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FARMACOLOGY

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In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.

By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming—from seed choice to soil management—that have a direct and powerful impact on our health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and biomedical researchers and artfully weaves their insights and discoveries, along with stories from her patients, into the narrative. The result is a compelling new vision for sustainable healing and a treasure trove of farm-to-body lessons that have immense value in our daily lives.

In Farmacology you will meet:

  • a vegetable farmer in Washington State who shows us how the principles he uses to rejuvenate his soil apply just as well to our own bodies. Here we also discover the direct links between healthy soil and healthy humans.
  • a beef farmer in Missouri who shows how a holistic cattle-grazing method can grow resilient calves and resilient children.
  • an egg farmer in Arkansas who introduces us to the counterintuitive idea that stress can keep us productive and healthy. We discover why the stressors associated with a pasture-based farming system are beneficial to animals and humans while the duress of factory farming can make us ill.
  • a vintner in Sonoma, California, who reveals the principles of Integrated Pest Management and helps us understand how this gentler approach to controlling unwanted bugs and weeds might be used to treat invasive cancers in humans.
  • a farmer in the Bronx who shows us how a network of gardens offers health benefits that extend far beyond the nutrient value of the fruits and vegetables grown in the raised beds. For example, did you know that urban farming can lower the incidence of alcoholism and crime?
  • finally, an aromatic herb farmer in Washington State who teaches us about the secret chemical messages we exchange with plants—messages that can affect our mood and even keep us looking youthful.

In each chapter, Farmacology reveals the surprising ways that the ecology of our body and the ecology of our farms are intimately linked. This is a paradigm-changing adventure that has huge implications for our personal health and the health of the planet.

Read more

Editorial Reviews

Review

“A vibrant and important book. It is about so much more than just personal well-being; it is about the health of our food, our farms and farmers―the entire planet.” — Alice Waters

“Farm as medicine. A must-read for anyone who cares about their health.” — Mark Bittman

“Revealing and inspiring...a rewarding read.” — Dr. Andrew Weil, author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health and True Food

“In Farmacology, Daphne Miller expands the field of medicine from the classical boundaries of the symptom-cure concept toward a more complex and holistic approach that takes into account the tight balance between Man and Nature.” — Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement

“An eloquent call for better systems of sustainable agriculture and humanistic health care. . .a fresh, original, and utterly charming book.” — Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and author of What to Eat

“[Daphne Miller is] such a fearless, intelligent, and charming guide on the food-filled journey between medical and ecological sciences that by the end of Farmacology you won’t just think that medical ecology is fascinating―you’ll wonder how we managed to live without it for so long.” — Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved

“What does the practice of sustainable agriculture have to teach modern medicine? What are the links between soil health and the health of the people who eat from that soil?…A highly original and compelling work of exploration with large implications for our understanding of health.” — @michaelpollan

Miller’s journey begins in serendipity and remains alive to surprise…[The] web of associations…will surprise even those [who know] that healthy soils make for healthy people. It’s startling to think that few if any doctor-authors have attempted this hybrid of field work…patient case histories…and conversations with scientists. — Acres U.S.A.

“Farmacology…explains how sustainable farms serve as a model for a healthy human body…Soil is the star of this story. Its vigor is clearly connected to the vitality of the plants, animals, and human beings it supports…Think like a farmer, and you’ll likely cultivate better personal health.” — Booklist

San Francisco Chronicle bestseller — San Francisco Chronicle

“Miller steps outside medicine’s orthodoxy to explore the connection between sustainable farming and healthy living…Working hands-on and also picking the brains of the farms’ operators, [she] observed farmers taking a holistic…approach…that she has found to be too often missing in the modern practice of medicine.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Sustainable agriculture and holistic medical practice find each other as soul mates…The issues raised deal with profound economic, social and cultural dilemmas…and Miller’s hearty, personable writing style makes it a good read for travelers, lovers of character studies and medical and farming professionals alike.” — Lou Fancher, Mercury News

Some of Miller’s discoveries are simple, others groundbreaking, but all feel important for their medical implications as well as for what they can teach us about our connection to other living creatures... Miller... delves deep into the science, translating dense medical text into practical information. — Orion Magazine

“It’s alternative living in a big way, whether you’re the field, the cow, the cultivated insect, or the patient of a type of physician [Miller] calls “medical ecologists.” Miller had fun, writes exuberantly, and wants to infect us in the best way possible with the spirit of these places.” — Harvard Medicine Magazine

From the Back Cover

A doctor explores what farming can teach us about nurturing ourselves

  • Do the microbes in the soil communicate with the microbes in our bodies?
  • Why does a dirty farm offer protection from allergies while a dirty urban apartment does not?
  • What can we learn about "good" stress from pastured hens?
  • How can a pest management system inspire a radical new approach to cancer treatment?
  • What can cows teach parents about raising healthy eaters?
  • What kind of impact does urban farming have on crime rates?

