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>Some people are in touch with their bodies and can detect if something is going wrong

and how does one come to know this?

> If you look at the health of the US population with a declining life expectancy, rising obesity, immunological diseases, and cancer, some self learning seems like a good thing rather than to leave your health up to institutions, companies, and doctors

Could you show your work? Some steps are clearly missing between the premise and the conclusion



>Could you show your work? Some steps are clearly missing between the premise and the conclusion

Life expectancy is dropping in the US according to official studies you can easily find. It is now lower than China. Obesity, immunological diseases, and cancer have also been rising over the decades. I am not going to pin anything to specific causes as that will spur a debate too long for my attention. IMO the system is generally failing us. Without your health, you have nothing. It is too important for me to completely trust to others especially with how our system is currently incentivized.


This is an issue that is by nature difficult to study in a rigorous, controlled manner. I can tell you that it is a real phenomenon but probably can't prove it in a way you would consider satisfactory. We see the highest levels of this internal body awareness among people who have spent many years using their bodies at peak performance levels. They do their normal daily training and something feels a little "off" before any obvious signs or symptoms appear. But if you only associate with sedentary office workers then you might be skeptical. A lot of people feel like crap so often that to them it begins to feel normal.




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