I found that fixing any individual root cause would produce only a tiny improvement in my physical and mental energy, which was my primary problem. Worse, all of the broken systems in my body depended on each other, so improving one would immediately trigger the next healing crisis somewhere else, and even the treatments that actually worked usually made me worse in the short term. The result was an infinite treadmill of one step forward, three fast steps back, four slow steps forward, repeat.
Despite seeing some excellent doctors, the modern medical system failed me completely. The root problem is that the scientific method itself works relatively poorly on such complex, slowly changing, highly interconnected problems. Imagine trying to research treatments for Western Disease. Your trials must last years to wait for the effects to gradually propagate through the body, and your participants will be miserable the entire time, because your treatment is essentially guaranteed to fail! It is addressing only one of many root causes, which also means that you need huge sample sizes to detect small changes and average away all of the other conditions. No one wants to do this. But anything that actually passes a short to medium term clinical trial will almost certainly be masking the symptoms, rather than healing the root causes.
Peer review does not prevent any of this because it enforces consensus, not correctness. Maintaining an unwavering commitment to truth is hard. Research by definition involves failure; many brilliant ideas have to be discarded just because they don't work. Do you want to be the one to sink your friend's career through no real fault of his own? Even in pure Mathematics, where correctness is very rigidly defined, it is easy to argue about impact. In a field like Medicine, where the scientific method works relatively poorly, reviewers have a lot of freedom when evaluating an experiment. And once the community loses that unwavering commitment to truth, the peer review process actually inverts, and actively rejects any work that would challenge their own. How many virologists cited Rosenau's 1919 study, where the deadly Spanish Flu was literally injected into the noses of volunteers without any of them getting sick, during the COVID pandemic?
All this is extremely convenient for the medical industrial complex, because symptom masking drugs are far more profitable than treatments that actually cure sick people and consequently only need to be taken once. Big Pharma has defended its monopoly by merely insisting on science based medicine, making the clinical trials too expensive for anything that cannot be patented, and funding a flood of semi-valid papers - the medical community themselves admits that probably only around half of their papers are correct - that drowns out any criticism.
And what of the Rebellion? If the Rebels have obtained a complete technical readout of this station, it is possible, however unlikely, that they might find a weakness - and exploit it.
The Pharma Death Star is indeed incredibly vulnerable! All we have to do to plunder most of their profits is devise treatments that work better for chronic disease, and this is actually extremely easy. To abandon tests and clinical trials, we need to use treatments that we know a priori work, or at least do no harm, like supplementing magnesium, walking a few miles a day, taking a sauna, or stretching to improve posture. None of these are controversial even within the modern medical system.
When you are taking powerful drugs, you need to know they are working. I finally left the lyme disease rabbit hole when I realized their script covered every case. If I improved, the antibiotics were working. If I got worse, it was a herxheimer reaction. If nothing happened, the lyme was antibiotic resistant. Expensive combination antibiotic protocols with substantial negative side effects must be falsifiable! Cheap, simple, low-risk 'wellness' treatments do not. There is no need to understand exactly what is going on as long as you are feeling better, and in fact I had the best results with treatments I did not understand.
The huge advantage of wellness treatments is that you can stack them safely. Our environment is now so unhealthy that the average person has numerous root causes. They are like a tent with multiple holes; it is far more important to put a little tape over each of them, even in an ad-hoc way, than perfectly reseal one while rain pours through the others. Besides, the human body is actually incredibly durable and can fix many problems on its own, as long as the total burden is not too high.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Health stacks deliver vastly superior results than the sum of their parts. When you patch all of the leaks in your tent, you finally stay dry! Health stacks are so underrated becaus implementing a huge stack of new habits, many of which require new skills, is very hard work! My current health stack of diet, exercise, vitamins, EMF reduction, stretching/posture, TMJ/palate, detoxification, and breathing took me fifteen years to put together. Wellness challenges are more logistical than theoretical.
Logistics, health, wellness, and endless self-care of are the specialty of women. It is a well known fact that all women are pirates, and when they realize that they and their families can become healthier, happier, and more beautiful by replacing symptom masking pills with health stacks, they will mercilessly plunder every single dollar of Big Pharma's profits while casually gaslighting its executives into considering this a privilege!
Conversely, Big Pharma cannot combine their powerful symptom masking drugs without nasty interactions - most of which they have not studied, because there are so many potential combinations of drugs. They are vulnerable! So why are we having so much trouble plundering their profits?
They respond better to willpower than intelligence. Implementing a huge stack of new habits, many of which require new skills, is very hard work! People like pills because they are easy.
