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Okay, so, like, let's talk about, um, replenishing what modernity took away. Yeah, it's a big topic, but, uh, it's super important. I mean, we're talking movement, temperature, and nontoxic living.
So, I remember, the first couple years of med school were, like, just lectures, back-to-back. I'm talking eight hours a day in this dark, underground classroom. And, you know, we got like ten minutes between classes to, like, grab something to eat at the cafe. Which was, like, pizza, cheesy pasta, sandwiches, fries, the whole shebang.
And, even then, *before* I was, like, totally clued in about metabolic health, something just felt… off. You know? Like, these future doctors are, like, sitting *all* day, and, uh, we’re learning about cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension. It just didn’t quite compute, you know? And I even read this New York Times article that called sitting for long periods "lethal" because of the metabolic and cardiovascular problems it causes.
So, what did I do? I, like, rigged up a standing desk in the back of the lecture hall. It was, like, this IKEA storage tub, flipped upside down on a desk. Pretty high-tech, right? Anyway, people got curious, and I sent out a survey to the other students about standing desks in the classrooms. And, to my surprise, a ton of them were into it. I mean, one *hundred* percent said that med school made them sit way too much. And, like, ninety percent said standing desks would make their lives better. Seriously!
So, I, uh, I did my research. Like, *dozens* of studies about how bad sitting is. I, like, took all that data, plus the student survey, and went to the administration at the medical school. I, uh, I explained how it’d be great for marketing, you know, make Stanford look innovative, *and* support student well-being.
And, uh, they said no. They wanted, like, “formal evidence” that it’d be a good thing. So, okay, fine. I spent *two years* on a grant-funded study, approved by the ethics board, about standing desks in classrooms. I did interviews, surveys, the whole nine yards. I even got trained in, like, qualitative research coding and data interpretation. The results? Super clear. Students felt, like, way more alert, attentive, and engaged, and they wanted standing desk options.
So, after *two years*, I went *back* to the administration. I presented all the data they’d asked for. And... they *still* said no. They said that this new building, this ninety-million-dollar architectural marvel, had design guidelines and safety codes. No standing desks. Unreal.
So, still, young doctors are sitting all the time. And, like, we *know* sitting is a huge risk factor for the very diseases they're supposed to be treating. A lot of doctors are, like, overweight or obese, and the top causes of death for doctors? Heart disease, cancer, stroke. Like, the stuff they are supposedly treating.
See, the sitting thing is just part of a bigger problem. It’s our, like, *obsession* with being comfortable. We like to sit, we like the temperature just right. And, yeah, who doesn’t? But that's, like, not great for our cells or our longevity. We think comfort is a win, and, like, yeah, it is… to a point. But it lulls our cells into, like, a state of cellular complacency.
Don’t push your body, and it breaks down. Push it too hard for too long, it *also* breaks down. But push it *just* past the point of comfort with movement and temperature and, like, *magic* happens. The cells adapt, turn on dormant pathways, and become more resilient, happier, healthier. Especially if we give them time to recover, adapt, and, like, boost those resilience pathways.
Lots of complex biological systems do better when their environments are a little challenging. For example, plants with tons of nutrients and antioxidants grow in tough climates, like, mountainsides. They boost their own antioxidant pathways to survive, which helps us when we eat them. Outdoor cats have way less obesity than indoor cats. And a lot of domesticated dogs get cancer, but wild dogs and wolves don’t. Domesticated dogs get depression a lot, but it's rare in wild animals. Forty percent of humans get cancer, but our closest relatives, chimps, barely get it, even though we have, like, ninety-nine percent of the same genes.
So, something about a natural, wilder life is good for us. Could it be that our modern comforts are actually hurting us?
Because modern life has taken away things like regular movement and temperature changes, industries have sprung up to charge us for them. Fitness classes, gyms, cold plunges, saunas, light therapy... It's, like, perverse. We pay for comfort, then pay to fix the problems it creates!
The answer isn’t just adding more, you know, biohacking protocols and tools into our day. It’s about changing how we think and seeing controlled discomfort and adaptive stressors as important information. It’s about, like, building your life to include those stressors as the default. And being, like, critical of our "normal" environments and how we move. Like, sitting at desks all day, having sitting areas as the center of our homes, always being driven around, and getting upset if the thermostat isn't perfect.
