Farmers are highly vulnerable to inflammatory (or non-communicable diseases), but they are also where the most powerful actions to prevent and reverse learning disabilities, depression, dementia, diabetes, cancer, etc. are possible... if we are willing to care about all our good neighbours!

1. Who Do YOU Know…?
 Depression
 Anxiety
 Diabetes
 Heart Disease
 Allergies
 Asthma
 Memory Problems (up to
Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s)
 Learning Disabilities (&
Autism)
 IBS, Crohn’s, Ulcerative
Colitis, Diverticulitis…
 Arthritis
 Lupus
 Multiple Sclerosis
 Any Kind of Cancer
 Chronic Fatigue
 Hormone Problems (Aging?!)
 Chronic Pain

2. Inflammatory Disease,
Soil, and
the Gut Ecosystem
© Jackie McMillan, BES, Autism, 2019
http://ThriveWithAutism.ca
Photos courtesy of Angie Koch’s Fertile Ground Farm, and
Morguefile.com, unless stated otherwise

3. (Some) Inflammatory
Diseases:
Mental:
 ADHD
 Alzheimer’s
 Attention & focus issues
 Asperger’s and Autism
 Bipolar disorder
 Brain fog/ lack of clarity
 Delayed reaction time
 Dementia
 Learning Disabilities
 Memory problems
 OCD
 Parkinson’s
 Sensory Integration Issues
(Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, etc.)
 Word-finding Issues
Emotional:
 Depression
 Anxiety/ Panic
 Anger & Violence
Physical:
 Addison’s Disease
 Allergies and Sensitivities
 ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
 Angina (& other heart disease)
 Arthritis
 Asthma
 Cancer
 Celiac Disease
 Crohn’s Disease
 Diabetes
 Graves’ Disease
 Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
 Hepatitis
Physical:
 Inflammatory Bowel
Disease
 Lupus
 Multiple Sclerosis
 Myasthenia Gravis
 Obesity
 Periodontitis
 Pernicious Anemia
 Sarcoidosis
 Sjögren’s syndrome
 Skin Problems (Eczema,
Psoriasis, Acne, Rashes)
 Tuberculosis
 Ulcers, Ulcerative Colitis
 Vasculitis & Arteritis
There are over 80 autoimmune diseases, all of
which are caused by chronic inflammation.

4. What Is Inflammation?
Acute Surface Inflammation:
PRISH
 Pain
 Redness
 Immobility
 Swelling (or Stiffness)
 Heat
Only some of these signs may
be noticeable inside the body
(lungs, gut, bones, etc.) .
Chronic Internal Inflammation:
 Abdominal pain
 Chest pain
 Distention
 Fatigue
 Fever
 Joint pain
 Mouth sores
 Rash

5. What Causes Inflammation?
 Chronic Stress
 Immune Challenges
 Leaky Gut (Intestinal
Permeability)
 Malnourishment
(backlog of tasks
from missing
materials for repair
and maintenance)
 Physical Injury
 Toxins
The immune system
recognizes irritants,
invaders, and damaged
cells. It launches a biological
process to break these down
so they can be removed from
the body.
This biological process
causes irritation,
inflammation, fluid (e.g. pus)
build-up, and finally
granulation, the first stage of
building new and healthy
tissues.
Inflammation is the body’s
natural protection, and a first
step to healing wounds,

6. What Causes Chronic
Inflammation?
1. Leaky Gut
2. Chronic Infections
3. Heightened Toxic Body
Burden
If inflammation persists, it
causes ongoing harm to
the body, which leads to…
chronic health
conditions and
diseases.
Human digestive, immune, and detox systems overlap
by 60 to 85%, depending on the expert.
Sommai
FreeDigitalPhotos.net

7. Why Do So Many More of Us
Have Leaky Gut, Chronic
Infection, and Un-removed
Toxins?
Africa FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Phaitoon FreeDigitalPhotos.net ImageryMajestic
FreeDigitalPhotos.net

