Posted on 09/21/2019 3:50:33 PM PDT by RummyChick
The human body is often likened to a high-performance machine.
But it is so much more than that. It works 24 hours a day for decades without (for the most part) needing regular servicing or the installation of spare parts.
It runs on water and a few organic compounds, is soft and rather lovely, reproduces itself with enthusiasm, makes jokes, feels affection and appreciates a red sunset.
How many machines do you know that can do any of that? There is no question about it. You are truly a wonder.
And how do we celebrate the glory of our existence? Well, for most of us by exercising minimally and eating maximally.
Think of all the junk you throw down your throat and how much of your life is spent in a near vegetative state in front of a glowing screen.
Yet in some kind and miraculous way our bodies look after us, extract nutrients from the miscellaneous foodstuffs we push into our faces and somehow hold us together.
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I tried his ring finger comment. Never thought about it in my life but yep...he’s right
btw, this is not a eat this cure cancer article. just a wonders of the anatomy article
What hath God wrought!
If I’m not mistaken, Laetrile was the cancer cure offered in Mexico years ago. How did that turn out?
“B-17” was used as a silver bullet. That approach, an offshoot of medical science, is almost always doomed to failure. Isolating one variable, and expecting it to ameliorate all symptoms of a complex disease in a far more complex organism is foolish.
That flaw also applies to use of single drugs, which then produce side effects, requiring additional drugs, and which never really cure anything (unless, perhaps, an antibiotic killing off a specific bacterial infection).
“No one ever died from an aspirin deficiency.” - Udo Erasmus, Ph.D. Nutrition.
We are whole beings, not an assemblage of thousands of discrete substances. Wholesome, functional foods have hundreds, thousands of beneficial nutrients and compounds.
That does not mean that laetrile has no possible benefit, but that a whole-body (holistic) approach is generally necessary.
Bill Bryson the travel writer travels the human body.
-- Psalm 139:14
“So if both use the same set of muscles, why then is the ring finger harder to move than the pinky? Well, that answer may lie in your brain rather than your muscles. You see, the fingers are connected to the brain through two nerves. The radial nerve connects with the thumb, index finger and one side of the middle finger, while the ulnar nerve connects with the little, ring and the other side of middle finger.
delightfully upbeat!
you know he reads ok, but he is a better writer that one listens to audio books.
TYVM. Good caution.
Where is that, please?
I have three or four of his books. He has a sense of humor and he keeps things interesting. I have never tried his audio books.
they read out loud well.
And to show how truly awesome our machinery is, the ring-finger bit can be “corrected”. If you perform a set of isolation exercises, all those marvelous bits and pieces of muscles and joints and nerves and God-given goop, your ring finger can move alone just fine.
To quote my grandmother, “The Good Lord knew exactly what he was doing.”
A lotta bandwidth in that middle finger. Explains why mines so fast!
“Those who would eat 2-3 almonds each day need never fear cancer.”
Edgar Cayce
Interesting, thanks for posting.
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