The Author Dr. Beddoe developed a deep love for agriculture growing up on the family farm in southern Oregon. Although his professional scholastic training has been in the field of medical health care- Doctor of Dental Surgery- he has never been removed from working with the soil. It was during dental school that one of his physiology professors discovered that teeth actually have a natural-cleansing and health maintaining process that begins from the inside, if the body is healthy. Thus, the early years were a fascinating journey of learning. A major turning point came in the mid 1970's when he met and began studying with Dr. Carey Reams. Reams' work in the field of agricultural biochemistry and biophysics, since the early 1930s, set the stage for Dr. Beddoe to combine his love of agriculture with his work in human nutrition. Since the "Biological Theory of Ionization", as originally coined by Reams, has become Dr. Beddoe's exclusive tool for understanding and working concurrently with human and soil health. "The longer I work with soil chemistry, the more I know that our poorly mineralized food is robbing people of life", says Dr. Beddoe. "We are only as healthy as the food we eat, and that food is only as mineralized as the soil it is grown on. A farmer or gardener, growing low mineral food, spreads degeneration and poor health, while a farmer and gardener who understands how to grow highly mineralized food promotes the best public health". Dr. Beddoe emphasized this point by saying, "Healthy and high mineral energy soil can have more effect on the health of humanity, than all the medical institutions that will ever exist."
