Marcel Proust wrote that true discoveries lie not in seeking new landscapes but in looking with new eyes, and that is exactly what Antonio Escohotado did every time he interacted with nature.
From the pages of his diary it is clear that he never broke off the thread of curiosity that leads to study. In this way, Escohotado exercised his understanding by attempting to understand the secret complexities of nature. After reading the bark of the trees, he delved into the botanical collections and discovered that the scent of the earth is the scent of an “unbeatable residence.”
Because in his diary there are various and very interesting scientific findings, not only with regard to the analysis of the various substances that Escohotado used to relax and alter consciousness, but also with regard to his last days; the Parkinson's disease he suffered from and the effects of age on his prostate and bladder as well as the soles of his feet. “I had never imagined something like this, but I knew it would be difficult and uncertain,” he wrote in early January 2019.
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There is an appropriate entry for this section; the one of January 28, 2012, in which Escohotado criticizes Western medicine, the same medicine that diagnoses incurable diseases and is falsely called “preventive”, which, according to Escohotado, is as ridiculous a contradiction as “the promise of eternal life by itself” . -Humiliation.” Next he laments the lack of studies that establish a connection between the weakening of the immune system and the diagnosis of cancer. And here we must stop, because although they are few, there are studies that link cancer tumors with the immune system in bring connection.
Because the immune system protects us not only from external pathogenic attacks, but also from the internal chaos that our body experiences when cells get out of control and unexpectedly grow and spread throughout the body. In this way, cancer progresses faster when the immune system is weakened. The most common types of cancer are melanoma and kidney cancer as well as lymph gland cancer. But they are all hypotheses. There is no specific science that can be applied to tumors and their relationship to the immune system.
It is known that molecular structures, so-called antigens, serve as tumor markers. This is a mechanism that our immune system recognizes to stop or destroy cancer cells. However, cancer can escape the control of the immune system and render the body's response ineffective. There is a theory called the tumor immunoediting theory, which is based on the fact that precancerous cells can be eliminated by the immune system unless these cells develop and escape.
This theory proposes three stages. The first, “elimination” or immune surveillance, in which the tumor cells are eliminated by the immune system before they become invasive. The second phase, called “equilibrium”, in which the tumor cells and the immune system appear in dynamic equilibrium, and finally the “escape” phase, in which the tumor formed during the equilibrium phase expands throughout the body.
Perhaps in his diary, Escohotado was referring to the lack of depth in studies linking cancer to the immune system. For for Antonio Escohotado, knowledge was a natural achievement that can only be achieved by maintaining curiosity as a controlled hallucination; the only way to get to the bottom of things.
The stone axe It is a section in which Montero GlezWith a penchant for prose, he makes his special attack on scientific reality to show that science and art are complementary forms of knowledge.
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