My Many Selves: A Podcast About Consciousness, Self-Discovery & the Many Parts of Being Human

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Episode 17: One Person’s Remedy Is Another’s Slow Poison: The Fallacy of One-Size-Fits-All Healing

We already know that one size does not fit all. Yet in matters of physical, mental, and emotional healing, we continue treating the diagnosis as though it tells us everything about the person. In this episode, Damaris Nightingale explores a vital but often overlooked truth: a food, herb, supplement, or therapy that heals one person may slowly disturb another. Through her own experience with unexplained burn-like marks and intense internal heat, she reveals what happened when supposedly “healing” foods proved incompatible with her constitution. Drawing from Traditional Chinese Medicine, BaZi, Sasang Constitutional Medicine, Eight Constitution Medicine, Ayurveda, and modern epigenetics, Damaris examines how ancient systems recognized the individuality that standardized treatment often overlooks. She also introduces Numinax, her developing constitutional framework for bringing this knowledge into a more accessible and calculable form. Because the real question is not simply, “Does this remedy work?” It is: “For whom, in what amount, and for how long?” The system may provide the map, but the individual’s response remains the final authority.