The Clean Body Podcast introduces you to the souls and brains behind some of the cleanest food beverage and lifestyle products on the market, because what you put on in and around your body matters from cookies, bread, and mushroom superfoods to adaptogenic lozenges, clean medicines, organic mattresses, and fluoride-free toothpaste, we'll explore how the brands came to be, how scientific studies drove decisions about ingredients and materials, and most importantly, how the products support all the physical and mental microscopic miracles that occur in your body every minute of every day.

Today, we’re talking to Heidi Diestel of Diestel Family Ranch, one of the few small, family-owned and operated ranches left in the nation, raising the leanest, cleanest turkey products on the market. Heidi runs the ranch with her brother and husband, and her mission is to help people eat better with pure, nourishing, whole foods, like the products offered by her family. Heidi is so passionate about advancing peoples’ understanding of nutrition and health that she received her Certified Personal Trainer Certification in 2006 from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Now that she’s at the helm of Diestel Family Ranch – and a mother herself – Heidi is more committed than ever to helping children and their families understand the power of good nutrition and to put that power to use in their everyday lives. Listen as we discuss how these fourth-generation turkey farmers are using innovative and sustainable farming practices to pave the way for future generations, while sticking to high standards that have remained unchanged since the ranch’s founding.

What you’ll learn: 

• What is was like growing up on a turkey farm (00:06:04)
• What hidden ingredients are found in conventional & sometimes organic meat products (00:18:32)
• Why most of today’s meat products don’t satiate hunger (00:21:09)
• How eating clean meat can help you eat less (00:21:09)
• Why you should stay away from carrageenan (00:26:31)
• The Gap 5-Step Animal Welfare Program (00:35:54)
• How food sources, environmental factors, and sanitization practices impact turkey health and resulting meat (00:35:57)
• Why overly-sanitizing your homes isn’t improving your health (00:39:53)
• The difference between pasture-raised, non-GMO, free range, cage-free, and organic turkeys (00:42:47)
• Why not all turkeys want to be free range (00:44:54)
• Why organic doesn’t always equate to healthy (00:49:32)
• What regenerative agriculture is and why it matters (01:04:16)
• How Diestel Family Ranch create high quality compost to improve the Earth’s soil and nutrient density (01:06:02)
• Why Diestel Family Ranch uses “grey water” (01:08:49)
• How clean meat can help improve athletic or everyday performance (01:12:07)
• How Diestel Family Ranch feels about the vegan movement (01:20:15)

For more on Heidi Diestel and Diestel Family Ranch, visit www.diestelturkey.com. 

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