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Podcast 451: Soil Secrets
Podcast 451: Soil Secrets
Michael Melendrez joins Martin to discuss the dangers of modern agriculture to the health of our soil. Michael Melendrez is the owner and founder of www.soilsecrets.com. Soil Secrets is a soil amendment technology, their mission is to create food security and independence for people and their families. Using molecular biology they have helped many home owners, engineers and farmers create more sustainable and more nutrient dense soil.
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MARTIN: Hello, everybody. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast. And today I have with me Michael Melendrez from Soil Secrets, Soilsecrets.com. I think I will do best by letting Michael tell his story. Welcome!
MICHAEL: Well, thank you for having me.
MARTIN: Yeah. In our talk before we started recording, we started sharing notes about how we see health. How we see wellness. How we come to understand what’s really important.
MICHAEL: Yeah.
MARTIN: And so I’d love to have you share how you came to realizing that fixing wellness with vitamins was really not the best place to start.
MICHAEL: Fixing wellness with vitamins? Well, I look at wellness as a total body experience. Which means you have to consider the entire physical being and the emotional being in order to have wellness. And so one of the, everything in that’s going to be a limiting factor. So if you’re busy exercising and busy eating a good diet but you’re not living in a happy place. You’re not content with your life, the type of work you’re doing or the way you’re living, then you’re not going to have wellness. So you have to look at the total picture. I decided to work in the arena of soil health after I had already worked in the arena of human health, from back in the early 1980’s when I owned a wellness company called Corporate Fit Systems.
MICHAEL: And we considered all the modalities of wellness as part of that program, including exercise and mental health and diet etc. And I discovered that when I began to analyze people for their diet, by documenting everything that they ate, and looking at the data that we had from the USDA concerning how much nutrition should be for example, in an apple. How much calcium should be in an apple, or how much vitamin C should be in an orange. I became doubtful as to the validity of that information. And so I began analyzing fresh fruits and vegetables to see exactly how much nutrition is really in our food. Because if I was going to be evaluating somebody’s diet by having them keep a log of everything they ate, and then we would plug all that information into the computer and get a report telling us, well, you’re not getting enough of this or that. Or maybe you’re getting too much of this or that, then I needed to know if the information was accurate that we were depending on. So when I began analyzing fresh fruits and vegetables, and remember, this is back in 1981, 82. I discovered that everything that I had analyzed was running anywhere from 25 to 30% lower in vitamin and mineral nutrition than what the USDA data said it should contain.
MARTIN: Yeah. Now, this reminds me just to interrupt slightly. Back in 1937, there was a famous congressional report released that said that 80% of mineralization had been lost by 1937 from the original analyses that they ran b...
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Podcast 451: Soil Secrets
Michael Melendrez joins Martin to discuss the dangers of modern agriculture to the health of our soil. Michael Melendrez is the owner and founder of www.soilsecrets.com. Soil Secrets is a soil amendment technology, their mission is to create food security and independence for people and their families. Using molecular biology they have helped many home owners, engineers and farmers create more sustainable and more nutrient dense soil.
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MARTIN: Hello, everybody. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast. And today I have with me Michael Melendrez from Soil Secrets, Soilsecrets.com. I think I will do best by letting Michael tell his story. Welcome!
MICHAEL: Well, thank you for having me.
MARTIN: Yeah. In our talk before we started recording, we started sharing notes about how we see health. How we see wellness. How we come to understand what’s really important.
MICHAEL: Yeah.
MARTIN: And so I’d love to have you share how you came to realizing that fixing wellness with vitamins was really not the best place to start.
MICHAEL: Fixing wellness with vitamins? Well, I look at wellness as a total body experience. Which means you have to consider the entire physical being and the emotional being in order to have wellness. And so one of the, everything in that’s going to be a limiting factor. So if you’re busy exercising and busy eating a good diet but you’re not living in a happy place. You’re not content with your life, the type of work you’re doing or the way you’re living, then you’re not going to have wellness. So you have to look at the total picture. I decided to work in the arena of soil health after I had already worked in the arena of human health, from back in the early 1980’s when I owned a wellness company called Corporate Fit Systems.
MICHAEL: And we considered all the modalities of wellness as part of that program, including exercise and mental health and diet etc. And I discovered that when I began to analyze people for their diet, by documenting everything that they ate, and looking at the data that we had from the USDA concerning how much nutrition should be for example, in an apple. How much calcium should be in an apple, or how much vitamin C should be in an orange. I became doubtful as to the validity of that information. And so I began analyzing fresh fruits and vegetables to see exactly how much nutrition is really in our food. Because if I was going to be evaluating somebody’s diet by having them keep a log of everything they ate, and then we would plug all that information into the computer and get a report telling us, well, you’re not getting enough of this or that. Or maybe you’re getting too much of this or that, then I needed to know if the information was accurate that we were depending on. So when I began analyzing fresh fruits and vegetables, and remember, this is back in 1981, 82. I discovered that everything that I had analyzed was running anywhere from 25 to 30% lower in vitamin and mineral nutrition than what the USDA data said it should contain.
MARTIN: Yeah. Now, this reminds me just to interrupt slightly. Back in 1937, there was a famous congressional report released that said that 80% of mineralization had been lost by 1937 from the original analyses that they ran b...