Excellent post, Nita! I've been thinking for some time that the future for medicine and extending our lives is going to come from the combination of big data + AI so a lot of what you're describing makes sense to me.
I think both camps are fallible and have their respective strengths and weaknesses. Western medicine is very population-based while Ayurveda tends to be more personalized for each individual. I plan to cover these points in more detail in next week's edition!
Glad I found you. You confirm my own wellness journey. I was an Arivale customer, then did a deep dive with the short-lived P4 Medicine shouldered by Dr Leroy Hood after Arivale folded. Too early for the market.
Now I am using Viome products daily with annual testing. I’d like to tell my story to help others in living a healthy life.
Somehow I feel “acquisitive mimesis” correlates with disease.
I hunch we don’t so much want to heal ourselves but rather murder our weakness, our illness. And current modern medicine fits this “kill box” concept perfectly.
Do you know of any research on this subject? Thank you for your work.
Hi Tom, really cool that you were part of the first Arivale cohort! I really enjoyed reading The Age of Scientific Wellness by Hood & Price.
In my mind, there are quite a few parallels between acquisitive mimesis and the communicability of non-communicable diseases through shared risk behaviors.
The dissonance between the kill and nourish concepts is perhaps best exemplified by the chasm between Pasteur's germ theory of disease versus "le milieu intérieur,” a model developed by Claude Bernard that stressed the importance of a healthy internal environment to guard against infectious threats.
Excellent post, Nita! I've been thinking for some time that the future for medicine and extending our lives is going to come from the combination of big data + AI so a lot of what you're describing makes sense to me.
Thank you
Thanks, Michael! I'd love to learn about your thoughts and ideas too.
I like your 5 M's but I like even more your description of the *way* or approach that is holistic, integrative, personalized.
I've been hearing more about Ayurveda recently, and wonder how that lines up with your insights relative to western pathologizes-specialized medicine.
I think both camps are fallible and have their respective strengths and weaknesses. Western medicine is very population-based while Ayurveda tends to be more personalized for each individual. I plan to cover these points in more detail in next week's edition!
Glad I found you. You confirm my own wellness journey. I was an Arivale customer, then did a deep dive with the short-lived P4 Medicine shouldered by Dr Leroy Hood after Arivale folded. Too early for the market.
Now I am using Viome products daily with annual testing. I’d like to tell my story to help others in living a healthy life.
Somehow I feel “acquisitive mimesis” correlates with disease.
I hunch we don’t so much want to heal ourselves but rather murder our weakness, our illness. And current modern medicine fits this “kill box” concept perfectly.
Do you know of any research on this subject? Thank you for your work.
I’m 75 and still a student of life.
Hi Tom, really cool that you were part of the first Arivale cohort! I really enjoyed reading The Age of Scientific Wellness by Hood & Price.
In my mind, there are quite a few parallels between acquisitive mimesis and the communicability of non-communicable diseases through shared risk behaviors.
The dissonance between the kill and nourish concepts is perhaps best exemplified by the chasm between Pasteur's germ theory of disease versus "le milieu intérieur,” a model developed by Claude Bernard that stressed the importance of a healthy internal environment to guard against infectious threats.
I expound on these ideas a little further here: https://www.nitajain.com/p/the-myth-of-modern-medicine
Thanks for the discussion, and great to meet another lifelong learner.