Kemi Oyegbile: Making organic food your medicine

My first encounter with her was on our way to Xtralarge Farms’ Agritech City, Idiroko, Ogun state, the first of its kind in Africa for an engaging tour of the now wave-making tourist attraction. That was back in August, 2023. As fate would have it, we got talking on her wealth of experience, when one got to know that she had worked extensively with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for years. One is talking of course, of none other role model than Dr. Kemi Oyegbile.

Hours later, at the City she gave testimonies about her passion for organic foods, which by the way is what Xtralarge Farms is focused on, in its agricultural policies, programs and projects. The noble aim of course, is to enlighten and encourage discerning consumers on making the right choice of the food items they consume, on daily basis.

With that, they get to live a healthier lifestyle and as Herodotus, the Greek physician right noted you make your food your medicine, rather than making your medicine your daily food!

Interestingly too, Oyegbile has stretched the dream further by exporting healthy, organic food items such as Wonder Meal, palm oil, rice, right from Ota here in Nigeria to Ottawa in Canada. Good enough, she is happy for it.

Recently, she gave an update on the testimony she shared on 2022 Independence Day celebration @ Xtralarge Farms, Ota. The theme is titled: “The use of organic food and herbs is a marathon race not just a sprint”. Stated here below is her testimony made in her own words:

“This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. My Organic Food, my Medicine (Gen. 1 v. 29; PSM. 104 v. 14; Ezk. 47 v. 12). See You @ 120 In Line With Gen 6:3. I was divinely led to see the gain from my pains of 40 years of allergic reaction to heat and dust in Nigeria as a Rescue Mission.

“I was born as a premature baby back in the fifties. But I was fortunate that my mother who was born in 1920 had Standard Six School Certificate. That was my saving grace, that the Girl-Child education made the then nurses, who taught my mother-who did not understand English language-to ensure that I was put in the incubator.

“In fact, that incubator was acquired five days before I was born in the Mission Hospital then. So, I did not have the opportunity to be breast fed with colostrum milk which should have conferred me with Immuno Globin E ( IgE).That was to enable me to be desensitized from allergies.

“As fate would have it, I started with childhood asthma. This stopped by itself at the age of 15years. Thereafter, the allergic skin challenge started. This was on for 40 years during which as a medical student in the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan in the 70s all was done to find a lasting solution.

“I was placed on steroids-based ointment that I could only use for a short period, in order to avoid more serious side effects. After my graduation as a Medical doctor, I had opportunities to seek for solutions in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States of America. The same solution of steroid-based ointments as was in UCH, Ibadan with the same advice that it should be for a short while.

“In October, 2009 the Holy Spirit convinced me with Psalm 104 verse 14 to use of organic supplements and food. Stated below are the stages of recovery.

“The challenge improved by 65percent with first Organic Supplement which was from USA so availability stopped in the first quarter of 2017”.