Fine Tuning of the Universe and Cell Biology
by Jeffrey Dach MD
We live in a universe that is fine-tuned for the emergence of life. In 2002, Lord Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge published his book, Just Six Numbers, referring to six numerical constants in the physical world. A few examples of these constants are: the mass of the proton (Mp), the mass of the neutron (Mn), the speed of the light (c) and the Newtonian gravitational constant (G). There are many more examples. These are all calculated numerical values based on measurement of the physical world. If any one of these six constants changed even slightly at the beginning of time, then the stars, galaxies, and ultimately, life would not exist. We would not be here. The amazing thing is that this fine-tuning of the universe is also expressed in all living things. Next, we explore the fine-tuning in the molecular biology of the cell. (1) Header Image: Jupiter’s four largest moons, known as the Galilean satellites. From top to bottom, the moons shown are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. NASA planetary photojournal, borders removed by Daniel ArnoldPlanets with DNA. Courtesy of wikimedia commons. The DNA is in public domain, courtesy of wikimedia commons.
Fine Tuning in Cell Biology
In 2020, Dr. Steinar Thorvaldsen, Professor of Information Science, at the Arctic University in Tromsø, Norway, used statistical methods to model the fine-tuning in molecular machines and biological systems. Dr. Thorvaldsen says that fine-tuning is a clear feature of biological systems, and is even more extreme and complicated than the fine-tuning of the large-scale universe. Protein structures in our cells are examples of nano-engineering that surpass anything human engineers have created. Each one of the millions of protein machines in our cells is more complex and sophisticated than the space shuttle, writing:
In both physics and molecular biology, fine-tuning emerges as a uniting principle and synthesis – an interesting observation by itself…A major conclusion of our work is that fine-tuning is a clear feature of biological systems. Indeed, fine-tuning is even more extreme in biological systems than in inorganic systems. It is detectable within the realm of scientific methodology. Biology is inherently more complicated than the large-scale universe and so fine-tuning is even more a feature….Living forms exhibit structures and functions that can best be understood as nano-level engineering. In 1998 Bruce Alberts published an important paper…The Cell as a Collection of Protein Machines (Alberts, 1998)…The strong synergy within the protein complex makes it irreducible to an incremental process. They are rather to be acknowledged as fine-tuned initial conditions of the constituting protein sequences. These structures are biological examples of nano-engineering that surpass anything human engineers have created. Such systems pose a serious challenge to a Darwinian account of evolution, since irreducibly complex systems have no direct series of selectable intermediates…As Denis Noble states, biological systems function as a full orchestra with its different elements playing ensemble the score of life (Noble, 2006)…One of the surprising discoveries of modern biology has been that the cell operates in a manner similar to modern technology, while biological information is organized in a manner similar to plain text.
Intelligence in the Cell and All Life
The claim that there is intelligent life in the universe has been present in human thought for millennia, and can be found in ancient documents over five thousand years old. We can find popular novels and books that examine the idea, is there extra-terrestrial intelligence in the universe? For example in Woody Allen’s 1973 science fiction comedy, Sleeper, the character Miles Monroe was asked: Do I believe in God? He answers:
I’m what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there’s an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey. (5)
The truth is all life is permeated with intelligence, from the lowly one-celled organism to the trillion cells in our bodies that support our own lives. Consider the intelligence in the green leaves on the maple tree in your backyard that converts electromagnetic radiation from the sun into usable energy for building carbon molecules into more leaves and new maple trees. Consider the ant hill in your backyard. Each independent ant demonstrates intelligence, yet they all work together as a community with a common goal. As you will read below, the universe is fine-tuned for the emergence of life, meaning there is intelligent life on other star systems and galaxies. Eventually over millennia, if human civilization does not self-destruct, we will develop the tools to detect it. In 2023, Brian J. Ford a biologist from Cambridge and London, compared the cell to a secret agent imbued with intelligence and autonomy, writing:
Unambiguous signs of intelligence can be seen in the manner in which living cells recognize a serious situation and devise remedial responses that will rectify the damage…Current philosophy admits that cells exhibit sentience and even consciousness [Baluska, 2019]…I have demonstrated that cells are more than biochemistry and physics: they are intelligent…Living cells perform acts of unimaginable intricacy and we can evince ingenuity in so many simple micro-organisms…Cell intelligence will provide a revolution in understanding how the brain might function and shows us much of the unfathomable realms of biology with which we have yet to engage…Living organisms are themselves communities of curious, adaptable, and thoughtful living cells… will not resolve the existence of organisms in communities until we can comprehend the cellular community that lies within [our own bodies] …For decades I have held that the living cell is intelligent. This is what we need to understand. (6-7)
Fine-Tuning Humans
One of the expressions of this fine-tuned universe is a trillion cells in our body. Each cell contains millions of molecular machines all working together in harmony, like an orchestra. The ribosomes in our cells make proteins specified by instructions encoded in our DNA. Energy production to power the cell comes from mitochondria, millions of times more complex than the space shuttle. The mitochondria are microscopic generators converting electrical energy stored in carbon bonds into usable ATP. During cell replication, microtubules in the cell arrange in a spindle formation to pull apart the 23 pairs of chromosomes and create two cells from one. The photoreceptors in our retina can detect a single photon of light. The electrical pulse from the photoreceptor travels through the optic nerve to the visual cortex where an image in our mind is created. These are only a few examples of fine-tuning in cell biology. If the cells of our body fail us, then we get sick and die.
Why Use Cheap Gas?
