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Jun 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
To be human is not just to breathe; it is also to control one's breathing by yogalike techniques so as to hear in inhalation and exhalation the literal voice of God pronouncing his own name, hu Allah.
#IvanIllich
Cultured health is bounded by each society's style in the art of living, feasting, suffering, and dying.
Each person's health is a responsible performance in a social script.
How he relates to the sweetness and the bitterness of reality and how he acts towards others whom he perceives as suffering, as weakened, or as anguished determine each person's sense of his own body, and with it, his health.

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When you step into a hospital, you can see that no healing in a traditional sense takes place there. Sick man gets woken up routinely or prevented from sleeping at all times. There is no food, fresh air, or sunlight. No family or neighbors at his bedside at all times. /1
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Jun 14
If you want to write scientific drivel, two important points:
1. (mis) definition - this will confuse the most number of people;
2. etiology - second layer of protection so the confused will remain confused.
emedicine.medscape.com/article/117853…
When you observe reality, what sense you make of it will make or break you. Modern western scientific outlook will mostly break you.

We dwell in Reality of Hard Knocks. Figuratively speaking, taking a pain pill not to feel the knock is wrong.
If we ignore the locus where the illness occurs (inside or outside) and the nature of disease (physiological or way of being), these “dysfunctions” are functions.

Why they occur is debatable. Resulting from: what follows is a judgement call of your own selection.
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It is physically impossible to solve the sickening circumstances through the use of medicine applied to individuals. People who live in some circumstances that make them sick will become sicker if you treat them for what is not an individual malady.
The way researchers pose questions in a certain framework that outlines thinking affects what solutions happen as a result of the scientific enterprise.
Sleep is good. It used to be a non-controversial observation of reality. We now need a randomised controlled trial to see the exact physiological response of some arbitrary chosen parameter such as some fatty acid during sleep deprivation.
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When the lockdowns let up, I was summoned to talk to a very young woman about giving birth. There are two ways to go about it - scientific and passionate. The latter works./1
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