an evolutionary spin
From the literally trillions of human test subjects, over millions of years, evolution has picked the best traits, and adaptations, and gifted us with the best minds and bodies that would allow us to survive, and thrive, in nature.
It’s true, no matter what you may think of what you have right now.
However the key point, and this is where the message gets very simple, as it underlies the reason why exercise is so good for us …
is that these physical and mental evolutionary gifts were designed for us to thrive in where this evolution actually took place, which is in nature.
And that’s where our bodies and minds still think we are!
It’s only in the last few hundred years that we have, quite literally, moved out from the crucible of evolution.
We have wandered this earth for more than 3 billion years …
And yes (!) that’s an accurate number of years, considering the human DNA in our body accounts for less than 10% of the total, meaning most of it is friendly bacteria that lives inside us.
We wandered for that long … and suddenly, we’re not facing starvation, being hunted, worried about famine, nor the cold.
For the first time ever, there is too much to eat, and no one capable of eating us.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of these developments, nor the depth of the change.
Almost unbelievably, the great problem of our time is having too much.
Also of idleness … of being sedentary.
Our ancestors ran for their lives for millions of years, searching for food, storing it up in their bodies against the certainty of drought, ice and potential starvation.
Then, in just over one generation, all that was gone, and the fundamental law of creation, or what actually shaped human evolution, was absent.
This is the most profound shift – ever – in the way the world works.
Understandably our Darwinian bodies and brains are not going to catch up with how quickly things have changed for us.
We have forgotten our roots, and our past. How our bodies and minds evolved, and we contract terrible and weird new sicknesses.
Our bodies and minds don’t know how to “read” this plenty, this absence of danger and the need to hunt and gather.
And we eat ourselves to death …
we are, quite literally, softening to death.
Our amazingly effective hearts and efficient circulatory systems start to fail us in epidemic numbers, and in ways that have no parallel in nature.
The reality is we have adopted a lifestyle which – for people designed as we were designed – a lifestyle that is nothing less than a disease.
Think about that.
Where we are … what we did …
and where we are now, and what we do …
it’s night and day … and so is our health … globally ….