And, modernity has taken away our chance to live in a nontoxic world. Now, there are tons of chemicals in our air, water, food, and homes. These chemicals mess with our cells, and a lot of them are obesogens. These chemicals contribute to the accumulation of fat and obesity. Like, we're confused why our health is plummeting, but we’re also bathing our cells in a constant chemical soup that messes with our neurotransmitters, microbiome, mitochondria, genetics, and hormones.
So, yeah, this is about how our indoor lifestyle and disconnection from nature is making us unhealthy, and what we can do about it.
Movement.
Despite being the only primates that can walk upright, we sit for, like, eighty percent of our time. Think about the movie "Wall-E," with the obese humans in hover-chairs. That's basically us.
People want to be fit. Lots of people go to the gym and spend money on health and fitness. But we're getting sicker every year. Gym memberships have gone up since, like, the year 2000, but obesity has *also* gone up. We have the most gyms in the world, but we're also among the fattest. The CDC says that over seventy-five percent of adults don't get enough activity, and twenty-five percent are totally inactive.
Why is there this disconnect between wanting to be healthy and, like, failing to move? I think it's the concept of "exercise." We think of exercise as this isolated activity, separate from our lives. But our bodies work best when movement is regular, consistent, not just something you do for an hour or two. Until recently, movement was essential for survival: hunting, gathering, walking. A long time ago, most Americans worked in agriculture, which was physically demanding. There weren't fitness centers back then, but almost no one was obese.
These days, almost nobody works in agriculture. We sit or lie down all the time. Most American cities are made for cars, not people. Parking takes up, like, a third of the land area in cities. If you live in an area that's not walkable, you're more likely to have prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. But if you live in a walkable city, obesity and overweight rates drop. The average adult takes less than two miles a day. But hunter-gatherer populations take way more steps and sit way less, and they have super low rates of heart disease.
In the Blue Zones, the populations that live the longest don’t “exercise” in the modern sense. Movement is just built into their daily lives. So, we need to design our lives to make movement the norm. It’s simple, but it takes creativity and boldness.
Sure, focused physical activity is great. But optimal metabolism comes from regular low-level physical activity. Too much sitting is associated with inflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction. And working out once a day doesn’t cancel out the problems with sitting. Studies show that sitting is bad, no matter if you exercise or not. One expert says that even if you get your cardio in, it's canceled out by sitting for more than five hours a day. If exercise is going to improve your metabolism, it's going to have to look very different from today’s fitness industry. Regular movement has to reenter our lives.
We're made for movement. Our muscles, bones, and joints work together perfectly. But we’re wasting those gifts.
Muscle contraction is medicine. That's why it's important to move regularly. A body that contracts its muscles frequently experiences totally different physiology than a body where the muscles are worked only in a one- or two-hour exercise block per day.
At a basic level, muscle cell activity prompts calcium to enter cells and depletes ATP. This sets off signaling pathways that push the cell to process glucose or fat to make more ATP. At the center of this is a protein called AMPK, which is an "energy sensor" in cells. Sensing a decline in ATP as muscle contractions use it up, AMPK activates and stimulates PGC-1É‘, which increases fat burning, glucose uptake, and the creation of more mitochondria.
Also, AMPK stimulates mitophagy, where cells clear out old, dysfunctional mitochondria to make room for healthy, new mitochondria. Without effective mitophagy, we accumulate bad mitochondria that produce excessive free radicals, generating oxidative stress. Exercise induces some free radicals, but PGC-1É‘ promotes the expression of antioxidant genes, which increases the oxidative defense systems. Exercise can increase inflammation at first, but it decreases chronic inflammation over the long run. It releases myokines, immune-modulating proteins, that limit the inflammatory response.
Muscle contraction is vital to metabolic health because it gets rid of excess glucose. And, it can do this without needing insulin. When exercising, people with type 2 diabetes can clear glucose from the blood at levels near or identical to people without diabetes. Why? Exercise stimulates AMPK, which directly signals for glucose channels (GLUT4 channels) to travel to the cell membrane to let glucose in.
By clearing glucose from the blood without requiring as much insulin secretion, exercise increases our body’s sensitivity to the hormone. Studies show that a single exercise session can increase insulin sensitivity for at least sixteen hours.
Clearing glucose isn't marginal. Adults often see a thirty percent lower glucose spike when they take a gentle walk after eating a high-carbohydrate meal. Muscle contraction is a silver bullet for processing excess food energy that otherwise can clog up our cells and lead to dysfunction. Exercise stimulates the production of more mitochondria, upregulates antioxidant defenses, and quells inflammation over the long term.
