@Sarah_Bruhn your empathic points about the mind-body intelligence and the many still unknown and quite non-linear processes and criticially important recoveries that go on within it (esp when it has a trauma history and/or is female) can be encouraging to both trauma survivors and so-called “slow losers” - thank you. 
@Ryan_Ashton “The main problem with your write up is…” followed by misuse of the quote functionality for absolutisms volleying is confusing. Thinly veiled bullying or aggrieved entitlement? With no attempt to frame yourself, it could be taken as mundane mansplaining - and actually not “good tips”. Additionally, without emojis or gifs, there’s no emotional tone to clarify anything otherwise, so I just stopped reading.
I think we need to ask “what science?” - because modern science is not the only kind of science, and, neither is modern science very intrepid in many regards. It’s often simply PAID, as Jason Fung MD so well recently laid out in a recent awesome interview 
Excellent new video talk by Dr. Fung: On balancing insulin/leptin - and on Research Politics!
Bessel Van der Kolk MD is the first physician who has connected the science of body-based trauma in significant published research. Trauma and shock embodiment impact the brain, nervous system, endocrine system and more in ways that can seem quite independent - and the body tells the truth of our experience.
It was only about 15 years ago that industrial medical science acknowledged that infants feel pain. Up until that time, many tortuous practices and/or routine protocols were done on newborns in hospitals with little regard for properly interpreting their specific extreme distress screams. Add to that, the cultural context of minimizing early shock and trauma and denying the systemic nature of various kinds of violence when it has to do with exploiting and/or terrorizing children, females, people of color, indigenous peoples, differently-abled people - and its epidemic proportions of walking wounded.
Similarly, it’s only been quite recently that both stress-related cortisol combined with other things like IR and environmental endocrine disrupters are being scientifically understood as a western industrial equation in terms of body fat among other things (moreso for those with trauma histories as well as for females in general and midlife female metabolisms in particular, along with vulnerable children in their developmental years). Some bodies recompose much slower than others even with best practices for LCHF/keto and/or IF. It’s a well known fact that most “science” in this regard is founded in male-centered confirmation biases and inquiry, etc.
I think western science is quite immature both in terms of chronological time, as well as in its outlook (“unless western science names it, it never existed before, and all those ancient cultures and their many advanced knowledge bases don’t matter”) - as well as ethics (as in, who pays for what studies at which schools and so on) - far behind the integrative and functional understanding of eastern science.
But, Dr. Van der Kolk and a small contingent of trauma specialists are doing some great work to advanced body-based modalities that work directly with the stone age nervous system and often are much more effective than years of talk therapy or identity-based superficial fixes.
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma-dp-0143127748/dp/0143127748/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
