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Rx and Aging

I am interested in metabolism-changing medications. Pharmaceutical companies may be purposefully researching maintenance medication instead of cures. If they are invaded by economic theory at all in precedence over the hippocratic oath, this would be a symptom of it.

I am also pleased how in Old Friends it is apparent that all of hte characters are dealing so well with being old. They seem very lighthearted and friendly all, even about their medications and inability to perform tasks individually. We all should approach this level of familiarity even in our youth!

Aging

My semi-pro perception of aging on a histriological level was always that cell DNA got old and somewhat 'wrinkled' from numerous reproductions and mid-life mutations or deviations. And like an old rechargeable battery losing its max power over numerous dis and recharges, human life force would fade. Combined with DNA increasing on a statistical level of deviation from original fitness, the old person would either experience a fatal system error via DNA or in a larger organ system resulting from DNA error, or they would become so old and decharged the remaining charge would decide to move on, or be attracted away from the body itself.

1918 Flu

This blog is for UML's Sociology of Health and Healthcare, and is augmented by www.forworldhealth.blogspot.com.

I have recently read from the book 1918 Flu epidemic by Gina Kolata. I am now going to marvel at the horror for a few passages, although I do not do so forthrightly.

It is truly a terribly plague from God to be exposed en masse to a rapid wasting disease that could affect technically anyone, even if it does concentrate in the young and elderly and those 20-40. What percentage of the people who contracted it did it kill? It must have been a high percentage, as millions died from it.

I recently read an article stating that a sample of the 1918 Spanish flu was acquired from a woman's body found in the permafrost in Alaska. I wonder what secrets it can hold, and if it can be used to cure or prevent new illnesses. Those of us remaining likely have gathered antibodies to the strain, and to many strains of influenza-like microbes. Many have ancestors who survived the black plague.

I have periodically thought about pneumonia and a physical cure. If the lungs become full of gunk, could that gunk not be expelled more rapidly or handily by being placed upside down? Would it then not fall in chunks to the top of the lungs and be coughed out easily, as disgusting as that seems? What keeps it in there on the bottoms of the lungs, or sliming up the walls? There must be a vicosifying spray that can be inhaled to break the gunk's surface tension and allow it to be puked out. I will try it the next time I have serious collective pneumonia, or discuss it with more professional sorts.

I have also noticed numerous articles regarding Dr Bob Beck and blood electricity. It seems that white blood cells work by producing a 700-800 nanoampere charge around the pathogen they find, once the proper biochemical transmitters have been approached to isolate it. The pathogen is then paralyzed and dusted apart with lysosome toxins. But what is critical here is the electrification. We can easily reproduce that in the blood and potentially address this illness and any other pathogen the body becomes exposed to with bioelectric methods.

This is to be researched in earnest.