Guess who else is looking Inward !

Excerpts from an article by Carl Zimmer:

Michael A Fischbach, a chemist at the University of California has found a bacteria within the body which is similar to an antibiotic that a drug company is testing. He is quoted as having said ‘microorganisms are the best chemists on the planet’.

For evidence, Dr Fischbach points to the many life saving drugs that micro organisms produce. In 1928 for example, Alexander Fleming discovered that mould wafting into his lab produced a bacteria killing chemical called penicillin.

Later generations of scientists found drug making organisms in more exotic locales. In 1951, a missionary in Borneo named William Bouw shipped a box of jungle dirt from there to Europe and Dr.Kornfield discovered a species of bacteria in it that made a potent antibiotic.

Scientists today are still searching jungles, oceans and other corners of the world for micro organisms that make medicines. But in a new study, Dr Fischbach and his colleagues suggest that we should be looking inward.

Analysing the bacteria that live in our body, the scientists identified genes for making over 3000 previously unknown molecules that may prove to be useful drugs.

‘Nobody had thought to look that close to home’ said Dr.Fischbach.

We all know, (not to question the scientific level of medicine as what Dr.Fischbach is talking, which is to create antibiotics based on microorganisms from within for the larger good), that this is part of our body’s natural immunity system, right?

Any invasion of the body by the bad bacteria from the outside or sometimes from the inside, can be fought from within, and this is done well by a naturally healthy body. It’s again about keeping that balance, the energy balance within the body. Ancient systems of Ayurveda focus on restoring or maintaining this balance.

It’s really in our hands. Isn’t that an empowering feeling? Can we become aware of what we can do to get into that space of empowerment? Not just of the mind……… but through the mind, also of the body.