health – Page 2 – Trance Blackman

The Body Only Heals: Removing the Blindfolds of Modern Medicine

The Body Only Heals: Removing the Blindfolds of Modern Medicine

Learning the Language We Were Taught to Ignore

23 August 2026 ~ 3 minute read

What if much of what we’ve been taught about health, illness, and the human body is not merely incomplete, but built upon assumptions we’ve rarely been encouraged to question? At some point, outsourcing our understanding of ourselves becomes its own kind of dependency. There is another possibility: becoming curious again, investigating what we think we know, and learning to trust the extraordinary intelligence of the organism we inhabit.

Lux Colloquii

Between Fruit and Flesh: Searching for the Human Diet

Food, Belief and the Living Body

16 August 2026 ~ 26 minute read

Food is one of those things we can make endlessly complicated, despite the fact that every living creature seems to know what to eat without consulting an expert, downloading an app, or swallowing a handful of supplements. Somewhere along the way, we learned to distrust appetite, intuition, tradition, and even our own bodies. Perhaps the more interesting question isn’t which dietary camp has finally got it right, but how much of what we believe about nourishment, health, and vitality was ever ours to begin with.

Cancer: The Story Beneath the Disease

Journal Entries

Cancer: The Story Beneath the Disease

Reclaiming What Was Never Lost

15 August 2026 ~ 5 minute read

Perhaps the most difficult thing to reconcile when confronting illness, especially cancer, is the possibility that we have misunderstood not only disease, but ourselves. We have inherited countless ideas about what the body is, what it is capable of, what threatens it, and where its authority ultimately resides. Yet beneath those accumulated narratives is something quieter and considerably older: an intelligence that has accompanied us from the beginning, asking very little except that we stop long enough to remember it.

Lux Colloquii

The Daily Cup: Health, Habit, and Hidden Assumptions

Coffee, Evidence, and Belief

13 July 2026 ~ 16 minute read

There are few substances as culturally protected as coffee. It has become so deeply embedded in daily life that questioning it is often treated as questioning common sense itself. Yet familiarity has never been a reliable measure of truth. Whether viewed through the lens of physiology, commerce, habit, or personal experience, coffee invites a conversation that extends far beyond the contents of the cup. What follows is one such exchange, grounded less in defending conclusions than in examining assumptions.

Lux Colloquii

Asking Better Questions: Notes on Health and Understanding

Questioning the Models We Inhabit

08 July 2026 ~ 17 minute read

Some conversations are less about arriving at definitive answers than they are about examining the assumptions beneath them. This exchange became an exploration of health, physiology, medicine, and the language we use to describe the body itself. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the perspectives presented, the value lies in slowing down long enough to question inherited narratives and consider the possibility that our models of understanding are always evolving.

Tag: health

The Body Only Heals: Removing the Blindfolds of Modern Medicine

Between Fruit and Flesh: Searching for the Human Diet

Cancer: The Story Beneath the Disease

The Daily Cup: Health, Habit, and Hidden Assumptions

Asking Better Questions: Notes on Health and Understanding