A Review of the Results Obtained over Ten Years of Research on Relaxation Response and its Quantum Field Theory Framework

Abstract

Abstract

In this work, we present a brief overview of our research on the Relaxation Response (RR) in healthy subjects and in patients with myocardial infarction. The practice of techniques employed to elicit the RR is associated with the laboratory observation of very rapid and uniform changes in a multitude of molecular species, with temporal dynamics that, as far as we know, are not found in the existing literature in terms of simple stochastic diffusive processes or by Coulomb-type electrostatic interactions alone. The results we observed suggest, as a working hypothesis, a description in terms of collective coherent behaviour of microscopic components, a description generally and successfully adopted in modern many-body physics. We therefore turn to consider the environment in which the molecules we have studied are embedded, namely, water. We examine several of its electrodynamic properties in relation to a theoretical model that may account for its state changes and possible interactions with solutes. From this framework, a plausible view of the living system is the one in which the relationships among the parts, i.e, their collective coherent behaviour, rather than the individual components themselves, may account for the manifestation of multiple properties (perception, language, semantic responsiveness to the environment, rather than mere “reaction”). Finally, our discussion leads us to the hypothesis that the heart may play a role in orchestrating the collective coherent behaviour of the various parts and organs within the human body, and their rhythmic-functional stability.