This is speculation on my part, though i believe this because this is where the hormones are triggered in the body. This is where emotions come to rest. They rest in the head, so they can be analyzed. They may be created throughout the entire body, but I feel that they come to the head to rest so that the thoughts can define why you feel this way, to absorb the status or the structure of the body and because the emotions come here and the thoughts are generated here and our belief systems lie here and our hormones are directed from here and, because we don’t fully understand how the brain functions, we’re not capable of rewiring it for optimum health.

Would anyone care to speculate on this further?

Edited December 10, 20187 yr by Blueyedlion

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Could all diseases start with the head?

Including athlete's foot?

5 minutes ago, Strange said:

Including athlete's foot?

Well that's due in part to a weakened immune system which again starts with issues within the head.

56 minutes ago, Blueyedlion said:

This is speculation on my part,

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It does seem like you're suggesting new ideas rather than asking questions about mainstream explanations. Moved to Speculations.

 

Does this mean that someone who is "brain dead" and on life support is not at risk of getting athlete's foot?

1 minute ago, zapatos said:

Does this mean that someone who is "brain dead" and on life support is not at risk of getting athlete's foot?

That would be a great follow up study haha

16 minutes ago, Blueyedlion said:

Well that's due in part to a weakened immune system which again starts with issues within the head.

no, it's due to warm wet toes...

20 minutes ago, Blueyedlion said:

Well that's due in part to a weakened immune system

Citation needed 

21 minutes ago, Blueyedlion said:

which again starts with issues within the head.

Citation needed 

1 minute ago, Strange said:

Citation needed 

https://medlineplus.gov/fungalinfections.html

You are more likely to get a fungal infection if you have a weakened immune system or take antibiotics.

43 minutes ago, Blueyedlion said:

  

Could all diseases start with the head?

Obviously not. But you need the neurons in your brain to 'regulate' the rest of your body....If a piano falls on your leg then you probably break a leg. You need the neurons in your brain to translate the information into pain and to heal the broken leg.

4 hours ago, Blueyedlion said:

https://medlineplus.gov/fungalinfections.html

You are more likely to get a fungal infection if you have a weakened immune system or take antibiotics.

More likely. Obviously. But it is not a requirement. 

And what about lower immune response starting in the head? Does leukaemia (a disease of bone marrow) start in the head?

6 hours ago, Blueyedlion said:

this is where the hormones are triggered in the body.

Nope.

Plenty are triggered elsewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_hormones

 

So, you are basing your idea on something that's known not to be true.

You can stop now.

9 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

Nope.

Plenty are triggered elsewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_hormones

 

So, you are basing your idea on something that's known not to be true.

You can stop now.

What i would say to clarify my position, is that both emotional and mental stress throughout the body create these issues in the head, where these issues then become triggered into diseases.

2 hours ago, Blueyedlion said:

What i would say to clarify my position, is that both emotional and mental stress throughout the body create these issues in the head, where these issues then become triggered into diseases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_stress#Negative_health_effects

Occupational stress (because of its long duration) can cause immune system dysfunction and weakening. Therefore body can't fight with microbes and viruses as efficiently as normally.

Mental disease like depression, heart attack, or stroke, can be direct result of stressful situation, without additional influence of microbes.

 

Mens sana in corpore sano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_sana_in_corpore_sano

 

Edited December 11, 20187 yr by Sensei

It's sometimes useful to distinguish between necessary and sufficient causes of disease. So we'd say Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a necessary cause to contracting TB, but it's not a sufficient cause because, for instance, the number of bacteria might too small to overcome the host's immune response.  Mental components are neither necessary nor sufficient for physical diseases to occur so the answer is no, all diseases do not start in the head. Which is not to say that one's state of mind isn't a factor, but you can't get TB without the bacteria no matter how hard you think about it.