The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life.

This week we're talking about the fine art of being nourished. By that, we mean not just being adequately fed or fueled, but being amply supplied with all the subtle nutritive and sensory properties that our bodies and minds require for optimal function and satisfaction. We look at the epidemic of chronic undernourishment — driven both by under- and over-feeding — and we explore the strategies that most reliably lead to a happy nutritional balance. Finally, we suggest some experiments to help you fine-tune your self-nourishing strategies in ways that work for you. "Nourished" Episode Highlights The advantages of getting your nourishment from whole, unprocessed, nutrient-dense plants and animals vs. processed foods + nutritional supplements Moving beyond nutritional reductionism The common "overfed/undernourished" and "underfed/undernourished" phenomena associated with standard American diets Why "well-nourished and overfed" is not a common scenario (thanks to the leptin signaling and hunger/energy regulation