One Disease

Institutional science is structured to go deep not wide, leaving no one inside allowed to step back. Each piece has been studied meticulously, over decades, with expert precision, by generations of researchers and clinicians. Medicine itself documented what we just walked through. None of our blind spots exist because of a lack of data; they exist because the data lacks a home: a place where people are allowed to connect them.

The neuroplasticity and associative conditioning that wires in disease and dysfunction can be used intentionally to wire it out. The disease our bodies have been practicing can be unlearned. Medicine is already doing this for allergy desensitization, we just need to expand those same types of practices to other diseases as well.

Through this same work we can learn to extinguish the threat that is wired into connection. We can’t go back to tribal living, there is no way in our modern world to create the conditions that our hypothalamus expects. But we can learn to stop blocking the snacks that are available to us. We may never be able to get a full three course meal, but if we’re actually able to eat the snacks, that can be enough.

And for people whose alarm is too loud, or too entrenched, whose need signal and threat chemistry are blaring, we now have a pharmacological intervention that addresses the upstream cause rather than playing whack a mole with downstream expressions. We supplement with vitamin D because modern life moved us inside and we don’t get exposed to the sun at the levels we evolved for. We moved away from tribal living and aren’t getting the level of social engagement we evolved for. That’s where GLP1s come in.

For some people just neuroplasticity work alone will be enough. For some GLP1s alone will be enough. And for most, to get fully back to mental and physical health, will require both.

Germ theory identified the upstream cause of acute infection and we finally stopped dying from infectious disease. Now that we know what the upstream cause of chronic disease is, we can finally treat it at the source.