Biohacking our way to health | Michael Levin
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- This biologist built a living robot from frog cells - and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine.
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Developmental biologist Michael Levin proposes an alternative approach to regenerative medicine: one that involves communicating with cells to trigger specific associations and induce changes in tissues. He envisions a future where biomedicine relies less on chemistry, and looks more like behavioral science.
By leveraging the native competencies of cells, Levin thinks researchers can achieve complex outcomes without micromanagement. He demonstrates this through the regeneration of frog legs by simply prompting cells towards the regenerative state.
Levin introduces “xenobots,” bio-robots formed by self-assembling frog skin cells. These xenobots are key to the regenerative medicine of the future, with the potential to create solutions for birth defects, reprogramming tumors - even creating new organs. Levin emphasizes the moral imperative to pursue this research to address pressing medical needs.
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Professor Levin, thank you for explaining these groundbreaking concepts via RUclips. I feel honored to have been enlighted so much.
The philosophy of the last sentence struck with me on a whole different level: "...the calculus is not about what could go wrong, but what is already wrong if we do nothing anout it today." 7:37
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It is already wrong if your actions are not guided by respect, empathy, fairness and compassion to ALL living beings.Taking advantage of helpless beings, does not seem to me so morally sound.
@@ProxyAuthenticationRequired I had the same thought. There is so much fear around AI, "We have to stop at GPT-4" etc., but from my POV, well, I have had very serious and bizarrely complex mental and physical health issues that have been very hard to treat because they just don't know what to do.
And when you're on the frontiers of mental health, there's a lot of confusion and uncertainty, so I've had to basically be my own advocate and I've made a lot of mistakes. Very expensive ones. Now so many so fast that it could take me a year to pay off the debt I've accumulated. I've thought of suicide many times over the years.
So I and many others are suffering intensely and people want to stop the very thing that could figure out how to fix us? Usually these people don't have much of a personal stake in it - "Well, I'm doing pretty well, so I can afford to terrify people about AI. Oh and you optimistic ones are all naive and/or pathetic dreamers, or grasping for power."
I think of a Sam Harris quote. Although he's one of the doomers, he has also said that "The only thing scarier than developing AI is not developing AI." We could fix the world's and our own hardest problems. I want to see more takes like this. If we *don't* go at it with everything we've got, people will just keep suffering. I guess they figure the trade-off is worth it, because that's exactly what they're doing. Trading suffering for overzealous caution.
I'd understand this goal but the reality is that we already have immense suffering and existential threats that can be solved without novel technologies. Correct my train of though if it's incorrect, I do not think we should stop pursuing this, it sounds great, but to put it at the forefront neglects the fact that at first only rich people would benefit and if we do not take care of the climate and of a nuclear threat what is the point of these technologies in a much more unstable world?
He neess personal seucuriy. Biological regenation be bad for phrma.
Poetry found a beautiful home in Levin’s science.
Some people you just want to hear about their dreams from the absolute awe of the discoveries.
Cellular intelligence is very well documented in fungi but within the cells of the body, that is incredible.
Certain Psilocybe strains have found to literally re-grow brain tissue and repair grey-matter. Cannabis is cancer-preventative and slowing too. I say it time and again, we've barely scratched the surface of the human genome, we only mapped 92% by 2023 and 100% on Mar 31, 2022. A particular gene that piques my curiousity is the VMAT2 gene, it's quite interesting if anyone who knows some basic bio + genetics looks it up. Our plant, animals, plants and fungi are truly amazing organisms in their own right.
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I came across Dr. Levin just a few months ago. It's one of the best things that ever happened to me. His work is fantastic.
We agree! If you're interested, here's a playlist with the other videos Dr. Levin has made with us: ruclips.net/p/PL_B7bI1QVmJBROGj9C07DOvJ2r6Qk3v3P
I would relish taking classes on cellular biology from Dr. Levin, aka future Nobel Prize recipient. This is truly ground breaking and implies something close to cellular intelligence, if I'm understanding this properly.
Cells have always been intelligent no?
He is very good at explaining complicated stuff.
Mike was one of the first scientists I talked to entering biological sciences. Trust me when I say, he is one of the most profound thinkers you can have as a teacher!
