Fixing What Modern Living Has Broken
Are you unknowingly sabotaging your health every single day?
From inflammatory seed oils to hidden toxins and sleep loss, your cells are under attack.
Discover the everyday choices wreaking havoc on your metabolism—and what you can do to reverse the damage today.
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How to Fix What Modern Living Has Broken | Dr. Mercola, Cellular Wisdom
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome & overview of modern health crisis
00:55 – How seed oils disrupt cellular balance
02:18 – Sugar & refined carbs: metabolism hijacked
03:18 – Toxins, microplastics & hormone disruptors
03:45 – EMF exposure: cellular impacts explained
04:15 – Sedentary habits and mitochondrial decline
05:11 – Sleep debt: the hidden killer
06:07 – 5 lifestyle fixes to reverse cellular sabotage
07:59 – Final challenge to spark transformation
Explore the full list of hidden saboteurs in this article: https://bit.ly/3Si4ti8
Concerning Sleep Debt
There is an assumption made in the sleep debt section that our sleeping patterns have been constant.
We have discovered otherwise through some archived letters and science papers.
Our sleep patterns were different before the Industrial Revolution, which started in England in the mid-18th century, around 1760, and quickly went nearly global from then.
Before getting into the sleeping patterns before the Industrial Revolution, it is important to understand what life was like and how people lived before then, as that changed drastically with the Industrial Revolution, as did our sleeping patterns.
Life Before the Industrial Revolution
Most everyone worked from home, while some worked with successful entrepreneurs - there were no large companies or corporations.
The concept of corporations as we know them today began to take shape in the 16th (1500s) and 17th centuries (1600s) in Europe.
Initially, corporations were not-for-profit entities created to build institutions like hospitals and universities, overseen by the government and focused on the public good.
However, it was in the 17th century that corporations shifted their focus to profit-making, particularly with the establishment of colonial trading companies.
The 1st English and Dutch trading corporations, such as the East India Company, were established in the early 17th century to finance European colonial expansion and control trade, resources, and territory in various parts of the world.
These corporations were revolutionary because they allowed for the accumulation of massive amounts of capital from various sources and provided a structure for enduring ventures even if they encountered failures.
In the United States, the first corporations were developed in the 1790s, contributing significantly to the nation's economic growth.
It is no accident that the improvements to the clock came at the same time as the Industrial Revolution, as well - expectations were higher as a result.
Homesteading was rampant as there were no stores nor farmers’ markets - everyone shared their surplus while farmers left the corners of their cropped land for the poor so that they could feed themselves.
Mass production did not begin to take shape until the Industrial Revolution, either, which was significantly popularized and advanced in the late 1910s and 1920s by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company, which introduced electric motors to the technique of chain or sequential production
Forget Wal-Mart and Amazon - until the Industrial Revolution, people either bartered or bought what they could from neighbors or, if in a populated area, from family stores selling goods they bought from local merchants and families.
There were no paved roads or highways (which arrived thanks to President Eisenhower), so commerce was very much local; anything that wasn’t was carried by travelers, who were usually small in size, in limited quantity, and mostly handmade.
All of this to paint a picture that life was very leisurely until the Industrial Revolution.
Which means are sleeping habits were as well.
From what we can best tell, most people went to bed just after sunset, and for a few hours during the night, they were awake, only to return to sleep until sunrise or so - remember, alarm clocks only existed in the form of someone waking you up if you hadn’t been awake by then.
There are no records per se of how long people slept, but there are records of them being up in the middle of the night.
In fact, it was hard to find anyone who wrote about sleeping, not talking about doing something about the house in the middle of the night.
I’ve been semi-retired for nearly 20 years, and my sleeping habits have changed from my usual pattern to sleeping twice a night with the night-owl wanderings in the middle of it all.
My mother is the same way, while my dad still works every morning with the family business he started 80+ years ago, but does have his afternoon 2 to 4 hours naps while sleeping 4 - 6 or so at night.
Mind you, he’s 97 and she’s 89…
That does not make my supposition true, but it does give it credence to be researched a bit more than I have.
You could try to see what happens during a 2-week vacation, but that is not long enough for the body to shift off from the 16/8, 17/7, 18/6 cycle we have put ourselves in.
A month-long vacation might help, but that is only popular outside the U.S.
Semi or full retirement is a good time to test this out, if you can.
Welcome to the Industrial Revolution
From notes written during the start of the Industrial Revolution, people working in the factories were not afforded the freedoms they had before.
They had a boss to report to, and not just the dealings of managing a homestead, which continued for more than a century until convenience stores and supermarkets arrived.
This prompted a new job in the cities as alarm clocks were widely unavailable and very expensive if you could find one.
This became known as a profession known as a "knocker-up" or "knocker-upper" and existed mostly in Britain and Ireland, where the Industrial Revolution started.
These individuals would go around early in the morning, tapping on windows or doors to wake people up for work.
They used various tools such as a short, heavy stick to knock on doors or a long, light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors.
Some knocker-ups even used a pea-shooter to wake their clients.
They were paid a few pence a week by their clients for this service.
The profession largely disappeared by the 1920s as alarm clocks became more reliable and affordable, but a few specialized knocker-ups continued to work for a few more decades.
Which begs the question, who woke the knocker-up up?
No clue - yet.
Once breakfasted, it was off to work, and no time to return home for lunch or even supper.
Days were long, 10, 12, 14 hours - some even 16 - until there was sufficient pushback to relax the demands of the workers a bit to a 8 to 10 hour work day.
The work week did not see 5 days
Given that rigorous lifestyle, they probably slept all night at first, but habits die hard, and quite sure some awoke in the middle of the night, eventually training themselves to sleep all night.
The 5-day work week didn’t exist at first; everyone worked 6 days a week.
The 5-day work week began to take shape in the early 1920s, with Ford Motor Company being one of the first major companies to adopt it.
On May 1, 1926, Ford Motor Company officially introduced a 5-day, 40-hour workweek for its workers, which was a significant change from the typical 6-day workweek common at the time.
The concept of the 40-hour workweek became more widespread in the United States following the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which established a maximum 40-hour workweek and mandated overtime pay for hours worked beyond that.
And so we are the same today as the work days and hours started by Henry
Ford.