How The Intelligence Of Plants and Animals Can Help Us Reclaim Our Health with Fred Provenza

How The Intelligence Of Plants and Animals Can Help Us Reclaim Our
Health | This episode is brought to you by Joovv, BiOptimizers, and
Primal Kitchen If we take the time to be quiet, still, and curious,
there’s an immeasurable amount of knowledge to be gained from our
natural surroundings. In watching grazing animals and their food
choices, we see they know how to personalize their nutritional
intake to eat plants that match their exact needs. Though many of
us have lost our innate wisdom to eat intuitively, upping our
intake of phytochemicals and reducing processed foods means we can
recalibrate our cravings to lean towards what we truly need.
Vitamins and minerals often get most of the attention when it comes
to eating for nutrient density, but phytochemicals are the real
hidden talent for optimizing plant, animal, and human health.
Unfortunately, modern agriculture has actually damaged the
phytochemical richness of our food, by breeding for yield,
appearance, and hardiness. I enjoyed sitting down with Fred
Provenza in this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy to talk about all
this and so much more.  Fred grew up in Salida, Colorado,
working on a ranch and attending school in Wildlife Biology at
Colorado State University. He is professor emeritus of Behavioral
Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State
University where he worked for 35 years, directing an award-winning
research group that pioneered an understanding of how learning
influences foraging behavior and how behavior links soil, plants,
herbivores, and humans. He is the author of three books, including
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our
Nutritional Wisdom; Foraging Behavior: Managing to Survive in a
World of Change; and The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping
the Wisdom of French Herders (co-written with Michel Meuret). He
has published over 300 research papers in a wide variety of
scientific journals.    This episode is brought to you by
Joovv, BiOptimizers, and Primal Kitchen. Joovv is offering Doctor’s
Farmacy listeners an exclusive discount on Joovv’s Generation 3.0
devices. Just go to Joovv.com/farmacy and use the code FARMACY.
Some exclusions do apply.  Right now, BiOptimizers is offering
Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 10% off your Magnesium Breakthrough
order. Just go to magbreakthrough.com/hyman and use code HYMAN10 to
receive this amazing offer. Right now, Primal Kitchen is offering
my community 20% off. Just go to primalkitchen.com and use the code
DRHYMAN20 at checkout. Here are more of the details from our
interview (time-stamps correlate with audio podcast):  The
vital role that plant compounds play in plant, animal, and human
health (7:22) Our modern agricultural practices breed against
phytochemical richness in our foods (14:38) How animals
self-medicate (19:21) The interrelatedness of the soil microbiome
and microbiome of plants, animals, and humans (22:50) Our
overreliance on GMO foods have negatively impacted plants natural
ability to produce their own herbicides and fertilizers (32:54) How
we grow our food is driving the chronic disease epidemic and
eliminating our body’s natural nutritional wisdom (39:29) Food
cravings and overeating are often attempts to correct nutritional
deficiencies (49:54) We’re not just feeding our gut when we eat,
we’re feeding every cell and organ in our body (1:02:06) Are plants
sentient beings? (1:11:10) Variations in feedlot meat, different
types of grass-fed meat, and plant-based meat alternatives
(1:21:44) The importance of ecosystem diversity (1:38:31) For 35%
off Fred Provenza’s book Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us
About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom go to chelseagreen.com
and enter promo code POD35.