8. Soil Health = Microbiome
Health
“There is growing evidence that CIDs (chronic
inflammatory diseases) are characterized by a
change in microbiome composition.”
- Dr. Alessio Fasano, Harvard Medical School
https://www.ancestralhealth.nl/2018/early-nutrition-can-shape-gut-
microbiota-implications-autoimmunity-epidemics-lesson-learned-
celiac-disease/
https://www.drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Celiac-
non-celiac-gluten-sensitivity-review-JAMA-2017.pdf
DC Dominici FreeDigitalPhotos.net

9. Gut as Ecosystem
 An unhealthy gut microbiome (microbial
ecosystem) allows infection, toxin
accumulation, and harm to the digestive
system, leaving the gut lining vulnerable to
perforation and loose junctions.
 When the gut lining leaks, the immune system
is faced with undigested food, unwelcome
digestive microbes, and toxic microbial wastes
in the bloodstream.
 The immune system launches inflammation to
deal with the invaders… which don’t stop
entering the bloodstream, so the inflammation
doesn’t stop.
The 3 top causes of leaky gut are stress,
gluten, and glyphosate.
Cbenjasuwan FreeDigitalPhotos.net

10. Evidence Trumps Old Model:
Old: Body As Machine
 Parts/ systems can be
studied and understood in
isolation
 If a part or system doesn’t
work, fix or replace it without
worrying about impacts on
the rest of the system
 Give the part or system the
right “fix”, and it will keep
going
New: Body As Ecosystem
 Each part and system is
intimately, functionally
entwined in a whole body
 Assessment of health is
impossible without
addressing each part or
system’s impact on all the
others
 Health of system or part
isn’t possible without
whole body health.

11. When
Models
Change…
Who
Fights
Back?

12. Challenge a Powerful Authority, and…
Solar System Model
 Copernicus and Galileo
challenged Church
 Information suppression
 Defamation of character
 Loss of Livelihood and/ or
Life
Medical Model
 Medical researchers and cutting
edge health professionals
challenge large multinational
corporations (banks,
telecommunications, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, foods, etc.)
 Information Suppression,
Defamation, Loss of Livelihood
WIlliam Long’s investigatory journalism regarding Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the autistic gut
dysbiosis research he and his team undertook:
http://www.autismone.org/content/second-looking-case-dr-andrew-j-wakefield-william-long-mdiv-
phd-jd
Wakefield’s Results Repeated by Other Researchers:
http://www.la-press.com/clinical-presentation-and-histologic-findings-at-ileocolonoscopy-in-ch-
article-a1816

13. How Did We Get Here?WW1 Ends:
Allied Countries
Left Destitute…
War Moguls
Use
Strongarm
Tactics
Peacetime
Uses
of Weapon
and Chemical
Factories

14. 3 New Wars:
Bugs Germs Smells

15. Oops… Unintended
Consequences

16. Why Does
Soil Health
Matter?
What
Hurts?
What
Helps?

17. Just Like Goldilocks…
http://www.soilhealth.com/soil-
health/fertility/chemical.htm
Same
for
toxins
and
salts…

18. Range of Tolerance
 Thousands of factors (air, water, EMFs, toxins….)
 Optimal, suboptimal, or deadly amounts?
 U-shaped curve (impacts from both high and low
amounts)

19. Organic Matter
Organic matter composition and breakdown rate affect:
 Soil structure and porosity
 Water infiltration rate
 Moisture holding capacity
 Diversity & activity of soil microorganisms
 Plant nutrient availability
Accelerated decomposition of organic matter (e.g. from
tilling, burning) leaves soil vulnerable to erosion

20. Soil Wildlife Supports Soil
Fertility
Soil Creatures:
 Help form soil from original “parent” rock
 Help aggregation of soil particles
 Enhance nutrient cycling
 Shift nutrients to other forms
 Help plants absorb soil nutrients
 Break down toxins
 Minimize plant disease (and cause a few, too)
 Contribute to pest control & other vital ecological processes
 Assist or hinder water penetration into soil
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0100e/a0100e02.htm