Do yhunk maybe allegdy pharma would💥 him becide he serching for
@@mesiroy1234Nah, his technique still uses pharmaceutical drugs to achieve the end result. But who knows in the future
Profound thinkers dive into the depths of knowledge, emerging with pearls of wisdom to illuminate the world.
Your last statement was brilliant: “not what can go wrong, but what is already wrong if we do nothing”!
Its way more important to eliminate the greedy and spiteful of this world, then there wouldn't be so much sickness in the first place.
and that includes all who consume their products. Most, if not all of us, to some extent.
This sounds like an excellent stepping stone on the path to regenerative medicine.
I think what we can learn from such experiments and outcomes is that the biological systems are too complex to micromanage them but we can make altercation into them and see what strange things they do in response to our intervention and employ such new behaviour in things that may benefit us in Medicine, Agriculture, Technology and other possible applications!
Embrace the insight of intelligence of life. Life is coded, designed, and intelligent, through and through, with connections and relations to the universe we are barely becoming aware of.
This is honestly mind blowing.
what part
@@Demilich23Have you watched it? All of it!
Really isn’t, it’s like every big think video. General grandiose ideas that fails to discuss concrete specifics.
@@thomasdavies2555 That's the point of this series, no? There's lots of podcasts with Michael where he goes way, way deeper over 2-3 hours on the topics of biology, computation, consciousness, etc.
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I mean, the concrete specifics are his life's work. Go look up his papers if you want those details. They are groundbreaking
Super informative, this is on the brink of something special. 💯
This is truly amazing science. To know cellular communication is possible and when it will become accessible for everyday people with anytype of health needs it will indeed change the world for the better. Yet another revolution in the making and giving hope to a brighter future for humanity.
Can we get this guy more resources if he can use them? I need him to fix my back ASAP, thank you
Same 100%
Many people find healing from the #properhumandiet look into it
Please invite Dr. levin often on The Well and BigThink.
I just feel like sitting next to him and keep asking random questions and derive my own insights from his answers.
This is an expert and his argument for scientific research in this field is impressive and profoundly humanitarian. Maybe Professor Levin could teach ethics to some other so called experts out there.
Great topic. Through regenerative medicine, we become the architects of our well-being.
If you're going to make a call to action at the end about using the tech more, maybe go into detail about the frog healing its leg rather than the bio-robots? Maybe start with the bio robots and then go into detail about healing? Biotech _is_ incredibly promising for long term health, but I feel like none of the specific things shown really demonstrate that.
I don't know how far this can go, but if it goes to far, there may be implications for humanity in regards to ethics. Just because we can, it doesn't mean we should. I really don't know.
I’m a clinician from China and I support your thinking
I second that!
That is absolutely astonishing!
Trail blazing. Congratulations and good wishes for further work on these lines.
As I write, this channel has 111k subscribers and it has garnered 111k views. Quite a fantastic occurrence.
Personally, I'm hoping stem cell research, or something like this, to solve the transplant rejection problem. I want my body to treat my new heart as a normal part of my body, without the use of immunosuppressants.
Not happening
There are some pigs running around somewhere that have been genetically engineered to have rejection free organs, the goal being to put them in people. Xenotransplantation they call it. If humans weren't such puss!es, we could clone you and harvest your clone's organs. I volunteer to go to hell for that one. Personally, I want to build purely synthetic organs from biocompatible materials to replace cells. Cells r c00l for techless civilizations and fragile DNA is necessary for evolution, but we're outgrowing them. Our AIs will outcompete our metabollically limited bodies and the question of "What to do with the obsolete humans?" draws nearer every day.
This is the guy that regenerated a frog's leg...
He also put a chemical signal in a frogs belly and an eye was formed there.
Somehow it attached to the spine on it's own and was somewhat functional. It distinguishing from light to dark.
Look up his work it's amazing.
U have to go to other countries for the latest stem cell tech . I wonder if anyone has done studies on this use case
levin's research could allow us to give your body an information-dense electrical message and have it regrow your heart, if the research is developed far enough.
You can’t arrive to truth of human if you don’t recognize (the Soul)
Chemistry is not enough, we are more than materialistic reality.
The final sentence is enough...
