The Dirt Cure

Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil

By: Maya Shetreat-Klein MD

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Mark Hyman, and Andrew Weil, pioneering integrative pediatric neurologist Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, reveals the shocking contents of children's food, how it's seriously harming their bodies and brains, and what we can do about it. And she presents the first nutritional plan for getting and keeping children healthy - a plan that any family can follow.

Alarming new studies show the dramatic rise of chronic disease in children, from allergies and ADHD to mental illnesses and obesity. A traditionally trained pediatric neurologist and a parent herself, Dr. Maya encountered the limits of conventional medicine when her son suffered a severe episode of asthma on his first birthday and began a backward slide in his development. Treatments failed to reverse his condition, so Dr. Maya embarked on a scientific investigation, discovering that food was at the root of her son's illness, affecting his digestive system, immune system, and brain. The solution was shockingly simple: heal the food, heal the gut, heal the brain - and you heal the child.

Recent changes in growing and processing food are harming children's intestinal microbiomes, immune systems, and brains, contributing to chronic disease. Dr. Maya's plan started with the soil, using fresh foods and nature to heal her son from the inside out and the outside in. Since then, she has successfully helped chronically ill patients from around the world.

Revealing the profound connections between food, nature, and children's health, Dr. Maya explains how food is constantly changing children's bodies, brains, and even genes - for better or for worse. She also shares success stories from her practice and tips as a working mother of three on stocking healing foods (from veggies to chocolate), reading labels, and getting even picky eaters into the new menu. This paradigm-shifting book empowers you to transform your children's health through food and to ensure the long-term well-being of your children and the entire family.

©2016 Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Very eye opening information that has motivated me to make healthy changes for our family!

I loved all the information in the book. It was presented in a way that made sense and was easy to understand. I didn’t enjoy the narrator, but was able to get past that enough to get into the book and glean a lot from it.

Excellent and comprehensive

I didn't expect to learn much from this book but really did. The author brings everyone up to speed on the truth about our food supply and what to do about it. Highly recommend. Everyone in Congress should listen to it.

Very informative

I like it alot, explain how things work and how you should proceed to get there

Wish I had the hardcover

I enjoyed this book, although I wish I could mark the pages and highlight things to come back to

Not enough soil!

I mostly enjoyed this book but felt mislead by the title and summary. Rather than increasing my knowledge about what the soil does for our health, I was scared into thinking the only way to keep my kids from getting sick is to restrict their diets more than most moms are capable. I teach soil science and listened to this to give a lecture on links between human health and soil. It really didn't add anything to my previous knowledge about this link (though this will not be true for most people). Most of the book had nothing to do with soil.

Excellent book!

Loved it! I would definitely recommend parents of young children listen to this book which offers lots of information and practical tips!

If you or someone you know suffer from chronic illness, listen!

If you or someone you know suffer from chronic illness, listen! I’m one of those people that have recently turned my backyard into a food forest and just walking in that space and interacting in that space and eating from that space has helps all of my kids health improve. I can’t explain it but this book does!

Every parent should listen

very good book. I listened to this hoping to learn more about how to make the soil more biodiverse. I enjoyed learning about children's nutrition and she mentioned all of the ideas that I have been trying to incorporate into my Homestead. great information, but from a homesteaders point of view, I would have liked more application on becoming biodiverse.

Good book!

I'd definitely recommend this book to others. The only problem I had was that I thought there would have been little more on soil and less on eating habits. Being in a state of ketosis of which I believe every man and woman should be in and having given up grains and sugar I was disappointed the author promoted them constantly.

Brain Maker relived

if you have listened to Grain Brain or Brain Maker it's same stuff a little different (good things)