The organ science overlooked — and why it might be the key to your health, your pleasure, and your intuition
Can you believe there is an organ that stayed hidden from scientists until 20 years ago? With all the progress in medicine, you’d think that the basic task of mapping the body organs was completed a long time ago. What’s more to find?
Except for the clitoris — discovered and forgotten repeatedly, erased from textbooks whenever it inconvenienced the prevailing view of reproduction — we’d assume everything else had been mapped.
Not so fast. Less than 40 years ago, scientists started to suspect that fascia, the white membranous thing wrapped around muscles and organs, was... read more here
We have a built-in connection system, and that's the key to your health, your pleasure, and your intuition
If you have ever spent a very enjoyable time dreaming about a reunion with a romantic partner, feeling a little horny only by thinking of a passionate kiss, you know why experts say that the brain is our most powerful organ. What makes this even more extraordinary is that we need only our imagination — summoning the smell, the touch, the voice of the loved one — to awaken the desire in us.
But the brain does not work alone. The desire building up in us is felt and expressed in the body. Conventionally, and quite reductively, most of us equate sex with... read more here