It's easy to blame "lifestyle" and "environment" as the cause of people's illnesses.
Don't get me wrong, it is true.
Most of our health is downstream to our choices.
But, our choices are downstream to something else.
Something more pernicious, and harder to see.
We have been lied to about what we are, how we work, and what our role in the universe is.
The healthcare revolution cannot be without a spiritual awakening.
I asked one of the most esteemed neuropathologists at an Ivy academic medical center:
"What if we have glioblastoma (brain cancer) all wrong?
We believe that tumors start small and grow outward.
What if the diseased state of the nervous system is converging on a point that we then see as 'tumor' at a particular location in the brain?"
His answer shocked all of his colleagues and trainees:
"I've never been asked that question before, and now that I think of it...I don't know how we can claim it is one or the other."
Centralized medicine is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on brain cancer treatment and research...cutting out large chunks of peoples' brains...
and we haven't even answered this most basic question.
In my opinion, the whole of society has been oversold and under-delivered on the utility and value of vaccines.
Including:
The public who pay (thru tax) for the research, development, and administration of vaccines.
The doctors who are indoctrinated to administer them.
And, the people who are expected to take them at increasing frequency.
All of this seems plausible when you consider the types of entities that stand to profit from their mandated and widespread adoption.
A criminal history to rival any.
With immunity from legal persecution.
You are completely within sound mind to question this blatant invasion into our lives.
You'd be crazy not to.
If you improve your health by making changes to your lifestyle, you will no longer be heavily dependent on your health insurance policy.
Very likely through your employer.
Which means you remove an element of power your employer may have over the decisions you make for yourself.
What if you could implement a couple of changes to your routine, hit them consistently, and improve your health at least as much as any prescription drug is doing.
The best part?
You save money on the drug.
And, no side effects.
This is what I'm interested in.
This is decentralized health.
Recognize you are an entire body, surrounded by an entire environment which exists on many more dimensions than you can see, or hear, or smell, or touch.
And by hitting all of them, with small improvements here and there, you get the same benefit across your entire body.
Because some of the most common and worst illnesses and costs to life and society are heavily modulated by improvements in all sorts of modalities.
Including heart disease, strokes, diabetes, obesity, cancer...even osteoporosis.
You want to tell me one prescription drug is going to hit all of these things simultaneously?
Without proportionate increase in side effects and cost?
These days prescriptions drugs are designed to target one metric or abstraction.
Which means you gotta take many of them.
This is one of the lowest yield approaches to improving most people's health.
Chronic disease is the manifestation of consistently poor decision making.
And people are offended by that, because it is a judgment on their daily routine, and fundamentally their character or disposition.
You don't make 1 decision to get chronic disease.
You are constantly repeating at least one mistake.
Others are constantly repeating many mistakes.
Let's assume for a second that mainstream medicine is correct: that there are diseases in which the body does something that harms itself.
You think you are going go to war against your body?
You think you are going to win?
You think there will be no collateral damage?
Fools.
At this point in fatherhood, I've realized that the rate at which my child learns is limited by how much I expect them to understand.
The more I believe in him, the faster he learns.
If I had to articulate a moral principle to underlie an ethical framework for doctors (and indeed any other humans), it would be this:
Strive to walk the path of the Holy, rather than play god.
The circulatory system is a hyper-dynamic and infinitely complex interplay of Newtonian biomechanical factors, organ function, electrophysiology, and light signaling.
It's time to re-build our understanding of blood flow, blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease.
Understanding Blood Flow & Pressure | Part 1
To get a grasp on hypertension, why it happens, and how to treat it...we need to completely reframe our understanding of the circulatory system.
The more we try to insulate ourselves from nature, the sicker we get.
Everything from the clothes and skin-products we wear, to the houses we live in, to the urban atmosphere we create...insulates us from nature.
The food we eat. The water we drink. The air we breathe. The electromagnetism we bathe in.
All synthetic.
All detach us from nature.
With chronic disease at all time highs.
It is no surprise that people who live in locations in which the balance of nature is disturbed, are sicker.
"Infection" is, at base, dysbiosis or microbial proliferation.
Either the local environment of the microbe has changed.
Or, it has been introduced into a new environment.
In either case, the microbe's terrain has changed.
Germ Theory is a special case of Terrain Theory.
Germ Theory Is Incomplete | Part 2
After a full year of ruminating on this topic, the time has come for Part 2 of this conversation.
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.
Latest free Substack:
Doctors could make less money.
Doctors Could Make Less Money.
And, maybe they should.
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.
Monologues | 1. This I believe.
This is the first installment of the solo audio transmissions I committed to doing earlier this month.
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:
What Neurosurgery Got Wrong | Part 1
We have been taught for over a century that cerebrospinal fluid is made in the ventricles, and flows in a specific manner. But, is it made in the v...
