What is it about?
The author's hypothesis suggests that the essence of the COVID-19 pandemic is the reduced effectiveness of evolutionarily born mechanisms, with which humans are equipped. These enable humans to coexist with viruses, both in their endogenous form (constitutive of our bodies) and exogenous with which humans continuously interact including those which are pathogenic. This publication seeks to present the complexity and interdependence of the cellular and subcellular organisms that compose the human body, and their sensitivity to toxic influences associated with human industrial activities.
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Why is it important?
The human organism is a product of millions of years of evolution integrating previously independent entities, including viruses. Their integration requires ensuring optimal conditions for the functioning of all entities that make up the human organism, including viruses, which is disrupted by the high level of toxic chemistry of their living environment by the products of human industrial civilization.
Perspectives
In the author's opinion, in addition to the longitudinal perception of evolution, analyzing the emergence of species in time, there is an equally important vertical dimension. It consists in the functional integration of different species of living beings (including viruses), in which the human organism is a multi-level product of the vertical course of evolution. The human organism is both a product of such evolution and an element of gradual integration into the POLIS macroorganism, functioning on the basis of city structures.
Bohdan Wasilewski
Psychosomatic Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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This page is a summary of: The Human Microbiome and its Role in Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic, January 2025, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/msti/v3/3777.
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