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Health, Endurance and Genetics

All related - thick as blood I say.

I got thinking about how human bodies have survived for thousands of years through a variety of change - climates, food, wars and famine and yet there we are as a species inhabiting the furthest corners of this rock and closing in on the 7 Billion number.

While medicine as a science has been key to understanding a lot of what goes on inside the body and more specifially how to fix something that ails it, it has but merely scratched the surface of what really makes it tick.

At the heart of it all is the source code in the form of genetic design. How the individual protein cells interact with each other at the atomic levels does determine how a person will live - literally and spiritually.

Physiology along with Anatomy is part of modern day medical school curriculum and attempts to lay the foundation of human organ function. But when you look at the vast disease spectrum that still exists and continues to manifest humanity you understand that we are merely chasing the elusive.

I am not taking a swipe at the scientists and researchers who have spent (and continue to) countless hours discovering new drugs or at the medical profession that evaluates a patient and administers the treatments.

But at the human condition that then tends to market with equal gusto each new discovery that can alter anything from eye wrinkles to zits to bad breath to an occurence of angina with a 20 second slot on prime time TV or any other medium of their choice. The entire emphasis is on getting on the tallest roof and shouting the loudest - it starts looking like a crowded Indian city skyline with its many TV antennas and wires every which way with trash hanging off of it.

That's right - its got to the point where it is really crap. None of the content that today's large media outlets broadcast in the form of advertising appears to be relevant and more importantly affordable to the viewing audiences.

Yet - they continue and surely enough susceptible, uneducated individuals take it for face value and chase it like a witch on a broom ending up with marginal results. I mean who ever heard of Botox and Steroids as a staple of conversation let alone actual users 50 years ago? Is this a requirement now to operate an iPad? Every channel except Public TV for the most part now will bang the table with some equally ludicrous medical miracle that can enhance any portion of the anatomy within days.

You look around the planet and wonder - there are people who have for millenia lived with what grows around them and survived through some harsh weather - frozen latitudes of the arctic to the oppressively humid and deadly jungles of the amazon to the driest and hottest sands of the Sahara.

They did that without a doctor!

They did that without a stupid TV!

They did that without Botox!

They did that without Whole Foods!

Many lived longer than the Xtra large SUV driving, Whole Food shopping, Therapy seeking, Gum Chewing, Gucci toting dumb shoppers that cannot tell where their car starts and ends and threaten others not wanting to shop at Whole Foods.

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  1. Amazing that more of us haven't discovered the obvious truth in all this. Good one!

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