I recently spoke with Ronnie Cummins, cofounder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), in honor of Regenerative Food and Farming Week. OCA is one of the philanthropic organizations that we support, and Cummins shared some exciting updates in the field of organic and biodynamic agriculture.

One of OCAs major endeavors is the Billion Agave Project, an ecosystem-regeneration strategy being used by Mexican farms in Guanajuato, a high-desert region.¹ Cummins was in San Miguel, Mexico, when we spoke, which was right in the middle of the dry season.

As Cummins explains, theres typically no rain in the region for eight months out of the year, and since 86% of Mexican farmers dont have a well, the use of organic and regenerative farming techniques is very important for good production and to improve the environment.²

Regeneration Being Used for Greenwashing

When you hear terms like regenerative agriculture, its important to look at its source. While small farms around the globe are using organic methods to grow food, in part because they cant afford expensive agricultural chemicals, theyre not getting credit for the truly sustainable farming methods theyre embracing.

Meanwhile, corporate giants are using terms like regenerative to make it seem as though their industrial farming methods are natural. Regenerative food and farming has become a buzzword in natural and organic food circles, Cummins explains.

More and more people understand what it is. But unfortunately, a lot of the agribusiness corporations are using the term regeneration to avoid going organic or biodynamic, and they're using it more as greenwashing. So, we're still looking for people to understand that, you know, regenerative needs to be organic or biodynamic as its bottom line, and then you can improve on those practices.³

As it stands, however, the small farmers arent typically getting rewarded for their regenerative methods the way they should. Cummins continues:⁴

We shouldn't allow big corporations like Monsanto to be paying bogus carbon credits to, you know, industrial monoculture, corn and soy farms in the Midwest, and claim that if they change one little thing, like they don't plow because they use glyphosate instead or if they use cover crops, but then they burn them down with glyphosate there's nothing really regenerative about that....

September 12, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an "Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe and Secure American Bioeconomy."¹

This executive order makes biotechnology a national priority across agencies and branches of government. As noted in this order, biotechnology will also be used to "improve" food security, sustainability, and agricultural innovation in the U.S.:

"The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the heads of appropriate agencies as determined by the Secretary, shall submit a report assessing how to use biotechnology and biomanufacturing for food and agriculture innovation, including by improving sustainability and land conservation; increasing food quality and nutrition; increasing and protecting agricultural yields; protecting against plant and animal pests and diseases; and cultivating alternative food sources."

Support of Bioengineered Fake Food Is Now White House Policy

In late March 2023, Biden expanded on this premise in a "Bold Goals for U.S. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing" report.² According to this plan, the food industry is now to be led by biotech, and the "improvements" we can look forward to are more lab-grown meats and bioengineered plant foods.

In the featured video above, I discuss this rapidly advancing trend, and the true geopolitical incentives behind it, because the U.S. is not alone in moving in this direction. A similar plan is detailed in the U.K.'s Genetic Technology and Precision Breeding Act of 2023.³ Specific goals highlighted in Biden's "Bold Goals" report include:⁴

As reported by Food Dive:⁵

"While advocates and some companies have been working to reduce methane...

Editors Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published May 12, 2018.

In the featured video, Joe Rogan interviews professor Matthew Walker, Ph.D., founder and director of the University of California Berkeley's Center for Human Sleep Science and author of the book "Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams,"¹ in which he shares the latest discoveries about sleep and how it impacts virtually every area of your physical and mental health.

I read Walker's book last fall, and share his view that sleep is profoundly important even more important than diet and exercise. After all, you're not likely to reap maximum rewards from other healthy lifestyle habits if you're constantly exhausted. Beyond that, lack of sleep has been shown to raise your risk for chronic illnesses such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

In fact, the World Health Organization has tagged shift work as a "probable human carcinogen" because it causes circadian disruption.² Lack of sleep is also associated with shorter lifespans. Like Walker, I believe getting quality sleep, and enough of it, is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body and invigorate your health on a daily basis.

Sleep Deprivation Is a Form of Self Abuse

There are many reasons why you may sleep poorly, and one may simply be related to your mindset. Many, especially in the U.S., still view lack of sleep as a badge of honor a sign of drive, ambition and achievement at the expense of sleep. Worse, good sleep is often characterized as a sign of sloth.

As noted by Walker in one of his lectures,³ "We want to seem busy, and one way we express that is by proclaiming how little sleep we're getting. It's time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, without embarrassment or the stigma of laziness. In doing so, we may remember what it feels like to truly be awake during the day."

According to Walker, "Humans are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent reason," and based on his studies, he is convinced no one can make it on five hours or less of sleep without suffering some level of short-term impairment or long-term illness.

There's an exceptionally rare genetic mutation known as advanced phase sleep syndrome that allows some to thrive with minimal sleep, but you're far more likely to be struck by lightning than have this rare genetic mutation.

Rogan and Walker a...

Editors Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published June 11, 2018.

