Let's not be uninformed about the cause of health

Every one is born with a certain genetic potential. But let's say a person with 100 year genetic potential accidentally swallows a fatal dose of poison...genetic potential will not save them. There is a principle here: toxins outweigh genetic potential

A toxic lifestyle won't kill someone immediately, but it won't allow them to reach their genetic potential either.

So it's not that a less toxic diet and lifestyle will increase genetic potential, it's that it raises the odds genetic potential will be reached. 

Diet isn't the magic here, lack of ingested toxins over the years is. There are only three things in diet that increase genetic potential, an adequate level of macro nutrition (calories), an adequate level of micro nutrients (vitamins minerals and other micros nutrients contained only in food), and efficiency in overall energy generation (effort to digest and utilize).

In addition to a non toxic diet one must also have a strong body to increase genetic potential. A weak body means a weak immune system (it's part of the body).

Health increases genetic potential. Health is not a mystery: do not poison yourself, and keep your body's defense system strong.

It is simple, but there is a certain amount of work involved. And a certain amount of education. The people who eat a toxic diet and do not move their body (the average American is obese) are not going to reach their genetic potential.

Why would someone not consume a non toxic diet and not move their body? Education is the primary culprit. We are not taught the cause of health. Instead we are taught modern medicine will save us. And it might. But that does not make medicine the cause of health.

Hippocrates said let food be your medicine. He also said all disease starts in the gut (where toxic food ends up).. If health was some big mystery to be solved with technology he could not have said those things that long ago.

There were no fat hunter gatherers, they would not have made it very far. We have been made fat by technology. Technology is good and bad, it's a double edged sword. Industrialism is destroying the environment. And industrialized food is destroying our health.

Modern man is mesmerized, hypnotized, by technology. Fine. I love my audio system and photography. I love sports cars too.

Which does not mean I also have to be uninformed about the cause of health.