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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (739668)	2/1/2021 4:17:37 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

There is no magic. Chemistry is deterministic. Vaccinations are a bad way to improve health. There are millions of diseases. Robust immune systems are better. Yes, chemistry is deterministic, but there are great numbers of those processes, taking place in cells, in the intracellular spaces, on various membranes, in specialized organelles within the cells... There are so many moving parts, occurring under constantly changing conditions and circumstances... that in effect, the whole thing becomes probabilistic. There are many theories of aging. Loss of telomeres - and of the ability of cells to replicate and rejuvenate. Accumulation of genetic changes, when cells become confused. Imagine a neuron that has acquired too many properties of a epithelial cell. Scary crap like that. Recently, it has been found that somehow we manage to preserve copies of our original, unadulterated genotype - so, maybe we’ll learn to “reset” and restore cells. There is hope that aging could be altered in some radical ways. Research is a slow and expensive process. But, it’s moving along. I think at some point, maybe soon, there will be real need for clinicians to have access to Dr Watson-type supercomputer programs - for consultations. Vaccinations are not bad. They’ve been of enormous help in eliminating some real killer diseases, much worse than our current “Boomer Remover” (love the term; haven’t heard it before). We don’t need too many vaccines - most viruses are handled by our immune systems.