The TRUTH About BIG FOOD & BIG PHARMA: How REGENERATIVE Farming Benefits Health | Dr. Robert Lustig

Since metabolic health is downstream of food production, we need regenerative farming, balanced ecosystems, and to lift the veil of Big Food’s marketing schemes in order to optimize the entire system.
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🎙 What Levels’ Advisor Dr. Rob Lustig and Head of Growth Ben Grynol discuss:
00:00 - Intro
02:12 - The growers and the helpers
05:34 - How DDT changed America
11:01 - The next big thing
15:02 - Soil vs. dirt
27:51 - Farming in the 1960s
30:44 - Turning America’s Heartland into big ag
33:32 - Agriculture and healthcare are inseparable
37:50 - An immoral hazard
42:54 - The consumer is in the dark
50:36 - Shop around the edge of the supermarket
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[@brendafosmire6519]

Dr Lustig is a beacon for the future.

[@tinashields9599]

I am a farmer on a very small farm in upstate NYS, and I have become more and more concerned over what is on the grocery store shelves and sold as food- I absolutely agree with you on every point. I will point out that there are still many family farms in this country who do care very much about the land that they own and grow on- whether it is meat, fruit, or vegetable production- and many of them now sell their own products to the public. Are those products the cheapest available? No- they are not- which means that some folks will not or cannot buy them, or do not even have access to them easily. As I watched this, I was eating supper- my home raised hamburger cooked with my own onions, and summer squash that I grew in my garden. I am very sorry for anyone who cannot do that themselves. I sell meat and produce at our tiny local farm market and also make a few baked goods with minimal sweetening and what I feel are the best and safest ingredients rather than the cheapest- yes, I do use some sugar but have gotten away from oils such as soybean or corn- I am hoping to find avacado oil locally as olive oil can impart a taste that can affect a more delicate baked item. Eating and cooking wisely, as you say, requires some knowlege and research. We milked dairy cows here for many years and of course if an animal was sick we treated them, but medication is expensive and farmers do not wnat to spend any more money than necessary on that. Every tanker of milk is tested for antibioltics and if it is positive- and I can tell you those testss are extremely sensitive- the load is dumped and the samples from each farm are tested until the culprit is found. I read in Hoard's Dairyman a few years ago that the percent of "bad" milk found on milk tankers is I think less than a hundreth of a percent now- no one wants to buy a tanker of milk and the penalties are high! The ones that do happen are almost always the result of an accidental contamination rather than a deliberate attempt to get bad milk into the system. Just wanted to say that- thanks for your very informative presentation. It can be discouraging trying to make a difference in these times of money making the rules.

[@thelifecoachmedicalmodel6648]

Thank you

[@SteffanRhoads]

Have you tried the original fats used in baking (and frying)? Beef tallow and other animal fats are vastly superior to even fruit oils. My favorite (unproven) detail is that (I don’t believe) your body can store fat unless you are consuming carbohydrates! You can actually exhale excess ketones an even per/poop excess ketones (and I don’t think our livers would make carbohydrates and switch to an insulin metabolism to store fat).

[@koobah]

@@SteffanRhoads this sounds like an American Health Association approved comment. I recommend checking facts and peer-reviewed studies. Clinton did not reverse heart disease eating tallow.

[@SteffanRhoads]

@@koobah you can follow the wide path to poor health, it is your choice

[@koobah]

@@SteffanRhoads thanks, I hope I'll be ok. I would recommend doing "your own research", though. My obese, high blood pressure-ridden family members warn me every day that I'll soon collapse, but I wish them well. Take care!

[@venkatauppaluri1089]

As usual Dr. Lustig cuts thru the chase. Thanks Dr.

[@SteffanRhoads]

I’ve studied farming for some time and the regenerative ag movement is amazing since it addresses from following the Hippocratic oath to Climate Change! So glad to see you have discovered it.

[@BRM101]

It’s all about maximising profit not feeding people and making them healthy.

