Rewiring: Why people love EBT

With our healthcare crisis, you name it: PTSD, addiction, trauma, depression, obesity, diabetes, and general angst, people want solutions.

That's what I want. A few years back, in an interview with the father of neuroplasticity, Michael Merzenich, PhD, he shared his thoughts about health solutions, saying that if there were one, it would be by training the brain.

Other than surgery, and most treatments aren't surgical, we only have three options. In reviewing their benefits, only rewiring has a chance at delivering a solution.

Sojourns into white-knuckling it

The cognitive behavioral approach is to force modifications in behavior or thoughts. It's proven unsuccessful and, more than ever, is now losing ground. Research has shown that stress-induced chemicals fuel our drives, so going "natural" by forcing changes without changing chemistry causes needless suffering and recidivism. For any strong drives (and most are), it has become outdated.

Drugs that assist but have downsides

Given the recent evidence of the impact of weight loss drugs on appetite and weight and the awareness that health status comes down to chemicals, it makes sense that we could easily become a "pill for every ill" society. That seems to be what has occurred.

The good news of EBT is not widely publicized. It was only discovered in 2007 and made effective for treating those strong wires that fuel most of our problems today ("reactive circuits") in 2022 and affordable in 2024, but it hasn't reached the mainstream yet. So, most people do not know that the healing chemicals can come naturally for most problems if we rewire the circuits that drive the stress chemical and inflammation cascade.

Although drugs can be helpful or necessary for some problems, they can work better when the stress buzzer is not stuck on because we have rewired our stress response to become more biochemically resilient. The downside of drugs is that they are designed to eradicate a symptom, not fix the errant wiring that made us vulnerable to it.

For example, weight loss drugs inject one of the eight chemicals that drive overeating and weight gain, GLP-1. They do not regulate the rest of the stress-activated chemicals that drive overeating and weight gain. Once people are on these drugs, they may have symptom relief (lower the appetite and support weight loss), but as weight gain is not caused by a GLP-1 deficiency, there are side effects, and, without dependency, the weight lost is rapidly regained. That doesn't sound like a solution to me.

Rewiring the root cause

The most natural approach is to go directly to the wires that activate the chemicals, which is the strategy of EBT. For example, when it comes to weight loss drugs, we can rewire any faulty stress wires.

These circuits control all eight chemicals involved: cortisol, dopamine, insulin, leptin, GLP-1, ghrelin, PYY, and serotonin. Rewire the circuit and balance all the key chemicals that drive our obesity epidemic. It's a relatively simple, affordable, and lasting solution . . . perhaps one whose time has come.