the revolution is already here

[Guest guest]

The revolution is already here. do a google scholar and news search

and you will see that pilot studies have already successfully treated

heart damage from heart attack, parkinsons, type 1 diabetes and spinal

cord damage using stem cell or cellular implant therapies. But it

really makes no sense to argue. I think the advances will come over

the next ten years, not the next 100. they may not come here first due

to evangelical opposition. but they will happen in Asia and Europe.

And them America will get on the bandwagon and lead the way. So we

will get to see in a short while how this all plays out.

 

Regardless, I still don't think TCM has the answers for chronic immune

disorders, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and alcoholism. We know

there is strong genetic component to many of these illnesses (other

than the obvious lifestyle cancers like lung and colon). Even if one

decreases the risks of chronic disease by good diet and herbs and

supplements, one will likely still die of heart failure or cancer -

what else is there? If you go the TCM route, you accept death and

decline as inevitable. I was drawn into this field by my interest in

Daoist longevity techniques. A true daoist of this persuasion will use

whatever science provides in this quest. I don't believe in an

afterlife or reincarnation, so its not really OK with me to just have a

peaceful slide into death. The daoists invented scientific observation

and stem cell therapy is the logical extension of their millennia long

exploration into the nature of life. It is an external alchemy of the

most refined type.

 

External alchemy, or the use of certain refined substances to prolong

physical life, is the basis of the chinese knowledge of tonic herbs.

While external alchemy was rejected by mainstream society and internal

alchemists alike, this is largely due to its horrible failures in

ancient times, such as mercury poisoning. It thus became the defacto

wisdom that only internal alchemy or cultivating the mind could lead to

a form of spiritual immortality, though not physical. This perhaps

offered some solace, but is hardly proof of the thesis. There were

many things the ancients could not do that we can. They also assumed

invasive surgery could not be performed without the patient dying.

That is no longer the case. So we shall see.

 

 

 

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