Would you put cheap gas into the space shuttle? Of course not. Then, why would anyone put fake hormones into their bodies? Synthetic chemically altered hormones are fake, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, a monkey wrench thrown into the fine-tuning of our cell biology and the universe. Why do we have a medical system that contradicts the fine-tuning of cell biology and the universe? The answer is the drug patent system requires it. The drug industry must obtain a patent to protect drug profits. Only chemically altered substances can be patented. When we chemically alter a natural substance found in cell biology, we have changed the fine-tuning and the consequences can be devastating. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the practice of medicine is based on. This altering of the fine-tuning of cell biology is not sustainable, and will eventually lead to the extinction of mankind. It may take 50 years, 100 years, or 300 years, but it will eventually lead to our own extinction. The chronic disease epidemic is a wake-up call telling us where we are headed. What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to do is to save humanity from this extinction event.
The drug industry has deceived us into thinking synthetic hormones are hormone replacement. They are not hormone replacement. They are endocrine-disrupting chemicals. This is a basic flaw in the house of medicine, an edifice dominated by a drug industry whose business model contradicts the fine-tuning in our cells, and the universe. Why has the drug industry created the chronic disease epidemic? The obvious answer is to maximize profits for the drug industry. Is it starting to make sense now?
The Chronic Disease Epidemic
Our greatest public health crisis is the chronic disease epidemic, brought into focus by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign and ascendancy to Secretary of Human Health Services (HHS). His stated goal is to eliminate the chronic disease epidemic. Its most glaring feature is the exponential rise in autism. In 1980, autism was 1 in 10,000 children. Today, autism is 1 in 36 children. What is causing it? Mainstream medicine throws up its hands, shrugs its shoulders, and says we do not know. Our hallowed halls of academic medicine, legislators, and government agencies refuse to discuss the CDC vaccine schedule as a possibility. In 1986, Congress granted the drug industry immunity from liability for their vaccine products. If vaccines are so safe and effective, then why does the drug industry need a liability shield? If their product injures or kills anyone, they are not responsible. This eliminates any incentive to make a safe product and creates incentives to add new lucrative vaccines to the CDC schedule. They have a captive market of school-age children forced to take their products to attend school. In the 1950s, the CDC childhood schedule listed four vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox. The 2024 CDC schedule is now 18 vaccines and 76 doses. This combination of 18 vaccines and 76 doses has never been tested for safety. At what point do we reach the number of vaccines that degrade the immune system and cause chronic disease? I suggest we have reached that point long ago.
The Fear of Estrogen and Chronic Disease
Treating our chronic disease epidemic accounts for 90% of our annual 4.1 trillion-dollar healthcare budget for coronary artery disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, depression, autoimmune disease, obesity, and any chronic non-communicable condition. Why are we heading towards extinction as a human race? Follow the money. More chronic disease means more drug sales and greater profits for the drug industry. If the business plan of the drug industry is to create more chronic disease and more customers for its drugs, then a perfect set-up is fear of estrogen and elimination of menopausal hormone replacement (HRT). 1.3 million new menopausal customers are created each year. These patients will need pharmaceutical drugs to treat the chronic diseases of estrogen deficiency. Throughout this book, we have laid out the basic concept of estrogen deficiency as harbinger of chronic disease. If we are serious about making America healthy again, this means eliminating the irrational fear of estrogen and opening the door to menopausal hormone replacement for the 1.3 million women entering menopause annually. The hormone formula matters. Bioidentical estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are preferred. Synthetic chemically altered hormones are endocrine-disrupting chemicals and should be avoided. Examples of HRT formulas are listed in the appendix for your reading enjoyment.
Errors in Modern Medicine
Hopefully, this will open the eyes of menopausal women to why the US medical system fails to provide them with the single most important medical intervention, bioidentical menopausal hormone replacement. This is only one of many errors in modern medicine. Our medical schools, training programs, medical research, medical journals, and the entire medical system are captured by the drug industry which colludes with health insurance companies, government agencies, and mass media spewing out nonstop propaganda. Nothing happens in medicine without the blessing and support of the drug industry, a racketeering criminal enterprise. Instilling fear of estrogen into the hearts of post-menopausal women is only a tiny fraction of their criminal activities. Hopefully, this book will open your eyes and drive away the irrational fear of estrogen, concocted by the drug industry in their endless drive for more and more profits. The main goal of this book is to provide you with the massive medical literature revealing we have been deceived and lied to by the media, drug industry, and government agencies. This book is an attempt at “reverse brainwashing”, to open our eyes and shrug off the fear of estrogen. To think that medical evidence rests solely on the randomized controlled trial (RCT) is another drug industry lie. Medical evidence includes preclinical in vitro and in vivo animal studies, observational clinical studies, epidemiological studies, as well as RCTs. This book provides all the medical evidence, not just the RCTs required for FDA approval of a pharmaceutical drug.
Otherwise, I Would Have Nothing To Do
A recurring question my patients ask every day in my office is: why won’t my doctor give me bioidentical hormone replacement? Why is my doctor like that? My answer is always the same: Yes, they are all like that. They are never going to change. And that is a good thing because otherwise, I would have nothing to do! (8-34)
The Miracle of Life
What is this miracle called life? Think about our own individual life that began as two microscopic specks of matter containing paired instruction sets in DNA. The underlying intelligence required for the origin of this instruction set is something the ancients understood well. Whether we use the most powerful instruments to examine the galaxies in space or the smallest particles of the atom, or whether we use the naked eye and the five senses to examine our immediate natural world, we are confronted with the obvious conclusion that the world is permeated with intelligence. This intelligence makes all life possible, including our individual life. This realization leads to a sense of gratitude to the Creator, and a sense of wonder and awe. Yes, we are faced with the eventual prospect of aging, disease and death. But until that time comes, we will celebrate life.
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