CLOUD types are calm, patient, caring, and gravitate towards consistency and comfort. This is Kapha body type in Ayurveda. The symbol of the endomorphic anabolic type is the stable square. People with this constitution usually have dense, sturdy bodies. Their habits can be exceedingly regular and routine. This slow burner needs less food than the other types, yet has a generous body to store used calories. This type requires the

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. — Hippocrates Body-typing isn’t new to the human species. Ancient cultures from across the globe—Greece, India, the Americas, China, Japan, Asia and other First Nation cultures—individualized medicine according to certain body shapes and characteristics. Categories arose through observation and experience, informed in many cases by the belief

Wild fermentation is the opposite of homogenization and uniformity, a small antidote you can undertake in your home, using the extremely localized populations of microbial cultures present there to produce your own unique fermented foods. — SANDOR KATZ, WILD FERMENTATION Just as shit happens, fermentation happens. Your poop is a fermented functional anaerobic microbiome, feeding off the fiber. Poop as compost is the microbiotic fertilizer that rejuvenates soil for growing more food. Feces

You are my other me.What I do onto you,I do onto myself.— THE MAYAN MORAL CODE: LAK’ECH ALA K’IN Forgive all trespasses against thee. Hold no grudge. Unchain your heart. Free your mind. The sooner the better. Forgiveness is a habit. Unsurprisingly, the forgiveness habit is an indicator of regenerative health. Karen Swartz, M.D., who directs the Mood Disorders Adult Consultation Clinic at Johns Hopkins University, states: There is an

Humans are an ultrasocial species.— HENRICH & MUTHUKRISHNA: THE ORIGINS AND PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN COOPERATION (2021)Modern humans identify more with the experience of “I am separate” than “I am connected.” This, too, is a negative stressor leading to degeneration and disease.  Going it alone is a losing strategy.  Lakota holy man Lame Deer explains the habit of commerce combined with true community in this teaching: “When someone was so poor he

Lest we forget, our human biochemistry is subtle and sacred.  Humans orient towards purpose. We comprehend morality, we ritualize mortality. Humans dance; we sing, bike, ski, flip, fly. Humans hunt, build, make art, design, invent—create. Humans developed language to communicate ideas. We philosophize to reveal universal truths. We do math, physics, chemistry. We gather. We trade. We form teams, competing for fun and for growth. We collaborate globally via technology