The Human Operating Manual

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Neurodegenerative

Neurodegenerative Contents I. The Brain as an Energy System Under Strain II. What the Diseases Share III. The Major Diseases IV. The Causes V. The Toolkit VI. The Treatment Frontier VII. Know Your Markers and Your Risk VIII. Where to Bring In Medicine IX. Summary X. Cross-Links Why the brain’s cells falter and die.   […]

Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome Contents I. The Root Cause II. Insulin Resistance and Visceral Fat III. A System Built for Scarcity That Is Drowning in Abundance IV. How Dysregulation Becomes Disease V. The Food Environment VI. Where the Fights Are VII. The Convergence VIII. How to Reverse It IX. Know Your Numbers: The Metabolic  Panel X. On […]

Cancer

Cancer Contents I. The Rebellion Within II. Cancer Is Evolution, Happening Inside You III. The Genetic Lens IV. The Metabolic Lens V. The Immune Lens VI. The Prevention Lens VII. The Convergence VIII. What This Means IX. The Reality X. Cross-Links What cancer is, why the body’s own cells turn against the whole, and a […]

Sickness, Healthspan, and Longevity

Sickness, Healthspan, and Longevity Contents I. The Body as an Economy of Damage and Repair II. The Hallmarks of Ageing III. Healthspan, Not Lifespan IV. Measuring How Fast You Are Ageing V.  The Longevity Field What Works What’s Promising Too Ambitious VI. Tying It Together Why the body breaks down. The foundation of this section, […]

Autoimmunity

Autoimmunity Contents I. The Foundation II. How Tolerance Fails III. The Causes That Converge IV. Diet and Trigger Foods V. The Foundational Toolkit VI. The Frontier VII. Know Your Markers VIII. Where Self-Management Meets Medicine IX. Summary X. Cross-Links What happens when the body’s defence system loses the ability to tell self from invader? Autoimmunity […]

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

When the Body Says No The Cost of Hidden Stress Author: Gabor Mate Topics: Psychology, emotional competence, autoimmunity, cancer, disease All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original […]

Med and Pharm Resources

Medical & Pharmaceutical Industries: Resources Start Here Goldacre, B. (2008). Bad science. Fourth Estate. The best single starting point for evaluating any health claim, conventional or alternative. Goldacre, a physician and epidemiologist, teaches the reader to see placebo effects, regression to the mean, bad statistics, and media distortion, and he turns the same rigorous lens […]