A Secret to Health:
Defining Root Causes
to Balance Systematic and Simple
Really understanding root causes is the first step to going in the right direction. The confusion is much deeper than people think.
I have a PhD in studying applied science and there is a new paradigm of science that people don’t know about but is necessary for a truly holilstic health, or what I prefer to call a systems approach.
Many people are just shopping for supplements to make their symptoms go away. Few are shopping for a new paradigm so they can make better decisions about health--that’s too complex and abstract—and that’s why they are still searching and don’t fully know the rules of the ball game.
So let me begin with a story about why you should listen to me.
I’ve been educated at the top university like the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard and MIT.
I studied economics and business to demystify that those fields.
I discovered the use of scientific methods in business, while also becoming aware of the extremely deep flaws of methods in various academic disciplines.
I’ve been in class with future masters of parliament and a president.
I’ve been to the mountain top and there is no promised land, mostly just people promoting themselves based on a mediocre consensus of their limited version of the truth.
However, there were those few rare professors who could explain how all the different theories / paradigms operate so that you could see what is wrong and overcome the unconscious biases of those paradigms that most people hold. These exceptional professors had something better that met fierce resistance because everyone just wants to be right.
It is somewhat that way in the health seeking field, too, where people’s minds are closed or they won’t take the time to understand, mostly because they think they already know, even if they are not healed or making significant progress.
People are misled by scientific analysis that use technical language and are complex. But if you read these there is actually often no real casual analysis at all, just some correlations. This is true for both social and hard sciences, you can see for yourself reading articles on PubMed. Much of this is a pretentious use of science for career promotion. Now there is plenty of real science and causal explanation, but the medical system does not use much of that, the problem is even worse for medical thinking focused on symptoms.
Everyone wants simple but when you give it to them they are not impressed, like you are not really an expert because you didn’t show you are more complicated and saying something they don’t understand which makes someone seem like an expert.
A rule of root cause analysis is to keep asking Why? at deeper levels until you get to the root cause, at least one appropriate to that context. Asking Why? 5 times at least is the rule of thumb, this is called the 5 Whys. In social science and health sciences often they don’t ask Why? even once and only have a correlation. Health consumers are at this level when they match a symptoms with a supplement, jumping to solution with no casual explanation, although sometimes a supplement could address a root cause.
In addition, there different lines of causation or types of causes within field of inquiry, like 5-8 sets of variables, and all should be explored. This is represented visually on a Fishbone diagram. You use the 5 why’s to follow the ribs of the fish down to branches of causation that may be occurring.
The 5 Whys and Fishbone diagram are necessary to discipline the mind to solve problems methodically instead of jumping to conclusions.
These are the tools of engineering thinking now called six sigma and formerly total quality. These are proven to work in world class businesses. They can be taught to factory workers to solve real problems and are more powerful than fancy theories I learned in academia.
Engineers need to get results to make products work like your car and computer, that is quality assurance; whereas, medicine makes money on the symptoms continuing, so that may help explain why we should turn to engineering for insight. This is a system’s principle of how feedback drives a system.
Certainly a single cell is more complex than any factory, but science is universal and this applies everywhere.
How this applies to root causes of health is that you need to ask Why? a symptom occurs until it is something from OUTSIDE the body, with one exception. Body parts don’t cause their own problems.
If we ask Why? enough, 6 types of root causes are identified that become the branches of the fishbone diagram:
Nutrition, toxicity, infection, emotions, and structural misalignments are all things from outside the body: either invading or missing as inputs, like nutrients or developmental processes for emotions or alignment as learning to move properly for posture.
The one except is the brain’s reaction to the stress of the other root causes, that may be exaggerated and treatable on its own. We can also include the mind and the way it makes health choices based on its paradigm. There has to be this one exception if we are to have choice and not just be victims.
Knowing that, it is time to go deeper and let go of precious factoid diagnoses like autoimmune, inflammation, thyroid, adrenals, etc. that refer to body parts and body processes. You must ask Why? those symptoms occur using the fishbone of root causes, considering all possible causes not just one. The most common overemphasis is infectious disease because it is emphasized in the medical paradigm that blames nature rather than manmade toxicity.
One of the deepest root causes of staying sick is the ego for wanting to be right, and choosing the same kinds of solutions that keep failing,
You must be focused in the right direction on root causes or you will not get very far. Losing focus leads to overwhelm with complex health problems, like taking too many supplements that you can’t feel working, which are often symptom oriented.
