Before You Begin
- What This Book Is
- Medical Disclaimer
- When to Seek Immediate Help
- Copyright and Trademarks
- About Scrum
- About the Devices
- About the Research of Others
- About the Images
- Corrections
Prologue
Taking Responsibility
- The Data That Was Never Collected: Why You Have to Take This On Yourself
- What Happened Next, Where Somebody Measured
- And Where Nobody Measured
- The Evidence Nobody Talks About: What Autopsies Found
- What This Costs
- A Note on Numbers I Am Not Going to Use
- What I Am Not Saying
- What Taking Responsibility Actually Means
Revolutionizing Health and Performance
- Introduction: A Natural Evolution in Agile Thinking
- The Lenses Through Which This Book Is Written
- From Medical Research to Agile Transformation
- Bell Labs, Self-Organizing Teams, and the Edge of Chaos
- The Logical Progression
- Harnessing Cutting-Edge Research and Technology
- Overview of the Framework
- Operating at the Edge of Chaos — and the Possibility of Walking Back
- Safety and Limits
- Conclusion
How Solved Is It
- The Maturation Curve
- Why I Am Using It
- One Important Caveat Before Applying It to Medicine
- The Split That Matters Most in Medicine
- Where the Topics in This Book Actually Sit
- Placing My Own Work in the Muddle
- Their Prediction, and Mine
- How to Use This
- Sources and Credit
The Agile Brain
- Why the Neuroscience Is Not the Evidence
- The Evidence That Actually Exists
- The Seven Effects, Weighed
- The One Mapping That Is More Than a Metaphor
- Prediction Error and Dopamine
- The Zeigarnik Effect Barely Survived; Something Better Did
- Mirror Neurons and Oxytocin
- The Haka
- On Turning Wearable Data Into a Metric
- Volunteers, and a Team Agreement First
- What Would Settle It
- What a Scrum Master Should Take From This
Lessons in Chemistry: Scrum in the Laboratory
- Why This Chapter Belongs in a Book About Health
- Why a Chapter About Scrum Sits in a Book About Health
- The Experiment Metaphor
- Computational Irreducibility, and Where the Analogy Stops
- Patterns: Navigating Without a Map
- Prediction and Surprise
- Chrysler: What Actually Happened
- The First Scrum Team and the Numbers That Actually Matter
- Sustainable Pace Is a Ceiling You Can Raise
- Twice the Work in Half the Time Means Four Times the Power
- What Would “Twice the Energy, Half the Stress” Even Mean?
- Energy, Stress, and What a Wearable Chart Can Show
- What to Take From This
- Sources
Teams That Finish Early Accelerate Faster
- Why This Is in a Health Book
- The Observation
- What the Evidence Is, and What It Is Not
- Why It Happens: A Decade of Trying to Explain It
- The Same Behaviour in Machines
- What To Do About It
- Sources
Harnessing Physics for Universal Health and Performance Enhancement
- A Metaphor Worth Having
- Where the Metaphor Stops
- Where the Gravity Version Goes Wrong
- A Deeper Parallel: Entropy, Information, and Aging
- What Actually Determines Whether Something Helps You
- What Physics Does Supply
- If You Are Seriously Unwell
- Sources
Embracing Zen in Healthcare: The Art of Boiling an Egg
- The Practice
- What the Research Actually Says
- A Deeper Frame: What Austin Actually Describes
- Which Leaves Us Where?
- Sources
Ice Cream and Longevity: A Genuinely Odd Finding, and What I Do With It
- The Odd Finding
- Resveratrol Is Fat-Soluble
- What I Do
- One Thing That Does Not Belong Here
- Watch the Consequences, With a Real Instrument
- A Balanced Approach
- Consultation Is Key
- Conclusion: A Scoop, Held Lightly
- References
Can Oreos Lower Cholesterol Better Than Statins? How to Read a Study of One
- First, a correction
- What actually happened
- Why carbohydrate would do this
- What this does not mean
- Why it belongs next to The Trial You Can Run
- Sources
Navigating the Persistent Waves of COVID Flu: Observations from the Frequency Research Foundation
- The Working Hypothesis
- What We Have Observed
- Why We Cannot Yet Call This a Result
- An Invitation
Testing the Hypothesis: A Trial We Are Seeking to Fund
- What Twenty Years of Observation Is Worth
- Why Not Knowing the Mechanism Is Not the Objection
- Why It Hasn’t Happened
- Why This Is Unusually Cheap to Test
- The Design
- The Part That Would Be Hard for Me
- What It Would Cost, and What We Would Contribute
- Two Commitments That Cost Nothing
- An Invitation
The Trial You Can Run: Personal Evidence When the Population Evidence Is Weak
- The Question Trials Do Not Answer
- The Worked Example, and Why I Chose a Weak One
- The Version I Actually Do, and Why It Is Harder to Test
- How to Run an N-of-1 Trial
- What to Measure
- Analysing It, and the Trap Waiting For You
- Safety
- Why This Scales
- Where Our Own Work Fits, and Where It Does Not
- Sources
Harmonic Health: Frequencies for Muscular Vitality
- One Client’s Results
- Why Building Muscle Matters
- What Our Muscle Frequencies Aim At
- On Aging
Entangled Energies: A Speculative Research Avenue, Stated as One
- Three Observations
- The Empirical Claim We Can Actually Make
- The Inference — and Where It Is Weak
- Why It Is Worth Pursuing Anyway
- What Would Settle It
- The Shortcut I Am Not Taking
