Hilda Gore joins me on today’s podcast. Hilda is the host of the Wise Tradition Podcast, which is part of the Weston A. Price Foundation. If you aren’t familiar with the foundation, it is based off the research of Dr Weston A. Price, a dentist who studied isolated non-industrialised people and the impact of nutrition and nutrient-dense foods on their health. In this episode, Hilda gives a history of Dr Price’s work and outlines 11 guiding principles.

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Hilda Gore joins me on today’s podcast. Hilda is the host of the Wise Tradition Podcast, which is part of the Weston A. Price Foundation. If you aren’t familiar with the foundation, it is based off the research of Dr Weston A. Price, a dentist who studied isolated non-industrialised people and the impact of nutrition and nutrient-dense foods on their health. In this episode, Hilda gives a history of Dr Price’s work and outlines 11 guiding principles.

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Nick Jacobs, coordinator of IPES Foods joins me to discuss an exciting and inspiring initiative, aimed at informing the debate on how to reform food systems. IPES refers to the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. It brings together environmental scientists, agronomists, nutritionists, ecologists, development economists and very experienced practitioners from NGO's and social movements. IPES Food is bridging the gap between food security and nutrition, by bringing together people from all of the relevant disciplines and food systems, to take a holistic view. The issues surrounding food security and nutrition are issues that affect every single one of us.

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IPES Food website

Unstress episode with Kate Harris on good environmental choices Australia

Unstress episode with Prof. Paul Ehrlich on global challenges

Unstress episode with Allan Savory on the fate of civilisations

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstress, I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Now, if you are a regular listener of this podcast, you will know that the mission of this podcast is to explore what the words holistic and stress mean in our modern world. You will also know that we are all connected, so we're all affected. Out of what that means is that food from soil to plate, how the way we grow our food not only affects our health as individuals but also the health of the planet. The two are inseparable. Invariably, what makes what is good for the soil is good for plants and what's good for that is good for animals. It's also good for our own health. And when soils, plants, animals, food and health are all doing well, then farmers hopefully will enjoy a healthier and more profitable life too. And what is good for all of that is also good for the planet. Now that is holistic.

Now wouldn't it be great if there was an organization that was totally independent of the chemical food and pharmaceutical industry? Free to focus on big issues? How we can improve our food system that was holistic in its thinking. Looking at issues like hunger, obesity, environmental degradation, biodiversity. The pressures on small farm holders livelihoods, cultural erosion, workforce exploitations, and other problems in the food system that are deeply interconnected.

Or what about if we had an organization that was sensitive to how power, political and economic power is used to influence decision making and to set the terms of debate for reform? What about, while we're thinking holistically if we bring together a whole range of people with expertise in a whole range of areas across many disciplines? Not just farmers, food industry workers, consumers, entrepreneurs and other social movements. But also included people who were well informed about public health, the environment, and while we're at it, rural development. What if it's work focused on benefiting the broad range or the broadest range of people across the planet. Let's say the worlds seven points something billion people, rather than just benefiting a few individuals or companies?

Well, our program today explores such an organization. It's called iPES Food, and it stands for the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. iPES Foods. It's a new, and I think an exciting and inspiring initiative, aimed at informing the debate on how to reform food systems. And I had the opportunity to talk with Nick Jacobs who is based in Brussels and is the coordinator of iPES Foods. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Nick Jacobs.

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Welcome to the show, Nick.

Nick Jacobs:                  Thanks very much for having me.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Nick, iPES Foods, it's such a fascinating organization. What has prompted it? What has prompted this organization? [crosstalk 00:03:28].

Nick Jacobs:                  Absolutely. So first of all,

Nick Jacobs, coordinator of IPES Foods joins me to discuss an exciting and inspiring initiative, aimed at informing the debate on how to reform food systems. IPES refers to the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. It brings together environmental scientists, agronomists, nutritionists, ecologists, development economists and very experienced practitioners from NGO's and social movements. IPES-Food is bridging the gap between food security and nutrition, by bringing together people from all of the relevant disciplines and food systems, to take a holistic view. The issues surrounding food security and nutrition are issues that affect every single one of us.

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

For more information visit IPES Food.

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Nick Jacobs, coordinator of IPES Foods joins me to discuss an exciting and inspiring initiative, aimed at informing the debate on how to reform food systems. IPES refers to the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. It brings together environmental scientists, agronomists, nutritionists, ecologists, development economists and very experienced practitioners from NGO's and social movements. IPES-Food is bridging the gap between food security and nutrition, by bringing together people from all of the relevant disciplines and food systems, to take a holistic view. The issues surrounding food security and nutrition are issues that affect every single one of us.

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

For more information visit IPES Food.

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Jeff Chilton, a mushroom pioneer with over 40 years experience joins me to discuss all things mushroom. From nutritional benefits to how they can be used medicinally, Jeff explains the relationship between human and fungal interactions.

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Jeff Chilton - Nammex website

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstressed. I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Mushrooms, now here is an interesting story. What is a mushroom? What are the nutritional benefits? Well, many are it turns out. What are the medicinal ...What are medicinal mushrooms and how are they used? My guest today is Jeff Chilton, who studied ethnomycology, which is the study of human and fungal interactions, and those interactions are many and varied. I'll let him explain. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Jeff Chilton.

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Welcome to the show, Jeff.

Jeff Chilton:             Hello Ron. Thank you so much for having me.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Jeff, we're going to be diving into mushrooms, but I wonder if we could start with mushrooms 101? What is a mushroom? What is it actually?

