Patterns
The long run-up
Why, in Neel’s experience, more of what reaches an emergency department has a long run-up than we often notice.
A new book by Dr Neel ReddyThe Sick
Century
Why modern medicine manages sickness, but misses the point.
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The question
We have become extraordinary at managing sickness. Have we become as good at understanding health?
We have never had more medicine, more measurement or more information about the human body. And yet many of us feel less certain about what health actually means.
The Sick Century is not an argument against medicine. It is an invitation to ask a harder question: what if becoming better at managing sickness is not the same as becoming better at understanding health?
A note from Neel
Why I am writing this book.
I wrote this book as a doctor, but also as a son, a student of my own heritage and someone increasingly fascinated by the signals we learn to ignore.
It is a conversation between evidence and observation, ancient questions and modern tools, and ultimately about becoming more informed participants in our own health.
Neel
Inside the book
What you will explore.
Physiology
The system underneath
Stress, rhythm, sleep and recovery, explained plainly.
Modern medicine
What it does brilliantly
And what it was never designed to do.
Lifestyle
The ordinary levers
Sleep, food, movement, nature and the people around us.
Measurement
Your body as data
What wearables and tests can show, and what they cannot.
Ancient observation
Older ways of paying attention
Traditions such as Ayurveda, presented as traditions, alongside the evidence.
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Becoming a participant
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About the author
Dr Neel Reddy
A consultant in emergency medicine who still works shifts, and who became interested in the years before the emergency. He writes and teaches about stress, the body and awareness, bringing modern physiology and older traditions of observation into conversation.
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