Do you feel that you don’t have as much energy as you would
like? If so, you have company. Fatigue is one of the most common
complaints that people bring to their physicians. It seems that
almost everyone today feels low-energy, stressed, and worn out
much of the time. The body was not designed for a sedentary
life. While today most of us might consider one hour of exercise
daily to be ideal, in the past, eight hours of daily exercise
was not uncommon. Our ancestors lived much of their lives
outdoors and walked many miles every day. Today, we live
indoors, sit in chairs, and seldom walk more than a mile. Not
only that, instead of peaceful outdoor surroundings, we live in
a fast-paced, noisy world that interrupts us constantly with its
demands and requires that we multitask our way through nerve-
frazzling challenges. This way of life simply violates the
body’s design principles. Furthermore, with the invention of the
electric light, the body’s normal sleep habits were replaced by
progressively longer periods o