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Overcoming Chronic and Degenerative Diseases with Energy Medicine 1
Published in Aruna Bakhru, Nutrition and Integrative Medicine, 2018
If wavelike electron energy transfer takes place in the chloroplasts of green plants, there is no reason it should not also take place in animals. The chloroplast is a virtual mirror image of the animal mitochondrion, so it would not be surprising to find wavelike electron energy transfer in mitochondria as well. This is quantum biology, a field pioneered by Albert Szent-Györgyi that is still in its infancy. He and his colleagues published some of the early reports in the field of quantum chemistry in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Biology beginning with Szent-Györgyi (1977). Further investigations of electronic biology were published between 1957 and 1979 (Pethig 1979, Szent-Györgyi 1957, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1978). A modern film and book on quantum biology provides an excellent and clear introduction to the subject (McFadden and AI-Khalili, 2016).
Energy Medicine
Published in Len Wisneski, The Scientific Basis of Integrative Health, 2017
New theories in physics and many discoveries concerning light have brought about a renaissance in philosophical thinking. The advancements in quantum physics should have led to quantum biology, but the field is little understood or practiced in conventional medicine today. Instead molecular biology, in which the basic building blocks of life and life's processes are studied, is the field that attempts to find solutions to health care problems. Quantum physics and its logical extension, quantum biology, suggest that EM energy in general, and light in particular, is a promising key focus of attention for resolving many of today's health care problems. This chapter focused on photobiomodulation lasers, which emit either visible or infrared radiation. EM waves with wavelengths other than visible and infrared, such as UV, also have a place in healing, even though not used in lasers (Douglass, 2003). For instance, as early as 1923, before the era of antibiotics, Emmet Knott demonstrated that blood irradiation with UV light could destroy infectious organisms and successfully treated septicemia (Knott, 1948). Knott was the first in the United States to develop UV blood irradiation into a working therapy with demonstrated dosage, method of application, therapeutic effect, and safety procedures (Dillon, 1998).
Cosmology and Quantum Biology
Published in Jim Lynch, What Is Life and How Might It Be Sustained?, 2023
The views of Penrose on the involvement of quantum theory on the biological function of the mind can potentially be applied to all living organisms. An approach to this was put powerfully by Johnjoe McFadden in his book Quantum Evolution published in 2000. As a molecular microbiologist, he reminds us that living cells are controlled by DNA. Physics tell us that single molecules are controlled by quantum mechanics rather than classical laws. Particles behave the same as light in quantum mechanics. Single atoms fired through slits generate the same type of interference patterns as light, which is well understood within standard quantum mechanics. Fundamental particles can be in more than one universe at the same time as parallel universes. However, this coexistence is itself wavy and for bulky objects which may have billions of particles the peaks and troughs tend to average to zero and cancel each other out. However, if there are, for example, electrons in some parallel universe, they will not be able to interact with those in our universe and we will never know of their existence. Every living organism is controlled by DNA which is not barred from quantum behaviour, just as are the fullerenes or ‘buckyballs’ of 60 carbon atoms in a cage structure for which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley in 1996. In the past, it is odd that this has not been explored fully. Quantum mechanics gives cells the ability to initiate specific actions, including mutations, very important in the current context of the COVID-19 virus mutations. This is probably a fundamental aspect of life and is the central feature of evolution, providing variation which is honed by natural selection into evolutionary paths. It may also help in understanding how life began and any small primordial path could generate life by access to the quantum multiverse. It challenges some of the evolutionary theories such as Darwinism where evolution is random but instead is directed over the past 4 billion years. Cells may be able to mutate specific genes and provide an advantage in the environment in which they exist. Quantum evolution must be at the centre of consciousness and free will, as implied by Penrose. It also gives a better view of how to understand life and death. It was exciting for me to be able to talk with my colleague Johnjoe McFadden as these concepts emerged but also at an early stage, he engaged our quantum physicist colleague at the University of Surrey, Jim Al-Khalili. Together they wrote a sequel book Life on the Edge. The Coming Age of Quantum Biology in 2014. They examine some of life’s puzzles such as how do migrating birds know where to go? How do we smell the scent of a rose? How do our genes copy themselves with such precision? All seem to be rooted in the quantum world. McFadden’s research in the past has been to examine the genes of bacteria that cause tuberculosis and meningitis. These diseases must surely be under the same principles of genetic evolution, but surely so must be the genetic variants of the COVID-19 virus in the current pandemic.