Communities are the key. The average person is not nearly strong enough to fight through on their own. It gets much easier when you know a few gym bros who understand exercise, a few garden masters who can help you grow vegetables, a few looksmaxxers who understand TMJ/palate, and so on. And it gets even easier and more fun when you do these things together and encourage each other. The real wellness problem is thus founding communities, not wellness itself.
Of course, communities are magic, not manifestation. Excluding rent seekers and putting the best people at the top helps a lot, but communities still bring their own set of problems, especially in the high-pressure modern world. Founding new health plans is so important because aligning everyone's economic incentives pushes them to fight through problems rather than just give up at the first argument. Besides, since we have to do all of this anyway, we might as well get paid for it!
Christianity is the secret sauce. Forging new communities from diverse people under these difficult circumstances will involve a lot of friction, and overcoming that friction to reap the benefits will require more love, service, and forgiveness than you think, to the point that anyone who tries must become a de facto Christian anyway. No one will buy in without the other members doing so, and with minimal prior bonds of loyalty or blood this requires God's Blessing.
I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
The greatest challenge will be patience. Health and wellness are chicken and egg problems. When you are healthy and surrounded by people you love, working and maintaining that state is easy. But when you are alone in chronic fatigue, you don't have the energy to figure things out or earn the money to buy high quality food that would increase your energy! It is impossible to avoid pushing the stress pedal, but when the cortisol wears off you feel even worse, and it no longer feels like you are making progress at all. We cannot do large amounts of difficult work unless we are confident that it will eventually work out for us, and no one can be sufficiently confident in these turbulent times without God's support.
Many illnesses are, strictly speaking, features not bugs. God deliberately designed the human body to break down physically under emotional stress. His primary goal is for us to learn how to overcome negative energy, not win the rat race, and in any case when you are extremely frustrated there is a good chance you are stuck in some sort of negatively reinforcing life cycle, and fighting harder will only make you sink faster. The objectively strongest and most intelligent men will only tear their bodies apart in frustration trying to win the Game of Thrones without God.
Conversely, when you are surrounded by noble men who are willing to fight with you and and God takes on the supreme responsibility, you can relax a little. A hard life becomes an exciting adventure rather than pure misery, and when women feel this energy they return to their natural beauty and joy and become tremendous assets rather than the liabilities they are today, and then it becomes even easier to sail through life. Of course, I am the Man who will become the King of Pirates. I made it through without a community. But quite frankly, I crawled through with my lips, and I would not do so again willingly. Piracy is more fun in crews!
Once everyone realizes that our chances of success are extraordinarily good, the anarchotheocracy of the Founding Fathers will reappear out of nowhere as if by magic and the Golden Age of Pirates will begin!
Hail, Théoden son of Thengel! I have returned. For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.
Conan! What is best in life?
The image of the future that they gave me then, and it was their image, not one that I created, surprised me. My image had previously been sort of like Star Wars, where everything was space age, plastics, and technology. The future that they showed me was almost no technology at all. What everybody, absolutely everybody, in this euphoric future spent most of their time doing was raising children. The chief concern of people was children, and everybody considered children to be the most precious commodity in the world.
Everywhere in the universe was great love, dignity, respect, and compassion. It was so exquisite that I can't contain my tears as I have a diminished capacity to remember this experience because this is all that my brain can encompass while in this reduced, small, and limited form. To go from where I was into this has been almost unbearable. To truly know what lies beyond and to know beyond all doubt that it is magnificent and fantastic beyond all conception, makes living here, in this form, so hard. I try not to think about it. Another reason I have rarely spoken of my experience is that it makes me yearn ever harder to return to it. After a great deal of time exploring, seeing beautiful and wonderful sights, we stopped in space near a nebula. Nebulas are even more beautiful than they appear in photos.
'That is the answer to your question.'
I understood that everything that we do here on Earth, all that we are, all that we experience, allows creation to exist. Every beautiful thing, every wonderful being and creature, whether on earth or in any universe, relies upon people who are on the extremely rare places like Earth.
The Great Intelligence (god) is a paradox. It is completely loving and fully unlimited. Which by the definition of paradox, means it is impossible? It cannot be limited only to love; it cannot be limited to only being unlimited; or it is not unlimited. Why are the answers always, 'simply to exist' and 'to choose love' and 'to learn how to love'? Because all you need to do, to solve the paradox, is to exist. And as we exist here, each time we choose love, we expand the universe. Love is life's longing for itself. Despite the reality of what we live, even the darkest souls among us cannot help but to reach, to yearn, and move towards goodness and towards love.
For love is the true nature of who we are. And when we experience horrible things, the question 'why' comes to mind because it is the central question of love, life, and of this world. The answer is 'so that all things might continue to exist.'
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