A lot of researchers studying lifespan believe that there is (at some level) a tradeoff between aging and risk of cancer. The idea is that if you live long enough, you are more or less guaranteed to come down with one sort of cancer or another - there have been so many cell divisions along the way that some of them may well have gone wrong in some way, and so much cellular environmental wear and tear laid in on top of those. Now, it has to be said that not all of these cancerous events will directly lead to mortality; the connection is not so simple. For instance, itâs believed that a number of elderly men die with some sort of slow-moving prostate cancer, but do not die of it (and may not have ever known that anything like that was happening). In such cases, some sort of cardiovascular trouble is more likely to be the proximate cause of death.
But what if we were to find a way to extend the average human lifespan to 120, 150, 200 years?
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/longer-life-cost
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Premature Aging and Reduced Cancer Incidence Associated with Near-Complete Body-Wide Myc Inactivation
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Accelerated aging may be a cause of increased cancers in people under 55
âFor their study, the researchers looked at the data of 148,724 people that was kept in the UK Biobank databaseâ
An increase in cancers among people 55 years old and younger may be related to accelerated aging in recent generations, according to a study presented at a conference earlier this month.
âItâs been known in the aging field for many years now that accelerated aging processes [are] predisposed to cancer,â said James Kirkland, Noaber Foundation professor of aging research at the Mayo Clinic. "
âThe study did not identify specific factors that could be contributing to accelerated aging though Cao noted previous research has linked âenvironmental and lifestyle influencesâ to potential causes. This universe of factors could include such factors as increased air travel, more exposure to radiation and the presence of tiny âforever chemicalsâ that have been linked to health problems.â
Maybe microplastics and âforever chemicalsâ are a bigger threat than we thought. I would think that people in the âBlue Zonesâ have a much less contaminated diet.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4594687-accelerated-aging-may-be-a-cause-of-increased-cancers-in-people-under-55/
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This fits with the idea that mitochondrial problems are part of cancer and aging.
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Neo
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Another example of how replacement strategies could solve things completely
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ng0rge
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Considering that itâs the âDaily Mailâ, this seems like a pretty good article on âforever chemicalsâ:
Daily Mail health journalists test themselves for cancer-causing forever chemicals - with terrifying results (!!!)
The Million Markerâs Detect & Detox Kit works by having people pee in a cup and shipping it to the third-party lab to provide the analyses.
The lab then tests the urine for nine types of common chemicals, including seven different phthalates, chemicals used to make shampoos a flexible consistency - and two Bisphenols, chemicals used to make plastic food containers, among other things.
Million Marker compared the levels in our urine to US population data biomonitoring collected by the CDC.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13886273/Daily-Mail-Health-urine-tested-forever-chemicals-results.html
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They used this US-based company to do the evaluation:
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