It'd be easy to disregard these writings with a TL;DR. It's a lot, but if you ever find yourself in a similar situation (and funny, at some point you probably will), having the tools and knowledge I'm providing are highly valuable. Knowledge insurance. When things should work and they don't.
We've been brought up and taught, at least since the 80's, that antioxidants are not just good for us, they're essential for one's health and longevity. That's accurate in some context, and backwards in another. Chronic dietary supplementation of antioxidants are potentially dangerous. Hmm, realistically, they simply are dangerous.
Really? That sounds bogus!
Of course it does. When you're brought up to believe something, and everyone around you has been brought up and taught the same, a unified belief creates the illusion of truths and facts. In this particular matter, we have the foundation of science to make the determination for us as to what works, and what doesn't.
The human body is run and maintained by an unimaginable array of balances. Incredibly, among such unfathomable complexity, even more mechanisms are in place to re-balance imbalances. Eesh! However, there are limits. We're pretty resilient so limits can be soft, exceeded, and re-instated. In fact, we're built for excessive allowances, which determines adaptation or failure. The latter is quite unfavorable. Might sound like a crunchy snap. Maybe prefaced with a "Hey watch this!!"
To humanize my experiences, this blog helps express some of the experience. It's a bit wetter than the vast whitepapers and literature I've read, the many thousands of images perused, the MS Office documentation written. Some people like spreadsheets. Most don't. I've learned to. Took a long time before finally documenting what I was dealing with, seeing that there was no way a person could juggle such sprawling information.
Fortunately data correlation is something I'm quite good at. In fact I'm a lot better than most. So, I began collecting my variables. This took a lot of time, required a massive amount of energy dedicated to research and learning, while picking up the etiquettes of the medical field.
Pro Tip: Do not cross-share your medical information whenever possible among different providers; if you've had a bad experience or feel that information could be a liability to future visits. How do you know? Order the records, see for yourself what they really think of you. If you've been told one thing, while the opposite is documented, perhaps with a negative tone, take caution. Don't be afraid to order them either - you're entitled and it will make no difference to the doctor (unless you mention it, then they get a bit skittish).
CHAOS derived from the run-arounds that left me without answers or support. There are several well-known non-communicable diseases in modern pathology, like cancer or cardiovascular disease. Imagine though, going back to say Eisenhower days, trying to get not just treatment, but a proper diagnosis from any medical specialist not entrenched in laboratory work! They'd have no idea, label you, give some professional parent advice and good luck!
That's essentially been my plight. Fast forward 60 years, I can go down the block and get a gamma-knife surgery to remove cancer while micro-robotic arms and cameras whir away. Or head over to a specialized clinic to manage a deadly incurable virus with a cocktail of modern medications. Don't forget about the spectrum of blood work tests available.
That's now, but in this now, my bad luck is like how things were 60 years ago. I need 60 year-in-the-future medicine, today! Hmm, or, using smart analysis, existing whitepapers and published works, and some awesome data correlations, tomorrow's diagnosis can be made today!
This was not a simple nor quick process. Took a lot of brainstorming. Mind maps. Spreadsheets. Reading and reviewing things over my head until they made sense. I now own a few multi-thousand page medical manuals and not a lot within is unfamiliar.
The biggest challenge... by far, is withholding "AHA!'s" There is no silver bullet. There is no one answer. That's the worst realization, yet the most humbling and strongest way to find The Answer. When one can come back to the same point from several directions, independently, from scratch, through long and dissimilar paths.
CHAOS was discovered using these means, the techniques of progression, iteration, and validation.
Next time, we review CHAOS in hindsight, leading up to discovery.
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