Farm to Future

Our gut health queen is here! Aicacia Young - you guys really loved our episode last month all about IBS and how to diagnose your symptoms. So we have her back on the pod today for a Q&A. We’ve got a jam packed episode - we’re gonna cover how much protein you should be eating in a day, how to figure out what specifically in dairy triggers you, the one magical supplement everyone could benefit from, why you should do a gut detox before getting pregnant, and the two supplements to take for a proper gut detox. And we get Aicacia’s hot take on some of the trendy supplements out there like Athletic Greens and Seed probiotics.

Aicacia Young, RDN is a Registered Dietitian and product developer who specializes in gut health and microbiome education. Her own health complications as an adolescent drew her to the field of Human Nutrition, where she worked in a Functional Medicine clinic helping people address their autoimmune issues through the lens of gut health. Her passion and curiosity around the gut microbiome led her to join a microbiome therapeutic company, where she served as the Director of Scientific Affairs. During this time, she lectured at medical conferences around the country, developed a cutting-edge microbiome test, and created the company’s product protocols. Today, she serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Silver Fern Brand, where she formulates innovative products, develops product protocols, and provides product training to consumers and health practitioners.

Listen to our first episode with Aicacia on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

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Shop Silver Fern gut health products: https://www.silverfernbrand.com/

Connect with Aicacia

• Instagram
• Silver Fern brand
• Website 

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

I had given up on dairy about a decade ago and it wasn’t until I got into fitness and weightlifting and really needed to up my protein intake that I realized dairy is an excellent whole food source of protein. So if you are lactose intolerant like me or simply don’t tolerate dairy well, but you really want to enjoy milk or ice cream or cheese, etc. here are 3 types of dairy products you should try!

Raw milk

• Full episode with Mark MacAfee and Max Kane: Spotify or Apple Podcasts
• Milk fact sheet - Weston A. Price Foundation 
• Study: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of pasteurization on milk vitamins, and evidence for raw milk consumption and other health-related outcomes
• Get 10% off raw milk and other regenerative foods: www.farmmatch.com/jane
• Raw milk finder (USA)
• Raw Farm (California)

A2 dairy

• Study: Benefits of A2 Milk for Sports Nutrition, Health and Performance
• What is A2 organic milk?
• Alexandre Family Farm 100% grass-fed regenerative milk
• a2 milk grass-fed whole milk

Goat and sheep milk 

• Differences and benefits vs cow's milk
• Bellwether sheep milk yogurt

Plant-based milks

• Malk Organics
• Califia Farms Organic Unsweetened Almond milk 
• Almond Cow

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Serving as the professor and clinical supervisor at Emperor's College of Chinese Medicine, Santa Monica, Dr. Helena Zhang (PhD, LAc, NCCAOM) is certified by Californian and National Boards. She brings over 25 years of experience to her patients practicing acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and qi gong. With a focus on assisting women in the entire reproduction journey, from fertility, pregnancy, pre-labor to postpartum and breastfeeding, she created the unique JG Acupuncture-Hypnosis method comprised of a total of 8 tailored protocols to ease and accompany women's reproductive life. Dr. Zhang is also an expert in dealing with other female issues such as painful menstruation, premenstrual syndrome, menopausal symptoms, depression, anxiety, and insomnia. 

Connect with Dr. Helena Zhang

• Website
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Facebook

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Aicacia Young, RDN is a Registered Dietitian and product developer who specializes in gut health and microbiome education. Her own health complications as an adolescent drew her to the field of Human Nutrition, where she worked in a Functional Medicine clinic helping people address their autoimmune issues through the lens of gut health. Her passion and curiosity around the gut microbiome led her to join a microbiome therapeutic company, where she served as the Director of Scientific Affairs. During this time, she lectured at medical conferences around the country, developed a cutting-edge microbiome test, and created the company’s product protocols. Today, she serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Silver Fern Brand, where she formulates innovative products, develops product protocols, and provides product training to consumers and health practitioners.

