Personal Development
Rodents are an important model organism for the study of human obesity. To study obesity in rodents, you have to make them fat first. There are many ways to do this, from genetic mutations, to brain lesions, to various diets. However, the most rapid and effective way to make a normal (non-mutant, non-lesioned) rodent obese [...]
As many of you know, I have a three simple goals for my physical body: Health, athleticism, and aesthetics. I talked about these briefly in the nutrition principles article. Today I want to expand on the health issue a bit and lay out some basic ideas for people to contemplate.
First of all, I want to define health as more than just a lack of disease. Health is much more than that. Health means you have a lack of disease plus you have physical vitality and energy. Health is feeling good physically. Health is thinking clearly. Health is having an inner sense of vibrance and vitality. The way that I look at it, health is having youthful energy.
Genetics and epigenetics are an interesting subject. I don’t claim to understand them (very few people really do) but it’s a fascinating subject and I’ve found that it’s motivating to imagine that you can literally alter your genetics by how you conduct your life. When you begin to understand that how you conduct your life can literally alter your genetic code you begin to realize just how in control of your body we really might be. In this post I just want to expose people to the emerging science of genetic expression/epigenetics. I’ve never claimed to be a scientist, but these ideas have helped me in unspeakable ways and I want to pass them along.
