The current healthcare system is hampered by a reductionist approach in which diagnostics and interventions focus on a specific target, resulting in medicines that center on generic, static phenomena while excluding inherent dynamic nature of biological processes, let alone psychosocial parameters. In this essay, we present some limitations of the current healthcare system and introduce the novel and potential approach of combining ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) with metabolomics technology in order to provide a dynamic readout of higher organizational systems. We argue that the combination of metabolomics and UPE can bring a new, broader, view of health state and can potentially help to shift healthcare toward more personalized approach that improves patient well-being.
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Rossetto Burgos, R. C., van Wijk, E. P. A., van Wijk, R., He, M., & van der Greef, J. (2016). Crossing the boundaries of our current healthcare system by integrating ultra-weak photon emissions with metabolomics. Frontiers in Physiology, 7(DEC). https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2016.00611
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