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Doing research while being anxious
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@jeffmarc Thank you Jeff. I appreciate your input and will check into it. I've heard the term "autophagy", but am not that familiar with it, nor can I recall where I first heard the term. It still begs the question, what is wrong with our ecosystem that our bodies cannot achieve and maintain homeostasis? Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong? He has some interesting theories about Natural Killer cells (i.e., ALC - Absolute Lymphocyte Count - part of a standard Complete Blood Count blood test) and their role in combatting cancer. In my husband's 12 year prostate cancer journey, not one single care provider has even mentioned the immune system, let alone considered its importance in the dis-ease process. My faith informs that God did not create anything "under the radar of our immune system".
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@doyourresearch The ecosystem of immunity, as you refer to it, is of paramount importance.
But you are not factoring in mutations which occur spontaneously and repeatedly as our cells divide.
Many times, even the best primed immune system cannot suppress or mitigate these mutations, which then replicate until they become a real issue: cancer.
And I am just talking about the ho-hum mutations that we all face - not the genetic ones such as BRCA1 &2 and others.
Much luck is involved in getting from birth to death and not have cancer somewhere along the line. Best,
Phil