We are a Star Wars civilization, with paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. What a dangerous mix!

Even smart people today guess about health and rely on the advice of those who make a living off of illness or ruling over us.
 
These rules and ways of thinking will optimize your health and life and that of the rest of the world.
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1. We are natural creatures designed to live naked in nature busily foraging and hunting for food that is nontoxic and can be eaten as is. Granted, today we may not be able to perfectly duplicate that, but it is the prototypical existence our genes expect.
 
-Depart from our design, depart from health.
 
2. Exercise each day at least to the degree that would be required to create shelter and obtain food in the wild.
 
-We are a terrible tenant of our landlord, the body.
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3. Let the sun shine on as much of your skin as possible. If in danger of burning, seek shade or wear clothes. The sun generates vitamin D, a master hormone that energizes biochemical pathways, lifts mood, and regulates circadian rhythms.
 
-"Health is the first requisite after morality." Thomas Jefferson

4. Go barefoot as much as possible to permit unshielded contact with the electron-rich magnetic Earth (earthing).
 
-Your body longs to be touched by its mother, Earth.
 
5. Each day drink two quarts of natural spring or purified water (not plastic bottled) lightly salted with natural trace mineral salt. More if sweating or ill.
 
- Over 70 nutrients are taken up by plants from the ground. Only three, NPK, are replaced by modern farming.

6. Eat organic, non-GMO foods.
 
-"My duties lie in pointing out the greatest of physical assets, health, people hardly ever take the trouble to go in quest of it, and hardly ever value it until they have lost it." --S. Hahnemann, 1792

​7. Use grass-fed, free-range animal products. Such foods are not only healthier but more humane.


-Health is best defined as being unaware of the body.

​8. What can be eaten raw (which does not include grains and legumes) is the best food and should be emphasized.
 
- Humans are the only creatures that cook their food. We are not smarter than nature.  
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9. Fast periodically, just like you would have to in the wild. We are not designed to be constantly full.
 
-Eating is not recreation. Overeating is cheating the body of the health it longs for. "Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth." French proverb.

10. Supplement intelligently as an insurance policy since modern farmed foods are increasingly depleted in vitamins and minerals.
 
-Deaths from vitamins, zero. Deaths from pharmaceuticals, millions.

11. Investigate self-help remedies or natural health practitioners if faced with a health problem.
 
-The only doctor we should implicitly trust is ourselves.

12. Always research the dangers of any remedy before submitting to it.
 
-No disease was ever caused by lack of a pharmaceutical. Health is not a matter of external palliatives.

13. Find creative physical, mental, and ethical challenges and make that your job.
 
-The more we create a synthetic world of abundance, the more we confuse our origins and lose our health.

​14. Take responsibility for yourself.
 
- You are nobody else's duty. 
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​15. Love is our underlying purpose. Seek loving relationships and love the gift of life.
 
- Don't assume anyone is going to, or should, put you at the center of their life.
 
16. Make the goal adding life to years, not worrying about adding years to life.
 
 - Never let an old person live in your body.

17. We are on Earth to experience the consequences of mistakes and learn from them.
 
-No matter what your past, your future is spotless.

18. Follow your implanted self-reflecting, reason-guided conscience within.
 
-Reason, free will, and conscience are our Creator-given gifts. Used diligently, they could turn our world into a paradise.

19. Make a better world, which means protecting natural balances and freedom.
 
-When diet is wrong medicine is of no use; when the diet is right, medicine is of no use.

20. Help those who cannot help themselves, or, if possible, help them to help themselves.
 
-Don't do for children or others, what they could and should do for themselves or you will take the critical life gift of challenge away from them.

21. Do not permit the loss of freedoms, including the right to critically evaluate consensus beliefs and authoritarian rule.
 
-"Reason is of no use to us if the freedom of speech is taken away." George Washington

22. Seek truth, not confirmation of given or indoctrinated beliefs.
 
- It is an affront to truth to treat falsehood with complaisance.
 
23. View with suspicion any ideology or advice that financially benefits or empowers the giver.
 
-When everyone thinks alike, nobody is thinking.

​24. Be respectful of the gift of life, every beat of your heart, and every breath you take. If you don't take care of your mind and body, where else will you live?
 
-We must realize that we are merely working out the results of our own acts.
 
Finally, here's proof of the cause of all human-made problems.