Precisely What We Need
About this episode
Bobbie Emery contemplates the imperfections of the human body and discusses the importance of soil health and antibiotics derived from soil bacteria.
Maybe it’s because I’m an “Adult Child of an Engineer” that I am constantly contemplating how to redesign things that work okay - but could be better. The human body is one of those things that I often think falls way short of perfection. (And the older I get, the shorter it falls.) For instance, I’ve often wondered why my arms couldn’t be just a little bit longer, so I could reach and scratch the middle of my back. I suspect that evolution determined long ago that people who sought the company of others, if for no other reason than to get their backs scratched, stayed together and for survival purposes at least, we really are better off together. Another redesign I would vote for would be to completely do away with fingernails. Other than peeling the occasional orange, I see no use for them and for those of us that work in the soil with our hands, it’s a constant annoyance trying to keep them clean. But maybe always having a small dose of healthy soil under their nails helps explain why kids who grow up on farms tend to be much healthier than the population at large. In fact, 70% of antibiotics in use today originate from soil bacteria. Unfortunately, the overuse of these…
People in this episode
Host: Bobbie Emery
Topics covered
- evolution
- human body
- antibiotics
- soil health
- farm life
Keywords
- human body
- evolution
- antibiotics
- soil bacteria
- farm health
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: National Institute of Health
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