Alan A. Cohen, PhD @ Columbia | Rethinking Health and Aging I Chair in Biological Complexity and Healthy Longevity
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Dynamic Entropy is live.
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The strangest thing about being alive is how little of it requires our permission.
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This theme sits behind much of Dynamic Entropy.
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I’m exploring this in Dynamic Entropy — a publication on health, aging, resilience, and the strange fact that living systems keep not falling apart.
Subscribe if that sounds like your kind of problem.
scienceofhealth.substack.com…
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I’m launching a Substack.
It’s called Dynamic Entropy, because apparently “the body is a complex biological system slowly accumulating disorder while trying to maintain dynamic equilibrium” was too long for a title.
Health, aging, resilience, complexity.
Subscribe:scienceofhealth.substack.com…
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aging is an accumulating disorder because living systems are constantly maintaining dynamic equilibrium,
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and aging is the gradual buildup of entropy when that balance becomes harder to preserve.
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The body is not a Lego set.
You cannot understand health by identifying one broken block at a time.
Living systems are networks. Change one thing, and many other things move with it.
Health may be better understood as dynamic equilibrium.
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Checkout my substack post: scienceofhealth.substack.com…
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Dynamic Entropy is live.
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Subscribe/follow if interested in health, aging, resilience, and complexity
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What appears to be amazing symptom alleviation could in fact be killing us.
I had a lot of fun writing this substack post with @MitoPsychoBio on the risks of trying to meddle with the body's internal homeostatic mechanisms - in this case, the ability to detect energy shortages and make rationing decisions.
substack.com/home/post/p-193…
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What if aging is not a single program?
What if health is not just “the absence of disease but rather the capacity to maintain dynamic equilibrium.
A thread on why we need a science of health, not just a science of breakdown.
#ScienceOfHealth #Aging
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This points to a core problem in modern medicine and longevity culture:
it treats the body like a machine to optimize,
instead of a living system to understand.
More inputs. More tweaking. More control.
Neglecting the complex system.
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Here I’ll share work on rethinking health and aging, evolution, complex system and building a real science of health.
If you are interested in health, longevity, medicine, or the limits of reductionism, follow along.
We may need to rethink the whole frame.
#HealthyLongevity #DynamicEquilibrium
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