Ben Belty: Benefits of Wild Food, The Dangers of Glyphosate, and ReWilding Dirt Time | Ep.003
Release Date: 12/07/2016
AHR 32: How to Use Deep Connection and Holistic Resistance as Tools for Inclusion and Equality with Aaron Johnson
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Although making up 13 percent of the population, African Americans own less than 1 percent of the rural land in the United States. White Americans, however, own a staggering 856 million acres, which is about 98 percent of all rural property in the United States. Wild, right? So it's not crazy when I say that communities of color, low-income residents and other historically marginalized groups have traditionally faced barriers to accessing nature. That's why Ancestral Health Radio is dedicated to, and promotes, inclusivity and social justice through transitional lifeways. ...
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AHR 31: Privilege, Identity Politics, and the Transhuman Agenda with Daniel Vitalis (Part 2)
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Is the first person to live to 1,000-years-old, alive today? And if that's true, what does that inevitably mean for the future of the human condition? One of the world's leading anti-aging researchers, Aubrey De Grey, (and strangely—my neighbor) believes that to be 100% true. Because, well, Aubrey's the one who said it. And if what Aubrey says is true, would you then believe Arthur C. Clarke's third law, which states: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? Meaning that modern technology can seem like literal witchcraft to the...
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AHR 30: Privilege, Identity Politics, and the Transhuman Agenda with Daniel Vitalis (Part 1)
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Did you know that some scientists say that oaks produce more nuts annually than every other nut tree—both wild and commercial—combined? Nuts, right? (Yeah, yeah—laugh it up. The pun was intended.) Acorns, or oak nuts, are nutritional powerhouses. Depending on the species, a single acorn can contain up to 18% fat, 6% protein, and 68% carbohydrate—with the rest just being water, minerals, and gut-healthy fiber. Acorns are also great sources of both vitamins A and C, as well as having a long list of essential and nonessential aminos acids. With those numbers, it’s easy...
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AHR29: The Beginner's Guide on How to Hunt, Field Dress, Skin, and Butcher Wild Game with Fisher Neal
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Think about this for a second: More Americans hunt and fish than play baseball. What a trip, right? That's more than 38 million Americans. And if that doesn't surprise you, this will: Hunting—overall—brought in more revenue ($38.3 billion) than Google ($37.9 billion) or the Goldman Sachs Group ($36.8 billion). Now ask yourself this question: "Why don't I hunt?" Really think about this for a second. Mull it around for a few minutes, hours, days, whatever. But really think. Is it because of the blood, guts, and sinew? Is it your ethics or...
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AHR 28: How to Understand and Use Practical Animistic Rituals for Personal and Family Healing with Daniel Foor, PhD
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Is it possible to heal trauma in our personal and family lives by connecting with our well, deceased ancestors? Well... Provided you possess a beginner’s mindset equipped with the right animistic framework, my guest today, Dr. Daniel Foor of, would say yes—you absolutely can. This week, Daniel and I delve into practical animism: where ritual and ceremony are used as tools for personal, family, and cultural healing. A few months ago I was surprised to receive an early copy of Daniel's magnum opus, aptly titled Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. Since then,...
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AHR 27: Homesteading Skills for Abundant, Sustainable, and Regenerative Living with John Moody
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Have you ever thought of starting a homestead on your journey towards ancestral health? How about composting or gardening? Well... Today is a special opportunity to help a community member whose passion is about dismantling the industrialization of people and food through the acquisition of abundant, sustainable, and regenerative homesteading skills. Enter: John Moody of . John and I share a very similar mission, in that we understand there are skills and wisdom that need to be shared from the first-hand experience of elders within our community. And that today is an amazing opportunity...
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AHR 26: Holistic Land Management, Desertification, and Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild with Doniga Markegard
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Can agriculture be a sustainable path forward? This is the main question surrounding today's episode: Can we use the same technology that, arguably, has been one of the single-most destructive advents in the epoch of human history to move or usher us forward into a time where we're projected to hit an all-time population density of 9.5 BILLION people by 2050? With global desertification, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, glacial retreats, decreased snow cover, rising sea levels, declining arctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and extreme weather events… What tools do we have...
