BIOLOGICAL RESONANCE – RESONANCE IN BIOLOGY

Gabor Lednyiczky and Olga Zhalko-Tytarenko
Hippocampus Research Facilities
e-mail: hippocam@hippocampus-brt.com
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The notion of resonance is one of those notions that are often employed not only in their direct physical meaning but also rather intuitively in order to express a kind of general echoing of a complex event. Biology and medicine are among such close-to-scientific-but-not-exact customers of this notion. In physics, resonance means a condition in which an oscillating system shows the maximum amplitude response to an alternating driving force. Everyone is quite familiar with the mechanical resonance usually studied in the classrooms: the oscillations of a pendulum or a string would initiate the oscillations of another pendulum or string that have the same length. In case when an oscillatory electric circuit is under consideration, it responds with maximum amplitude to an external signal with an appropriate angular frequency. Quite simple condition for resonance to occur in mechanics (just one parameter - the length - is under consideration) transforms into something not really definable in biology, since in this latter case one deals with enormous amount of self-adjustable and interdependent parameters.

There is a crucial discrepancy in the modern science: the more deep insight it makes into the mystery of life the farther it moves from the life itself. Fantastically sophisticated equipment makes it possible actually “to see” - and influence! - a particular chemical bond. Nevertheless, it leaves the motivating forces for these bonds to organise themselves into a willing, thinking and reproducing creature deeply hidden. Meanwhile, the inherent wholeness of the living matter and our attachment to the environment is felt by everybody and is actually observed and measured by specialists. If one doesn’t want to be stuck to a certain biochemical process, he/she should bear in mind that life cannot be treated as a sequence of events. Any living organism is an open dynamic system. Plenty of parameters can be assigned to the entire set of its behavioral elements from psychological (through biochemical) to biophysical. In general, no parameter can be treated separately. Hence, a particular state of a living organism we can consider as a point in a multidimensional space, where every coordinate corresponds to a certain parameter. Stability and individuality of such a space is maintained through dynamical interrelations amongst these parameters.
Billions of various biochemical reactions in living cells turn out to be correlated to each other and to the functioning of the whole organism even though they are characterized with very different timescales (Fig. 1). Moreover, their characteristics of energy exchange are also very different. This means that there should be ways of energy sharing within such dynamically unisothropic systems. The occurrence of different timescale dynamics may suggest a kind of “secondary” correlation between the collective (correlated within a certain timescale domain) processes of different timescale dynamics. This, in turn, may imply that these various timescale dynamics are organised in a kind of “spherical” fractually structured hierarchy of the dynamics of biological processes (Fig. 1). Faster processes are embedded into slower ones. The fractal (self-similar) structure of the dynamic pattern of the organism ensures the inter-level correlation of dynamics within this hierarchical organisation: the laws that determine relationships between different processes within any level (a domain that encompasses the dynamics of a certain timescale) are similar to the laws which determine the relationships between different levels (different timescale domains) within the hierarchy. This, in turn, means that even weak influence occurring at more general level of dynamical hierarchy (i.e. at the level of slower processes) may induce more substantial changes in the system as compared with a stronger influence which corresponds to a characteristic rate of a particular biochemical process.
Therefore, the reliance on natural (i.e. non-separated from each other) forces of an organism constitutes a great advantage of holistic medicine (and bioresonance therapy as a method of it). It deals not with a set of elements and events but with a complex hierarchy of them (from quantum chemical to social). Environmental fluctuations (also from cosmic irradiation to social events) perturb the multi-dimensional spatial pattern of an organism which, in what is called ”physiological” state, usually dissipates such protuberances within its hierarchical framework. However, when the extent of the perturbances or their duration exceed a certain level, the system of coupling of this framework (needed for effective dissipation) may be damaged or an effect of ”saturation” will occur to gain failure in organism’s withstanding to surrounding circumstances.
In the modern science, there is a strong belief that the most comprehensive knowledge is the truest. Natural philosophy was set apart from the ancient philosophy to give birth to what we call now physics, chemistry, biology and so forth. Further bifurcation’s of these sciences are essential to teach students as well as to run routine - though extremely sophisticated - research in the body of nature. However, these bifurcation’s omit the actual soul of nature, the deep inherent interconnections, i.e. the self-creative integrity of the world. This obliterated wholeness is mostly evident in conventional medicine which is the “youngest science” (as Lewis Thomas named it [1]) and probably the eldest art. By telling the story of his professional life (starting from the 20s of our century), Dr.Thomas shows how the old art of the continuous personal communication of doctor and patient expires in favour of x-ray analysis and manifold measuring of the more and more vast variety of species in the organism. Are these hills of numbers really worth that subtle web between a doctor and its patient - a kind of spiritual navel that harmonises the curative endeavour. . ?
The rapid development - and substantial victories - of the methods of biochemical analysis and chemotherapy at the beginning of the century resulted in a firm viewpoint that it is possible to discover certain species which are characteristic for every particular disease and cure these diseases with appropriate drugs. Meanwhile, in the mid 30s, the trial to estimate what is being sick in general, a search for non-specific signs of illness yielded the concept of stress with the notion of adaptation energy. The author of this concept Dr. Hans Selye writes: “The study of stress differs essentially from research with artificial drugs because it deals with the defensive mechanisms of our own body. ...The significance of this kind of researches is not limited to fighting this or that disease. It has bearing upon all diseases and indeed upon all human activities...” [2].

The efficacy of stress against conditionally acting disease producers [2], points out the endogenous defence mechanisms which perform on a more general level than that of a particular mental or physical disorder. The concept of stress was invented thanks to the discovery of hormones and their role in the organism.