Salus June 4, 2025

Bill B

The human gut, or the gut of any organism, is in the business of taking some foreign entity that is brought into the body and somehow transforming that foreign entity into something that provides energy and nutrients for this body. There’s a transformative process. Somehow, a medical system is one that takes a foreign entity called disease, illness or injury and does something to transform it into health. Is that the rough metaphor we’re talking about here?

Gay

I think so. Is it diseased? Are we looking at dysbiosis? It feels like it to me. And what I mean by that is that the gut of this healthcare system is no longer working as it was intended, or maybe it never has. But if the gut is the central organ that supports our nervous system, our brain, our, you know, all of our veins, our blood flow, if the gut, which I see it that way, is that central to shifting dis-ease, where do we start and how do we do that with a healthcare system?

Jeremy

Gay, thank you for bringing in this topic. Our integument or our intestines are actually connected to each other. And I think you brought up the point that there are no connections in our health system. It’s disjointed. It would be as if part of the bowel has been resected and no one sutured it up. And so a lot of spillage happens. I was imagining people in a health care system flowing through this broken system. That means people are spilling out all over the place in different locations because they think they’re going through a system. However, they’re actually only entering into some very potentially profitable sections that are quite ordained with great powers. It’s an interesting metaphor. I have previously used a castle metaphor for healthcare, where there are several doors. Many of these doors are gated and secured, so no one can enter. And then you have the garage door, which, in my view, is the emergency room where everybody’s got a garage door opener. Patients can just go in there, but they think now they’ve entered the integument or the inner workings. Yet often, using your metaphor, they are vomited out of the emergency room without having gotten much help.

Gay

Exited somehow.