Over 4 years since I first happened upon my personal miracle cure, I now have some perspective on it. In this episode, recorded in the spring of 2021, I re-summarize the most important things I've learned.  In addition to presenting concepts from published research (linked below), I want to reiterate some of my thoughts on chronic pain. Pain can be addressed, suppressed, repressed, masked, intensified, expected, modified and pondered about for an eternity. But that does not change it's meaning. Pain is a message from your body. Y.O.U. need to figure out the message. Your conscious mind needs to interpret pain's meaning and address it with your behavior, when we receive the message, our unconscious mind will help eliminate the pain. 

Beyond the meaning of pain, I am also trying to communicate to a wide audience, what I feel I'm learning through what is happening to my body, in nearly real time. The changes are due to my beginning to understand my own endocannabinoid and fascial systems. I know it may all sound far-fetched, and many of you will discount that I am still, necessarily and nearly always, high on cannabis. To which I respond: 

1) Read my references...

2) Have you seen my abs?

3) You are invited to run a few miles of trails at altitude with me, please RSVP at your earliest! 

I am still very much a work in progress and I continue to try to minimize my use of phytocannabinoids. But, I am compelled to share the information in this podcast with my fellow humans and I appreciate y'all's consideration. I would especially appreciate your help in getting this information to victims of extreme physical trauma such as crushing, or those hopeless and in extreme pain. 

A Final Note to the CP Patient: It helps me to break cycles of addictive behaviours frequently and NON-cyclically, even if I have no intention or expectation of quitting whatever drug...this is to observe and reconfirm the patient-drug relationship. I believe doing this provides an important reset. Humans seek the comfort of cycles; we seek predictability. But self-administered predictability is false and a waste of resources. I almost always reduce my consumption or collect new insight by breaking a cycle. 

A Final Note for the Scientist Types: Not accounting for the pain, this ongoing 21 year-long experience seems to have an overarching theme of drying and dessication. It seems my fascia cannot produce sufficient hyaluronan without being prompted by phytocannabinoids. I believe this is likely a maternally-transmitted congenital condition that was exacerbated in my case, by the crushing of my body that occurred in the accident compounded by weight-gain and aging over the following 17 years. Obviously, I could be way off, but this is my working theory in a nutshell. 

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Neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo appears on Mary Bile's Cannabis Voices Podcast

https://www.marybiles.com/podcast/episode/4d3edd25/dr-ethan-russo-clinical-endocannabinoid-deficiency-explained 

Greg Gerdeman, Ph.D. appears on Mary Bile's Cannabis Voices Podcast

https://www.marybiles.com/podcast/episode/4af48803/dr-greg-gerdeman-a-deep-dive-into-the-endocannabinoid-system 

Caterina Fede, Ph.D. discusses hyaluronan in fascia:

https://youtu.be/Spz2vBNXqAg 

Fede et al. on cannabinoid receptors expressed in fibroblasts