Sublime

I use the general term brain to encompass all of this wonderful complexity of the body proper as it intimately intertwines with its chemical environment and with the portion of neural tissue in the head.

The Ape Inside Us, by Rubin M. Rabinowski.

do strive as individuals, but we are also part of something larger than ourselves, with a complex physiology and mental life that we carry out but only dimly understand.

How do we reprogram our ancient genes to recapture excellent health? We simply have to ask ourselves, “What would Grok do?

a German physicist named Fritz-Albert Popp had stumbled upon the fact that all living things, from the most basic of single-celled plants to the most sophisticated of organisms like human beings, emitted a constant tiny current of photons—tiny particles of light.15

Epigenetic regulators, such as culture, evolve to serve the genome.

Remove the sponge cell from the sponge, prevent it from finding its way back to its brethren, and it dies. Scrape a liver cell from the liver, and in its isolation it too will shrivel and give up life. But what happens if you remove a human from his social bonds, wrenching him from the superorganism of which he is a part?

Selfish Gene

Whether you move or not, your choice stimulates the cytoskeletons of all your cells in a way that signals “this behavior is what I do, so please adapt.” The current epidemic of osteoporosis—specifically loss in the wrists, ribs, spine, and head of the thigh bone—speaks volumes about how we move.