Environment-dependent fluctuations of potentiometric pH dynamics in geomagnetic field
Published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2022
The non-contact signal transmission at short distances in biological and biochemical systems is observed in different experiments (Kaznacheev and Michailova 1981; Montagnier et al. 2011). Well-known mechanisms explaining such effects are weak electromagnetic fields (EMF) (Pilla and Markov 1994) including intercellular interactions in terahertz range (Baureacute Koch et al. 2003; Scholkmann 2016; Zhang et al. 2021) as well as weak photon emission in the UV range (Kaznacheev and Michailova 1981; Kobayashi et al. 2009). Several hypotheses are expressed in the context of the magnetic vector potential (Anosov and Truchan 2003; Rampl et al. 2009) and quantum effects in macroscopic systems (Vedral 2010; Zbinden et al. 2001). In particular, achieving macroscopic entanglement in biological organisms was recently demonstrated in independent experiments (Lee et al. 2021; Marletto et al. 2018), which points to the non-contact spin-related mechanisms in quantum biology (Cao et al. 2020, 15; Kim et al. 2021).
Vaccinomics: a future avenue for vaccine development against emerging pathogens
Published in Expert Review of Vaccines, 2021
José de la Fuente, Marinela Contreras
Biological systems are dynamical with constant exchange of energy and matter with the environment in order to maintain the state of non-equilibrium characteristics of living systems. Pascual Jordan introduced in 1932 the concept of quantum biology [36] and posted the question on whether the laws of atomic and quantum physics are of essential importance for life [37]. After the publication of the DNA double helix structure by Watson and Crick in 1953 [38], Per-Olov Löwdin proposed in 1963 the proton tunneling as the quantum mechanics mechanism for point mutations in the DNA model [39]. Based on these findings, the immune system contains random processes such as immunoglobulin recombination events and the direct correlation between atomic coordination and peptide immunogenicity that support quantum immunology [40]. Despite difficulties in obtaining experimental evidence, it is accepted that quantum dynamics within living systems such as the immune response has been subjected to optimizing evolution, and life has learnt to manipulate these quantum systems to its advantage in ways that need to be approached by future quantum biology and quantum immunology studies [37,40–48].
Quantum technology a tool for sequencing of the ratio DSS/DNA modifications for the development of new DNA-binding proteins
Published in Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2022
Adamu Yunusa Ugya, Kamel Meguellati
Although there is no literature yet showing the role of quantum sequencing in the discovery of new domains for DNA-binding proteins, The current study shows that the development of new quantum-based and far-from-equilibrium biological systems can be achieved by 3D-curved quantum materials. These features will be apply as near-red infrared activated materials, new quantum materials for quantum teleportation, entanglement, superposition, control at far-from-equilibrium of Shannon and Von-Neumann entropy, quantum biology. This technology will be useful in controlling new epigenetic and genetic regulations. This technology is also useful in the development of small molecules for tuning cancer signaling and the development of new vaccines, in multi-combinatorial therapies, rewiring the biochemical network, structure-based ligands targeting (DNA/RNA secondary structures: wobble RNA, G-quadruplexes, hairpin loops, i-motif, holliday junctions), small molecules targeting (cancer signaling), late stage modification of complex (natural products), free cell synthesis and directed evolution of enzymes. The technology is useful in protein engineering and 3D sequencing of the ratio DNA/RNA secondary structures (DSS)/base modifications (DM). It will be useful in the protein engineering of recombinant enzymes for the unnatural replication of proteins and glycans for new biochemical activities, treatment of HIV and cancers, new genome editing machinery, artificial replication and translation, first sequencing of DSS/Modifications/telomere with a correlation to cancer genesis, DSS studies: quadruplex, hairpin loop, triplexes and duplexes, i-motif, Holliday junction, based DNA modifications investigated: 6 mA, 6fmA, 5mC, 5fC, 5caC, 8-oxo-guanine, and The DSS/DM ratio is critical for proto-oncogene activation and cancer genesis.