A Shift from "Instruction" to "Teaching"

Maybe it's my recent interest in Haiku that is making me want to take everything back to basics. It's also spurring me to find the transition that marries "a cavemen wouldn't do it" Paleo with modern snazzy science.

Paleo as a diet is pretty simple. Animals, vegetation, water.

Paleo as lifestyle is simple too. Sun, lift, sprint, sleep, sex, play.

But there is a real dichotomy. While Paleo does simplify our choices, it also complicates them. Our purpose for choosing this lifestyle is health and longevity, no? So that interest would attract us to the latest and greatest (or most fashionable) science has to offer. Ignoring science because a caveman wouldn't have had access to PubMed is silly. I think the tie that binds is taking the science, as complicated as it may be, and diassembling it until it fits within the Paleo context.

Science (good and bad) is churning out incredible information all of the time. Online venues are tearing down the protective wall that used to bar us regular folks from accessing that information. We are starting to question what we are being told by doctors, scientists, academics and the government. We used to hold religious reverence and take on pure faith everything our doctors ordered us to do. It looks like we are readying ourselves for a full on break-up with that approach.

Now, I see more enlightened doctors and scientists acting more as teachers and less like gods. Some are even helping us to take apart the truly heady stuff.

I weclome this change because I plan on being a student for the rest of my life.

No exams, though. I can't afford the cortisol response.