[@darthvader5300]

Plant seeds of of the different varieties of radishes called tillage radish that can drill right through the hardpan and pre-mixed with the seeds of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground cover called kura clover (native to our Russia) and other species of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground covers. Once the tillage radish plants has bolted or self-seeded it will turn into compost and eventually ferments into humus. But the deep roots of the species of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground covers will simultaneously consume the humus inside the soil WHILE THEIR HAIR ROOTS WILL KEEP INTACT THE SPACES LEFT BEHIND BY THE TAPROOTS AND BRANCHING LATERAL ROOTS AND HORIZONTAL SMALLER ROOTS AND HAIR ROOTS OF THE TILLAGE RADISH PLANTS and thus making the soil porous and airy LIKE A SPONGE. The problem with tillage radish plant species is that when they start to turn to compost and eventually ferments into humus is that THEY WILL STINK FOR MILES AROUND! To us Russians we are used to the stink of a composting and fermenting tillage radish plants grown with different species of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground covers. What amazes us Russians is that most of your farmers never bothered to use it and the techniques as outlined by us Russians because of one frivolous reason which is IT IS STINKY SMELLY FOR MILES AROUND! So the choice is yours to make and to decide on. Endure the stink and have a surviving farm, or face the consequences of alternating floods and droughts. This technique was developed in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. But why it did not spread wide enough throughout the United States Of America is surprising to us Russians. In Kazan, Russia, in my village we are still using that technique and we are used to the stink of a composting and fermenting radish tillage root crops to increase soil porosity so as to absorb the snow melt in the end of of the winter seasons and when it rains. But we have numerous artisan wells. And with the acquired knowledge of Stephan Riess's Earth-generated primary water, we started drilling as many Earth-generated primary water wells to cover our needs and the needs of the military installations built inside our village after the end of WW II. The other technique is rock mulching in which a thick layer of compost is spread over an area and around the plants, and then it is covered with a geotextile mesh net which is then covered with a thick layer of rocks or gravel over it. It is only irrigated once to wet the compost and then sparingly sprayed with water from time to time. Once the compost's fermentation process starts the rocks or gravel over it will keep it from drying up until it has fully fermented into humus. This process also encourages earthworm activities and increases their population for earthworm castings are WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD WHEN IT COMES TO SURVIVAL. This is a 1950s technique in America and why it fell out of favor and almost forgotten is astonishingly surprising to us Russians.

[@danworley3806]

Wonderful info...been understanding regen farming for years . At time 48:00 you start to get to the cause of this problem...the value we put on money and corporations.

[@BCSTS]

Too bad this has so few viewers.....presentation is great, low key, but full of crucial information...It is pretty much all here! Shows overall picture....at different stages....unfortunately, reinforces just how hopeless it all seems...when even buying fruits & veggies....you are at the mercy of all the unknown dangers & lack of nutrition...Well done interview, thank you! Dr. Rob Lustig is invaluable!

[@beerman204]

The reason not so many viewers....balanced ..smart....factual....historical. Given today's cultural environment those are virtues not enough people either recognize or care about?

[@alicecolleenflynn]

Thank you, Dr Lustig. For those interested in healthy soil and healthy ecosystems, see the TED Talk by Allan Savory.

[@SteffanRhoads]

Savory proved the macro (and invented a whole new management paradigm [holistic] in the process. Gabe Brown proved the micro by demonstrating not only the vast improvement in soil health (fungi & bacteria and how they take in carbohydrates exuded from plant roots and in return the nutrients the plants need to grow - which mostly they get from the atmosphere but in literally no case are fertilizers good for the fungi & bacteria) and profitability of his farm! Huge win-win for regenerative ag (and is no till).

[@mikemccarthy1638]

Soil depletion is so bad now that even a relatively quick transition to regen-ag won’t be enough without added short-term help to accelerate carbon retention in the soil. Unfortunately, this involves govt regulation & incentives to promote rapidly scaled up biochar production via anerobic pyrolysis of wood & other plant matter, including food waste, that might otherwise decompose generating methane. Biochar added to soil, esp under regen-ag conditions, can sequester carbon for hundreds of years - without stripping O2 out of the air via CO2 storage. Biochar plants, portable or fixed-base, can be located near available plant matter, including recyclers, facilities handling storm & construction waste, and dead wood in forests. To accelerate distribution to farmers, regulation & incentives could be made available to existing bbq grill charcoal producers to convert their production to biochar, to sell to gardeners, local community-supported ag, as well as farms. Once citizens realize the full extent of the climate emergency, taxation of charcoal production & sale would promote a quicker switch to biochar, with the added health benefits of reduced suburban air pollution.

[@michellewahl4756]

Pediatricians are pretty much next to God - Thank you professor for being an overachiever/Attorney as well holding these guys accountable

[@martykerns3802]

Lustig is an endocrinologist, not a pediatrician. He doesn’t deal with well baby visits. His patients are strictly obese children who have metabolic disease.

[@proudchristian77]

Nobody but Lord Jesus is by HIM , they holy were not , their way more sweeter & smarter & educated then us , but God is over everyone, y we try for Him , 💝👣👑 head's up !

[@janinegriffiths8281]

I am a native landscaper and the soil matters. Composting is the best way add nutrients into the soil.

