I was sent this video by a friend (thanks Melissa) a couple of months ago, but haven’t posted about it until now. The woman in the video, Eva Vertes, is a brilliant young “microbiology prodigy” currently researching the nature of cancer. I know I’ve been
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posting on cancer a lot lately, to the exclusion of other topics in fact, but with a diagnosis like Glioblastoma Multiforme perhaps you can understand why I’m so interested. The video is nineteen minutes long and all of it is worth watching. However if you’d like to cut to the chase, try jumping to around 5:25 at which point she begins discussing stem cells and their relation to tissue damage.
This video has become a form of meditation for me; entertaining the idea that the body’s cancer-response is a healing process triggered as a result of a damaging initiation event. In my case I can think of several candidates for initiating events, not the least of which is the fact that I grew up near a major chemical manufacturer (at one point there were actually three major chemical factories in the town). Food for thought, gotta run.
Oscar
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