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Our Body's Intricate Connection To Soil
In the not so distant past, people used to ingest beneficial soil and plant based microbes through the food they ate, food once grown in rich, unpolluted soil. During the last 50 years however, our soil has been sterilized with pesticides and herbicides, destroying most bacteria, both bad and good. Our modern lifestyle which includes antibiotics, chlorinated water agricultural chemicals, pollution, and poor diet is responsible for eradicating many of the important beneficial microorganisms in our bodies.
Society's separation from dirt and germs may well be the cause of the growing incidence of a wide range of ...