[@xikano8573]

Thank you, Dr. Lustig, for not biting your tongue.

[@mekinac]

Merci pour cette information j’ai beaucoup appris, ceci me permet de faire de meilleurs choix sur ma nourriture. Dr Lustig vous êtes génial.

[@jillfield3102]

I always thought farms had a year when a part of the land was left without growing anything to help it recover after three years of rotating crops . 👍💖🇬🇧

[@darthvader5300]

Plant seeds of of the different varieties of radishes called tillage radish that can drill right through the hardpan and pre-mixed with the seeds of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground cover called kura clover (native to our Russia) and other species of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground covers. Once the tillage radish plants has bolted or self-seeded it will turn into compost and eventually ferments into humus. But the deep roots of the species of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground covers will simultaneously consume the humus inside the soil WHILE THEIR HAIR ROOTS WILL KEEP INTACT THE SPACES LEFT BEHIND BY THE TAPROOTS AND BRANCHING LATERAL ROOTS AND HORIZONTAL SMALLER ROOTS AND HAIR ROOTS OF THE TILLAGE RADISH PLANTS and thus making the soil porous and airy LIKE A SPONGE. The problem with tillage radish plant species is that when they start to turn to compost and eventually ferments into humus is that THEY WILL STINK FOR MILES AROUND! To us Russians we are used to the stink of a composting and fermenting tillage radish plants grown with different species of perennial nitrogen-fixing ground covers. What amazes us Russians is that most of your farmers never bothered to use it and the techniques as outlined by us Russians because of one frivolous reason which is IT IS STINKY SMELLY FOR MILES AROUND! So the choice is yours to make and to decide on. Endure the stink and have a surviving farm, or face the consequences of alternating floods and droughts. This technique was developed in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. But why it did not spread wide enough throughout the United States Of America is surprising to us Russians. In Kazan, Russia, in my village we are still using that technique and we are used to the stink of a composting and fermenting radish tillage root crops to increase soil porosity so as to absorb the snow melt in the end of of the winter seasons and when it rains. But we have numerous artisan wells. And with the acquired knowledge of Stephan Riess's Earth-generated primary water, we started drilling as many Earth-generated primary water wells to cover our needs and the needs of the military installations built inside our village after the end of WW II. The other technique is rock mulching in which a thick layer of compost is spread over an area and around the plants, and then it is covered with a geotextile mesh net which is then covered with a thick layer of rocks or gravel over it. It is only irrigated once to wet the compost and then sparingly sprayed with water from time to time. Once the compost's fermentation process starts the rocks or gravel over it will keep it from drying up until it has fully fermented into humus. This process also encourages earthworm activities and increases their population for earthworm castings are WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD WHEN IT COMES TO SURVIVAL. This is a 1950s technique in America and why it fell out of favor and almost forgotten is astonishingly surprising to us Russians.

[@seattleareatom]

Interesting video. Thanks. I suggest a blindfolded taste test of a cardboard smoothie or say potato smoothie and fruits and vegetables found in an average store. I'll bet good money most people couldn't tell which was the cardboard smoothie or tomato or ...

[@stuarthayner]

We even have a Sun and food issue! Skin cancer is on the rise dramatically. This is not because we spend time in the sun, it’s because humans spend time behind glass. Filters out UVB that gives us vitamin D and collagen production in the skin. So what is it doing to the plants will grow to eat in hot houses?

[@SteffanRhoads]

The carnivores, and some are doctors, show that sun burn is caused by consuming either carbohydrates or industrial seed oils (or both). So far I’ve heard of none, nor their children, who either use sun screen or suffer sun burn (and me too).

[@elmasacarcongar9642]

vegetables and fruit grown in "water".... vertical farming promoted as "health" or "planet saving" is unbelievable. It can feed masses but is it nutritious? but of course then you can then urbanize the fields as well

[@johnharemancom]

How about eliminating the Methanogens with an oral antibody. We’re using these targeted antibodies to fix many health issues and believe the same can be done to reduce methane emissions in dairy cattle.

[@koobah]

All good and very important topics. Just wondering where did DR Lustig take the strange data for methane increase while the cattle herds decreased? If nothing else, the CAFOs are pretty good in terms of producing animals fast, really fast and as a result greenhouse emissions are usually lower than taking all those cows and allowing them to just graze and grow slower.

[@gtw4546]

It has to do with what the cattle eat. Grass grazing cattle produce much less methane. Feeding them grain is what causes the methane problem. Grain is an unnatural food for cows and it "gives them gas". So not only are the cows living their very short lives in horrendous conditions that make them sick, the very thing they're eating is making them sick as well.

