We are Nature: Create, Live and Rule Accordingly
What you need to know for health and wellness: Our metabolic dysfunctions are causing mental illness, physical and spiritual crises
Ready for a better world? I am really glad you are here! You can help create peace, health well-being and prosperity. Wildlands helps to define, create and follow “new” systems that honors interconnection— we are nature. I show how to eat and live simply and naturally, even on the road- and I help create community projects to prove it.
A metabolic disorder is a condition that affects the body's processing and distribution of nutrients.
Metabolic dysfunctions can cause diabetes, dementia, diverticulitis and other diseases. Disorders that disrupt normal metabolism, the process of converting food to energy on a cellular level, are causing mental illness, physical and spiritual crises.
What you need to know for health and wellness
Eight billion pounds of plastics break down into microplastics. For the first time in history, breast milk and our organs are full of toxins, including plastics. And, our brains contain 5% microplastics.
As of 2017, 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used annually.
Food additives, artificial dyes and preservatives effect the endocrine system.
Industrial oils (canola, corn and vegetable) are usually petroleum-based. Highly processed, ultra-processed foods and sugars are addictive. Most of these products are GMOs and all are inflammatory.
60% of foods purchased in the U.S. contain food additives.
Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in human history. It’s in our air, water, soil. According to Global Glyphosate Study:
3.5 Billion pounds (1.6 Billion Kilograms) sprayed across America since 1974;
18.9 Billion pounds (8.6 Billion Kilograms) sprayed worldwide since 1974;
Glyphosate use has increased 15-fold since genetically modified crops were introduced in 1996.
Celiac disease, gluten sensitivities, auto-immune diseases, heart issues and cancer, as well as most of our health issues, are mainly caused by lifestyle, toxic foods and pollution. Our governments subsidizes pesticide-ladden crops, using our tax payer dollars. GMO seeds and foods are causing holes in the guts of insects. What affects insects affects our soil, food, gut, brain and health. Our spiritual crises is an extension dis-ease.
Why continue to follow systems that destroy nature? We are nature. What we do to one, we do to ourselves.
Life is interconnected. Science shows the importance of nature to reduce ADHD in children. Gardens, parks, green space, and tree covered neighborhoods help children’s health and well-being. Is that a surprise?! Nature benefits our health, well-being, and connection with Something Greater than Ourselves.
Greed is a disease that is killing our planet.
We must go deeper and ask tough questions of ourselves. What are we willing to support? What are we incentivizing? What are we consuming? We can’t keep expecting better results without changing our behaviors. Our thoughts, words and deeds matter.
I do not purchase from Amazon, Walmart or big ag. Instead, I purchase directly as much as possible, many times using cash. I meet the people who grow food regeneratively and work in food co-ops and small grocers and markets. We have in person conversations, learn from one another, and sometimes it leads to friendships.
Systemic changes start with us. We must engage in tough conversations and work together to create new systems and heal corruption and collusion- the root cause of all our problems.
How does our health and well-being benefit from plants?
Plants produce phytochemicals to manage the stress of growing in the wild. When we consume plants, their stress resistance is given to our cellular level and improves mitochondrial and metabolic health.
Eat an abundance of colors, aka (a rainbow of plants). Diversity is important- include blue and black berries and green leafy vegetables. The darker colors contain more antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.
Eat 1-2 servings of fruits and vegetables at every meal.
Reduce inflammation because it is a sign of distress. Chronic inflammation leads to disease and ages people faster.
Get daily doses of fiber and Omega-3’s: Flax, chia seeds and walnuts can be added to any meal. See my berry breakfast with a variety of seeds in the photos for inspiration. It’s easy to grind seeds in a coffee grinder, put in a bowl, add filtered water, spices and berries.
Clove is an antioxidant, anti-fungal, anti-carcinogenic, antiviral and anti-inflammatory. Clove helps balance blood sugar and supports the liver, brain, gut, oral and skin health. Cinnamon may help reduce allergies and stabilizes blood sugar. Nutmeg may help better sleep, support kidneys, detoxification and boost mood. Ginger can help nausea, weight loss, arthritis, menstrual cramps and more.
Extend gratitude to nature for supporting you. Gratitude places you in a vagal state and helps holistically— we better absorb plant nutrients when our nervous system is calm. An awareness of our actions, words and deeds is essential.
Experiment. Keep a food journal and note what helps you feel better, worse, tired, irritable, energized, etc.
Slow aging with real food and exercise. Dr. Michael Greger M.D. says that even small changes in food choices makes a difference.
We must prioritize humans, nature and animals over profits. Get outside and meet someone who shares the world with you. It helps expand compassion and empathy.
Here are more ways to help YOU and our world:
Want to help stop hypocrisy, unethical companies and politics? Take agency over self: Empower yourself, unite with your loved ones, your neighbors and talk with one another.
Know Thyself. You are free to care, love and put compassion, empathy first for nature, humans and animals. Kindness through the YOUniverse is sustainable and energizing. Do something kind for someone- whether human, plant or animal.
You matter: Vote with your dollars- support local businesses and create connection in communities. Contact local and State leaders and tell them you want healthy soil, air, water and food.
Enrich hearts and minds: Get curious, ask questions, explore, discover and spend as much time outdoors as possible! We have an opportunity. Each of us can change the world by being a piece of the peace.
About Robin
We learn, unlearn and re-learn throughout our lives. I have been researching nutrition for decades. I healed chronic auto-immune diseases that doctors could not heal, like allergies, asthma, depression and bronchitis, injuries and more.
A nature nomad on the road…
Through my work, hundreds of K-12 children and I have created wildlife art in gardens at a major conservation-restoration organization. I also plant food and pollinator gardens in parks and schools to inspire businesses, politicians, and communities to collaborate in reducing harm. I also host creativity and connection artist-writer retreats and the calm project. And, I help care for wildlife that are too injured to return to the wild. My art is featured in shows around the Country. Stay tuned, more art and poetry coming soon. I’m in shows for peace and justice.
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Important information for our own well-being and that of our natural world. I've maintained a plant-based lifestyle for 20 years, and to do so has been one of the best decisions I've ever made for mental and spiritual well-being. Keep up the great and important work, Robin!
Thank you for this informative article, Robin. It's an excellent reminder of how healthy it is to eat from all the colors of the rainbow. It's also really important to understand the toxicity that is so prevalent around us and work toward minimizing it, including glyphosate.