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Cultivating Health:
Learning and Living
Your Biological Mandates
by Adeha Feustel

Overview About the Book

Overview:
Tracing the Connections between Modern Lifestyle and Deteriorating Health

Lifestyles driven by profit and progress have led us to casually abandon the very foundations of human health that nourished our ancestors -- sunshine, pure water, fresh air, restful sleep, whole live food, and daily exercise.

These "biological mandates" have shaped our physiology for millenia. Their absence profoundly undermines our health. But because the loss of these biological mandates has been gradual, and because both medicine and the media have focused our attention on fighting germs rather than on developing resistance, the intimate connection between our daily health challenges and our technological lifestyle has remained largely invisible.

In fact we have begun to live as if these essential foundations of health are irrelevant. Scientific evidence to the contrary has been steadily accumulating over this last century. For decades profit-driven medicine and media have ignored this provocative research -- the foundations of health can't be patented -- so the grave consequences of ignoring the biological mandates have gone unnoticed by the popular media.

Based on Adeha Feustel’s book of the same name, this website traces the connections between our lifestyle-induced loss of the biological mandates and our deteriorating health. It will introduce you to the biologically mandated gaps you must fill to regain your health, and it will also describe some of the alternatives available to fill those gaps.

Site visitors will find interesting and
helpful information on every page:

learn how sunshine, pure air, pure water, real food, and restful sleep affect your health and what you sacrifice when you neglect these biological mandates

read an excerpt from the book Cultivating Health: Learning and Living Your Biological Mandates

read important information that just wouldn’t fit in the book!

read reviews of the best health books the author found in her five year research project (Support this site by clicking through to Amazon if you decide to buy these books!)

check out the resources page, full of products from a multitude of sources that will support you in reestablishing the mandates that have gone missing in your life

hyperlink to the best sites I’ve found on the mandates and related topics

Like this site? You can email the address to a friend.

Comments and suggestions? Email Adeha or webmaster, Keith Johnson.

In time, we’ll be adding a bulletin board where you will be able to share your experiences as you change your life with the biological mandates, as well as the questions that inevitably arise when you embark on this pioneering effort.

About the book, Cultivating Health: (Not yet published)

Cultivating Health exposes the fallacy of symptom-driven and germ-focused "health" care and offers an effective alternative: realignment with our biological mandate. Readers will learn the profound physiological effects of each element -- air, water, food, lighting, sleep, and exercise -- and understand how their choices in each area either support or destroy their health. Readers will also see how these effects interact, and gain clarity regarding how to combine these natural elements synergistically to reclaim their health, enhance their immunity, and gradually decrease or even eliminate their drug and antibiotic dependence. They will learn how each mandate affects the accumulation of toxins and how to use detoxification techniques to accelerate the benefits of following their biological mandate. They can choose from a variety of lifestyle remedies, ranging from the simple and inexpensive to the more costly "quick fixes" that much of our society has come to expect and depend on. Best of all, they learn how providing the fundamentals of biological health creates an interlocking web of protective effects that will support their health and the quality of their life in every arena.

While there are many excellent books out on single elements of the biological mandate, none summarize all elements together and integrate their effects under a unified theory of individual and planetary health. Readers who have the time can read 25 books, spend a year researching on the net, and put the clues together themselves... or they can just read Cultivating Health and get started on a healthier life. With its wide scope and integrative nature, this book touches upon every facet of natural health: nutrition, detoxification, sunshine, ultraviolet radiation, color therapy, water, sleep, insomnia, breathing, exercise, antibiotic resistance, organic agriculture, ecology, negative ions, electromagnetic pollution, vegetarianism, raw food.

Cultivating Health is a tour de force through most arenas of natural health research, incorporating recommendations for the practical application of that research in the daily lives of readers.

We must look beyond our immediate health concern at the entire environment of our bodies, and how it differs from the environment in which our ancestors evolved. That environment holds the key: the conditions under which your ancestors evolved define the parameters under which your body will function optimally. We don't have to duplicate our ancestors' lives, but we do have to provide the conditions their lives provided. And most of us are sorely lacking those conditions.

The worst thing is that we are no longer even aware of their vital relevance to our health. In this book, you will learn what those parameters are, what is known about their effects on health, and how to reinstitute their benevolence into your own life and the lives of those you love.

So please note this book is not about shotgun approaches at symptoms, although you will find hints from your symptoms about which neglected mandates need attention for your health to flourish. I want to show you a bigger picture than just how to prevent osteoporosis or raise your testosterone. Instead I want to give you a picture of how each biologically mandated parameter has fingers into every other. They are all interrelated. They require and support one another. And together they drive the healthy function of every bodily system. I want to get you hooked on supporting your entire physiology by realigning yourself with your biologically mandated requirements for health -- all of them. When you start to realize the repercussions of missing out on even one, you will more easily make the choices in your life that support your health from the foundation up.

This book is about answers, about exploring traditional lifestyles and environments for the essential components of your biological mandate -- the rules for living in one of these bodies -- just like the owner's manual for your car.

We can't depend on traditions anymore, because we have lost them, and because we are wedded to modern lifestyles where most of those traditional behaviors no longer fit in. But by examining scientific research we can understand what those traditions supplied to our lives, and find new ways to supply those elements, the biological mandate, even in the absence of the traditional environment.

Here you will find health-enhancing changes to your lifestyle that are simple and cheap, but that may take time and be inconvenient until you have adjusted. Andyou will also find some quick fixes, artificial supports that will stand in when you simply cannot align your lifestyle with a particular mandate. These artificial supports -- lifestyle crutches [props] we could say -- will cost you less time, fewer inconvenient changes, but generally more money.

Of course when symptoms become urgent or life threatening you can still choose allopathic care. But gradually you will learn how applying the principles of detoxification and accelerating lymphatic function will eliminate many symptoms, and you will begin to trust that process. If you do choose allopathic care, you can decrease your chances of having to choose it again by steadily working on the mandates, even while using a drug, herb, or even surgery to address your current symptom.

That is the purpose of this book: to help you understand how the elements of the biological mandate affect your health, and to enable you to use that information to provide the conditions your genes require for maximum health.

Living in alignment with your biological mandate and steadily decreasing
your toxic load, you will free yourself from the vicious cycle of "disease care"
by building a solid foundation for your own health.

It is my heartfelt wish that your increasing vitality and growing enthusiasm for the principles of the biological mandate will spread contagiously through your family and friends into your community, and eventually help heal our planet Earth.