Over the last months I have regularly been baffled by what I saw happening around me. As more and more data became available, it also became clear that the coronavirus wasn't as dangerous as we first feared. It certainly didn't warrant the tremendous damage the corona...
Many parts make up a whole: looking at life in a holistic manner
On this website you will find a holistic way of looking at life in general and humans in particular. But what is holistic? Webster defines it as following: holistic: relating to holism; holism: a theory that the universe and especially living nature is correctly seen...
It’s all about me
In an earlier blog I told you about the detours I took in coming to where I am now. I don't know whether you noticed, but I choose my words carefully. The following words just about sum it up: I was on the path that I thought my parents, siblings, friends,...
Beginning at the start – part 4
We have discussed the incompatibility of our genes with our current living environment in general, we have discussed food in general and exercise in general. So what more is there? Another matter that definitely deserves attention in this series is the effect of...
Beginning at the start – part 3
Of course, if it was as simple as just changing your dietary habits and - lo presto - you are in good health, we wouldn't be having this talk now, would we? There is more to good health than what you put inside your mouth. It also what you put out: exercise. Now, I...
Beginning at the start – Part 2
In Beginning at the start – part 1 I hope to have established that we, our collection of genes that make up the organism that we are, came into existence under completely different circumstances than those we are living in nowadays. In other words, we were 'made' for...