While there are plenty of wonderful things you can do to protect and improve your health, it's clear that your healthy life does not hinge on any one thing. Just eating well, for example, is not enough to keep your body healthy. You also have to breathe, move, digest, sleep, expel wastes and defend against incoming pathogens. And each of those complex bodily systems is interconnected with the others in an astonishingly complex way. By the same token, the health of your body is not exclusively dependent on your individual choices about what you, personally, do or do not do. That's because your body constantly interacts, both actively and … [Read more...]