21. Swiss DOK Comparison
1978: Long term trial started. 7-year crop
rotation compared biodynamic (D), organic
(O) agriculture, and conventional (K)
O and D plots contain 25% more soil
micro-organisms and exhibit higher
long-term soil fertility
Plants in O and D plots are more strongly
colonized by mycorrhiza, and a greater
number of funghal species are involved
Kenya, India, Bolivia started similar trials
in 2007
https://biodynamics.on.ca/blog/2015/08/15
/dok-trial-worlds-significant-long-term-field-
trial-comparing-organic-conventional-
cropping-systems/
http://www.systems-
comparison.fibl.org/en/scp-home.html

22. Frick Trial of Biodynamic
Preparations
 Reduced tillage resulted in 7% higher yields of biodynamic crops
than in the ploughed control plots, averaged over 11 years
 Reduced tillage biodynamic soils had 17% more humus, 37% more
microbial biomass, better soil structure, and greater water retention
capacity than the ploughed control plots
 Biodynamic preparations yielded statistically significant differences
in the microbial C/N ratio, indicating changes in the soil ratio of
funghi to bacteria
http://www.fibl.org/en/switzerland/research/soil-sciences/bw-projekte/frick-trial-on-preparations.html

23. Manure: No Extra Microbial
Risk
In a study of enteric (colon)
bacterial transfer risk when
growing head lettuce with
manure, even in worst-case
scenarios there was no
evidence of additional safety risk
from use of organic soil
fertilizers.
http://www.qlif.org/Library/leaflet
s/folder_3_small.pdf

24. Farming Is Not Benign
 500 years to build 1” of topsoil
(crops demand ~ 6”)  farming
disturbs natural soil processes,
including the release and uptake of
nutrients
 Topsoil loss from erosion, lack of
plant cover; fertility loss from
chemical damage
 Pesticides and herbicides either
block the function of soil microbes,
or outright kill the bacteria & funghi
which support plants in accessing
soil nutrients
 Plants can grow with NPK alone
(junk food), but are more
susceptible to disease, and
missing other nutrients

25. Soil Erosion
1. Destruction of soil structure from:
 Intense tillage
 Soil compression, esp. vehicular
 Excess plant removal
 Soil nutrient depletion
2. Exposed soil vulnerable to wind & water
3. Exposed biota vulnerable to sun, extreme
temperatures

26. Pesticides Reduce Soil
Fertility
 Pesticides block the chemical signals that
allow N-fixing bacteria to function (Tulane
University, Jennifer Fox & colleagues), so
increasing amounts of N are needed to
produce the same harvest
 Plant roots send phytochemical signals into
the soil, which bind to NodD receptors
inside bacteria, which in turn prompts the
bacteria to travel back along the signal’s
path to the root
 NodD receptors are bound by pesticides so
plant signals aren’t received
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/some-
pesticides-can-reduce-soil-
fertility/3003718.article
Annankkml, freedigitalphotos.net

27. Even if Unsprayed…
Fields left fallow or not sprayed can still receive pesticides
through surface run-off, groundwater, and irrigation
systems, and can still receive other synthetic toxins
through rain and snow fall.
No place on earth is toxin-free…

28. Farming to Restore Soil Health
Biodynamic
Farmer-derived,
internationally accepted
standard
On-farm sources for re-
nourishing soils,
rebuilding microbial
diversity
Deliberate planning
and action, with
expectation of ongoing
improvement for
continued Demeter
certification
Permaculture/
Restoration Ag.
Perennial plants
allow exceptional
microbial recovery
Next-to-no soil
tillage, turnover, or
burning
Ecosystem thinking
restores complexity
and resilience, and
optimizes carbon-
drawdown.

