My goal
My Goal
My goal is to help you and as many people suffering long term complications from chronic health issues.
I hope you find this guide useful and insightful.
Please feel free to interact in My Biohacks telegram group.
There are a ton of resources there and on the websites blog.
If you feel you need further guidance, I still have coaching available, but my physical and chronological capacity is limited.
First Edition
As this is my first edition of this guidebook, it is not as layman friendly as I would like it to be, but my goal for this first edition is to make it as layman as possible.
So I will try to keep scientific jargon to a minimum and use analogy and metaphor as much as possible to help relate.
I hope to in further editions, having more sections with more scientific jargon in hoping these terms becomes more mainstream.
A few parts of this are me speaking directly voice to text, while other parts are surmised from the scientific literature.
Not Your Savior
If you are waiting for someone to come save you (like a miracle pill from an institution), you will not get better.
We can pour billions of dollars into long covid research just like we did for Alzheimer's, heart disease, cancer, and decades later still be stuck without FDA approved treatments and left with sick-life cash grabs.
You absolutely have to take health into your own hands and be your own advocate.
Just like no one is going to save you from debt, or starvation, or homelessness.
We are all born alone and die alone, making connections along the way and learning how to be resourceful.
You can be your own doctor and scientist.
You have the power, and when you're sick YOU MUST THINK GREATER THAN HOW YOU FEEL.
If the past and politics had anything to teach us, waiting for some great breakthrough to happen in the medical realm will unlikely to happen anytime soon.
What Are Complexification Systems?
The body is not a mystery, but it is magical.
Remember the body is a complexification system.
That means it has many differentiated parts and they can integrate together at the same time.
Think of your hand, you have five fingers you can move independently (differentiated), but you can also use your whole hand to grab a cup (integrated).
Another example is your heart.
You don’t have one heart, you have a left heart and a right heart (why you hear two pumps per beat), but they work together (integrated).
We have a lot of differentiation in this world (called “diversity”), but not enough integration (called “community”), in my opinion.
In this sense, hyperfocusing on one supplement, mechanism, treatment, etc is what is called "overfitting the data".
It limits your ability to see more patterns, which for me was a big problem with my K-12 experiences.
I'm not going to get into controversies about indoctrination here, but it's important to be able to break your pattern to be able to see things in a clear light.
Have You Ever Seen The 9 Dot Problem?
You're supposed to connect nine dots using four lines.
Most people can't solve this, even if you tell them to "think outside the box".
When you show them how it's done, they tell you you cheated, but you did not give them any other rules then connect nine dots with four lines.
They set that mental block by using previous experience with childhood activities like connect the dots.
Your brain does is to conserve energy and it's human to use your experience to see the world as it is.
This is a big system of the reticular formation and Default Mode Network (DMN) and I will discuss that later in a chapter about the Limbic System (LS) and Reticular Activation System (RAS) as well.
I Have Something To Say
Even as a kid I’ve only spoken up when I’ve had to say something.
Now here’s something I have to say and I hope to provide as much value to you as I know how.
Now tell me…
What are your goals?