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How to achieve and maintain optimal health
Copyright 2007-2014, Digital Recordings, All Rights Reserved Last updated October 15, 2007
Introduction
Human organism is a very complex assembly/colony of 100 trillion
(100,000,000,000,000) cells. Approximately 50% of the cells are our
own and 50% belong to by and large symbiotic organisms, mostly bacteria.
Cells themselves are complex entities. Each cell contains structures
such as chromosomes, mitochondria, DNA, RNA, etc. These structures in
turn are made from many complex molecules. Molecules themselves are
made from many atoms, predominantly carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. Each
human cell contains about 100 trillion atoms. What a complex system!
Physicists do not know the precise structure and inner working of
a single atom. Now imagine the enormous amount of atoms in a single
human body (100 trillions x 100 trillions) and their complex interactions.
And the complexity does not end here. Every atom, molecule and cell
in our body is affected by gravitational, electromagnetic, strong
and weak forces of the outside world, as well as by streams of
particles flowing from all directions from the Universe.
It would be arrogant to say that we know much about the structure of
the Universe and the inner workings of our bodies. As a matter of
fact we know very little. Nevertheless, we can combine our knowledge
from many fields of science and our empirical and historical data to
draw conclusions and derive very reasonable strategies on how to
achieve and maintain optimal health.
One very useful approach to deriving strategies on how to achieve
and maintain optimal health is to look at life and living organisms
from the standpoint of physics, in particular the laws of thermodynamics
and the concept of negative entropy (the measure of order or organization).
The author, bio-physicist and acoustician by training, applied this
concept with great success to the analyzing of principles governing
life, diet and
cancer. His work is published on this
website and is referenced and used in practice by many scientists
and researchers from various disciplines, doctors and health
practitioners all over the world.
One has to marvel at the unique physical conditions which exist
on Earth; this is where one can find Mystery and the Divine. Life
which evolved on our planet reflects these conditions and is compatible
with them. Various organisms evolved together and are compatible with
each other forming a complex web of life (therefore Gaya concept has
a lot of merit). All are important: viruses and bacteria, mosquitos
and elephants, zebras and lions, trees and plankton, sharks and dolphins.
All form a complex inter-connected and inter-dependant web of life.
This system evolved over 3.5 billion years and it is very stable as
long as the physical conditions on Earth are relatively stable.
Unfortunately now, due to overpopulation and excessive consumption and
disrespectful treatment of natural and ecological resources, our
existence is threatened at an unprecedented scale. We are pushing
the physical and ecological conditions on Earth into a state where
our environment will be hostile to life. In that state many organisms
including us will get extinct. We must remember that life can only
exist in a very narrow range of physical conditions and that humans
reproduce and evolve very slowly. We must also remember that we won't
be able to evolve to live in certain conditions at all, since complex
DNA-based life can't exist in them (simple lab experiments illustrate
this point clearly).
Therefore, we cannot adopt to any large changes in the environment
including that in temperature, radiation pollution, nuclear and chemical
pollution of air, water and food, changes in ecosystem due to new viruses
and bacteria and new and missing species of plants and animals.
Destruction of the ecosystem due to the destruction of the sunlight-capturing
forests, plants and plankton as well as global dimming (right now at
the level of 10% reduction in Sun radiation due to pollution of the
atmosphere) lead to a smaller flow of life and order-feeding energy
and negative entropy. Extinction of species leads to the loss of
genetic diversity (and information) and changes the balance in the
biosphere. Pollution creates toxic environment, in many cases
unhospitalable to living organisms. Creation of many diverse micro-environments
leads to high dynamics in the ecosystem and very fast mutations in
bacteria and viruses. This in turn is dangerous to larger organisms
which only thrive in a relatively stable ecosystem as their reproduction
and genetic evolution are much slower and their tolerance of adverse
conditions is lower than that of micro-organisms.
To maintain optimal health and survive as species on Earth we need to:
Minimize our impact on the environment so it becomes
long-term safe and stable. Please check these resources:
Optimize our health and immune system via proper diet,
lifestyle and living environment. Please check these resources:
Realize that our body is the best and most knowledgeable doctor on
this planet. After all it evolved over 3.5 billion years in a very large gene pool and
it was well scrutinized and tested by a harsh natural selection. Our role is to supply
our body, the doctor, with proper tools, raw materials and healthy environment. "He/She" in
turn will do the best job possible to keep us healthy and alive. We should only use the
medical system for diagnosis and monitoring of our health and in traumatic situations
including accidents, sudden aggressive infections, and poisoning.
The author believes that most health problems (about 95%) can be resolved
using simple corrections in our lifestyle and in our environment and without
any medical intervention. Preventive measures, however, are not widely used
and a holistic approach is not followed. This in turn leads to a low success
rate in treatment of many disorders in particular that of slowly developing
degenerative diseases (including cancer). This places
a tremendous and unnecessary physical, psychological, environmental and
financial burden on individual people and society at large.
Money saved from the lower reliance on the medical system should be
invested in environmental protection and the establishment of national
parks for the preservation of natural biodiversity and healthy type of
recreation.
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