Michael G. Hunter

Writing

Research, read by a clinician.

Long-form pieces on pain, the nervous system and identity. Every claim cited. Every piece published by me, under my name.

Neuroplastic pain: what the research actually says, from someone who spent 25 years in pain clinicsThe Ashar 2022 trial, where the marketing outruns the science, and what to do if you hurt. Nervous system regulation: what the evidence supports, and what it doesn'tSlow breathing, the physiological sigh, vagus hacks and the polyvagal argument, ranked by evidence. Internal Family Systems and the body: what a pain clinician seesThe one real IFS trial, why pain is a protector, and where the evidence stops. Menopause is a second spring. The research is catching up to the frame.Hormone therapy after the WHI, CBT, acupuncture's honest evidence, and why the story you believe is physiological.