I found the article somewhat disturbing, without knowing exactly why I felt that way. Maybe one could say “female intuition”.
Noticing this sentence (in the middle of the article), I wondered: where is this thing headed:
“This research also suggests that disruptions in this non-genomic communication system could play a critical role in the development of diseases like cancer, opening new avenues for medical exploration.”
Someone, somewhere already preparing a Funding Proposal for more Biotech research…???
Some of you on this forum may have noticed that Mrs. Sunnyboy is a nature lover and an animal lover, and basically considers all life as being sacred, mysterious and to be respected and revered. And that perhaps affects my own response when I see an article like this one, as I really don’t trust the medical (or any) industry that has wreaked havoc on human (and planetary) health. The article came across as reductionistic, in my mind, reducing cellular responses to mechanised movements of ion gradients. The old “Life as a Material Machine” theme, repackaged.
Scientists have known for a very long time about cellular intelligence (and not just in humans, but in all living forms), and this has been explored in the field of epigenetics and other fields as well. This article reduces the cellular intelligence mechanism to a flow of ions across space. With implications for medical technology. To me, the article felt somewhat like some kind of sales pitch for technocrats. (I could be wrong, but this is what emanated out to me from that article).
There is a wealth of knowledge about disease prevention through natural means that has been aggressively suppressed. Plants and animals and humans don’t need to know about ion flux, or make use of medical industries that use these principles in their products, in order to experience robust health. We need to access our common sense and intuition (which is how our cells actually communicate with our higher brain). And we’ve been completely and utterly decoupled from the intelligent communication with our cells by our institutions.