What is Quantum Biology?

The human body is composed of many systems within systems and despite the complexity of their interactions, communication between subsystems is remarkable efficient, organized and coordinated.  In the human body, subsystems include the immune system, nervous system, cardiovascular system etc. Within these subsystems are individual organs which are in turn composed of individual units called cells.  Each cell is composed of thousands of individual molecules, which in turn are made up of atoms and subatomic particles. 

This top-down model of  causation is a new perspective in modern systems biology, but quantum biology proposes a bottoms up model, whereby quantum processes are the most  fundamental and the starting point for regulation of each higher level. Quantum biology further postulates that not only can bio-molecules carry information to be transmitted between levels and sublevels, but elementary particles and their corresponding fields can also carry information. The quantum nature of this information and information transfer processes is only now being investigated in academic institutions. The nature of this quantum information is being studied both experimentally and theoretically using mathematical models. Communication between levels and sublevels can be considered as global communication channels. These channels carry information throughout the body in order to maintain homeostasis and health. Extending these concepts to medicine, disease can be considered to arise from either blocks in information transfer processes or the presence (and transfer) of disease information. Therefore, in addition to characterizing diseased tissue and cells at the biochemical level, quantum biology postulates that disease processes generate specific information patterns which can be measured. Quantum medicine of the future will involve characterizing diseased information patterns and normalizing them with the appropriate “healing” information patterns. 

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