Introduction

Your body is a temple, which is inhabited by a literal God, which is your SOUL. However, in order for you to be able to focus on the Mind and Spirit cultivation, you need a healthy body, which is a lot more difficult to achieve in this day and age, unless you go out into the wild and become a recluse, which is not a lifestyle most of us would accept, myself included.

That being said, this modern world has made it much more difficult to keep our bodies healthy. I don’t want to get into conspiracy theories, but it is a fact that most food is full of chemicals, sugars and are devoid of most minerals and vitamins that our bodies need in huge quantities just to maintain normal functioning.

It is a sad state of affairs, but it is what it is and we need to adjust our lifestyles and habits to be able to cope with this modern society that seems really bent on making us sick and stupid. I wonder why…

This is just a placeholder list for now, until I have time to properly write each chapter, with approaches and recommendations, but you can look for each topic on your own.

Body Habits

• Exercise, flexibility, stretching – pump up your heart! HIIT and run! If not, walking on a slope is almost as good, but for a few hours. Really.
• Breathing – look up proper breathing patterns
• Sleep early, max 10PM, rise early.
• Posture, osteopathy – try to strengthen your spine, strengthen your spine muscles. If you have serious problems, don’t rush to get an operation. Look for an osteopath in your region that can do light spine massage and straightening.
• NO Alcohol, drugs, dependencies – cut all the toxins out – they poison your brain and disrupt your neurochemical balance, which leads to gut microbiome dysregulation –> sorry, has to go.
• Look up Vagal Nerve relaxation techniques

Environment

• Don’t sleep with WIFI-routers or mobile phones near your bed
• Avoid electromagnetic fields
• Spend more time in nature, and in the Sun
• Stop using chemicals on your skin, ideally replace them with plant-based alternatives.

Food

• Food & Sugar – you don’t eat for yourself, you eat to feed the bacteria that supports your body. No, don’t eat sugar.
• Fats and Salt. Yes, you need both in order to survive and live a healthy life. Cholesterol is not the enemy, it is your body’s band-aid.
• Gluten and Dairy – has to go as well, or at least reduced to a minimum. The problem is not gluten in itself, but the quantity. Too much of it starts to build up on your intestinal walls like wallpaint and blocks the absorption of minerals and vitamins. What happens if you soak a white bread in water then leave it out to dry? It becomes hard as a brick. Do you want that in your stomach all the time?
• Gut microbiome – your hidden (and malnourished) army –> the true cause of the decline of our immune systems as a species
• Sun, Vitamin D and mineral deficiencies – it’s a new world out there, and it’s not what it seems
• Stomach Clorhidric Acid (HCL) – most digestive issues are also correlated with low HCL in the stomach, as it can’t break down foods properly –> look for ways to increase HCL production in the stomach. Acid reflux issues are also related to LOW HCL.

Detox

• Lymphatic Drainage – yes, you need this too
• Liver Detox and Toxic Metal Detox – you need this even more
• Deworming (regularly) – yup, this too

Illness and medication

I know this is a tricky topic to breach, but there are alternatives to traditional allopathic medicine. I would look for Functional Doctors in your area. Functional Medicine is probably the future of (honest) Medicine.

• If you’ve taken many chemical medicine throughout your life, consider a detox program that removes heavy metals from your system
• COVID – if you’ve had Covid-19 or, worse, have taken the Covid-19 vaccines, you are likely to suffer from Long Covid complications, which ultimately increase inflammation in your body and lead to various auto-immune diseases. Look for Spike Protein detox
• Cancers, Tumors, and other autoimmune diseases –> they are a signal that something is really wrong with the body. There is trigger somewhere, inside the body.

This is not to be considered medical advice, but generally, most modern day health issues are gastro-intestinal issues, or develop due to a dysregulated gastro-intestinal microbiome, parasites or chronic  systemic viral infections that don’t get treated properly, or are difficult to eradicate completely (like the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) that you can never get rid of completely).