HumanaNatura was founded by the natural health advocate Mark Lundegren as a resource for people to better understand our opportunity for increased health, fitness, and quality of life through new, scientifically-derived natural health techniques.

In the HumanaNatura program, four specific natural health techniques – natural diet, natural exercise, natural living, and natural health promotion – are combined to form an integrated approach to natural health, one that seeks to fulfill HumanaNatura’s ideal of progressive health-based life (life continually seeking new individual and community health and vitality).

Today, through our global network of natural health practitioners and community advocates, HumanaNatura is a growing worldwide natural health movement, promoting a modern transition to health-based living and working to advance new ideas and approaches to health in individuals and communities. Our work now reaches countries and communities around the world, rich and poor alike.

HumanaNatura’s natural health education and advocacy foster important new health awareness and transformative rethinking of human well-being and quality of life. Our natural health techniques reveal modern health science’s potential to enable new and more compelling forms of human life amidst advanced civilization – life that is based on and seeks progressive expressions of our natural human health and vitality. We encourage action toward this potential principally through the practical development and fulfillment of individual and community-level natural life plans.

As you will learn through our natural health program, HumanaNatura natural life plans aim to improve the health landscape of our individual lives, and larger communities and global society, by encouraging pragmatic, continuous steps toward increasing levels of health. Our plans seek to systematically eliminate health limiters and foster new health enablers, in a compounding process of learning and action that is transformative, synergistic, and open-ended.

Our diverse worldwide community
To help you get a better feel for the global community and health movement that is HumanaNatura, we can tell you that our members live on every continent and come from most countries. We represent every race and are equally comprised of women and men. HumanaNatura members are young and old, and every age between. We are a diverse community, and yet, there are some common things about us too.

Most HumanaNatura members come to our community during a search for greater health and well-being in our lives. Many question the values and priorities underlying daily life today in cultures around the world, which seem to limit and even actively undermine our health and quality of life.

People frequently come to HumanaNatura suspecting that new levels of health and personal fitness are available through a closer connection to nature and natural life, even if the steps we must take to achieve this connection are unclear. A large portion of our community members first come to HumanaNatura physically fit already, while others come with seemingly intractable health problems they had been unable to adequately understand or correct.

Beyond a common interest in improved personal health and vitality, HumanaNatura’s practitioner community also shares a commitment to actively utilize, explore, and promote the ideas and techniques contained in our natural health program. Through these scientifically-derived natural health techniques, HumanaNatura members progressively develop their health to new levels, enriching and strengthening their lives and often remaking their priorities and goals for the future.

As part of a practitioner community dedicated to health-based and more cooperative approaches to modern life, HumanaNatura members also work to support one another in our pursuit of new health and well-being, and to help visitors to our community gain new appreciation of the life-transforming opportunities available to us through greater awareness of our health and increasing harmony with natural human life patterns.

How HumanaNatura defines "natural health"
A good way to understand the HumanaNatura natural health program, including our foundational ideas and overall approach to achieving progressive health and well-being, is simply to consider the term natural health, which is used in a variety of ways today that greatly misinterpret or obscure the true nature and foundations of our health.

For some people, including some working in well-known national and global health organizations, natural health is thought of quite narrowly and sometimes quite dismissively. For them, natural health means simply the avoidance of compounds not found in nature – for example, in the foods we eat, in home and personal care products, and even in medical treatments. On the other hand, many other people think of natural health more far actively than this, as the intentional avoidance of harmful compounds or the deliberate use of natural and organic compounds for therapy, whether to provide relief from symptoms, or to mitigate negative aspects of modern life and various forms of unhealthy living.

For HumanaNatura, the potential for and effectiveness of such natural health therapies is a legitimate domain for scientific inquiry, but this general approach to natural health often suffers in important ways in our time. Many so-called natural health programs are not fully scientifically-based and even can be overtly indifferent to scientific research, especially when objective research does not support advocated or financially-viable therapies. Because of this, the term "natural health" is sometimes greatly weakened, or even actively misrepresented, by people seemingly participating in the natural health field.

The term “natural health” is also used to take advantage of widespread popular sympathies toward nature, creating costly, market rather than health-oriented, and sometimes quite exploitative health food, health supplement, and health promotion enterprises. The result is the pervasive and sometimes quite dubious natural health product marketing we see in the developed world today.

