Describe connections your are making between cell biology and your TCM studies.
The cell biology is the basis of how our molecular structure works. How we function. With out a knowledgeable understanding of this process we can't treat our patients with the proper techniques which will be useful to our bodies as they exist and function. If we use the knowledge of biochemistry and Molecular Biology, to find and create a total treatment of the human, then we are creating a type of harmony in the total system of functioning. By knowing what we need to put into the body in order to create a total harmony of functioning of the cellular structures, then we can attempt to function in a more holistic fashion in which the human anatomy is designed to be most efficient. We as practitioners need to be able to understand the purification of the system and put it to use. If we can eliminate the free radicals and restore the system to a higher functioning then we are achieving what we as holistic practitioners should be believing and practicing ourselves to provide the most pure care possible to our patients.
How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
Well, my impressions, it seems as if we have evolved to be more complex in how we create each other. Maybe this is the process to possibly an even higher more complex process in the future. I don't really know. Maybe this is why we need or have an instinctual need to be with others. We have been or or just are, through evolution, created to function with the need to have a secondary to reproduce. Why is this so? Basically because we have evolved into this type of situation. I don't know any further. I know that we don't all feel the need to procreate so I don't know that we are all driven by this process but we have all been given the possibility. I personally feel that maybe it would be interesting if we were able to develop babies through Mitosis. If we as humans could impregnate and have offspring independently without the involvement of a secondary for genetic make up then it might even be a different world. I don't know if I really wish for such a thing but could it be a possibility? Would it be of sound decision to create such a possibility? Who is to say? All I can be sure of is that this is the evolutionary process we have taken. There may be other life forms in our vast universe that have these capabilities but at this time are unknown to us. Maybe even this is a type of diversity that confronts us and makes us consider different possibilities in the evolution of reproduction.
1 comment:
wow- i really enjoyed reading your posts! i found your thoughts on both the links between cell biology and tcm, as well as on mitosis and meiosis to be really interesting, unique and refreshing. i loved that you asked the question of what would it be like if we as humans could reproduce via mitosis without the need for another set of dna. what would that be like. perhaps we might be moving in that direction as a species.
i also liked reading about the connections you made between tcm and cell biology, that you see a these connections as being integral to being able to treat patients holistically and effectively. thanks for the food for thought!
-lynx
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