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Triple board-certified physician (internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice/palliative care) and founder of Farmer's Footprint, researching the links between soil health, the microbiome and human disease.
Zach Bush, MD, is a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, and hospice/palliative care, whose clinical work led him to investigate the connections between industrial agriculture, soil depletion, glyphosate exposure and the rise of chronic disease.
He founded Farmer's Footprint, an initiative of the nonprofit Project Biome, which produced the documentary Regeneration: The Beginning and works to support the transition to regenerative farming. His teaching describes what he calls a "Biological Renaissance" — a shift from a mechanistic view of health toward one rooted in relationship: between soil microbiome, gut microbiome and the wider web of life.
“Health emerges from relationship — between cells, microbes, and the world — not from any single part.”Zach Bush
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
Zach Bush reads life, death and regeneration off the behaviour of soil and forest, and argues that what looks like decay in a body or a culture is the same process seen from too close.
A live speaker-series session where Bush moves from soil biology to forgiveness as the mechanism by which a fractured humanity re-integrates, followed by audience questions.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations, playing from the platform this teacher publishes them on.
Rich Roll and Zach Bush spend two hours on the single question his work keeps returning to: whether human health and the health of the soil are two problems or one.
Listen on Apple PodcastsThe recognition that no self, body or living thing exists in isolation, and that healing, for a person or a planet, begins by remembering our belonging to the whole.
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