Why Wait To Be Sick Before You Decide To Be Well?

Most people are unaware that astronauts who spend much time in space always return home having suffered some degree of physical debilitation. This is because the lack of gravity in space wreaks havoc on the body. Had his results been different, his advanced age would naturally have been viewed as the culprit. It wasn’t too long ago that the United States government reported more healthy persons than unhealthy. However, recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate a stunning 61 percent of the American population is now unhealthy. There has been much debate about our healthcare system, but it is evident that no system can cover the costs of health care when almost every citizen is unhealthy, and at current rates that is where we are heading in the next ten or twenty years. Yet, despite the debilitating effects of spaceflight, astronauts fully recover soon after they return to Earth. If astronauts could regain their good health after shaking off the ill effects of spaceflight, so could people suffering similar health problems due to their sedentary lifestyles. Why wait to be sick before you decide to be well? Here’s to your continuing good health! When you wake up in the morning, do you feel full of energy? Can you smile at the weather, your children dashing off to school, the dog begging to be taken for a walk? Is there a spring to your step as you look forward to your day’s work? If you answer yes, you are one of the lucky ones. The energy just isn’t there. You sometimes wonder if there’s something wrong with you? Maybe the doctor could run some tests or give you a pill to take the pain and sluggishness away. All you know is that you’re tired of feeling like the weight of the world is resting on your shoulders and aching joints, slowing you down and turning your day into a grind.

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Did you know that what makes you feel so heavy, tired, and unfit is the same thing that makes the apple fall straight down off the tree? You can let it pull you down, as so many of us living sedentary lives quite literally do. Or you can enlist it as a powerful and faithful ally in your efforts to be healthy and feel good. You can use gravity to achieve and sustain good health. The human body is a wondrous machine. But, in fact, the muscles in your eyes are moving as you read, and nerve impulses are traveling from your eyes to your brain, where additional neural activity enables you to interpret these characters as words, sentences, and ideas. Your heart muscle is beating, circulating blood throughout your body. The capillaries in your lungs are extracting vital oxygen from the air you breathe. Your digestive organs are converting your most recent meal into nutrients that give you energy and renew your cell tissues. Your bones, too, are constantly taking up new calcium from your diet to build and repair themselves. Even your brain’s nervous system is in a continual state of renewal. Indeed, you might say that the human body is designed to be a perpetual motion machine. Gravity is the driving force behind all this perpetual motion.

Say What You Say

Colorless, odorless, tasteless, it’s something that those of us who live on Earth have always taken for granted. In our physiological makeup, as in carpentry, gravity is our friend. It is gravity that enables our muscles to know they are being used, so that they can rebuild themselves. The same is true for our bones and for our nerve fibers. Did you know that our brains automatically sense and translate gravity into maps and programs etched into our nervous system, enabling us to move in a coordinated manner? We discovered this by going into space. What this means is that movement is ineffective without gravity, and gravity is downright harmful unless we move. Recent research along these lines is helping us develop a profile of how to use gravity to achieve good health. It turns out that the best technique is quite different from the common method of exercising in a gym once a day or several times a week. In other words, the secret to good health on Earth that space exploration revealed is the need for perpetual motion. But who says we don’t already use gravity? How can we avoid using it, since we are exposed to it every minute of our lives on Earth? Prehistoric people had to move about constantly in order to defend themselves, run away from danger, and hunt and gather food to survive. Human genes evolved over millions of years to meet the requirements of continuous motion, both internally and for the body as a whole. As civilization came into being, humans continued to plough the land, tend animals, cut trees, do heavy work, and move from place to place.

Book Of Dreams

They were still in motion. This changed somewhat during the Industrial Revolution, but the big shift began in the twentieth century. In the home, automatic washing machines and clothes dryers meant no more struggling with heavy wet laundry, and electric and gas stoves meant no more chopping wood. In the yard and garden, power lawn mowers and leaf blowers replaced manual mowers and rakes. Designed to make life easier, these inventions quickly became integral parts of our existence. Now, to a far greater degree than our ancestors, we simply sit. And many of us sit pretty much all day long. The human body is designed to be much more physically active than most of us are today. Yet we have an understandable craving for comfort, and these inventions provide comfort to a degree previously unknown to even the wealthiest humans. As a result, we in the developed world have experienced a huge increase in serious health consequences, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, muscle wasting and arthritis, balance and coordination problems, poor sleep, and a lack of stamina and energy.