These may not sound like typical questions for a family physician to consider, but in Farmacology, Daphne Miller, M.D., ventures out of her medical office and travels to seven innovative family farms around the country on a quest to discover the hidden connections between how we care for our bodies and how we grow our food. Miller also seeks out the perspectives of noted biomedical scientists and artfully weaves in their insights and research, along with stories from her own medical practice. Farmacology offers a profound new approach to healing, combined with practical advice for how to treat disease and maintain wellness.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT INSPIRING UPLIFTING Reading Experience!!

S.R. · April 25, 2014

Great BOOK !!!Dr. Daphne Miller explores family farms to discover the ecology of farming & relate it to community & to medical ecology, with insights for working with her patients, herself, educative healing, our communities, & suggestions for each of us!!She deftly works-in research findings, wonderful references & resources, life on 7 specific wonderful, diverse farms, biodynamic (organic, sustainable, tuned-into-Nature) farming, Rudolf Steiner (!!), & the fact that it is all about SOIL, SOIL, SOIL, as it is about the matrix of our lives as well. And, it is not just the way she connects how the health of the SOIL is so very important to our health, but, that it is vital to understand how healthy FARMERS get & maintain the health & vitality of this soil & all their plantings that she relates to how to get & maintain our own health & vitality. Her engaging insightful mind & writing pull us all into truly understanding all of this on a whole new level.Reading this fabulous book has me tuned-in, tapped-in, turned-on, ...vibrating with what is really possible for us all~~

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read

A. · May 20, 2013

To paraphrase a gastroenterologist quoted in the book, you can be the type of person who is afraid to acknowledge the truly nuanced, dynamic nature of food systems, health, and health care, or you can be the type of person who is afraid to continue with the "diagnose and conquer," one-size fits all model of health care that is clearly not working.Dr. Miller's journey, chronicled in "Farmacology," does a powerful job convincing us that we should all be the latter. In her candid, inquiring, humble and truly entertaining voice, she shows us how various innovative farms -- raising livestock, eggs, plants, wine, in both urban and remote settings -- have managed to establish a treasured balance between sustainability, profitability, productivity, and nourishing products. Each chapter also has a corresponding case study -- a human patient suffering from an ailment, who responds to a treatment regimen that mirrors what the farmers have implemented with their land.Refreshingly, the book recuperates the notion that "scientific thinking" is best done by reductionist logic (distilling problems into seemingly unrelated parts) and shows that some of the best science is practiced when thinking is done in an integrative, interdisciplinary way.Dr. Miller's excellent book is the call that many of us know but that most of us are still hesitating to act upon: that there are direct parallels to what we put on and in our bodies and scatter on our soil, that we will reach a point when we won't be able to refute the link between environmental health, ecology, and the health of our human population, and that there are already plenty of people who have acknowledged all this and who are working to bring about new paradigms of health for ourselves and for our soil.Very well done, I can't recommend it enough.

4.0 out of 5 stars Zeven superb examples of fertilizing and beautifying your environment & getting healthier and happier by it

F.(.F. · June 7, 2013

Daphe Miller is a rare yet precious example of a scientist trying to cross the gap between generally accepted knowledge and different concepts still lingering on the fringe. She's in good company, though: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and virtually all geniuses that brought mankind at least one step further, were like her in a way, since the only way to proceed is by experiment. Mrs. MIller doesn't want to sour so high. In her daily practice as a doc very frequently she recognizes ailments specific for e certain lifestyle. These experiences made her think of other than conventional solutions. Still she states that mainstream medicine is in many cases simply necessary, especially when it comes to injuries requiring surgery and the like. But pills and drugs often are not the sole means to an end.Mrs. Miller visited zeven organic farm projects across the US and, following her investigation, reveals some amazing insights on the topic of healthy soil and healthy people. Her well-defined way of writing, safely grounded by scientific research and full with practical hints, convinced me of things that before this read, I only vagely believed to be true.(Frank Flippo, journalist, Netherlands, Europe)

