Canadian Winter Conference The Big Picture: Soil Health to Crop Health/Food Quality to Human Health Arden Andersen, D.O., M.S.P.H., Ph.D. Arden Andersen Background • Raised on dairy/crop farm in Michigan • Undergraduate degree in agriculture; taught vocational agriculture at HS level • Farm management/soil/plant nutritional consulting since 1983; authored numerous books, manuals, course DVD’s and CD’s, taught in 8 countries and 2 languages; consulted in 11 countries; given professional testimony/presentation in 3 countries. • Masters of Science in Public Health from USF and residency trained and board eligible in Occupational Medicine; Board Certified in Public Health; Boarded in Prolotherapy • Ph.D. in Ag-Biophysics • USAFR Flight Surgeon • Family Practice/Occupational Medicine, Lansing, Kansas • Cenegenics trained What is human health? • Ability of one’s body to sustain life so that one can experience life to its fullest potential without the need for chemical/pharmaceutical intervention to abate/cover symptoms of malfunction. Bird’s Eye View • Outcome regardless of methods employed – Health – maximum brix, mineralization, nutrition, taste, yield to genetic potential, free of disease/parasites autonomously – Pre-Disease – “appears healthy” due to artificial control of disease/parasites, disease waiting to happen, accepted yield, mineralization, nutrition, brix - majority of crop production today including organic production – Disease – recycling of deficient/defective systems unable to provide needed nutrition/sustenance for consumer Health Sustainable living system taking in adequate energy equal to or greater than energy is being lost; strong immune system able to protect the organism from all predatory threats: at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy Pre-disease Declining system balance, weakening immune system unable to sufficiently protect the organism from predators and inherent internal degradation: loosing energy faster than replacing it Disease Sufficient system imbalance that recyclers appear; question is whether they will prevail or will the system sufficiently regenerate: loosing energy much faster than replacing it if at all Death Recycle carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen via microorganisms Nutrition v. Disease • Balance of Nature Disease Nutrition Time Management • One can spend eternity looking to ID every disease organism associated with a given condition. These are only the opportunists. • Look to change the terrain! Disease Nutrition What is health, disease? Is it something with which one is born? • Is it something with which one dies? • Is it genetic? • what does “genetic” mean? • what are genes? • If as a parent, you have mastered a task and teach your child your • technique, does it guarantee success? If the child fails, was it the parent’s will the child failed? • Health/Disease Continuum balanced therapeutic high brix mostly vitamins and minerals vegetable diet Health • dairy, moderate diet standard brix fruits and Pre-Disease pyrethrum • veggies OTC multi-min/vit Disease • dairy, processed meats pesticides contaminated glyphosate foods environmental refined CHO Death factors • SAD contaminated foods hydrogen cyanide pesticides Ultimately… Health and disease are mindsets • they are the result of the actions made by the • person based upon their thoughts, beliefs, attitudes diet, lifestyle, exercise, stress relief, intoxication •