Back To Life

 

Some brain injury can cause brain death. "The idea is to inject the patient’s own stem cells into the spinal cord to stimulate the growth of neurons." https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/controversial-trial-to-test-transhumanist-theories/12327

That's what I think happened to me...or some variation, probably caused by gravity, or some medical procedure.

Originally, I thought I may have spinal stem cells, caused by the bleed. I was told that the blood from the bleed "ran down your neck." What major bone is in the neck? The spinal cord is there. I figured I gave myself a spinal tap with the bleed. http://thoughtfulveg.blogspot.com/2017/06/sparking-imagination.html

This study is controversial because they want to do it on brain dead patients. You can't get consent from a dead person.

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Why is this man so happy? Why is he singing to me? He read my records from the first hospital that treated me. They don't outright say that I am brain dead, but rather list the criteria. That's a good thing for me because I would have one heck of a time trying to get that monkey off my back.

So, if I am brain dead, or significantly damaged, how am I doing this?

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There is also another issue to consider... whatever happened, "released my inner genius." My knowledge has increased as brain injury symptoms have decreased. Would this procedure universally unlock genius?

 

I Re-Set My Clock

 

I sure don't look 45. I figured I "re-set my clock" with the neurogenesis. The way it happened makes me wonder if it will be perpetual, though. With re-setting my clock, signs of aging will be delayed.

The neurogenesis was the repair of neural damage in my brain cells. Aging would be damage to all cells. If it was my stem cells that repaired damage, then there would be repair throughout my body.

Enough information does not exist yet to determine any outcome. I used the word "if". This is all possibility. We don't know for sure unless it does or does not happen.

1000 Problems

The number 1000 bothered me.  'We will be able to live to 1,000' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/4003063.stm

It sounds like do one thing, and be able to live to a thousand. I looked more into it. Mostly because that one thing may have already happened to me. The other is people in general should know what to expect.

Doing one thing is not what Aubrey de Grey is saying exactly. He's proposing that one person have several treatments of one type. Each treatment resets a person's clock. So the person having treatment goes 80 years, has a treatment, resets his/her clock, goes another 80 years, and resets their clock again. They do this until they reach a thousand. Technically, a person could go on forever.

Neurogenesis would have repaired damage in my brain. I am also seeing it elsewhere.

However, there is a possibility that a person will not need several treatments. "When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function." http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/pages/basics1.aspx

In many people, it will be the specialized cells to develop. For longevity a new treatment will have to be done because the stem cell division is done. However, there exists the possibility new stem cells were created. This makes a new treatment unnecessary. This type of data does not exist. I can only say there is a possibility.

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The one thing that may have occurred with me is a release of my own adult stem cells which triggered neurogenesis. It may not have only fixed my immediate problem, but also thrown me into this longevity issue.

Enough information does not exist yet to determine any outcome.

The Thousand Year Question



How long can I be in a coma? I'm not physically, but I am on paper. This has caused problems, but nothing that is currently dire.

Now here is something unusual that might have occurred to a biologist or someone with background in biology. Aging is the accumulation of damage in the cells. If this damage is repaired, then there is no aging.

What I proposed is that neurogenesis happened due to adult stem cell release. Damage in neural cells is repaired. I can write.

I'm not just a head. I do have a whole body. Cell repair won't only be neural. The accumulation of damage to other cells in my body will be repaired. This has implications, 'We will be able to live to 1,000' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/4003063.stm

I'm alive when I am supposed to be dead. People need to start asking questions.

 I did not replace my brain. I proposed that adult stem cells repaired it.

I go back to how long can I be in a coma. Will I be in a coma for a thousand years? That sounds ridiculous, but this whole thing is. I've already explained why I wouldn't die when expected. It's called surgery to remove the cause, but the government wouldn't do it. Now I'm still in a coma and not dead. Something is probably going on to remove accumulated damage from all my cells, not just the neural ones that allow me to write this.

I wonder...how will I be in a thousand years?