NL-P-Medicine
kenneth collins
kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net
Wed Feb 2 07:03:06 EST 2005
I found the following in The Encyclopedia
Britannica:
"The mechanism of fever appears to be a
defensive reaction by the body against
infectious disease. When bacteria or
viruses invade the body and cause tissue
injury, one of the immune system's
responses is to produce pyrogens.
These chemicals are carried by the
blood to the brain, where they disturb
the functioning of the hypothalamus, the
part of the brain that regulates body
temperature. The pyrogens inhibit heat-
sensing neurons and excite cold-sensing
ones, and the altering of these tempera-
ture sensors deceives the hypothalamus
into thinking the body is cooler than it
actually is. In response the hypothalamus
raises the body's temperature above the
normal range, thereby causing a fever.
The above-normal temperatures are
thought to help defend against microbial
invasion because they stimulate the
motion, activity, and multiplication of
white blood cells and increase the
production of antibodies. At the same
time, elevated heat levels may directly
kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and
viruses that can tolerate only a narrow
temperature range."
[© Encyclopedia Britannica]
Darn! I also read, somewhare in the same
Reference, but didn't "copy" it, that elevat-
ed TempK perturbs protein stability --
which is what I discussed in my previous
posts on "NL-P Medicine".
In the Encyclopedia, this heat-induced
protein-instability was addressed as being
pathological, but that's not it. It's as I dis-
cussed in my previous posts -- the heat-
induced protein-instability is an =engineer-
ed-in= disease-fighting strategy that attacks
disease agents' relatively-narrow range of
"NL-P"-protein-folding functionality. This
Probably results in the disease agent's mol-
ecular structures becoming 3-D "frazzled",
which would delay their functioning com-
mensurately, altering the 'time' scale at
which immune-system agents act, and make
them easier for immune-system agents to
recognize as "not-self".
"Fever" is focused at a sub-molecular
level, specifically with respect to tuning
molecular-level 3-D energydynamics.
Just as I discussed in my prior posts.
This means that "NL-P-Medicine will
Stand -- and that it =will= become the
Future of Medicine.
HURRAH!!!
[For an introductory discussion of the "non-
linearity of visual perspective" ["NL-P" is the
same stuff, generalized, and "NL-P-Medicine
is the same stuff applied to bio-molecular
3-D energydynamics], see the section of
AoK, Ap6 with the same section-title as
above -- be sure to follow the "History"
jump button. [Of course, I've worked this
stuff =way= beyond where I've discussed
it, but that requires Tapered Harmony,
which I've decided not to discuss, further,
online. I'll gladly have at that in-person,
in a small group of folks who Love Physics,
and who'll agree that, after I show them that
there's nothing to be "feared" in it, they'll
allow it all to be generally-Communicated.]
HURRAH!!!
k. p. collins
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