Get 10% off spelt sourdough bread and other Prairie Foods at www.farmmatch.com/jane/prairiefoods

• Don’t live in the Northeast? Check out the farms in your area that deliver right to your door: www.farmmatch.com/jane 

Shop Silver Fern gut health products: https://www.silverfernbrand.com/

Connect with Aicacia

• Instagram
• Silver Fern brand
• Website 

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Claudio Vignoli is an Italian Oleologist, Master Miller and Olive Oil Sommelier with over 25 years of experience in the olive oil industry. From 1996 until the end of 2007, he worked as an Export Sales Manager for the world's leading manufacturer of olive oil mills. In 2007, he founded his own company, Claudio Vignoli Group, providing technical and marketing consultancy to olive oil producers around the world.

Claudio Vignoli also provides his expertise in the olive oil industry to two multinational consulting firms: GLG, Gerson Lehrman Group and GUIDEPOINT GLOBAL LLC. In 2015, he founded a bottling company in the U.S. called Miami Olive Oil & Beyond LLC, which imports bulk EVOO from the Mediterranean and bottles in Miramar, FL, for the retail and food service industry. With this company, he produces the private label of several major U.S. distribution companies, cruise lines, hotel and restaurant chains.

His mission is to educate buyers, chefs, and other industry professionals to understand, appreciate, and select high-quality olive oils through in-store demos, tasting classes, workshops, etc. He is also an independent advisor for several brands in Australia, California, Uruguay, Spain, and Italy.

In 2022, he founded a brand that bears his name, Vignoli Food, which produces premium quality EVOOs, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena and other typical Italian pantries.

He has been a member of O.L.E.A. (Association of Olive Oil Experts and Tasters) since 2017. He is often involved as a keynote speaker, jury member in international olive oil competitions, and presenter at industry events in Australia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru. He is also a regular member of the jury at CIOOC, Canada International Olive Oil Competition, London International Olive Oil Competition and EIOOC, European International Olive Oil Competition.

Get 15% off Vignoli olive oils and Italian foods with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE

Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane

Links 

• Episode with Emily Lycopolus on sourcing olive oils - Spotify and Apple Podcasts 
• Episode with Emily Lycopolus on olive oil for skincare - Spotify and Apple Podcasts 
• Easy Mandarin Martini recipe 

Connect with Vignoli

• Shop
• Instagram
• TikTok
• Facebook

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Hi friends! Enjoy this revisit of my interview with farmer Joel Salatin from 2022 while I recover my health. Looking forward to sharing tons of exciting new content very soon! Much love, Jane.

Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane

Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE

Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.

He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.

In this episode, Joel shares how his family turned the worst piece of land into one of the most biodiverse farms in the country, why we ended up with a chemical-based agriculture system post-WWII, and what it will really take (logistically, financially, personally) to shift to a large-scale carbon-based food system.

Connect with Joel:
Polyface Farms: https://www.polyfacefarms.com/

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Hey friends, happy new year! Hope you had a wonderful holiday and ate lots of good food. I certainly feasted and got to enjoy my dad’s cooking for about two weeks straight, so no complaints. 

And if you’re like me and overdid it a bit with the desserts or heavy meals or just feel like you need a reset, especially if you’ve been traveling, I’m here with Chef Dr. Mike today to share some tips on how to give your gut a proper rest. We talk about doing a fermented juice detox, intermittent fasting, and some of the science behind how your gut microbiome connects with your circadian rhythm and the seasons. 

Testing kits 

• Vitract gut test: https://vitract.com/ 
• Use code JANEZHANG for 40% off the Premium DNA test from Circle DNA: https://circledna.com/premium 

Links 

• R’s Koso Japanese postbiotic drink: https://rskoso.com/
• Chef Dr. Mike’s pizza dough recipe: https://chefdrmike.com/recipes/breads/neapolitan-pizza-dough/ 

Connect with Chef Dr. Mike

• Website: https://chefdrmike.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realchefdrmike/
• YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ77UNYMvQKOqClng6REJOQ

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Olive Oil Sommelier, educator, and author of eight cookbooks, Emily Lycopolus is the Olive Oil Critic. With a degree in Life Science from Queen’s University and an MA in Cultural Anthropology, her love of science and discovery has blended with her deep love of food and flavour — her kitchen is a lab for discovery and learning. Since being introduced to olive oil at an olive grove owned by her husband’s family, she has dedicated her life to the ingredient.