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We already have the ability to communicate with our cells, unfortunately we lost that skill a very very long time ago....
Fascinating! Thanks for this epic presentation
Thank you sir. Extraordinary content.
Man I love Michael Levin
« We’re just scratching the surface » is an understatement.
Amazing, I want to study everything you're doing! Well said at the end, "What is already wrong if you do nothing". The whole video is well said. Great video!
Our bias is that anything that doesn’t resemble humans, nor have neurons is not intelligent. Dr. Levin is attempting to disabuse us that bias, to open our thinking.
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Wow!! That last statement gave me the chills. All I can say is good luck on your endeavors. Also random thought. Also how do you keep noble experiments like this from getting exploited?
I love Mike Levin.
Us too! You can find a playlist with more of our videos with him here: ruclips.net/p/PL_B7bI1QVmJBROGj9C07DOvJ2r6Qk3v3P. Enjoy!
This is important to know so thank you.
This is so cool and fascinating!! I truly hope that this research continues and that we see the fruits of it applied in modern medicine ❤️
The evolution itself was captured.
Dear everyone, I wish you peace inside your soul. We are all light and all connected, don’t be scare, all gonna be ok. Your futur gonna be fantastic because you are fantastic. Thank you so much for your reading.
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what an amazing man
Too cool. Life is incredible.
Great information, I would love to be in a classroom with Dr. Levin.
Ethics should permit anything that could improve beings' conditions.
Excellent!!!
Excellent
If any are interested, Exosomes are the main vesicles by which cells communicate with each other. Their understanding will make possible the ideas presented within this video. A number of companies/universities are conducting research and one just recently announced that they can now custom engineer exosomes at a commercial scale. This was a scientific breakthrough thought to still be many years away.
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Thank you 🥹🥲
Inspiring
"Write a prompt" - was the best part 😁
the most important person on the planet at the moment
My favorite human 😊👍🏻
He's one of ours too, for sure! Here's a playlist with the other videos Michael has done with us: ruclips.net/p/PL_B7bI1QVmJBROGj9C07DOvJ2r6Qk3v3P
@@The-WellThank you so much, I did not know him before and I am intrigued!
This is groundbreaking. Michael Levin's work will help many people
Go go go! Longevity escape velocity please!
There is a missing community
dialogue between Levin and Sheldrake
Genius.
As long as all of science remains stuck in physicalism, we will be limited in this endeavor
I mean we are surely decades away from that, but the future will be insane
Woo hoo, I'm gonna collect my dandruff and make xenobots that clean my room. Go dandruff, go. And then I'll zoom in on my dandruff and realize that it already is patented by Blackrock.
awesome
text2organ sounds cool!
Could be the reason the placebo affect works?? Cellular intelligence
Why do I find the xenobits adorable? 😂
Some how, I don't believe these institutions exist for the ordinary people, but to extend life indefinitely for the wealthy individuals who fund them and their friends.
And Nature has already figured this all out.
this is the way
This guy is it
They CAN do this now. It’s called Tissue Nano Transfection (TNT). It was discovered at Ohio State University years ago. Look it up.
that involves delivering genetic material. levin's techniques do not - they're purely electrical communication with cells, which then use their existing genetic material to steer existing coordination competency into a new behavior.
@@laurenpinschannels Yeah this is a much bigger deal. Much cheaper, safer and much more flexible and massively scaleable.
@@laurenpinschannels TNT does exactly what he’s describing and the delivery mechanism of the genetic material is via a small, very brief electrical current. It delivers your OWN genetic material from your own reprogrammed skin cells, which makes it much safer than someone else’s genetic material, like in some stem cell techniques that are known to produce rare tumors. It’s patented and they are licensing it. It works. At least in rats, so far. Human trials are imminent. Look it up. You’ll get all of the scientific information about that you need. It’s not my job to defend it. There’s likely more than one way to achieve the same goal. My only position is that this is already being done with TNT.
I love dr Levin; Some of the jargon he used here is a little silly, but I get what he's saying.
Living beings are mathematically created complex adaptive systems in a mathematically created world, as such they are tuneable.
Divorcing the computational end product from the underlying fundamental interactions just seems like a pot-shot.
Conceded that it's true that you dont solve a computer virus problem by figuring out how the transistors work.
