[Looking at history and why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.]

The redbud article sure did stir comments. Few think of native tree bark, roots, leaves, and flowers as food and medicine. From where else could these come?

Today’s story will be mostly a direct quote from the email of our good friend, Dr. Jack, who happens to be a physician and a physicist. To paraphrase an old financial commercial, ‘When Dr. Jack speaks, people listen.’ These are the bullet questions and answers just as he sent them.

Beginning his quote.

“Simply Beautiful, Dr. Marc!

You made interesting comments about present day market sugar versus cane sugar of the past and benefits/effects.

• … I know there are three monosaccharides (glucose, fructose, and galactose) and three disaccharides (lactose-milk sugar, maltose, and sucrose-‘table sugar’).
• So, I thought I’d take a look at this a bit for possibly some enlightenment…

‘Raw cane sugar (or original brown sugar) normally contains 94–98.5% sucrose and 1.5–6% non-sucrose components, such as reducing sugars, organic acids, amino acids, proteins, starch, gums, coloring matter, and other suspended matters.’

Interesting… cane sugar has reducing sugars (anti-oxidants) – good metabolic component and amino acids (protein components) = balanced energy.

For after school? Indeed.

And your mom living to 94 years old, excellent.

Yet I have been watching for years the longevity that has been decreasing steadily in the USA, particularly as of late – and that’s not due to Covid itself. This is a major problem.

• GMO? …may well be.
• Fast food in general? … I’m quite certain.
• Stress? … Yes.
• Heaviness? …Certainly.
• Lack of proper (functional best) exercise?  …Yes.
• Cancel Culture? …Oh Yes.
• Removing God from the equation? Certainly.

No wonder the focus on/embracing what WAS !! “.

There you have it from a real scientist, using real scientific methods to determine real, tangible results.

Do you notice anything interesting or unusual about his health check-up? First, he asks a lot of questions. Second, he broadens the investigation outside of just the physical. Third, he is not afraid to take on conventional media / medical / government hyperbole.

What do GMO and fast food have in common? They are far from the way nature made them. The human anatomy is precisely matched with receptors to use food, medicine, with water and air environment the way it came from nature. There are literally matching patterns not unlike a jig-saw puzzle.

What do heaviness and lack of proper functional exercise have in common? They are abuse of the physical, mechanical body. These are a choice of what you do and eat, which can be changed immediately.

What does stress have to do with longevity? Again, it is a choice of how you handle the situation. Confirming Dr. Jack’s astute observation, this week I read an article in one of my airplane pilot magazines about stress. Is it positive or negative? Natalie Bingham Hoover documented “Reaction Traction, Stress Can Be Your Flying Friend.”

The results were that people who treat stress as a burden and negative die significantly earlier, have more accidents, and stress those around them. Those that look at stress as a motivation to do better and win have a significantly better life expectancy.

The co-author affirms, I will create goals (stress) as a stimulus to keep me going, motivated, with a purpose. How many know of an executive from a high-stress job who retires, then becomes a silent key within months of retirement. He used the stress as a positive for his physical, emotional, and mental health.

Quoting Hoover, “…be certain in the belief that a challenge is good for you. Your body is perfectly designed to rise to the occasion. So, be calm, and fly the airplane. You were made for this.”

According to the prestigious Cleveland Clinic, acute stress stimulates dopamine, the health and reward neurotransmitter. Low dopamine can be reflected in depression and interestingly in anger, which creates heavy stress then release of dopamine.

What do cancel culture and removing God from the equation have in common? Both are removing God from the equation. Both paths shorten life health. The God who defined nature also defined natural laws, which are the laws of physics, so we have a consistent set of guidelines for optimum benefit of humans.

Ignore the natural laws by invoking cancel culture and suffer the consequences. Again, it is a choice to follow what has been demonstrated by proper rational history, proper reasoned religion, and proper researched science to work for humans. Ignorance of the principles or willful rejection has the same result, a less than optimum health and lifestyle.

Everyone has stress. It is our reaction to the stress that makes the difference.

The good doctor defined life’s issues succinctly.

Think about what do you know of nature and nature’s God? Is your thinking reasoned? Do you understand the fundamental principles? There are 10. Yes, these really do contain the first law of thermodynamics (equilibrium), the antidote for fear (other focus), and to eat naturally ( not likeness), just stated in different ways. These are not rules or legal laws but 3500-year-old historical principles with implied benefit and cost. Do you apply them? It is a choice, your choice. Do you want the positives from the stress of personal responsibility or the negative consequence of ignoring the principle? To your health.

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