020 - Nutrition: Building the Soil Within and Without with Darren Hey
An Exploration Of The Biome Of Body And Soul
Darren Hey is a nutrition expert and a teacher of Natural Living. His studies include the philosophies of natural hygiene, nature cure, and biogenics
We talk about these philosophies, about nutrition, about the gut, and more. He has a great way of communicating this, and tying it all into the Probiotic life.
If you want to reach out to him, check out his Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/darrenhey6
Show Notes
Background
- very diverse career background
- all types of work have been some form of training his body to make it stronger and fitter
- this made him realise you need to nourish your body well
- philosophies of natural living: the body is self healing when you align with life conditions
- 3 streams of philosophy: natural hygiene, nature cure, biogenics
- became an educator in natural living and healing
- Q of how do you get/grow high quality food? led him to permaculture
- recently completed apprenticeship with Geoff Lawton
- teaches on true health science, not info pushed by corporate dogma
Natural Hygiene & Nature Cure
- cleanliness inside and outside
- cleanliness does not mean sterility, which is devoid of life
- looks at health holistically
- when you provide your cells with what they need in the right ratio they are effectively immortal
- cells require: energy, nutrient, the removal of waste product
- nature cure is very similar, but uses fasting a little bit differently
Biogenics
- biogenics: came from teaching of ancient sacred society of Essenes, as deciphered by scholar Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
- Essenes lived in accordance with natural law, how to align yourself with beneficial forces
- natural forces (such as water) have memory and energy flow; water will die if you interrupt its natural flow
- water behaves as if it is frozen inside our bodies, to facilitate energy & information along our nervous tissue
Steps Along Darren’s Path
- found mainstream perception of life dry and unfulfilling
- went on a search for meaning, for answers
- intuitively sensed there was something more
- experience in army of how easily info can be manipulated, where the public receives incorrect or incomplete info
- truth has become his highest value
- as many others, reaching a point of breakdown and injury, caused him to reevaluate
- began to ask how he brought himself to that point, develop awareness of his own responsibility
- high value for self-actualisation
- people not knowing or outright ignoring their own health is the cause of chronic illness & mental health crisis
Lessons learned from Nature
- nature provides everything that we need
- life is working for us, not against us
- how can we work with the living forces around us?
- this gives you your greatest chance for wellbeing
- also reveals which parts of you sees life as an antagonist: this creates opportunity for emotional & mental healing
The Disrupting of Nature
- water seeks 4 degrees Celsius and retreats from warmth, which creates the cycle of how water moves around the earth
- by interrupting and polluting nature, you destroy the habitat water requires
- life is seeking homeostasis, in all the trillions of processes happening at every moment in your body
- physical symptoms are messages that something is out of balance
- treating the symptoms instead of finding the cause interrupts our bodies’ attempts to self-heal
- this shuts off our opportunity to get back in balance and heal naturally
Getting Back In Alignment
- nature within us, nature around us, and our own nature
- we are not meant to live separated from natural processes
- we need technology that frees humanity, is earth-friendly, obeys natural law
- law of energy conservation: don’t push life beyond its ability to recuperate, or it will die
- get familiar with the laws of nature operating within us, learning what your senses are telling you
- willingness to face the truth
- take responsibility for your journey, self-education
- surrender to life’s prerogative in your body, that it is out of your control and has its own laws
Illness, Bacteria, and Healing
- your body will tell you the truth about what is happening in your consciousness
- illness and injury come from spirit & mind attempting to heal the body, or spirit & body attempting to heal the mind
- energy can’t be created or destroyed, only transformed
- you can transform it to your benefit or to your detriment
- the monomorphic idea of germs = disease, kill bacteria = cure disease is not quite correct
- when illness manifests, bacteria are the last thing to show up; disease was already well on its way before that
- if you keep creating toxic conditions in your body, the bacteria will keep transforming and coming back
- infection is the body attempting to clean house
- “the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything”
- waging war on bacteria is a sure route to destroying higher life forms, while the bacteria will survive
Final Thoughts
- soil food web inside you as well as your garden
- for high quality food pay attention to the biology of the soil
- permaculture is by design, food growing conditions that work in harmony with the laws of nature
- many organisms that live in soil also live in our bodies
- these benefit serotonin production within our bodies, boost natural immunity & detoxification, help with nutrient assimilation
- the seat of our physical mind is in our gut, modern science verifies this
- your ability to think clearly and powerfully depends on your gut