In this third Deep Dive, we pivot from Action (Principles 1-3) to Understanding—the essential step for building mechanical literacy and permanent self-trust.
We’re putting the Health Under Control (HUC) framework to work against the pervasive forces that force blind faith in your health journey.
In this episode, we tackle Principles 4 and 5 (Clarity of Function):
Principle 4: Explainable Mechanisms over Mystified Claims. We expose diagnoses that explain everything and nothing at the same time. If you’ve ever been told your “nervous system is stuck in trauma mode,” we show you how to swap that vague claim for a verifiable mechanism—like low Heart Rate Variability (HRV) or CO2 tolerance—which puts the power to change directly back in your hands.
Principle 5: Direct Experience over Required Ideology. This is the critical filter for health tribalism. We explore why attaching a perfectly functional tool (like breathwork) to an entire required cosmology (like chakras) is a devastating attack on self-trust. Your experience is the ultimate authority.
The Litmus Test: We give you the simple question that determines your agency: Can you extract the tool from the tribe? If the tool only works when you subscribe to the entire ideology, you’re stuck.
When you understand the why, you stop fearing the unknown. You learn that the body hasn’t failed; the system has just become too noisy to hear what you already know.
Coming Next in the Series
We conclude our HUC framework analysis in the next and final Deep Dive by covering Principles 6 and 7, which focus on Agency and the Practitioner-Client Relationship. This is a must-listen for anyone seeking true autonomy in their health journey.
Read & Practice
Derived from Mark’s essay: Seven Principles for Inverting the Health Attention Economy.
More audio and essays at Mark’s Substack: HealthUnderControl.com
My practice (HUC in action): Unblocked.Health
