David Krantz is a personal nutrition and genetics coach, sound therapy technician, and electronic music producer based in Asheville, NC. http://david-krantz.com This week we chat about genetics – specifically how different gene variations in people affect the way we experience cannabis. We’re coming up on a revolution in biotech and agriculture that will soon make it a possibility to grow gene-tailored strains of cannabis to suit YOUR DNA specifically…until then, though, here is your primer on how to dance with Mary Jane in ways that work WITH, not AGAINST, you. (David is a repeat guest from Future Fossils Episode 0010, when he chatted with us about the future of electronic music, plant intelligence, and tripping with cats and modular synthesizers. Be sure to check that one out also!)   We Discuss:   • CYP2C9 - a liver enzyme that breaks down THC - and how the amount your body produces will determine how high you get from edibles, your ability to pass a drug screening, etc. • How learning about our genetic differences helps us develop tolerance and acceptance of each other’s very different needs and bodies • COMT, a gene responsible for dopamine breakdown, and how which variant of this gene you possess determines cannabis-induced memory loss and alteration of time perception • ATK1, a gene whose variants determine how “psychotomimetic” (ie, trippy) your response to cannabis will be, and whether or not it will exacerbate schizophrenic symptoms • How it is, and isn’t, helpful for the law to regard cannabis primarily as a medicine • APOE, a gene that heavily influences Alzheimer’s Disease, not in isolation but depending on whether or not you eat a lot of saturated fats or exercise • How we must revolutionize education and accreditation in an age of digital learning, so that we can deploy as much healing intelligence as possible • Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, or SNPs, and how these one-letter changes in a gene can make a huge difference • David’s critique of cannabis studies that DON’T break down research subject populations down into genetic subgroups, and reveal the researchers’ biases • The need for “cultural interoperability” in our discussions about cannabis research, “across the aisle” between scientists for and against its legalization • AND Coffee and Chaga mushrooms and more – enacting complex mutually supportive benefits • Which gene tests David likes best, and best practices for privacy with your genetic data • The future of genomic science’s influence on cannabis horticulture and use   Quotes:   “There are probably some people that shouldn’t smoke weed.”   “I feel very qualified to help the people that I’m helping, and havin ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKItnMgwUGQ

Listen to the full episode here:: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22370142 This week’s episode is the conclusion of a special two-part conversation with Dr. Mark Nelson, one of the eight “biospherians” who lived for two years inside the closed ecological network Biosphere 2 – one of the most ambitious experiments ever performed, the reproduction of five distinct biomes inside a building in the Arizona desert.   Mark is the author of the newly-published history of his experience in Biosphere 2, called Pushing Our Limits – he’s also the author of The Wastewater Gardener, which applies the same closed-loop, full-system ecological thinking to more easily attainable forms of agriculture. I know Mark through my lucky acquaintance with Synergia Ranch just outside Santa Fe (where I am right now, editing this episode) – the home base for The Institute of Ecotechnics, the group that pioneered the discipline of “Biospherics,” and the hub for a planetary network of brilliant, passionate, eclectic individuals whose stories never cease to blow my mind.   Mark’s tale of his two years living under glass with seven other brave souls is powerful, inspiring, and full of potent lessons – both for our present on Earth and our future in space… www.ecotechnics.edu www.synergiaranch.com We Discuss: “Learning to Live Intelligently, Coming of Age in the Anthropocene – This is the Challenge of Our Life.” – Why did Biosphere 2 get so much attention? – What is the legacy of Biosphere 2? Biosphere J and The Eden Project and Q Gardens…the proposed but never-built, polluted Russian Biosphere 3… “I think that optimism is a yoga. You want to do your hatha yoga and keep in shape. Despair is like screwing off and not meditating, and forget the physical exercise. Optimism is important psychologically, because it tells you, ‘I can make a difference and this is all going to work.’ Now it may be irrational, but if you give into despair, all of the hormones and emotions are going to tell you that it doesn’t matter. So forget about separating the recycling.” – Living in the small tight loops of controlled ecosystems. – Empowering ourselves with new senses so we can see the impacts of our actions at the planet scale. – Pollutants from different countries where they are not banned yet as a kind of “living fossil” in the flesh of world travelers. – The Anthropocene and The Noosphere. Human activity (and thus human cognition) as geological force. “It’s not rocket science to redesign our technosphere.” “There are consequences to the type of technology that we permit to operate on Planet Earth.” – Solacestalgia. – What’s ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUrq1-olLRw