🔬 Medical science
Bones provide structure, protect organs, enable movement, store minerals and house marrow that makes blood cells. Conditions include osteoporosis (age, hormones, calcium/vitamin D), fractures, infections and bone tumors or metastases.
Diagnosis uses X-ray, bone-density (DEXA) scanning and biopsy; treatment includes bisphosphonates, hormone therapy, fixation and oncologic care.
🧩 The GNM model
Claimed conflict: GNM links bone and joint disease to a "self-devaluation conflict" — a profound loss of self-worth, often specific to the body region involved (e.g. a hip conflict about not being able to bear a burden).
Germ layer & brain relay (GNM model): GNM classes bone as new mesoderm controlled from the cerebral medulla.
Two-phase course (claimed): GNM claims bone loses calcium (osteolysis/osteoporosis, "holes") during the conflict-active phase and recalcifies — often with painful swelling, and (per GNM) sometimes "leukemia" — during the healing phase.