6.1.3.2. Adaptation - Stress, Training, Activation - Introduction

Summary: This text introduces the concepts of stress, training, and activation as different types of bodily responses, particularly in the context of disease adaptation. It highlights the research of Russian scientist Karcavi, who studied spontaneous cancer remissions and the systemic differences between those who recover and those who remain ill. The text also connects Karcavi's findings to the principles of coMra therapy.

I think pretty much everybody now knows the term stress. The term stress was introduced into medicine by Seiler back in 1938. This is when he identified some sort of part non-specific response of the body to some very strong disturbance in the body. But also besides stress, there are other types of responses. So what I want to share in this module is about training and activation. These are two very different types of responses and they're tightly related to trying to understand how body is actually trying to adapt and cope with disease. And this is was done through research of Karcavi, she's a Russian scientist. Back in 1975, she used -- she worked as a head of laboratory in Cancer Research Institute. And her work was to study -- scientific interest was why some people get spontaneous remissions of cancer. And she was so fascinated about this. So she started to look not so much into the specific biochemistry and pathology of cancer, but she started to look at what makes different from the systemic point of view, someone who can, let's say, have a spontaneous remission to someone who is seriously ill. So she started with animal research and what she found out brings a huge support for what we're doing with coMra therapy actually. All of this body of research, and I found it truly fascinating. So I try to sum it up into two I mean, the talk show will try to introduce this topic.