Earth Day Edition: Earth Health vs Your Health

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Welcome back friends, to Dr. Brainerd’s B.R.E.A.T.H.S. Health Saturday’s edition of my blog. For the month of April, I will be discussing some self-health tips I have learned from personal experience, books, and medical professional advice I have received. On April 1st, I started a discussion on how mental health is no joke. The second week, I discussed what the health is wrong with me including my invisible genetic and autoimmune disabilities. Last week, I was discussing what the health is right with me to shed light on the positive aspects of my health journey. This final week in honor of Earth Day, I am sharing the correlation between our health and the Earth’s health. 

Our Health is Similar

At the time of writing this blog, our planet, Earth, has been around for over 4.5 billion years, while humanoids have been around a few million, and modern humans a couple hundred-thousand years. It’s safe to say the Earth’s health has been around much longer than our own. However, they are not that different, and in fact they have several similarities. For example, both the earth and our body’s contain about 70% water, we both have a layer of protective skin that forms around our warmer insides, we both have cycles of night and day along with seasons, and we require fresh air, water, food, and sunshine to survive. 

Earth Health

Your Health

  • Trees: takes carbon dioxide and turns it into breathable oxygen

  • Wind: cools, erodes, makes waves, breathes life

  • Core: warm and beating constantly, making new life, continually expanding, maintaining temperature

  • Magma/Lava: warm liquid moving through body to help it thrive

  • Rivers & Streams: help connect fresh water through the land to sustain life

  • Crust: protective layers covering internal systems

  • Host of Ecosystems: millions of organisms thrive in microbiomes above and below the crust

  • Body: made of 70% water, constantly changing, source of life

  • Decomposing System: breaks down and releases waste from the body

  • Lungs: takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide 

  • Mouth: can cool or heat, can erode or build, can make waves or keep calm, breathes life

  • Heart: warm and beating constantly, loving life, continually expanding, maintaining emotions

  • Blood: warm liquid moving through body to help it thrive

  • Circulatory System: helps blood flow through the body to sustain life

  • Skin: protective layers covering internal systems

  • Host of Ecosystems: thousands of organisms thrive in microbiomes above and below the skin

  • Body: made of 70% water, constantly changing, source of life

  • Digestive System: breaks down and releases waste from the body

Conclusion on Earth Health vs Your Health

Well, we are made up of similar elements, it would make sense that the Earth’s health and your health are very much the same. While there are differences that make us unique, just like in each one of us, it’s the similarities that help us thrive as one whole. Thank you for reading and please take good care of both yourself and the Earth, today, and everyday. 

Sending lots of love,

 

Dr. Jaime Brainerd, E.d.D.

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Dr. Brainerd

Hello, I am Dr. Jaime Brainerd Ed.D., a lifelong learner, beauty consultant, author, financial specialist, artist, traveler, health enthusiast, and self care advocate. Please follow my website for my B.R.E.A.T.H.S. blogs.

5 thoughts on “Earth Day Edition: Earth Health vs Your Health

  1. I like the way you tied us together with the earth. We are both aging and it seems that the health of the earth is as much in question as our health is. However the earth trying to give us answers to make our health better while we, as a world seem to be doing what we can to destroy Mother earth. More people need to read your blog post so I am sharing it in hopes that a few will read it and gain a new understanding as to how much the earth is just like them.

  2. I love the comparison! We’re naturally so connected to the Earth but humans seem to keep trying to distance ourselves from her. Thank you for sharing this!

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