Optimized and redundant health

When I was teaching histology (the science of the structure of tissues and cells, anatomy, but under the microscope), it is very often demonstrated for students "redundancy" of almost all organs and tissues. We have indeed several times more than you have nerve cells, muscle, connective. A person can live with one lung, with a half gut, half a liver, one kidney.

The principle of redundancy due to the presence of more than is required to implement a function of the number of elements, for example, many nerve cells and connections between them (structural redundancy), a plurality of data transmission channels, excess volume (information redundancy), etc.





Human health can also be excessive. Why we excess health?

All living beings, individual organs, tissues and cells develop, even with the stock reliability. For example, the thigh bone can withstand a load of 1.5 tons, and the tibia is 1.65 tons, 30 times the usual load on these bones. The alveolar system of the lungs is able to absorb for 1 min. to 17,000 ml of oxygen, whereas even the most powerful physical exercise needs of the body do not exceed 5000 ml.

With the modern tendency to skimp on investment, it looks old-fashioned. Unbelievable, what is "short-sighted" and "wasteful". Would certainly modern builders, economists and politicians are "optimized" to the human body: they cleaned half of the cages!

However, since this redundancy is an evolutionary health was fixed, it means that it is important for survival. How? The most diverse, because evolution can not predict what will befall us in the future. So good margin, "redundancy", will help in any situation: injury, infection, inflammation, etc. Even if the damage is considerable part of the body he does not deny, it is often the function may take on other organs. So, if kidney damage, nitrogenous substances are partially excreted through the breath, skin and gastrointestinal tract. And this is another aspect of redundancy: the lack of strict specialization, some "razmeshannoy" function.

In his speech at Tech-Nemiga I said that the absence of disease is not health. Even if your performance is not "optimal", but the margin of safety is missing, no health resources, the disease is a matter of time, and very small. Being with us something happening, does not mean that this will not happen (no, I'm not afraid). Even if we are talking about long-term degenerative illness (like diabetes mellitus or atherosclerosis), and she, though initially not much makes itself felt, but limits our options. The key to our daily well-being is implemented resources. To live in debt means destroying the stores of tomorrow.

After all, when the environment has on the body stress the pressure, structural adjustment "excess" divisions occur in the direction specified environment. Adaptation becomes possible due to "redundancy".

If you do not use the resources of the body, if you do not use all of his potential abilities, they gradually die off as unnecessary, in obedience to the other principle – reduce functions, minimization of functions unnecessary.

Yes, resources in addition, are not just inert by insurance. We can mobilize "excess" capacity (excess health), high-efficiency, intensity of emotions, attention, endurance, strength, and devotion to any business. Therefore, high resources is your daily health and opportunities.

Sorry, we can't know exactly what we are facing. And in this situation we have only one option: preparing for everything at once, strengthening and increasing resources to health, making them not "optimal" and "excessive". To paraphrase the philosopher, "only the excess health is a proof of health." Strengthening your health, you care not only about your current health, but also about the future.published

Author: Andrey Blueskin

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