
08/21/2025
We live in a culture that rewards the hustle while putting our own care and keeping on the back burner.
It's been this way for way too long. Ironically, most of us feel guilty if we take time to truly care for ourselves - which has taken a toll on our collective health & longevity.
Whether for the sake of ‘keeping up with a fast-tracked career path’, or just generally to ‘make it through the daily grind’, the result is the same. We haven't even been on our own 'to do' list.
If one thing has emerged over the last few years - it's the message to actually prioritize our own health and wellness. For real.
Dr Andrew Saul, Editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service made a powerful statement:
"What is missing from most discussions on COVID-19 (and beyond) is an appreciation of how far we have let ourselves go.
We've been eating crummy food for a long time. We've been doing behaviors for a long time that don't work. Sooner or later, the body is going to be weakened by that.
Too much of the wrong thing, not enough for the right thing, and the immune system is going to be weak. And viruses, unfortunately, to put it very coldly, will thin the herd.
This is the way nature works …
Now, this is a very harsh lesson from nature, but we would do well to learn it.
If we let ourselves go, as my mother would say, 'If you do this wrong and you know it, don't come crying to me afterwards.'
We have to take responsibility. And the COVID-19 experience has pointed that out in a very, very strong way.
It is most unpleasant to see this, but bearing in mind that we are not a healthy nation, we have to immediately take steps to become one, or there will be another virus, because this is not the first, and it is not the last."
Where do we go from here? IMHO ... we return to the Health Basics:
+ Daily sunlight
+ Grounding daily
+ Eat more real, whole, locally grown seasonal food
+ Supplement with fulvic and humic mineral complexes
+ Blue blocking glasses on after sunset till bedtime
+ Real dark at night for sleeping
+ Movement/walking daily (minimum)
Because as Dr Saul said, this isn't the first virus to come along, and it definitely won't be the last. . .