Episode on olive oils for cooking: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UORAfEgifU0UDix0ViBZ1?si=fb63822f93094a94

Sourcing tips for skincare olive oil: 

• Varieties: Look for Koroneiki or Coratina varieties for high antioxidant content 
• Check the harvest date
• Make sure it's extra virgin and cold pressed 
• It should state a variety and a single source (ie. not a mix from different countries)
• It should leave a peppery finish on your palate 

Get 10% Vignoli olive oils with code FARMTOFUTURE at shop.vignolifood.com. Get another 20% off your first purchase when you sign up for their newsletter. 

Connect with Emily

• Website: https://oliveoilcritic.com/
• Cookbooks: https://oliveoilcritic.com/cookbooks/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oliveoilcritic/ 

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Julia Putzeys is the founder and general manager of the Trash Panda App. As a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Julia combined her career in software product management with her passion for health and wellness. The concept for Trash Panda was ignited when she realized how many harmful additives are in our food today, and the impact they have on chronic disease. As a mom of two who lives in San Diego with her family, she’s passionate about advocating for a happier, healthier future.

Use code FARMTOFUTURE for $10 off the Trash Panda App premium membership! ($30 yearly instead of $40)  https://www.trashpandaapp.com/

• Scanning food products is free on the app! With Premium, you can set your dietary restrictions (eg. gluten, dairy, allergies) and save your favorite products in lists! 
• Instructions to redeem code: https://www.trashpandaapp.com/the-trash-panda-membership 

Links:

California Food Safety Act https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/well/eat/food-additive-ban-california.html. Banned ingredients: 

• Red Dye No. 3
• potassium bromate
• brominated vegetable oil
• propylparaben 

Whole Foods banned ingredients list: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/quality-standards/food-ingredient-standards

Trader Joe’s banned ingredients: https://www.traderjoes.com/home/FAQ/product-faqs 

Whole Foods Top 10 Food Trends for 2024 https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/whole-foods-market-forecasts-top-10-food-trends-for-2024/

Connect with Julia
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@trashpanda_app
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trashpanda_app/

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co

Learn about the whole food approach to preparing your body for motherhood (and fatherhood). Chef Dr. Mike answers your questions about when to take prenatal vitamins, foods to support fertility, and the crucial window where what you eat will affect your child’s health for years to come. 

Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both culinary and medical degrees and is the only Interventional Cardiologist, and Professional Chef to do so. Through his Culinary Medicine program at the University of Montana, speaking events, articles, books, personal outreach, and media appearances, Chef Dr. Mike has become the voice of Culinary Medicine. His message empowers people to take control of their health, wellness, and happiness through a positive relationship with food.

Use code JANEZHANG for 40% off the Premium DNA test from Circle DNA: https://circledna.com/premium  

Links:

• NOVA classification episode
• NOVA food groups cheat sheet
• Dutch famine study
• Big Tobacco & ultra-processed foods: Daily Mail / USA Today
  
  

Breastfeeding & heart health sources:

• American Heart Association: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/even-a-little-breastfeeding-goes-a-long-way-in-protecting-heart-health-of-baby-and-mom
• AHA Scientific Position: Start in Infancy. Breast-feeding is ideal nutrition and sufficient to support optimal growth and development for about the first 4–6 months after birth. Try to maintain breast-feeding for 12 months. Transition to other sources of nutrients should begin at about 4–6 months of age to ensure sufficient micronutrients in the diet.
• Scientific studies:
  • Parikh et al, 2010. Breastfeeding in infancy and adult cardiovascular disease risk factors 
  • Tschiderer et al, 2022. Breastfeeding Is Associated With a Reduced Maternal Cardiovascular Risk
    
  •  Miliku et al, 2021. Breastfeeding in the First Days of Life Is Associated With Lower Blood Pressure at 3 Years of Age

Connect with Chef Dr. Mike
Website: https://chefdrmike.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realchefdrmike/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ77UNYMvQKOqClng6REJOQ

Discounts

• Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
•  Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
• Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium 

Connect with Jane Z. 

• Instagram: @farm.to.future
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: farmtofuture.co