29. Paul Hawken – “Drawdown”
2 things address climate change:
1. Reduce emissions
2. Sequester excess carbon from
the air into the soil through
photosynthesis
NB: Carbon drawdown is
impossible where rewards from soil
microbes are unavailable…
Burning fuels releases carbon
into the air - commercial agriculture
is doing a huge part of the damage.
Ideal soil organic content of 7 to
8% (dark and deep).

30. Project
Drawdown
https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-
summary-by-rank
 100 viable, scalable, and financially
feasible options
 12 of top 20 relate to food and land
management
 Estimated savings from implementing
these 100 solutions are 74 trillion US
dollars globally (cost is 29 trillion), net
savings of 44 trillion
https://www.ted.com/talks/chad_frischma
nn_100_solutions_to_climate_change
(3) Reduced Food Waste
(4) Plant-Rich Diet
(5) Tropical Forests
(9) Silvopasture
(11) Regenerative Agriculture
(12) Temperate Forest
(13) Peatlands
(14) Tropical Staple Trees
(15) Afforestation
(16) Conservation Agriculture
(17) Tree Intercropping
(19) Managed Grazing

31. Special Note: Biochar
Biochar is waste plant materials burned without the presence of
oxygen. Incorporated into soils, it:
 Provides a porous and protective home for soil microbes
 Reduces decomposition or burning emissions of CO2, N2O, and
CH4 (climate change gases) from agricultural and forestry waste
 Stimulates plant growth and reduces need for fertilizer inputs
 Displaces other fuels for heating
Assuming no land clearance or conversion from food crops to
biomass, biochar production could offset a maximum of 12% of
greenhouse gas emissions annually.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421000510
4, http://www.biochar-international.org/biochar/carbon

32. Summary: Soil Optimization
Low-to-no-tillage, synthetic-chemical-free
agriculture increases soil microbial diversity,
which:
 Better nourishes plants (which better
nourish and prevent inflammatory disease
in livestock and humans)
 Withstands climate change better because
of microbial support
 Reverses climate change through carbon
draw-down

33. Plant Health Is Degrading
Because…
 Global air pollution (heavy metals,
pesticides, etc.) is contaminating soils and
compromising or killing soil microbes
 Climate variability is increasing stress on
both plants and soil microbes, leaving both
more vulnerable, or locally extirpated
 Topsoil quantity is being lost (conventional
tillage, lack of cover crops and green
manures)
 Topsoil nutrition is being lost (conventional
tillage & synthetic chemical applications)
 Topsoil microbiome is getting damaged
(plant uptake of nutrients is compromised or
blocked)

34. GMOs: Genetic Migration
 Wind pollination contaminating crops
elsewhere
 Wild relatives (e.g. canola, in the mustard
family) hybridizing & passing genes along
 GM grass for golf courses is spreading its genes
to a 9 mile radius in a single growing season.
This has implications for grazers:
 Pervasive digestive problems with increased
allergic & toxic reactions
 Multiple massive tumours (up to 25% body weight)
 Die earlier in much larger numbers
 Multiple organs & glands damaged, e.g. liver,
kidney, pituitary
 Sex hormone reversal (females have more male
hormones, and vice versa) and infertility
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/challengin
g-evolution-how-gmos-can-influence-genetic-
diversity/

35. GMOs: Livestock & Human
Health
A recent Canadian study found that 92% of pregnant
women had Bt toxin in their blood. 80% of their unborn
fetuses had Bt toxin in their blood. The perforation of cell
walls by Bt might explain why there has been a 40%
increase in gastrointestinal problems since GMOs were
introduced. Bt pokes holes in the cells lining the gut
(direct cause of intestinal permeability)
 Decreased fertility in men and women (men’s fertility is
down 50%).
 Increased spontaneous abortions.
 Live offspring are smaller and less healthy with bizarre
mutations.
 3rd generation babies non-fertile, with much shorter
lives
 Conventional baby formula contains GMO corn and
soy; corn is wind-pollinated and may be contaminated
with GMO corn even in organic formulas
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/
15/genetic-roulette-gmo-documentary.aspx

