ESSAY: Who Knows Best?

Distrust of our instincts and intuitions is an essential part of medical control

If, as the systems-theory dictum has it, “the purpose of a system is what it does,” one purpose of the modern medical-industrial complex is to make people doubt their instincts and intuitions about health. But even more than that, the medical-industrial complex also takes those instincts and intuitions, throws millions of dollars at them and then sells them, repackaged, as “groundbreaking research” we’re all supposed to marvel at.

I was thinking about this today, when I saw a report about a new study that links cardiovascular health to brain health. Turns out, the better your cardiovascular health, the less likely you are to suffer cognitive decline as you age.

Who would have thought? Being fit protects your brain! It’s almost as if your brain is part of your body…