Humans together with rest of the
apes share a common characteristic, and that is the fact that a very big
percent of our behavioral patterns are learned, verses more of an instinctive
predisposition in other animals.
In the very recent modern humans
however, this very fact is coming back to bite us in our behind!
Becoming the species that takes the
longest time for its infants to reach independence allowed us to learn and teach
the secrets of our environments to our young with great success, however
nowadays that we are so removed and detached from it, we also lost touch with
our roots and connection to life.
Once forming our random
opinions regarding what we conceive to be food, we constantly injure ourselves
with our consumption, mistakenly believing that our degeneration stem from
chronological age and laziness. We have developed the ability to sense lust for
various substance, and secrete enzymes and saliva to the sight of things
unrecognized by our inner environment.
Similarly we got so accustomed to
bodily shapes that never used to exist (with correlating health issues), that
they are now considered normal and are fully accepted. While it is the reality
we live in and one would naively say who are we to judge, one need to be blind
not to. I am not looking to put blame on no one in particular, not even on us
as a society, but I feel it is important to recognize the situation as it is,
especially since the answers to it been around us since before we even appeared,
and since during recent times even science managed to prove lots of our
misconceptions about them, the reason to point this out is that we could
actually do a lot about it individually and as a society.
It is hard and often disheartening
to write, talk and work with this issue, however I feel a strong obligation to
pursue it as there is so much proven science about it. I have so much proven
results to show with myself (having same background as anyone else in our times)
and other people I worked with. And I am still looking for the venue to be able
to put this knowledge out there on the much larger scale that it deserves.
We are a new and genius species, And
our geniuses has so far cost us a heavy price!
Structural evolution has progressed by
the use of bodies and the adaptation of muscle formation to changes in movement
needs and environmental demands, without any conscious awareness of that
change, over periods of millions of years. Nowadays with human physical
development, we have the science of biomechanics with regards to our bodies,
and there for we are able to design practices that would cause calculated
changes in our physic for better of worst.
Likewise with our diet, while our
digestive system modified as a result of changing circumstances, we now have
the scientific knowledge of the way that system works, and there for we
have the means to get more accurate and articulated results out of it, by
optimizing its use.
Theoretically we should be as
advanced in our health as we are with our technological developments,
however as close as this issue is to our hearts, seems like there are many
things in the way of achieving that one, individual reasons and social ones.
I am all hope that we would learn to
work around those quickly and restore our health back to the way it should be.
Amir Solsky
