What quantum medicine is really about...

Join a new course I'll be teaching on quantum medicine

"Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

I will be hosting a webinar with the Quantum Biology Collective later this month. I will be teaching two modules in their up-coming course on quantum biology. Sign up for the webinar to find out more.

This is a sneak-peak at content from the first module I’ll be teaching. Enjoy!

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Medicine once rested entirely upon the gross observation of the patient and their world. Scientific methods have allowed us to look deeper and deeper, and this has led to modern, mainstream views of cellular and molecular biology.

However, while cellular and molecular biologists have been looking deeper and deeper into the cell, physicists have been working on an even smaller scale to understand exactly how elementary particles and electromagnetism quite literally animate life.

What the physicists have established overthrows generations of teaching in cellular and molecular biology. This has been a coup long in the making.

In the Western World, two schools of thought emerged regarding what "animated" life. On the one hand, the Mechanists believed in what we now more generally describe as "gross materialism." The world is a vast system of systems of molecules that function like cogs, gears, belts, pulleys, and so on. Life is a "mechanical" phenomenon, and "energy" has little to do with it. In this model, you could no more affect life with a microwave oven than with a mean or angry thought.

"Physicians are many in title, but few in reality."

- Hippocrates

Subtle "energies" and their effect on life gradually came to be dismissed as witchcraft, suspicion, folk tales, and so on, at least in "educated" circles.

The fundamental model that guides cellular and molecular biology has for decades been that elements come together to form molecules, molecules come together to form larger and larger constructs, and these constructs (proteins, fatty acids, carbohydrates, and so on) constitute life. Little regard is placed upon the quantum or energetic relationships of these constructs.

In the 1960's, a scientist named Gilbert Ling, PhD, concluded that one of the foundational premises of molecular biology - that ATP produces the energy the cell needs to run its ion pumps (notably the sodium-potassium ATPase that maintains this gradient across the cell membrane) - could not possibly be based in reality. He calculated that the energy released by the combustion of food for energy that was then stored in ATP could only account for approximately 20% of the energy required to run this vital cellular component. He did not include in his calculations all the other cellular components that require energy for their functioning.

His research suggested that the cell was deriving greater than 80% of its energy from something other than ATP. What could that be? Over the course of his career, he proposed and advanced what he called the, "Association-Induction Hypothesis," which held that water, structured by light, was in fact responsible for the energy that the cell relied upon for its vital functions.

"Science does not advance because old scientists are proven wrong. It advances because old scientists die and replaced by new scientists who are familiar with new ideas."

- Max Planck, Nobel Laureate in Physics

While most scientists ignored Ling's findings, a few took an interest and confirmed that he was in fact correct.

The implications of this finding are immense and provide a good starting point for an understanding of quantum biology and therefore quantum medicine.

First, what did Ling, and his subsequent investigators, demonstrate about water?

Water is structured by light. When it is structured by light within the cell, it forms a battery that can then be used by the cell to perform work.

Light can also disrupt water, disorganizing the cell and therefore destroying its ability to create energy.

Second, what does this imply about enzymes, which are effectively the "tools" a cell uses to transform matter and energy?

It implies that more than just the gross material parameters within which an enzyme exists may impact its function. If water is structured by light, then how does light change the function and structure of proteins, specifically enzymes? Are enzyme kinetics dependent not only on factors like pH, salinity, heat, and substrate or catalyst availability, but energies like sound, light, or electromagnetic fields?

Third, if life excels at utilizing every material resource available to it, it must also excel at utilizing different types of energy in the same way. This includes all spectrum of light, from the radiowave and microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to the visible and ultraviolet portions.

These three implications are more than enough to launch into a discussion on quantum biology and medicine.

I would say that the paradigm of quantum medicine rests upon a few simple principles.

1. Matter and energy interact, and the sum of these interactions is dependent upon the whole of its parts - not just the material inputs. In other words, energy is medicine as much as if not more so than matter. There is no "safe" or "effective" dose or exposure to anything - whether that means light, food, or a medication. There are only doses or exposures that improve cellular bioenergetics, and doses that worsen them. The goal of the quantum clinician is to determine where the therapeutic window is, and to keep track of where it is moving based upon changing conditions.

2. The quantum state of matter determines its biological effects. This is actually well-known and accepted in biology - radioactive iodine is not the same as non-radioactive iodine, and this is simply a matter of protons and neutrons. Likewise, hexavalent chromium is highly toxic, while trivalent chromium is an essential mineral - yet the valency of minerals is never measured or considered in daily medical practice.

3. Energy can change life in subtle ways that are difficult to measure or detect, but absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. Caution must be exercised when concluding that a subtle energy, such as radio or microwave radiation, is "safe."

4. Cellular energy production is the true measure of health, and cellular energy production depends upon quantum interactions within the cell. Whatever impairs cellular energy production destroys health. The standard for "what is healthy" should not be reduced to morbidity and mortality - it should be elevated to an understanding of what conditions optimize cellular bioenergetics.

5. Life invariably prioritizes cellular energy production above all else. It will use any and all resources available to maintain and augment energy production. Disease manifests when cellular bioenergetics are so impaired that normal function and structure can no longer be maintained.

How does this change medical practice?

First, optimal health cannot be achieved or maintained under artificial light.

Second, electromagnetic pollution can and does impact our health.

Third, the earth's electromagnetic field has a real and powerful impact on our health.

Fourth, the placebo and nocebo effects presumably operate through energetic mechanisms that rest upon quantum principles. Health and disease can be created purely out of the energies of our thoughts.

Fifth, other forms of energy, such as vibration or sound waves, affect health in ways that we have yet to fully elucidate.

Sixth, food must be considered as more than just fuel. It is fuel that must have the proper quantum properties (atomic structure and electron configurations are just two examples). How food is utilized depends largely upon the energetic environment within which it exists.

Seventh, metabolism is an emergent property of biological systems and the validity of statements about matter (foods, drugs, supplements, etc.) hinge upon the energetic parameters or principles within which that matter is found.

Eighth, if matter can be medicine, then so can energy. The best clinicians must use both.

This post is the preamble to a longer presentation that I will be giving for the Quantum Biology Collective this summer. If you've enjoyed this post, then I encourage you to sign up for the webinar that I will be hosting with the Quantum Biology Collective later this month. I hope to see you there.

Until next time, be well,

Dr. Stillman