Body Feedback
Trying Beats Studying
Your body constantly sends you signals—but are you listening? The best health strategy isn't the latest diet or study, but your own body's feedback.
Body Feedback
Your body constantly sends you signals—but are you listening? The best health strategy isn't the latest diet or study, but your own body's feedback.
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What is the best measurement of your health? A study? Your teacher? The "expert" on TV?
As we often notice, our natural common sense is increasingly being replaced by a technocratic approach. We've become specialists in our narrow fields—people who, despite all our knowledge, no longer know how to care for our own bodies. Fortunately, however, even some studies show—for example, in research on zinc supplementation that we reference in our book—that body feeling is the gold standard for measuring treatment success. Do you follow?
Why does edubily even exist? Some people misunderstand our mission. Many other platforms in the health industry aim to give you an exact roadmap to follow. Starting with "Wheat Belly" (by Dr. William Davis), where the title is the program, through Cordain's "Paleo Diet" to today's widely practiced veganism—often, authors want to give you an exact blueprint. "You must do it this way!" We, on the other hand, want to accompany you in your practical experiences. We expect you to take an active role, and then you can use edubily as a reference tool to build knowledge about your own body.
That means: experiential knowledge is what counts. After all, you have a millions-of-years-old navigation and feedback system built into you that tells you exactly what does you good and what doesn't. It couldn't really be simpler, could it? And even if you press the wrong buttons in your body through wrong behavior and it spits out wrong information, you can still see from your physical changes that something isn't right. Your dissatisfaction isn't an expression of a broken or troubled soul either—it's an expression that something is going wrong with you or your body. You will receive feedback from your body, one way or another. And that should be your guide—not some ideology forced upon you by someone who doesn't even know your body.
Many people in our society are unfortunately extremely resigned and accept their fate as inevitable. A misunderstanding of "God's will be done." Because physiologically-based depression—not every dark hole in the soul comes from emotional pain—heart attacks or diabetes, let alone skin rashes or other anomalies, are not normal or "acceptable." These are all feedback from your body. And you're not listening.
The list goes on endlessly. Whoever loves walking their dog in the field or forest knows their body loves it. We can already sense that forest air, where many natural substances are "dissolved," or the air in a field where bacteria and other microbes circulate, somehow does the body good. The dog itself is of course a factor that can influence body chemistry in many ways. This has recently been confirmed in a new study, which states:
The study found that contact with dogs, especially in younger years, was associated with healthy intestinal permeability and a balanced ratio of microbes in the gut and the body's own immune response, all of which could help protect against Crohn's disease.
That is, having a dog protects—for whatever reason—against Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel condition.
So, to summarize again:
In that order. And that's exactly how you increase your chances of finally becoming and staying healthy. Trying beats studying—that's exactly the goal. Go for it.
