneficial bacteria and fungi—root growth, and overall health and vigor Ancient paramagnetic limestone towers of Ireland Sometimes the biggest issue isn’t on the farm, it’s between the ears How to determine the nutrient density of produce The only reason we have weeds, diseases, and insect problems is nutrient imbalance; likewise, the only reason humans have disease is lack of nutritional balance Resources Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits by David Lewis, Ph.D John Kempf’s regenerative agriculture workshops and courses: https://johnkempf.com/ Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution by Francis Chaboussou Tuning Into Nature by Philip Callahan Food Plague: Could our daily bread be our most life threatening exposure? by Arden Andersen, Ph.D Real Medicine Real Health by Arden Andersen, Ph.D Science in Agriculture: Advanced Methods for Sustainable Farming by Arden Andersen, Ph.D Anatomy of Life & Energy in Agriculture by Arden Andersen, Ph.D Mineral Nutrition and Plant Disease by Don Huber et. al. Rudolf Steiner