- Sources
The Science of Photoanalysis
- Introduction: From Radiation to Resonance
- The Foundational Technologies: ABPA and FSCAN
- The Digital Revolution: Overcoming the Limitations of Polaroids
- Enhancing Transmission and Scanning
- Photo Quality Matters
- Conclusion: Advanced Technology, Not Magic
Resonant Scanning: Tuning the Human System with the TEHS Framework for Health and Performance
- What This Chapter Is About
- Why Follow a Hunch You Cannot Justify
- 1. What the Scanner Does, and What Its Builders Say It Does
- 2. The TEHS Sprint: A Weekly Cadence
- 3. Two Layers Working Together: A Technologically-Assisted Sprint
- Where This Leaves Things
- Sources
From Rife’s Microscope to Tumor Treating Fields
- What Millions of Experimenters Actually Discovered
- The Modern Validation of Electromagnetic Fields in Medicine
- Distinctions That Matter
- How This Informs the Frequency Research Foundation Approach
- The Path Forward
A Unified Frequency Strategy for Pathogen Neutralization and Cellular Regeneration
- 1. Executive Summary
- 2. The Core Principles of Our Frequency Strategy
- 3. A Three-Tiered Programme Structure
- 4. Conclusion: The Frequency Foundation Advantage
- Sources
Red Light Therapy: A Case Study in Reading Evidence Honestly
- What It Is, and the Mechanism
- Why Mitochondria Are the Point
- What the Evidence Actually Supports
- Two Honest Caveats About the Literature
- Devices
- Where Our Own Work Fits, and Where It Does Not
- What I Actually Do, and What It Proves
- Fitting It Into the TEHS Framework
- Conclusion
- Sources
Burnout and Cellular Energy: A Hypothesis, and a Warning
- Read This Part First
- Mitochondria and Why They Are Plausibly Relevant
- What Is Actually Established
- What a Real Frequency Intervention Looks Like
- A Pattern, Offered as Description Rather Than Biology
- A Low-Risk Adjuvant Worth Taking Seriously
- What to Actually Do
- Where the Framework Helps
- Final Thought
- Sources
40 Hz Gamma Stimulation in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Most Interesting Result in This Book
- Why This Chapter Sits Where It Does
- The Idea
- The Animal Evidence, Which Is Striking
- The Human Evidence, Which Is More Modest and Still Real
- The Null Results, Which Belong Here
- Safety
- Why There Is No Protocol Here
- Counting Papers Is Not Evidence
- What to Actually Do
- Sources
The Metabolic View of Heart Attacks—What It Explains, and Where It Stops
- What this chapter is not
- 1. The claim that survives: you do not need a blockage
- 2. This is not a puzzle cardiology cannot solve
- 3. The heart’s bioenergetic engine
- 4. The metabolic collapse, which is the textbook mechanism
- 5. What pushes the heart into this state
- 6. Therapies: what the evidence supports
- 7. On citing Tom Cowan
- 8. Conclusion, and what would settle it
Aging is Optional
- The Convergence of Information Theory, Chemical Reprogramming, and Frequency Analogs
- 1. The Information Theory of Aging
- 2. The Evolution of Reversal: From Genes to Chemicals
- 3. The Mechanism: Frequency Analogs
- 4. Clinical Work on Sensory Signals
- 5. Our Program
- Conclusion
Frequency Programs for Workout Recovery: Seven Things We Target
- 1. Muscle Recovery
- 2. Inflammation
- 3. Circulation
- 4. Soreness
- 5. ATP Production
- 6. Collagen
- 7. Lymphatic Movement
- Why It Looks Easy When They Do It
- What This Looks Like in a Weight Room
- Why We Like Working with Elite Athletes
- Putting It Together
- Sources
Real-Time Health Monitoring: Why Same-Day Feedback Changes What You Can Learn
- The Old Loop
- The New Loop
- What This Does and Does Not Establish
- The Night Shift: What a Ring Adds
- An API, and What AI Can and Cannot Do With It
- Use Instruments You Can Trust
- The Shift That Is Actually Underway
Magnesium L-Threonate: Real Science, Small Trials, and One Thing You Should Know
- The Real Science, Which Is Good
- The Human Trials
- The Thing You Should Know
- About “Reversing Brain Aging by Nine Years”
- Sleep: Theanine, Apigenin, and Magnesium
- Safety
- What I Actually Think
- Sources
The Bootstrap Principle: From Radiation Physics to Agile Emergence
- Bill Hendee
- The Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research
- Where Scrum Actually Came From
- The Bootstrap Principle
- Turnabout: The AI Interviews Me
- Bill Hendee’s Legacy
- Sources
The Resonant Team: Criticality, Flow, and the Future of Scrum
- Why This Matters for Health
- Where Scrum’s Design Came From
- The Critical Brain, and How Contested It Is
- Physiology, Stress, and Flow
- An Illustration
- AI and What It Might Add
- Conclusion
- Sources
The Trillion-Dollar Experiment We Can Actually Afford to Run
- Prevention, Not Treatment: Why the Multiplier Is Larger
- What the Anecdotal Record Suggests
- The Size of the Prize
- Network Effects: When Prevention Scales Like Full Self-Driving
- Why the Experiment Is Cheap
- The Proper Standard of Evidence
- The Business Case, Stated Cleanly
- Sources
Epilogue: What to Take With You
- What you are entitled to conclude
- What you are not entitled to conclude
- One trend that is not speculation
- The honest ending
- Sources