Pepsin is a powerful stomach enzyme (protease) that starts protein digestion by breaking large proteins into smaller peptides and amino acids, working best in the stomach’s acidic environment. Produced as inactive pepsinogen, it’s activated by stomach acid. While essential for digestion, its presence in the esophagus (due to reflux) can damage tissues, causing symptoms like heartburn or chronic throat clearing, notes.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
Psychological “flow states” are much easier to enter and sustain when the underlying organismic flow is relatively harmonious and supported.
