Woman grows back severed finger tip!

[Deega]

Hi All avalonians,

Maybe some of you have seen this CNN video. This lady severed her finger tips and work to have it regrows.

http://www.disinfo.com/2010/09/woman-defies-naysaying-doctors-and-grows-back-finger/

Thought, you might be interested to know that at time, we should question doctor decision like she did.

All my blessings.

Deega

[Butangeld]

I learned some great info on this phenomenon through a book called The Body Electric, the author's name eludes me right now (i think it's Bob Becker), but he started out as a bone specialist with an interest in improving the chances a broken limb has of surviving. He wanted to find a technique or ingredient that would help knit bones together faster.

He explored using electrical and then quickly microcurrents carrying frequencies to understand how a salamander regenerates its limbs. He found it was to do with positive charges in the nerves of the body reversing to a negative with a kind of signal delivered to the severed nerve ends. He also formulated a simple equation to determine a body's ability to perform this regeneration. Basically if more than quite a low percentage of the body's nervous system is found in the brain then there isn't enough power left to perform regeneration in that body. So, the more intelligent a species the less ability it has to regenerate parts of its body. The salamander is quite big for an organism that has this ability, there are many with the same ability but lower lifeforms.

He progressed his research all his life and was hounded by the authorities. He had a few successful proofs of his technologies, even regenerating a man's lower leg when all that had been left of it was his splintered bones and disease eating what was left of the leg's flesh...not a picture you want to keep ;) He had stumbled upon a method of seriously enhancing the body's ability to regenerate itself. His research indicated that a primitive cell found in the blood, called a fibroblast as i recall, could be made to de-differentiate and revert to what is commonly called a T-cell, which awaits instructions before transforming itself into whatever type of cell is required at that site in the body.

The body's natural ability to do this is stronger when we are younger and it is a known that the ends of fingers have a good chance of growing back if you are still under about 11 years. My mother chopped off the end of her own finger when she was a child. It grew back, but it isn't perfect! She was a little bit older than 11.

Bob Becker died broke and slightly bitter and lashes out at the scientific community at the end of his book. Stem cell research is a red herring really, when you consider that your body can be nudged to revert an abundance of simple cells it already has. He had discovered that rats can regrow their spinal cords if you keep them alive on a drip for about 2 weeks. He even tried to make contact with Christopher Reeve in the hope of getting some funding, but none of his words were ever allowed to reach him.

[Deega]

I learned some great info on this phenomenon through a book called The Body Electric, the author's name eludes me right now (i think it's Bob Becker), but he started out as a bone specialist with an interest in improving the chances a broken limb has of surviving. He wanted to find a technique or ingredient that would help knit bones together faster.

He explored using electrical and then quickly microcurrents carrying frequencies to understand how a salamander regenerates its limbs. He found it was to do with positive charges in the nerves of the body reversing to a negative with a kind of signal delivered to the severed nerve ends. He also formulated a simple equation to determine a body's ability to perform this regeneration. Basically if more than quite a low percentage of the body's nervous system is found in the brain then there isn't enough power left to perform regeneration in that body. So, the more intelligent a species the less ability it has to regenerate parts of its body. The salamander is quite big for an organism that has this ability, there are many with the same ability but lower lifeforms.

He progressed his research all his life and was hounded by the authorities. He had a few successful proofs of his technologies, even regenerating a man's lower leg when all that had been left of it was his splintered bones and disease eating what was left of the leg's flesh...not a picture you want to keep ;) He had stumbled upon a method of seriously enhancing the body's ability to regenerate itself. His research indicated that a primitive cell found in the blood, called a fibroblast as i recall, could be made to de-differentiate and revert to what is commonly called a T-cell, which awaits instructions before transforming itself into whatever type of cell is required at that site in the body.

The body's natural ability to do this is stronger when we are younger and it is a known that the ends of fingers have a good chance of growing back if you are still under about 11 years. My mother chopped off the end of her own finger when she was a child. It grew back, but it isn't perfect! She was a little bit older than 11.

Bob Becker died broke and slightly bitter and lashes out at the scientific community at the end of his book. Stem cell research is a red herring really, when you consider that your body can be nudged to revert an abundance of simple cells it already has. He had discovered that rats can regrow their spinal cords if you keep them alive on a drip for about 2 weeks. He even tried to make contact with Christopher Reeve in the hope of getting some funding, but none of his words were ever allowed to reach him.

Thanks Butangeld, a great add-on to this tread, how unfortunate Bob Becker left this world bitter after all his work.

Thanks for sharing.

All my blessings.

Deega