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...
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.
Wife and I just delivered our newborn at home on our own, in water.
Midwife arrived in time to snip the cord and examine the placenta.
Alhamdulillah.
Clinical Trial Scams 101:
Assess symptom severity: e.g. 1-12 points
Batch scores into groups of 4, e.g. scores 1-4 = group 1
If person moves from severity of 9 to 8, they move from group 4 to group 3.
Report as 25% reduction in arbitrary group score.
But only 8% in severity.
At some point during the transition into large-scale education, medical school and licensing exams went from testing your knowledge to telling you what to know.
Students and doctors mostly memorize correct answers.
These people weren't bred to think for themselves.
Modern mainstream medicine was not built "on the shoulders of giants."
No.
It killed the giants, harvested its organs, and sold it for profit.
This is #fiat medicine.
Everybody and their grandmother is being prescribed statins to lower cholesterol because "LDL = bad"
Ever wonder, just how much risk is being reduced by this highly mitochondrial poison we call statins?
In a meta-analysis of 18 clinical trials (which typically look at the highest risk patients with pretty bad cardiovascular disease), all cause mortality was reduced by 0.8%
That's it.
New-onset diabetes with statin use has been observed in about 10% of people who have taken it for a few years.
Evaluating the Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Relative and Absolute Effects of Statin Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - PMC
What is the association between statin-induced reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and the absolute and relative reduc...
I've had enough back'n'forths with people about cholesterol and statins, that I decided to write an article outlining some of my thoughts on the matter.
Check it out:
Statins Suck.
And why preventing your body from making the most important building block is a bad idea.
Why is 'muscle pain' the most commonly reported and recognized side-effect?
Because it is the only one you can really FEEL.
I believe that most of the damage statins do to the body, you don't really 'feel.'
Not acutely.
Most of the damage is slow, low-grade, and insidious.
Exercising while taking statins can be dangerous.
Increase energy needs of your body whilst simultaneously suppressing the energy-generating machinery?
Unfortunately, this is the recommendation from most physicians to "reduce risk"
Recipe for disaster.
Any doctor who blindly encouraged, pressured, or coerced you into getting the covid vaccine does not deserve your trust.
Simply because this behavior reflects a lack of critical thinking and presence of mind.
You don't want a doctor who practices from a place of fear.
