What if by artificially reducing the intensity of the pain, you prolong it.
Then, it manifests in ways you are not aware of.
Not all pain is physical.
Feel your pain.
Let it have its moment.
People think radiology provides ground truth information about the state of the body.
This is not true for many reasons.
The most important to realize is that any given imaging modality communicates with the body along one field/medium.
E.g. ultrasound conveys information using sound (acoustics) as the medium of exchange.
Xray or CT conveys information using electron emissions.
MRI conveys information using quantum spin magnetization.
This is true with every mode of diagnostics.
The body and mind exist, and thus, communicate along many dimensions.
But, we only survey this information using a narrow selection.
For those of you who read my Substack, I just published my first audio post.
Akin to a monologue, but I suspect may be the beginnings of a podcast.
There's tons of interesting people I want to exchange ideas with.
Would really appreciate feedback - about anything. Whether it's audio quality or equipment, content, pace, etc.
Much love.
For quite some time I've been thinking about what is going on in this digital alternative medicine space, and what my role would be in it.
I've come to the conclusion that I am in the business of formulating stories and distributing belief.
One of the reasons why the current medical establishment continues to enjoy majority market share is because the people, by and large, believe in the framework of health and disease that corporate medicine is selling.
More than that, it is the de facto framework against which alternative hypotheses are considered.
The media and schools help support this.
By propagating the ideas nested in the modern corporate paradigm, the institutions cement these ideas as the de facto belief system about health and disease.
Which means radicals like myself, are always swimming upstream, so to speak.
For each statement I make about an aspect of health, I have to spend another 3-5 statements unpacking what people have been propagandized to believe.
So what am I doing out here?
Truthfully, I don't really want to sell you a supplement.
I've spent my academic time (both pre and post-Substack) trying to understand several different disciplines and ways of looking at the body & disease.
Because if you truly believe some of the principles I discuss, then your operating manual for navigating health changes drastically.
And, that's enough for me.
I'm weaving a story.
That's it.
I recently discovered that what we teach medical students and doctors about the nature of cerebrospinal fluid is flat out wrong.
In some ways, even backwards.
This is the first part exploring the evolving research:
We should be more focused on health of the brain involved in emotion regulation, cardiorespiratory function, feeding regulation, threat analysis, balance, posture, & instinct.
Far too concerned with higher cognitive function, and complex pattern recognition.
Our obsession with higher cognitive function, ie. complex pattern recognition, has come at the cost of adaptability and longevity provided by functions of the basal ganglia & brainstem.
Not that we should have none of either, just in a proportion that isn't manifest in health decay.
My wife recently delivered our second child at home, naturally.
Something she taught me, that seems to stand in contrast to the typical masculine motif:
Get your mind out of the way, and let the body do its thing.
Something we can all learn from.