Just move more.
Moving more frequently means more glucose clearance from the blood continuously throughout the day. Stand up and take a five-minute walk, or do thirty air squats, remember that you are giving your body a signal that brings glucose channels to the membrane to keep clearing glucose to make ATP. This is different from someone who sits all day and exercises for an hour in the evening. All day, the muscles lack a signal to soak up and use excess glucose, leaving it circulating in the bloodstream and requiring insulin to get it into cells.
Daily movement doesn’t need to be hard to be effective, but it needs to be frequent. A study of participants completed four movement regimens:
No exercise
Twenty minutes of jogging before breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Twenty minutes of jogging after breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Short spurts of jogging for just three minutes every half hour throughout the day.
All three movement patterns added up to sixty total minutes of jogging per day. But the results showed something fascinating: the short three-minute bursts of jogging every half hour significantly reduced post-meal glucose spikes, compared to the longer pre- and post-meal jogs.
You don’t need to jog to see this effect; walking works, too: a study looked at three similar scenarios:
Sitting for nine hours
Walking for a thirty-minute period once per day and then sitting
Regular activity breaks of walking for one minute and forty seconds every thirty minutes.
While both activity groups walked a grand total of thirty minutes per day, the study showed that people who took the short walks every thirty minutes had the lowest post-meal glucose peaks and insulin levels. It’s like water. If your body needs water per day, it wouldn’t make sense to chug it all at once. Sipping it throughout the day would be much better.
The "stand up" reminders on wearables are backed by solid science and might be the most important prompt these wearables can offer.
Be Hot.
Non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT, refers to any spontaneous physical activity that is not the result of voluntary exercise. We've had to give this concept a fancy name and acronym. Before urbanization, NEAT was just life. NEAT includes activities of daily living that require movement, like cleaning, grocery shopping, gardening, puttering around the house, walking from the car to a store, going upstairs, using a standing desk, and playing with kids—even fidgeting counts. Data supports that more NEAT could be an essential tool for body-weight control.
Treadmill desks are an example of attempting to fit more NEAT into the day. Researchers hypothesize that if you have obesity, using a treadmill desk at slow speeds for just 2.5 hours per day could lead to a weight loss. Research has shown that using a treadmill desk at work for just 2.5 hours per day for ten days led to an average drop of fat mass and an increase in lean mass.
Thermogenesis refers to how exercise is "heat generating." When we contract our muscles, we need more ATP for energy, which means we split it from adenosine triphosphate into ADP, releasing a phosphate. When that phosphate splits off, the energy is used to fuel cellular activities or dissipated as heat. The more we make and use ATP, the more heat we generate, which is why people who have higher muscle mass tend to generate more heat at baseline. Studies have shown that exercise training can raise baseline body temperature. Research shows that our body temperatures on average have gone down since preindustrial times, corresponding to lower metabolic rates. Our temperature is declining. Heat is a marker of life force, mitochondrial function, engine, Good Energy, yang, and light. You can stoke your internal fire by simply moving more and building more muscle.
Marketing over Science.
The confusion about what to eat and how to exercise fuels a huge fitness economy. The U.S. is the largest fitness consumer, yet our population's health worsens yearly. We have blindly relinquished common sense in pursuit of "evidence." Experts debate the exact minutes per week and time of day to do training, lactate thresholds, eccentric versus concentric training. But only some Americans meet the basic guidelines for physical activity. It’s not like there’s an epidemic of exercising too much in America.
Here’s the reality: Research has shown that all kinds of physical activity benefit metabolic health and slash the risk of metabolic diseases. People who walk the most and those who do the most vigorous activities reduce their type 2 diabetes risk to a comparable degree.
Walking about 10,000 steps per day is associated with:
Lower dementia risk
Lower risk of premature death
Lower risk of getting type 2 diabetes
Lower risk of obesity
Reductions in cancer occurrence, major depression, gastric reflux, and sleep apnea
Zero medications or surgeries can do for chronic disease prevention what walking can do. But doctors rarely prescribe exercise. If a medication could slash Alzheimer’s risk, it would be prescribed to every patient. But this “drug” does exist—it’s walking! Yet few doctors prescribe movement to their patients, and most practitioners report zero training in prescribing exercise.
