When we introduce food (or food-like) substances to our bodies, there’s a biochemical process that immediately takes place. Our digestive system begins breaking down large compounds into smaller ones capable of being absorbed and, hopefully, utilized by the body. And, what’s the body looking to utilize? You guessed it—essential nutrients.

We each have, roughly, 37.2 trillion cells requiring 43 essential nutrients to grow, heal and live. That’s our biology. You don’t have to like it. It just is. Like gasoline to the internal combustion engine, 43 essential nutrients are our fuel. To get 43 essential nutrients everyday, is to provide high-test fuel for our 37 trillion engines. To not, means trouble down the road.

In a modern day diet, where taste, calories and convenience hold far more value than nutrient content, there’s an insidious war being waged within our bodies. As we digest and assimilate what little nutrient value exists within our food, our body prioritizes its disbursement to the 37.2 trillion cells requiring their fuel, beginning with our vital organs. Brain…check. Heart…check. Lungs…check, check. Then, the balance of our cells are left to battle it out for the remainder of what began as deficient nutrient content anyway. That’s right. 37.2 trillion cells (less the brain, heart and lungs) are in a giant UFC octagon, slugging it out for whatever they can grab to sustain them. As you might expect, this internal waring has a debilitating effect on health. This effect has a name—inflammation. And, inflammation has a massive connection to chronic disease.

Satiety, on the other hand, is the homeostasis condition that exists in the body when it has enough essential nutrients to go around. There’s no more battling. There’s no more waring. 37.2 trillion cells are happy.

Who needs satiety? Everybody! It’s far, far, far more than the sense of feeling full. Sure, you’ll get that too, and it lasts much longer than fullness from calories and volume, but along with satiety comes a vast array of health benefits not otherwise present.

You have to experience it to fully understand it. So, the next time you’re making the choice between that cinnamon roll and Yevo Power Oats 43, remember. You’re the peace keeper and you’ve got a few trillion cells depending on you.

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