36. Glyphosate from Roundup
Originally patented as a descaler for industrial boilers
(chelates all metals and minerals out of soil and
humans).
Lack of minerals can shut down or alter metabolic
pathways (how bodies accomplish maintenance &
repair)
E.g. Disruption of the Shikimate Pathway in gut
microbes stops production of dopamine, serotonin, and
melatonin (90% of serotonin produced by gut microbes)
 Low Serotonin: anxiety, suicides, blood sugar
dysregulation including diabetes, obesity…
 Low Dopamine: Parkinson’s
 Low Melatonin: Insomnia
Confirmed carcinogen in animals, confirmed mutagen
in humans.
Biological mechanism for damage may be the
replacement of Glycine in DNA with glyphosate, so
proteins codes are incorrect, proteins are not built
properly  leads to multiple inflammatory diseases.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff

37. Soil Health = Plant Health
Of 1,230 Comparative Studies of Organic and Biodynamic Crops vs.
Conventional Ones:
 Organic crops have higher nutrient levels or lower toxin levels in 56%
of studies (conventional crops rank better than organic only 37% of
the time)
 Biodynamic crops have higher nutrient levels or lower toxin levels in
59% of studies (conventional crops rank better than biodynamic only
27% of the time)
http://www.aracaria.com.au/html/biodynamic_nutrition.htm

38. Average Differences in Nutrient
Levels
http://www.aracaria.com.au/html/biodynamic_nutrition.htm

39. Small Nutrient Differences
Matter
The nutrient differences are because of soil microbes.
Nutrients don’t work solo; they interact with each other!
 E.g. Higher vitamin C absorption increases the effects
of vitamin E, folic acid, and iron
 E.g. Higher vitamin E absorption increases the effects
of selenium and vitamin A
 E.g. Higher vitamin A absorption increases the effects
of iron

40. Phytonutrients Are Anti-
Inflammatory
 A 6 year onion study found that
flavonoids, anthocyanins,
quercetin, and antioxidant
capacity in onions were higher in
ones grown organically versus
conventionally (different soil
management practices identified as
key)
 Organic produce contains more total
phenols than conventionally-grown
crops - phenols include flavonoids,
antioxidants that fight genetic
damage, cancer, and some
neurological disorders (such as
Parkinson’s)

41. Summary: Plant Health
 Plant health absolutely relies on
healthy, diverse, soil microbial life.
The more diverse the soil microbes,
the more resilient, tolerant,
nourished, and nourishing those
plants are.
 Organic growing allows soil
microbial life to rebuild; Biodynamic
growing actively replaces
suppressed or missing soil microbes.
Permaculture growing actively
rebuilds entire ecosystem
resilience.

42. Optimal Human Health: Blue
Zones
Long lives (regularly reach 100 to 120) of life-
long…
 Full energy levels, vision, hearing, bladder
control, strength…
 Lack of disease, allergies, or chronic health
challenges
 Mental acuity at all ages; next-to-no learning
disabilities
 Social integration with resulting lack of
behaviour problems, compulsions or addictions
 Emotional balance (happy children, adults, and
seniors)
 Learning with no memory problems, no word-
finding issues, no looking at the fridge trying to
figure out what you wanted…
Ricardo, 112, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa
Rica
Photo by: Adam Sax, Costa Rica
Estateshttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/books/features/5-blue-zones-where-the-worlds-healthiest-people-live/

43. What Choices Support Optimal
Health?
In Dr. Joe Pizzorno’s observation, prior to 1970,
lifestyle choices were the main determinant of
why people stayed healthy, or got sick.
1. Naturally-colourful, high-nutrient-density diet of
diverse foods
2. 8 hours sleep nightly
3. Reasonable amounts of frequent, regular
exercise
4. Stress management (sense of purpose,
hobbies, etc.)
5. Positive quality and quantity of connections
with others
Photostock, FreeDigitalPhotos.net

