I got interested in this topic last year when the Yale Medical School got a $10 million Blavatnik grant for more work in the specific area of Immunobiology.
The researchers at Yale were talking about a potential theory of everything, the way theoretical physicists do. You may even be aware of a certain movie out by that name. The idea was that understanding the inflammatory process might provide "unifying insights into seemingly dissimilar diseases" like heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. To understand this theory of everything you have to set aside whatever the word inflammation means to you now and understand it in a new way.
The research is young but there are already people with ideas about how to apply it to your daily life and to your health.
GUESTS:
- Vishwa-Deep Dixit is Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine
- Kathleen Mueller is Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Saint Francis and the co-owner of Holistic Health Partnering in Windsor
- Eric Secor is Associate Medical Director, Integrative Medicine, Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute and Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, UConn Health Center
SONGS:
- “Your Molecular Structure” by Mose Allison
- “The Fever” by Bruce Springsteen
- “My Body” by Young The Giant
