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What is Health? An Ayurvedic Perspective on DNA, Covid, and Immunity

Today I have been reading Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs by Seneff, Nigh, Kyriakopoulos, and McCullough published on Authorea on January 21 2022.

This presents strong evidence and I will discuss the details of this paper in a later post.

But what I found very refreshing this morning is the author’s successful attempt to embed rational discussion of Covid in a very wide range of references including a great many established concepts about physiological health and immunity pre-dating the pandemic.

Unfortunately in pandemic publishing there has been a tendency to throw out much of what we already know about health in deference to the excitement and expectation surrounding novel biotechnology/mRNA concepts.

Their paper details the alterations in natural immune mechanisms in the face of the genetic interference of mRNA vaccines.

In my opinion we will never have a fully effective health system without implementing preventive strategies known through historical use to be safe and effective.

By adopting novel mRNA vaccination as a virtually stand alone strategy, our government is jumping off a cliff expecting to fly.

The Ancient Health Science of India Ayurveda

One highly developed traditional natural health system is Ayurveda, the ancient health science of India, still practiced there today and enjoying a wider audience outside of India.

It employs multiple modalities and is inclusive of other approaches which improve health.

Ayurveda brings a scientific rigor to the table and articulates sophisticated concepts of health, well being, and prevention, but also includes the etiology or development of early imbalance in the physiology and the stages which lead to the diseases we recognise in modern medicine.

Texts of Ayurveda include detailed knowledge surgery and particularly include a mastery of herbal medicine with a materia medica of over 5000 herbs, their uses and combinations in diet, prevention, and treatment.

Behavioural and rejuvenative technologies are an integral part of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is very accessible as a home health strategy as many of its approaches can be easily incorporated into daily life.

Ayurveda literally means knowledge of life and longevity and offers the broadest understanding of well being as a means to health.

It identifies consciousness itself as the fundamental of life. In Ayurveda consciousness is primary and matter secondary, matter emerges from consciousness.

In this, there are echoes of physics and cosmology which are inevitably brushing against the intimacy between consciousness and matter as these disciplines explore the origins of the universe.

Thus Ayurveda includes forms of meditation and yoga within its scope as means of self-knowledge which aim to secure a bedrock for health.

However Ayurveda is not a system based on belief, any among its rational physiological, psychological, behavioural, and dietary principles can be adopted to benefit health by anyone.

Ayurveda identifies the fundamental cause of ill health as pragyaparadha—mistake of the intellect.

Our attention becomes so caught up in outer sensory experience that it becomes one-sided and loses connection to the wholeness of life.

Life has two phases: changing and non-changing, diversified and unified.

The world around us, that we experience through the five senses, is diversified and changing.

When this phase of life becomes disconnected from our inner Self, we have become object referral.

As a result, the rhythm of life can lose its connection with the eternal principles that organise the Cosmos, the fundamental laws of Nature.

Experience and Thought are Dominated by Perpetual Change

Life becomes so rushed that the element of stability in life, and with it happiness and health, is undermined.

In this situation, life can become vulnerable; just as when we are living in a house, we can forget about its foundations even though the stability and longevity of the house relies on the integrity of its foundations.

A crack in the relationship of the house with its foundation can lead to collapse.

The essential element of life is consciousness, the unified field within, that is beyond space and time, fully self-sufficient.

That is our own Self.

The loss of awareness of the Self is the essence of pragyaparadha. In Ayurveda this is identified as the root cause of all illness.

The loss of connection with the Self disrupts the connection of our human physiology with the underlying WHOLENESS of Natural Law which has given rise to the biology of living systems.

We know that consciousness is connected with biological systems, but perhaps we don’t always realise how intimate this connection really is.

DNA is the Blueprint of the Developmental Stages of Our Existence

At every stage consciousness and biology march hand in hand.

DNA sits at the interface between consciousness and matter, between immaterial fields and expressed physiology.

When we make a decision, exercise a choice, or in other words use our intellect, DNA is the junction box that relays our intentions throughout the physiology.

As such DNA is multifaceted and multitasking.

It has ways of operating that directly reflect the sort of freedom of will and decision-making that we ourselves undertake consciously.

