“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Brian Smith, DDS, holistic/biological dentist, talks about the impact hidden dental infection has on our health, why avoiding mercury, fluoride, and other toxins at the dentist’s office is important, and what natural things people can do at home to care for their teeth to maintain good health. He also discusses a cranio-sacral approach to orthodontics. www.marindentalwellness.com

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“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Julie Matthews, Certified Nutrition Consultant, Autism Nutrition Expert and author of the book, “Nourishing Hope for Autism,” talks about why diet is so important for healing autism, what the most effective diet is, and what mainstream medicine has to say about it. www.NourishingHope.com

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“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Chef Laurie Gauguin gives great tips on the best way to wash, cook and store your food to limit vitamin loss and boost antioxidant levels. www.lauriegauguin.com

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“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Jon Rappoport, one of the most relentless medical reporters in the world, talks about the latest issues concerning vaccines and their impact on autism, and your health. Plus, why no comprehensive study has ever been conducted to prove the effectiveness or safety of commonly used vaccines. http://www.NoMoreFakeNews.com

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Airborne chemicals are embedded inside our homes. They swirl around us as toxic gases emitted from the poorly-labeled bottles of cleaning fluids in our kitchens and bathrooms, from the bug sprays and air fresheners we use, and from the glues, sealants and flame retardants in our furniture. They are also dragged inside our homes on the bottoms of our shoes and then stirred up when we walk on our carpets. Studies have shown that the air that surrounds us indoors is more toxic than the air outdoors — even if you live in a highly polluted city like Los Angeles or New York.

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What if you could take 1 million pounds of waste that was heading towards landfill and repurpose it to grow food? Well, that’s exactly what two recent UC Berkeley graduates are doing with their company Back to the Roots. Founders, Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez started a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm that transforms coffee ground waste into the growing medium for gourmet mushrooms. The 2 year-old company is on pace in 2011 to collect, divert and reuse 1 million lbs. of used coffee grounds, from Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a San Francisco Bay Area company, and use it to grow over 250,000 lbs. of gourmet mushrooms.

They got the idea during their last semester at Berkeley in 2009. The two 23-year-olds had the intention to go into investment banking and consulting, but became intrigued, during a business ethics class lecture, with the idea of being able to grow gourmet mushrooms entirely on recycled coffee grounds. They walked around to local cafes and collected used coffee grounds, put them in paint buckets and seeded them with mushroom spawn. The experiment, to their delight, led to one bucket of pearl oyster mushrooms. They then saw the potential of these mushrooms… to turn waste into wages, as well as provide fresh, local food to their community. Read the rest of this entry »

“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Beth Greer is interviewed by Dr. Peter Fairfield on how to improve your health and well-being by making small lifestyle changes. Beth, the show’s host and author of the book, “Super Natural Home,” offers practical solutions to creating a safe home or office environment by eliminating invisible toxins that can cause fatigue, allergies, asthma, and other health problems. http://www.BethGreer.com

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“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Meg Jordan, Ph.D., RN, author, health journalist, clinical medical anthropologist, and “Global Medicine Hunter,” talks about searching the globe for healing remedies derived not only from botanicals, but from ritual, energy work, prayer, and non-ordinary ways of knowing. She shares her insights into the benefits of taking Turmeric and Red Reishi mushrooms, and why healing circles are beneficial for people with chronic disease. http://www.megjordan.com/

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“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Nikhil Arora, co-founder of Back to the Roots talks about how he started his 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm that transforms coffee ground waste into the growing medium for gourmet mushrooms. This year alone his company will collect and reuse 1 million lbs. of used coffee grounds (from Peet’s Coffee) and use it to grow over 250,000 lbs of gourmet mushrooms. www.backtotheroots.com

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“Your Super Natural Life with Beth Greer” GUEST: Melinda Kramer, Founder and Co-Director of Women’s Earth Alliance talks about how her organization empowers women around the world, by providing them with tools like training, resources and long-term solutions around water, food, land, and climate change in Africa, India and the U.S. http://www.womensearthalliance.org/

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