How Your Body Works
Most health advice starts with what to do. This is the other half: what each part of you is actually doing, what it needs, and what to notice when it is struggling.
Fifteen systems, one at a time. Each one has two pieces — how it works, and what to eat for it. Food first, no alarm, and written to be read by someone who has never been taught any of it.
Start here
- Toxicity and Deficiency
Cut your finger and your body repairs it without being asked. So why does the thing that has been wrong for years stay wrong? Almost always...
Taking things in
- Digestion
Digestion is a sequence, and every step sets up the next one. When things slow down, the trouble usually started earlier in the chain than where...
- Liver and processing
Perfume in an elevator gives you a headache. One glass of wine costs you the next morning. Coffee stopped agreeing with you somewhere around your forties....
- Reserves
Almost everyone who tells us they hit a wall says the same thing first: this came out of nowhere. It rarely does. Here is what was...
Setting the pace
- Thyroid and metabolism
Cold when nobody else is. Tired in a way sleep does not fix. Hair thinning, skin dry, thinking slow, and a test result that came back...
- Stress response and recovery
The stress response is not the problem. Staying in it is. Here is what the system does, why it sometimes stops switching off, and what actually...
- Blood sugar and energy
The three o'clock slump. Hungry ninety minutes after breakfast. Shaky if a meal runs late, and wide awake at two in the morning. These all come...
Moving and defending
- Circulation
Cold feet in a warm room. Hands that go white in the supermarket freezer aisle. Standing up too fast and having to wait a second. These...
- Immune and lymphatic
Two people catch the same thing. One is over it in three days, the other is still coughing in March. The difference is rarely how strong...
- Breathing and sinuses
Waking with a dry mouth. Sighing without meaning to. A nose that blocks on one side at night. Breathing feels like the one thing nobody could...
Holding you up
- Bones and muscles
A bone scan comes back with a number that sounds like a verdict. It is closer to a reading off a system that is rebuilding itself...
- Connective tissue
The shoulder that has been grumbling since February. Stiffness that takes twenty minutes to walk off. Skin that does not spring back the way it did....
Everything else
- Nervous system and focus
Losing a word you have used all your life. Reading a paragraph three times. Being sharp at nine and useless at four. These have mechanisms, and...
- Skin
It is the only organ you can see, which makes it the only one that tells you something is off before anything hurts. Most people treat...
- Kidneys
Two organs the size of a fist each, filtering your entire blood supply many times a day. Calling them filters undersells them much more, the filtering...
- Eyes and senses
Headlights that dazzle longer than they used to. Eyes that feel like sandpaper by nine in the evening. Small print that has started moving further away....
And what you carry
- What You May Be Carrying
Grief, shame and held-in feeling are not separate from physical health. Here is what a body under long emotional load is actually doing, and what helps.
And what we make
- Feeding the body (BarleyMax)
Two things go wrong in a body: something present that should not be, and something absent that should be. Almost everything you can do addresses one...
- Removing toxins (Fiber Cleanse)
A predictable thing happens in the first fortnight of eating well: some people feel worse. Headache, heavy legs, skin that flares, a mood nobody warned them...
Written by Paul and Ann Malkmus. Reviewed by Olin Idol, ND, CNC — Vice President of Health, Hallelujah Diet.
