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This video was done by students at Harvard University. It just goes to show you how much is actually taking place on a cellular level.  The body is an amazing thing! This video was first shown to me when I was attending a seminar at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.  My mouth dropped when I saw this for the first time.  Even being a doctor – I was still amazed at the sheer magnitude of what is happening in the body.

In the book Soul Medicine, Dr. Norman Shealy and Dr. Dawson Church write about genes in the body. Dr. Bruce Lipton discusses that humans have about 25,000 genes. Chimpanzees have about the same amount. A marine worm, Caenorhabditis elegan, have 969 cells (one half-trillionth of the number in humans) has 24,000 genes. When the human genome project began, researchers were estimating to find 120,000 genes. This was the amount that was projected it would provide to make up an organism as complex as a human. They found just 23,688 genes – about one-fifth the expected number.

Deepak Chopra also writes in one of his articles about the cells of a butterfly being the same cells of those in the human heart. Just food for thought about how complex and mysterious our bodies and cells truly are.

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