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Unconditional Love

A few days ago, I read an article in Rolling Stone about the horrific fentanyl drug problem they have in downtown Portland. It seems that four years ago, Portland voters decided to make illegal drug use legal and instead try to direct addicts toward mental health treatment. On paper, it sounds like a good, compassionate […]

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Additive medicine vs. subtractive medicine

Your body manages its health through two basic mechanisms – facilitation and inhibition.  Facilitation means the body makes more of something happen, while inhibition means it makes less of something happen.  Facilitation adds information and activity, while inhibition subtracts or decreases information and activity.  This reality is most clearly expressed in the brain.  These are […]