50 Years Lost in Medical Advance: The Discovery of the Mammalian Stress Mechanism
Postulated by the Stress Theory of Hans Selye
This website is dedicated to the restoration of stress theory as the prevailing paradigm of medical research, and to the reform and revolution of our misguided health care system.
Lewis Coleman, MD
Lewis S. Coleman is a board-certified American anesthesiologist who completed his BS degree in biology at the Ohio State University, obtained his MD degree from New York Medical College, and completed his surgical internship and anesthesiology residency at UCLA, followed by 40 years in private practice. Coleman’s basic sciences instruction at NYMC miraculously coincided with the two-year sojourn of Dr. Johannes Rhodin, who was retained by the school to reform its curriculum. Dr. Rhodin was a famous researcher and expert on the stress theory of Hans Selye. His lectures devastated the dogma of classical physiology and convinced Coleman that stress theory represented the future of medicine. Many years later, these lectures enabled Coleman to identify Selye’s long-sought stress mechanism.
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
– Hippocrates
What is stress theory?
Stress theory is a powerful medical theory that is closely associated with DNA theory. It postulates that a single “stress mechanism” enables embryological development and governs physiology, including breathing, blood flow, heart function, digestion, excretion, immune activity, hormone release, tissue maintenance, and tissue repair. Excessive and unremitting combinations of environmental stresses cause harmful stress mechanism hyperactivity that manifests as disease. Such stresses include fear, anxiety, trauma, surgery, excessive radiation, pesticides, herbicides, food additives, chlorinated water, automobile exhaust, industrial pollution, and bacterial and viral infections. Find out more >>
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.”
– Rudolf Virchow
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50 Years Lost in Medical Advance
This book describes what may one day be remembered as the most important theoretical advance in medical history. The worldwide warfare of the 20th century produced an era of research rigor, vigor, integrity, and progress that inspired a prominent physician researcher named Hans Selye to hypothesize that a “stress mechanism” regulates physiology and explains disease.
“Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.”
– Rudolf Virchow
Recent Blog Posts
- The Unified Theory of BiologyThe stress mechanism provides powerful insight into evolution and the succession of life on earth — the rise of the dinosaurs, and then the rise of the mammals. Stress mechanisms evolve just as do the organisms that depend on them for adaptation to the environment. Much of the history of animal evolution involves blood turbulence. But there is a price to pay for every advantage…
- Stress Theory, Critical Illness — and COVID-19Normally the stress mechanism works quietly and unobtrusively to repair tissues and regulate organs, but when it becomes hyperactive it harmfully depletes its substrates, disrupts organ function, and damages tissues. These harmful effects manifest as disease. Seemingly unrelated stresses activate the stress mechanism via combinations of tissue disruption and nervous activity, including emotional activity. Furthermore,… Read More »Stress Theory, Critical Illness — and COVID-19
- Cancer and the Mammalian Stress MechanismIt is an open secret that conventional medical theory cannot explain cancer or offer effective treatments. Cancer is the most compelling of all medical subjects.(1) For most of medical history it has been regarded as a mysterious systemic sickness with localized manifestations that is best left untreated. Its incidence has increased with industrialization to the… Read More »Cancer and the Mammalian Stress Mechanism