Inter-kingdom Dissimulation: Non-communicable Disease As Corporeal Ecology

Our world dismantled the evolutionary barriers to disease in the blink of an eye—still, nobody noticed…

This book develops an evolutionary–ecological framework for understanding chronic conditions as the result of systemic mismatch between biology and environment. It addresses a central limitation of modern medicine: while effective in treating acute illness, it is less able to explain the environmentally-mediated burden.

We reconceptualise non-communicable diseases as multi-stage processes: carcinogenesis as the nexus of an ectomycorrhizal discontinuity conferred by sedentism, oxidation reintroduced into the body by ceramics, and tension cushioned by sedentarism; whilst Alzheimer’s disease is reframed as an archaic bilateral escalation between the memory of brood location versus living longer, but alone.

Structured as a spiral document—reflecting the importance of endosymbiosis to natural selection. But what spirals also unspools, alluded to in the bidirectionality inherent in the Phaistos Disc—one of the first instances of written language. This is mirrored by the Sphinx linking limestone to symmetry, just as it rewinds to the scene of glottogony—the event horizon of (non)communicability.

Given that non-communicable diseases account for 70% of global mortality, this reframing addresses a defining challenge of 21st-century health.