Hi Everyone,

Welcome back to Season 2 of the “How to Do It” video series. This week, we will change focus from nurturing the microbe life beneath your crops, to looking after your “life within”. 

The human microbiome has received a huge research focus in recent years and there is a growing reverence for its importance in every aspect of our health and resilience. We now recognise that the 100 trillion organisms within our 30 ft digestive tract impact everything from immunity to brain health.

Just like in the soil, we are increasingly aware that if we look after this diverse workforce, they will look after us.

The critical question is “how do we look after them?, and the starting point is  to reduce the collateral damage associated with diet and lifestyle .

Antibiotics, for example, are particularly destructive as they are non selective and they often remove the good with the bad 

In fact, some experts are claiming that we need to supplement with a probiotic for six months, just to reclaim our original gut-life integrity, after a single course of antibiotics.

Food grade stabilizers  are the second most destructive culprits. They are often included in processed food to kill single celled spoilage organisms to extend shelf-life. Why would  we think that these biocides and other chemical additives stop working as our child shovels down the cornflakes or potato chips. Just Google “the impact of butylated hydroxytoluene on beneficial gut microbes’, as an example of problems with food additives.

Often, the composition of your shipping trolley can be a direct indication of the health of your family. The more processed food in that trolley, the greater the likelihood of health issues. 

There are other players that create dysbiosis or imbalance in your gut microbiome, including prescription drugs like proton pump inhibitors and the birth control pill. Stress is also harsh on gut-life, and most of us are awash with worry within this strange world we have created.

One way we can counter these various assaults on all-important gut life is to regularly replenish the numbers and diversity of our life within, via the consumption of fermented food.

There is no accident that the longest living peoples on the planet consume lacto-fermented food on a daily basis.

Aside from the obvious benefits of replenishing the workforce, there are also the benefits of the enhanced nutrition found in fermented food. In fact, nutritionists claim that all of the phytonutrients, including vitamins, antioxidants and amino acids, are up to 5 times more readily utilized once they have been processed by the fermenting organisms.

In this video, you will learn how to make a rainbow sauerkraut. Here we are enhancing the probiotic impact with the recognition that pigments in food are powerhouse antioxidants and each colour has a different effect. My suggestion that you, “make every plate a rainbow” , is particularly important in this context because the diverse antioxidant impact is greatly magnified following the fermentation process.

I trust you will learn something of value here and I wish you every success should you decide to embrace “defensive eating”, and make your own fermented food.

Happy Nutrition Farming!

Warm regards,

Graeme Sait

CEO

Nutri-Tech Solutions

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Certificate in Nutrition Farming

Our next iconic, five-day Certificate in Nutrition Farming® course is scheduled for Monday, 24th - Friday, March 28th, 2025.

Our last course was attended by growers and consultants from six countries. It was a wonderful learning opportunity where attendees enjoyed a wealth of education and inspiration from both our presenters and their fellow attendees. We only accept 40 bookings for these courses, so please register if you would like to attend.