We live in an age of mass delusion where so many are pursuing misplaced and misguided priorities. There is only one truth and the truth is that you, and me, and every MF on the planet is pretty lazy. It's our nature to be as lazy as possible. Back when we were being chased by saber-toothed tigers it didnt matter if we *wanted* to sit idle. But in an age of the PS5 and UberEats, we can sit down and do little for years without fear of being eaten. Such INactivity is something we were not evolved to experience. 

The design of the human tells us about our intended function and that is that we were made to run. If you know me personally, you probably spat out your coffee reading that sentence! How could I acknowledge such an inconvenient fact!? I also have many excuses not to run; for decades I made fun of runners as technophobes who eschewed the multi-thousand year-old technology of the wheel. My mishshapen, once-shattered leg and the two pounds of titanium it still contains make a convincing enough story that I should probably not run. However, I chose running as my aerobic activity as it is know to increase the endocannabinoid AEA, producing what is known as the "runner's high." 

In today's episode I want to snap you out of your old way of thinking and consider how recent discoveries in cannabinoids and fascia might fit with your symptoms. As you are now the only person responsible for you getting better, I hope to convince you of the importance of living in truth and embracing the possibility of your recovery. 

I talk quite a bit about lessons from grad school in here. Y'all should listen for a few minutes because that knowledge cost me much more than the time it takes to tell the stories. My earliest takeaway from them was that the truth is robust and stands up to repeated testing by experimentation; and that there is great value in efficiently testing a hypothesis. My health today is a direct result of following this same philosophy.

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Thank you for liking, listening and sharing! If you would like to *speak with me* one on one about surviving and exiting *chronic pain*, navigating *medical cannabis* or aspects of *minimal\vanlife*, I offer my time in 15 minute increments at a rate I will post elsewhere. I can help you with perspective on your pain, to get started healing, to survive and to stay motivated; for anything else you should seek qualified professional help, which again, I am not. 

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Music by:  XTaKeRuX - Pursuing Darkness from the album Victim 2021 

Episode Cover Image taken half-way through a run four miles from my van in March 2022. A mile beyond my van is the base of Boundary Cone mountain near Oatman, Arizona. The run back is all uphill and into the wind, it sucks.

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In todays episode, recorded near Felicity, CA on 9 Feb 2022, I kick off the new season of the Vancast and begin discussion of your role in your recovery. In this season of the podcast, I intend to provide an outline of key steps that have lead to my recovery. In doing this, it is not my goal to prescribe what I have done for anyone else. However, I believe these individual steps can be used to help cope, improve, and recover from intractible chronic illness(es) that are likely related to either or both of the endocannabinoid and fascial systems. The hashtagged conditions were linked to the endocannabinoid system by Neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo in publications beginning some 20 years ago. . .few MDs seem to be aware of these papers today and I have linked the most recent publication below; please print it out and take it to your doctor!

Are you already on a path to healing? If not, or if you are not progressing as quickly as you should, it's time to begin doing more. It is time to exert your best effort with a little bit of guidance. I credit becoming a vegetarian as being the first concrete step in my recovery. The benefits I felt from making this change, inspired me to try even harder and cut more vices and bad behaviours.

It is much easier to cut calories as a vegetarian and my weight loss (5' 10" and 190lbs down 155lbs) started immediately. However progress was very slow as I was not able to excercise until a few years later. Over those years, I came to appreciate how much easier it was to control my diet as a vegetarian and stay on track. There was also an explosion of vegetarian food options that have made not eating flesh easier for me; I particularly enjoy some of the soy-based "sausages."

As time passed after changing my diet, I also stopped vaping nicotine, which was a habit I developed along with drinking four espressos and several cups of coffee each morning, in order to (barely help) counteract Fentanyl. Nicotine and caffeine addiction are both fairly hard to break, but do it anyway, no excuses. I also stopped drinking alcohol. Quitting booze wasn't originally planned, but it cut out unnecessary calories. As I used alcohol less and less, I began to notice the negative effects more distinctly. Now if I drink one beer, it makes me feel a little bit ill, so I only drink a few beers a year these days, mainly for nostalgia and comraderie.

If you are in pain, you cannot begin to take responsibility for your recovery soon enough, so I strongly urge you to invest in your own body and make the necessary changes to become more healthy, whatever they may be.
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2021 unveiling video of the first fascia-focused full body plastinate:
https://youtu.be/vCzX0c_D6kY
(Unveiling begins at 11:30)

Here is Dr. Russos's most recent (2016) paper on Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency:
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/can.2016.0009

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Thank you for liking, listening and sharing! If you would like to *speak with me* one on one about surviving and exiting *chronic pain*, navigating *medical cannabis* or aspects of *minimal\vanlife*, I offer my time in 15 minute increments at a rate I will post elsewhere. I can help you with perspective on your pain, to get started healing, to survive and to stay motivated; for anything else you should seek qualified professional help, which again, I am not.

*I DO NOT OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE OR ENDORSE ANY SPECIFIC PRODUCTS *

Music by:
XtaKeRuX - Pursuing Darkness from the album Victim 2021

#SMCOGVC

ln the fall of 2020, I still had large regions of frozen, dessicated fascia throughout my body.  After much driving to get to New England and then Maine, knots reappeared in my neck causing pain that I describe in this episode. This pain brought my spirits down for several weeks. But now that I look back on it I can smile and laugh! I was able so stay the course and continue treating myself, and my body and neck are now stronger and more mobile than at any time in my life. I describe a little of what I thnk, as a laser engineer, is going on with the tissues in my body in this episode.

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Thank you for liking, listening and sharing! If you would like to *speak with me* one on one about surviving and exiting *chronic pain*, navigating *medical cannabis* or aspects of *minimal\vanlife*, I offer my time in 15 minute increments at a rate I will post elsewhere. I can help you with perspective on your pain, to get started healing, to survive and to stay motivated; for anything else you should seek qualified professional help, which again, I am not.

*I DO NOT OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE OR ENDORSE ANY SPECIFIC PRODUCTS *

Music by:
XtaKeRuX - Pursuing Darkness from the album Victim 2021

#SMCOGVC #vanlife #CHONICPAIN #FASCIA #MEDICALCANNABIS #IBS #FIBROMYALGIA #HUNTINGTONSDISEASE #PARKINSONS #DIABETICNEUROPATHY #ANOREXIA #BULIMIA #PTSD #MIGRAINE #CLUSTERHEADACHE #AUTISMSPECTRUM
#MYOFASCIALPAIN