5.0 out of 5 stars Daphne hits it out of the ball park

K.R. · May 19, 2013

Daphne Miller has written a very important book on helping us see our bodies relationships to nature. She effortlessly, beautifully and simply ties together the health of our bodies with that of the farm - the natural world of plants, animals and soil. It turns out that we are much healthier with a greater diversity of bacteria in our bodies which comes from direct contact, engagement and ingestion of natural plant, animal and soil systems. There are healthy synergistic affects between the greater diversity beyond what a single bacteria can deliver - even for the role of bacteria like Staphylococcus (which we normally avoid and try to kill) in combination with other bacteria. We experience less inflammation and allergy with this greater diversity - which dramatically reduces our chances for progression into a myriad of diseases. As we have retreated from being in contact with nature, we have gotten less healthy...so this book is a terrific narrative to show us the importance of re-engaging with nature. The downsides from this re-engagement are far out-shadowed by the benefits. Throw out the anti-bacterials - they are generally bad for you. Clearly there are situations where we need to be careful of bacteria - but apparently we need to create much more diversity in our bodies than we normally do in our modern lives in order to be in the peak of health. It turns out that these benefits are slow in their affects - and so we tend to discount them. We are so used to fast affects, that we discount processes which yield the slow affects. This is an important read that may well change how you proceed in your life.

Read this book!

I.N.-.F.H.L.f.W. · June 29, 2019

In a series of well told, first hand experiences, Daphne sets out an insightful, intelligent analysis of how the food we eat, soil, animal, human and planetary health are all inextricably linked. If you care about your food, your health and your planet you’ll want to read this book!

sehr lesenswert

N.L. · August 17, 2017

Interessant geschrieben. sehr informativ und gut recherchiert und unterbaut. Aber kein "Reklame" oder "Verkauf"-Buch - die Autorin regt zur eigenen Meinungsbildung an und ermutigt einen die Landbau und Gesundheit aus einem anderen Blickwinkel zu betrachten. ohne dabei ihre Wahrheit als die einzig wahre verkaufen zu wollen.Eine sehr empfehlenswerte Lektüre.

stellar

d. · November 25, 2014

Great read to put life, medicine and being human in (intelligent) perspective. Thankfully, other providers share this outlook on reestablishing balance and web-like interconnections, an expression dear to functional medicine. Kudos! I hope many of my patients get their hands on this book.

Loved this book

C. · September 16, 2017

Loved this book. A lot of stuff that I knew already from reading similar, but a lot of really interesting new stuff. Have already bought copies for friends.

Very Pleased

A.C. · January 23, 2020

arrived on time

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FARMACOLOGY-0
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Availability: In Stock

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Imported From: United States

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BOLO is not an authorized or official retailer for most brands, nor are we affiliated with manufacturers unless specifically stated on a product page. Instead, we source verified sellers, authorized distributors or directly from the manufacturer.

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Description:

In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.

By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming—from seed choice to soil management—that have a direct and powerful impact on our health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and biomedical researchers and artfully weaves their insights and discoveries, along with stories from her patients, into the narrative. The result is a compelling new vision for sustainable healing and a treasure trove of farm-to-body lessons that have immense value in our daily lives.

In Farmacology you will meet:

  • a vegetable farmer in Washington State who shows us how the principles he uses to rejuvenate his soil apply just as well to our own bodies. Here we also discover the direct links between healthy soil and healthy humans.
  • a beef farmer in Missouri who shows how a holistic cattle-grazing method can grow resilient calves and resilient children.
  • an egg farmer in Arkansas who introduces us to the counterintuitive idea that stress can keep us productive and healthy. We discover why the stressors associated with a pasture-based farming system are beneficial to animals and humans while the duress of factory farming can make us ill.
  • a vintner in Sonoma, California, who reveals the principles of Integrated Pest Management and helps us understand how this gentler approach to controlling unwanted bugs and weeds might be used to treat invasive cancers in humans.
  • a farmer in the Bronx who shows us how a network of gardens offers health benefits that extend far beyond the nutrient value of the fruits and vegetables grown in the raised beds. For example, did you know that urban farming can lower the incidence of alcoholism and crime?
  • finally, an aromatic herb farmer in Washington State who teaches us about the secret chemical messages we exchange with plants—messages that can affect our mood and even keep us looking youthful.

In each chapter, Farmacology reveals the surprising ways that the ecology of our body and the ecology of our farms are intimately linked. This is a paradigm-changing adventure that has huge implications for our personal health and the health of the planet.

