Whose side is your body on?
We are frequently led to believe our body can go awry and wishes us dead.
But despite theories of genetics or DNA gone haywire, inconvenient hereditary stuff and autoimmunity (where your body attacks itself) why should we think nature would not want to keep us alive?
The furtherance of life and perpetuation of the species is ‘baked into’ nature. If it wasn’t humans would have long ago gone extinct as would many other creatures.
The relatively simple process of producing another human starts with a tiny sperm and a tiny egg that fuse. Then in just nine months this blob turns into a fully functioning human ready for the world. This is utterly remarkable.
Why should such a wonderful bit of creation which seemingly has all sorts of protection mechanisms built in right from the outset, also come with some different mechanisms that are hell bent on self destruction?
It makes no sense at all that this would be true.
When you start to think about ‘instinct’ nobody can tell you for sure how it gets passed on or how exactly it resides in the body.
It is supposedly a set of evolutionary survival mechanisms rather than any rational thought and these are said be to hard-wired neural patterns and genetic programs encoded in DNA.
But we still haven’t the foggiest idea about DNA for all the blather about the genome project, double helixes and it supposedly being a blue print for life.
Other more simple animals, like a cuttlefish, have vastly more complicated DNA so straight away this should raise eyebrows. From the net:
Cuttlefish DNA is more complex than human DNA in terms of gene count and specific neural gene families.
Gene Count: Cuttlefish possess approximately 33,000 protein-coding genes, which is significantly higher than the 20,000 to 25,000 genes found in humans.
Neural Complexity: They have a massive expansion of protocadherin genes (around 168), which are crucial for neural development; this is nearly double the number found in humans and allows for their highly complex, distributed nervous system.
Genome Size: While their total genome size (approx. 2.7 billion base pairs) is slightly smaller than the human genome (approx. 3.2 billion base pairs), the density and specific arrangement of genes contribute to their high biological complexity.
Call me stupid if you like (plenty do) but if I had a blue print for making a cuttlefish and blue print for making a human I feel certain the human would be more complicated or at the very least they should be fairly equal I’d imagine.
DNA seems to be almost unique because the harder you look into it, the less you can figure what the hell is going on with it.
I personally rate this piece quite highly:
And yet almost all creatures seem to posses some instinct such as the instinct that tells the newly hatched bird to open its beak for food within mere minutes of life, or tells the newly emerged turtle to rush towards the sea.
When you adjust your thinking to be on the side of your body and nature doing its utmost to keep you going, your whole view changes.
What happens is you start to trust your body and the innate ‘nature’ it obviously contains to sort things out for you. And at the same time you take an increasingly dim view about whether the medical profession has the same positive objective.
So in the case of cancer, which is a great example to consider, you have two opposing views:
Either your body got something horribly wrong like a DNA replication had a mutation, or you inherited some bad stuff from a parent and now nature has ‘got it in for you.’
Or else cancer can be seen as a last ditch attempt to keep you alive.
These views oppose each other totally — and the paths you might take could not be more different.
In one case you accept the view of medical science and allow yourself to be chopped, poisoned or irradiated to try and remove this hostile malevolent growth that is trying hard to kill you.
Or else you say: “My body is trying to sort something out which I very wrongly and stupidly allowed to happen in my living situation by not being careful enough. So I need to adjust what I did or am doing wrong.”
On the basis more people die from the treatments for cancer than die from the actual cancer itself, I would choose my body every time.
But this is only a view I have adopted since I discovered a different perspective of illness and created this website to try to inform others.
Any illness I suspect is just a restorative response. The body is having to put something right so let it do its job. But at the same time it a message that something happened to require this action …so you are best not to allow this again.
The investigation into what your body didn’t like is the key. And not assuming the response which presented as a symptom is there to be suppressed.
The black smoke from a car exhaust does not tell you to fit a device to catch and clean the smoke, it tells you to look at the engine to see why all of a sudden it is producing smokey exhaust.
Note: For anyone with an electric car, I’m sure you have your own problems.
This makes sense to me. Thanks.