Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging

“Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.” — these bold words of Jorge Cruise, a teacher of modern wellness, strike like a thunderclap against the long-sleeping mountains of human belief. They awaken in us the awareness that much of what we have accepted as truth is but the echo of ancient error — the repetition of customs that soothe the mind but chain the body. For generations, we have been told to count, to restrict, to obey, and to conform; yet sickness grows, spirits weaken, and the flame of vitality fades too soon. Cruise’s cry is not rebellion alone — it is a call to rediscovery, an urging to look within and reclaim the forgotten harmony between body, mind, and soul.

From the earliest civilizations, man has sought the secret of youth and strength. The Egyptians embalmed their dead in the hope of immortality; the Chinese sages brewed elixirs that promised eternal vigor; the Greeks raised temples to gods of healing. Yet time revealed what the wise always knew — that health is not a formula to be memorized, but a balance to be lived. The tragedy of the modern age is that we have placed science above wisdom, numbers above nature, and convenience above truth. We eat not to nourish but to numb, we rest not to restore but to escape. And so, though we know more than our ancestors, we are weaker in spirit and poorer in vitality.

Consider the story of Hippocrates, the father of medicine. He taught that food should be our medicine and the body our temple. Yet even in his time, men preferred the physician’s potion to the discipline of a pure life. Centuries have passed, and we have not changed. We believe that youth can be purchased, that health can be bottled, and that aging is an enemy to be feared rather than a teacher to be honored. Cruise’s words tear away this illusion. He reminds us that the truths of health and longevity are not found in laboratories alone, but in the quiet laws of nature — in how we eat, move, rest, and think.

And what is aging, truly? It is not the counting of years, but the dulling of the spirit. One may live seventy winters and still possess the vigor of spring if his heart remains unburdened by fear, resentment, or excess. Yet another may be thirty and already ancient, his eyes dim with exhaustion, his will broken by vanity. The error lies not in the body but in the mindset we have been taught — that growing old is decay instead of evolution, that slowing down means losing worth, that beauty fades when youth departs. The wise of old would laugh at such folly, for they knew that the human being, when aligned with nature’s rhythm, can flourish at any age.

Look also to the life of George Hebert, the French naval officer who founded the “Natural Method” of physical culture. He taught that true strength lies in agility, endurance, and simplicity — that the body should be trained as nature intended: through movement, breath, sunlight, and purposeful labor. His soldiers, trained by this philosophy, survived hardships that destroyed others. Yet his teachings were dismissed for modern fads and artificial systems, as society once again forgot that the key to vitality is not in complexity, but in returning to what is elemental and true.

So, when Jorge Cruise declares that everything we’ve been taught is wrong, he does not mean that science is false, but that our understanding of life has become hollow — focused on appearances rather than essence, on control rather than connection. To live well, one must unlearn the teachings of fear: fear of food, of fat, of time, of imperfection. Health is not punishment; it is freedom. The body thrives when nourished with love, the mind sharpens when calmed by gratitude, and the years become gentle companions when we live in harmony with ourselves.

Therefore, O seeker of truth, let this lesson take root in your heart: unlearn what numbs you, and relearn what renews you. Eat as the earth intended — clean, whole, and alive. Move daily as your ancestors did — freely, joyfully, without machines or vanity. Rest deeply, breathe fully, and guard your thoughts as you would a sacred flame. For the wisdom of health is not hidden in the new but rediscovered in the ancient. The moment you cease to chase youth and instead nurture life, you will find that aging itself transforms into grace, and every breath becomes an act of renewal.