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The underlying "cause" of cancer is the cells reverting back to their ancient state of independence and non-cooperation, and all the fail-safes that keep this f
by forgotmypw 9y ago
The underlying "cause" of cancer is the cells reverting back to their ancient state of independence and non-cooperation, and all the fail-safes that keep this from happening failing.
The reason for this happening is stress on the cells. And there are more and more things that can cause us cellular stress.
It is a bit of information overload, but if you separate things into "my great-great-grandparents were exposed to this in their daily lives" and "my great-great-grandparents were not exposed to this in their daily lives", you may begin go see a pattern.
And by "exposed to this", I mean looking closely at the exposure type and limits. They might have had wine, and even hard liquor, but probably not available every day.
- batty_alex 9y agoThere's history to suggest that alcohol was used as currency to pay workers in ancient times [1]. Alcohol has been with us for the long haul and has been available to our ancestors in large quantities for most of our history. It's almost engrained in our history. Not that it makes alcohol healthy but, I don't agree it's safe to just look back and say, "Yo, great-grand-papa could only afford to get wasted once a week - maybe that's the secret?" [1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/5000-year-old-pay-stub-shows-that-ancient-workers-were-paid-in-beer/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/5000-year-old-pay-st...
- sjg007 9y agoAll it means is that they survived long enough to reproduce to have your parents etc.. So look at the age they had them and how old they are when they died (or now). There is probably a selection event but also availability and potency have increased recently.