    In this presentation we will examine the physiologic mechanisms of disease prevention and reversal utilizing a whole food plant based diet. The necessity and place of the Gospel in facilitating sustained life changes will be highlighted.     

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Agriculture

Is There a "Doctor" on the Farm?

Tim Howe

Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People- Another look at GMO’s and Pesticides

Our Father, we pray that You will open our minds to Your amazing plan of life, where to live all things give, And the way of life that does not involve giving is in fact dying.

I'd like to tell you 2 stories to begin with.

The first is the story of our first attempt at planting kale in the garden that we now work.

How many of you know John Kempf, K-E-M-P-F?

He's an Amish gentleman that runs a company called Advancing Ecoagriculture.

If you're not aware of that company, look it up.

It's a very interesting company, and they deal with soils and regenerative agriculture.

We cleared the land that our garden is on.

It had mixed forest on it, and we sawed up the wood and built our barn.

Now the soil in Maine, where we live, is by and large blue marine clay.

It's pure enough that you can make bricks out of it.

In fact, in the woods around our property, there are a few old cellar holes and you can dig handmade bricks out of them from chimneys in past years.

That's what they did with that blue marine clay.

It grows trees pretty well, particularly pine trees and black spruce and birch and not oak very well.

So we cleared it and I knew we would have some work to do and we enriched the soil a bit with seaweed and started off on our first year.

And we planted the kale and it came up okay and then the bugs ate it.

Now, Lynn and I have had a certified organic garden before, and I didn't think I was that much of a novice, and I didn't want to spray it with anything.

This year, 13 years later, after we've tested our soil, amended our soil, continued to haul seaweed up from the shore.

We live on the shore and work with our soil.

And that's in Maine, you know, where it gets cold.

And if you can grow things in Maine, you can grow it anywhere.

In fact, we picked some of our last kale just recently.

No, they didn't find the kale tasty anymore.

You see, bugs are nature's garbage collectors.

And the first kale I tried to grow wasn't worth me eating.

The first thing that you want to do when you have bug problems is ask yourself why.

If the plants are healthy, they buy and large, leave them be.

And there's another little seed I want to plant in there, it's really the theme of what I have to say today, and that is plants develop polyphenolic antioxidants.

You'll hear that term again and again this afternoon.

They develop polyphenolic antioxidants in order to protect themselves against disease and bugs, insects.

Those same compounds that protect the plants protect you and me from disease.

Backyard Tomatoes is a huge company in Maine and Massachusetts that grows tomatoes.

And the stores in the winter are full of these gorgeous vine-ripe tomatoes that are grown in greenhouses.

And about 2 years ago they had whitefly infestation in their greenhouses And they tried everything to get rid of them.

Finally, they shut down their entire operation, got rid of all the plants, sterilized the soil, and started over.

At the same time, 1 of their competitors had a white fly infestation in their greenhouses and they called up John Kempf.

John came to their greenhouse and he does what his company does, among other things.

He took a brand new little leaf off the top of the tomato plant and then he took an old leaf off the tomato plant at the bottom and he did what's called plant sap analysis.

That tells you in real time what the minerals are particularly that the plant is able to absorb from the soil.

In the new leaf, the plant will shunt minerals to it that the plant is deficient in because it wants to grow.

And so it will preferentially put a higher concentration in the new leaf of things that it doesn't have quite enough of.

So those will be lower in the old leaf and higher in the new.

If it has too much, a toxic level of a mineral or other substance, it stores it in the old leaf and it's relatively less in the young leaf.

So John did a plant sap analysis and found that the plants were deficient in nickel.

Now nickel we didn't even know was an essential nutrient for plants until recently.

And it's only needed in very small amounts, but they were deficient in nickel.

So he mixed up a foliar spray, And he said, you have 3 big greenhouses, but we're only going to spray 1 of these greenhouses, the center 1.

So he mixed his foliar spray of a dilute nickel solution and then sprayed the tomatoes.

Nothing happened for the first day or the second day.

By the third and fourth day, they noticed that the white flies had begun leaving the greenhouse.

By the end of 2 weeks there were no white flies left in that center greenhouse.

Still very much alive in the 2 on the sides, and then he sprayed those as well and the white fly infestation was at an end.

The plants were deficient in an essential polyphenolic antioxidant that the whiteflies didn't like.

With the addition of the foliar feed, the plant was able to make the necessary defense chemical and then the white flies left.

So keep that scenario in your mind and then I want to shift gears for a moment and talk about what might seem like a completely different topic.

We're going to come back to that and we're going to look at glyphosate.

It's the active ingredient in Roundup and several other weed killers.

Hippocrates said, let food be your medicine and let your medicine be food.

But for much of the history of medical care, we as physicians and other health care practitioners have spent most of our time doing 2 things.