The few root causes explain he many symptoms, which helps balance simplicity with being systematic enough to make a difference.
Once you have the right focus on your unique set of root causes, you can tackle the complexity of implementation that need to be customized and quantified: dosages, timing, combinations, exact product and food sources, etc. Many things that could work might not do to the devil in the details. This is a quality control/ assurance perspective.
Americans compared to Japanese or Swiss, for example, often have poor implementation of detail in both health, I have observed, and business implementing six sigma, it has been well studied.
Poor implementation runs with hyper shopping in a cycle of failure. Sloppy implementation fails and leads to shopping for another quick solution. Implementation is sloppy because people are distracted by too many options of hyper-shopping. In business this occurs as relying too much on technology and not how it is used in the design of work processes that connect all the technologies, human factors, and other root causes. We can see the same thing in health relying too much on external technologies and supplements that distract us with over-marketing. This is another aspect of a cultural paradigm problem.
So when something fails people often change the diagnosis of root causes, when it was correct. Or, the diagnosis is wrong and so nothing they do will work. So it is important to be clear on root causes. That is where a combination of lab tests and energetic testing is useful.
Focusing on just one root cause is usually a mistake. Nutrition and toxicity are common to almost all cases of chronic illness, including if you think you problem is infection like Lyme and coinfections. Even the experts on lyme don’t usually think it is that simple. You might have lyme and it might not be responsible for most of your problem.
Infections need to be addressed in a systems perspective. The medical perspective is just kill the infection, You might want to do that, but not alone. Boosting the immune system and terrain like nutritional deficiencies and excesses, including probiotics, and toxic load is usually necessary, often more effective, and sometimes enough without kill shots.
Everyone’s root causes and solutions are different. That’s why getting advice in social media is extremely limited. You need to get solutions that are customized and quantified through energetic testing because labs tests cannot prescribe directly. You can look up what energetic testing is if you don’t know. It may not seem scientific, but it is the only method to fulfill engineering requirements of complete solutions in the new scientific paradigm.
I have a PhD in studying applied science and there is a new paradigm of science that people don’t know about but is necessary for a truly holilstic health, or what I prefer to call a systems approach.
Many people are just shopping for supplements to make their symptoms go away. Few are shopping for a new paradigm so they can make better decisions about health--that’s too complex and abstract—and that’s why they are still searching and don’t fully know the rules of the ball game.
So let me begin with a story about why you should listen to me.
I’ve been educated at the top university like the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard and MIT.
I studied economics and business to demystify that those fields.
I discovered the use of scientific methods in business, while also becoming aware of the extremely deep flaws of methods in various academic disciplines.
I’ve been in class with future masters of parliament and a president.
I’ve been to the mountain top and there is no promised land, mostly just people promoting themselves based on a mediocre consensus of their limited version of the truth.
However, there were those few rare professors who could explain how all the different theories / paradigms operate so that you could see what is wrong and overcome the unconscious biases of those paradigms that most people hold. These exceptional professors had something better that met fierce resistance because everyone just wants to be right.
It is somewhat that way in the health seeking field, too, where people’s minds are closed or they won’t take the time to understand, mostly because they think they already know, even if they are not healed or making significant progress.
People are misled by scientific analysis that use technical language and are complex. But if you read these there is actually often no real casual analysis at all, just some correlations. This is true for both social and hard sciences, you can see for yourself reading articles on PubMed. Much of this is a pretentious use of science for career promotion. Now there is plenty of real science and causal explanation, but the medical system does not use much of that, the problem is even worse for medical thinking focused on symptoms.
Everyone wants simple but when you give it to them they are not impressed, like you are not really an expert because you didn’t show you are more complicated and saying something they don’t understand which makes someone seem like an expert.
A rule of root cause analysis is to keep asking Why? at deeper levels until you get to the root cause, at least one appropriate to that context. Asking Why? 5 times at least is the rule of thumb, this is called the 5 Whys. In social science and health sciences often they don’t ask Why? even once and only have a correlation. Health consumers are at this level when they match a symptoms with a supplement, jumping to solution with no casual explanation, although sometimes a supplement could address a root cause.
