Welcome to the first Good Byte episode. This short episode raises topics I feel are important and relevant to all of us. In this episode, I'm discussing the climate tipping point we are currently facing in Australia and the world.

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Welcome to the first Good Byte episode. This short episode raises topics I feel are important and relevant to all of us. In this episode, I'm discussing the climate tipping point we are currently facing in Australia and the world.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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Welcome back to Unstress for 2020, in this first episode I lay out the plan for the year. It is clear we have reached a tipping point in our world and communities where some serious change needs to occur. I believe that change is going to come from the ground up, I hope to inspire, empower and support you in making positive changes this year for your health and the health of our planet.

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Unstress mission statement

Unstress: The Year in Review 2019

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Dr Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich and a happy new year. This is 2020, now 2020 interestingly is a term that is often used to describe perfect vision and I hope it describes what 2020 will be for all of us - clearer, perfect vision about where we are headed as an individual, as a community and as a nation, and as a global community as well. This is an opportunity for me to kick start the year with a short podcast which outlines where we are. I mean, the mission statement as I articulated two years ago when I started doing this Unstress podcast was simply this. I see life as a balancing beam if you like, on one side of the balancing beam are the stresses in life that have the potential to break us down. Anything I do, I believe that has the ability to compromise our immune system or to promote chronic inflammation is a stressor.

Dr Ron Ehrlich: And to that effect, I've been focusing on the five stressors, which has guided my clinical practice over the last 35 years. It has also guided the book that I wrote 'A Life Less Stressed: the five pillars of health and wellness'. On the one hand there are five stresses and they are emotional, environmental, postural, nutritional and dental stress. And to my regular listeners, you will be familiar with why that is important. So that's one side of the balancing beam on the other side of the balancing beam, are the pillars of health that build resilience. And arguably there's never been a more important time in our world, in our lives to build resilience and we need a structure to do that as well. So focusing on the five pillars of health, which include sleep, breathe, nourish, move, and think are an excellent way of building health and wellness into your life.

Dr Ron Ehrlich: So on one side we're identifying and minimizing the stresses in life that have the potential to compromise our health. And on the other side we have those factors which will help us build resilience. And in between that, the pivot on which that balancing beam exists is our genes. And, and we are not victims to our genes because another aspect of our genes is epigenetics. And that is the way our genes express themselves. Now if thoughts are things and they are, there are transmitters which attach onto cell membranes and cause our genes to express themselves in a particular way. Then on the other side of the scale, uh, nutrients and environmental toxins that also have the potential to attach onto cell membranes and cause our genes to express themselves in a certain way. So that if you like is the balancing beam. Now another aspect that has always intrigued me and living in Sydney, Australia, living in Australia in this time where we are ravaged by the reality of climate change.

Dr Ron Ehrlich: I also have been interested over the last 10, 15 years or more to explore the politics of healthcare and the influence of the chemical food, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical industry in all levels of healthcare and government. And I think that is something which we should all be engaged in and be aware of. Now while reflecting on last year, I noted, and if you go back to the last episode of last year where we did the year in review, I focused on regenerative agriculture. Uh, primarily last year. In fact, I did. I think we did nine or 10 episodes on that very subject. And I honestly believe we each need to be in engaged in agriculture because you know,

Welcome back to Unstress for 2020, in this first episode I lay out the plan for the year. It is clear we have reached a tipping point in our world and communities where some serious change needs to occur. I believe that change is going to come from the ground up, I hope to inspire, empower and support you in making positive changes this year for your health and the health of our planet.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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Welcome back to Unstress for 2020, in this first episode I lay out the plan for the year. It is clear we have reached a tipping point in our world and communities where some serious change needs to occur. I believe that change is going to come from the ground up, I hope to inspire, empower and support you in making positive changes this year for your health and the health of our planet.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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At this point in the year, I like to do a review. To take the opportunity to look back on 2019 and wonderful guests I've spoken to on Unstress. This year saw a vast number of topics covered, perhaps one of my favourite and most prominent being regenerative agriculture. It's something I'm very passionate about as it affects us all. In this episode, I share some of my highlights from this year on Unstress. I hope it provides you with inspiration and empowerment moving into 2020.

Selected Links from Episode

Leave a review for Unstress on iTunes

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:

Hello. Welcome to Unstressed. This is Doctor Ron Ehrlich. This is it, the final episode for this year, 2019. And I thought I'd take the opportunity to share with you some highlights, or things that stuck out in my mind. And of course, if you go to the show notes, you can just follow the hyperlinks and each episode will be hyperlinked to make it even easier for you to have a listen and catch up if you missed some episodes along the way.

Regenerative agriculture is a favourite topic of this show and with good reason. I mean, agriculture is something that affects absolutely everyone in every single way. It's not just related to the food, not just related to our health. It's also affects drinking water, it affects culture. It affects the environment in terms of coral reefs, rivers, lakes, the climate, of course, food safety, and livelihood. So there are so many issues around this. And if we think that nutrient-dense food is important, and it is, then we need to have nutrient-dense food to be grown in soil that is also full of those nutrients.

And we need soil. We've kind of discussed whether there are 60 harvests left if current trends continue because soil degradation and desertification is happening as we speak. Just recently, I spoke to Charlie Arnott and there were some real pearls in that. He's talking about three archetypal types of animals, the worms in the soil, the bees in the air, and ruminants all playing such an important role.

