Holistic Health Advice

[The Renaissance Man]

From screens, to toxic fragrances, to soap and shampoo, to fluoride, sunscreen, sitting all day & posture, hygiene, oral health, skin health etc, a lot of "good and normal practices" are being discovered toxic. It's hard to find good information and advice, or even understanding of what's a problem and why, what's healthy and why, and what solid resources can be.

I already made a post on nutrition here, in this post I wanted to gather more about non-nutritional health aspects.

The key questions could be, in the context of an individual with no symptoms that wants to prevent illness:

• Do you have any advice on how to do research on these topics that's actually based on solid data? "Teach the man how to fish"
• What "metrics" should I check for being healthy (non-nutrition)? Cardiovascular health, joint health, bones, posture, lungs & breathing, teeth, skin health, tumor checks, any medical checks one should do
• Any solid and great, unbiased sources of info?

Thank you in advance. I know some of you are very knowledgeable and up to date, and I think an overview can be very helpful for everybody!

[Michael569]

My honest opinion is that starting from things like toxins and pollutants is sort of like buying a paint and window frames before digging the foundations when building a house. It is nice and useful but misses a context 

I've studied nutrition and human biology for 3 years academically and another 2 personally and I'd say the best approach to tackle this is the following: 

• Get yourself an anatomy book and learn how the human body works , this is actually pretty important. This will also answer the question you had here: Actually understand, in depth, what those terms mean and how does it all work together

  2 hours ago, The Renaissance Man said:

  Cardiovascular health, joint health, bones, posture, lungs & breathing, teeth, skin health, tumor checks, any medical checks one should do

  then get yourself a generic nutrition book and learn category by category - macronutrients, micronutrients, phytochemicals, caloric values, nutrition requirements across lifetime, using nutrition to support individual systems in the body like circulation, immunity etc. 

• and finally and this is a bonus, but a book on simple biochemistry and the cell function will help you underand nuances and a bit of the mechanistic structure like enzymes, various chemicals in the body, things like Kreb Cycle, different energetic pathways etc  

If you can hammer through these 3 your map of knowledge will be better than 99% of the smartasses on the internet and you'll create a bulletproof framework of understanding otherwise the risk is just knowing random stuff that does not fall into any particular structure so that it is easy to sway you away with new arguments. 

You'll also be more resistant to quackery and nonsense which is hard to get when you are just taking in random content from random videos from Peter Attia or Andrew Hubberman, which are btw brilliant and deep but I think require some prior understanding to really embody. 

This is the longest and the most drudging path to get there but a one that will bring you a true understanding of the human physiology and how it is being impacted by nutrition and lifestyle. 

We also have a medical professional on the forum @undeather whose path was probably 4 times longer than mine and whose knowledge exceeds that of all of us here so he would probably be able to share even better advice. 

 

Edited June 25 by Michael569

[Nivsch]

Thinking scientifically and empricially though important, is a bottomless pit if used as only strategy, making you eventually even more confused and lost.

There is no subtitude to historical, evolotional and cultural investigation. Go directly to Nature and learn how to live more and more the way we used to live, and then imply it as best as you can in the modern real world.

Our body has synchronized itself during hunderds of thousands of years to nature's laws, not to science.

Science is top to down strategy and its nice but not as important as the down to top Natural investigation.

Edited June 25 by Nivsch

[toasty7718]

3 hours ago, Nivsch said:

Our body has synchronized itself during hunderds of thousands of years to nature's laws, not to science

Are you aware of antagonistic pleiotropy?