Vital Health

Over and over again in medicine, we make the mistake of finding a biological metric we can measure and then viewing the metric as a cause rather than simply a correlation. We then create a chemical intervention to adjust the metric, and in the process disrupt a normal biological process. This is what we have done with cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.

Rock salts contain multiple major and minor minerals critical for human biology. Yet what we’re used to – table salt, or sodium chloride – is a highly processed version that lacks these minerals. As you eliminate the complexity of mineral salts, you lose many mechanisms of vitality within your body. This lesson will help you understand the importance of complex salts for your biochemistry.

Your cells cannot take protein and turn it into energy. But the standard American diet vastly overemphasizes protein to the point that it is highly damaging to our bodies. Furthermore, the animal proteins we eat tend to be dense and monotonous, meaning there's a limited variety of amino acid building blocks within that protein. You’ll come away from this class knowing how your body uses the protein you consume, how much protein you actually need every day, and what forms of protein are healthiest for you.

From stem cells to epigenetics to the explosive capacity of nutrition within our bodies, humans are regenerative machines. In addition, when we think about how we're going to stop manifesting more chronic disease, we have to tap into our regenerative potential by no longer defining ourselves as victims of our traumas and ailments.

As a society, we need to reconnect with the miracle of birth. In doing so, we have the opportunity to midwife a new future that invites nature to be our co-creator. It's our choice as to how willing we are to surrender the past and reimagine a world that truly nurtures us.

All of us come from cultures that revered death at some point. The death and dying process is inherently meaningful. It is an opportunity to change your vibration and heighten the vibration of humanity. In changing our relationship with death, we can birth the future we'd like to see.

The combination of overplowing and chemical inputs has, over time, destroyed the fundamental health of the soil, and in turn the quality of the foods we consume. Why does this matter? Because the body doesn't eat just to go after calories. Today's lesson is a deep dive into the molecular composition of fats and carbohydrates and how these molecules are used in the body. In understanding this, you can start to move away from fear. It's an opportunity to put you back in a spiritual relationship with the gift of your biology.

In recent decades – much like fat, sugar, and salts – we've come to see the sun as the enemy. But sunlight is one of the most important inputs into the biology of the human body. Your skin and the sun do an extraordinary dance. When sunlight hits your skin it triggers a process that results in a potent steroidal hormone: Vitamin D. In addition to being important for our mood, this hormone helps us have a healthful relationship with the trillions of viruses in our environment.

The extinction pathway we're currently on has us codependent with the pharmaceutical and chemical agricultural industries, which, if not broken, will drive the planet into extinction. It’s important to understand our relationship with legal and illegal drugs over the last 60 years of American history and how this shaped our culture, communities, productivity, and human potential.

If we are to survive as a species, we cannot continue our nature-versus-mankind mindset. We must re-examine everything and come to terms with how we're killing the planet. Today's lesson offers a new way of thinking about the fundamental element of carbon and how the Earth can heal itself.