Another social media question

that came to me recently was,

is,

or are health conditions

psychologically derived

and originated, or does nutrition

also play a role in their

emergence or submergence?

And I think it would be pretty

self-evident to some degree

that you can't separate your physiology,

your nutrition, your psychology.

They all work in conjunction

with each other. We,

anybody who's studied nutrition know

that changing nutrients and changing what

you eat can have an

impact on your physiology,

your blood glucose levels, your

neurotransmitters, your microbiome.

All these are known to have

an impact on psychology. So,

although many conditions are

induced by some form of distress,

which is the perception of loss

of something you're seeking,

or the perception of gain of something

you're trying to avoid, without a doubt,

your biochemistry and nutrition

plays a significant role also.

So if you have access to

somebody who can help you,

bring yourself into a wellness

state psychologically,

and help you bring your biochemistry

into balance physiologically

and biochemically, is to your advantage.

I tell people that

instead of living to eat,

it's wise to eat to live,

eat to perform, identify,

and pay close attention with

introspection, how you eat, what you eat,

how your physiology responds to

it. I when I was 18 years old,

I read a magnificent book called My

Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.

And he did an inventory of

his diet on a daily basis.

And anything he put in his

body that sold or liquid,

he documented when and how much and where.

And then he also looked at the

physiological and psychological symptoms,

and then any comments that he

gleaned insights from or gave,

got from insights. And he documented

it and it was incredibly insightful,

in fact, I decided to do that for a

couple years and I kept records of it.

And some people thought I

was bizarre for doing that.

But I learned more about my physiology

than most books I had on nutrition. Now,

I studied biochemistry

and I studied nutrition.

I used to lecture on it back in the

eighties, late seventies, early eighties,

and was very versed in that

topic and had a nutritional

practice at one time,

and we worked with diet and nutrition

and supplementation and many

other factors.

And without a doubt it has a

role and did have an impact on my

clients and patients,

but also does psychology.

So you want to be more

holistic. I wouldn't,

if you go to a nutritionist,

you're going to get nutrients.

If you go to a psychology, you're

going to get therapy of some form.

You got to a psychiatrist, you're

going to get a pharmaceutical,

psychiatric pharmaceutical,

some inhibitor,

transmitter inhibitor or

receptor site inhibitor.

If you go to a chiropractor, you get

an adjustment. If you go to a massage,

you're going to get a massage.

Whatever you go to is what you're

going to get information about.

So if you can find a doc who's

versed in nutrition and psychology,

well that's even greater. One

stop shop. But without a doubt,

they're inseparable. You can change

psychology by changing biochemistry,

but you can also change psychology

and alter what you absorb,

what you assimilate, what you take

in and how you actually function,

'cause your autonomic nervous system,

which is affected by your stress

perceptions, your psychology,

is going to impact the absorption

and transportation of nutrients by

vasodilation,

vasoconstriction and heart rate

variabilities and all kinds of things.

So without a doubt, those

are two-way streets.

So I would advise you to take the time

to do an inventory and evaluate your

nutrition and biochemistry and see if

you can't do what you can to maximize

the poised state, not the

poisoned state of chemistry.

And also moderate the

biology, the psychology of it.

If you have imbalanced

ratios of perceptions,

you're going to have imbalanced

chemistry and imbalanced physiology.

If you balance them by asking quality

questions that make you fully aware of

what you're unconscious of

so you're fully conscious,

you can homeostate your psychology,

bring yourself into wellbeing,

and it enhances the autonomics

influence on absorption of

nutrients and utilization of

nutrients and biochemical microbiomes.

Your autonomics do have an impact

on the microbiome and vice versa.

So it's to our advantage

to put them both together.

So the question isn't

which one or the other.

The question is how to include

both. Exercise is another factor.

So mastering of art of doing stretching

and exercising plus nutrients.

I was taught when I was 17 years old,

the seven doctors by Paul C Bragg.

One was the doctor of

breathing and fresh air,

the doctor of sunshine, moderately,

but getting sunshine for

vitamin D for osteo development.

Doctor of nutrition, doctor

of exercise, doctor of water,

<laugh>, doctor of mental

attitude, and doctor of psychology,

the right attitude.

All those have a role in mastering

the greatest potential of our

physical and psychological wellbeing.

So do both, be inclusive, not exclusive.