This is wild
Perhaps we could make a full computer simulation of this and study it
unfortunately we can't simulate it any time soon because all we have is a small amount of observational data about some outcomes. in order to simulate it we'd need to be able to simulate whole cells, which is currently thoroughly beyond the most advanced simulation algorithms, which only barely give you approximations of the folding of proteins, itself already a miracle of the past few years of computer science.
Where do I sign up to be a hybrid?
And we wonder how viruses got started..... Looks like these Xeno-bots are more alive and more capable than viruses but I think I see some similarities.
Very interesting indeed … I just wonder: Don’t we already have the opportunity to influence cells in our body? Even concerning cancer? By our diet … just saying 😊
Tell that to my aunt. She's a middle aged affluent white lady who lived in the country club all my life, until last year when she moved. She has ALWAYS been all about healthy eating, eating organic non-GMO foods, super into yoga, gardening, and sports. She got breast cancer a few years ago. Luckily her body was receptive to treatment and she's still in remission. No one is safe from cancer. No matter how healthy you are, how active you are, no matter what your diet is; you are not safe from illness or disease.
What we eat does matter, so much research shows that most newfound diseases including diabetes, alhzeimers and some cancers are caused by diet and lifestyle (sedentary), with sugar being a much bigger culptrit than previously thought.
@@alyssao.9577Was she vegetarian or vegan? Either of those diets would promote cancer, not inhibit it. Just curious.
@@TerriblePerfectionno, not that I remember. I do not recall her being on any diet that involved restricting/avoiding the consumption of meat or other animal byproducts. For the most part, she ate the same things that everyone else did during holidays, birthdays, and other family functions.
Also, what makes you say that vegan/vegetarian diets lead to higher cancer rates? I've always heard the opposite (although, I'm not aware of any evidence that would support the notion of either diet resulting in an increased risk of cancer 0:02 0:02 0:02 0:02 0:02 0:02 0:02 )
@@alyssao.9577 I know it sounds unlikely, but we're lied to about so many things (meat, salt, fat, sun, etc.). I was vegetarian for decades, thinking I was doing everything and everyone a favor. I can't go into detail here, but I do encourage you to question everything and do your own research. Fruits and vegetables, to make a longer story shorter, have 2 big problems: First, higher levels of glyphosate and deuterium than meats, although to be fair all of our food supply is compromised. Second, vegetables contain anti-nutrients (toxins) to ward off predators, since they don't have legs to run away. They also have varying levels of oxalates. It's a complicated picture without simple answers, but I'm 67 and nearly 4 years carnivore, although I do eat the occasional local and seasonal foods from my area.
Engineered enzymes using supercomputers to predict protein folding etc
Well just going by what you just described... this is biomancy at it's finest. I'm sure there are some who would suggest that by bringing more personal conscious awareness (ie using techniques that can be done with no equipment) to your body you can use your mind to do what you just described... literally commanding your own body to fix itself. But again... that's something that is at least possible. Michael Levin's research can prove if what I just said is true or not.
The calculus is to learn to prevent.. there then will be less broken ones to cure ... start either stopping chemical food , toxic water , pesticides .. sugar ...... and so on thinking its helping us ...
If diet is wrong the medicine is of no use , if diet is right the medicine is of no need ...
You cant eat chemicals and expect great health .
I thought he introduced himself as McLovin for a second 😂❤
Centuries of existence in this rock. Good news? Really?
Профессор Левин, когда же Вы перейдете к регенерации органов млекопитающих?
The question is, why do he have a white board behind him 🤔?
thaz crazy
111k views posted 1 month ago, hell even the channel has 111k subs❤ hopefully this helps me figure out superpowers of regeneration and changing the body size etc😊
Thanks for being here with us! 😊
Wasn't there backlash with cloning sheep and leading up to biologically engineering 'designer' human genomes? I thought we were against manufacturing more people that thought act and talk like me. Or David Goggins. We need more of that!
Michael Levin
It"s just me my cells and I
All one system
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📌So nature has to find another way/warn signal to show us when something's going wrong in our lives💁♂️
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If this isn't why we shouldn't eat from the tree of knowledge, I guess it was the nukes.
