Biochemistry - YUCK!

Biochemistry

Did your eyes just glaze over a little?

Did you suddenly remember something else you needed to do? Perhaps you'd rather read almost anything else than spend your time thinking about chemical reactions, cellular processes, or the periodic table.

I wouldn't blame you.

For most of us, biochemistry belongs in a science classroom, buried in textbooks full of unfamiliar words, complicated diagrams, and things we were never particularly interested in learning.

And when we hear that biochemistry plays a role in disease, it's easy to assume that understanding it requires a level of scientific knowledge most of us simply don't have and are not interested in acquiring.

So we leave it to the experts.

But what if understanding the chemistry isn't where we need to begin?

What if we could make a meaningful difference without learning the periodic table, memorizing chemical formulas, or understanding every reaction taking place inside our cells?

What if the more useful starting point was much closer to home?

You Don't Need to Understand Biochemistry to Influence It

Biochemistry is fundamental to how the body operates. It's the information the cells of the body use to manage operations and to determine, eventually, how to replicate.

You can follow the rabbit hole of science to understand how this process works in its entirety.

But understanding every detail of a process and learning where you may be able to influence it are two different things.

Think about it.

Most of us didn't study the periodic table before developing the patterns of everyday life that produced the chemistry that contributed to our current state of health. We didn't understand the chemical reactions taking place inside our cells before symptoms appeared or a diagnosis arrived.

We were simply living our lives.

Just like when we breathe, we simply inhale and exhale.

We don't need to study the oxygen, CO2 exchange system performed inside our lungs and our cells in order to be successful at it.

That system performs with or without our understanding.

The same holds true for disease and disease reversal.

Your Influence Begins Here...

As we've established in earlier newsletters, the way we respond to the stimulus of our every day lives is a major producer of biochemistry.

And if that biochemistry is informing our human systems how to operate...

Then, when we change our responses, do we change our biochemistry?

The answer is, yes!

The chemistry happens whether we notice it or not.

But that's not where we start because that's not where the process starts.

It starts with us.

This is where I believe an important conversation about health can begin.

The simplest path is usually the most direct.

Just think about how you respond in traffic. Or if your husband leaves his socks on the floor. Or your wife leaves a cupboard door open or forgot to fill the gas tank in the car...again.

Do you feel frustrated? Does your body tighten? Do you feel like saying a bad word? This isn't you "just being human."

It's biochemistry production that will inform your biology.

What does this mean in real life?

Does it mean we have to "be good," all the time?

Does it mean we can never have an adverse reaction, or that we must always "stay positive?"

Not at all!

What it Really Means

It really means that for most of us, our automatic responses to the stimulus of every day lives have been building our biochemistry.

It means the automaticness of those responses have been determining our future...

AND it means we have an opportunity to begin mastering those responses to build a new level of biochemistry and experience different results.

Automatic responses aren't bad.

They can be opportunities.

One of the greatest skills you can develop is that of pattern recognition.

I always respond to A by thinking and feeling B and C.

Once you notice the pattern, you begin to be in charge of the response.

Even noticing the pattern begins building a different type of biochemistry.

Noticing only a few patterns begins a domino effect throughout your body.

How You Got Here is How You Get Better

Most people don't have to work very hard to get to a biological state that produces symptoms, diagnoses, and disease.

Maybe we don't have to work so hard to begin turning the ship around.

Maybe those ordinary moments in our lives are really the extraordinary moments that matter most.

Until next week,

Patricia