Wild Caught Productivity
And Free Range Positivity. ;)
POSITIVE AFFIRMATION
"Today I will lean into all the love that’s in my life."
What We Eat Matters
I write about positivity and productivity
This piece is explicitly about persuading you (or convincing myself) that eating wild-caught, sustainable, free-range, [insert the latest, correct way to describe eating ethically], is the way to go.
From a positivity angle, that’s pretty easy. Just look at these two pictures, and don’t you feel way better knowing that the salmon you munch on has lived a full and adventurous life, versus being stuck in a confined space with only one purpose in life?
I even want to take a moment to applaud a close friend of mine, Narissa, who has made it her life’s work to learn, educate others, and protect marine life. Contributions like hers can only help the future of this planet and all the peeps on it, including my kiddo who will inherit this world.
From a productivity angle, the thesis is that eating healthier helps our mind and body perform much, much better.
In Mark Hyman’s Young Forever, a book on longevity that claims to “revolutionize how we approach aging,” there was only one point that still sticks with me. (I don’t highly recommend the book, but better than nothing). He makes an analogy about how our bodies create new cells all the time, about 2 million per second actually. The building blocks of those cells come from what we eat. So, if we’re eating junk, then our cells will be poorly made. Like if we are building a house, why would we construct it with inferior products only for it to collapse? Hyman’s point is to feed the body the highest quality materials, and I think that’s a worthwhile point to contemplate.
Let’s compare salmon, wild-caught versus farmed. (Due to my dry eyes these days, the docs say I need to eat more omega-3’s so my body has more good oils to keep my eyes lubed up.)
The bottom line is that wild salmon has fewer calories, less fat, and a better ratio of omega-3 to omega-6. And below that bottom line is a bigger bottom line that any food that’s made truly naturally is better for your cell’s building blocks, which leads to better body performance.
TAKEAWAY
Even if I live to be a thriving 100-year-old still hiking in the mountains, that will still represent only 0.05% of homo sapiens’ history or 0.00002% of Earth's history.
My mark on this world is completely insignificant. And yet…
I should try. We should all try. Because if we don’t try, then what’s the point of being? So, yeah, I’ll take the extra effort to live in a more sustainable, healthy manner, as long as my bank account allows for it.
(sustainable sources)
➩ Force of Nature implementing “regenerative farming,” offering beef, bison, elk, pork, chicken, venison, and wild boar.
➩ Wildfish Cannery uses, “only wild-caught, sustainable Alaska seafood harvested by the fishermen and divers from Alaska's responsibly-managed, community-based fisheries—our friends and neighbors.”
➩ How Meditation Helps Prevent Climate Change, a piece I wrote last year that still makes sense.
