You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine
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You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine
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#2Wim Hoff [1] is a great example of someone who can turn a lot of the knobs on his metabolism that aren't available to most of us. Apparently, he says it's something you can learn to do. If these researchers got more concrete about how patients can learn to do this and to get physiologically measurable effects, it would actually certainly lower health care costs.
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#3> He hit on strawberry milk mixed with green food colouring and essential oil. Its bright colour and overwhelming lavender flavour creates a bewildering mix of sensory cues, like drinking a violent, bittersweet battle between green and purple.
> So far, Schedlowski has shown that after being associated with CsA, the drink reliably induces immunosuppression in healthy volunteers, creating on average 60–80 per cent of the effect of the drug.
Interesting.
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#4You can do a lot just by deciding that's what's happening. Spent years with a mystery vomiting illness. Wallowed in my misery. One day, decided "I'm better now" - and lo and fucking behold I've been fine for a year.
Anecdotal, sure, but either the illness or the cure was in my head.
Also... Rasputin and the Romanovs - he could stop Alexei's bleeding (haemophilia) with a phone call, when physicians had had no joy - the boy took after his father and was deeply devout.
Anyway. Interesting stuff.
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#5I used to be able to create a variety of physiological effects by focusing on them long enough. Especially in terms of heart rate, temperature, or even a mental high. Been out of practice for a long time. I will say that two I really wanted to do nearly on demand were equivalents to caffeine and good sleep. To this day, I can't eliminate the need for or problems following lack of either. ;)
Re: You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine
#6Wim Hoff [1] is a great example of someone who can turn a lot of the knobs on his metabolism that aren't available to most of us. Apparently, he says it's something you can learn to do. If these researchers got more concrete about how patients can learn to do this and to get physiologically measurable effects, it would actually certainly lower health care costs. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
Interesting. There has been at least one study about him and his techniques:
Healthy volunteers practicing the learned techniques exhibited profound increases in the release of epinephrine, which in turn led to increased production of anti-inflammatory mediators and subsequent dampening of the proinflammatory cytokine response elicited by intravenous administration of bacterial endotoxin. This study could have important implications for the treatment of a variety of conditions associated with excessive or persistent inflammation, especially autoimmune diseases in which therapies that antagonize proinflammatory cytokines have shown great benefit.
Full paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379.abstract
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#7This is very similar to what Wim Hof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof) is now verifiably able to do. He's made headlines recently with his ability to control his immune response, which was previously thought impossible.
Tim Ferriss has a pretty interesting interview with him, minor language barrier notwithstanding: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/09/07/the-iceman-wim-hof/
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#8Anyone who is interested in mind over matter should check out Dr. Sarno's work - http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body...
Similar to the vomiting poster, I had/have a longtime chronic nerve pain issue in my arms and legs that this book was tremendously helpful in managing. While fixing bad posture and a variety of other things helped, this book helped me get to the point where most days I'm in no pain.
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#9Interesting stuff indeed, and it comes with a giant implication that few want to face. In the US, a country that so embarrassingly struggles with the finance of health care, preferring to insert inessential insurance and bloated pharma industries between patients and decent health outcomes, we have to expect that the news that treatment itself may be optional will be most eagerly received by those industries. It is not good to hand a fig leaf such as this idea to industries that profit from withholding care.
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#10So, the immediate followup: drugs out there that I could preemptively condition myself for that would be particularly useful in the future. Like, could I condition an epinephrine response so I have a more reliable response to an unknown allergy than hoping someone has an epipen?