HumanaNatura aims to correct these less than ideal approaches to our natural health by demonstrating scientifically-based natural health information and techniques that can provide near immediate and lasting changes to our health and quality of life. As we suggested before, HumanaNatura’s definition of natural health differs from these overly-narrow and insufficiently-rigorous ones in important ways, with critical consequences for individuals, communities, and public health officials and policy-makers.

HumanaNatura’s ideas regarding natural health, underlying each of our natural health techniques, are based on a broad range of scientific discoveries and models of health developed over the last century or more, and particularly in the last thirty years. Because much of this science is still so new, many of HumanaNatura’s ideas about natural health may be very different than what you have been exposed to before, and perhaps will seem counterintuitive and even quite uncertain at first.

For HumanaNatura, natural health is the state of all successfully adapted natural life. Because people have evolved out of our long evolutionary niche in wild nature and have now lived for centuries without adequate understanding of this earlier niche – including its natural health-promoting features and our resulting states of natural health – pursuing natural health today, amidst advanced civilization, is inevitably a process of applied science.

In advanced civilization, our pursuit of natural health is a progressive practice of creating more optimal human conditions, by using science to promote greater health and quality of life, individually and collectively, at all times and over time. This use of science includes first better understanding how health is created and maintained in nature, in humans and other forms of life, and then exploring how these natural processes might be utilized to progressively enhance the health and vitality of our individual lives and larger communities today.

The important implications of this very different, and intentionally quite specific, definition of natural health are far-reaching and even quite profound in practice in our lives and for our global society. HumanaNatura’s definition of natural health leads to startling new conclusions about how we should live in our time, and about how people might live in future times.

If you would like to test your own understanding of some of HumanaNatura’s key ideas about natural health, you can take the HumanaNatura Health Quiz. The quiz takes just a minute or two, and the answers will acquaint you with several important principles and a few common misconceptions about our natural health. Simply click the Health Quiz link in the Resources section of our website to take the quiz.

Our common natural origins
To underscore HumanaNatura’s new and scientifically-oriented thinking about our natural health, we would add that there is at least one other attribute that all HumanaNatura members share, regardless of where they live or which natural health techniques they have brought into their lives. This attribute is equally shared by you and all other people visiting our health community and learning about our revolutionary natural health techniques. The shared attribute we have in mind is our common human ancestry, our common humanity, our common human origin in nature.

As you may know already, modern genetics has confirmed what had been hypothesized by scientists for over a century – all humans alive today are related to one another by a common natural origin, and we are all the product of an ancient natural process of evolution from simpler human and pre-human species. Scientists, in fact, can now reliably trace our universally-shared ancestors to a distinct cluster of more advanced and fully-modern Homo sapiens bands or tribes of people who first emerged in sub-Saharan Africa. Our shared ancestors migrated across and then out of Africa between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, dominating other, less highly-evolved human tribes and many other animal species in this migration, and eventually creating the first true human settlements.

Whatever your race, nationality, gender, social group, or interests and aptitudes today, you share an identical origin and most of your genes with all other people alive in the world today. Each of us is recently descended from a single natural human ancestry and part of a new human lineage, one that is young in evolutionary terms and that had distinct advantages over earlier forms of human life. And each of us, with our distinct and common modern lineage, are products of the same process of natural evolution on Earth and its inherent quality of promoting natural health and species vitality.

This use of new scientific knowledge about our human past in nature, as well as the science of our opportunities for enhanced health and quality of life in our own time, is the starting point of HumanaNatura’s comprehensive and ground-breaking approach to natural health. Our use of modern science is how we have begun to demystify and better understand our natural human health and the practice of its progressive enhancement, and to correct and greatly expand the idea of what it means for us to be naturally healthy and well in an advanced society.

The science of our human past and origins of our health in evolving nature, as well as of our requirements and potential for new and progressive health today, applied thoughtfully and creatively in practice, is the source of all of the transformative techniques you will learn about and then utilize yourself in the HumanaNatura natural health program.

Health transformation is possible
If you are new to HumanaNatura, or to modern evolutionary and health science in general, you are probably wondering if HumanaNatura’s natural health techniques really can transform your health and quality of life as we have suggested, and exactly how the HumanaNatura program works. We will cover both topics next.

