We are gathers and hunters!

Obviously, lifestyle choices like smoking, inactivity and bad nutrition are going to negatively affect us at any age; however, barring any major negative life choice, we can take the initiative now to make drastic changes in our health, no matter what age we are.  As I have stated before, exercise is the first and foremost change that we can make to dramatically improve our health.

 

In my opinion, physical activity is the single most important signal we can send to our bodies to tell it that “life is good.”  Millions of years ago, the foraging and hunting that we did in the springtime told our bodies that it was time to restart and live life.  It signaled the body to stop the decay of winter and famine and begin to repair, rebuild and survive.  It tells the body that energy needs to be constant, and your body begins to respond by growing powerful, lean and strong.  Your immune system begins to function at a higher level because it is preparing for the wear and tear of an active lifestyle.  Your brain function begins to send signals of optimism and positivity.  Sounds great right?  Well we will discuss how to get to this point, however, before we do let’s look at our current lifestyle, and how many people choose to treat themselves.

With fast food, TV, video games, social networking, high stress work environments and no exercise, we place our body in a constant state of winter.  This type of lifestyle sends signals of peril and danger, death and destruction and loneliness and boredom.  This causes our brain to send signals of corrosion to our body.  We then wonder why we begin to have aches and pains in our muscles and joints.  We use the excuse that it is a “normal” part of aging when truly it has been caused by our lifestyle choices.   Winter has come to the tundra and its kill or be killed time.  In the scheme of life, as we were created, only the strong will survive.  This is a hard concept to grasp in today’s society of abundance, but for our brain, still blind to our modern lifestyle, we are still living in a hunter and gatherer environment.  In short, we must trick our brain into believing its springtime all the time.  Until next time, choose the healthy, happy life you deserve.  

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