carmen fernandez de cordoba

We have always believed that the immune system is activated at the slightest sign of threat with the sole purpose of ensuring our survival. According to this belief, our ability to influence it would be virtually nonexistent, except for taking the occasional medication to support it. However, this view is incomplete. The Western lifestyle, together with permanent uncertainty, leads us to live in a state of extreme alert that the body interprets as danger. In this context, the immune system...

The purpose of the “Debunking Myths”  series is to recover lost knowledge about our bodily intelligence. Throughout a series of five chapters, we will explore the hidden power behind conscious breathing, the nervous system’s search for coherence, the stress response, and immunity. Our objective is to bring awareness to the intelligence of the body itself, because when we understand how it works, we stop feeling fear and begin to collaborate with it—without this implying a replacement for...

She had been born in a coastal city in Andalusia. The entrance to her house began with a solemn door that spilled onto the last step of a winding staircase sprinkled with small tiles alternating black and white, like an analogy of what her childhood would become. That geometry, present beneath her feet, would end up as a metaphor throughout her entire life. Orphaned of her father at an early age, she became the shoulder to cry on for a young widow raised for little more than being a good...