Jeff Chilton:             Well, you know what? A mushroom is actually what we call a plant part of a fungal organism, and that organism starts out with a spore. Mushrooms don't have seeds, they have spores. A spore will germinate into very fine filaments called hyphae and multiple spores germinating into these hyphae coming together will form a network called mycelium. And you know that mycelium is out in nature in the ground, in wood. It is what is decomposing all of that organic matter that's out there every year. Leaves, branches of trees, plants, without these fungal organisms and that mycelium, we would be covered in all sorts of organic matter that comes down every year. So, that mycelium is very important, it's out there and one of the things it's doing, besides breaking down everything into humus for use in the ongoing growth of these plants, it will produce a mushroom.

Jeff Chilton:             When the conditions are right, it's got enough energy, it will produce a mushroom. The mushroom will pop up, it will mature, it will drop spores. And at that place ... at that time the life cycle is complete. So again, the mushroom is a plant part of this fungal organism, which is helping to decompose all of the organic matter out there.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             It's so interesting because we have spent quite a deal of time talking with regenerative agriculture people, and we're very big on soil health on our podcast. And I'm very familiar, my listeners will be familiar with the term called microrisal Fungi.

Jeff Chilton:             Yeah.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             And that's the mycelium.

Jeff Chilton:             well, well, yes it is.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             [crosstalk 00:02:55].

Jeff Chilton:             No, no, it is. Microrisal is the fungal Mycelium building a relationship with tree roots and plant roots. And it's a beneficial type of relationship where the ... it's a symbiosis, where the fungus will provide certain, whether it be sugars or other types of nutrients to the tree, and the tree will reciprocate. So, that's a microrisal and it is a symbiosis.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Yeah. Because of one of the things that are a bit of a problem with ... I digress here for a moment. But one of the things that's a bit of a problem with using pesticides and herbicides and all of that is its effect on that microrisal.

Jeff Chilton:             Oh yeah. I mean, with all of those toxins that are being sprayed around on our soils and in the air everywhere, and it will fall and destroys so many of those delicate relationships that we have out there. And so that's really an ongoing problem that we have. And you're talking about regenerative agriculture. I mean, this is really what we need. In fact, I'm very familiar with a ...

Jeff Chilton, a mushroom pioneer with over 40 years experience joins me to discuss all things mushroom. From nutritional benefits to how they can be used medicinally, Jeff explains the relationship between human and fungal interactions.

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Jeff Chilton, a mushroom pioneer with over 40 years experience joins me to discuss all things mushroom. From nutritional benefits to how they can be used medicinally, Jeff explains the relationship between human and fungal interactions.

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Dr Stephen Cabral, Naturopathic physician and qualified Ayurvedic practitioner joins me to discuss The Rain Barrel Effect. Stephen combines his years of training with a personal approach to healthcare to effectively treat the individual. Stephen brings to light ancient wisdom in a modern setting to help his patients get well, lose weight and feel alive again.

Selected Links from the Episode

Stephen Cabral website

Unstress episode with Dr Shankardev Saraswati on mind and body connections

Unstress episode with Professor Grant Schofield on fasting

Unstress episode with Professor Marc Cohen on toxicity and extreme wellness

Dosha Quiz 

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. The rain barrel effect. Well, you will hear it. It's a metaphor and your bodies are of the barrel but a bit of background before I introduce my guests. A personal approach to healthcare is where we're headed, and I think it's worth establishing a few definitions because you're going to be hearing these a lot. It's not just in this episode but in general.

Functional medicine. Now that is a term you will hear not just today but, in the future, and it refers to an individualised medical care that recognises the interaction between genetics and environmental factors and how they impact on the body's interconnected system. As opposed to the way 90% of our current medical system works which is just focus on an individual symptom as being somehow separate requiring some sort of pharmaceutical intervention. A drug to manage it. Well, as they are not separate those symptoms your body is a whole that is W-H-O-L-E with a nervous system, digestive systems, circulatory respiratory immune lymphatic system, the connections between mind and body between the gut and the brain. It's really a holistic approach to medicine. So, that is functional medicine. Nutritional and environmental medicine is I think pretty self-explanatory it incorporates nutritional and environmental factors that impact on an individual's health. Incorporating knowledge of how those factors might impact on an individual and really uses a functional medicine approach.

Now integrative medicine is another term you hear, and it refers to the treatment and care of the whole person. Again, a partnership between patient and practitioners. That's something that underpins a holistic view of health care. It's a common denominator in all holistic approaches recognising the interconnectedness of the mind, the body and the spirit but it integrates therapies of conventional medicine taking the best of medicine with other practices sometimes referred to as complementary and alternative medicine. So, there's another term. Integrated medicine really takes the best of Western medicine with other modalities like acupuncture, manipulative therapies meditation etc. And above all of these, whether it's integrated medicine, functional medicine or nutritional and environmental medicine, all of these methods facilitate the body's incredible innate healing response.

So, what about Ayurvedic medicine? Well, Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that translates as the science of life. It's the world's oldest holistic healing practice, it's around, well, that's been around for thousands of years and it originated in India where the tradition is still widely practiced today. Ayurveda is based on the belief that everything in the universe is connected I like that idea because it's true. We're all connected so we're all affected. And Ayurveda refers to the universe being made up of five key elements earth, water, fire, air and space. Remember this was well before quantum physics confirmed that every atom in the universe is both mass and energy but I digress.

According to Ayurveda, everyone in the universe is unique with each of us made up of a unique constitution dosha. I think it's called dosha or body types and they referred to three doshas,

Dr Stephen Cabral, Naturopathic physician and qualified Ayurvedic practitioner joins me to discuss The Rain Barrel Effect. Stephen combines his years of training with a personal approach to healthcare to effectively treat the individual. Stephen brings to light ancient wisdom in a modern setting to help his patients get well, lose weight and feel alive again.

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