And I love the way Charlie described the microbes in the soil and the fungi in the soil as sort of the stomach of the plant, sitting on the outside of the plant. It was a great conversation. And Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News. We went over some things about how the EPA tests for chemicals that we are all exposed to, and it was a pretty confronting story. Cyndi O'Meara spoke of the story of wheat and the fact that the modern short semi-dwarfed high yield wheat is higher in gluten, and it's not like the ancient grains that we have come to know and love in centuries gone. The emmer and einkorn wheat variety is no longer the main wheat source in the Western World.

Terry McCosker spoke to us about regenerative agriculture. And Terry runs courses which have inspired so many people. And I loved Terry's ... The whole program was terrific and he drew ... When he said to me that ruminant urine was a wonderful thing and told that it had plant growth hormone in it, I was pretty blown away by that. Because soil is a really important thing that we need, and if you leave nature to produce soil, it takes something like 500 years to produce one inch or two and a half centimetres of soil.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:

But if animals are well managed and you know, they've been demonized by so many aspects of the health discussion, but if animals a well managed in regenerative agriculture, holistic land management way, then ruminants can produce an inch of soil every three to five years. Now, compared to 500 years, I think that sounds like a pretty good bet. And we need to regenerate. Sustainable agriculture is not enough. We need to regenerate the soil.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:

And he also made the point that an organism in the soil, when ruminants urinate in the soil, it stimulates an organism called Pseudomonas syringae, which, get this, floats up into the air and seeds rain.

At this point in the year, I like to do a review. To take the opportunity to look back on 2019 and wonderful guests I've spoken to on Unstress. This year saw a vast number of topics covered, perhaps one of my favourite and most prominent being regenerative agriculture. It's something I'm very passionate about as it affects us all. In this episode, I share some of my highlights from this year on Unstress. I hope it provides you with inspiration and empowerment moving into 2020.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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At this point in the year, I like to do a review. To take the opportunity to look back on 2019 and wonderful guests I've spoken to on Unstress. This year saw a vast number of topics covered, perhaps one of my favourite and most prominent being regenerative agriculture. It's something I'm very passionate about as it affects us all. In this episode, I share some of my highlights from this year on Unstress. I hope it provides you with inspiration and empowerment moving into 2020.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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Charlie Arnott joins me to discuss one of the most important topics relating to the health of our planet and our own health - regenerative agriculture. We discuss holistic land management and the important role it plays in our environment. We know that nutrient-dense food is important for our health, but so too is the way it is grown.

Selected Links from the Episode

Charlie Arnott website

Landcare prestigious Bob Hawke Award 2018

Carbon8 website

Thankful4Farmers website

Unstress episode with Terry McCosker on property management

Unstress episode with Charles Massy on regenerative agriculture

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Ron Ehrlich:                           Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Now, the topic of regenerative agriculture is one that our regular listeners would be very familiar with and know that I feel passionate about that. I think it's really important that we understand not only where our food is coming but understand the differences in the way that food is produced and that's why regenerative agriculture is such an important thing for us, I believe, all to be familiar with.

I've heard it said recently that there are only 60 harvests left, 60 harvests left if we continue in this industrial/agricultural way of going. And that's just unsustainable because I've got grandchildren and I think they're going to be around a lot longer than 60 harvests. And I think we make the point that if nutrient-dense food is important for our health, then the way it's grown, who provides that, the soil in which that nutrient-dense food is grown is really important.

So, the story continues. And my guest today is somebody who I've been looking forward to talking to. I've heard of for many, many years and I've been looking forward to talking to him. His name is Charlie Arnott. Now, the name Arnott is, of course, a very well-known name in Australia on its biscuits, very famous. And I have today in this episode resisted the temptation to talk to Charlie about those biscuits.

My wife asked whether she could ask him about the Arnott's multicolour but, no, I resisted that. There were far more important things to talk to Charlie about. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Charlie Arnott.

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Welcome to the show, Charlie.

Charlie Arnott:                    Ron, lovely to be here.

Ron Ehrlich:                           Charlie, regenerative agriculture, holistic land management is a topic we've covered on this show many times and we will continue to, and I've been looking forward to speaking to you for a long time. I wonder if you might share with our listener a little bit about your own story. What's brought you to this point?

Charlie Arnott:                    Well, many things. I guess I grew up on a farm in Boorowa with my mom and dad and brother. And we farmed very conventionally from day one. And so, in 1970, my family bought that property there, Hanaminno. And conventionally, by that I mean, we were... It was high input/high output farming. We had multiple enterprises. We had cattle and sheep. We did lots of cropping.

We were growing wool. We were trading cattle and sheep. We had multi-enterprises within each of those, sheep and cattle enterprises. So, it's very busy, intense, even though it was extensive farming on some thousands of acres. It was intense because of the, I guess, the number of inputs we were using in that business. And I went away to school. I went to university and did a few other things.

And when I came back to Boorowa, I farmed as my father had farmed and as I had grown up to the farm, and it was also reflective of the university degree. I did rural science down at our university. And so, it was a very normal thing for me to be spraying everything all the time, pretty much. So, it was a lot of chemical use on crops, on pasture, on cattle, in cattle, in sheep, on sheep.

Charlie Arnott joins me to discuss one of the most important topics relating to the health of our planet and our own health - regenerative agriculture. We discuss holistic land management and the important role it plays in our environment. We know that nutrient-dense food is important for our health, but so too is the way it is grown.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information visit Charlie Arnott website

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