You're body is made up of approximately 75 billion cells!
Not only do they require all the essential nutrients to go on functioning optimally, but they also leave a terrible mess behind them that needs to be cleaned up. There's a very natural process in the body that occurs, where all these cells release hazardous material-known as free radicals- into your body as they do their job.
If you think about most industrial activity, there's the final product, but there's also the pollution that occurs to create it. You've heard this popularly referred to as the green foot print. You're cells have a shameful green track record, leaving waste products in their wake. Like a 24 hour maintenance crew, your body is equipped with mechanisms to handle these hazardous materials that your cells naturally emit. If your body ceased to repair all the damage done by its natural processes, you wouldn't last more than a few hours.
Not only do they require all the essential nutrients to go on functioning optimally, but they also leave a terrible mess behind them that needs to be cleaned up. There's a very natural process in the body that occurs, where all these cells release hazardous material-known as free radicals- into your body as they do their job.
If you think about most industrial activity, there's the final product, but there's also the pollution that occurs to create it. You've heard this popularly referred to as the green foot print. You're cells have a shameful green track record, leaving waste products in their wake. Like a 24 hour maintenance crew, your body is equipped with mechanisms to handle these hazardous materials that your cells naturally emit. If your body ceased to repair all the damage done by its natural processes, you wouldn't last more than a few hours.
Problems occur when our cells create too much of that destructive material and the body's maintenance systems can't keep up with the cleaning process. The greatest causes for this imbalance are chronic stress, poor sleep, and poor nutrition.
Chronic stress really causes your maintenance systems to work far more than they are intended to. You see, stress makes all your cells work even harder than they regularly do, so that they can meet all those extra demands you place on them. While all these cells work hard to keep you bouncing, they're creating pollution. If the food you give them to do their work is also polluted (junk food), you're not only repairing your body with inferior raw materials, but poor quality food has a higher polluting effect as your body converts it to energy.
The only time your body can go to work uninterrupted, on catching up on its repair process, is at night while you sleep. We know that stressed people have disturbed sleeping patterns, which also stalls the body's self repair mechanisms.
After months of stress, poor sleep, and bad eating; the whole system grinds to a halt. This is an all too familiar condition called burnout! If you arrive at that point, you'll feel what it's like to be purely polluted.
I won't downplay the complex nature of life, where we all find ourselves in positions that cause us stress that sometimes seem beyond our immediate ability to change it. If that's the case, you can at least provide your body with all it requires to help you through the difficult times.
At the very least, I encourage you to increase your intake of fruits and vegetables. Specifically, you need lots of varied berries, as they're full of what are called antioxidants. This is an important product that occurs naturally in fruits and vegetables, but is found in high amounts in berries. Antioxidants go after those free radicals. They can be compared to giving your cleanup crew, sophisticated cleaning devices that get the job done better and faster.
If you're not sleeping well, be sure to make your pre going to bed hours, as calm as possible. Don't watch television or read exciting books. Put on music that relaxes you and avoid anything related to work. Be sure that your bedroom is as dark as possible, and keep the air in the room fresh. Everyone is different in as far as how many hours of sleep they need, but we're talking about someone who is under chronic stress. In that case, you should be striving for at least 7 hours-if not more-per evening.
