The light and dark of what we call "bipolar disorder"
We live in a world of polarity. I don't just mean political polarization, which is just one example of the intrinsic polarity of life....
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Reconciling subjective and objective notions of dis-ease
What is disease? "Disease" = an objective finding, a pattern classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) "Dis-ease"...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 23, 2021
- 1 min
The role of consciousness in emergency medicine
My latest article for Emergency Medicine News: https://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2021/05000/Viewpoint__The_Role_of_Consciousness_...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Three big questions Second Mind Medicine addresses
1. What are we made of? Is it organs, cells, atoms, particles, fields, information? What exactly are we made of? This isn't an abstract...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Notes on "Mental Health" talk
We are deconstructing the current foundation of the conversation around what we call mental health and mental illness and starting to...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
Overview and application
The 2 key principles of Second Mind Medicine The modern understanding of anatomy is radically incomplete. We must see, define, and model...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
Notes on healing
Healing comes from the word whole. Wholeness is a state of integration. Therefore, we can think of healing as becoming whole and as...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
What is Second Mind Medicine? and other FAQ's
What is Second Mind Medicine? Second Mind Medicine is an approach to understanding and healing ourselves that is based in the premise...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 16, 2021
- 5 min
What are the 5 bodies?
In medical school, I learned anatomy with the aid of the Atlas of Human Anatomy, rendered by the renowned physician-artist Frank H....
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
Metabolizing Trauma
A simple way to think of trauma is as distress that remains with one's identity. Regardless of when the distress happened, it is–for any...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
Morphic fields and the 5 bodies
Research by Michael Levin has shows that flatworms can be induced to grow two heads by applying an external electrical field,...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
A Summary of Human Energy and Biofields
https://explore.scimednet.org/index.php/2016/04/02/the-human-energy-field/
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Evidence for the Second Mind
Evidence for the existence of a wider range of consciousness beyond the brain includes: Cases of severe hydrocephalus in which 95% of...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Toward a field-based and consciousness-based view of medicine
The shift from a system of medicine based in the primacy of matter to one based in the primacy of consciousness is mirrored in the world...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
My story of "burnout"
I remember when I "burned out" as a physician. It was a couple months after I got my MD. Yes–just a couple months. In that short...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Nov 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Four Pillars of Wellbeing
1. NUTRITION Many books and experts on nutrition offer conflicting advice. Some say avoid carbohydrates and stick with protein. Others...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Reconsidering the Mind-Body Relationship
Mind-body medicine has been a popular topic in allopathy for many decades. During this time, it has gone from a fringe idea to a practice...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
What Is Mental Illness?
Since “mental illness” refers to illness of the mind, it should go without saying that we must understand and define the mind. We have...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
We All Have Psychosomatic Order
Psychosomatic disorders are body (soma) conditions that are thought to be created by the mind (psyche). These disorders are tricky to...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
Why Physicians Should Speak Up About the State of Medical Science
Physicians spend years studying the human body and its processes so we can help patients. We have a fundamental personal and professional...
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