In the book, “I am A Strange Look,” congnitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter says that when you love someone and know them intimately, you can help heal their heart from disease; while technology breakthroughs may also aid heart disease.
While congnitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter argues in his book “I am A Strange Look,” that when you love someone and know them intimately, you can help heal their heart from disease, the famed writer Lauren Redniss – whose work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize – writes in her new book “Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout,” that today’s technology breakthroughs are already pointing to ways and means to repair damaged human hearts. For instance, Redniss writes that “for years, the resillience of the human heart has been debated. The prevailing view hs been that the heart is unable to generate new muscle cells – that is, damge the heart endures over a lifetime is irreparable. But research obstacles have prevented difinitive conclusions.” For instance, in experimental animals, scientists have tested the theory of placing a "radioactive tracer" into heart cells and then tracked these cells over time; while also using technology to try and help repair damaged heart cells, states Redniss in her new book.
Swede doctor says human’s have radioactive DNA
Dr. Jonas Frisen, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden – one of the top technology think tanks in the world – had “an epipany,” a few years ago writes Lauren Redniss in her new book “Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout.”
Redniss states that Frisen looked at “Atomic bomb tests during the Cold War had caused a surge of radioactive carbon-14 into the atmosphere. The radioactive carbon-14 was taken up by plants in photosynthesis. These plants then became the world’s harvest. People and animals ate the plants and, because each year the level of radioactive carbon-14 in the atmosphere fell, each year their cells developed a distinctive profile.”
Thus, Dr. Frisen realized that a “radioactive tracer” – and the ongoing breakthroughs in medical and other computer driven technologies – may be something that can be “introduced into humans after all,” since “the atomic tests conducted between 1945 and 1963 had time-stamped the DNA of every human being on Earth.”
In turn, Dr. Frisen realized that “the very experiments developed to vaporize human existence would now be employed instead to understand and sustain life,” such as developing methods with new technology, and “radioactive tracers” to heal human heart cells that have been damaged due to age and disease.
At the same time, Frisen reports that Dr. Frisen’s lab, and others at the Swede think tank, have begun a recent study “of the muscle cells of the left ventricle,” with the Nobel Award nominated study that revealed that “heart cells, they found, do regenerate.”
What’s love got to do with it?
“Baby Boomers” Becky and Rob Deresiewicz told Huliq -- during a recent interview in Newport, Oregon -- that they “feel better” when they’re out and about “holding hands while taking their daily trek” along Newport’s boardwalk.
“I know that Becky feels rough from time to time due to a heart condition, but you can’t tell it from looking at her when we’re just having fun in town together,” explained Rob; while also admitting that he never used to say “I love you, honey.”
Howver, he now says it “perhaps, too much,” the retired teacher admits with a “how to survive and succeed” motivation that Rob Deresiewicz says is linked to the “power of my love for Becky.”
How the heart can regenerate with LOVE
Lauren Redniss – whose reporting for The New York Times has earned her international respect – writes in her new book “Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout,” that famed Dr. Jonas Frisen admitted that as an “old person,” he knows that his “heart muscle cells” have become a “mosaic,” with the cells being with him since brith, but “there will be new cells that have replaced others tehre were lost.”
Also, her book “Radioactive” draws on Redniss's original reporting in Asia, Europe and the U.S, as well as her interviews with scientists, engineers, weapons specialists, atomic bomb survivors, and Marie and Pierre Curie's own granddaughter in a search to find the powers of love, and how today’s technology might also help heal the human heart.
In turn, Redniss notes in both her book and her many reports on science and such things as love, that those who have love in their lives seem to have healthier hearts than those “cold souls” who shun the power of love due to hurts in their lives.
Thus, it’s no wonder that Dr. Bill Cosby – the famed comedian and social commentator – said his latest thesis is “those who hurt, hurt.” And, this “hurt,” does way more damage to the human heart than age and other physical factors.
The heart is a mosaic of cells and love
As for Dr. Frisen’s view that the heart is a “mosaic,” Redniss writes in her new book about the life of Madam Curie that: “A mosaic is also the metaphor congnitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter turns to in thinking about love and the brain.”
For instance, in Hofstadter’s award winning best seller “I am A Strange Loop,” the scientist says that “when you love someone and know them intimately, you begin to hold a mosaic portrait of that person inside your head. The better you know the person, the more finely-grained the mosaic portrait will be.”
Hofstadter goes on to state that following his wife’s death -- the “deep empathy between them” --allowed him to think with a “grainy verson of her brain inside his own.”
In turn, those who’ve been divorced many times, such as GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, tend to loose this “deep empathy” as they move from wife to wife, or relationship to relationship. Thus, prompting such remarks as Prince Charles – when asked if he loved Diana on their engagement – said “whatever love is.”
For example, Newt Gingrich’s former wife Marianne Gingrich claimed in a Jan. 19 media interview that Newt sought an 'open marriage' before their own marriage ended.
Love increases, and so does its power
Professor Hofstadter also told Redniss that as a scientist he was trained to give no quarter to such things as the emotional power of love and forgiveness, that religious leaders have long touted as the key to living a good, healthy life; while love, “must always be the final word,” over such things as power, money, fame and other addictions of being in the world; with the goal of not becoming “part of the world.”
“Over many years together, through thousands of hours of casual and intimate conversations, I had imported lower-resolution copies of the many experiences central to her (his late wife’s identify),” explained Professor Hofstadter; while adding how “some of her memories were so vivid that they had become my own,” and this is was good for his heart and its health.
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