44. Our Little Friends…
Most of the 2500+ microbes in our gut are symbiotic, and keep
us healthy by:
 Producing something we need (vitamin C, vitamin D, EFAs,
amino acids…)
 Absorbing and breaking down toxic products (that our gut
microbes can eat, but which harm us)
 Maintaining the health of the gut lining and digestive biofilm
 Detoxing environmental toxins
 Facilitating communication between consumed foods and
immune defenses, resolving food intolerances, and facilitating
absorption of foods
 Resetting the balance in the immune system, identifying
friendly and unfriendly arrivals, and keeping inflammation
reined in
Their cells outnumber our body’s cells by 10:1. Their DNA
outnumbers ours by 100:1.
Since WW1, more and more of what we breathe, drink, eat, and
touch is killing them… and damaging or killing us as a result.
DreamDesigns,
FreeDigitalPhotos.net

45. Global Gut Microbe Diversity
Different soils
Different plants
Different microbes
Africa
FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Phaitoon
FreeDigitalPhotos.net
ImageryMajestic
FreeDigitalPhotos.net

46. The Bloom

47. Lifestyle Is No Longer
Enough:
Dr. Joe Pizzorno, again:
Starting around 1970, passive determinants
became the main reason people stayed healthy,
or got sick, from exposures to the environment
around them.
 Toxic agri-chemicals
 Metals and synthetic chemicals in manufacturing
 Water supply contaminants (living downstream)
 Air pollution, sick buildings, and mould
 Construction and furnishing pollutants
 Personal care and cleaning product toxins
 Clothing and bedding toxins
 Medicine and vaccination toxins
 Ionizing, microwave (WiFi, cell phones), and
other radiation, (etc., etc. etc.)
Who doesn’t live downstream?
John Kasawa, FreeDigitalPhotos.net

48. How Environment Makes Us Sick
(A)
We are under daily assault from multiple inflammatory
environmental factors which are causing most plant, animal, and
human disease.
E.g. the additives and agrichemicals that come with foods and
beverages disable, destabilize, and cause extinctions of
necessary gut microbes, while turning the biofilm sticky and toxic to
all but generalist microbes (similar to rats and pigeons in cities).

49. How Environment Makes Us Sick
(B)
Dr. Marco Ruggiero found that microbes are far more
sensitive to microwaves than the cells of our immune system,
whose cell walls function something like a Faraday cage, which
most of our resident microbes lack.
Microbes communicate with each other, with the biofilm, with
foods, and with the digestive and immune systems at the
speed of light, using light waves (electromagnetic signals,
not chemical ones).

50. How Environment Makes Us Sick
(C)
Dr. Deitrich Klinghardt: there’s no such thing as a microbial
pathogen. Food either nurtures symbionts, nurtures pathogens, or
turns symbiotic microbes into pathogens (now behaving in ways that
damage us). Conversely, the right foods can turn pathogens into
symbionts.
Microbes only become pathogens when we feed them the wrong
way, and/or threaten them. E.g. funghi that contribute to our health
turn highly pathogenic under the influence of microwaves.
A Swiss researcher found that under certain dietary conditions,
Clostridia species shift from potentially deadly to very important for
health (e.g. C. difficile manufactures EFAs and essential amino acids
when fed sweet potatoes).

51. How Environment Makes Us Sick
(D)
 Diminished gut microbial diversity decreases digestive ability,
nutrient absorption, detoxification, immune regulation, and other
functions critical to health.
 Many foods are less nutrient dense because, even if there are still
nutrients available in the soils, agrichemicals have rendered them
inaccessible through chelation, and through suppressing or killing
the soil microbes that would assist uptake.
 Bodies are decreasingly able to capture necessary nutrients,
and spend excess supplies and energy detoxifying both
internally-created wastes from inflammation, and externally-
sourced poisons absorbed through the airways, the skin, and the
gut.