In recent years, it's become increasingly apparent that the composition of microbes in your gut which is as distinct to you as your fingerprint plays an enormous role in health and disease prevention. Your gut flora influences the function of various internal organs, such as your skin, lungs, breasts and liver.¹

For example, recent research² by the National Institute of Health shows gut microbes control antitumor immune responses in the liver, and that antibiotics by depleting your gut of valuable bacteria can alter the composition of immune cells in your liver and trigger tumor growth.

Aside from cancer, dozens of other health conditions have been traced back to the influence of gut microbes as well, including obesity, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson's and allergies,³ just to name a few. One of the reasons for this is because your gut is the main residence of your immune system.⁴

Disrupt your gut microbiome and you automatically disrupt your immune function, which can have far-reaching consequences. As noted in a paper published in Clinical and Experimental Immunology:⁵

"The crucial position of the gastrointestinal system is testified by the huge amount of immune cells that reside within it. Indeed, gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is the prominent part of mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue and represents almost 70 percent of the entire immune system; moreover, about 80 percent of plasma cells ... reside in GALT."

How Your Microbiome Influences Your Cancer Risk

Previous studies have shown certain gut bacteria quell inflammation, which is an underlying factor in virtually all cancers, whereas others promote it. As noted in a recent article in Nature,⁶ "bacteria have been associated with cancer initiation and progression. Some of these microbes activate inflammatory responses and disrupt the mucus layers that protect the body from outside invaders, creating an environment that supports tumor growth."

Certain cancers have also been found to have infectious underpinnings. For example, Heliobacter pylori (H. pylori) has been linked to gastric cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer actually defines this microbe as a carcinogen.^7...

Bird flu has always been a fraud, which is why I wrote my New York Times best-selling book "The Great Bird Flu Hoax," nearly 15 years ago. President George Bush spent over $7 billion dollars and warned that more than 2 million Americans could die.¹ The reality is that no one in the U.S. died from bird flu.

Fast forward 15 years, and now global biosecurity is one of the primary tactics chosen to usher in a totalitarian One World Government, so more pandemics are undoubtedly in our future. In the spring of 2022, Bill Gates warned that another pandemic will emerge, and that this yet-to-come pandemic "will get attention this time."²

Based on the news chatter emerging right now, a weaponized bird flu seems likely. In a March 30, 2022, CenterPoint interview, former director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, more than hinted at this possibility, saying:³

"I believe the great pandemic is still in the future, and that's going to be a bird flu pandemic for man. It's going to have significant mortality in the 10-50% range. It's gonna be trouble."

Avian Flu Posed No Threat Until Scientists Weaponized It

Historically, natural avian influenza (H5N1) never posed a threat to mankind, but then scientists started tinkering with it, creating a hybrid with human pandemic potential.⁴ Some of that research has been undertaken in Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine.^5,6,7

Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have also funded gain-of-function research on H5N1.⁸ One scientist whose work on H5N1 has been funded by both Fauci and Gates is Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka.⁹

In one experiment, Kawaoka mixed bird flu virus with the Spanish flu virus, resulting in a highly lethal respiratory virus with human transmission capability. Kawaoka has also played around with mixtures of H5N1 and the 2...

Consuming artificial sweeteners may seem like the perfect way to have your cake and eat it too a sweet taste to satisfy your cravings without the health risks of sugar. But artificial sweeteners like sucralose, marketed as Splenda, arent a safe sugar alternative.

There have been many red flag safety signals in the past from increased heart risks¹ to interfering with your livers detoxification process.² Now a research team from the Francis Crick Institute in London revealed another reason to stay away from Splenda it may dampen your immune system at high doses.

Sucralose Suppresses Immune Response

In a study on mice, published in the journal Nature,³ the team found sucralose consumption had immunomodulatory effects.⁴ Mice with either a bacterial infection or a tumor were fed sucralose at levels equivalent to the acceptable daily intake (ADI) recommended by the European and American food safety authorities.⁵

This lowered the activation of T cells, which play an important role in immune function, in response to either the bacterial infection or cancer.⁶ The dampened T-cell function was related to the way sucralose affected the release of intracellular calcium.

Previous studies also suggested the artificial sweetener may influence cell membrane fluidity, possibly interfering with T-cell communication.⁷ When the mice no longer consumed sucralose, their T cells began to work normally again.⁸ According to the study:⁹

[T]he intake of high doses of sucralose in mice results in immunomodulatory effects by limiting T cell proliferation and T cell differentiation. Mechanistically, sucralose affects the membrane order of T cells, accompanied by a reduced efficiency of T cell receptor signaling and intracellular calcium mobilization.

While stating that humans would be unlikely to consume the levels of sucralose used in this study with normal or moderately elevated intake, the researchers attempted to spin the immune system suppression as a good thing.

They largely brushed off the concerning finding that mice eating sucralose were less able to fight off infection and cancer and noted, instead, that the artificial sweeten...