Masks, Crutches, and Daggers

What Everybody Should Learn About the World's Largest Battleground: Their Brain

This book identifies the behavioral roots and common denominators of prevalent disorders and diseases (constipation, sleep disorder, pain, high blood sugar and pressure, heart disease, infertility, low libido, Erectile dysfunction, cancer, depression, dementia, addictions, anxieties, psychosis, etc.), disparities and discords (fights, divorces, lawsuits, riots, wars, mobs and gangs, etc.) that plague human lives, rich and poor alike. Imbalance and fatigue are so prevalent in human lives that we have become blind to them. We are the only species metamorphosed to have the brain in the driver seat of our body-mind axis yet most of us know more about our phones, apps, sports, politics, games, pets, cars and jobs than about our own brain and body, and how they work (or get burned out) together. This book is an essential simplified scientific "user manual" for the brain and body of a metamorphosed species.

Warning: Today self-censorship is the main form of censorship. If you are looking for a book that confirms your biases, this book may not be for you! This is a book for critical thinkers with the wisdom to question, and the guts to defy herds and mobs.

As humans, why do we walk such a fine line between depression and addiction (habituation), paranoia and recklessness, fatigue and burnout? Why are we lonelier than ever and humanity is in such a rut that in the age of social media and constant contact, governments in several countries now have Ministries of Loneliness to keep the social fabrics from falling apart? Why are humans so prone to self-delusion and self-deception? Why do we have so many conflicting stories and versions of the truth? The book scientifically reveals why today humans suffer mostly from abuse not by others but by their own brain. The world's largest battles are fought inside human minds. In this book, we learn, in simple language, about the neurochemical soups and feedback loops that make our brains prone to metabolic imbalance, self-delusion, addiction, and unfettered quantitative growth targets that construct a world of winners, losers and barely anyone in between.