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To fuel a car or electronic device you refill the gas tank or battery. And you go on your way.
The human body is constantly shedding dead skin cells. Hair and fingernails never stop growing. Your skin wraps into every orifice and lines your nasal passages, throat, lungs, stomach and gut. Cells are being shed here as well as mucous. All to protect us from the outside environment.
So human fuel is not just calories or energy. It’s building blocks. What’s that? It is the constituent molecules, elements, minerals, proteins and fats that make up the parts of the cells of our body. If our diet is missing or deficient it can make some of them. It can even harvest or recycle it from somewhere else in the body. But there are some things that, if missing, the newly rebuilt cells will be weak or damaged in some way.
A body with a high percentage of damaged or weak cells will have compromised immunity, lower performance and probably shorter lifespan. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this is directly correlated with health, disease and athletic performance.
Building blocks so small you can’t see them. Building blocks so essential that without them we get sick and can die. Makes me think of every bite as an opportunity to get what my body needs.