Read more

Editorial Reviews

Review

“A vibrant and important book. It is about so much more than just personal well-being; it is about the health of our food, our farms and farmers―the entire planet.” — Alice Waters

“Farm as medicine. A must-read for anyone who cares about their health.” — Mark Bittman

“Revealing and inspiring...a rewarding read.” — Dr. Andrew Weil, author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health and True Food

“In Farmacology, Daphne Miller expands the field of medicine from the classical boundaries of the symptom-cure concept toward a more complex and holistic approach that takes into account the tight balance between Man and Nature.” — Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement

“An eloquent call for better systems of sustainable agriculture and humanistic health care. . .a fresh, original, and utterly charming book.” — Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and author of What to Eat

“[Daphne Miller is] such a fearless, intelligent, and charming guide on the food-filled journey between medical and ecological sciences that by the end of Farmacology you won’t just think that medical ecology is fascinating―you’ll wonder how we managed to live without it for so long.” — Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved

“What does the practice of sustainable agriculture have to teach modern medicine? What are the links between soil health and the health of the people who eat from that soil?…A highly original and compelling work of exploration with large implications for our understanding of health.” — @michaelpollan

Miller’s journey begins in serendipity and remains alive to surprise…[The] web of associations…will surprise even those [who know] that healthy soils make for healthy people. It’s startling to think that few if any doctor-authors have attempted this hybrid of field work…patient case histories…and conversations with scientists. — Acres U.S.A.

“Farmacology…explains how sustainable farms serve as a model for a healthy human body…Soil is the star of this story. Its vigor is clearly connected to the vitality of the plants, animals, and human beings it supports…Think like a farmer, and you’ll likely cultivate better personal health.” — Booklist

San Francisco Chronicle bestseller — San Francisco Chronicle

“Miller steps outside medicine’s orthodoxy to explore the connection between sustainable farming and healthy living…Working hands-on and also picking the brains of the farms’ operators, [she] observed farmers taking a holistic…approach…that she has found to be too often missing in the modern practice of medicine.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Sustainable agriculture and holistic medical practice find each other as soul mates…The issues raised deal with profound economic, social and cultural dilemmas…and Miller’s hearty, personable writing style makes it a good read for travelers, lovers of character studies and medical and farming professionals alike.” — Lou Fancher, Mercury News

Some of Miller’s discoveries are simple, others groundbreaking, but all feel important for their medical implications as well as for what they can teach us about our connection to other living creatures... Miller... delves deep into the science, translating dense medical text into practical information. — Orion Magazine

“It’s alternative living in a big way, whether you’re the field, the cow, the cultivated insect, or the patient of a type of physician [Miller] calls “medical ecologists.” Miller had fun, writes exuberantly, and wants to infect us in the best way possible with the spirit of these places.” — Harvard Medicine Magazine

From the Back Cover

A doctor explores what farming can teach us about nurturing ourselves

  • Do the microbes in the soil communicate with the microbes in our bodies?
  • Why does a dirty farm offer protection from allergies while a dirty urban apartment does not?
  • What can we learn about "good" stress from pastured hens?
  • How can a pest management system inspire a radical new approach to cancer treatment?
  • What can cows teach parents about raising healthy eaters?
  • What kind of impact does urban farming have on crime rates?

These may not sound like typical questions for a family physician to consider, but in Farmacology, Daphne Miller, M.D., ventures out of her medical office and travels to seven innovative family farms around the country on a quest to discover the hidden connections between how we care for our bodies and how we grow our food. Miller also seeks out the perspectives of noted biomedical scientists and artfully weaves in their insights and research, along with stories from her own medical practice. Farmacology offers a profound new approach to healing, combined with practical advice for how to treat disease and maintain wellness.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT INSPIRING UPLIFTING Reading Experience!!

S.R. · April 25, 2014

Great BOOK !!!Dr. Daphne Miller explores family farms to discover the ecology of farming & relate it to community & to medical ecology, with insights for working with her patients, herself, educative healing, our communities, & suggestions for each of us!!She deftly works-in research findings, wonderful references & resources, life on 7 specific wonderful, diverse farms, biodynamic (organic, sustainable, tuned-into-Nature) farming, Rudolf Steiner (!!), & the fact that it is all about SOIL, SOIL, SOIL, as it is about the matrix of our lives as well. And, it is not just the way she connects how the health of the SOIL is so very important to our health, but, that it is vital to understand how healthy FARMERS get & maintain the health & vitality of this soil & all their plantings that she relates to how to get & maintain our own health & vitality. Her engaging insightful mind & writing pull us all into truly understanding all of this on a whole new level.Reading this fabulous book has me tuned-in, tapped-in, turned-on, ...vibrating with what is really possible for us all~~

