People try hard to get rich (top 1% say) but don’t try hard to get top 1% physical and mental health. I think people mainly shrug and say it’s genetic, which seems like bad reasoning given that you can improve many measures by one to three standard deviations.
Historically, trying hard to maximize health got emperors to ingest heavy metals and a lot of other unhealthy treatments.
“I’ll only do treatments that are Evidence-Based-Medicine” is a strategy that does not provide you a way to reach the top 1% in health but it’s also a strategy to avoid a lot of unhealthy interventions.
The core idea of what this post is about is “even if you try to follow the EBM strategy you could still get screwed.
While I do believe in being able to take actions that improve my health both by speaking with doctors and by doing other things, it’s also possible that I’m wrong and the actions that I’m taking have tradeoffs that I don’t understand.
I’m thinking of conjunctive percentile so like reaching 90th percentile in physical and mental health. I also mean this kind of loosely since there’s no one quantification for that.
Stress damages both physical and mental health. Inflammation also damages both.
I know osteopaths who see depression as a physical illness and not a mental one. The best-validated reason for that view is that head trauma often produces depression. We have the development of blood tests to diagnose depression (https://neurosciencenews.com/depression-bipolar-blood-test-18197/).
People try hard to get rich (top 1% say) but don’t try hard to get top 1% physical and mental health. I think people mainly shrug and say it’s genetic, which seems like bad reasoning given that you can improve many measures by one to three standard deviations.
Historically, trying hard to maximize health got emperors to ingest heavy metals and a lot of other unhealthy treatments.
“I’ll only do treatments that are Evidence-Based-Medicine” is a strategy that does not provide you a way to reach the top 1% in health but it’s also a strategy to avoid a lot of unhealthy interventions.
The core idea of what this post is about is “even if you try to follow the EBM strategy you could still get screwed.
While I do believe in being able to take actions that improve my health both by speaking with doctors and by doing other things, it’s also possible that I’m wrong and the actions that I’m taking have tradeoffs that I don’t understand.
I’m thinking of conjunctive percentile so like reaching 90th percentile in physical and mental health. I also mean this kind of loosely since there’s no one quantification for that.
I don’t think that physical and mental health are uncorrelated.
ha, good catch. Wonder how strongly.
Stress damages both physical and mental health. Inflammation also damages both.
I know osteopaths who see depression as a physical illness and not a mental one. The best-validated reason for that view is that head trauma often produces depression. We have the development of blood tests to diagnose depression (https://neurosciencenews.com/depression-bipolar-blood-test-18197/).