Your essay brings a fresh and interesting perspective of the sort that seems in hindsight almost obvious. A major issue in quantum theory itself is the delineation between the observer, the observed system, and the environment; what could then be more natural than taking a quantum lens to the actual interface between the organism and the (quantum) world, the skin? Yet I have never seen this perspective taken before.
Moreover, by exploring this topic from the point of view of the clinician, your essay illustrates how quantum biology can do more than just offer novel explanatory resources for open questions in biology (as worthwhile a contribution as that is, in itself), showing that there is actual transformative potential to health outcomes, offering potential new therapeutic avenues. Quantum effects, as you argue, play more than a background role here, as they do trivially to everything by e.g. explaining the stability of matter; rather, they are constitutive of and indispensable to the phenomena that are discussed.
All in all, I hope you essay will do well in the competition!