The autonomic nervous system makes physiological decisions that are usually independent of our control, but although these are lawful they are not devoid of options.

In other words the DNA is intelligent in the way we ourselves are intelligent. DNA and consciousness are two sides of one coin.

DNA has multiple responsibilities and multiple strategies, just as we have.

Physiology is Not Static

98% of the atoms in our body are replaced every year.

The human body is surrounded by and contains a sea of atoms, chemicals, foods, poisons, bacteria and viruses and much more.

To manage the stability of life, DNA must deploy an arsenal of strategies every moment in every cell simultaneously.

Moreover it must maintain its own integrity whilst acting.

In each cell oxidative damage to our DNA is repaired more that 70,000 times each day.

Aside from cellular function, DNA must manage broad organ systems such as the circulatory and digestive systems and maintain their homeostasis.

In this we can begin to appreciate that the DNA has qualities similar to consciousness which can range beyond cellular boundaries to the management and maintenance of more general properties of health not restricted to limited areas defined by the cellular boundaries and intracellular pathways.

We can describe DNA as both rigid in its structure and flexible in its function. Our immune system reflects this.

DNA is able to control an immune system which evaluates its opponents as they appear and designs strategies to deal with them both in the shorter and longer term.

DNA is particularly adapted to coping with and utilising other living microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria as a result of millions of coevolutionary years ingesting food and breathing.

Intellectually we could never model the full extent and detail of physiological immune responses, maintenance, recovery, growth, memory, and homeostasis which operate from the scale of fields to atoms, to micro and macro molecules, to cells and organs, but we can be sure these are centred in a remarkable molecule whose self-interacting properties mirror our consciousness in the most intimate sense possible.

Enter mRNA Genetic Technology

The paper referred to at the start of this essay outlines a radical departure of immune system function from its norms when stimulated by mRNA vaccines.

In so doing, a number of other immune mechanisms such as those that control mutagenesis are potentially disrupted.

From the perspective of Ayurveda, we could say that the river of life guided by our innate physiological intelligence (DNA) becomes genetically constrained by mRNA vaccines to undertake one specific kind of response to a health threat.

Its capacity to flexibly design immune response options is in some sense frozen by an imposed genetic structure that does not enjoy the intimacy with consciousness that our DNA normally has.

From the failed history of gene therapy, this should not be unexpected.

Mistake of the Intellect

Can we go so far as to say that genetic technologies, by replacing natural DNA sequences with imperfect engineered additions, potentially risk disrupting the connection between consciousness and matter—creating pragyaparadha, the mistake of the intellect which Ayurveda understands as the basis of disease?

In contrast, Ayurvedic treatment takes a completely different approach to health.

Its technologies aim to reduce blocks to efficient natural function in the physiology and immune system through cleansing and restorative foods and natural procedures.

The essential aim is to restore balance between the three fundamental qualities of physiological function—transport systems, transformation systems, and structural systems known as vatapitta, and kapha in Ayurveda.

Covid-19 is a disease that particularly affects those with comorbidities

It is interesting to note that Covid-19 is a disease that particularly affects those who are already ill with comorbidities.

Ayurveda is particularly suited to long term strategies to improve health and well being and thereby prevent disease before it arises.

There are also Ayurvedic approaches to disease which make it a natural safe partner to any immediate treatments required by those who have fallen ill.

The potential impacts of all verified natural preventive interventions on Covid-19 are not small.

73% Reduced Risk of Hospitalisation Following a Plant-Based Diet

The BMJ has reported a 73% reduced risk of hospitalisation among those following a plant-based diet, a regimen which is typical of Ayurveda.

The Ministry of Health’s refusal to inform the public of simple, safe, tried and tested preventive strategies for numerous chronic conditions known to complicate Covid outcomes such as diabetes amounts to fiddling while Rome burns.

Natural preventive strategies offer some avenues to health and immunity that are long lasting and free of side effects, and can be self-managed.

As a society we have become accustomed to reliance on technology, that should not blind us to traditional knowledge or to considerations of what really does work.

To read more about consciousness, health, and Ayurveda you might read Discovering and Defending Your DNA Diet available from Amazon and Smashwords.

See also The Pandemic of Biotechnology on YouTube

Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food testing and certification company

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