Download or read book 50 Years Lost in Medical Advance written by Lewis Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book may one day be remembered as the "Principia" of medicine, because it describes the most important theoretical advance in medical history. Powerful new theories typically arrive long before evidence becomes available to confirm them. The apocalyptic warfare of the 20th century produced an era of scientific vigor, rigor, and medical advance that inspired Hans Selye's theory that a single "stress mechanism" repairs tissues, regulates physiology, and causes disease when it becomes harmfully hyperactive. The discovery of DNA inspired an intense international search for Selye's mechanism, and caused stress theory to become the prevailing paradigm of medical research for 30 years, but Selye's ideas were relegated to the realm of the Unicorn for failure to find any clue of the elusive mechanism. Since then, 50 years of accumulating information from unrelated research has belatedly enabled the discovery of Selye's long sought mechanism, which fulfils all the predictions and expectations of the old stress researchers. It enables Selye's "unified theory of medicine" that enables physicians to direct their treatments at the actual cause of disease rather than guess by fickle symptoms. The book explains how the stress mechanism works, and how it will introduce a new era of health, longevity, prosperity, and freedom from the eternal curse of disease and premature death. Like most powerful theories, stress theory has extended implications. It exceeds the bounds of medicine and confers a "unified theory of biology" that explains the origin of life, embryology, evolution, anatomy, intelligence, emotion, "fight or flight," the Cambrian Explosion, Lamarckism, Saltation,---- and dinosaurs. It paves the path to understanding genomics, which promises to confer the ability to alter evolution, with implications that presently reside in the realm of science fiction.