Chasing Longevity: Prioritizing Internal Over The External
Looking at our health from the inside out
For much of our lives we’ve been conditioned to see ourselves from the outside in. We look at our body in the mirror and we make our decisions based on what we see. We watch television and we are shown examples of what we should deem as a “healthy” look and what’s not.
My earliest childhood memories are of Arnold Schwarzennegar as Conan, running around with his shirt off, sword in hand, slaying evil creatures. In my mind, this is what healthy looked like. What I didn’t know was that this look required a ton of performance enhancing drugs to obtain. It setup a scenario where there was a goal or objective that I could never achieve naturally, and I was then marketed products that claimed to be the answer.