Have you ever heard the advice about avoiding shopping the inner isles at the grocery store? The deeper you go into those aisles, the more chemically laden and processed the food tends to be. Even “healthy” junk food is still processed junk food.
As the modern population chases the fountain of youth through all these self-proclaimed age-reversing products, from supplements and skin creams to the more invasive plastic surgery and injections, it just goes to show that everyone wants to look and feel healthy and young forever!
As any expert will tell you, your health starts in the gut! What you consume is going to shape you from the inside out.
Eating nutrient dense organic foods with minimal processing and simple ingredients is the best route to a healthier mind and body. Nutrient dense foods pack in higher levels of essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber supporting your overall wellness. Today, we often have to eat three to six times more fruits and veggies to get the same nutrients our great grandparents once received before the chemical fertilizer boom. Our food is not as nutritious as it once was. Modern soils are depleted of beneficial biology that naturally supports healthy plant growth and nutrient uptake. Chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides disrupt and destroy these important natural systems.
You can’t wash away pesticides and chemical residues from your produce. These inputs remain in the food we consume, wreaking havoc on your healthy gut biome our bodies depend on. Just like the soil, our bodies rely on beneficial microbes to function properly. We share some of the same microbes with the soil. We are connected.
When the gut biome becomes compromised from poor food quality and chemical exposure, it causes inflammation and bacterial imbalances, triggering brain fog, anxiety, depression, and impaired cognitive function.
And the problem doesn’t stop at just fruits and vegetables. What your food ate is what you eat! Think about that. Whatever the livestock are exposed to, from antibiotics, dewormers, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, fungicides, and herbicides makes their way into our bodies as well.
These forever chemicals end up in our water systems. They don’t just stay where they were applied. They runoff into waterways, seep into our watersheds, damaging aquatic life, and further eroding our banks along rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, and the Gulf Coast!
So how do we work around this?
Start by supporting local organic farms and ranches. Smaller operations have more control over what goes into their soil and animals while practicing better land stewardship. If you don’t have access to a local organic farm, choosing organic products at the store is much easier these days.
Another option is growing your own food with MicroLife that helps build healthy, living soil. It may not be realistic for all of us to become homesteaders, but do what you can where you can! Healthy soil supports a healthy ecosystem, and ultimately a healthier you!
