Philip D. Houck
Baylor Scott & White Healthcare, USA
Title: Applying laws of biology to diabetes with emphasis on metabolic syndrome
Biography
Biography: Philip D. Houck
Abstract
Biology must be consistent with the fundamental laws of physics and chemistry. 2. Life, as opposed to non-living, exhibits negative entropy; developing order out of chaos. (The energy to support negative entropy is yet to be defined.) 3. The cell is the fundamental unit of biology 4. The cell must be in homeostasis with its environment. (This property allows for evolution. The environment changes life.) 5. There must be a distinction between self and the environment. (Immunity and inflammation are the defenses against invaders from the environment and responsible for repair of damaged and senile cells) 6. Electromagnetic information transfer is necessary for development and regeneration. (Life, regeneration of tissue will not exist in a non-electromagnetic environment, denervation) A new model of disease is health exists when degeneration and regeneration are in balance. Inflammation is the fulcrum between the two, being both beneficial in repair and detrimental by promoting degeneration. 1. Insulin in excess (insulin resistance) is a proliferative hormone that promotes abdominal obesity, lipid infiltration of blood vessels, hypertension, and is a precursor to cardiovascular events. 2. Allostasis, the innate drive for energy storage, introduces noise into the metabolic control loops resulting in obesity, and inflammation from excess fat. 3. The microcosm of bacteria influenced by dietary intake mainly carbohydrates is one of the inflammatory triggers that promotes insulin resistance. This model suggests a low inflammatory diet, exercise, and weight loss decreases the proliferative effects of insulin, increases circulating stem cells, and decreases inflammation to maintain health.