How about intelligent stem cells? ( training stem cells )
Learn to communicate with your own connective tissue....fascia.
It has an electromagnetic pulse....that can be influenced to grow in patterns we have not yet seen in humans.
Kinda cool stuff if you are into health and strength.
Peace.
Never heard of this. Can you say more? Or provide a source?
@@Sid-69 Sorry for the delayed reply....just got this notification today.
I am the source for this... 12 years researching...and the patterns become clearer by the day.
I will upload another video soon....and you can see how it works. Peace.
@@braveneikonic2231 Thanks for getting back to me. You have a new subscriber :) I can't wait to hear more about this
The cure for everything is vigorously practicing doing good. The more good you do, the faster the healing is.
If you decide that you only want to do good, then you're like God and you will recieve only good.
This is the belief of many people around the world. So, if you wanted to, here's your chance. Believe. There will be a global wave of belief reinforcing you.
Big Farma is watching
真真是一花一世界。道生一,一生二,二生三,三生万物。I like the idea of biology hacking.
what do you mean by behavioral science and computational psychiatry.... thats the most nebulous thing one could ever get in trying to give directions onto the cells.
what behaviour, what psychiatry
I agree. I've heard him say in other videos that morphology has a significant role in dictating function and behavior, so maybe something along those lines? But how is the signaling used in Xenobots or the future use cases he alluded to more akin to behavioral science than chemistry? Aren't neuroscience and behavioral science rooted in various types of signaling, including electrochemical? It seems like a really important distinction that should have been made, but maybe in an upcoming talk we'll get more insights 🤞
What I wonder, is when the planet is falling apart, why is this the important thing to be fixing. My husband just found out he has myeloma, and I still wonder this. Won't more lives be saved if we solve the climate/energy problems?
There's no climate problem. Please dig deeper. I'm sorry about your husband's diagnosis. My dad lived many years with MM after adopting a carnivore diet. Cancer loves sugar.
@@TerriblePerfection I have done a lot of "digging". Where do you recommend?
I have been studying this subject since high school and I am in my 70th year. I have lived in Oregon, Tennessee, Alaska and Australia. Tell me please, how do I look into it deeper?
@@freethoth The planet is by no means "falling apart." The planet is just fine and will undergo transformations small and cataclysmic just as it has for billions of years. Humans are but a blip in time. We are complex creatures, capable of great beauty yes but also driven by primitive instincts and selfish goals. Your husband's illness is a good example. Current cancer treatment is truly barbaric and will one day be viewed as such. To bombard an already compromised immune system with radiation and chemicals, known to cause cancer, is a protocol that benefits only doctors and big pharma, not the patient. The cure for cancer is to prevent cancer from developing at the mitochondrial level. To do that we need food grown in healthy soil free of glyphosates and an environment free of so many EMFs. We also need a healthy "light diet," so full-spectrum sunlight on our retina and skin early each day, and no blue light after sunset. The best things for us are FREE, but only on a few fringe channels can you find real science.
I'm 67 and see no doctors and take no medications. Doctors are poorly trained and required to follow protocols that make money, not that heal.
I can't say what would be best for your husband but multiple myeloma isn't a death sentence. What do I suggest? Please look up Dr. Thomas Seyfried. He's interviewed in multiple places about the root cause of cancer (metabolic dysfunction) and how to reverse it in many cases, including late stage. I don't recommend asking your husband's doctor about him though. He either won't know of him or he's obligated to deny any treatment outside the recommended protocol.
I wish you all the best. Question everything. No one is really looking out for us, and it's our responsibility to understand that and find our own best life.
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Music sounds cymatics crystal pressure points that's how diet exercise no meds
Time is short for me. I would *LOVE* to be healed of my ailments. But I have no chance. Not enough money, either! 😂 I guess I'm OK with it, though. 💪😎✌️ I have about 6-12 years left, at maximum.
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Wow.
If cell can makw this witout neruon imgone its nevrous sestyem. You could change brain disase. My metell problem
They won't do this on the regular until our population size goes down. They don't want this available for all otherwise it would be.
The technology of the future is going to look alot less like this and alot more like flint knapping. Humanity is still in collective denial of something Oppenheimer knew within moments of the Trinity test.