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.
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....
Written by Paul and Ann Malkmus. Reviewed by Olin Idol, ND, CNC — Vice President of Health, Hallelujah Diet.
