Anxiety, depression and mental unhealthiness stem from the ancient ego’s incompatibility with modern society

Just like weight-related physical handicaps and diseases, so too are anxiety, depression, and general mental unhealthiness symptoms of the incompatibility between our bodies’ ancient wiring and modern society.

The pace of change in our bodies, designed and guided by the gradual evolutionary process of natural selection is like that of a snail alongside the fighter jet pace of change in our modern society. It is in the widening space between these two rates of change that people suffer from new paradigms of disease. One disease paradigm we are as a society well aware of and actively working on all fronts to tame. The other we are as a society concerned with, but has yet to be broadly accepted as a paradigm of disease that requires a consequential shift in how we operate.

The disease we take seriously is physical. Advances in agricultural and industrial technology have powered a transformation in which some varieties of food — much of it sourced from grain or corn — have become available en masse at very inexpensive prices in many areas across western societies. Despite these rapid advances, however, our bodies remain hard-wired by the ancient forces of evolution to continue craving calories — especially fast-burning carb-based calories…