The Micro Gut Biome Is Increasing Happiness in High Poverty Areas

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I think that may be a mixture of the spiritual, the communal but also with the materialistic and what I mean by that is that they have been finding that places that are you know living in much more simple means have much more diversified and healthy micro gut biomes. Part of that is the fact that they're eating more variety to amount of food. There's no topsoil depletion because they're not doing monocropping. Now we can get into disparities about cash money wealth and food that's a whole another conversation I don't know as much aboutbut let's be honest not everybody has access to the food that made Ziggy your name with Ziggy healthy in the state

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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