(It is truly amazing how many myths persist about the human body.)

The question was: Can girls get as strong as guys?

The question is so freaking loaded it’s not even funny.

Which girls are she referring to? The wafer thin almost anorexic no muscle tone types or  are we talking about women such as Camille Leblanc-Bazinet or Julie Foucher?

Which guys are she referring to? The metro sexual, effeminate murse wearing types or are we talking about men like Denis Minin and Rich Fronning?

Honestly I have heard this argument over and over how men are genetically stronger than women.

My question is then how does one explain hysterical strength?

• In 2006, Ivujivik, Quebec resident Lydia Angiyou saved several children by fighting a polar bear until a local hunter shot it.

• In 2012, in Glen Allen, Virginia, 22-year-old Lauren Kornacki rescued her father, Alec Kornacki, after the jack used to prop up his BMW slipped, pinning him under it. Lauren lifted the car, then performed CPR on her father and saved his life.

• In 2013, in Oregon, teenage sisters, Hanna (age 16) & Haylee (age 14) lifted a tractor to save their father pinned underneath.

The debate continues whether or not “hysterical strength” ever exists. I really don’t care what you call it, acts of super human strength in the most unlikely people has been witnessed and documented time and time again.

Or how do you explain the following from Scientific American :

In this study, J. Bruce Moseley of the Houston Veteran¿s Affairs Medical Center and his colleagues randomly placed 180 osteoarthritis patients into three treatment groups: debridement, lavage, or sham (fake or false) surgery, where a surgeon would make incisions in the knee, but not cut or wash out any cartilage.

Neither the patients nor their health care providers knew which group the researchers had placed them in. For two years, patients continually evaluated their knee pain, while doctors examined their walking and stair-climbing abilities.

The results show that at every point in the investigation, all three groups reported an equal degree of reduction in pain and increase in activity level.

Moseley and his collaborators thus conclude that the placebo effect can account for the observed improvements; the surgeries do not appear to have any significant effect on the actual physiology of the disease.

Our biggest enemy is our own, as the late Zig Ziglar, would say, stinking thinking.

Many of us fall under the prey of what Deepak Chopra (MD / endocrinologist / author) calls, the hypnosis of social conditioning. This is where we believe what our peers tell us, without questioning or investigating on our own.

If we do not question what the mainstream tells us then we will fall victim to its lies.

Things are no always what they seem. Especially when it comes to the body. We are just skimming the surface of what the truth really is. (See Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.)

Breaking the shackles that bind us to pure nonsense, when it comes to our own potential, is the first step toward a life of limitless possibilities.

If you are familiar with the mentalist, Derren Brown, than you are all too familiar with his theatrics and his uncanny talent for busting free from the fallacies that we unfortunately continue to believe even to this day.

In one episode entitled, Derren Brown: Fear and Faith, focuses on the placebo effect.

Brown sets up a fake pharmaceutical company, ‘Cicero Pharmaceutical Solutions’, which claims to have developed a drug named ‘Rumyodin’, with the ability to inhibit fear. In actual fact the pill is a placebo that is merely sugar. The placebo effect, amplified by the convincing façade of Cicero, helps most of the subjects of the fake clinical trial of Rumyodin overcome their fears. It is shown that Brown repeated the experiment with separate groups, to each of whom it was claimed Rumyodin had different beneficial effects, such as smoking cessation and allergy relief, again with positive results. By the end of the program Brown reveals that ‘Rumyodin’ is an anagram of ‘your mind’.

He clearly shows the power of the mind on the body. He literally blew my mind and also confirmed what I knew, our minds lead our bodies, and vice versa.

There are many myths, old wives tales, superstitions, out right lies, and mus-information that exist when it comes to our body.

Here is a short list of just a few:

1. Memory loss is inevitable.
2. Slow metabolism makes you fatter.
3. You will catch a cold if you go out in freezing weather.
   
4. We only use ten percent of our brains.
5. Sugar makes kids hyperactive.
6. A high SPF will fully protect you from skin cancer.
7. Calories counting is all that matters for weight management and health.
8. Nothing will age you faster than the sun.
9. Brain damage is always permanent.
10. Cholesterol is the major cause of heart disease.

It sure would have been a lot easier if we were given an owner’s manual when we were first-born. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way, and we are left to figuring it out by ourselves.

We oftentimes rely on others to tell us what many times we already intuitively know. But I guess its part of the process of being human.

It’s a constant learning and re-learning (unlearning) process.

In conclusion, the human body is a miraculous and awe inspiring masterpiece. It all starts with our minds and what we choose to believe or not believe.

The most powerful tool you have to your health and well-being is your mind.