I have a good friend that recently visited me. He was the Dean of the School of Medicine of the University I went to, an internist and nephrologist. He also has a PhD in Physiology from the University of Rochester. I love conversing with him. He owns a Medicine Clinic in Michigan. He always says I am crazier than him but I do not believe it.
Two years back he told me that he wanted to try Psilocybin to treat a chronic headache. He visited me from Michigan and told me that he just had 36 hours because he was scheduled to return to work. I said that I would do my best. I tried to gain time because he called me two weeks in advance. I contacted people in town but they told me that the mushroom season was over. I did not want to disappoint him and thought about mezcal, a local tequila. It has some Psilocybin-lile effect in it. He came down to Mexico and left feeling better and promising to come back.
He returned two years later. He traveled with his family a month ago. He sat in front of me and said, “I put an electrode in the brain to treat my headaches.” I could not help it and laughed. What did you do!? You tell me that I am crazier that you and you implanted an electrode in your brain! You are a physiologist that goes all the way for sure. That is the meaning of believing in yourself and the grammar one lives for. I discuss with him physiological training issues just for that reason. He goes all the way. I even joked and said to him that I can control him like a TV with a remote control.
I have written articles on electric regulation of the brain and my thesis agrees with what Albert Einstein wrote in 1921 called the Theory of Relativity: “What two observers observed is not the same thing.” Reality has different phases as illustrated by the saying: “when one encounters an elephant in the darkness, what one touches appears to be a whole and it is totally different from what others touch at the same time.” That is precisely why science cannot be applied to very complex situation as Albert Einstein said: “To be sure, when the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large, scientific methods in most cases fails us.” (47. Science and Religion. Ideas and Opinion.)
Jack Daniels mentioned that there are differences in human races, even that he knows that he is not politically correct.
But I have seen differences in cultures more relevant for the outcome. I have worked in Mexico, USA and Switzerland as a doctor and have helped coaching in those places. My prejudice against physiologists is that they just see the muscles and for the same reason the Genetics. But I like my friend and enjoy learning from him. Seeing just the muscles and following physiology all the way has limits and consequences; remember my friend. I wish he is right, but at least he had some relief. I told him that I could spank him instead of putting an electrode in his brain. The most, he could end up with the psychiatrist instead of in an intensive care unit.
For the same reason, I have seen many training plans with the same problem of reasoning, assuming that “Genetics” or some other assumption related to it plays a key role on performance. As in the case of Javier Mon, advisor of the Mexican Triathlon Federation when speaks about the size of the triathletes to look for searching for talent.
Next time I will talk something “light.”
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