One big thing missing from this analysis is the rapid change in life expectancy. Incidence of cancer increases with age. At some point, if you live long enough, you'll pretty much be assured of getting cancer because of the proliferation of transcription errors, accumulation of oxidants (byproducts of molecular processes, etc) and the like. When you consider that, as far as we currently know, 30 was quite old for a Neanderthal and we now have a life expectancy of around 74, the higher incidence of cancer is to be expected. Which is not to say that the modern lifestyle doesn't also play it's role, I'm sure it does. It just isn't the only or, perhaps, even the primary cause.
Cheers, Judah On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study >> of ancient remains has found. >> >> Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became >> issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found. > > Makes alot of sense. Remember what activates pathways in a cell? > Proteins. What causes cell pathways to activate, grown uncontrollably > and become cancerous? Molecules that attach to protein receptors and > activate shit that's not supposed to be activated! > > Molecules that occur in nature would be bred out of us over eons by > natural selection. Only the artificial compounds that have come about > more recently are new to the environment and cause an increase in > cancer... > > -Cameron > > .... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329212 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