[@koobah]

@@gtw4546 would be great if this was true, but it's not regarding cattle herds. After the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2016 by the EPA (www.epa.gov) "Enteric fermentation is the largest anthropogenic source of CH4 emissions in the United States. In 2016, enteric fermentation CH4 emissions were 170.1 MMT CO2 Eq. (25.9 percent of total CH4 emissions), which represents an increase of 6.0 MMT CO2 Eq. (3.6 percent) since 1990. This increase in emissions from 1990 to 2016 in enteric fermentation generally follows the increasing trends in cattle populations. From 1990 to 1995, emissions increased and then generally decreased from 1996 to 2004, mainly due to fluctuations in beef cattle populations and increased digestibility of feed for feedlot cattle. Emissions increased from 2005 to 2007, as both dairy and beef populations increased. Research indicates that the feed digestibility of dairy cow diets decreased during this period. Emissions decreased again from 2008 to 2014 as beef cattle populations again decreased. Emissions increased from 2014 to 2016, consistent with an increase in beef cattle population over those same years."

[@koobah]

And from the more recent version for 1990-2020, "Enteric fermentation was the largest anthropogenic source of CH4 emissions in the United States in 2020, accounting for 175.2 MMT CO2 Eq. of CH4 (26.9 percent of total CH4 emissions) and representing an increase of 11.7 MMT CO2 Eq. (7.2 percent) since 1990. This increase in emissions from 1990 to 2020 generally follows the increasing trends in cattle populations."

[@gtw4546]

@@koobah Yes, "fermentation" - people ferment GRAINS to make alcohol for a reason. When you feed grains to ruminates, they will ferment. Feeding grain to ruminates is unnatural and changes their microbiome. The EPA didn't compare "enteric fermentation" between grass-fed versus grain-fed cattle. The EPA also didn't track earlier than 1990 and by that point, the CAFO would have been the norm.

[@gtw4546]

@@koobah A comparison between the methane produced by the grass-fed cattle of Argentina versus the methane produced by the grain-fed cattle of the US would show the truth. Do you think anyone would fund it?

[@jmc0369]

What percentage of climate change is due to particle forcing? Whats causing changes on all the planets throughout the solar system? Whats causing the earths geomagnetic field strength drop or the poles to increase rate of movement? Oganic farmer here, and all on board, great discussion.

[@SteffanRhoads]

What percentage of ‘climate change’ is due to poor farming practices? Tilling soil cause the release of carbon and oxidizes the organic matter that would have fed fungi & bacteria not to mention all the worms and insects! Let’s talk ‘climate change’ after addressing the change to regenerative agriculture!

[@jmc0369]

@@SteffanRhoads Im an commercial organic farmer in a achool environment. You are speaking my lingo. Regenerative ag solves so environmental and social issues with no downsides. Humans getting back into proper relationship with giaia, or said differently, remember how to be (being), rights this course.

[@MaryPinkHair]

Well, we are at their mercy because they know we have to eat and I wonder if they are eating the same food they are making us eat????

[@SteffanRhoads]

I believe they eat the bad that we do because most are simply unaware (and their ability to make money limits their willingness to understand).

[@koobah]

We have choices - we can opt for growing our own food (in part, at least) and to avoid processed carbs, meats and concentrated, unnatural fats (yes, also that cheese pizza).

[@jackgoldman1]

What about the soil for children. Most children are raised in dirt, cities. Few children are raised in soil, good soil. Many of the children raised in dirt are lacking parts of their life and dysfunctional. Credit, debt, makes children dysfunctional. Unborn children are sold into 1913, IOU, income tax debt slavery. The children are feudal debt slaves, worse than 1860. How can the children be freed from this dysfunctional dirt instead of soil, healthy families?

[@wendykircher6490]

The environment is the other silo "they" keep separate!

[@proudchristian77]

& we smoke stuff , y , cause its nuts , 🥜🌰 💝 gosh ! ☕️ 🍯🍶

[@flycorvus]

Soil is a living thing, full of microbes. And we, humans are a sack of microbes with legs. Period.

[@raynabozny2338]

ALL WE NEED TO DO IS REPLACE COAL WITH NATURAL GAS.

[@hongseok8017]

Making money only works being healthy is spending That is why 0 fucks given

[@brucethomson3512]

You know, this Dr Robert whatever his surname is, struggles to not say "you know" in virtually every sentence. Just thought I'd mention that you know 🙄

[@jackgoldman1]

Exercise, lose weight, eat whole food.