Biology Beyond the Obvious is a 9-part blog series reframing overlooked systems—fascia, mitochondria, gut, skin, water, senses—through the nervous system lens.
A midlife woman with years of gut pain discovered the issue wasn’t food or IBS—it was a nervous system stuck in protection. A case story about terrain, safety, and reorganization.
Most women don’t have a fat-burning problem in midlife. They have an immune-mediated absorption problem. When the nervous system signals overload, the gut restricts lipid uptake—stalling metabolism long before calories matter.
Dementia isn’t prevented with a late-life drug. It’s shaped in midlife—through sleep, metabolism, nervous system state, hormones, and vascular resilience. Midlife isn’t the problem. It’s the intervention window.
