In the last
years science and research have increasingly contributed to and created the
knowledge of the emergence concept of the “animal” concept in evolution of
life. The details from various research approaches have been puzzled together meticulously.
They have reached now a state at which some paradigms are at the verge of
breakdown to be replaced by new ones. Kind of these culmination points in the
history of medicine development have been observed in the past for several
times when the density of convincing elements becomes critical. Emergence then
causes emergency regarding the preservation of what everybody believed before and
was held as true.
The
microbiome revolution has brought us to a point of understanding of what is
happening in medicine and health management so that we are running either
against a conservation wall of unwritten dogmas or dare the look to the new,
the hardly believable but opening the window of opportunities for health achievement
in another revolutionary way.
Terms like
“rehabilitation, recovery, regeneration, recuperation, healing” all get a huge
wake up call and seem to lose their value as being discerning terms for
capturing the phenomenon of simply just balancing an organism for to live its
full functionalities. In parallel have some magic words become fashionable in
the recent past, like “integrative healing”, “holistic medicine”, “alternative
medicine”, there is more of this... Those seem to start a career now as having
been fragmented perspectives and always competing vehicles, some of them highly
ideological, posing as temporary mind crutches for to explain the obvious
systemic and holistic construction of the animal. Man is part of the animal
world, but as man displays much more different diseases and imbalances in his
state of “health and well-being” compared to other, “older” animals we have to
deal with man as still a fragile, but on the other hand quite flexible
experiment of evolution.
If we put
away for a moment all explanation given by religions why man is here on earth
and count together just what we can see that happens with and without the
extended eye of science, then we are close to accept that the microbiome is not
only the driving factor of evolution and but also controls the life of a single
human being. Maybe the microbiome totality together with the genome which it occupies
is the “corporate identity” of a given single individual? So the person is a
framework, a corporation, of about 180 and more different microbes which have
not changed the principle of their life granting metabolism? They just may have
found a morphological hull which determined by genes creates the animal and
allows them to live in- and onside in peace and comfort regarding what their
individual and integrate metabolism requires? So our will and mind, our
behavior our replication patterns and sex behavior all being determined and
ordered by the hidden society of microbes in us? Because they want to survive? In
the end the so called primordial soup would have done nothing more than to
create a structure and protective dress around their own symbiosis and
optimized it over the time. Yes, could be.
And then: who
am “I” and who are “you”? Apart from the fact that these words are used
professionally by psychologists and philosophers, we are confronted with a very
new spin and paradigm for the explanation of the animal´s life.
If this
microbiome explanation concept for life gets more substantiated we will see a
lot of irrational resistance by the so called human sciences which, as they always
did in history, will run behind the facts created by natural science …
Several
decades now since the 80´s scientists where happy with the PNI concept to
explain the interconnections for internal health management of the human body.
The mechanisms and dynamics associated with it in order to regain a homeostatic
balance to which niche of phenotypic outcome whatever - but still alive at least and preserving the
essential functionalities of the organism as good as possible. With the
detection of many and powerful molecular communication pathways inside of man,
interacting closely with the microbiome, central nervous cell system, immune
regulatory functions and even the genome, the pure PNI based concept seems to
be too small: it needs to be expanded tremendously and looked at with the eye
of the microbiotic phenomena.
When trying
to do a “gentle” attempt to bring the life of microorganism together with the
animal concept in evolution, one cannot exclude a scenario in which we are just
the habitat which was created by our, up to 180 (?), friends within us to make
their living and replication perfect. The “animal” is just the vehicle, the
useful idiot. And as the “house of the living germ society” – we are going for replication with species
partners, of course it needs to be avoided that the genomic and microbiomic
entities of the sex-having individuals are not too far away from each other and
we can expect as offspring a “model” with somehow enriched, altered microbiomic
societies, but good enough or even better in controlling their survival again.
How does the microbiome of an individual communicate inter-individually, means
for example with other potential sex partner, is under detection as well and
one of the most revolutionary aspects in the game. Before the gene is allowed
to merge with another gene, many behavioral, immunological and humoral mechanisms
will have to create exchangeable memes in order to ensure that by interindividual
communication the relevant interaction is allowed to take place – flirt,
leading to fertilization.
By
tradition we think that the channel of love is most important and that love is the
key to make substantial changes in the world. In the light of microbiomics this
seems to be a very effective evolutionary trigger in human societies. Human
societies anyway can be regarded from now on as meta-societies on the ground of
the individual microbiomic societies in each and every human being. That the
microbiome is influencing mood and activity parameters should enough be to accept
that the a certain microbiome pattern is also one of the reasons for certain
political opinions and movements. Gut driven.
A strong
and functioning, well trained, crisis-approved and “self-confident” immune
system seems to be the fertile soil on which we can grow the concept of
democracy even. Thus health is important for democracy.