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really absurd that we continue creating things no one's body evolved to tolerate that we continually ingest. And we wonder why chronic illness is skyrocketing i

• genewitch 3y ago
  what's the annual global expenditure on cancer treatments, these days; and what percentage of oncologists would subject themselves to cancer treatment?
  • bglazer 3y ago
    Overall five year survival rates for cancer have risen from about 50% in 1975 to about 75% currently. That includes several extremely difficult subtypes of cancer, which means that many types of cancer have improved much more than the overall trend. Together this constitutes millions of years of extended life for millions of people. Millions of families given a reprieve from the worst outcome, millions more memories that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Societally, that’s worth a tremendous amount of money, not to mention the other positive effects that we get from spending lots of money on research. https://progressreport.cancer.gov/after/survival https://progressreport.cancer.gov/after/survival
    • zmgsabst 3y ago
      Right — the implication is that we made all those people sick in the first place, and the associated cost of food/agriculture science isn’t worth it.
• jryb 3y ago
  >really absurd that we continue creating things no one's body evolved to tolerate Your body literally produces enzymes to digest RNA. In the duodenum, specifically. We actually did evolve to do this.