Bryan Johnson argues mental health treatment relies too much on how patients feel, unlike cardiology which uses EKGs and blood tests. He proposes measuring brain activity systematically to diagnose and treat mental illness more scientifically, the way doctors check hearts before prescribing medication.
Mental health. It's a big topic in society and very important one. How can kernel flow help us to understand these issues? Imagine being a cardiologist and you said, all right, Doctor, I'd like to know the health of my heart. And the cardiologist then replied, okay, tell me first, how does your heart feel? And you respond okay. That you would also want an ekg, a blood panel, blood pressure taken. You'd want a series of tests done with measurement. You wouldn't want the doctor to say, hey, you know what? Based upon how you told me you feel, here's a bottle of statins. Like, go take them home until you feel okay. We would consider that to be insane, but that's what we do with our brains today. We sit in a. We try to assess how we feel, and then we're given a bottle of something and we take it. If we could baseline this in measurement, we might be able to bring some sanity to the way in which we even diagnose and address mental health and wellness.
