Unhealthy Food: what is wrong with it exactly?

We often speak about a clean, healthy lifestyle. One in which we are eating healthy food. But perhaps it might help to ask the question in reverse.

What does an unhealthy diet do to you?

Your body is designed to sense nutrients. This capacity allows you to turn the tap on and off to signal sufficiency. When you constantly eat foods rich in sugar, refined carbohydrates, and processed fats, the communication breaks down.

Leptin and ghrelin, hormones that signal satiety and hunger, malfunction. The result is confusion. Cells think they are starving even though there is plenty of energy available.

You keep eating, and yet the body remains in distress.

This confusion leads to a depletion of NAD+, a molecule that fuels energy and repair inside every cell. NAD+ is what keeps your mitochondria working efficiently.

When NAD+ runs low, mitochondria weaken. They leak free radicals, produce less energy, and trigger inflammation. The slow failure of your mitochondria is one of the earliest signs of biological aging.

You feel it as fatigue, reduced stamina, or a general sense that your body is slowing down.

Your genes cannot be left behind. Genes constantly express. They do what their code is telling them to. But this expression goes awry.

This is called epigenetic dysregulation.

When it happens, genes start to promote inflammation. You have just turned aging on.

Aging is not time spent on earth. In fact, your body is renewing all the time. Aging is instead the gradual loss of communication between your cells and the nutrients they receive.

Eating unhealthy food speeds up the process.

We all want to live long and remain healthy. But health does not come from magic brews concocted by druids.

It comes from respecting the innate intelligence of your body. It comes from eating clean healthy food that keeps you in balance.

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