Whoa, hold the lines, stop the presses!
Every once and awhile (not often) I stumble on a simple, clean, and deep scientific question, such as this one. Let me say, my mouth is watering the same way the mouth waters before a meal.
The question is good, because it is slightly ‘loaded’, but at the same time not so much so that anyone can address it with whatever topic they like.
For me, Cancer is an interesting topic. Your body is made up of cells, so that you are a multicellular Metazoan. When cells didn’t aggregate to form a multicellular organism, they tended to behave individually and follow ‘selfish’ rules. Me, me, me.
What can I do to survive? Eat more than you? Yes! Give me.
So that is what happens when cells don’t communicate to others. They don’t play fair, they’re not—as psychologists and evolutionary biologists say—altruistic.
So, because you are a multicellular Metazoan, you are made up of complex arrays (tissues) of cells that each have a particular function. Each of the 10 trillion cells you own knows its job, and understands it needs to communicate with its neighbors, both near and far, to carry out its job best.
By best, I mean for You, the organism. Because, when all your cells (inside their families, i.e. tissues) do what they’re supposed to, when they’re supposed to do it, and under the proper conditions, you do good. When you do good, you can reproduce. So, when your cells communicate properly, they are all behaving selfishly on your behalf, at the expense of other organisms. If you perform better (your choice of definition), then you survive. That’s natural selection in a nut-shell.
Now, in certain circumstances, cells lose this ability to communicate. They “revert” back to “old” programming, and can start to act selfish again. Boooo! Me. Me. Me.
Then, Cancer.
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What happens when our cells fail to communicate or ignore the communication they receive from other cells? When cell fails to communicate properly, many of the functions of our body get disrupts and eventually leads to various health issues. For a cancerous cell, they just don’t care about these messages and reproduce themselves without any control making tumor and other type of cancers in our body. Polluted environment, exposure to radiation, life style etc. can damage our cells and adversely affects the proper functioning of cells.
Preview Inside the living body
Cancer does not kill, as all cancer really is your very own cells that have somehow started to mutate. What kills the body is the restriction of vital nutrients… to other “healthy cells” and the body slowly starves to death from lack of vital nutrients.
This protocol is designed to increase inter-cellular “communication” cycles, and help repair and regenerate “damaged” DNA. Once this happens, cancer cells often return to their “normal” state of existence. This “miracle” is known as “spontaneous regression” – and happens quite often. how do cells communicate with the environment
how do cells communicate with the environment.
Cells communicate through their own language of chemical signals. Different compounds, such as hormones and neuro- transmitters, act like words and phrases, telling a cell about the environment around it or communicating messages.
When the pancreas detects a person has just eaten, example, it releases the hormone insulin to tell other cells in the body to remove glucose from the blood. Just as a person needs ears as much as a mouth to have a conversation, cells use receptor proteins either on the outer cell wall or inside the cell itself to “hear” different signals.
Once the signal chemical binds to a receptor, that protein turns on a signaling cascade in the cell that ultimately leads to the cell’s response. Every cell has receptors that can detect a lot of different signals, so they are constantly bombarded with biological conversation. Imagine being in a room and having everyone talking at you at once!
So how does a plant use cellular communication to grow toward sunlight?
The growing tips of plants produce auxin — a hormone that tells cells to grow and divide — which is then sent to the rest of the plant. The shady parts of a plant receive more auxin, which causes those cells to elongate while the sunny-side cells don’t. When one side lengthens while the other side stays the same, the plant will bend.
I wanted to note, though, that this is the super-short, incredibly oversimplified response. Cellular communication is inexplicably complicated. For example, these are the pathways associated with a single receptor, the B cell antigen receptor:
The tangled web of B cell interactions, from Cell Signaling Technology
Not only do individual receptors do many things, different responses are linked to a wide diversity of receptors and messages. Take the protein Akt, a serine/threonine kinase (which means it adds phosphate groups to serine or threonine amino acids on other proteins). Akt is implicated in signaling cascades throughout the body, and is one of the most important players in cancer signaling:
Entire careers are dedicated to discovering how different signals or intercellular pathways work. By studying cellular communication, scientists hope to uncover key messages or receivers that can be used to alter how cells act. For example, a breakdown in communication is part of what allows cancer cells to grow unchecked. The belief is that if we can untangle the twisted web of chemical interactions within and between cells, we can find ways to steer living tissues to do what we want, whether it be growing organs in culture dishes, giving plants and animals resistance to pests, or fighting off incurable diseases.
When you think about it, basically all of our pharmaceuticals are chemical messages or designed to stop them. Some drugs either mimic or are identical to natural chemical messengers, so when we pop a pill, we’re influencing the conversation going on in our body. Others look enough like them to get stuck where the real ones would bind, blocking messages from being received.
Sometimes, we send signals to our cells when we don’t intend to. There are a number of chemicals we use industrially, for example, the mimic the hormone estrogen, and thus when they enter our bodies, they start telling cells to do things we don’t want them to do. These xenoestrogens have become a huge regulatory problem, and not only because of us, but also because of the effects they have on plants and animals that they come in contact with.
Whether we ever have a controlled conversation with our bodies or not, the more we understand the ways that cells communicate, the more we appreciate just how complex and intricate the mini-machines are. These tiny computers process millions of signals every day. They communicate across unfathomable distances to coordinate disparate body parts. And though we know a lot about how they work, the microscopic world is still a very foreign place to us metazoans, and we’re only just beginning to understand what goes on at a cellular level.
Here is a pretty fancy video looking at cell communcation from a big-picture perspective: https://www.ted.com/talks/bonn
Fruit flies are one of the most well studied organisms and they have provided many clues to how genes interact. This dramatic poem is based on the work of Dr. Ross Cagan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who used a clever genetic technique to create flies that carry a mutation that causes a certain cancer in human beings. The flies can live but their eyes are horribly disfigured.
If the flies food are spiked with drugs, however, some of their eyes are partially restored.… In one case, one of the drugs was able to almost entirely restore the fly eyes. And then, amazingly!, this drug was shown to be effective as a cancer treatment for those people who have the same hereditary mutations! In this way the flies have provided not only valuable clues into the relationship of genes, but have also directly contributed to the discovery of cancer therapies.
How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
This video is Wayne Dyer on the energy inside you.
Wayne Dyer was an American self-help author and motivational speaker.
His first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold to date.
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Wayne Dyer Quotes – “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
Joanna will speak about the sound therapy and its importance in our lives
Joanna is a qualified and experienced sound therapist and holds an MA in Applied Anthropology, Youth and Community. She has supported children, young people and families for over 15 years within mainstream, special needs schools, youth and community groups. She creates and delivers wellbeing workshops through the use of sound healing, music, drama, mindfulness and breath and body awareness.
Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts talks about the positive and transformative power of human energy.
