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Josh Cottle is an online anatomy educator and science communicator. He owns and operates SCI Body Therapy as a hub for continuing education for both medical professionals and community based programs.

02/23/2026

Can I SUPER SIZE my Peen?

02/22/2026

What happens when things that are supposed to be closed, open back up? Nothing good. It’s time to learn something terrible.

If this finds the person who packed our order at Walmart’s warehouse, I’d like you to know the reason we ordered 5 is be...
02/21/2026

If this finds the person who packed our order at Walmart’s warehouse, I’d like you to know the reason we ordered 5 is because you have to have over $35 in your cart to get free shipping.

Also, if this finds Walmart could you maybe stock some non-chunky salsa in our town?

Please.

02/21/2026

How is sq**rt made?

02/20/2026

Can fruits like pineapple, change the flavor of your bodily fluids? Maybe. But it’s not the sugar.

02/20/2026

Can IUD poke your partner while you’re doing the pelvic Hokey Pokey?

Rebranding 101: AlcoholWhen the Volstead Act outlawed beverage alcohol in 1920, it preserved a crucial exception: medici...
02/19/2026

Rebranding 101: Alcohol

When the Volstead Act outlawed beverage alcohol in 1920, it preserved a crucial exception: medicinal use.

At the time, the loophole aligned with mainstream medical thinking. Alcohol had an established therapeutic footprint in late 19th and early 20th century.

Physicians employed spirits as sedatives, mild analgesics, appetite stimulants, and circulatory “stimulants.” These uses reflected observable pharmacology. At a chemical level Ethanol legitimately enhances GABA-A receptor signaling, suppresses excitatory neurotransmission, and produces dose-dependent central nervous system depression.

In an era predating antibiotics, modern anxiolytics, and many effective symptom-targeted drugs, alcohol was one of the few agents that predictably altered symptoms (Dare I say offered relief).

Doctors issued government-regulated prescriptions, commonly limited to a pint, and pharmacies dispensed whiskey or brandy labeled for therapeutic use. Prescription rates climbed sharply. Pharmacies became major points of distribution.

Language played a subtle but powerful role. Terms suggesting clinical credibility, purity, or refinement softened social and professional friction. Alcohol framed as treatment certainly carried a different moral and legal weight than alcohol framed as recreation.

Modern biomedical understanding casts this period with greater clarity. Ethanol is now recognized as a non-specific CNS depressant with limited therapeutic value and substantial risks. Physical and mental dependence, hepatotoxicity, neuroadaptation, and systemic health consequences to name a few.

Can you think of any modern examples of such a rebrand?

02/19/2026

What is sq**rt? Everyone wants the science until the science says something they don’t like.

02/18/2026

Is a hysterectomy a cure for endometriosis?

Today I present you with the hypogastric do**he (Circa 1860)."This procedure may be administered with the patient standi...
02/17/2026

Today I present you with the hypogastric do**he (Circa 1860).

"This procedure may be administered with the patient standing or using a mobile do**he with a moderated jet.

However, it is often necessary, particularly in the treatment of uterine disorders, for the person to be seated so that the water strikes the hypogastric region more directly and less obliquely. In this case, the mobile fan-shaped do**he should be used" (fig. 26).

Source: Traité thérapeutique et clinique d'hydrothérapie

02/17/2026

What happens to the va**na after a hysterectomy?

Vibrate yourself to health! If you have a sharp eye, you’ll spot some devices that have been dusted off and brought back...
02/12/2026

Vibrate yourself to health! If you have a sharp eye, you’ll spot some devices that have been dusted off and brought back as “modern” treatments. These are all devices from the Science Museum of Minnesota collection of pseudoscience.

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The Why of SCI

Many ask why I went into massage therapy. While that answer is complicated, it has a lot to do with being able to help my wife. She injured her back at work, and it was supposed to be a quick fix, easy peezy. She was young, active, and healthy.

What followed was nearly a decade of, doctors, surgeries, PT, OT, a laundry list of medications, alternative treatments, painful procedures, blatant quackery from both western and alternative medicine. At multiple points, both my wife and I seemed to be at the end of our respective ropes. The experience tried our relationship in every possible way.

In the end, it was the integrative approach of Mayo Clinic’s Pain Clinic that brought her back. I can still remeber the first day I saw her dancing again. It made me cry. It was wonderful. It’s certainly wasn’t easy and we learned that with chromic pain there is no “cure”.