Gary Brecka explains how intensive farming since the 1940s depleted soil of minerals and destroyed its microbiome through monocropping, glyphosate, and chemical processing. Plants and animals now inherit this depletion, leaving humans deficient. He argues for adding minerals to water and taking methylated vitamins to compensate.
You know, I, I just got a really interesting question. I thought it was absolutely insightful. How did humans survive before modern supplementation, before we had all these, uh, different supplements? Well, we ate whole foods that were very close to the soil. Um, you know, sometimes it's not the, the food itself, it's the distance from the food to the table. Seed oils being heated to 405 degrees, turned rancid, using hexane and sodium chloride to be deodorized and and degum these types of oils. These are just non-natural compounds that are added to the food supply. And then if you actually look at soil lineage studies, especially between 1940 and 2020, you see that the nutrient density in our soil is so depleted. And that means that the animals that are eating from that soil and the plants that are growing from that soil are nutrient depleted. If you actually look at mineral density in the '40s versus mineral density today, you can see that our soils, because of monocropping and other things, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, glyphosate, Paraquat have actually destroyed a lot of the minerals. They've also destroyed the microbiome. You know, there's more bacteria in a tablespoon of healthy soil than there is human beings on the entirety of the Earth. So it's not a scare tactic, you know, adding minerals to your drinking water or adding methylated vitamins to help you fix genetic variants. It's just kind of a way to get around the system. The depletion of our minerals, the addition of toxins to our food supply, that's why we're so depleted.
