Gary Brecka argues that our obsession with comfort and sedentary living accelerates aging and makes us the sickest nation on earth. He points to Galápagos giant tortoises and Greenland sharks, which live centuries in low-stress, slow-moving conditions, as proof that our bodies are built for nature, not couches.
I think the modern human, their biggest reality for mental health issues, for physical health issues, is a disconnection from nature. Sedentary lifestyles, the leading cause of all-cause mortality, the lack of movement. You know, we've got escalators, we've got moving walkways, we've got elevators, we've got cars. I have a saying that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. The more aggressively you pursue comfort, the faster you age.
You realize that in the natural world, anything that lives a very slow lifestyle has to live a very long lifestyle. So whether you're looking at Galápagos giant tortoises or Greenland sharks, they have very extended lives because everything they do is at fraction of the speed that we do things.
They're doing what they were designed to do. And human beings, we have pursued comfort to such an aggressive extent that in the United States, we're now the sickest, fattest, most disease-ridden nation in the world.
I think we get caught up in this rat race and we forget that we are just something, another organism that is designed to be in nature. We've taken away something that is programmed inside of us that we are supposed to be connected to.
How does getting back in tune with Mother Nature, in your opinion, impact our health?
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