A meal is a temporary arrangement of living things you invite into another living thing — you.
What is a meal?
Before we talk about protein or carbohydrates, notice this: a meal is not a nutrition label. It's a small ecosystem — plants, animals, fungi, and minerals — meeting the ecosystem inside your body. Everything else in this app is a way of getting curious about that meeting.
Every meal does at least three things: it supplies energy, it supplies materials for repair, and it changes the environment inside your gut. Most meals do all three at once, in different proportions.
A meal can be as small as
- · An apple
- · A boiled egg
- · A bowl of rice with soy sauce
- · A handful of almonds and tea
Something to investigate
Think about the last thing you ate. What do you think it was mostly doing for you — energy, repair, or shaping the gut environment?