In addition, there different lines of causation or types of causes within field of inquiry, like 5-8 sets of variables, and all should be explored. This is represented visually on a Fishbone diagram. You use the 5 why’s to follow the ribs of the fish down to branches of causation that may be occurring.
The 5 Whys and Fishbone diagram are necessary to discipline the mind to solve problems methodically instead of jumping to conclusions.
These are the tools of engineering thinking now called six sigma and formerly total quality. These are proven to work in world class businesses. They can be taught to factory workers to solve real problems and are more powerful than fancy theories I learned in academia.
Engineers need to get results to make products work like your car and computer, that is quality assurance; whereas, medicine makes money on the symptoms continuing, so that may help explain why we should turn to engineering for insight. This is a system’s principle of how feedback drives a system.
Certainly a single cell is more complex than any factory, but science is universal and this applies everywhere.
How this applies to root causes of health is that you need to ask Why? a symptom occurs until it is something from OUTSIDE the body, with one exception. Body parts don’t cause their own problems.
If we ask Why? enough, 6 types of root causes are identified that become the branches of the fishbone diagram:
Nutrition, toxicity, infection, emotions, and structural misalignments are all things from outside the body: either invading or missing as inputs, like nutrients or developmental processes for emotions or alignment as learning to move properly for posture.
The one except is the brain’s reaction to the stress of the other root causes, that may be exaggerated and treatable on its own. We can also include the mind and the way it makes health choices based on its paradigm. There has to be this one exception if we are to have choice and not just be victims.
Knowing that, it is time to go deeper and let go of precious factoid diagnoses like autoimmune, inflammation, thyroid, adrenals, etc. that refer to body parts and body processes. You must ask Why? those symptoms occur using the fishbone of root causes, considering all possible causes not just one. The most common overemphasis is infectious disease because it is emphasized in the medical paradigm that blames nature rather than manmade toxicity.
One of the deepest root causes of staying sick is the ego for wanting to be right, and choosing the same kinds of solutions that keep failing,
You must be focused in the right direction on root causes or you will not get very far. Losing focus leads to overwhelm with complex health problems, like taking too many supplements that you can’t feel working, which are often symptom oriented.
The few root causes explain he many symptoms, which helps balance simplicity with being systematic enough to make a difference.
Once you have the right focus on your unique set of root causes, you can tackle the complexity of implementation that need to be customized and quantified: dosages, timing, combinations, exact product and food sources, etc. Many things that could work might not do to the devil in the details. This is a quality control/ assurance perspective.
Americans compared to Japanese or Swiss, for example, often have poor implementation of detail in both health, I have observed, and business implementing six sigma, it has been well studied.
Poor implementation runs with hyper shopping in a cycle of failure. Sloppy implementation fails and leads to shopping for another quick solution. Implementation is sloppy because people are distracted by too many options of hyper-shopping. In business this occurs as relying too much on technology and not how it is used in the design of work processes that connect all the technologies, human factors, and other root causes. We can see the same thing in health relying too much on external technologies and supplements that distract us with over-marketing. This is another aspect of a cultural paradigm problem.
So when something fails people often change the diagnosis of root causes, when it was correct. Or, the diagnosis is wrong and so nothing they do will work. So it is important to be clear on root causes. That is where a combination of lab tests and energetic testing is useful.
Focusing on just one root cause is usually a mistake. Nutrition and toxicity are common to almost all cases of chronic illness, including if you think you problem is infection like Lyme and coinfections. Even the experts on lyme don’t usually think it is that simple. You might have lyme and it might not be responsible for most of your problem.
Infections need to be addressed in a systems perspective. The medical perspective is just kill the infection, You might want to do that, but not alone. Boosting the immune system and terrain like nutritional deficiencies and excesses, including probiotics, and toxic load is usually necessary, often more effective, and sometimes enough without kill shots.
Everyone’s root causes and solutions are different. That’s why getting advice in social media is extremely limited. You need to get solutions that are customized and quantified through energetic testing because labs tests cannot prescribe directly. You can look up what energetic testing is if you don’t know. It may not seem scientific, but it is the only method to fulfill engineering requirements of complete solutions in the new scientific paradigm.
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Paul Hess, Ph.D.
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Paul Hess, Ph.D.
Health Coach
Primal Rejuvenation
Read about: Health Coaching in 11 Steps
I work over video: Facebook, Zoom, Google, from Michigan, USA
Hess.PaulC@gmail.com
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