and I am convinced that healthy emotional boundaries — such as being clear and vocal about what you will and will not let into your life — are what m… - Casey Means

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and I am convinced that healthy emotional boundaries — such as being clear and vocal about what you will and will not let into your life — are what make relationships functional. Your gut lining is a boundary between you and everything else in the universe that is poised to inundate and overwhelm your biology and generate unrelenting inflammation. Healing and strengthening your gut lining with food — therefore creating and strengthening this critical boundary and reducing intestinal permeability or “leaky gut” — allows you to be selective about what you want to take in from the universe on a material level. You can choose what serves you. I reflect on the fact that many of the problems in society — including violence, mental illness, developmental issues, and pain — start in humans, and humans are made by cells that become dysfunctional largely because of oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and chronic inflammation. How miraculous that food can directly combat those things. We can’t have a healthy society without well-functioning humans. We can’t have well-functioning humans without well-functioning cells. And we can’t have well-functioning cells with mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and cellular and hormone disruption from toxic chemicals in our food. We combat those things through nutrient-dense, unprocessed foods grown in living, thriving soil.