Exercise - Exertion - Excitement

(Exhaustion by any other name)

The ritual of exercise as practiced and promoted in North America today is yet another drug being pushed to the unsuspecting consumer masses—particularly women. The very word itself is indicative of how feeble our instincts for right and wrong have become. It derives from the Latin word exercere and translates to mean ... ex— “out of”, and arcere— “to restrain.”
So loosely translated, the word exercise literally means “out of restraint”, (or better yet) “out of control!”
Comparisons between the social activities of ancient eastern cultures and today’s Europeanized societies by ethno-biologists have observed that one would never have witnessed these societies (or even the so-called “wild animals” of Nature) exert and waste precious life energies in their own natural environments, the way the hyper-active over-stimulated peoples of western civilization do today.
This is because the ancient ones (as well as the animals) were instinctively cognizant of the toxic nature of such hyper-activity, especially when done in relationship to environmental elements such as oxygen! If such activities are now being practiced by so-called third world “developing” countries, it is merely a clearer indication that McDonald's, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks, and Burger King has had a perverse impact on the biology and psychologies of the last 5 generations of these people, because refined, de-natured foods have become dietary staples in their misguided lives.
The elder societies of our planet, for the most part, were infinitely wiser than we are concerning exercise and well being, and their cultural activities once reflected this. In ancient Oriental philosophy for example, exercise by the average man and woman was done through isometric techniques (like Tai Chi) to prevent a disruption of the body's delicate internal equilibrium, especially for females. You see a body already in perfect harmony with itself and operating in perfect homeostasis with its environment, would never seek to destabilize itself with strenuous exercising. Only a toxic, agitated, enervated body that does not feel balanced, would seek “balance” through the performance of stressful exercise!
Furthermore, because a body becomes accustomed to something doesn’t mean it likes what has been forced upon it. In the case of exercise, it is merely reacting in self-defense to a life-accelerated life draining activity the same way it would if it were subjected to the constant abuse of drugs or alcohol—it accommodates it!
All strenuous exercise creates a symptom called ’oxygen debt’, which causes an enormous build up of lactic acid that accumulates in the muscles and the liver. Lactic acid kills cells. It's the substance that causes the muscle stiffness, aches and pains to occur just after stressful activity.

Strenuous exercise also results in the auto-oxidation of epinephrine and norepinephrine, which in turn results in the appearance of free-radicals and lipid (fat) peroxidation. Cells must have a balance of oxygen, and herein lay the key to health. When exercise causes the rise of adrenalin there is the loss of pH control and acidosis overtakes the body. Again, high lactic acid levels impede efficient oxygen distribution, and cells die as a result.

Thus running 5 to 10 miles daily as a form of exercise is injurious to the body, especially when done by women in the toxic soup of a modern-day polluted and paved city environment. Unless you intend to run a marathon, it is a chronic waste of your precious life force and of the greatest detriment to a woman’s reproductive organs. Each time she plants her foot a static electrical “impact shock” is registered in the calcanus or heel bone, which is conducted by the tibia and the fibula on to the patella (knee cap), then amplified by the femur to finally impact the sacrum that frames and houses the precious womb.
I've seen runners jogging through the traffic of mid‑town Manhattan on a humid mid‑summer's day, and often wondered if I'm the only one left with a functioning brain cell for taking notice of the insanity in this.
With literally tons of noxious carbon monoxide, lead arsenics, sulfides and ammonium oxides permeating the air, why would anyone in their right mind even want to walk through this gook, much less run through it. Isn’t logical to assume that by running in such an environment they are sucking soot into their lungs at 2 to 3x the rate, and thus at twice the average doses?

Studies were also conducted where high levels of vitamin and mineral supplements were given to one group of athletes, and none to a placebo group. At the end, the blood nutrient levels of both experimental groups were checked and it was found that neither one had risen. In fact they had both dropped substantially in essential nutrient content. The test showed that exercise depletes vital essences and that athletes lose significant amounts of the essential nutrients and supplements they take in (even in higher than normal doses), proving that the ritual of exercise is not natural to Man.
But you would never know this the way the sports industry promotes their “just do it” commercials to you, and the way celebrity jocks who are addicted by the rituals of sport (making obscene dollars promoting sneakers and other paraphernalia) defend it as a “healthy” way of life.
In moderation, yes it is. But where in western society would you find people who ever pursued destructive activities ‘in moderation?’
Case in point: a perfect example of the sports industry taking advantage of the public's gullibility and ignorance of the true workings of a healthy body was seen in an advertisement for Nike F.I.T athletic apparel. It was a quintessential example of the Orwellian doublethink/doublespeak methodologies that go into making up today's subliminally enhanced, mind-manipulating advertisements.
This particular ad appeared in Essence magazine (July 1997) and covered two pages. One side (the title page) said in bold print “... Sweat is your body leaking fuel.” How true.
The other page shows a female jogger running with the Nike emblem on her chest—sweat, strain and dogged determination registered on her face. The real assault on the reader's intelligence is actually seen in the smaller, more obscure caption printed at the very bottom of the title page, which read:

