Excerpt from best practices document:
“It’s no longer acceptable to treat symptoms without addressing root causes and best practices are required to establish a standard of care among health professionals. Consensus agreement for six critical practices is achieved through professional endorsement which signals agreement and validates effectiveness. These practices serve as a gold standard for effective care.”
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Best practices are essential in the creation of a healthcare system
We aren’t fighting centralized medicine built on fiat incentives
We’re building a new system on #Bitcoin that makes 95% of centralized medicine obsolete
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Truth by consensus >> truth by authority
Consensus best practices endorsed by 10,000 health professionals from varying domains of speciality
The gold standard for competent health professionals who help others restore lower extremity health
You wouldn’t ask someone who smokes for lung health advice
You shouldn’t ask someone who wears unnatural shoes and can’t squat for lower extremity health advice
It’s time to level up as a community of health professionals
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Health is a function of education
Better education = better lifestyle choices = better health
If you are a lower extremity health professional and you don’t educate about the dangers of unnatural footwear you are being negligent
Yep I said it
Enough of the bullshit ineffective status quo
Time for a return to first principles and a return to effectiveness
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The job of a health professional:
1) Be healthy
2) Deeply understand the body, how it adapts, and the inputs it requires for optimal health & function
3) Through education, guide others to develop better health
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Health professionals stay updated on best practices
Health professionals do not mute the signal of pain
Health professionals are educators, not disease treaters
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Next step:
Translate the super hardcore nerd version of the whitepaper (v0.97 published on block 840,000) to practice guidelines for lower extremity health professionals
Objective: establish consensus best practices
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PSA to doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors and athletic trainers:
If you don’t educate your patients/clients about the dangers of unnatural shoes or excessive chair sitting, you aren’t being effective
A personal trainer with no “official” credentials who runs Apollo and educates their clients about protocol fundamentals will be more effective at achieving long term health outcomes than disease care professionals with degrees
3 fundamental principles applied consistently >> disease care interventions
Social incentives will wipe out ineffective disease care providers
The age of centralized disease care is ending
The age of decentralized health care is blossoming
Free open source health protocols built on #Bitcoin will empower a health revolution 🙌🏽
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Happy Halving beautiful humans of nostr
Stack health
Stack sats
Stack meaning in your life
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Efficiency: doing things right
Effectiveness: doing the right things
Disease care professionals are very efficient at treating pain (the wrong thing)
They will be replaced by efficient health professionals who help people develop better health (the right thing)
Effectiveness >> efficiency
Many people are trying to develop a healthy body while also unknowingly doing behaviours that impair health
Effectiveness greatly improves when people reduce harmful behaviours
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Mission: develop a lower extremity health protocol that distinguishes the essential few behaviours from the trivial many so individuals can focus on what matters most
Achieving a healthy lower body is simple:
1. Lower your time preference by viewing pain as an important signal and saving in hard money
2. Reduce exposure to unnatural footwear and chair sitting
3. Increase exposure to walking, the squat position, and time on the ground
That’s it
Don’t trust us. Validate it yourself
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First, do no harm
Simple but important principle:
When seeking to correct a problem, it’s wise to begin by understanding and eliminating the cause
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PSA
In order to call yourself a health professional you are expected to:
1) be healthy
2) keep updated on best practices
3) think for yourself
That’s the bar
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Principle #1 of Apollo:
Lower your time preference
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What does that mean?
It means thinking long term and prioritizing the future over the present
It means viewing pain as an essential signal that nudges you towards making changes that support better health instead of an enemy to be suppressed or eliminated
It means learning how your body works so you can trim harmful behaviours from your life and add healthy behaviours
It means aspiring to do 1% better everyday and trusting the process
The best way to lower your time preference?
Save your time in hard money
#Bitcoin is the hardest money and therefore has the highest capacity to lower our time preference
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The long term unintended consequences of wearing a supportive, rigid orthotic are brutal
Stiff feet
Weak feet
Fragile feet
Crazy that people still cling to bullshit interventions that make no sense
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Give someone a fish and they eat for a day
Teach someone to fish and they eat for a lifetime
Give someone relief from pain and they feel better for a day
Teach someone first principles of biology and they feel better for a lifetime
Apollo is a peer validated lower extremity health protocol
Run better software = have better health
Pass it on
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Smoking cigarettes was normalized and even prescribed by doctors in the 1950s
That same behaviour is now widely acknowledged as harmful to human health, and prescribing cigarettes would be malpractice and reputational suicide
Today, wearing unnatural footwear and spending most of our waking hours sitting in chairs has been normalized
Apollo aims to improve awareness of fundamental principles that govern human biology to help individuals and professionals improve lower body health and prevent injury
If we view behaviours as software, this is free open source health software for human hardware
Humans who wish to reclaim responsibility for their health can run this software to protect and optimize their lower body hardware
Don’t trust us. Run the software and experience it yourself
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Disease care is high time preference
Pain is viewed as an enemy to be eliminated at all costs and interventions create massively harmful negative long term consequences
Healthcare is low time preference
Pain is acknowledged as beneficial feedback to orient changes that must be made. Weathering short term discomfort and listening to signals is the cost of achieving long term health
The era of decentralized healthcare has arrived and happens at the individual level
One by one, individuals opt out of trusting disease care authorities and reclaim responsibility for their well being
Apollo is free open source health software for the lower extremity
Simple principles, powerful results
Don’t trust us. Run the software and validate it yourself
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Seems really interesting. Might be on my end, but the website in your bio doesn’t seem to be working
Website doesn’t seem to be clickable on nostr bio but the website is working
I wonder if it’s a primal issue 🤔
By distilling lower extremity health into the few exceptionally valuable behaviours, help we individuals focus their time on the few essential things that offer the greatest benefit
Because clarity facilitates action and things only change when action is taken
When it comes to health, almost everything on the internet is noise
It’s hard to know what to believe and who to trust
With Apollo we deliberately distinguish the vital few from the trivial many by focusing on first principles
Developing better (lower extremity) health is the process of continually lowering time preference, subtracting unnatural behaviours and adding natural behaviours
Focus your energy, make changes, be patient and trust the process
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The price of health is responsibility
When facing health problems we have 2 options
-> Choice 1: Forfeit responsibility and trust a disease care system that makes money by treating symptoms without ever addressing the root cause
-> Choice 2: Accept responsibility and make changes in your life that prevent and cure health problems by eliminating the root causes
We build free open source health software for the lower extremity so that individuals who are ready to take responsibility have the information they need to make progress
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When it comes to health, almost everything on the internet is noise
It can be difficult to know what to believe and who to trust
To improve lower extremity health, there are infinite things we CAN do, but there are only few things we MUST do
These essential behaviours have the largest impact and are required for effectiveness
With Apollo we deliberately distinguish the vital few from the trivial many by focusing on first principles
We keep it simple because health is simple and simple enables clarity that facilitates action
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