The Heroic Tradition is a circular tradition.

 

In the Heroic Tradition, health is balance; disease is imbalance. Clean is healthy; disease arises from "pollution."

 

There are problems with these views. We are doomed to fail when we try to be balanced. Balance is unnatural. Nature hates clean. Clean is unnatural.

  

Balance? Dynamic disequilibrium is the rule: On our planet — where the axis of rotation is tilted. In our solar system — where the gravity of moons wobbles planetary paths. And in the universe — where stars explode in fascinating patterns  And galaxies twirl and spiral.

 

Hold your breath. 
That's balanced. 
Eventually you have to breathe out. 
That's dynamic equilibrium. 
That's life. 

 

"Give up your impossible search for balance," says Grandmother Growth. "Relax into my patterned chaos."

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Clean?
"Pollution" as disease began over 3000 years ago, when the Ancient Egyptians noticed that dead bodies spoiled because of the intestines. Transferring this idea to living bodies, caused the belief that disease arose from a filthy gut, which needed enemas to cleanse away pollution. In fact, dead bodies spoil from the guts first because your microbiome doesn't die. Life continues in your gut when you are dead.

 
"After we die, our gut flora have a party. Dying cells leak carbohydrates, amino acids and lipids, causing a frenzy of microbial feeding and reproduction. The bacteria eventually escape the gut and swarm through the circulatory and lymph systems, spreading to organs that are shielded during life by the immune system."
https://www.newscientist.com/.../mg22329842-500-your.../

After years of being told that "filthy guts cause all disease," and, "old shit is caked in your intestines," and, "Constipation precedes all problems," I decided to check it out. I asked surgeons and nurses — who had seen the inside of people's guts — about this idea. 

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Some laughed at my naive query. Others explained why it is impossible for anything to stick to the intestines. 
Think "Teflon-coated," think a constant secretion of slime to keep things sliding through, think daily replacement of the lining of the guts. Nothing sticky; nothing stuck. 

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Before you counter this with stories, be aware that while diarrhea kills over a million and a half people yearly 
No one has ever died of constipation. Never in the history of medicine has one death been caused by constipation. An apprentice told us that she only had bowel movements once a month, or less. No diseases evident. She was fine. Drinking nourishing herbal infusions and eating well-cooked food and rewilding her microbiome changed that in less than two weeks. Within ten days she began having daily bowel movements. 

 

Three thousand years of medical professionals believing in filthy colons doesn't vanish overnight. But it doesn't make it correct. Lots more on the Heroic Tradition at class.

 

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