{"id":6619,"date":"2015-03-16T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:21:46","slug":"immunity-is-as-old-as-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/immunity-is-as-old-as-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Immunity is as old as life – Biestmilch is one of its pillars"},"content":{"rendered":"

or\u00a0why the species difference doesn\u2019 t matter as much as we think.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before you read my musings about the importance of immunity you may want know the frame of reference my thoughts are rooted in. Beware, all the underneath said is located at the fringes of textbook knowledge.<\/p>\n

Proposition 1 <\/b>
\nWe assume that the organism doesn\u2019t follow the law of cause and effect.
\nProposition 2 <\/b>
\nWe assume that their is not a single one cause – one effect only relation in the organism
\nProposition 3 <\/b>
\nWe assume that the bacteria and viruses are essential for our survival and well-being
\nProposition 4 <\/b>
\nWe assume that our concept of hygiene makes us sick
\nProposition 5 <\/b>
\nWe assume that the microbiome we coexist with\u00a0is the precondition for life.
\nProposition 6 <\/b>
\nThe concept of sterile conditions in the body slowly scrambles. It only holds for the skeleton until today
\nProposition 7 <\/b>
\nIf you never get ill, you will never enjoy sustainable well-being<\/p>\n

\"runninglegs\"<\/a>
No immunity no life – no immunity no performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Immunity is essential for all beings populating our earth and it is the foundation for all sorts of performances.\u00a0If you are ill all available energy is first of all dedicated to healing and re-balancing the organism. This does not only apply to humans but to all earthly\u00a0beings.<\/p>\n

Whether you look at plants, insects, birds or mammals they all express the property of immunity. Natural science with its experimental results can underline the assumption made as researchers\u00a0identified the same receptors of innate immunity all the way through\u00a0from plants\u00a0and\u00a0invertebrates to humans.
\nThese molecules\u00a0have been conserved genetically over thousands and thousands of years and recognize the huge space of distinct forms of\u00a0essential molecular patterns we live with in our inside and outside world.
\nThis knowledge may entitle me to conclude that there is no life without immunity.<\/p>\n

\"beginningoflife\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Didn’t all life start with the emergence of a border,\u00a0a\u00a0device that displayed the property to segregate a\u00a0something from the environment?
\nBy that an entity could emerge\u00a0that is able to work by following its very own texture of rules and in the same time to communicate with its environment, this communication being vital for its very existence.<\/p>\n

\"plants\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The structure\u00a0that owns this ability of autoclosure on the one hand\u00a0and openness on the other is the\u00a0form of the membrane. Once the membrane was in the world life could evolve.
\nThe premise of the membrane that until today guarantees the integrity of life is a condition we\u00a0coined with the term immunity\u00a0indicating that the immune system is in charge. This may be to short-sighted as all processes within the borders of an organism serve to sustain the integrity of what we call life.<\/p>\n

\"spider-beetle\"<\/a>
\nNevertheless this reduction is inevitable, if we want\u00a0to do the research on this topic. So let\u2019s the whole melt down to the term immunity.<\/p>\n

How then does the universal principle of immunity evolve in species?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today we know that the internal and external maternal transmission of essential molecules such as\u00a0immunoglobulins\u00a0or\u00a0LPS\u00a0of bacteria and viruses induce the immunity. We know that this transmission\u00a0is a universal phenomenon in all species characterized and patterned by the coevolution with bacteria and viruses. All life be it\u00a0in the fruit fly, the water bug, the trout, the ant, the quail, or in all the mammals\u00a0the mother passes on the immunity to the offspring and thus determines\u00a0the health status of youngsters.<\/p>\n

\"ladybugwithgirl\"<\/a>
\nMothers transfer the\u00a0microbiome and as an emergent phenomenon the immunity to the offspring. Sources of transfer are the womb, the placenta, amniotic fluid, the vagina, the skin,\u00a0for the invertebrates the egg\u00a0and for the vertebrate the\u00a0breast milk including Biestmilch. The\u00a0microbiome is the scaffolding for the immune system of the baby to thrive and is foundation for the off-spring to lead a healthy life.<\/p>\n

\"dog-human-bird\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The series of posts that is going to follow during the next weeks\u00a0wants to touch your heart. And it wants to underline our notion\u00a0that we have no good reason to assume that we are the crowning work of Creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

or\u00a0why the species difference doesn\u2019 t matter as much as we think. Before you read my musings about the importance of immunity you may want know the frame of reference my thoughts are rooted in. Beware, all the underneath said is located at the fringes of textbook knowledge. Proposition 1 We assume that the organism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[1469,703,27,1463,1467,996,1470,112,115,1466,333,1462,1169,1465,1464,1468,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}