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Hello, and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm
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your host Aurora. And I'm very happy to be spending some time
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with you today. It is beginning of October No, I'm lying. It is
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beginning of November, sitting on my couch right now recreating
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this episode for you. I just washed my hair and it is so warm
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outside, that I can dry my hair in the sun, and it just feels
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like a blessing. appreciating the small things in life.
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Without sun,
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we wouldn't be here. And to feel the heat on my bag
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is so soothing. So whenever you have time, whenever the sun
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comes back, or is there where you are at, enjoy the warmth of
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the sun without getting a sunburn. Today, I want to talk
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about food. I want to talk food porn with you. You are
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what you eat,
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my dear friend, my dear listener, whatever you put into
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your body becomes your body. Right your body breaks down the
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food and then it nourishes your blood, your bones, your skin,
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your muscles, your nerves, your brain, everything is being
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nourished by the food that you eat. And how do you make food
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choices? I used to be very ignorant. I used to go for the
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most colorful food and cheapest food. And yeah, I know that I
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need to eat my apple and my lettuce. But yeah, I didn't
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really care where the food was coming from and how many
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kilometers the food had on its back already. Once I had it on
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my plate. And now that I live in Canada, and that I'm a small
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scale farmer myself, I'm very much aware of food quality.
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Again, it's incredible. And it's not to tap my shoulder and
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applaud for myself. But you can really taste a difference when
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you grow your own food compared to the food that you get at the
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grocery store. And it is not that I want to make you feel
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bad. No, because maybe you don't have a backyard, maybe you can
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you know you don't have a garden where you can just grow your
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food or don't have the space in your apartment. But what I want
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to encourage you to do today is to realize where does your food
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come from? And can you do a little bit of research and find
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out where the closest farm is to you and where people might put
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so much love and work and sweat into their little farm and they
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would greatly appreciate a hand from a city person. Or if you
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live on the countryside. Be aware of where you source your
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food from a lot of small scale farmers take really Yeah, much
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love and time to attend to their animals and give them the best
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food and treatments that they deserve and need. And in turn,
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the food that is being sourced from these animals is very rich
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in vitamins and minerals and whatnot, everything that we need
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to be healthy, right if you keep going for the cheapest product
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for me that comes from industrialized farms. You
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accumulate the pesticides and the herbicides that the animals
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ate before you are eating them, because it stores in our body.
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And as we turn 7080 Sometimes even 90 years old, whatever we
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have consumed over a lifetime is being accumulated in our body
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and now Aren't all the food like the carbohydrates and the fats
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that's being metabolized, and sometimes, yes, stored in your
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tissues. But what I'm talking about is about the residues, you
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know, from from industrialized farming. And some people even go
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so far that if the animals have been held in a very stressful
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environment and environment that is not meant to be for animals,
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we ingest these stress hormones, and they as well accumulate in
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our body. And then we struggle with mental health, health and
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anxiety and depression. And it is really beautiful to see how
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many people put the work into it now to publish statistics and
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scientific reports on how your food that you ingest is directly
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affecting not only your body, but also your mind. And in doing
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so, your mental health. There's people out there with food
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allergies, and whenever they engage into the foods. or
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however you say that in English, whenever they have a cheat day,
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they have the symptoms again, you know, bloating, sore stomach
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headaches, excessive weight gain, but also their mind is
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foggy, and they feel depressed and anxious. And more and more
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people come out and talk about it now. And it's it's really
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beautiful, I find we live in a in an extraordinary time where
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more and more people speak up and express themselves and share
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their experiences. And we can all learn from that. Plus, if
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you decide to do a little bit of research and find out who is
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farming in your community, you can also connect to that farmer
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and we can slowly but surely, build more resilient
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communities. Again, we're meant to be interacting with each
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other. And, look, the farmer might be charging a little bit
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more for his organic eggs or meat. But maybe you can give him
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a hand and then he can give you a deal. Maybe you can help him
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with tending to the animals or asking, asking what he needs.
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And I'm sure that if that farmer is smart enough, he would start
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a collaboration with you. It is really extremely important that
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we know that our mental health is also built on connections
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that we entertain on a maybe daily basis, but certainly
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weekly and monthly basis. If we are too disconnected from
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society and too lonely, then we suffer. And if we are connected
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to people, but they are not in alignment with our values, they
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just have Yeah, no healthy lifestyle and no sense of good
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living, then it influences us in a negative way. So if we can
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find people that you know where it's a give and take, then
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that's a beautiful thing. And that's how it's you it used to
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be and how it can become Megan COVID is one excuse and social
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media another you know, we feel we stay connected, but we are
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not really. And even though with COVID, we could still say hi on
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a distance. So we could still make a phone call or a zoom call
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and connect to people that we maybe didn't really think of
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were in our lives or important to be analyzed a couple months
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back. So reach out to your local farmer and ask him if he needs a
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hand and ask questions how Yeah, they treat their animals.
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Animals deserve the best treatment ever, especially the
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ones that we eat. Because like I said earlier, the quality of
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their life is going to impact the quality of our life and and
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the way we can live healthy a physical healthy life and a
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mentally healthy life. There's also this wonderful book out
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there it's called Food fix. I'm not getting any money for
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advertisement here. But I am so blown away by the spoken it's,
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it's really incredible how it gives you a step by step guide
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on how you can be a more responsible, sustainable human
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being and taking good care of your body and your community.
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And he even goes so far Dr. Mark Heyman Hyman is his name, to say
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that we can have a huge impact on global warming, or whatever
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we believe in is happening with the earth right now. Because of
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food wastage and where we source our foods from so it's a very
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interesting book, I'm going to put the link and his name into
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the show notes. And yeah, this episode is to draw the attention
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to small farming, to make you aware that it is people who
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deeply care about their animals who deeply care about the Earth,
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and they produce the most nourishing, delicious food that
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there is out there at the moment. And maybe you want to
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give it a try and start supporting them or maybe, maybe
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even start being involved in farming and growing food.
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It is deeply healing and nourishing for the soul to be
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outdoors and to get your fingers dirty in the soil. It grounds
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you and it makes you feel so connected to not only Mother
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Earth, but the people that are around you and the animals.
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Thank you so much for listening to my little episode here. take
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really good care of yourself. Watch the food that you're
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eating and know that it is deeply affecting your health,
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your immune system, your mental health. All right. I will be out
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there very soon again.
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Until then,