52. Gut Dysbiosis Causes
Inflammation
 Inflammation causes NCDs, and
dramatically contributes to communicable
diseases.
 Dr. Mark Hyman: inflammation resulting
from imbalanced and missing gut microbes
is at the root of 85% or more of disease…
 Dr. Alessio Fasano: Stressors open the
gaps between the cells in the gut lining, and
let poop, microbes, and undigested food
into the blood. The immune system then
attacks the “invaders”... which never stop
invading.

53. Rodney Dietert Ph.D,
The Human Super-Organism: How the
Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a
Healthy Life
If the immune system matures in an environment where we are
missing our intended microbiome, it gets programmed for
haphazard, inappropriate responses. It is then only a matter of
when and in what tissue disease will show up.
 Brain: neuro-behavioural, neuro-degenerative
 Liver: metabolic & toxin issues
 Gut: digestive, inflammatory issues
 Endocrine Glands: hormonal metabolic problems
 Bones & Teeth: malformation, osteoporosis, cavities
 Veins & Arteries: circulation problems, cardiovascular
disease
 Immune: cancers and more

54. Rodney Dietert Ph.D,
The Human Super-Organism: How the
Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a
Healthy Life
When the immune system does not cope well with environmental
exposures, relatively innocuous factors can cause dysfunctional
immune cells to produce self-damaging inflammatory reactions in the:
 Brain & NS: neuro-degeneration
 Reproductive Tissues: infertility
 Pancreas: blood sugar imbalances, Diabetes
 Gut: inflammatory bowel diseases
 Lungs & Respiratory system: asthma, allergies
 Skin: rashes, eczema, psoriasis, pigmentation issues… and much
more
 Etc.

55. Healthy Gut Microbes Prevent
(or Reverse) Chronic Inflammation:
 Addiction
 ADHD
 Allergies &
Sensitivities
 ALS (Lou Gehrig’s)
 Alzheimer’s
 Anger & Violence
 Anxiety
 Arthritis
 Autism, Asperger’s
 Bipolar Disorder
 Brain Fog
 Neurodegenerative
Disorders
 OCD
 Parkinson’s
 PCOS
 Personality Disorder
 Poor Concentration
 Psychosis
 Schizophrenia
 Skin Problems
 Sleep Problems
 Suicide
 Ulcerative Colitis
 Cancer
 Chronic Stress
 Crohn’s
 Dementia
 Depression
 Diabetes
 Dyslexia
 Emotionally Numb
 Exhausted/Tired,
Chronic Fatigue
 Fibromyalgia
 Hashimoto’s
 Heart Disease
 IBS
 Inattention
 Lack of Focus
 Learning Disorders
 Liver Disease
 Lupus
 Memory Issues
 Mentally Absent
 Migraines
 Mood Swings
 MS
And MANY more (remember, 85%+ of all diseases)…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/18/244526773/gut-bacteria-might-guide-the-workings-of-our-minds
Anxiety, Sensory Over-Responsivity, and GI Problems linked: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2285093

56. Decrease Agri-Chemical
Exposures, Decrease
Disease
 Eating organic food considerably reduces
heart attacks, strokes, cancer, bowel disease,
and many other diseases. (IOSR-JAVS vol. 4
issue 6, 2013)
 Round-up classed by WHO as probable
carcinogen (causes cancer in animals, breaks
DNA in human cell culture, and is associated
with much higher cancer risk in those most
exposed)
 Chlorpyrifos associated with developmental
delays in infants
 Pesticide residues at levels commonly found in
North American children’s urine may contribute
to ADHD prevalence, and have been linked to
reduced sperm quality in men
 Organic products are 48% less likely to test
positive for cadmium (a toxic heavy metal that
accumulates in the liver and kidneys)Biodynamic Trends (2012 Thesis): https://theses.cz/id/126eks/00171088-569954501.pdf
Overview from India (2013): http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-javs/papers/vol4-issue6/I0465357.pdf?id=7054