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AHR 25: Botanical Biotics, Renegade Beauty, and Holistic Body and Dental Care with Nadine Artemis
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Did you know... That the average woman uses 12 products per day containing over 168 ingredients (absorbing close to 4 and a half pounds of toxic chemicals a year)... A man goes through 6 products with 85 ingredients... A child is exposed to 5 products with 61 ingredients... Whilst a teenage girl is exposed to a whopping 17 products with over 230 ingredients, every day... Most of which are untested, unsafe, and scientifically and clinically unproven. -- That's why it's important we pay close attention to what we put on our bodies just as much as what we put in our bodies,...
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AHR 24: Endangered Languages, English-Prime, and the College of Mythic Cartography with Willem Larsen
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Guys, listen up... About every two weeks, another language dies. Or, perhaps, a dialect. There are over 231 completely extinct languages and 2,400 of the world’s languages are considered to be in danger of dying out. That's why today's guest—Willem Larsen of the College of Mythic Cartography—joins me on the Season 2 Premiere of Ancestral Health Radio. Willem shares ways at how to look at story and language from an indigenous people perspective and how, if we wish to be heard in today's culture, the types of stories we need to build for ourselves. In today’s episode, you’ll...
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AHR 23: How the Paleo Thyroid Solution Can Stop You From Feeling Fat, Foggy, and Fatigued with Elle Russ
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Did you know that more than an estimated 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease? And up to 60 percent of those with thyroid disease are unaware of their condition. Crazy, right? Not only that, but women are five to eight times more likely to develop thyroid problems than men. And one in eight women will develop some form of thyroid disorder during her lifetime. This is just another clear example of an evolutionary mismatch disease... And the problem with trying to heal yourself and your thyroid is that most of the information will have you running in circles, including the...
info_outlineWhy forage when you can hop in your petroleum-fueled vehicle and hit the closest Whole Foods?
Well...
1. Because you're smart. And...
2. Because you know better.
You may also know that by incorporating wild foods into your everyday diet that you not only help optimize your health but increase longevity.
Not only are they more nutritious, they're also free and often right in our backyards.
Today's guest will share some of his knowledge about wild foods, the dangers of glyphosate, and the type of work he wants to see with today's online ReWilding community.
Along with those fun facts, you'll also learn:
- Why wild foods are the cornerstone of any neo-ancestral lifeway,
- How to correctly process acorns and why that's important,
- Why women are better "nutrient transformers" than men, and...
- Much, much more.
Episode Breakdown
- The injury that led to Ben's discovery of natural health
- Raw milk, herbs, and the Maine Primitive Skills School
- Ben examines why food is such an important aspect of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
- Ben shares some of his favorite wild foods
- How wild foods protect themselves from contaminants
- Ben weighs in on the low-carb high-fat diet debate
- Ben breaks down how plants defend themselves
- Ben explains how to process acorns
- How to incorporate acorns into your diet
- What Ben believes is the key to human health
- Ben talks about what wild foods might have been without industry
- Why wild food is always better
- Ben shares a few of his favorite food stuffs he likes to buy at the store
- Ben and I explain why you may want to spend more money on sardines
- Why muscles, oysters, and clams are still wild foods even when farm-raised
- Land-based wild green foods vs. wild seafood
- Ben's personal strategy for curbing food cravings with sea vegetables
- The micronutrient that mitigates the side effects of methylmercury
- Ben examines the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio of wild foods to domesticated foods
- Why women are better "nutrient transformers" than men
- Why Ben says he's not a big "almond guy"
- Why Ben has been researching Round-Up and the effects of glyphosate
- Ben goes over the importance of glycine
- Ben's strategies for avoiding and/or buffering the effects of glyphosate exposure
- Ben makes a distinction between processed foods, commercial foods, and industrial foods
- Ben talks about the hamster wheel of modern life
- How Ben would like to see the Rewild Yourself Facebook group grow
- The type of people Ben sees joining the Facebook group and why he believes they join