if the theory is correct, then cancer evolved at a time when Earth’s environment was more acidic and contained less oxygen. So the team predicts that treating patients with high levels of oxygen and reducing sugar in their diet, to lower acidity, will strain the cancer and cause tumors to shrink... ...because cancer appears in many animals and plants, as well as humans, then it must have evolved hundreds of millions of years ago when we shared a common single-celled ancestor. At that time, cells benefited from immortality, or the ability to proliferate unchecked, as cancer does. When complex multicellular organisms developed, however, “immortality was outsourced to the eggs and sperm,” Davies says, and somatic cells (those not involved in reproduction) no longer needed this function. The team’s hypothesis is that when faced with an environmental threat to the health of a cell—radiation, say, or a lifestyle factor—cells can revert to a “preprogrammed safe mode.” In so doing, the cells jettison higher functionality and switch their dormant ability to proliferate back on in a misguided attempt to survive. “Cancer is a fail-safe,” Davies remarks. “Once the subroutine is triggered, it implements its program ruthlessly.” FAFB - Fattened Americans Fight Back! Alkaline water and nutritional environments and total exclusion of sugar (which would necessitate eschewing grains and fruit juice, essentially going paleo, as many of us are doing with great result). Could it be that this simple key could unlock the cure for cancer? Having lost friends and relatives Sybille Fruetel Culhanes dear aunt Ilsa among others, and Bernard Pierquin this summer alone) and having many friends battling cancer, I beseech us all to at least follow the latest hypotheses and at least try the simple steps (reducing dietary induced acidity and inflammatory stressors and feeding the cancer cells with sugar) before succumbing to chemo or radiation and weakening your good cells along with the malignant. At least try it. We love you! scientificamerican/article/did-cancer-evolve-to-protect-us/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20141008
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