Long COVID still has no cure — so these patients are turning to research
Lyme disease: (Caveat: This is a personal experience, not a double-blind study.) Reaching deep ketosis (for me, 3 to 6 mmol) through fasting, then continuing with calorie-restricted keto for a week, completely eradicated symptoms of Lyme disease when all else failed.
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Many scientific theories assume constructs that are not directly observable (muons, genetic drift) but whose existence is inferred. In mental health research, psychiatric diagnoses play such a role. We assume that constructs, such as schizophrenia or alcohol use disorder, exist but we can only observe the signs, symptoms, and course of illness that... See more
Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy
What does it mean to have a disease doctors can’t diagnose? Why had it taken me so long to get answers in our hyperdiagnostic age, in which you can get a diagnosis for everything from shyness to sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (also known as “ice-cream headache”)?
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Our suffering, our diagnosis and our treatment are far from objective or apolitical. If you are a marginalised person, your experience of all three of these things is likely going to be worse.
Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
these new diseases are stubbornly unknowable. They exist without cause, course, or cure. They are nothing more or less than their self-reported symptoms. They are metaphor as illness.
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
To qualify as a disease, a condition has to have a known originating cause (an etiology), be expressed through known processes (a course), and respond in particular ways to treatment.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Western science and modern drug testing depend on the ability to isolate a single variable, but it isn’t clear that the effects of a psychedelic drug can ever be isolated, whether from the context in which it is administered, the presence of the therapists involved, or the volunteer’s expectations. Any of these factors can muddy the waters of causa
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