服兵役任職軍方醫院時，我負責管理血庫，辦公室就在急診室旁，幾乎每天都能親眼看到生命被拉回來的緊急場面。

急診室的「不急」其實遍布我們的日常，有人突然覺得身體怪怪的，家屬便匆匆陪同掛急診；許多需要長期門診治療的病人，也都是從這樣的情況開始：不是身體警訊，就是體檢異常。

我常聽到一句熟悉的描述：「我身體很多小毛病，應該還不嚴重。」說這句話的人往往搞不懂小毛病從哪來，也無法預期它什麼時候會變成「大毛病」。

而所謂的「大毛病」，往往不是在家中被迫送急診，就是在健檢時被無預警宣判。醫師口中的「大毛病」，很快也會成為家屬之間口耳相傳的「大毛病」。

每一個『大毛病』，其實都源自生活中被放任的『小毛病』。沒有人能清楚定義何謂「小毛病」，於是小毛病便不斷累積，終於養成了足以摧毀人生的大毛病。

 

身體的能力奇妙，身體的設計深奧。人類聽不懂身體的語言，於是乾脆另起一套認知體系，把「醫療思維」奉為標準，把「身體思維」徹底取代。

在我還未真正理解身體意識之前，我便在書上分享「健康與醫療是兩條平行線」，越治療越病，遠離治療反而不那麼病，這是我多年來屢屢見證的現象。

熟悉身體之道後，我開始反問自己：「醫療所定義的大毛病，真的是大毛病嗎？」。從身體的視窗看，未必如此。幾十年來，生病的呈現在我心中就是有一種無法解釋的不對勁，終於明白：疾病，是人類定義的；身體根本不是如此看待。

就像很多人不懂得修車，只能把車交給修車廠，明明只要換個小零件，最後卻變成整台大翻修。原因很簡單：雙方解決問題的目的不相同。

多少個案也是如此，本來只是「小毛病」，最後卻被摘掉器官，被治療到七零八落。

能靠身體完成的事，全被醫療的「專業」搞得面目全非。

 

在我看來，這是一段被人性攪亂的科學史。不用換窗，就永遠不會懂這個世界的反常；缺乏勇氣，就永遠看不穿這門自以為睥睨一切，實則早已沉醉的科學。

而真正讓我站穩身體立場的，是一位又一位出現在我面前的迷路者。他們的困惑，反而讓我看得更清楚：原來大家都在等，等發病，等身體用最劇烈的方式控訴。

但我們真的願意在危急時刻才觸碰那個臨界點嗎？多少經歷過瀕死的人記錄過那一刻的恐懼、不甘與不捨，不捨自己在毫無準備下，結束一生。

不捨的是生命，而不解的是：為何從未準備？為何不肯停下來觀察身體？為何不肯給自己一個學會照顧身體的機會？

每次我問坐在我面前的人：「這是誰的事？」他們幾乎都毫不猶豫地回答：「自己」，而我最不捨的是，他們把「承擔」和「改變」當成名詞，而不是動詞。

人性讓醫療迷失，身體卻一直在等我們醒來，全人類的大面向是：身體等不到主人的甦醒。

 

醫學之父希波克拉底早已指出：疾病源於腸道。後世雖加入心智因素，唯仍不能否認：腸道失衡會牽動全身的失衡。

我們很幸運，透過斷食的實證重新定義腸道健康：腸道是身體的土壤，是療癒力的根，是菌腦腸軸最重要的基礎。

因此健康不是「補」，是「丟」；不是「加」，是「減」；不是吃藥，而是補菌；不是聽從大腦，而是聽從身體。

幾乎每一位現代人都背著一輩子的囤積，也拖著一輩子的疲憊，我們都被醫療體系牽進同一條死胡同。

 

自救，不是以後的事，是現在的事。

你覺悟了嗎？你願意覺悟嗎？你知道不能再這樣下去了嗎？不能再拖了，你知道嗎？

這不是「以後要做」的事，是現在、此刻、最迫切的事。

知道沒有用，聽到也沒有用。身體所有的困境，都是囤積的問題；所有的惡化，都是認知錯誤的結果；所有的痛苦，都是「知而不做」的後果。

沒有人喜歡懊悔，但人生總會遇到懊悔。然而，有一種懊悔是可以避免的，那就是失去健康。

現在，就是你自救的時刻，請不要充耳不聞，也不要視而不見。

身體的真相早已清晰明朗，我們不需要變成專家，只要把決定權交給身體的專業。

 

現在就開始。

現在就學習。

現在就行動。

現在就改變。

現在就看見遠離病痛的自己。

 

（不是知道該做什麼，而是去做你已經知道的事。）

 

Self-Rescue: A Matter of Now, and of Urgency

During my military service at a military hospital, I was in charge of managing the blood bank. My office sat right beside the emergency room, and almost every day I witnessed lives being pulled back from the edge.

