Randolph Nesse - Breaking the Wall to Understanding Disease @Falling Walls Conference 2016 HD

BREAKING THE WALL TO UNDERSTANDING DISEASE
How Evolutionary Biology Explains Why We Get Sick
Medical research has focused, properly and powerfully, on how the body works and what part of the mechanism is awry in a person who has a disease. Evolutionary medicine adds a whole new perspective by asking a new question: Why has natural selection left our bodies vulnerable to disease? Why do we have wisdom teeth, narrow birth canals, narrow coronary arteries, and limited abilities to control infection and cancer? The old answer was that natural selection is just not strong enough to make the body better. This is only one of six reasons why we get sick. Some problems are because we live in an environment very different from our ancestors. Others reflect trade-offs that prevent perfection in any trait. Especially interesting are problems that result because of genes that benefit their own futures at a cost to our health. Responses like pain, fever and cough are not diseases at all, but useful defences shaped by evolution. Randolph Nesse is one of the world’s preeminent researchers in the relatively young field of evolutionary medicine. By integrating evolutionary thinking into the health sector, he is transforming medicine in fundamental ways. At Falling Walls, Randy demonstrates how natural selection can explain not only why so many things in our bodies are working perfectly well, but also why some of our functions are hard-wired to fail. And how this knowledge can improve human health.

[@jinlinwu1423]

His book Why We Get Sick is really a phenomenal one, informative, catching, scientifically-writing, and interesting, including phisiology, microbiology, pathology, zoology, botany-you name it. Every medical student should read it. I also recommed it to anyone interested in medical science.

[@leesgim]

his evolutionary perspective is astounding

[@walteralter1686]

Every human on the planet suffers from chronic, low intensity PTSD. We are traumatized from the womb onward by every frustration we have ever experienced. For a helpless infant, to be frustrated equals to threat of death and no way to escape ... threatened and helpless. The only strategy for the infant is to lose consciousness of the trauma by memory repression into subconscious darkness. That repressed shit is our Pavlovian psychological foundation. The daily traumas are all indexed in memory along with all aspects of the trauma's circumstance, i.e., the elements of the trauma scene become symbols which become triggers. Our socialization, then, is overlayed on a foundation of trauma lurking just beneath the surface waiting for a trigger to activate a fight or flight reflex response or a psychosomatic linked to a symbolic trauma element. Traumas of the same sort, with similar symbols, over time amplify themselves to the point that they can interfere with rational thought and create neuroses in a weak ego structure. Neuroses are inappropriate or magnified responses to situations that trigger danger reflexes or symbolically internalized/introjected instances of the first trauma of a particular type and can manifest as a psychosomatic symptom or failure of logical observation as in delusional thinking. In extreme cases this can result in debilitation or psychosis. This is the human condition and this is what the ruling class, globalist crypto-Nazi CIA wizards of doom harness when they control events and the perception of events via propaganda. Google "Edward Bernays" for the how of it