Why does everything seem to give you cancer? And how can anything cause that first cell to turn cancerous?
Think of it like this. Our body is quite the complex system. It's balancing on the brink of disaster at all times.
The Short Answer
Think of it like this. Our body is quite the complex system. It's balancing on the brink of disaster at all times. Our cells are dividing all the time. Thousands of times each second. All that's needed for us to get cancer is that something goes wrong in one of those divisions. We are standing on the brink, and we just need one push. Many things can make it go wrong. Most of them just ups the chance from one in a billion to 1.1 in a billion. They do this by disrupting the DNA in some way. This can be by radiation (it "pushes" dna around) or anything that can easily react with DNA. > Do any of those 'alternative cures' actually work and why? If they worked they wouldn't really be alternative any more would they? Of course, there are things that can have some preventative effect. Antioxidants are the big one.
Analysis
Key Concepts: Brink, times, wrong
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The explanation opens with: “Think of it like this.” It then elaboratesultimately building toward a complete picture across 15 connected points.
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Think of it like this. Our body is quite the complex system. It's balancing on the brink of disaster at all times. Our cells are dividing all the time. Thousands of times each second. All that's needed for us to get cancer is that something goes…
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