“…The only way to stop sweating is to stop running. Since there's no way in hell that's going to happen, you'd better find a way to deal with the tide of nutrients running down your back..."

This sentence is a contradiction to common sense; it flat-out tells you what you are doing is wrong, then subtly tells you not to stop doing it! This caption should be enough to alert the reader that profuse sweating from strenuous exercise is perilous to the body because it results in a drastic depletion of vital nutrients necessary to its health and well-being. Instead, you are casually told that even though you are seriously injuring yourself by this activity

“you'd better find a way to deal with the tide of nutrients running down your back.” Of course, in the very next sentence they tell how to deal with it:

"... which is why we invented Dri-F.I.T, part of a larger Nike F.I.T line of athletic apparel. Dri F.I.T. pulls moisture away from your skin so your clothes dry quicker. So, even though your body continues to leak, you're not wearing a soggy reminder on your back..."

Whaaat?!!
My Sisters; brothers; anyone out there! Is this getting through? Especially our beloved sisters! Nike is telling you that the only way to deal with your vital nutrients leaking from your body, and the drastic depletion of your precious life force—is to wear a T-shirt that won't remind you of that fact!! Of course, the more insidious message being conveyed here is that you have at your disposal a magic elixir that would remedy this—you just drink Gatorade!
That's right; simply buy another ‘health’ product from one of our many subsidiary companies, and you'll return all of the vital nutrients that you leaked away and still remain healthy, fresh and dry!
Right? Wrong! Dead wrong!
New cells are reproduced at a faster rate when the body is hyperactive and stressed, which means that because you are losing precious nutrients by sweating, the cells are reproducing themselves from within a depleted mineral and electro-chemical nutrient reservoir. In other words, each time you participate in strenuous exercising you injure and destroy precious cells that your body will have to replace. Cells primarily construct themselves from the solaric and elemental materials present in the air, which are processed through the lungs and condensed to become the mineral components of your bloodstream. If these essential mineral components are "leaking" and "running down your back", or are formed from a toxic or depleted nutrient reservoir caused by the consumption of refined, de‑natured foods or the high concentrations of noxious substances that pollute our air, the cells replaced will be feeble and short-lived!
Minerals function as electrical conductors that relay the vital electrical forces of life efficiently throughout the body-temple. If there is a substantial and continual loss of these conductors through profuse sweating (and water loss), a balanced electrical conduction of vital life force to the brain is compromised, causing the body to have to compensate by leeching minerals from the bones and various other vital organs.
In other words, although it is imperceptible, you are aging to death at a faster rate!
It's logic. If you consistently accelerate the life-processes of the body beyond its natural functioning levels, you speed the structure to damage and decay at a faster rate, for that which you continuously abuse (without sufficient rest and repair), you eventually use up—only at a faster rate!
Exercise—as it is currently promoted by western civilization, is a cytotoxic (cell destroying) activity whose consequences lend credence to an old-world adage which says “… that which is quick to ripe, is quick to rot!” Just take a look at the lifestyles of people who live very healthfully to very advanced ages. The Hunzakuts of the Himalayas who live to an average age of 110 years have no formal, specialized social exercise regimens, just the simple work they do in their lives every day, the fresh rain water they drink and the simple nutritious foods they eat.
Commercial exercise spas for the purpose of health is also a farce, and is the economic ploy of a huge sports industry to lure us into buying the air‑jordans, the flashy jogging sweats, T‑shirts, walking and jogging shoes, the Ben‑Gay rubs, the ace bandages, the health club memberships, and the wide assortment of pharmaceutically sponsored pain-suppression remedies and weight-loss pills.
It is a multi-billion dollar industry.
So. How does bleeding internally, losing vital nutrients by sweating, bone spurs, oxygen debt, cellular destruction, back and knee injuries, sprains, torn cartilages, frayed ligaments (especially around the womb), hyper extensions, capillary damage, hyper‑ventilation and nervous exhaustion add up to health for the exercise-stressed, liberated woman of the new millennium?

Dr. Phil Valentine