The Raison d'Être of Plant Secondary Metabolytes: Understanding the Cascade Effect of These Nutrients
Primary plant metabolytes are the proteins, etc. that everyone is familiar with. Secondary metabolytes are those compounds which have medicinal, modulating or drug-like properties. These compounds are found in all plants and serve as protection mechanisms. Because plants are immobile and cannot run from the enemies of UV light, insect, fungal and viral attack, and grazing animals, they must build internal protection. These very compounds are generic and incorporate themselves into livestock and human cells as well. Learn how to tap into the true "alchemy of nature."
Food As Medicine
Hundreds of millions of private and publicly funded dollars have been expended in isolating and researching the medicinal phytochemicals found in nutrient-dense fruits, vegetables, animal fats, seafood and fermented foods. Modern medical science’s discoveries have now corroborated the remarkable findings of traditional and Paleolithic diets.
Ecological Farming As An Economic Development Tool
The last few decades has converted food agriculture into an industrial commodity system that has emptied rural America. Prime farmland has been suburbanized, devaluing its intrinsic agricultural status as an “interim use”. Local ecological farming practices not only preserve and restore damaged topsoil, but generate sustainable rural currency which in turn creates true rural economies.