Achieving health is simple, it’s just not that easy. What I mean here is this. What you need to do is not hard, it is achievable by any one, however, it is rather challenging to put it all together and stick with it. Especially in the context or ingrained bad habits, addiction issues and ubiquitous health myths.

Health is something we have to achieve personally. It cannot be granted to us or bestowed upon us, it must be earned as the accumulation of every lifestyle choice we ever make. In a world full of temptingly delicious taste bud experiences as well as a considerable amount of propaganda and disinformation, this can be quite difficult to achieve.

Step one is to know about the many health myths within the Matrix

Health is possibly the topic with the most disinformation put out there and the most potential duff steers to get you barking up the wrong tree entirely and consequently scuppering your attempts at health. This may be the highest of all hurdles to overcome for some people, but then that is why this blog is called living outside the Matrix. We just have to be willing and able to think outside the box in order to bust these health myths. That means questioning the mainstream and all the conclusions as well as the assumptions within it.

Here is a head start to get you off on the right foot. This is NEED TO KNOW information that can literally be a matter of life or death.

1. Don’t go to your Doctor unless you really have to

The number one health myth is that your doctor can help you with health. Generally speaking, he can’t. There are, of course, exceptions. I covered this myth extensively in episode 54 of ‘Living outside the Matrix’. Check back to this episode to find out the many reasons why this is so. If you need stitching together after an accident, or any kind of acute remedial attention then the Doctor can help. Otherwise stay away from him.

In a nut shell, your doctor is educated by the pharmaceutical corporations and knows how to match prescription drugs with symptoms. This is at best a sticking plaster method that deals with the immediate effects of the disease/condition. However it does nothing to address the root cause. Health is a root cause issue. Your doctor is not educated in how to achieve health, but how to manage disease.

The chances are very high that he will prescribe you antibiotics as a matter of routine for a broad range of conditions, even viral and fungal infections! The truth is that antibiotics should not be used in a such a cavalier way. When absolutely necessary they are a life saver. Yet our immune system and its efficiency ultimately depends upon the health and diversity of our microbiome. Microbial numbers and diversity will be reduced enormously by antibiotics. The route to health is to boost and support your gut microbes not decimate them.

2. A balanced diet of 3 square meals a day is not a good idea

Diet is crucial to human well being and it must be the central pillar of your plan for lifestyle changes if it is health that you seek yet the subject of diet is packed full of health myths. Mainstream dietary advice is 180 degrees wrong if you consider the advice of the United States governments food pyramid nd its recommendation to eat 5-11 servings of grains a day.

Almost all of us eat a diet to which the human genome is not adapted. Ill health is the inevitable consequence. The traditional advice of a balanced diet is nonsense. Balanced is a word that sounds desirable but is ultimately meaningless with respect to diet. It literally means a bit of everything and not too much of anything. by implication it means eating some rubbish as well as some healthy foods. As for eating “3 square meals a day plus snacks”, this sort of advice caters more for the needs of the food industry than you or me.

Reject these myths completely and start again from the ground up re-desig...