READERS SUMMARY: 1. What is a day in the life of a vacationing doctor like? 2. Accept that your epigenome is a loaded gun, and your lifestyle is the trigger. Your lifestyle can’t change you. It reveals who you really are. 3. Is there an important difference between giving up on somethings and letting go to get to Optimal? 4. You are not your brain. Most of your thoughts and beliefs were given to you by society. 5. When we don’t know who we are, we are prone to be who somebody else wants us to be. We can change that. Today we have a guest blog post from MJ Friedman, one of two of our community members who decided to come down south and get a first hand view of what Optimal is really all about. The other person is Danielle Thatcher. The following blog are MJ’s words about her 24 hours with me while I was on vacation. I needed a break and decided to take time off and not go to Boston to be at AHS 2012. It turns out work seems to follow me no matter where I go now. Here is Mrs. Friedman’s day………..Continue Reading
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR DOCTOR AND YOUR LIFE
Readers Summary 1. Why humans can change their DNA with a thought. 2. Are we mismatched? 3. Motivated by Paleo Hack thread. 4. Why convention healthcare fails us. 5. What we can do together to change that. CHASING CHANGE Humans evolved the attributes of a large brain, the ability to speak, and formed an intricate social networks that can use many aspects of technology. Our biggest attribute is the ability to think. This allows us to radically change the environment that we are ideally adapted to. It has allowed us to dominate all habitats and create havoc in most of them as well. The real human miracle of our mind is not that we can see the world as it is…but that we can see it as it is not and then change it. If we think and act incorrectly, we can quickly recalibrate and overcome it. Conversely, we seem to be a prisoner to our paleo-cortex (older, less evolved brain) and resist change even when we know it must occur. Many times we will subjugate the best interests of our survival to suit our emotional needs or desire. The real paradox of humanity is that often our reasons forContinue Reading