Even when the science on movement is clear, the medical system does not adjust. Take, for example, the impact of physical activity on COVID-19 outcomes. People who were consistently inactive prior to contracting the coronavirus were more likely to be hospitalized and die than those who were the most active. The benefits of exercise held even for those with preexisting conditions. Mitochondrial function was implicated as a key factor in the likelihood of getting COVID, dying from COVID, and experiencing long COVID. Researchers made recommendations to “urgently” pursue preventive avenues to “strengthen the mitochondria” for best COVID outcomes, with the leading recommendation being exercise. This didn't make it into public health recommendations or any formal guidelines.
Imagine if we took just a fraction of the annual health care spent and put it toward incentivizing more movement: making cities more walkable; putting treadmills throughout office buildings; subsidizing short hourly movement breaks in every school, hospital, and workplace; or even outright paying at-risk populations to move more.
Keep It Simple.
With food, we covered three simple rules that get you quite far: don’t eat added sugar, don’t eat industrially processed vegetable and seed oils, and don’t eat highly processed grains.
With fitness, I also suggest three simple rules.
Walk at least 7,000 steps per day and space these steps out throughout the day. Work up to 10,000 per day.
Get your heart rate above sixty percent of your maximum for at least 150 minutes a week. (That’s 30 minutes, five days a week.)
Lift heavy things multiple times per week in a way that hits every major muscle group.
Are there important personalized and nuanced diet and movement strategies beyond these simple rules? Of course. But following these simple guidelines will make you feel so much better and facilitate the awe, curiosity, and energy to go deeper. When you experience the benefits of cutting refined sugars, grains, and industrial oils from your diet, I can almost guarantee that you’ll start researching more whole-food recipes and exploring other books and podcasts for more personalized nutrition strategies. And if you commit to walking at least 7,000 steps a day and doing 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise as nonnegotiable, you’ll inevitably explore different varieties of fitness and find the routine that’s right for you. Start with the basics, and in the form of any activity you enjoy, and make sure you’re hitting your goals. When you do this, the next levels tend to bloom like a stunning flower.
I want to drill deeper on the recommendation for logging that 150 minutes of activity with elevated heart rate per week. Training is defined as an activity that generates a heart rate at sixty to seventy percent of your maximum heart rate (often defined as your age subtracted from 220). Think of a brisk walk or light jog that you can continue for an hour without much difficulty. Consistent exercise confers powerful metabolic benefits by stimulating mitochondrial health without excessive strain on the body. The benefits of zone 2 are proof that you don’t have to run your body into the ground for effective metabolic workouts. Zone 2 typically feels oddly easy. But the proof is in the research: sustained moderate exercise increases the number of mitochondria, improves glucose uptake, increases the efficiency of your heart, and reduces the risk for nearly every chronic disease.
How do you know you’re in zone 2? Many fitness trackers now show zone scores based on your age and weight. Or you can use the talk test: when you’re on the upper edge of zone 2, you shouldn’t be able to say a sentence out loud without slowing down to catch your breath.
While you can stay in zone 2 for the entire 150 minutes each week (again, the key part of this habit is doing anything consistently), there is evidence that getting your heart rate higher for short bursts by incorporating HIIT can have powerful metabolic benefits. HIIT as any kind of workout that alternates short bursts—anywhere from five seconds to eight minutes of intense activity—where your heart rate reaches eighty to ninety-five percent of its maximal capacity, with equal or longer periods of rest or physical activity, where your heart rate is at forty to fifty percent of your max.
Lastly, I implore anyone working to optimize their metabolic health or weight to incorporate resistance training (otherwise known as strength training or weight training). Resistance training simply means intentionally making your muscles work against a weighted force, which could be functional movements such as lifting or pushing heavy things in your home or at work, lifting or pushing weights, or using your body weight as a force to work against (think pull-ups or push-ups). Since we know that muscles play an important role in clearing glucose from the blood, muscle mass correlates with insulin sensitivity. A study reported that “resistance training has a favorable effect on metabolic syndrome since it decreases fat mass, including abdominal fat. It also enhances insulin sensitivity, improves glucose tolerance, and reduces blood pressure values.” Think of a thick layer of muscle covering your skeleton as a metabolic shield and a gateway to a longer and happier life. Incorporating resistance training can be transformational for people who are feeling “stuck” in their progress toward metabolic optimization or weight loss. Weight training is especially important for women entering middle age, who can greatly benefit from a metabolic boost as metabolism takes a big hit with the natural decline of estrogen at menopause. Muscle expert says, “We aren’t over fat; we are undermuscled.” If you focus attention on building more muscle rather than just losing weight, you’ll be much better off in succeeding in improving body composition and metabolic health. And since muscle mass naturally declines each decade beginning at age thirty, and low muscle mass is a risk factor for premature mortality, we need to start weight training early in life and continue for life. It’s never too late to start.
