How Man Exists
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PREFACE
Americans are confused. They enjoy the achievements of large-scale technological development, yet they are greatly concerned about the increasing malaise in human relationships. The same is true, in varying degrees, with regard to every person, regardless of where he/she is living.
What awaits each of us tomorrow? To a great degree this depends on each one of us. To understand what is happening, to foresee and, most importantly, to be able to influence the future, a question needs to be answered: How Man Exists?
APPLICATIONS
The history of scientific development shows that the introduction of a fundamental theory results in a great activation of research in the pertinent sphere, and a wealth of new discoveries based on the application of the new theory in applied and basic research. Apt examples are the new technological discoveries based on the theory of mechanics (classical and quantum), and those in agriculture and genetics following the evolutionary theory. The following chapters present examples in the application of the theory of existence in the relevant practical and abstract scientific realms.
Discovery of a New Stage of a Chronic Disease
According to the theory of cellular-functional pathology, most chronic diseases develop according to the scenario presented by the version shown in figure 4.3. The point is that to catch the early stage of a chronic disease, the health of cells as living units in themselves need to be monitored, and any the disturbance of their cell-oriented function needs to be examined. Thus a new stage of a chronic disease is discovered. This is a surprise if one considers that medicine as a profession is over 2000 years old, and as a branch of modern science it dates back over 100 years, a period when all stages of a disease were discovered. I mentioned above that as they are treated today, chronic diseases remain irreversible, progressive, and incurable. This situation may change if a disease is diagnosed early on and its treatment is begun at its very early stage.
The Complaint-response Patient-Doctor Interaction Misses the Start of a Chronic Disease
Currently, the relationships between patient and doctor are based on the complaint-response principle. A patient feels pain, weakness, chill and other symptoms of an illness. He/she comes to the doctors with complaints, in response to which the doctor diagnoses a disease and treats the patient. And so it always was. Prophylactic check-ups as they are performed today do not a make a principal difference. A person who does not have complaints and symptoms is declared healthy and sent home until he starts complaining.
As one realizes, based on the theory of cellular-function pathology, as a result of the complaint-response interaction between patient and doctor, the doctor misses the initial stage of a chronic disease – that of the cellular-functional impairment. This happens because complaints and symptoms appear only when the disease is already far advanced.
We Should Treat the Healthy Person
The new theory of pathology demonstrates that a person considered healthy (i.e., who does not complain and does not have symptoms of a disease) may in fact be ill. Therefore this healthy person should be treated. I think every healthy person would like to be treated. But till today it was not clear what to do with the person who does not show symptoms of a disease and does not complain. According to the new approach vis a vis the patient–doctor relationship, the doctor does not wait for the development of symptoms. New kind of tests should indicate how the cells of a certain organ (system) function for themselves. How do they breathe? How do they consume liquid? Are their needs in the nutrients satisfied? Are the nutrients processed adequately? It is also important to know whether the cells communicate adequately and receive the necessary support from other cells. In other words, the physician should know whether the cells are healthy. Chronic disease starts from an impairment of cellular functions. Hence early treatment should be aimed at restoration of the cell’s adequate functioning. This early treatment may be able to stop and reverse the development of a chronic disease.
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About the Book
This book is a scientific and practical study on the subject of immediate interest and importance to every person – EXISTENCE. Every one of us thinks of this problem in his/her own way, whether consciously or subconsciously. The originality and importance of this work lies in the fact that for the first time in the history of human thought the problem of the Existence of Man is approached from a scientific rather than from an abstract philosophical point of view. Unexpectedly, this approach has clarified a mystery and unveiled a clear panorama of understanding, which has allowed the author to explain and to answer many vital questions regarding each individual. Examples of applications of the new scientific understanding of Existence described in the book include Medicine, Physiology, Biology, Computer-Organism Interaction, and the Human Relationships. The book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy, science, medicine, biology, biotechnology, and bioengineering, and to intellectuals, regardless of their educational or professional specializations.
About the Author
Dr. Alexander Yabrov is a physician and a scientist-experimenter specialized in virology and cellular biology. He is an internationally-acknowledged expert on interferon and other cellular mechanisms regarding resistance to various damaging influences, such as infectious agents, carcinogens, radiation, et al. Born in Leningrad, Russia, he graduated from a leading medical school – the First Leningrad Medical Institute in 1955. After several years of practicing as an internist and infectionist, Dr. Yabrov obtained a doctorate in medical virology and then a DSc degree in cell biology. For many years he was a Senior Scientist of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, and then a Senior Scientist of the USSR Academy of Sciences at the Leningrad Institute of Nuclear Physics. Dr. Yabrov risked his career to apply for an exit visa, and after a very tense year left the USSR in 1974. He organized a clinical unit for the treatment of infected children with interferon in Rehovot, Israel, which is still functioning. Then he worked in Canada, where he wrote a book, entitled Interferon and Nonspecific Resistance, deemed the Best Book of the Year 1980 in the sphere of health by the American Publishers Association. Since 1979, Dr. Yabrov has worked in the United States. In the US he first organized the production of interferon on an industrial scale for clinical purposes. The initial studies on the anti-cancer effect of interferon approved by the FDA were performed using interferon produced by Dr. Yabrov. From 1980 to 1990, he held a position of a visiting research professor at Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey. Currently, Dr. Yabrov is President of a biomedical research and consulting Company - Princeton Bio Technologies, Ltd. - in Princeton, NJ (from 1983). Six patents issued, four pending. More than a hundred scientific publications. Among them a series of papers in the international journal Medical Hypotheses including "Maintenance of Adequate Function is a General Mechanism of Survival of Organisms," "Adequate Function of Cells and the Organism," "A New Trend of Medicine in Developed Countries," "Medicine in the Long-Living Society," "General Mechanism of Chronic Diseases," "Theory of Adequate Function of the Organism - The Theoretical Base for Contemporary Medicine," and "A Theory of Cellular-function Pathology." An exceptionally versatile scientific career, as well as vast experience of living and doing scientific studies in countries with different customs and political systems, prepared this author for the discovery of the fundamental scientific Theory of Existence. Scientific editor: Dr. M. Slonim received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Electromechanical Department of the St. Petersburg Technical University, Leningrad, USSR, in 1959 and 1965 correspondingly. He held positions of a Senior Scientist and a Scientific Secretary of the Energy Problems Council USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1972 he joined the Department of Electrical Computer Engineering, Ben Gourion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, where he is a Professor in Power Engineering. Professor M. Slonim is an author of a book Theory of Static Converter Systems (Elsevier, 1984) and of more than a 100 scientific articles.