Your Body Is NOT a Machine: The Orthodox Answer to Biohacking & the New Age
About this episode
In this episode, Dr. Michael Christian and John explore the Orthodox understanding of the body in contrast to modern medicine and New Age wellness.
Modern medicine often treats the body like a machine. New Age wellness treats the body like energy. Orthodoxy gives us something deeper than both. In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast , Dr. Michael Christian & John ask the question underneath the entire post-Pascha body arc: What is the body? They discuss the machine model of modern medicine, the New Age reaction to medical reductionism, biohacking, HRV trackers, chronic illness, Orthodox fasting, Father Stephen De Young’s body-soul anthropology, the Incarnation, Pascha, & why healing must be ordered toward communion with God. The body is not a machine to be hacked. It is not a god to be obeyed. It is not a prison to escape. It is the body of a person created by God, wounded by sin & death, & called to resurrection. Christ did not come to save a ghost trapped in biology. He came to heal the whole man. Chapters: 00:00 Coming Up 2:33 Orthodox Health Intro 02:33 What Is the Body? Orthodoxy Beyond Biohacking 11:15 Why Anthropology Matters for Healing 14:39 The Machine Model of Modern Medicine 21:40 When Natural Health Still Treats the Body Like a Machine 27:09 The Dignity of the Body in Orthodox Christianity…
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Michael Kuhn
Guests: Dr. Michael Christian, John
Topics covered
- Orthodox health
- biohacking
- modern medicine
- New Age wellness
- healing
- body-soul anthropology
- Orthodox fasting
Keywords
- body
- machine model
- chronic illness
- healing practices
- Orthodox Christianity
- medical reductionism
- compassion
- New Age healing
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