Good Energy Biomarkers and Movement.
When you’re striving to be part of those Americans, regular movement will help you get there. Research shows that exercise improves the following basic biomarkers of metabolism:
Glucose Levels Above. Twelve-week exercise programs brought participants’ blood sugar from the prediabetic range to the nondiabetic range.
HDL Cholesterol Less Than. Exercise increased HDL cholesterol, “with exercise volume, rather than intensity, having a greater influence.”
Triglycerides Above. Numerous studies have demonstrated that physical activity effectively lowers triglyceride levels.
Blood Pressure of or Higher: Research has shown the effects of exercise among populations with high blood pressure were similar to the effects of commonly used medications.
A Waistline of More Than for Women and for Men: Regular exercise can help decrease obesity by increasing energy expenditure and promoting weight loss. More movement, smaller waist circumference.
Temperature.
Too much stress on the body all the time is bad, but controlled increases in specific stressors can cause adaptations that lower our chronic levels of oxidative stress and inflammation.
Exposing them to extreme temperatures stresses cells into positive adaptation. You’ve probably heard about cold plunging. Getting cold or hot isn’t something we could control for much of human history. “Indoors” is a very new concept, and air-conditioning and central heat are even newer.
Our modern lives of “thermoneutrality” makes for bored mitochondria. Mitochondria are heat-generating structures, but if we don’t stimulate them to generate heat and ATP, they won’t do as much. Our body temperature seems to have dropped over the past years, possibly because of a generally lower metabolic rate. Adding large temperature fluctuations back into our lives brings metabolic benefits.
Heat and Cold.
Our bodies have several mechanisms for regulating our internal temperature when we’re exposed to cold. One way is through shivering. Another way is through non-shivering thermogenesis, where our body produces and utilizes more brown fat to help keep us warm.
Brown fat is different from white fat. White fat stores energy, brown fat burns energy to produce heat. Brown fat is brown because it is filled with mitochondria. Brown fat levels increase in winter as the body adapts to stay warmer. Levels tend to be lower in the winter, when temperature is colder and brown fat levels are higher.
Studies have shown that brown fat readily takes up and utilizes glucose and that people with more brown fat tend to have lower body mass and lower glucose levels. A study found that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in people with obesity and with brown fat was nearly half that of people with obesity without brown fat.
Exposing yourself to cold can activate your brown fat, which can help you manage your blood sugar levels. Sleeping in a room at for a month can increase insulin sensitivity and double the activity and volume of brown fat in healthy men. Short periods of cold exposure can improve insulin sensitivity and glucose disposal, especially in people with brown fat. Wearing cooling vests increased resting energy expenditure and glucose disposal in subjects with brown fat. Cold acclimation can also improve metabolic health, even in people with little brown fat.
Researchers have also found that higher brown fat levels are related to lower glycemic variability. Participants were given a glucose drink in a comfortable room. The researchers found that brown fat activation and resting energy expenditure both rose in response, even though the participants weren’t exposed to cold. A brown fat deficiency could be a clinical indicator of the development of blood sugar dysregulation. We want much more brown fat, and the best way to get it is to expose the body to cold.
Studies on deliberate heat exposure show that it has positive impacts on metabolic health. Regular sauna use produces “a general stress-adaptation response” that is “possibly analogous to the . . . responses of exercise.” Heat exposure can also increase the production of a protein called heat shock protein 70. Heat exposure has been shown to increase the production of nitric oxide. These mechanisms have led research findings to show that heat exposure is linked to reduced blood pressure, improved cardiac function markers, decreased total and cholesterol levels, and decreased fasting blood glucose levels.
An observational study of Finnish men found reductions of metabolic conditions in people who regularly used saunas.
Cold and heat exposure can lead to a significant improvement in mood. Cold-water submersion can increase dopamine levels. Cold exposure has been shown to activate the sympathetic nervous system and release neurotransmitters like norepinephrine, which can increase alertness and mood. Repeated sauna use has been shown to lower cortisol, the main stress hormone.
