Chronic Illness: A Series of Unfortunate Events

A stress filled unfulfilled life. A fear fuelled existence. An addiction to adrenaline. Anxious thoughts, going round and round. The tightening of shoulders. Constrictions on the neck. Body-mind signals being mangled. Panic on the ascendant. Stomach muscles cramp. The gut upset. The bowels also burn, irritated.

The modern workplace. The mountains of work to be done. Bodies static. Fixed in physiologically wrong shapes. For far too long. Posture isn't the priority. The hunching of backs. Back to neck pain. A pinch-point. Too much congestion in the tunnel. Too much strain on the superhighways passing through. Nutrient flows from gut to brain disrupted.

The daily diet. The junk food. The processed chemicals. The gluten and lactose. The sweet, sweet sugar. Feeding the stomach’s stress symptoms. But the body’s needs are unsatisfied. Nourishment for depression. But no fuel for brain’s proper functions. Stressful living feeding back to food. The comfort eating. See a serpent swallow its own tail?

A gut unbalanced. Too much sweet, sweet sugar. Too much yeast. Too many man-made chemicals. The H. Pylori. Not enough vital minerals. Amino acids never in abundance. A famine of natural nutrients. An infection. Bad bacteria on the rise. The excessive anti-biotics. The good bacteria on the decline. Mal-absorption of already only negligible nutrients.

Allergens in the air. Toxins in the water. Poison in the ground. The impossible plants made real. Effects unknown. Outcomes unobserved. The Great Experiment of the human race. The Natural World overflows with Un-naturals. New enviroments external to our evolution. The immune system put to the test. Straining whole systems of body’s biology. Permanent pressures to survive in this self-made storm.

The penultimate blow: one to the neck. An injury on the kinetic chain. The foot. The knee. The hip. The back. The shoulder. The neck itself. The jaw. Anywhere’ll do. Panic stations: permanent postural damage. A bona fide Bottle-Neck. More disruption to brain’s nutritional flow. Neurons mis-fire. Cells begin to die. No escape for their excesses and excreta. Toxins build and build. The grey matter perishes. The stressful cycle turns more vicious. A plethora of physical pain. More anx. More mental anguish.

The nail in the coffin is now hammered home! Healthcare and biological sciences systems centred on specialism. The myopic focus. The short sighted thinking. The Whole Picture unseen. This panoramic perspective not taken. Neuros only seeing the neurodegeneration. Announce “it’s brain disease!!!”. Musclo-skeletal experts eye-up the injury. Maintaining “but the brain rot is unrelated”. Scientists focussed on latest pet theory. “Ah ha! Its all in the stomach!” … this time.

Systemic syndromes misdiagnosed as definite disease.

Its a tragedy-comedy in the final act.

A series of unfortunate events.

The chronic illnesses of our age.

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