Science is but a tool for understanding what works and doesn’t work. It’s neither necessary nor complete for solving any specific problem. I have a few instance

Science is but a tool for understanding what works and doesn’t work. It’s neither necessary nor complete for solving any specific problem. I have a few instances where I’ve used science to hack my own problems and it usually works if you are careful and methodical, but my result isn’t scientific and it’s only manifest in a sample of one. I can’t advertise it as a solution for everyone as it’s not science. But it doesn’t mean I’m anti science, rather, this is how theories and hypotheses start - not in a clean room with a pencil and paper extending known science with sterile logic. It’s having an insight that’s a bit crazy but you know enough science to support it, you try it out and holy smokes it works. Then you craft an experiment to prove it didn’t work, some similar well controlled construction. A personal example is I suffered from long covid. I knew that citrulline is a non essential amino acid that is a part of the nitric oxide cycle that is easily digested and metabolized into arginine in the kidneys. It’s got a lot of uses for exercise endurance, erectile dysfunction, but also sickle cell anemia. The popular misconception is the shape of the sickle cells can’t carry oxygen well but that’s false. In fact the symptoms are caused by the shape irritating the cells lining the blood vessels, and arginine is a vasoprotector and vasodilator that’s redirected to help heal the irritation leading to loss of energy systematically. I figured covid attacks and irritates the blood vessels maybe there’s something similar at play. Regardless, by juicing the NO cycle overall blood flow and energy levels increase. I checked with doctors and the body can consume large amounts of citrulline without consequence other than GI discomfort in large amounts. I got a bag of nutricutical grade citrulline from Amazon and within half an hour I felt great for the first time in a year. In a few months of daily dosing feel normal again. Maybe it was luck, maybe a placebo, maybe real. It doesn’t matter - it’s not anti-science, it’s proto-science