Because we are apt to underestimate or live with limited awareness of the tremendous scale of prior historical changes imbedded in the world around us, including their many important impacts on our natural health, HumanaNatura’s natural health and well-being techniques, and the progressive pursuit of health-based life itself, prove unexpectedly transforming for most people. HumanaNatura community members and others using our natural health techniques regularly report dramatic changes in their physical health and fitness, unexpected improvements in their feelings of life satisfaction and well-being, significant development in their daily outlook and orientation toward the others and the world, and overall, a much higher quality of life – with a renewed and revitalized sense of purpose, focus, and natural harmony in their lives.

If you want, you can review our Testimonials page to get a feeling for the life and health transforming changes possible through the HumanaNatura program.

In practical terms, HumanaNatura’s natural health techniques involve achieving a greater understanding of and connection with our long-evolved human living patterns in wild nature. By this, we mean ensuring that essential requirements from our natural legacy are met in our modern lives today – initially in the way we eat and our general activity patterns, and then in our overall life structure – to create conditions for a resurgence in our original natural health and a new foundation for continually improving vitality and well-being in our lives.

Importantly, the pursuit of our natural health through HumanaNatura includes augmenting or replacing aspects of earlier civilized life and even natural foraging life that prove limiting to our health and quality of life today, amidst advanced technological society. This combined exploration, utilization, and re-thinking of elements from our human past reflects HumanaNatura’s scientifically-based, pragmatic, and progressive approach to natural health promotion.

To create motivating and realistic expectations as you begin to explore your own natural health potential through HumanaNatura, we should add that our natural health program is intended as a lifelong and ongoing approach to improved health and quality of life. The HumanaNatura program emphasizes continuous, progressive, and compounding change toward the goal of ever greater health in our lives and communities.

As we suggested before, the HumanaNatura approach advocates and relies on progressive health-based change – small, additive, and ongoing health-seeking adjustments and improvements – which, when sustained and built upon, set the stage for significant and even transformative changes to our health and lives.

Rapid change through small steps
How can small steps lead to large changes in our health? Because small, continuous improvements in the direction of greater health, when sustained and used as a foundation for further improvements, become naturally synergistic. Health-based change builds on itself, and rapidly leads to compounding or exponential transformation and a basic shift in the quality, focus, and health of our lives and communities.

As our health, health-awareness, and quality of life improve though preliminary and progressive natural health efforts, we gradually develop new ideas and perspectives on our lives and personal potential for health and quality of life. We begin to see ourselves, our communities and social environment, and natural life around us in important new ways, particularly in terms of their impacts on our health and vitality. We are thereby able to foster increasing and better directed change in our lives over time, and achieve new health-based progressivity that steadily but increasingly remakes us as people.

By gradually harnessing new scientific insights and bringing new health-promoting practices to our lives, we soon find we can live in a simple yet profoundly different new way, a way aided by science and specific natural health techniques, but one ultimately open-ended and quite personal, engendering ongoing and highly individualized change in our heath and new creativity in lives. Thus, while often a revolutionary process for us, the HumanaNatura approach is also one that always works in an evolutionary way – through deliberate, practical, self-validating, and advancing steps that simply seek increasing personal and community health each day.

For all of us today, the task of first restoring our natural health and then progressively improving our health and realizing new quality of life is a scientifically-informed but creative process of systematically replacing health-limiting behaviors and beliefs in our lives and social environment with health-enabling ones. Common areas that limit our natural health begin with our approach to food and eating, and our exercise and physical activity patterns, but soon go on to encompass much more significant domains of our lives. They include the goals and priorities we use to organize and shape our daily lives, our own personal patterns of thought and action, the ways we think about the world and relate to others, and even our degree of access and relationship to wild nature and natural life.

Because the HumanaNatura program encourages continual learning, it is often different things to different people, and as often, different things to each of us at different points in our lives and our exploration of our health and well-being. For some of us, HumanaNatura is a diet and exercise program that helps us achieve our optimal body weight and much higher levels of physical fitness.

For others, HumanaNatura offers support and inspiration as we work to break free of limiting beliefs and behaviors in our lives and to live in new, more powerful, and more health-oriented ways. For still others, HumanaNatura is an ongoing conversation about health-based life in our advanced civilization, a place where natural health practitioners from around the world can gather together to explore and promote our many opportunities for healthier and more progressive human life, today and for the future.

