Health Freedom Defense Fund founder and president, Leslie Manookian, presents Conversations on Health Freedom. Of all the basic rights that human beings possess, none is more sacred than that of bodily autonomy. Topics covered with her guests include the primacy of the individual, and ethical principles such as informed consent as a means of advancing society to a place where every individual is free to pursue education, employment, worship, or participate in society free of coercion, threat, or pressure for his or her personal health care choices.
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Health Freedom Defense Fund founder and president, Leslie Manookian, presents Conversations on Health Freedom. Of all the basic rights that human beings possess, none is more sacred than that of bodily autonomy. Topics covered with her guests include the primacy of the individual, and ethical principles such as informed consent as a means of advancing society to a place where every individual is free to pursue education, employment, worship, or participate in society free of coercion, threat, or pressure for his or her personal health care choices.
Conversations on Health Freedom with Alan Rodrigues and Amy Shyer
Conversations on Health Freedom
1 hour 6 minutes 14 seconds
7 months ago
Conversations on Health Freedom with Alan Rodrigues and Amy Shyer
Are we nothing more than trillions of cells containing DNA or is there some hidden force that directs life? Professors Amy Shyer and Alan Rodrigues's ground breaking research reveals how cells organize themselves thereby challenging reductionist and technocratic approaches to mainstream biology and our very understanding of life.
0:00:00 – 0:05:16 – Intro and Alan/Amy’s Bios0:05:16 – 0:09:17 – How there is so much more to learn about life and health0:09:17 – 00:14:19 – What is “Morphogenesis”, why does it matter?00:14:19 – 0:20:40 – Observations that defy material explanation0:20:40 – 0:23:44 – Materialism, controlling life, profit motives0:23:44 – 0:30:58 – Alan and Amy’s research – seeing life as more than molecular machine0:30:58 – 0:35:38 – Needing to consider how collections of cells relate to each other0:35:40 – 0:38:30 – Leslie’s remedies versus high cost alternatives0:38:30 – 0:42:21 – Movies of cellular ecology, self-organization0:42:21 – 0:50:03 – Epigenetics – the key link between genes and environment0:50:03 – 0:53:36 – Cellular ecology readouts to understand chronic disease0:53:36 – 1:05:52 – Historical context behind the blind spots in biological thinking today
Amy on Twitter: https://x.com/AmyShyerAlan on Substack: https://substack.com/@alanrrodriguesAlan and Amy’s lab website: https://shyerrodrigueslab.com/
Conversations on Health Freedom
Health Freedom Defense Fund founder and president, Leslie Manookian, presents Conversations on Health Freedom. Of all the basic rights that human beings possess, none is more sacred than that of bodily autonomy. Topics covered with her guests include the primacy of the individual, and ethical principles such as informed consent as a means of advancing society to a place where every individual is free to pursue education, employment, worship, or participate in society free of coercion, threat, or pressure for his or her personal health care choices.
