Ron Veitel holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and is a Certified Nutritional Consultant and a Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor. His career has led him from working for and with health food stores around the country to consulting with doctors practicing nutrition throughout North and South Carolina and as the Director of Education for MegaFood Vitamins, a whole food nutrient company, where he lectured on the synergistic relationship between nutrients and food throughout North America. Currently he is the Nutritional Consultant for Integrative Functional Medicine in downtown Pittsboro.

Humans derive their nutrition from three different kingdoms so to speak, the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, and the animal kingdom.  It is from these that we receive our macronutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), which provide us calories or energy, micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), and phytonutrients.  When I look out into the world of human nutrition I find that much of the focus is on eating the right kinds and amounts of macronutrients from a strictly scientific or ideological standpoint without mention of the deep coherent relationship we are to have with our food.  We live in a world of repeating self organizing systems that are mirror reflections of each other.  I have spent some time studying a field of medicine known as biological medicine, which focuses on the inner terrain of humans such as pH, mineral balance, electromagnetic flow and microorganisms.  What I have found is that the human biological terrain is a mirror reflection of soil terrain, so what is necessary for healthy soil and plant growth is what is necessary for healthy human terrain and growth.  The following delves into some of the more hidden aspects of the relationship between plants and humans.

A friend of mine who teaches biological medicine in Chicago once said “The state of your individual health is spiritually/vibrationally induced, chemically/electrically driven and biologically carried out.”  What he means by this is that all of life carries a frequency, which is the measurable rate of electrical energy that is constant between any two points.  The Earth has a 7.8 hertz frequency, the human body has a range between 62-78 hertz and fresh food and herbs have between a 20-27 hertz frequency.  Human physiology is driven by chemical molecules such as neurotransmitters and electrical charges such as those from the nervous system.  The heart pumps due to electrical charges, cells allow nutrients in and wastes out because of electrical charges and the colloid suspension of our blood is kept free flowing in even suspension by the electrical charge known as zeta-potential.  Biologically carried out refers to the fact that the terrain of the human body shifts in accordance with the messages it receives from the biochemicals and electrical charges.  If the zeta-potential of the blood is lost due to a poor charge this causes the red blood cells to clump together like a stack of coins, which prevents them from delivering oxygen throughout the body.  Less oxygen leads to an anaerobic internal environment that is conducive to the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, yeasts and fungus in the blood.

So how does this all relate to soil, plants and human nutrition?  The biological terrain of the human body is no different than the biological terrain of soil.  The life cycle of nature is an expanding spiral and at the base of this spiral is the soil.  Soil is alive, dead soil is dirt – it no longer carries an adequate electromagnetic charge.  Freeing the flow of the magnetic field in the soil is basic to any soil fertility program and this is accomplished through proper mineral balance.  Minerals conduct electricity in the human body as well as in soil.  Mineral mismanagement of the soil causes electrical chaos and over time leads to degradation over regeneration, produces symptoms of erosion, compaction, pest infestations and plant diseases.  Proper mineral balance in the soil leads to proper mineral balance in the plants grown in the soil, which leads to organized electromagnetic conduction within the plant, which leads to the right composite frequency within the plant, which leads to healthy plants that are free from disease and equals healthy humans who eat the plants.

To tie this all together I would like to discuss a term known as “coherent coupling.”  Coherent coupling states that when two or more systems have a history of recurring interactions there develops a structural congruence between the two.  Future development of these systems arises from transformations that each invokes in the other.  An organism, humans, and their environment, Earth, are mutually enfolded in multiple ways, and what constitutes the world of a given organism is enacted by that organism’s history of coupling with its environment.  The environment as well as the organism’s perception of the environment can induce engineering genes to rewrite themselves and thus rewrite sections of DNA code.  In other words, plants growing in an environment will take in the surrounding information such as soil quality, rainfall, environmental toxins, atmospheric gases, amount of sunshine etc… and based on that information will update their DNA to properly adapt to the changes in their environment so as to survive.  When we as humans consume those plants we receive all of that information and couple with it so that we can also better adapt to our surrounding environment.  This works like concentric rings with the immediate environment having the greatest impact on our health and ability to adapt. This is the reason why human nutrition was designed to be local and regional.  By consuming the foods within ones immediate environment a person is able to couple with those foods and incorporate the information that is necessary to adapt to the changes occurring within that particular environment.

Our health is a mirrored reflection of the health of the soil.  When the soil has a free flowing magnetic field due to proper mineral balance this ensures the plants grown in that soil will carry the appropriate composite frequency to prevent pest infestation.  When we consume these foods we provide ourselves with the minerals necessary to promote proper chemical and electrical transmission thus maintaining a healthy internal terrain free from pathogenic invaders.  The coupling that takes place due to this repeated interaction of the human and its environment allows the DNA to constantly update itself so that we adapt to necessary changes.  These concepts are hidden themes that run through all of life.  As the Hermetic philosophy states “As above so below”, and it is with this knowledge that we come to have a deeper relationship with our local environment and the food we consume.