57. Where Does Health Begin?
Soil microbes:
 Keep soil wildlife
& structure
resilient and
healthy,
 Keep plants &
trees resilient
and healthy,
 Keep livestock
resilient and
healthy, and
 Keep humans
resilient and
healthy

58. Overall Health & Microbiome
The gut microbiome affects all kinds of
things with no apparent connection to
the gut (skin, brain, joints, memory,
word-finding, immune strength).
Up to 60% of those with gut dysbiosis
(unbalanced gut microbial community)
have no obvious digestive issues.
Often the first sign of leaky gut is
chronic or periodic pain and
inflammation somewhere else in the
body!
Beyond foods & beverages, human
microbial damage also results from air
pollution, skin pollution, EMFs, and
medications.
http://drhyman.com/

59. Human Microbiome Damage Results
from:
1. Ineffective Change
Management
2. Air pollution & Lower O2
Levels
3. Water Contamination
(drinking, bathing, swimming)
4. Inflammatory Food
5. Indoor & Outdoor
Environments
6. Skin Contact
7. Toxin Exposures & Impaired
Detox Capacity
8. Light, Sound, & Other
Frequencies
9. Overstress & Overwhelm
10. Technology, Media,
Addiction
11. Broken Communities
12. Dislocation and Spiritual
Disconnection

60. Nutrient Density
Biodynamic food is becoming the new standard for high nutrient-
density food.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/5/e1406
Wild Foods are often 3x to 10x as nutrient dense as farmed foods…
https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/wild-foods-
zmaz86jazgoe

61. Dr. Joe Pizzorno (again):
Post-1970 Optimal Health
Actions:
 Turn internet devices to airplane mode, turn off WiFi at night while you
sleep, keep radios as far from your bed as possible, get rid of your
microwave oven…
 Get plastics and aluminum out of your kitchen, starting with anything
that gets heated up or cooked with.
 Switch to toxin-free personal care, household, and outdoor products
 Eat diverse, living, wild microbes and microbial spores (from wild,
biodynamic, and organic foods, in that order) to keep replacing
microbes inevitably thwarted by current environmental hazards!
https://youtu.be/AS1gQgnUf5A Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Dietrich
Klinghardt

62. Energize, Don’t Drain
Gathering Style Draining: Fear-based Energizing: Trust-Based
Life is… a test (most people fail) a journey (everyone learns)
Appraising
others…
Blanket praise and blame Specific appreciation, reflection
Empowerment… Power-over, threat,
control
Self-trust, question, dialogue
Communication… Argue, compete, get
ranked
Challenge, demonstrate,
stimulate
Process… Success vs. mistake,
failure, flawed
Gain vs. assess, evaluate,
deconstruct
Understanding… Not ok to ‘not know’ Important to ‘not know’
Succeeding… One winner, many losers Win/win for all affected /
involved
Ethic… Either/ Or Both/ Andwww.LivingRoomContext.org

63. No One Is At Fault
 Corporate interests
pushing toxic lifestyles
since WW1
 Media owned by corporate
interests (truth
suppressed)
 Farmers & consumers
under high stress &
financial strain
We’ve all been
“sold”…

64. Start with
“What Do You Want?”
 I want to be healthy and strong, with no chronic
complaints
 I want to KNOW I did the best I could with what I knew
in the past, even if I know better now.
 I want to make changes in a way that makes sense for
me, my family, my workplace.
 I want to be respected for how I am right now, AND
have respectful help making the changes that are right
for me.
 I want to feel empowered, not out-competed or argued.
 I want it to be ok with others for me to learn as I go.

65. Do You Want to
Have Conversations that
Reverse Inflammation?
 Presentation Slides will be posted on SlideShare.net,
and findable on Jackie’s Linked In profile at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/autismturnaround/
 Handout with Talking Points & Links to Research:
Sign-up Sheet at Front

66. Thank you for your part in
bringing anti-inflammatory
foods to our marketplace.
© 2018 Jackie McMillan, BES, Autistic
http://ThriveWithAutism.ca