What are cells communicating to each other?

We communicate many of the same things with each other. For example, cells can communicate their needs for:

  • Nutrition - Feed Me
    - Cells communicate their need for various nutrients to help them run efficiently.

  • Hormone Regulator - Regulate Me
    - Cells communicate with other cells to regulate temperature, metabolism, and other needs.

  • Cleansing/Excretion - Cleanse Me
    - Cells communicate their need for cleansing and excretion of waste and toxins.

  • Host Defense - Repair Me
    - Cells communicate their need for damage repair and renewal as they are constantly attacked from outside invaders suck as bacteria, viruses and toxins.

  • Defense Cell - Defend Me
    - Cells communicate their need for help from specialized defense cells, i.e. white blood cells. (Are you "me" and okay? Are you "me" and not okay? Are you "not me" - a foreigner?)

  • Identification - See Me
    - Cells communicate such things as their structure, location and function e.g. "I'm a liver cell, and here's what I do."

Cells can communicate all this information to sustain health, but sometimes they don't. And when they don't, bad things happen (a failure to communicate). So if we're going to improve communication, wouldn't it be helpful to know how cells talk to each other?

 

 

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