13- The human body
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We,The People, are not happy
To investigate the way we live, we need to know how our body, our soul and our brain are working together.
Our body is above our head -)
At first, the human body looks rather simple: one trunk, one head, two legs and two arms. Most of the sense organs are found close to the brain. This is a very common template that has been used by many animals. What happens inside our body is more than puzzling. We don’t know all the chemistry necessary to digest a simple meal. We don’t know what happens for 8 hours a day while we are asleep. Remove 75% of a liver and the body will completely rebuild the whole liver. This is more than regular maintenance. There is some creation involved.
Starfish can regenerate their body. Sharks continually shed their teeth.
What is under our skin is much more complicated than anything a human brain can conceive:
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30000 to 50000 different proteins
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60000 different kinds of toxins
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Between 75000 and 100000 genes
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More than one million different kinds of bacteria are in our mouths alone.
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10 million different types of blood cells
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The human body has 30 to 40 trillion cells.
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Trillions of cells are organized in groups within groups that react with other groups.
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Every second our body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein that has 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
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The number of organisms in the digestive system is: 100 000 000 000 000.
It is so complicated that we had to divide our medicine into more than 100 different specialties such as Urology – Neurology – Cardiology – Ophthalmology – Pathology…. And many more.
What did we do to deserve such a sophisticated body? How can we explain such difference between our body and our brain?
The human body was designed to last 120 to 140 years. Jeanne Louise Calment lived 122 years and 164 days from 21 Feb 1875 to 4 August 1997. It is interesting to compare our life expectancy with other animals. Medicine and better hygiene prolonged our life expectancy from 30 to 80 years. This is a good start, but we are only halfway. We gained 50 years. We have 50 more years to go. We started by using our linear way of thinking: one symptom, one illness, one treatment. In the second half, we could find different combinations of causes producing different illnesses requiring different treatments, depending on the patient. Our grandchildren may compare our medicine without A.I. with life without computers.
Mother Natrure does not make a body like we make our things. She makes a seed and lets it grow. The parents only introduced a spermatozoid to an ovule. What happened after that is out of their control. The first cell knew how to grow and multiply. The mother provides food and shelter. She cannot even decide if she wants a boy or a girl. You may not approve. This is not the way to treat a woman.
At birth, our environment changes from the womb to the environment of planet earth. We will be our responsibility, all our life, to do for our body what our mother did for the embryo and provide our body with food and shelter. We can assume that the same process could continue after our death. Could we move from the environment of planet earth to the environment of the solar system? Why not? Our body is only a very small part of the matter on planet Earth. Planet Earth is only a very small part of all the matter in the universe. That should keep us humble!
Let’s keep moving!
Our body is made of atoms, but those atoms don’t stay in our body. They follow their own cycles. Our skin is renewed every 4 or 5 weeks. Most of the calcium of our bones is renewed every 3 months. An atom of calcium that is today in our skeleton might have been in the shell of an egg and could be on its way to a fish in the ocean. The stay in a human body is only a small detour in its own cycle.
Some cells of the brain may not be renewed and that’s most unfortunate. The body we have today is very different from the one we had three months ago. All our life we keep replacing our body with another one that is not as good. This is a scandal! We deserve some explanation.
The human body is made of deviations in the cycles of atoms.
Mother nature keeps those atoms circulating between trees, oceans, microbes, viruses, and humans. The atoms could remain the same, but the way they are combined keeps changing. It is a continuous creation. We know that in the past, they made dinosaurs. Mother Nature decided to put her atoms to better use. According to the scientists, the atoms are immortal, but you may want to question the experience that the scientists have of immortality. We could look at the world as a sea of atoms and individuals as icebergs on that sea. What we call death is the melting of the icebergs as they are recycled.
We are carried by the flow and pretend
to be the captain of our ship!
There is a flow of energy.
Those atoms are not moving at random. They serve a certain purpose. Without our sun planet earth would be nothing more than a very cold piece of rock. It is the energy from our sun that makes the plants grow and feed animals and humans. The energy that we absorb from our food is used to keep us warm and moving. However, about 20% of it is sent to the brain.
That makes us part of a cycle. The sun sends us energy that goes through our material world and is returned as energy to the brain. This energy cycle could be the ‘Mother cycle’, above all the cycle of carbon, the cycle of nitrogen and all the cycles our scientists are talking about.
We may be a very small part of the universe,
but we are part of something really great.
