The M·A·H·A Framework: An Integrative Architecture for Resisting Systemic Metabolic, Attentional, and Relational Extraction

This paper formalizes the M·A·H·A (Mindfulness, Authenticity, Health, Action) framework as an integrative socio-biological model designed to resist the compounding crises of the early twenty-first century. The core thesis is that contemporary metabolic, attentional, and relational pathologies may be understood not as isolated public-health failures but as coupled downstream consequences of a single, structurally extractive economic architecture. The paper maps proposed couplings between cellular inflammation, prefrontal-cortex resource depletion, and parasocial cognitive offloading, and develops boundary conditions including the limits of fractal scale-translation, the epistemological risks of hyper-metricized wellness, and the geopolitical survivability of local commons. It presents theoretical foundations in systems thermodynamics, lipidology, cognitive science, and commons governance, and concludes with a formal falsifiability protocol. The work is offered as a conceptual blueprint and an explicit set of testable propositions, not as established medical consensus. Claims are tagged by evidence level under an explicit provenance discipline.