Compared to our parents and grandparents, most of us live in an overwhelmingly synthetic environment and our bodies struggle to maintain our connectedness with the natural world around us. We drive where our parents would once have walked, we live in apartments hundreds of feet above ground level, we breath air-conditioned air, we seldom feel earth beneath our feet. Our bodies are highly adaptive instruments but they are not infinitely adaptive. There comes a point in time when the lack of fresh air, the lack of connectedness with the earth, the absence of natural substances all combine to make us … Continue reading →