Transcript excerpt of a Cracks Podcast conversation with Dra. María Patricia about interpreting bodily symptoms as communication. The speaker uses a personal anecdote (itchy eyes after returning to an apartment caused by humidity) to argue symptoms should be listened to rather than simply suppressed, linking this perspective to broader approaches in health and to entrepreneurship analogies.
I arrived at the apartment after not.
Having been there for a while. And one night my husband and I.
Arrived back from a trip and my eyes were itchy. And I thought, how strange. I'm not allergic at all. If my body is showing me an itchy eye that's very uncomfortable, you can't read or be at peace with the discomfort. And if you start scratching them, it's worse, quote. But then I can see it as.
A problem, or I can see it as something that's showing me something.
I'll give you a specific example.
That day we arrived at the apartment.
I said to my husband, there's something here because I never have this feeling in my eyes. Are you crazy? No, there's something here. Well, I put homeopathic drops on them.
To try to calm them down.
But I was still curious about this curiosity. Of course, the next day, when I had time to examine them, there had.
Been a water leak and there was a lot of humidity.
So that's what I mean. A symptom, an itchy eye, conjunctivitis or something else. Name it. It could be a migraine, it could be dermatitis, it could be a lot of sneezing. Whatever it is, the symptom is not.
Here to bother you and stop your life.
It is here to tell you that.
There is something you can do to get better.
If I imagine that I start taking an antihistamine, right, or put in antihistamine drops, I am covering up the symptom. I am covering up the light on the control panel that is telling me.
That the microphone is on or off.
I am going to cover it up. For my health project, I prefer to have clear, honest, open communication with my body, which is my partner.
So there is me and there is my body.
My body has been evolving for hundreds.
Of thousands of years.
Do you think it is wrong? Symptoms are the body's language. It is how the body communicates to us. So instead of fighting with the symptoms, let's use them. Let's take advantage of them. You're married, Bear. Imagine if your wife were talking to.
You and you covered her mouth and she did this to you and you tied her hands.
No, you're not going to build a good relationship. And I think the same thing happens.
With the human body.
Taking advantage of those symptoms opens the door to an abundant health project. It really resonates with me when I work with entrepreneurs. I tell them, what is a complaint? No, why do people complain? Well, why didn't you follow through? Why X and Z I tell them, they complain because they care. And a complaint is a client telling.
You what you have to do to get their money.
It's exactly the same thing you're telling me.
I love it. How do we waste that? It's not pleasant either. No, no, no. Super uncomfortable. Super uncomfortable. To have an abdominal pain, a stomachache. It's horrible. Any pain is horrible. It takes away that feeling of being okay, but that's how important it is to listen to it.
