Our convenient modern lifestyle now not so convenient

By now I hope you all fully appreciate that diet and other lifestyle factors are the driving force behind not only the epidemic of chronic illness and degenerative disease but also your resilience against viruses and other acute illnesses. 

When your lifestyle factors (what you eat, drink, think, breathe, and how much you move, get into nature and sleep etc) are incongruent with our genes / biology, the result of the mismatch will be a lowering of the immune system, and hence greater susceptibility to viruses, illness and disease. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. As I’ve always argued, your health has less to do with your hard coded genes (genetics) and more to do with your lifestyle factors (epigenetics). 

Our modern environment—including ultra-processed and refined food, tap water, too much sedentary time, not enough sleep, excess exposure to artificial light and non native EMFs, use of toxic personal care products and household cleaning products, pharmaceuticals and chronic stress — all serve to lower our vibrational frequency, our health, our immunity and our resilience to pathogens and viruses that are around us all the time. 

We are now being exposed to pathogenic threats and a level of toxicity that the immune system of the average person simply struggles to deal with. Focusing on building strong immunity and strong physical and emotional resilience is taking on greater importance in our modern life. While others were investing in the stock market, I’ve been investing in my health for the last couple decades (not that they are mutually exclusive but the latter always seemed more of a priority because without one’s health, life isn’t so enjoyable). 

If you’ve invested in your health by focusing on a really solid traditional wholefoods diet and other lifestyle factors then trust that your strong immune system will afford you the resilience to fight off viruses and pathogens that we are constantly exposed to. Fear, worry and stress will serve to lower your immunity and undo your hard work. 

Our hunter gatherer ancestors lived their life in a way that constantly served to strengthen their resilience and immunity to optimise their survival. They knew that the survival of the tribe depended on the spectacular strength, speed and vibrant health of every member of the tribe. There were no a safety nets back then so making lifestyle choices that were incongruent to vibrant health would mean sudden death and ostracism from the tribe. 

Today we have the “luxury” of making lifestyle choices that undermine our health, making us increasingly susceptible to viruses, illness and disease. As a society, we have grown to simply condone these choices as “normal” driven largely by the clever marketing and deep pockets of big pharma and big business who push pills of convenience, foods of convenience and technologies of convenience on us. There is nothing convenient now about my children and I not being able to go to the beach, hug our friends or being robbed of basic freedoms that define us as humans. There is nothing convenient about a crashing economy, small businesses being shut down or the loss of one’s livelihood. Poor lifestyle choices are now a “luxury” we simply can’t afford if the human race has any chance of survival. 

We have the choice of co-creating a healthier human existence starting with making healthier lifestyle choices for our ourselves and for the planet. The food and the products you buy and the choices you make each and every day speak volumes about the type of world you want to live in. I’ve always advocated for change at the grass roots level. We individually and collectively are powerful beyond measure. But the question is: are you willing to make healthier changes? 

In the word’s of Neale Donald Walsh in Conversations With God:

“You can choose to end the destruction of your rain forests tomorrow.

You can choose to stop depleting the protective layer hovering over your planet.

You can choose to discontinue the ongoing onslaught of your earth’s ingenious ecosystem.

You can seek to halt the inexorable melting of snow -

But will you do it?”