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These aren’t Your Grandparent’s Fruits and Veggies

By David Blyweiss, M.D., Advanced Natural Wellness

February 9, 2022

Over the years, the growing soil for our fruits and vegetables has been stripped of nutrients and and their microbiome. That’s because we screwed it up.

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We put poisons, like pesticides and herbicides, into the soil. We focused on higher yields instead of leaving fields unplanted for a season or two to allow them to renew their soil. We’ve failed to rotate crops the way we’re supposed to….basic knowledge was ignored or forgotten. “Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow.

In the last 60-80 years, these degenerative agricultural practices have been wiping the nutrients and life out of our soil so that plants can’t pull what we and they need from a robust and recycling earth environment into their roots ,– and into the fruits and vegetables we’re eating. Soil is not just a matrix to retain minerals and keep plants in one place. Evolving research indicates that the soil microbiome may well have an even more positive effect on our health than previously thought. Remember  the saying, (paraphrasing here) “ Kids need to eat their pound of dirt” to be healthy? Continue reading