Enzymes: The Wave the Future
I hope my blog doesn't come up on a google search for somebody trying to research enzymes... because I am so far from being an expert, that I have a dumbass teaching me about enzymes.
The other day when I was reading up on these chemical inhibitors, I realized that maybe I could create an inhibitor that could block pain. I know aspirin, tylenol do it to some degree. But I was wondering if there was a way for me to design a drug that could be an irreversible inhibitor on for certain chemicals being passed through the nervous system.
My mother watches Oprah religiously (I tried to ween her off by telling her to go to Dr. Phil, now she's addicted to that show too.) and one of the episodes featured this baby that couldn't feel pain. The baby had one glass eye and scratches and scrapes on it. Its jaw was broken for 3 months before the parents figured it out. However, aside from all of that, the baby was perfectly happy.
I know pain is supposed to create an alarm inside of our head to tell us that what we are doing could potentially hinder our body. I think that if a person were made to still feel things but not feel pain, then that person could make a choice to stop whatever it is that could hurt their body.
An example would be if I stepped on a nail. Since I feel pain I would hop around, cry and catch a taxi to the hospital. If I didn't feel pain then I wouldn't waste all that time curled up in the fetus position in a corner rather than driving to the hospital in my awesome car.
The only reason that I want to create this drug is because I have this assinine phobia that I'm going to be kidnapped and tortured to death. I really don't know where that comes from, but I'm always preparing for it. When I'm walking around at night in the dark, I'm waiting for someone to jump out and grab me. FYI: I'm not scared that I will get raped... just tortured. And one time I asked myself what is my biggest fear - it wasn't talking in front of people (like how the majority of the US is, weirdos) or death, but a shitload of unbearable pain. I fear pain. So in order to get over this fear I need to either create an enzyme inside of my body to fight back this chemical process from my nerves to my brain or I can create a drug to kill off the chemical.
The first would make me seem strange, because in order to create an enzyme I would have to put my body through a series of tortuous events and I will slowly build up a defense. The other is less painful but there are forseeable (is that a fucking word) problems; such as, my body would eventually get used to the drug and create more chemicals to register the pain, so if I were to miss a day of the "No-Pain Pill" then stubbing my toe would seem like I hacked it off with a rusty butterknife. Plus, how long will the drug last for? Will it cause problems for my sense of feeling as well?
Alas, I am mearly a Marine Biologist Undergraduate student and this does not entail my line of future work. Unless, I perform this experiment on whales and their babies or something.
The other day when I was reading up on these chemical inhibitors, I realized that maybe I could create an inhibitor that could block pain. I know aspirin, tylenol do it to some degree. But I was wondering if there was a way for me to design a drug that could be an irreversible inhibitor on for certain chemicals being passed through the nervous system.
My mother watches Oprah religiously (I tried to ween her off by telling her to go to Dr. Phil, now she's addicted to that show too.) and one of the episodes featured this baby that couldn't feel pain. The baby had one glass eye and scratches and scrapes on it. Its jaw was broken for 3 months before the parents figured it out. However, aside from all of that, the baby was perfectly happy.
I know pain is supposed to create an alarm inside of our head to tell us that what we are doing could potentially hinder our body. I think that if a person were made to still feel things but not feel pain, then that person could make a choice to stop whatever it is that could hurt their body.
An example would be if I stepped on a nail. Since I feel pain I would hop around, cry and catch a taxi to the hospital. If I didn't feel pain then I wouldn't waste all that time curled up in the fetus position in a corner rather than driving to the hospital in my awesome car.
The only reason that I want to create this drug is because I have this assinine phobia that I'm going to be kidnapped and tortured to death. I really don't know where that comes from, but I'm always preparing for it. When I'm walking around at night in the dark, I'm waiting for someone to jump out and grab me. FYI: I'm not scared that I will get raped... just tortured. And one time I asked myself what is my biggest fear - it wasn't talking in front of people (like how the majority of the US is, weirdos) or death, but a shitload of unbearable pain. I fear pain. So in order to get over this fear I need to either create an enzyme inside of my body to fight back this chemical process from my nerves to my brain or I can create a drug to kill off the chemical.
The first would make me seem strange, because in order to create an enzyme I would have to put my body through a series of tortuous events and I will slowly build up a defense. The other is less painful but there are forseeable (is that a fucking word) problems; such as, my body would eventually get used to the drug and create more chemicals to register the pain, so if I were to miss a day of the "No-Pain Pill" then stubbing my toe would seem like I hacked it off with a rusty butterknife. Plus, how long will the drug last for? Will it cause problems for my sense of feeling as well?
Alas, I am mearly a Marine Biologist Undergraduate student and this does not entail my line of future work. Unless, I perform this experiment on whales and their babies or something.
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