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The impact of food and thoughts on your body and health is tremendous. And your conscious mind plays a big part in keeping your body planet healthy. Humans are part of the earth’s ecosystem. We live amongst an unpronounceable number of other living beings, known and unknown, at a macro and at a micro level. It’s the same for our human bodies. They are little planets themselves, on top of being extraordinary pieces of technology of nature. Some may think “my body belongs to me. That it is “me”. I control it, I can master it”. We could put it in these terms: your body is not you, it is a global ecosystem that composes what is referred to as the human body.
You are a flatmate within your body planet
On a physiological level, our body is populated with tens of billions of cells, tens of trillions of bacteria, fungi, microbes and many other and varied living things. It is an aggregate of living beings that are not asking for our opinion to live and do their job. All of them function totally independently from our conscious mind. They are interdependent on each other to live, grow, regenerate and keep the place clean. Also making sure some internal naughties keep at bay as much as ridding the potential external invaders. They work towards the efficient functioning and homeostasis of their habitat, that you happen to share. You are therefore their flatmate.
What do you reckon your cell number 21.4 trillion and 47 is doing right now? What about the office hours of the chain production gut bacteria team for serotonin supply? (That is by the way produced up to 95% down there!) Are you ordering your hair to grow or your heart to beat?
The conscious mind, the small emerged part of the iceberg
Our conscious mind is equivalent to lets say only 5%. Versus 95% of everything else going on inside us without being aware of it. We can definitely say that this is a very small bit of us, being hosted by this global ecosystem that composes a human. However our conscious mind does play a big part in it. It manages our lifestyle, our thoughts, our state of being, our food and our physical activity. That all have a substantial impact on the functioning and equilibrium of our flatmates.
Science shows today how food and thoughts have the ability to modify our DNA up to our gene expression. Meaning that our little 5% of conscious mind does have a role in our cells’ destiny.
Your body is always younger than you are
Our body has the extraordinary capacity to regenerate itself. It does so constantly from our birth to our death. Almost all our cells, organs and tissues will be totally replaced many times during our lives. The only exception seems to be the heart, that hardly regenerates over a lifetime.
Basically, you have a brand new body many times during your life. Meaning your body is always younger than you are!
The idea is therefore to provide our human with a healthy ground. Allowing it to regenerate beautifully and heal whatever it needs to. As for a garden, we can consistently throw litter on it and cover parts of it with sand. Or we might only care about what it looks like from the outside without nurturing the soil from which it grows. It’ll come a time when weeds will appear, places where plants will get sick or won’t grow anymore.
The cover on the boiling water
Allopathic medicine will take a look at one particular weed, spray herbicide trying to destroy it. It might remove some chunks of sand here and there. Give fertilizer to the soil to try and get it back up and running or any other kind of treatment trying to mimic what has bugged. Allowing it to survive a little better, a little longer. Don’t take me wrong. I absolutely rate allopathic medicine for dealing with the mechanics or suppressing symptoms. It stays nevertheless like putting a cover on a pot of boiling water without removing it from the fire. That is a big but only temporary relief.
All living ecosystems need a holistic approach and care, together with the necessary elements for them to function at their best. Allowing a healthy ground for our body to regenerate and consequently heal. Working with the perfection that mother nature has created. And no doubt it will be able to tolerate and deal with the few grains of sand or weeds that might appear on the way.
A healthy soil for a healthy garden
We know we can do a lot to support our body in order for it to work as well as it is meant to. Whether it comes from the outside, such as organic food, pre and probiotics, supplements, clean water and so on. Or from the inside, by working on our mindset, thoughts, cultivating specific practices that raise our vibrations or visualisation. This impacts not only our mind but also our biology. Fundamentally, taking care of this beautiful garden, watering it, feeding it, weeding it and looking after it.
A personal health quest
For almost 15 years I was under what we could call palliative care for a rare auto-immune disease. Taking heavy medical treatments. I had a couple of remissions that led to trying to gently reduce the dosages. Under a certain level of that chemical help, I would systematically see the disease resurrect from its sleep (remember the cover on the boiling pot analogy). My immune system was attacking its own body instead of defending it. There was no cure, it was medication or death.
I had the privilege to encounter on my path a work position amongst brilliant scientists dealing with endocrine disrupting chemicals. I had never heard about EDCs before. With time and the mass of information I explored on the subject to get myself up to date, major insights occurred. Like understanding how close the endocrine and immune system interact with each other. This led me into what was the start of my food and supplements quest. I say the start because it’s a never ending discovery and adaptation depending on your own overall mind and matter evolution. By eliminating EDCs and eating organic food when possible, I was stopping the external hormonal hacks my system was bathing in (eg litter in the garden). I cleaned the soil and provided my body with the necessary elements found in nature so it could do its job correctly. Guess what? An incurable disease turned out to be … cured.
The microbiome
Another specific system that is worth a particular attention is your intestinal tribes’ life. Your microbiome. Because when they go wrong, your body goes wrong too. They are dozens of trillions of these little dudes. They are vital to a healthy immune system, hormonal function, mood any many other systems. It is amazing at the amount of collateral damages of all sorts a dysfunctional gut can provoke. From minor allergies to major diseases. A certainty is that taking care of our gut’s health produces miracles.
Food and thoughts are your main medicine
I could go on for hours sharing my thoughts and experiences around these subjects. So I will conclude here. There is a lot of information out there. Get knowledgeable and empower yourself with how your body works. But above all, you are what you eat, on top of being what you think. Food has its genetic constituents that find the way to your genes and potentially modifies them. Non-organic food has chemical substances that mucks up the natural functioning of your ecosystem. Food also has a vibrational rate that might influence your own. Play with the idea that your body is a little planet. That your conscious mind is an influential flatmate to your planet’s global health. Love it, nurture it, feed it well and you will have a fun and agreeable flatshare.
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