What influences our health up to epigenetics and how Yoga helps us to be healthy

by Bianca Garms

Most of us only realize how important health is when we are sick. As Arthur Schopenhauer said: "Health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing." We despair when our bodies can't do what we want. We are desperately looking for help to get us back on our feet and make the pain disappear.

Our body is a miracle, because although environmental toxins, e.g. through unhealthy diet, lack of exercise and generally unhealthy lifestyle weaken it, the body compensates for this for a long time. But not forever, and at some point the famous barrel overflowed. We simply haven't paid attention to our body – partly unconsciously due to environmental risk factors, but also often consciously – and we get sick. But there are also other causes that make us sick. Very few people are aware of these causes.

What are these unknown causes that make our bodies sick? In Au