The Edible Garden: The Health Benefits of Growing Some Food

The Edible Garden: The Health Benefits of Growing Some Food
Today we will be joined by Dr. Jeffery Pierce, MD. Dr. Pierce was born and raised in South Texas. He went to the University of Texas - Pan American for undergraduate studies and then Baylor College of Medicine for medical school. He learned how to be a family doctor through his training at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency in northern California, and later completed a fellowship in global health leadership at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.
“With the right information and motivation, people can get to the root cause of their illnesses and cure themselves”.
Dr. Pierce is passionate about using a whole food, plant-based diet and other lifestyle medicine modalities to help people get healthier, get off of medications, and live longer, fuller lives. His goal is to meet his patients where they are, and work with them at their pace to improve their health, one day at a time.
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[@janemerrittmckenna2386]

What a wonderful podcast! This is such an important way to get exercise, control of our intake of nutrition, and hopefully connect with mother Earth!

[@alligator_pie]

Wholeheartedly agree! I grow a few hundred lbs of veg and berries on my urban lot, in a cold climate. I also grew feverfew; chewing a few leaves daily helps with headaches and reportedly helps prevent migraines. It’s very bitter but I don’t mind. Also dried African marigold flowers, the lutein and zeaxanthin in the ingested petals apparently helps with eye health and sight.

[@JS-mh1fh]

I'm sorry I missed this live! I am an organic grower of a specialty food crop (functional food of tangerine tomatoes) and Health & Nutrition Coach with a specialty in Lifestyle Medicine. Also, I've been teaching gardening and involved in home scale urban agriculture as part of sustainability and resilience for 15 years. Glad you're bringing attention to this area. Living in a location with four seasons, the easiest plant to start growing is likely leaf lettuce, specifically, black-seeded simpson. There are issues with insect pests with brassicas and, in the summer, it can get much too hot.

[@nancylucas4231]

Do you grow tangerine tomatoes due to their high lycopene content?

[@JS-mh1fh]

@@nancylucas4231 it's the type of lycopene, called tetra-cis-lycopene. Other tomatoes contain all-trans-lycopene. The preparation is important, because heating tangerine tomatoes will change the chemical structure and they will no longer be more bioavailable than other tomatoes. The all-trans-lycopene must be heated to change the lycopene structure to tetra-cis-lycopene for it to be most readily absorbed into the body. So, with the differing amounts of lycopene, and their chemical structure being different, most doctors and nutritionists don't know this. I actually had a doctor (gatekeeper) of a culinary med certification program gaslight me and say it was speculative. It's not, it can be found on Pubmed, and largely conducted by Ohio State University, and by the Heritage Research Food Crops Trust in New Zealand.

[@flynneart1111]

Hey doc💙thx i was just drawing my next garden🌱🥦🥒🥬🫑🧅🍅🍆🧄🥔🍅

[@adelegower834]

Might help if I put volume up!!!! Lol sorry

[@johngalt97]

Grow nutritious plants to feed to animals, the proper food for humans.

[@HiloBoiz808]

100%!

[@adelegower834]

No sound

[@lionelfischer8240]

And all the more cook them boiling in water or vapor, not fried which would destroy most of the vitamins.

[@HiloBoiz808]

If youre going to grow food for humans you need to be raising livestock, not rabbit food.