All about Inflammation with Dr. Natasha Punia
What inflammation actually is. Why it matters more than you think. And what's happening inside when you feel this bad.
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The Mindful Migraine expert
Migraine isn't just pain. It's a system, a pattern, a thing to understand. What changes when you stop fighting it and start learning from it.
Redefining mental health with Vanessa Pott
What mental health actually is, once you stop measuring it against the wrong standard.
Falk Schuster on living with Major Depressive Disorder
What it actually feels like. Not the textbook version. The lived version.
The Medical Anthropologist
What happens when a doctor studies systems instead of just treating patients. Dr. Margret Jaeger on why your healthcare doesn't work.
Samah Atout on war and mental health
What happens when lived experience becomes policy. How trauma, resilience, and the refusal to be silent drive real change.
The Complete Pocket Guide to Medical Appointments
For patients who've been dismissed, confused, or talked over. How to prepare, advocate, and leave with what you actually needed.
The ABC of Public Speaking
From someone who had to relearn how to speak after years of isolation: what it actually takes to find your voice and hold a room.
The Little Book of Patient Communication
What actually works when clinicians and patients try to understand each other — and why most communication training gets the hardest part wrong.
The Algorithm Will See You Now
What AI can do in healthcare. What it cannot see. And the patients it will abandon if we don't ask harder questions about what we're optimizing for.
What Do Patients Want?
The gap between what patients say and what they actually want — and why healthcare's biggest failure is listening to the wrong questions.
Revolution From My Bed
How chronic illness rewired everything I thought about work, identity, and what it means to build when you're not okay.
Good days are dangerous
The worst crashes come after the best days. Why feeling good is a trap, and how I learned to stop falling for it.
I'm Launching One Track Early. Here's Why I'm Uneasy About It.
The plan was to build the whole thing properly. Then the messages started coming in.
The isolated island of illness
Chronic illness is its own country. Nobody visits. Nobody speaks the language. And the loneliness is the part that almost kills you.
7 lessons I learned from 7 years in bed
Not advice. Not inspiration. Just what became clear when everything else was taken away.
Just get up.
What doctors kept telling me while my heart rate hit 170 from standing. What I learned about rebuilding a body that forgot how to work.
A 5090 Won't Fix This
I realized that even top-tier gaming hardware can't compensate for what chronic illness took from me.
The Metrics We Don't Have
Someone told me 'Revolution from My Bed' helped them while bedbound. I realized I had no way to measure the impact that actually matters.
Building Spoons.world: What We're Learning
The real challenges and breakthroughs in building a patient-side community platform where lived experience becomes data.
What Do You Do?
On the impossibility of fitting into categories when your life is all one work.
The Exoskeleton
Why getting an exoskeleton to manage PEM and exercise intolerance changes everything — and nothing.
Chronically: Where the Honesty Lives
Why chronically.life exists. Essays on chronic illness, patient advocacy, parenting through pain, healthcare, and showing up.
My $350 mini PC beats your $2000 gaming rig and also harms the planet less
The Minisforum U790 APU runs PUBG smoothly, fits on a shelf, costs a fraction of a gaming tower, and might be the future of home gaming nobody is talking about.
Shipping into the void
The specific terror of building something real, making it public, and watching the users not arrive.
I replaced a £600 Apple Watch with a $26 Pine64 and I am fine
The Apple Watch Ultra is extraordinary. The PineTime does everything I actually need. These facts can both be true.
The loneliness nobody mentions and the freedom nobody warns you about
Working alone is both harder and better than everyone said it would be. Mostly at the same time.
Why does everything I love try to kill me now
A semi-serious rant about food intolerances, histamine, MCAS, and how the chronically ill seem to be losing foods at an alarming rate.
How getting smaller saved my digital life
iPhone mini. Mini PC. MacBook Air. The year I stopped hauling a gaming rig everywhere and finally felt like my technology fit my life.