re: Researcher: childhood leukemia a result of lack of exposure to germs

I know this is anecdotal, but my cousin died of leukemia and was born on a farm to a family of hunters and fishermen. No way the child wasn't exposed to germs

Dwight Schrute is a genius!

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Can't wait for some OT medical input....

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This dude is a fricking idiot and most likely trying to sell something.

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I know this is anecdotal, but my cousin died of leukemia and was born on a farm to a family of hunters and fishermen. No way the child wasn't exposed to germs

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I think it has less to do with specific exposures and more to do with overall and long-term healthcare and general societal health. Someone born on a farm in the US, even with living a "rustic" lifestyle, is without a doubt going to be more environmentally "coddled" than someone born in east Africa, Indo-China, or the jungles of South America. Everything from vaccines, to clean water, uncontaminated food, healthcare access, etc. contributes to your health.

Over even longer time scales we can see how things like lactose tolerance came from the primarily European peoples because of their more prevalent domestication of milk producing animals.

The Jewish people are significantly more likely to get Tay-Sachs. Those of African descent are more likely to have Sickle cell because of their long term exposure to Malaria and the body's response to it.

Just my armchair medical opinion.

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This dude is a fricking idiot and most likely trying to sell something.

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Very generalized overview, but here is a frame of reference:

There are many types of cancer. Each have their own risk factors and tumor biology

What is cancer at it’s basics = dysregulated cell growth

What dysregulates the system = genetics, exposures, environment (genetics load the gun and the others pull the trigger)

What tends to keep the outliers (mutated cells) in check = a healthy functioning immune system

What keeps the immune system healthy = see my OP in this thread, along with mitigating stress

It should make sense that if you are inputing shite into your system you are doubly fricking yourself on both the exposure side and maintenance of the immune system side...

Hence, the immune system is a great avenue to pursue treating cancer at a “root” level

Guess what:



This is a good thing, but still reductionist in thought/intent (but a step in the right direction) as the immune system can be a fickle bitch...



Better yet, optimize on the front end to help with prevention ( especially if you have a genetically loaded gun...)

What are the must have daily vitamins we lack you or Gumbo said?

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especially if you have a genetically loaded gun...

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We could start there.
The author incorrectly claims acute lymphoblastic leukemia is caused by an in utero genetic mutation which is not inherited. That is simply not true.
ALL susceptibility is absolutely influenced by genetic inheritance.

Including such fundamental flaws in the foundational hypothesis is simply inexcusable.

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc

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What are the must have daily vitamins we lack you or Gumbo said? What is real interesting is a case study done on men and women with the mesh put in for UI and or hernia's. The mesh caused auto immune and a severe Vitamin D insufficiency in a lot of cases.

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I would strive to get most vitamins/nutrients from a balanced diet (whole foods, nutrient dense foods, real foods, etc)
This takes care of most requirements

Simple, yet difficult for most to pull off due to modernity...

That said, some are more difficult to obtain than others:

Vit D is low in many folks due to modernity (working indoors, avoiding the sun, wearing makeup...). I would be willing to wager that most of the folks who had mesh issues may have been D deficient at baseline. D also augments the immune response. Again, we may have a correlation/causation issue.



Vitamin K2 (found in grass fed butter, otherwise absent in Westernized diet)

Magnesium and zinc may also be worthy of supplementation(difficult to get from the diet)

Skip fish oil in a pill. Get it from eating the fish

PS: the other inputs I listed (sleep, movement) are likely more important than taking a bunch of vitamins. It is hard to conceptualize this in the pharama funded “one pill, one cure model”. View these inputs as force multipliers into the system (they are just that...)

I remember a little boy in my class having leukemia. This was back in the 70s when it was pretty much a death sentence. Think he made it to about 4th or 5th grade. Terrible disease.