Amygdala vs. frontal lobe

Okay, so I might have this backwards, but I'm pretty sure the amygdala part of your brain is active during impulses, while the frontal lobe is active when you stop to think and reason. I'm pretty sure that the general public is thinking with their amygdala way more than they should.

I was inspired to write this from a Seasonique commercial. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's a birth control pill that brings your total periods from 12 per year to 4 per year. They even ask during the commercial "who says that time of the month has to be every month?" Well, I'll tell you, Mother f-ing Nature says so!

Why do we keep screwing with Mother Nature? We keep trying to have our cake and eat it, too. There are so many things out there that go against nature, like IVF, Splenda, and plastic surgery. Why can't we just be satisfied with how things are and know what our limits are?

I agree that there are some "fake" things that we need, like life-saving medications, but I think this whole thing is getting a little out of control. Yes, we women get periods every month. Yes, it sucks. But I don't think it's very healthy (no matter what anyone says) to screw with that. I think we just need to accept it.

Just like we need to accept the fact that cookies are not good for us, or that soda is bad, or that ice cream will make you fat. Messing around with this stuff so that we can eat the chocolate chip cookies for fewer calories is (in my opinion) worse for us than the real thing. Think about all the fake crap that goes into making these foods. And we wonder why, after poisoning our bodies with this stuff, there are more cases of diabetes and cancer and obesity.

What happened to restraint? To doing what's best for ourselves, even if we don't like it? I know some women just absolutely need to have children, but if their bodies won't, for whatever reason, become or stay pregnant, there's probably a reason. And there are other options than pumping your body with drugs just to fulfill some selfish desire of being pregnant (really, it's not all that it's cracked up to be).

And don't get me started on plastic surgery. It's only necessary in severe cases, such as burn victims and kids with cleft lips. Everyone was born looking different- it's part of what makes us special. So why implant silicone all over our bodies, just to look like a different person?

Wake up, people! Use your frontal lobe! Obviously, there's a correlation between all this fake stuff and all these health problems. Everyone just needs to learn to control their impulses, take a step back, and really think about what they are doing to themselves.