Welcome to Fit Soul Book chapter 15. Wow, we're already in chapter 15.

This is my weekly recording for you of a chapter from my book, Fit Soul.

Tools, tactics, and habits for optimizing spiritual fitness. A book which you can also grab for free.

There's also a physical version available along with the digital version at fitsolebook.com.

That's fitsolebook.com and related to that, a good companion journal for that would be my spiritual disciplines book at spiritualdisciplinesjournal.com.

That's a relatively new release. So here we go. Chapter 15, bones of steel.

My wife is a skinny Montana rancher girl who is tough and hard but also has what I would consider to be thin,

bird bones along with a slight lean build that if not kept strong via loading along the long axis of her bones,

high mineral intake, omega-3 fatty acids, fat soluble vitamins, DHA, and progesterone optimization.

And plenty of the other tactics I tackle in a pretty thorough osteoporosis podcast episode that I'll link to on the resources page for this chapter at fitsolebook.com.

That's fitsolebook.com slash chapter 15. Could very well increase her risk for developing a high amount of frailty and fragility as she ages,

resulting in the possibility of her doing something like say fracturing a hip if she steps off a curb the wrong way when she's 60.

Now I of course care for and love my wife so I'm careful to in a non-nagging sort of way,

ensure that she tends to her bones so that any genetic risk for osteoporosis or osteopenia is nipped in the bud and doesn't manifest.

But no matter how many kettlebell squats she does, how much calcium or vitamin K she might consume and how much caffeine and alcohol she avoids in her quest for so-called bones of steel,

she's also based on the studying up that we've done on folks like Bruce Lipton, author of Biology of Belief or David Hawkins, author of Healing and Recovery, and above all, the Bible, careful to focus on releasing feelings of anger, hate, selfishness, or bitterness in her life, all of which are associated with, you guessed it, bone issues.

For example, in traditional Chinese medicine, the emotion of anger is not only associated with bone cancer, but the disturbance of several other emotions, especially melancholy, anxiety, and anger, and is considered to significantly contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic disease.

Now you're going to learn plenty more about that shortly, but we're going to begin elsewhere.

It all began in Northern Galilee. Now I first realized the power of emotions and stress to affect disease risk when I travel to Israel for a tour of that country's unique collection of health spas, fitness centers, healing retreats, and wellness facilities.

While there, in Northern Galilee, particularly, I visited the home of a former professional basketball player named Doran Sheffer, who I interviewed in a podcast called Why You Get Cancer and What To Do About It,

which I'll link to on the resources page for this particular chapter. Now Doran had been an amazing athlete. He was an achiever, a hard charger, a so-called professional person.

As a guard for the dominant college basketball team, Yukon, he fed the ball to star teammates like Ray Allen and played for legendary coach Jim Calhoun.

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