Body – Physical Health

Healthy Mindset, Healthy Habits

Poor mental health is likely to impinge on physical health. The mind is the body, and the body is the mind, as one of my teachers likes to say.

Stress hormones are supposed to help us flee or fight a lion or a bear, then abate as soon as the danger passes. They cause blood to be redirected to the limbs and away from the logical frontal lobe of the brain, and they suppress the immune system (adrenalin is given to organ transplant patients for this very reason, so their immune systems do not reject the foreign organ). So, in modern society, the constant stress from the money woes, the strained relationship, the hateful boss or job, etc., tends to make us stupid and sick and chronically unhappy!

Humans are also supposed to crave fat and sugar, since these were rarities for aeons of evolutionary time: animal fat was obtained by arduous hunting, and sugar by braving swarms of bees. Now, we have unnaturally copious amounts of sugar and fat on tap, and this natural instinct makes us tend to over-indulge, and must be consciously reigned in. The power of plants to heal the body is evidenced by both peer-reviewed science and ancient healing traditions.

Dr Michael Greger has read every English-language nutrition journal for over a decade and compiled the most relevant and applicable plant-based findings into a web site (NutritionFacts.org), best-selling book, and health-promoting daily-dozen food groups list. The top 15 causes of premature death in Western societies can be avoided and even reversed by the conscious adoption of a science-based, whole-food, plant-centred diet.

Download Dr Greger’s Daily Dozen foods list, and the handy habit-forming checklist, via the link above. Also join the NeuLyf Telegram group, or follow us on social media, for more traditional and modern health hacks and advice.

Cancer deserves a special mention here as it may also, in many cases, evidence the integral link between mind and body, as its prevalence continues to climb in Western societies. Watch my ‘Cancer’ video now to find out more.

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