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.

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...

Why food first

Every piece in this library arrives at the same place. The body repairs itself when it is given what it needs, and what it needs is material it can use.

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." (Genesis 1:29)

Fifteen systems, one at a time, is what that looks like in a body.

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