Where does this discussion continue to?
Dysevolution - a term that means a harmful form of change over time. When we dysevolve, we pass on cultural behaviors and environments that promote mismatch diseases.
Think about this for a second! It is brilliant. You can either evolve with the environment in a positive way or dysevolve in a negative way through poor cultural choices and human altered environments. Think of Chernobyl or the 9/11/2001 Tower collapse and the chemical exposure that left thousands ill. These are accidental, but we have many events that are not like the algal bloom in the mississippi delta or agent orange exposure in Vietnam.
The industrial revolution was a major cause of human advancement in labor efficiency and product production efficiency. Mono culture farms are now providing all the food we need. This has allowed us to spend more time thinking and learning instead of farming for a living.This is great, right?
Let us look at it from another perspective. Do you remember the newsletter on the Victorian era of England being a time of unprecedented health? They had huge advantages in that the vast majority of Victorians still had physical labor as a job requirement. Their food was predominantly plant based and local. Their genes were matched well to the environment.
Now the industrial evolution has brought us to a place where we live mostly without sun exposure, we perform very little physical labor daily and we eat a standard American diet loaded with refined and unhealthy foods. Our genes are poorly matched to this environment.
We have essentially dysevolved from health to DYSease without a second thought.
As an Integrative Medical physician I am avidly trying to get my patients to start evolving again with the current environment.
How do we do this????
Write down 10 things that you think that you can do to start evolving again and email them to: newsletter@salisburypediatrics.com.
To be continued.....
