Theory:Healing touch

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Theory	Citations	Notes
The ability negatively affects those who use it.	None	+ Peter is currently experiencing negative health effects from constantly using this ability.
It's not possible to heal Tracy or someone else with freezing or water mimicry.	None	+ It's only possible to heal things if they are alive or once were alive, there is no life in water. - It may not be possible to heal Tracy when she is in water form, but when she is in human form (and alive), she can be healed. • Donald Essex was hurt with a chemical and dissolved. • The authors mentioned that the substance that water mimics become isn't actually water (that is, H2O). Thus, it might be some sort of bizarre organic life (like a giant amoeba).
Healing touch works by manipulating the life force of living things by either making it repair their physical damage or draining it away.	None	+ Noah said a woman in China could control the flow of life. This fits the description. + Peter could've felt tired not because he was giving his own life force (which, theoretically, could kill him as Jeremy's victims died having lost their life force), but because he manipulated the life force there already was.
Healing touch works by manipulating bioreactions.	None	+ Healing could work by accelerating cellular replication in damaged areas of the subject's body (while somehow providing the necessary nutrients, minerals, etc., which are needed to allow such rapid regeneration). - Accelerating cellular replication would cause premature aging in the subject. + The ability could manipulate the cells of the subject to produce perfect replication. + This would explain why the ability cannot resurrect the dead.