Biology Beyond the Obvious is a 9-part blog series reframing overlooked systems—fascia, mitochondria, gut, skin, water, senses—through the nervous system lens.
The new Day 1 combo platter — nausea, throbbing headache, acne, rage — isn’t just hormones. Your period is an audit of metabolic capacity. When the liver falls behind on detox processes, the uterus picks up the shift. That migraine isn’t hormonal; it’s metabolic traffic on a two-lane road.
Circulation, fascia, and unprocessed charge converge in the midlife chest. Breast tenderness, fullness, or pulling is a traffic jam of fluid, voltage, and emotion at the body’s front gate. Pain isn’t warning of disease; it’s a request for circulation.
New research claims trauma alters breast milk. What it really shows is that milk reflects the mother’s current terrain — her rhythm, her breath, her nervous-system tone. This isn’t a story about molecules; it’s about capacity.
