Financial networth—spanning the continuum from poverty to wealthy—is well understood. Applying that same concept to quality of life from an inner, biological perspective is both revealing and life-changing. Quality of life—or its lack—is determined by the value and synergy of your functional capacities: what are you able to do physically today? Ten years ago? Ten years from now? Why can't you do at 65 what you did at 20?

Bionetworth is both defined and cultivated by specific practices that nourish the essence of being alive. The concept of bionetworth engenders a new perspective of the human condition while expressing both theoretical and practical means to enrich your journey through life: it is a rigorous, multidisciplinary approach dedicated to the discovery of the cause and sustainability of vitality. Our proposition is that you are not just either dead or alive. No, instead there is a degree of aliveness that transcends the superficiality of any measurement: How alive are you?

There are three steps to building bionetworth:
1. Philosophy. Realize the preeminence of bionetworth and commit to the idea of enhancing the long-term quality of your life.

2. Concepts. Learn what to do and what not to do about preserving and enhancing the quality of your life. Start this learning process by reading Confessions of the Human Genome: Revealing Nature's Wisdom to Increase Your Physical & Mental Potential.

3. Implementation. Learn about the principles of An Operating System for the Human Organism and the ideals established by The Six Laws of Biological Preservation. Start this learning process by reading The Digital Mantrap: An Operating System for the Human Organism.

The Digital Mantrap: An Operating System for the Human Organism
The Digital Mantrap is a training program for business professionals that provides a comprehensive and unified approach to enhancing quality of life, achieving physical fitness, and cultivating a vibrant, dynamic lifestyle. The Digital Mantrap showcases the program's content by telling a story about how technology has disconnected the nourishing bond between us, as a species, and our long-lost natural habitat and illustrates how technology has historically damaged our well-being and biological function.

While the story unfolds, The Digital Mantrap aggressively dismantles, one by one, a multitude of popular but erroneous diet, exercise, and "anti-aging" belief systems. Then, from a foundation of concrete, peer-reviewed evidence, you are presented with Six Laws of Biological Preservation, which, when implemented, serve as An Operating System for the Human Organism. Destined to be the incubator of many interesting conversations, never before has there been such a unified system of such sweeping scope that not only tells you what to do but also why to do it—and what the inevitable consequences are if you don't.

Once you begin The Digital Mantrap, there is no turning back. You will never think of how you adapt and survive in this world in the same way again. The story is told in a provocative manner that weaves technology, history, insight, satire and powerful metaphors into a fabric of great strength. You may assume that the health problems that plague the digital man are age-old problems while actually most of our perilous ills are unintended consequences of backfiring technology. A sedentary lifestyle coupled to chronic, high stress, sleep deprivation, and fast, fat, hollow nutrition has devilishly bred a digital mantrap that is on an accelerating trajectory in lock-step with every new technological feat.

By the time the story ends new discoveries and, consequently, new priorities will spontaneously emerge within your mind: you will be compelled to reconcile the diabolical paradox between economic cost of living and biological cost of living—and their direct bearing on your quality of life. The Digital Mantrap will be both a shocking wake-up call and inspiration for you to change your compass setting 180 degrees now.

Publisher's comments
Quality of life: what is it and how do you achieve it? Imagine a story narrated by the human body about its own interpretation of food, physical activity, and stress through the millennia: The Digital Mantrap chronicles this eye-opening journey from before the invention of the spear all the way to the wireless device. You will be taken on a guided tour of the origins, causes and effects of obesity, aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer, adult-onset diabetes, osteoporosis, and dementia—and learn how to sidestep them by reconnecting to your own body's long-forgotten wisdom. Once you see, first hand, the impossible odds the human body has of overcoming the catastrophic side effects imposed by myopic technological advances, you will appreciate how to enhance the quality of your own life by simply doing what your own body expects and needs to maintain robust health. A 10-year study based on over 800 peer-reviewed references, The Digital Mantrap presents six, integrated Biological Laws of Preservation, an intuitive prescription for quality of life as drafted by the human body's original primordial health plan—and meticulously and irrefutably reinforced by scientific research on every level of complexity from molecular to organismic to ecological.

The Digital Mantrap: An Operating System for the Human Organism is the in-depth reference textbook for The Six Laws of Biological Preservation. The Digital Mantrap also serves as an introduction to the implementation of An Operating System for the Human Organism.

First Printing in April 2000, approx. 600 pages, 6 illustrations by Richard Noble Carter, plus tables, histograms, graphs, pie charts, over 800 peer-reviewed references, 6 by 9 inch format, jacketed, hardbound, ISBN 0-9678487-0-9, US$55.00

Confessions of the Human Genome: Revealing Nature's Wisdom to Increase Your Physical & Mental Potential
An astonishing trend has been cultivated for over 20,000 years… call it technological divergence. Since the invention of civilization, Homo sapiens have had a single-minded purpose: reduce the physical cost of living to zero. But there are increasing biological and ecological costs as mankind's lifestyle diverges from our genome's programmed expectations and disconnects from our symbiotic relationship with nature. Envision the American lifestyle in 1950… in 2000… and now, fast-forwarding fifty more years, imagine a very possible future world where you have a personal vehicle that can fly on autopilot at 500 mph. You have a digital servant—better known as an avatar—that knows you better than you do. Just about anything you want to know is a verbal wish away. Your work is mental work; you create and process information by conversing with virtual reality holographic sunglasses with built-in microphone. Your avatar lives as a heads-up display on the special sunglass lenses. For your entire life, you live and work surrounded by steel, concrete, plastic, and glass, while in physical contact with noise, air, and water pollution.

You have a lifespan of 105: longevity is achieved by prolonging poor quality of life—call it managed disease care. Death is prevented for 105 years. In that time, you will be obese for 85 years and will manage diabetes for 75 years. You will be depressed more often than not. You will have two heart attacks and three angioplasties. From practically your first breath until the last, you will consume literally tons of fast food and heavily processed food byproducts composed of genetically-altered beef and poultry, highly refined grain products, dairy, trans-fatty acids, saturated fat, high-fructose corn syrup, synthetic flavoring ingredients, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, herbicides, and hormones. Your odds of colon cancer are greater than three out of four, and Alzheimer's, one out of two. You personally don't know anyone who exercises; your body hasn't experienced sweat from physical exertion in over 25 years. Your biological net worth hovers around the poverty level, decade after decade, while your financial net worth experiences the miracles of compound interest.

The year is 2053. Scientists have developed the technology to talk—in plain English—to the human genome. What wisdom can mankind learn from direct conversations with the human genome? By the way, these circumstances may be depressing but this story is not.

Confessions of the Human Genome: Revealing Nature's Wisdom to Increase Your Physical & Mental Potential is a primer to The Digital Mantrap: it serves as a conceptual framework and background for the Operating System and its Six Laws of Biological Preservation.

First Printing in October 2002, 334 pages, over 900 peer-reviewed references, 6 by 9 inch format, jacketed, hardbound, ISBN 0-9678487-5-X, US$29.95