Topics
Body
CIRS & sick building syndrome
What happens when a water-damaged building sets off an immune response that doesn't switch off, why standard testing misses it, and what actually helps.
Supplements for mold exposure
Which binders work, why drainage comes first, and how to sequence a protocol.
The vagus nerve and CIRS
Why you feel exhausted and foggy while a standard panel looks normal.
Does mold cause acid reflux?
How mold exposure produces reflux through the airways and the immune system.
Can mold cause swollen lymph nodes?
What swollen glands mean after mold exposure.
MCAS vs MCS
Mast cell activation vs multiple chemical sensitivity: how they differ, how they overlap, and the research that MCS may often be mast cell activation.
MCAS symptoms
The full mast cell activation symptom list by body system, the episodic multisystem pattern that flags it, and how it is confirmed.
What causes multiple chemical sensitivity?
The proposed mechanisms behind MCS, from receptor and nervous-system sensitization to mast cells and detox genetics, graded by evidence.
Low dose naltrexone
LDN is prescribed widely for fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, autoimmune conditions and chronic pain, often by the practitioners people reach after conventional treatment hasn't helped.
The vagus nerve
The vagus nerve carries the body's main inflammation-control circuit.
Do vagus nerve stimulation devices work?
Some do. What each type of device has actually been shown to do.
Vagus nerve maneuvers
How vagal maneuvers like the Valsalva slow a racing heart, which one works best, and when not to use them.
Mind
Delayed sleep phase disorder
What it takes to shift a late body clock: the evidence for timed light and melatonin, the role of genetics, and whether the shift holds.
The science of trauma
How trauma changes the nervous system, why it produces physical illness, and what shifts it.
What is a dysregulated nervous system?
Symptoms, how it's measured, why it causes physical illness, and what actually helps.
What is dorsal vagal shutdown?
The collapse state: numbness, dissociation, can't-even paralysis, and how you climb back out.
What is the window of tolerance?
The arousal zone where you can think and feel at once, what narrows it, and how to widen it.
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn
The four survival responses, the physiology of each, and why you default to a pattern.
What is the fawn response?
The people-pleasing survival strategy: how to tell it from real kindness, why it forms, and how to unlearn it.
Dysautonomia
Autonomic nervous system disorders like POTS: what drives them and what actually helps.
What is dysautonomia?
The umbrella explained: the autonomic nervous system, the types, the symptoms, the causes, and how it is diagnosed.
Hyperadrenergic POTS
The norepinephrine-driven subtype: racing heart, tremor and physical dread mistaken for anxiety, and what actually treats it.
Can dysautonomia be cured?
Why "there is no cure" is misleading, which forms improve or remit, and the approach that actually moves it.
Dysautonomia testing
The autonomic function tests that actually diagnose it (tilt-table, QSART, catecholamines), the thresholds, and an at-home stand test.
Spirit & philosophy
Comparative frameworks
The major positions on ultimate reality, mapped against each other.
The God Models Map
Four answers to what ultimate reality is, compared across eight questions: existence, consciousness, suffering, morality, purpose and death.
Panentheism vs pantheism
One syllable apart, and it changes whether you can pray to anything, whether you survive death as yourself, and what relationship even means.
Physics and metaphysics
Where the science actually is on questions the traditions got to first.
Does consciousness create reality?
What quantum physics actually says, what the recent Wigner's friend experiments show, and where that leaves the older traditions.
The simulation hypothesis
What the simulation argument actually claims, the assumption it hangs on, whether it can be tested, and why a simulated reality might still be real.
AI and consciousness
Examining and understanding artificial intelligence and the question of machine minds.
Scripture and practical wisdom
Older frameworks for the same problems, read carefully rather than decoratively.