The speaker argues that physical pain often signals unmet psychological needs and chronic stress. His own health transformed when he ditched bio-hacking, moved to a coastal community with strong social ties, and simplified his life. Mental and physical health can't be separated.
And you can't out-physical the mental and you can't out-mental the physical. There's some of these problems that a lot of people have that manifest themselves as physical ailments that are really problems of the mind. It's really because they're having needs that aren't— they are having needs that aren't met and their brain is sending them alerts. There's alarms going off saying, this guy's not listening to us, right? Let's go put some pain in his shoulder. Let's go make his gut hurt. Not only that, being in that constant state of stress, which is what it is, is a chronic stressor. Right? I say that I fixed my health when I stopped doing all of the biohacks, when I moved to a beach with a really good community, with an awesome lifestyle, with an abstinence from all of the annoying stuff that I was doing in the city.