HumanaNatura program objectives
As we have introduced already, HumanaNatura’s natural health program is quite straightforward in its approach and based on new but now well-established scientific ideas about human life and health in nature, as well as other science-based opportunities for increased health and vitality today. Our program has five major objectives, each of which works systematically to transform our health and quality of life in an individualized, compounding, and open-ended practice of personal development:

1. Health Awareness – HumanaNatura’s natural health program begins by grounding us in the basic idea of our natural health – what natural health is, the source and key natural dynamics of our human health, how natural health is initially achieved and then progressively increased in society today, natural limitations on our health that we can overcome, and the transformative imperatives and opportunities our potential for progressive natural health creates in our lives and communities today.
   
   
2. Natural Diet – the HumanaNatura program then explains the principles of a natural diet, creating the first conditions and essential foundation for lifelong, progressive health-based living. This early focus on diet and the importance of natural eating allows us to realize near immediate health and fitness improvements, create positive feedback and new personal momentum through our efforts, and more fully appreciate the transformational potential of HumanaNatura’s natural health program. With simple, sustained changes in our diet, most people achieve surprising health improvements in just a few weeks.
   
   
3. Natural Exercise – once the foundation of a natural diet is in place in our lives, HumanaNatura’s natural health program turns to natural exercise – what natural exercise is, why it is essential to human health and well-being, and how we can simply and enjoyably achieve natural conditioning throughout our lives and with great benefit to the quality of our life. You will learn how just a few minutes of natural exercise each day can work to restore and maintain high natural levels of physical fitness and emotional health in us, helping us to more deeply engage in our lives and connect with the world in important new ways.
   
   
4. Natural Living – as our personal health improves and life perspective begins to become more heath-oriented through natural eating and exercise, the HumanaNatura program next moves to the critical ideas that we use to structure and guide our daily lives, which we call the work of natural living. In this important, far-reaching, and highly personalized part of the HumanaNatura program, we will help you explore new ways to think about and pursue health and well-being across the totality of your life, including seizing the many opportunities we each have to transform ourselves and the quality of our lives through changes in our perspectives, priorities, and personal choices.
   
   
5. Community & Outreach – once we begin the work of natural living, we are often significantly transformed and strengthened as people, compared to when we began the HumanaNatura program, and are considered an advanced natural health practitioner by the HumanaNatura community. At this stage in our pursuit of natural health, we are typically much more physically healthy and fit than most modern people. As importantly, our ideas about our health and even our own lives have often equally been greatly expanded and enriched. Often, we have made significant changes in the way we live, enhancing our health and well-being and more directly fulfilling our personal potential for healthy life, and gaining the experience to begin to help others to pursue health-based life. It is from this new and often revitalized place that the final part of the HumanaNatura program begins: the task of community, supporting and reaching out to others in the spirit of our health and actively promoting health-based life, in an accelerating, open-ended, and mutually-beneficial process of human growth.

By helping us to fulfill these five objectives, HumanaNatura’s natural health program creates new personal gateways to the future for each of us. They are gateways that share important common dimensions and yet are deeply individualized and our own. They are paths leading to new places and more compelling life opportunities for us, created by our increasing health and personal power, but emerging in our own life circumstances and uniquely for us. Our own gateways lead to new lives that are often far more satisfying and fulfilling, more dynamic and self-sustaining, and even more humane and creative than we might have thought or imagined possible.

As you will learn through HumanaNatura, our natural health is even a shared gateway for all people, one that encompasses all our lives and leads to a new future – where each of us can live more cooperatively with others, and explore more fully who we are as individuals and what we might become together, in communities and as a global civilization dedicated to the progressive expression of our human health and well-being.

We invite you to begin the HumanaNatura natural health program today, and to contact us through the Contact Us or Ask A Health Question links on our website whenever you have questions or issues you want to discuss. We are available if you need support or guidance at any time, or if you simply want someone to speak with in confidence as you consider the many ideas and challenges that come as you begin to pursue progressive natural health in your life.

We also would enjoy welcoming you as the newest member of our growing global community of natural health practitioners, at whatever stage you are on the path to greater personal health and well-being. Simply click the Join Us link on our website for more information on becoming a member of HumanaNatura today.