
Anxiety is running high right now. We feel helpless, and perhaps even powerless, in the face of this “virus.” Dr. Zach Bush, physician, international educator, and thought leader on the microbiome, suggests two ideas to empower us in our desire to protect our health: 1) there are positive steps we can take to improve our own health and the health of the planet and 2) we should not blame the “virus” for the deterioration of both.
Zach explains in detail how toxins in our environment have led us to where we are today: as sick as our surroundings. He suggests that pollutants in the air and on the land are compromising our health and jeopardizing our future. The virus is just an “innocent bystander,” in his estimation, being blamed for a larger problem. His prescription for each of us? Get outside. Reconnect with nature. And with one another.
Notes:
Highlights from the conversation include:
- How we should respond to our current crisis
- How to “co-create” w/ the planet and take better care of ourselves & all who inhabit it
- How viral work is always pro-life, pro-people; in other words, viruses are usually quite benign (including the coronavirus)
- Virus as messenger that we are under some kind of environmental stress and need to adapt or repair as a result
- Exposure to toxins is causing the respiratory distress and illness
- Most viruses blow over in 18 months or so
- The virus will always be around but it will be less powerful when we deal with toxins
- When air pollution decreased in China, covid cases disappeared
- Sheltering in place reduced numbers of cases not because people were avoiding contact with each other but because people were not poisoning the earth
- Why social distancing (and masks) are unhelpful
- How viruses travel; humans are not the vectors
- The virus is an innocent bystander in a sense
- Our intuition and biology have the power to repair, regenerate, & make us resilient
- The power of gardening and connecting with nature
- How a hug is a critical tool for healing the immune system & cultivating biodiversity
- The danger of isolation (on a cellular level but also for human beings)
- How a cancer cell’s isolation leads to its prolific replication
- What makes people more vulnerable to the toxins carried by the virus
- How Zach predicted the virus
- Why Wuhan area was particularly likely to be the hotspot for illness
- What Zach would do if he were in charge: no masks and everyone in nature
- The need to change our transportation, energy, and food system habits
- One in eight children have asthma; they can’t breathe b/c our planet can’t breathe
Resources:
Zach’s website: zachbushmd.com
Farmer’s Footprint: farmersfootprint.us

This was fantastic!!! Thank you!!!