The body is a symphony of separates working together as one intricate machinery that was made to feel good. It was made to thrive, advance, grow, spend and burn energy in order to get you to your goals. If ever there was a masterpiece present in our lifetimes this is it, you’re using one each and every day of your life. It’s flabbergasting to think what had to happen for the primary simple cells and lifeforms to organize into such a structure.

Yet we abuse it, we don’t feed it right, drag it through undignified addictions, fill it with smoke and rubbish. Fighting the true nature of what it was meant to do results in disease. The biology class taught you you have one brain, but you’ve already noticed it’s connection to your gastrointestinal tract, to your gut – how being nervous gives you butterflies in the stomach, how anxiety causes stomach pains and distortions in waste eliminating processes, ulcers and fluctuations in acid production… and we’ve always been convinced that the road goes from the brain to the gut, yet the research is gathering more and more data suggesting it is a two way street. The gut has hundreds of millions of neurons of its own and influences the way you think just how the way you think influences the gut. They talk to teach other and the brain via nerve signals, stress hormone production and chemical feedback loop tsunamis. Your gut also contains trillions of bacteria – good bad and neutral – which seriously affect the mood, thought clarity, even disorders like chronic depression and anxiety and a myriad of other psychological disorders.

This holistic approach to the body as a unified system may very well be the new treatment for disorders plaguing the modern world, whereby altering gut bacteria has a cascade effect through the body backtracking to the brain and alleviating the symptoms. There is a reason why each true detox and recentering includes cleaning the digestive system simultaneously. The body is a song, and all instruments need to be in tune to be properly enjoyed. You’re not a body, you have a body but your body also has you. Treat it with dignity.