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Ep. 188: Yvon Chouinard on Belonging to Nature

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The Mind Gut Connection and the Gut Biome

Our gut biome is so depleted compared to hunter and gatherers that it's only about 30 percent of what it should be. All these polyphenols that make taste are missing from our diet. Modern wheat has roots like eight inches deep and we've been working with perennial wheat called kerns, which goes down 15 feet. The longer the roots the more nutrients you get yeah.

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