But the ER has another face—one that is not “emergent,” yet constantly plays out in our daily lives: someone suddenly feels unwell, a family member rushes them to the ER “just to be safe”; many long-term outpatients begin their journey exactly this way—either through bodily alarm signals or abnormalities found during health checkups.

I often hear people say, “I have many small issues, but they’re probably not serious.”
Yet most people who say this have no idea where these “small issues” come from, nor can they foresee when they will turn into “big problems.”

And the so-called “big problems” often arrive in two forms:
either they erupt at home and force an ER visit,
or they are declared during a routine health exam without warning.
What doctors call a “major illness” quickly becomes a “major illness” circulated among the patient’s family.

But every major illness originates from small ones that were ignored.
Because no one truly knows how to define a “small problem,” small problems accumulate—layer after layer—eventually becoming powerful enough to destroy a life.
—

Medicine replaced the body, but never understood it

The body’s abilities are extraordinary, its design profound.
Yet humanity cannot understand its language, so we created another system of interpretation, elevating medical thinking as the standard and completely replacing body thinking.

Before I fully understood bodily awareness, I had already written: “Health and medicine are two parallel lines.”
The more one treats, the sicker one becomes; the farther one moves from treatment, the less sick one feels. This is a pattern I have seen repeated for decades.

After becoming fluent in the Way of the Body, I began to ask myself:
“Are the major illnesses defined by medicine truly major?”
From the body’s perspective, the answer is often no.

For decades, something about the world of disease felt inexplicably wrong.
Eventually I understood: “Disease” is defined by humans; the body does not perceive itself this way.

It is like a person who doesn’t know how to repair a car.
They hand it to the mechanic, thinking it only needs a small part replaced—yet it returns as a full overhaul.
Why?
Because the goals of both parties are different.

Many cases are the same: what began as a small issue ends with an organ removed, or a body repaired into ruin.
What the body could have resolved on its own becomes disfigured by the “expertise” of medicine.
—

A science derailed by human nature, and a body waiting for its owner to wake up

To me, this is a scientific history distorted by human impulses.
Without changing the window through which we observe, we will never understand the absurdity of this world;
without courage, we will never see through this science that believes itself omnipotent, yet is long intoxicated by its own illusion.

What steadied my footing on the side of the body were the many lost individuals who sat before me.
Their confusion helped me see the truth more clearly:
everyone is waiting—waiting to get sick, waiting for the body to issue its harshest protest.

But do we really want to touch that threshold only when crisis strikes?
Countless people who have had near-death experiences describe that moment as terror, regret, and deep sorrow—sorrow that they ended their life without preparation.

What we mourn is life.
What we don’t understand is this:
Why were we never prepared?
Why do we refuse to pause and observe the body?
Why do we deny ourselves the chance to learn how to care for it?

Whenever I ask the person sitting before me, “Whose responsibility is this?”
they almost always answer firmly, “Mine.”
Yet what saddens me most is that they treat responsibility and change as nouns, not verbs.

Medicine has lost its way to human nature, but the body has been waiting all along.
The tragedy of our era is this: the body can no longer wait for its owner to awaken.
—

All health begins—and collapses—in the gut

Hippocrates declared long ago: all disease begins in the gut.
Even if later generations added mental and emotional factors into the discussion, no one can deny that an imbalanced gut destabilizes the entire body.

We are fortunate that through fasting, we rediscovered the truth:
the gut is the body’s soil, the root of healing power, and the foundation of the microbiome-brain-gut axis.

This is why health is not about adding, but removing;
not about supplementing more, but releasing more;
not about medication, but replenishing beneficial bacteria;
not about obeying the brain, but obeying the body.

Every modern person carries a lifetime of accumulation and a lifetime of exhaustion.
We have all been led by the medical system into the same dead end.
—

Self-rescue is not a matter for the future—it is a matter for now

Have you awakened?
Do you want to awaken?
Do you know you cannot continue like this?
Do you know you cannot delay any longer?

This is not something to deal with “later.”
It is the most urgent matter of this very moment.

Knowing is useless.
Hearing is useless.

Every physical crisis stems from accumulation.
Every deterioration stems from cognitive error.
Every suffering stems from knowing but not doing.

No one likes regret, yet regret is inevitable in life.
But one kind of regret can be prevented—
the regret of losing your health.

Now is the moment for self-rescue.
Do not ignore it.
Do not turn away.

The truth of the body has long been clear.
We do not need to become experts—
we simply need to entrust our decisions to the expertise of the body.

Begin now.
Learn now.
Act now.
Change now.
And now—watch yourself walk away from sickness.