Prudentia

From "Destroy and Kill" to "Modify and Repair" In the treatment of cancer, the principle "DESTROY AND KILL" has so far been followed. The degenerated cancer cells were to be destroyed by means of a wooden hammer method. In this thesis we want to present a new treatment principle for cancer, which we want to call "MODIFY AND REPAIR". In pregnancy, hormones play a role whose application in a pilot study both increased the survival rate of cancer patients and helped to repair damaged organs and promote wound healing. The concentration of these hormones is increased in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. This protects the pregnant woman from potentially dangerous cells of the unborn child. These hormones are also used to stabilize the uterus and ensure a sufficient blood supply. Thus, a "natural cancer therapy" is carried out. Our proposal is that these hormones should also be used in the treatment of cancer patients. Introduction...

First published in IQ Nexus Journal XIII, from December 2013 It is well-known that hormones are responsible for a large number of control processes inside the human organism. What might be less known, and very interesting, is that hormones can on the one hand cause stress and weaken the immune system and on the other hand fight stress and strengthen the immune system. A team of researchers based in Vienna, Austria, around Uwe Rohr, MD, PhD and Anca Gocan, MD is dealing with the related mechanisms. What's fascinating: The balancing of these hormones makes novel treatment strategies possible for severe mental diseases such as schizophrenia on the one hand and for severe physical diseases involving the immune system such as particular types of cancer on the other. As Professor Alfred S. Wolf (Ulm, Germany) explains, stress is a vital reaction cascade of the human body. However, if a person gets into burdensome situations again and again without time to relax in between, he or she will...

Welcome to the second issue of Prudentia Journal! This issue is about the scientific research which I conducted together with my late friend and mentor Dr. Uwe Rohr. Uwe was also interested in the promotion of the highly gifted, as he in his life faced discrimination by his less talented peers himself. There will definitely be a follow-up on this. Probably the third issue of Prudentia Journal will contain a couple of more related articles. Basically, Uwe was a researcher in phytoestrogens and steroid hormones. He investigated in particular why soy isoflavones such as daidzein and genistein have such a positive effect on the treatment of severe mental diseases, infectious diseases, cancer and wounds, and hypothesized that they acted by influencing the steroid hormone cascade, converting stress hormones into immunity hormones. As I wrote on the website http://www.uwerohr.net/ (I registered this domain to keep up the memory of Uwe's works), it is commonly accepted by medical scientis...

Why the highly gifted sometimes have a hard time in life: Many ordinary people cannot imagine that highly gifted people sometimes have a hard time in life. After all, thanks to their talents, they should have fewer problems than normal people, shouldn't they? In fact, life is often difficult for gifted people for three reasons: 1. Average minds usually do not like the highly gifted. 2. There are prejudices on both sides (both normal and gifted) about the other group, some of which apply and some of which do not. 3. In my experience, highly gifted people argue with each other and by no means support each other; they are not in a position to organise themselves as a lobby or to solve their problems together or help each other. (Although: Prudentia might make a difference.) Everyone should think about that if they have to deal with the highly gifted. Claus Volko, cdvolko (at) gmail (dot) com

Prudentia has reached a total of 16 members, four of them living in Austria. Perhaps it will be possible to host face-to-face meetings in Austria soon if Prudentia keeps growing like this.

General observations For more than 16 years, I have been working in the environment of various highly gifted associations. In the beginning I was only a member of Mensa; in the meantime I have participated in numerous, mostly informal and international associations of this kind and left Mensa out of frustration about the lack of understanding of Mensa members for the problems that this essay will deal with. Even before this time I had been dealing with highly gifted people. I was a regular author of professional articles for German computer magazines and was thereby in contact with several highly intelligent people - admittedly mainly those whose interests were essentially limited to "computer science". Also in the so called demoscene (contrary to certain associations, which are initially imposed on the unsuspecting layman, this is an international community which deals primarily with computer art) I had to deal with numerous highly gifted people. These were those who not onl...

Sir Karl Raimund Popper was undisputedly one of the most important philosophers born in Austria in the 20th century. Many clever thoughts have been preserved from him, which are worth quoting in conversations where appropriate. I myself adorn my "Facebook Wall" with Popper's aphorisms. My parents have consciously renounced to give me a religious education. Instead, my father already taught me in young years the philosophy of Karl Popper, in particular his considerations on the theory of knowledge and science. I appreciate Popper very much. Nevertheless, in this essay I will take a critical look at his life and work. What led me to write this essay: The impetus for this essay came from a discussion on Facebook. My conversation partner was an older man, an American, who acquired a lot of knowledge in the course of his life. He said that I was intelligent and "somwhat erudite", but lacking "intellectual discipline". I interpret it this way: Not everything...