Heat seems to also upregulate our antioxidant defenses.
Before you go running to purchase an expensive sauna and ice bath, I would recommend trying one of these free or inexpensive ways.
At the end of your showers, turn the water to cold for two minutes.
Jump into cold bodies of water.
Find a cold-plunging or sauna group in your town.
Take a hot yoga class.
Get outdoors and move when it’s hot outside (but make sure to stay hydrated, consume enough food and electrolytes, and don’t get sunburned.)
Find a local gym or community center with a sauna or hot tub.
In a review of the research, one expert recommended of hot sauna per week and of cold exposure per week “as reliable thresholds to derive major benefits on metabolism, insulin and growth hormone pathways.”
Synthetic Chemicals and Environmental Toxins.
Synthetic chemicals and environmental toxins envelop us and are a key driver of . Since World War have entered our environment and new chemicals are released each year, many of which have never been tested for safety in adults, children, or fetuses. Artificial chemicals and toxins are now found in dangerous levels in our air, food, water, homes, and soil and present a constant assault on our cells that directly impair the microbiome, gene expression, hormone receptors, the folding of our genome, intracellular signaling pathways, neurotransmitter signaling, fetal development, enzyme activity, hormonal control of eating behavior, thyroid function, resting metabolic rate, liver function, and more. These chemicals are being classified as obesogens. At least some of the obesity epidemic is directly tied to environmental chemicals.
Examples of obesogens include household disinfectants and cleaners, fragrances and perfumes, air fresheners, makeup, lotions, shampoos, deodorants, body wash, household paint, the ink on receipts, plastics, flooring, food preservatives and colorings, many pharmaceutical drugs, clothing, furniture, children’s toys, electronics, flame retardants, industrial solvents, car exhaust, and the pesticides that cover our food. Eating an ultra-processed food means that you may be getting a quadruple dose of potential: one in the ultra-refined food itself, one in the additives and preservatives, one in the pesticides, and one in the plastic packaging. Wash it down with conventional milk and a glass of unfiltered water and you compound the issue.
Many of these synthetic chemicals support industry interests but not cellular health. GRAS is intended to allow for the commercial use of substances deemed safe for use in food and other consumer products, this oversight is grossly inadequate. Companies are able to self-determine status via their own review of scientific literature, and the program is entirely voluntary. Moreover, is predicated on the idea that chemicals exist in isolation and ignores the synergistic adverse effect of layering hundreds of these chemicals on a human body simultaneously, every day, which is the overt reality of our world. is not protecting you, and you should focus on consuming and using products that are as natural as possible in all domains of life.
The Society has come out strongly for increased precautions around synthetic chemicals.
The following list describes classes of chemicals in the environment that are known to hurt human health directly through metabolic mechanism:
—commonly found in plastic products BPA is a known hormone disruptor. It increases the risk of obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and fertility, and inflammation.
—commonly found in cosmetics are hormone disruptors that are “significantly related” to insulin resistance and semen quality.
—commonly used as preservatives are problematic in how they bind to hormone receptors and impact the metabolism of hormones. have been associated with and infertility.
—commonly used as an antimicrobial agent has been linked to hormone disruption.
—a group of “highly toxic” compounds.
—slowly degrading chemicals were widely used in making hydraulic and lubricating fluids, flame retardants.
Substances (PFAS)—commonly found in cookware.
—Despite being strongly linked to stress, pesticides cover our food and enter the water system.
—commonly found in contaminated soil, water, and food can cause problems.
A common theme among many of the most dangerous chemicals in our modern world concerns plastic production and food preservation. We must limit our societal use of plastics.
Contaminated water is another key theme. Filtering for most Americans. The fact that our water is poisoned with chemicals that diminish our body’s capability to power itself can sound dispiriting. It is empowering to understand that many institutions impacting our health are broken, so we can be motivated to protect ourselves and work toward better solutions.
Regarding water, health leader has aptly popularized the truism: “Either you have a filter, or you become the filter.” This applies to all aspects of our environment. Without this vigilance, we damage our bodies and force our cells to manage the overwhelming task of responding to these threatening toxic substances rather than letting the cells do their work of producing Good Energy to let us thrive. Minimizing the toxic burden in your environment through simple swaps and filters is easy, inexpensive, and high yield for metabolic health.