1, identifying the problem, that is diagnosing the illness.

Preventing and Reversing Disease- The Power of a Whole Food Plant Based Diet

We have a health care crisis in our country today.

And 70% of the health care dollar, if you factor out insurance companies, is spent on chronic diseases.

The top chronic diseases in our country today are coronary artery disease, second cancer and third diabetes.

By the year 2050, if the current trend holds, we will have every third person in the country with diabetes.

Now To understand the magnitude of that problem, you have to understand that today it takes $10, 000 a year more to care for a diabetic person than a non-diabetic.

So picture a third of our population times $10, 000 and you know that we are going to have a major health care crisis.

Now you have to also remember that we know how currently to prevent much of the burden of chronic disease.

We can prevent 90% of coronary artery disease.

Prevent 90% of diabetes and if you factor in smoking cessation, we can with diet prevent 75-80% of cancer.

Can you imagine what would happen if everyone in the country adopted the recommended diet?

We would then have a new health care crisis.

Hospitals, their administrators, doctors hospitals, their administrators, doctors and nurses would be coming to the farmers to look for work.

The medical care of the future should be delivered by nutritionists and farmers because that is where the biggest savings will occur.

There is, however, 1 small problem and that problem was first identified 2, 000 years ago.

Before I tell you about that, what's the number 1 cause of death in this country today?

The number 1 cause of death in this country today is people doing what they know they shouldn't do.

And the number 2 cause is people not doing what they know they should do.

You see, Paul, 2000 years ago, said, the good that I would, that I do not.

And the evil that I would not, that do I.

How many of you are living up to all the light on health you have every day.

The good that you would, you know you want to get up and exercise, You know you should drink that water.

You know that you shouldn't eat those sweets.

And that problem is why we have a health care crisis in our country today.

Our problem is not a lack of information.

It's a lack of doing what we already know we should.

I will not tell you anything here today that will change your life as much as surrendering to Jesus.

Because as I told you This morning, Paul also wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5, he said, I pray, God, that your whole mind and body and spirit be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord, faithful is He who called you, who will also do it.

The biggest problem that I have as a physician is getting my patients to do what they already know they should do.

And the second problem I have is getting myself to do what I know I should do.

Because we all are sinners in need of a Savior.

And I want you to know that you can't ignore your body.

But caring for our body is against our nature because we have a fallen sinful nature.

And selfish people do things that aren't good for them.

So the first thing that you need to do as we talk today is recognize that you're not going to like what I have to say.

And number 2, you're not going to be able to do what I tell you to do.

Well, you may do it for a while if you're really afraid, but it's really hard to do what we should do.

So if you want to see sustained change in your life, get down on your knees and ask for help.

Because that's where you're going to find it.

You're not going to find it in this lecture today.

I wish I could tell you that I have some startling revelation, but I don't other than we need Jesus to change us.

Because when you're really in love with Him, you have the motivation to live so that you can bless others as He has blessed you.

And so you can point them to eternal life.

I just want to make a couple things abundantly clear.

And the first 1 is, diet does not convey immortality.

I don't care what you eat, you're not going to live forever because of what you eat.

And even if it was, we still need that change that only Jesus can give.

Lynn, would you go back and get my notes that are in the cabin?

Just in case I forget where I'm going, right?

Okay, so I want to talk about physiology and I want to talk about disease and diet and how to reverse a problem called aging.

We can't do it all the way, but we can slow it down some.

And I can tell you that aging is way better than the alternative right now.

You know what the alternative to aging is?

I don't want to go there yet unless the Lord calls me there, then I don't want to stop.

So let me talk to you about glycation first.

Glycation is really important and this has to do with diabetes but it also has to do with people who are not diabetic.

Any diabetics here in the audience today?

So has anyone here besides the diabetics heard of hemoglobin A1c?

Yeah, we got some people that have heard of it.

Okay we have someone that's educated here.

She says it reflects your average blood sugar for the last 3 months.

It's the amount of sugar sticking to the red blood cells.

It means how much is reflected in the diet.

Ah, no sister, it means much more than that.

You see, when sugar attaches to the hemoglobin in the red cell, it changes the structure and the function of the hemoglobin.

Red blood cells are about 7 to 8 microns in diameter.

Yeah, that's bigger than 7 to 8, but you can see it, right?

Capillaries are 3 to 4 microns in diameter.

Our red cells have to be squished to go into those capillaries.

That maximizes the surface contact between the red blood cell and the capillary facilitating oxygen transport out to the tissues and carbon dioxide uptake into the tissue, I mean into the red cell for excretion.

Beautiful design, But if you attach sugar to the red cell and stiffen that red blood cell, how are you going to shoot it through a capillary this big?

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