Dr. Zach Bush on Glyphosate, the Microbiome & What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong

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⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of grief, trauma, death, childhood illness (including cancer), and environmental toxins. Listener discretion is advised — particularly for parents and caregivers of children affected by illness.

If you’ve been navigating your health through routines, biohacks, or supplements but still feel disconnected, burnt out, or unwell, this conversation may shift everything.

True healing is rarely about control. And it’s almost never linear.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Zach Bush, a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care, and founder of regenerative health company Farmer's Footprint, to rethink everything we’ve been told about medicine, longevity, and what it means to feel whole. Dr. Zach's research reveals how the human gut microbiome contains more biodiversity than any other ecosystem on Earth, including rainforests and coral reefs, and how this internal garden directly influences our capacity for creative thought, emotional resilience, and physical healing.

This isn’t just about symptoms or protocols. It’s about connection to nature, to others, and most of all, to yourself.

We explore how modern health has become more fragmented than ever, and why the root of healing might be much quieter, much simpler, and much more human than we’ve been led to believe. Dr. Zach explains how your body regenerates your entire gut lining every three days, why stress hormones function as internal antibiotics that destroy beneficial bacteria, and how forest bathing measurably shifts your nervous system from sympathetic overdrive to parasympathetic healing, which is why Japan now prescribes it as first-line treatment for depression.

Together, we explore:
• Why the body is always healing at rates we can barely comprehend, unless we get in the way
• How the gut’s biodiversity mirrors the richness of our inner and outer environments
• What real nourishment means (and why food prepared with love heals differently than nutrients consumed alone)
• The specific physiological changes that occur during forest bathing and why biodiversity exposure enhances creativity
• How to practice presence in your body as medicine
• Why multi-generational living is the only consistent factor across all Blue Zones for longevity
• And why stillness, beauty, and presence are not luxuries but essential medicine

You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of your body not as a project to manage, but as an ecosystem to listen to. Plus practical tools for reconnecting with the healing intelligence that's been with you all along. And maybe, like me, you’ll find yourself exhaling, softening, and remembering what it means to live well and be well.

Love,
Sarah Ann 💛

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Highlights:
00:00 Introduction
05:45 Birth in Poverty vs. Conventional Medicine
10:50 Why the Body Is Always Healing & How Disease Begins
18:46 How Major Life Crises Trigger Healing and Personal Growth
23:47 How Nature Heals the Body & Restores Microbiome Diversity
31:26 Why Human Connection Is Key to Longevity in Blue Zones
35:59 Why Nourishment Matters More Than Nutrition or Supplements
41:57 Why Intelligence Without Compassion Disconnects Us from Nature
43:54 Why True Compassion Begins with Grief, Not Emotion
49:58 What Living Well Means to Dr. Zach Bush

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