It appears your gut bug population changes cancer therapy effectiveness. A trial of immunotherapy on metastatic melanoma found those with greater variety of GI bacteria did far better than those with more limited populations. If you had a lot of ruminococcus around, you were more likely to stay alive. What Happened? People with immunotherapy trials […]
Can Cancer Be “Solved” in Ten Years?
Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, England are proposing to “solve” the “cancer puzzle” in ten years. How Will They Do It? Treating cells as “programs” rather like software. The result will be turning cells into “living computers” that can be reprogrammed – to treat cancer or any other illness. Work has commenced on a Bio Model Analyzer, […]
How Cell Recycling Benefits You (and prevents cancer, dementia, diabetes, etc.)
There’s great power in biological cell recycling. Your body’s ability to self-digest (autophagy) lets you fight cancer, resist aging, recycle everything from broken cell walls to destroyed viral proteins, kill off pathogens, remake your energy balance, recast most nutrients, and deny diabetes (it also works while you sleep.) It’s high time the Nobel committee recognized the […]
Why It’s Better to Be Rich
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.” So said Sophie Tucker, long ago. It’s still true. A recent study in JAMA demonstrated that if life expectancy was extrapolated from age 40, American males in the top 1% of income would live 15 years longer than the bottom 1%; among women the life expectancy difference […]
Can Shifting Body Clocks Cause Cancer?
Time rules life. Human body clocks are powerful. Disrupt them and people feel worse – and often get sick. Shiftworkers know this: they experience more heart disease, strokes, ulcers and an earlier grave. For years, the World Health Organization has talked of shift work as a possible carcinogen. Yet it’s hard to prove in humans. The people […]