Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-5 | Rethinking Food_ Why It's More Important Than You Think

20 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube conversation exploring the broader importance of food beyond nutrition — emphasizing intentional food practices, growing and procuring food, and the family/social benefits of shared food activities. Aaron Hartman, MD reflects that the material discussed resembled a memoir about family intention and bonding rather than a medical text.

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I think food is a lot more important than we have been considering it. And, you know, how are we going to make changes?
You know, so it wasn't a medical book. It wasn't a health book. It was more like a, like you said, memoir that the family did. And that kind of struck you because they're doing things with intention. They're living their lives with intention. All of a sudden, the family also grew closer together. They had this really amazing family experience, which today we don't realize how big of an experience it is, like getting food and growing food and the whole thing. And that's kind of what captivated you.