How can a healthy diet help me increase my energy level?
Proper nutrition can definitely help you get a lot more out of life. If you're eating a diet full of life-giving nutrients, you're going to have a life that's full of energy and vitality. You can't do activities if you don't have any energy. The energy production cycle, what we call the Kreb cycle in the body, absolutely requires many, many nutrients that are found in fresh whole foods in order to produce energy. It also needs water. The mitochondrion, which is the factory in every cell in the body, requires water, and the thousands of nutrients and enzymes that are in whole foods in order to produce energy. Energy is required for every single metabolic function in the body, as well as every activity we do with our body. So, proper nutrition will give you zest for life; it will give you a high sense of well-being. You'll be calm instead of anxious because of not having enough nutrients; what we call the vitamins and minerals that are the stress vitamins which are naturally occurring: the B vitamins, Vitamin C. If you're not getting all of those nutrients from whole food, you're probably not going to have very much energy, and you're not going to have a very good sense of self. You're not going be exuding life force. You're going to be depressed, and down, whereas with good nutrition, you're the opposite; everything in life is more joyful.
