You are what you eat.
I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but if you take it literally (as intended) you start to realize how simple and true it is. You are a self contained, self-reliant, being. Your survival is based on your ability to adapt, so when you can no longer adapt your body begins to fail. Cells fail to regenerate properly, muscles fail to repair, bones fail to rebuild, organs begin to fail and entire systems begin to fail leading to the end of life.
That’s a rather dramatic opening, but the point is to help understand the bigger picture of what life really is. Life is your body maintaining some sense of balance, or homeostasis. If you pull a muscle it needs to repair itself, if you break a bone it needs to mend itself, if you’re attacked by a virus you need to defend yourself. All of this work is done without you even thinking about it. Your body just does it. However, the only tools at your ‘behind-the-scenes’ survival team’s disposal are the ones you provide. If your body is trying to repair a broken bone, but it runs out of calcium the building is done. Just like running out of nails if you’re building yourself a tiny house in the woods…you will have to just do the best you can with what you’ve got. It may work, but it may not, either way it’s not going to be ideal.
If you want to build the best tiny house in the woods that you can you need to be sure to supply all the right materials. Same goes for your body. If you google ‘best diet’, you’ll literally get three billion results in about half of a second. There is no shortage of diet advice. Some of it’s good and some of it is bad. The best summary I’ve heard when it comes to eating is from Michael Pollan, he says, “eat food, not too much, mostly plants”. The human body is incredible, all it asks of you is that you maintain a healthy weight and provide it with enough of the basic nutrients, vitamins, minerals to do what it needs to do. Other than that, just move around everyday, enjoy life and think mostly happy thoughts and you’ll make the best of the time you’ve got.
