Unblocked Health
We’re in an era of outsourced thinking. The information war on your health isn’t new, but the battlefield has changed. Gen X learned to question the Food Pyramid and the evening news; their kids are scrolling TikTok, YouTube, and AI-polished influencers. Your body becomes a data set and the wellness industry benefits. Unblocked Health flips the script with two surprisingly engaged AI voices, grounded in Mark Carlson’s Health Under Control essays, to run short Deep Dives on how the attention economy erodes discernment and how to rebuild it from first principles. Each episode turns big claims into concre...
Stop Asking “What Should I Eat?”
You can know every diet rule and still feel stuck, because the confusion is not a motivation problem. It is a method problem.
For 70 years, nutrition has centered the question “What should humans eat?” That framing forces the field to rely on weak inputs and short horizons: self-reported food surveys, short trials for long-term disease, and population data that cannot reliably separate correlation from cause.
This episode flips the starting point.
Instead of “should,” it starts with “can”: constraints that do not bend for trends, credentials, or consensus. That includes:
* biochemical limits, incl...
How the Health Attention Economy Uses You
Your watch buzzes, your phone lights up, and before you finish your first cup of coffee a score has already told you how you slept, how you should train, and how you are “really” doing. It feels like data-driven self-care. But what if the simple act of checking is changing the state you are trying to measure, and quietly teaching you to trust numbers and feeds more than your own nervous system?
In this episode, we walk through the rooms of the health attention economy: wearables that start talking like judges, experts who cannot all be right at o...
Emotional Physics: The Hidden Cost of Avoidance
Most high-functioning people already know exactly what sustainable health should look like.They’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, taken the certifications. They can teach a boundary-setting workshop better than most clinicians.
And yet—they are exhausted.
Not because they lack discipline.Not because they’re confused.But because their nervous system is recalculating around one or two emotional “Do Not Enter” zones that formed years ago.
This episode walks through the mechanism Mark Carlson outlines in his essay Emotional Physics: The Hidden Setting Running Your Life—a simple, explainable loop that forces...
The Practitioner's Endgame: Making Yourself Optional
Episode Notes: The Architecture of Healing
This is the final installment of our Deep Dive into the Seven Principles of the Health Under Control (HUC) Framework. After covering Measurement (P1-3) and Clarity of Function (P4-5), we now address the ultimate goal: Autonomy.
The entire Health Attention Economy thrives on dependency and complexity. These final two principles are the antidote, teaching the client how to reclaim their discernment and the practitioner how to structure genuine, lasting healing.
In this episode, we tackle Principles 6 and 7 (Agency and Relationship):
* Principle 6: Client-Led Agency...
Stop Believing. Start Knowing: The Principles of Clarity
In this second deep dive into the 3-part series rethinking health from first principles, we pivot from last episode’s Action (Principles 1-3) to Understanding (Principles 4-5) —the essential step for building mechanical literacy and permanent self-trust.
We’re putting the Health Under Control (HUC) framework to work against the pervasive forces that force blind faith in your health journey.
In this episode, we tackle Principles 4 and 5 (Clarity of Function):
* Principle 4: Explainable Mechanisms over Mystified Claims. We expose diagnoses that explain everything and nothing at the same time. If you’ve ever been told you...
The Anti-Protocol: Your 7 Filters for Clarity
The Problem and The Solution
Tired of the noise? If you feel like you’ve been doing “everything right”—tracking, optimizing, stacking supplements—but still feel lost, you’re fighting the Health Attention Economy. This system is built for engagement and dependency, not for solving your problems.
This Deep Dive episode introduces the Seven Principles of the Health Under Control (HUC) Framework—your definitive filter for evaluating any health advice, protocol, or product.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode (Principles 1, 2, 3)
This first part of our series tackles Measurement and Action, providing the to...
When Doing Everything Right Still Fails
This episode unpacks the five stages we unknowingly walk through—from symptom management to genuine allowing. It’s created from my original essay on Health Under Control and reveals how each stage exposes a deeper block between you and the body’s natural intelligence.
AI audio discussions based on essays at Health Under Control: Frameworks, philosophy, and finding out what’s real.
Written for practitioners, coaches, and curious people who may have lost their meaning in the Health & Wellness field.
By Mark Carlson, FDN-P
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* Derived from essay: Five Stages o...