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read

A. · May 20, 2013

To paraphrase a gastroenterologist quoted in the book, you can be the type of person who is afraid to acknowledge the truly nuanced, dynamic nature of food systems, health, and health care, or you can be the type of person who is afraid to continue with the "diagnose and conquer," one-size fits all model of health care that is clearly not working.Dr. Miller's journey, chronicled in "Farmacology," does a powerful job convincing us that we should all be the latter. In her candid, inquiring, humble and truly entertaining voice, she shows us how various innovative farms -- raising livestock, eggs, plants, wine, in both urban and remote settings -- have managed to establish a treasured balance between sustainability, profitability, productivity, and nourishing products. Each chapter also has a corresponding case study -- a human patient suffering from an ailment, who responds to a treatment regimen that mirrors what the farmers have implemented with their land.Refreshingly, the book recuperates the notion that "scientific thinking" is best done by reductionist logic (distilling problems into seemingly unrelated parts) and shows that some of the best science is practiced when thinking is done in an integrative, interdisciplinary way.Dr. Miller's excellent book is the call that many of us know but that most of us are still hesitating to act upon: that there are direct parallels to what we put on and in our bodies and scatter on our soil, that we will reach a point when we won't be able to refute the link between environmental health, ecology, and the health of our human population, and that there are already plenty of people who have acknowledged all this and who are working to bring about new paradigms of health for ourselves and for our soil.Very well done, I can't recommend it enough.

4.0 out of 5 stars Zeven superb examples of fertilizing and beautifying your environment & getting healthier and happier by it

F.(.F. · June 7, 2013

Daphe Miller is a rare yet precious example of a scientist trying to cross the gap between generally accepted knowledge and different concepts still lingering on the fringe. She's in good company, though: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and virtually all geniuses that brought mankind at least one step further, were like her in a way, since the only way to proceed is by experiment. Mrs. MIller doesn't want to sour so high. In her daily practice as a doc very frequently she recognizes ailments specific for e certain lifestyle. These experiences made her think of other than conventional solutions. Still she states that mainstream medicine is in many cases simply necessary, especially when it comes to injuries requiring surgery and the like. But pills and drugs often are not the sole means to an end.Mrs. Miller visited zeven organic farm projects across the US and, following her investigation, reveals some amazing insights on the topic of healthy soil and healthy people. Her well-defined way of writing, safely grounded by scientific research and full with practical hints, convinced me of things that before this read, I only vagely believed to be true.(Frank Flippo, journalist, Netherlands, Europe)

5.0 out of 5 stars Daphne hits it out of the ball park

K.R. · May 19, 2013

Daphne Miller has written a very important book on helping us see our bodies relationships to nature. She effortlessly, beautifully and simply ties together the health of our bodies with that of the farm - the natural world of plants, animals and soil. It turns out that we are much healthier with a greater diversity of bacteria in our bodies which comes from direct contact, engagement and ingestion of natural plant, animal and soil systems. There are healthy synergistic affects between the greater diversity beyond what a single bacteria can deliver - even for the role of bacteria like Staphylococcus (which we normally avoid and try to kill) in combination with other bacteria. We experience less inflammation and allergy with this greater diversity - which dramatically reduces our chances for progression into a myriad of diseases. As we have retreated from being in contact with nature, we have gotten less healthy...so this book is a terrific narrative to show us the importance of re-engaging with nature. The downsides from this re-engagement are far out-shadowed by the benefits. Throw out the anti-bacterials - they are generally bad for you. Clearly there are situations where we need to be careful of bacteria - but apparently we need to create much more diversity in our bodies than we normally do in our modern lives in order to be in the peak of health. It turns out that these benefits are slow in their affects - and so we tend to discount them. We are so used to fast affects, that we discount processes which yield the slow affects. This is an important read that may well change how you proceed in your life.

Read this book!

I.N.-.F.H.L.f.W. · June 29, 2019

In a series of well told, first hand experiences, Daphne sets out an insightful, intelligent analysis of how the food we eat, soil, animal, human and planetary health are all inextricably linked. If you care about your food, your health and your planet you’ll want to read this book!

sehr lesenswert

N.L. · August 17, 2017

Interessant geschrieben. sehr informativ und gut recherchiert und unterbaut. Aber kein "Reklame" oder "Verkauf"-Buch - die Autorin regt zur eigenen Meinungsbildung an und ermutigt einen die Landbau und Gesundheit aus einem anderen Blickwinkel zu betrachten. ohne dabei ihre Wahrheit als die einzig wahre verkaufen zu wollen.Eine sehr empfehlenswerte Lektüre.

stellar

d. · November 25, 2014

Great read to put life, medicine and being human in (intelligent) perspective. Thankfully, other providers share this outlook on reestablishing balance and web-like interconnections, an expression dear to functional medicine. Kudos! I hope many of my patients get their hands on this book.

Loved this book

C. · September 16, 2017

Loved this book. A lot of stuff that I knew already from reading similar, but a lot of really interesting new stuff. Have already bought copies for friends.

Very Pleased

A.C. · January 23, 2020

arrived on time

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