Notes

Chapter 4, Know Thy Enemy - The Seven Deadly Disruptors

There is an infamous experiment you've probably heard of. Drop a frog into a pot of very hot water, and it will jump right out. But put it in a pot of lukewarm water and slowly raise the temperature, and it will blissfully sit there until it boils to death. The difference in the two outcomes is simply because the change in temperature is so gradual that it is imperceptible to the frog's temperature receptors, or pattern matchers.

Like that frog, so subtle have the changes within your body been that you too, have barely noticed. All these big things that have profoundly altered you arise from very small things. Each negative alteration of your body impacts your health, which, in turn, means that you crave more unhealthy foods and/or need more drugs or medical procedures. We have become dependent on many of these products and procedures, which appear to improve our health and standard of living, but actually make us sicker and potentially hasten our death. Meanwhile, the most heavily funded health-care system in the world is collapsing from the resulting financial burden, aggravated by the needs of an ever increasing number of patients.