Lesson 3: Expand Your Limits – Look to Phenomena in Nature to Understand the Body
We, as scientific investigators, observe phenomena ‘not of the body’ to explain the identical physical event occurring within the human body. For example, the yellowing in the image below resulted from a free radical chain reaction, which occurs readily to unsaturated fats in both food and in your body. The yellow stuff shows how unsaturated fat in soybean oil (in a blob of fresh bleu cheese dressing) reacted with oxygen. This oxidative reaction turns oils such as flax-seed or fish oil into wood varnish. This reaction is equivalent to ‘the chemistry of aging your skin’, the ‘free radical chain reaction’, or ‘suppressing your immune system’. Unsaturated fats are the type of fats which, by definition make whole food fats oxidatively unstable, and make LDL cholesterol dangerous in terms of increasing risk of coronary heart disease, (not saturated fats). The ‘classical’ lipid-heart hypothesis is not supported by evidence; it is a falsehood that has become a myth. A myth is not necessarily invalid information or untrue, but many falsehoods become myths.
Going forward, many lessons will show images of various phenomena you have seen or experienced in the outside world and match these to the identical phenomena occurring in the body as a bridge to understand how the body works. It is important to realize much of what we know about how the body works resulted because we first discovered how a process works in nature, and afterwards found out the same event happens in the body.
The next section compares muscles, lighting, water, and brain cells. Women, athletes who need to develop explosiveness, and power lifters should understand the details in this lesson. The physical training techniques for getting stronger, faster, explosive – but not bigger, derive from applying the ‘electro-physiological’ principles in this lesson.