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We’re All Healthy, We’re All Sick

Savala Nolan
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readAug 18, 2023

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The truth is that all bodies are well and all bodies are not well. All bodies are healthy and all bodies are not healthy. Health is a dynamic, multi-faceted state, not a binary. Very few of us are “healthy” or “sick,” period. Most of us have systems in our bodies that function really well, and ones that benefit from support. We may live with depression, but have the blood pressure of an elite athlete. We may be metabolically fit…

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Savala Nolan
Human Parts

uc berkeley law professor and essayist @ vogue, time, harper’s, NYT, NPR, and more | Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins | she/her | IG @notquitebeyonce