#40 Isabel Ramirez - Is Civilization Compatible With Our Biology?

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we talked to our brilliant, long-time friend of the podcast, Isabel Ramirez. Isabel is a board certified health coach specializing in chronic conditions (she is auto-immune and paleo certified), an expert forager, inspiring mother, and all around amazing person. We discussed the importance of inclusivity into wellness and regenerative agriculture spaces, the problems of financialization in the health and wellness world, the way an ancestrally appropriate diet and lifestyle can help manage chronic health conditions, the incapability of industrial civilization with the biological needs of our bodies, and how overwhelming it can be to attain health in modern times. We talk about the problems associated with healthcare being about “symptom control” rather than root cause treatments. Isabel breaks down the transition into modernity and how that has severed us from vital processes that help us maintain our health, including community, belonging, and access to healthy, in-season, biodiverse foods. We discuss how capitalism has motivated the homogenization and destruction of food through monocropping and chemically intensive practices.

Isabel has a vast wealth of information, and we hope you enjoy this conversation. Follow her on Instagram, and be sure to come see her present at the Ancestral Health Symposium, August 18-20 at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA! It will be amazing, and we’ll be there too. Use our code DITG10 at check-out to get 10% off of your tickets. Apply for the BIPOC scholarship here.

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Editing: Jake Marquez

Outro Music: “Sol” by Tunacola

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