Brainhacking
JamesWhen the medical system was left mystified, I had to become my own health experiment. This is a living investigation into recovery after a medication-induced injury to my brain and nervous system. Here's my hellish, hopeful path back to human perception.
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Autonomic Matters of the Heart
You don’t expect your heart to betray you when you’re walking leisurely. But there I was, walking the long corridor of a mall — a flat, stretched-out mall where the only strenuous thing you can do is carry a bag — and my heart rate was sitt...
Restoring the Brain’s Tempo
This is a bit longer than usual, but I’m tying strands together for something of an “endgame hypothesis” that I find pretty fascinating. I’ve been massaging this idea for quite some time now. It’s time to test it.
Last week, I walked into...
I Call it "The Clamp", and Think I Found its Off Switch
I’ve been living with what I’ve come to call The Clamp (TM). It’s a whole-torso autonomic phenomenon. The right side of my chest pulls inward, the left goes numb, heart rate climbs past 100 by afternoon, pressure builds around the heart. Et...
Tinnitus Relief with an Off-label Hack
In my last post, I wrote about glutamate storms — the smouldering body fires that start when excess glutamate sparks in the brain. I’m still on a glutamate kick, exploring how it might create “electric” sensations and downstream inflammatio...
The Smouldering Fire of Glutamate Storms
Every few months, I send off vials of blood to a service that measures more biomarkers than I can name, always hoping the results will show a quieting system—a body finally learning to exhale. Instead, the numbers tell me that the inflammat...
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I’m a political economist, professor, and reluctant exile from the institutional mainstream. I write about body, state, and society, documenting how systems break and mend.
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