Body, Psyche, and Mind: Inseparable Connections
Every trained doctor or sports scientist will check the magnesium levels of patients with complaints like nighttime calf cramps. However, not only magnesium deficiencies show specific symptoms; almost all essential micronutrients exhibit typical, often psychological, symptoms when there are latent deficiencies.
Nature sends us into the world hungry and anxious. Hunger and fear are the two forces that drive life.
The Lifelong Need for Nutrients and Emotional Fulfillment
To combat hunger throughout our lives, we must consume sufficient carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and vital nutrients. Equally, we need remedies for fear throughout our lives:
- Empathy (Experiencing Trust): Trust is the basis for feeling wanted. To feel empathy, we need oxytocin, our trust hormone.
- Community Capability (Achieving Goals Together): Feeling a sense of belonging is grounded in achieving goals together. For this, we need serotonin, our satisfaction hormone.
- Appreciation (Respect): Respect is fundamental to feeling competent. To experience appreciation, we need dopamine, our motivation hormone.
- Respect (Effectiveness): Feeling effective is essential for understanding our roles. To feel our influence on events, we need noradrenaline, our enthusiasm hormone.
When these four messengers are activated with their supportive substances, they nourish and train the nerve cells. This alleviates fear, which we then experience as security. Nerve cells need this nourishment throughout life. If we do not have sufficient experiences of these feelings, the messengers falter, and fears creep into our consciousness as symptoms.
Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?
Chickens lay eggs, so they are their cause, but they themselves hatched from eggs. The question of causality probably remains unanswered...
The matter with hunger is clear.
If we do not get enough of the four basic food groups (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and vital substances), it manifests as hunger. Modern, industrially processed foods do not sufficiently nourish us. Deficiencies reveal themselves through typical symptoms. We recognize and address these deficiencies by nourishing ourselves with the appropriate food.
Understanding Fear and Emotional Deficiency
The issue of fear is similar. If we do not sufficiently experience the four basic feelings (trust=oxytocin, community feeling=serotonin, respect=dopamine, and effectiveness=noradrenaline), our nerve cells are not adequately nourished. Deficiencies in these experiences reveal themselves through typical symptoms. We recognize and address these deficiencies by nourishing ourselves with the appropriate emotional states.
Hunger and Fear Drive Us
Body, psyche, and mind are inseparable. Hunger and fear drive our lives and, when things go wrong, also our healing. If we nourish ourselves well with both food and emotions, the muscles act like hormone pumps during enjoyable movement. This builds the immune system, reduces inflammation, trains the autoimmune system, and makes us happy. Isn’t that something?