EPISODE 37
Chris Kresser: Health Facts You Need to Know Now
What is it really like to be human?
Can your consciousness really exist separately from your body? How does high tech interfere with your ability to function in the real world?
Paul talks about what it means when the tech begins to separate you from your humanity and good health with New York Times bestselling author and functional medicine expert Chris Kresser in this amazing Living 4D episode.
Learn more about Chris and his work in functional medicine at his website.
SHOW NOTES
- âMost health care is self-care.â (2:37)
- Only 6 percent of Americans follow the five basic principles of good health, according to the CDC. (3:48)
- Because humans are biologically hard-wired for food scarcity through evolution, the availability of calorie-dense food everywhere has created many health problems. (5:06)
- Are we too focused on the reductionist approach of ânutritionism?â (18:43)
- âOur entire modern lifestyle, including our food, is pretty far divorced from the natural world.â (24:12)
- Computer screens, mobile phones and tablets work against our evolutionary programming of distraction as vigilance and spotting potential danger. (30:47)
- The emergence of âbrain hackersâ employed by companies to exploit our humanity to generate profits isnât a personal failure on our part. Itâs just time to get smarterâĻ (31:45)
- The five questions a Shaman asks when you have a health problem. (43:50)
- A study from the journal Science concluded people preferred to shock themselves than being left alone. (46:00)
- âItâs impossible to teach a person how to manage the flow of their own emotional energy and their own mind if they donât spend enough time inside themselves.â (51:21)
- Can consciousness be separate from our bodies? (55:32)
- âIf you really understood how the soil and the elements work together, you wouldnât be eating Soylent Green plastic shit.â (1:03:31)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Metabolic Man: Ten Thousand Years From Eden by Charles Heizer Wharton
- The Matrix Trilogy by the Wachowskis
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
- Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness by Dr. William Tiller
- The work of Ray Kurzweil
- The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine by Chris Kresser
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