On: How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015)

[pvaldes]

We should remember that wild fruit and veg is not the same as domesticated fruit and veg. Plants are masters in poison design. Sausages are a much safer diet than being forced to eat Acacia compounds each day

Many times a day here means probably less wattle poison to deal in each meal.

[agumonkey → pvaldes]

Plot twist, maybe a minute amount of toxic compounds helps health. After all, taxol is a yew tree extract.

[autokad → agumonkey]

thats certainly true for some substances, but its a very delicate balance. take selenium, a little but lowers many cancer rates, a little bit over that and it increases cancer rates.

I am also reminded of steve jobs and his all fruit diet. I recall astin kutcher got inspired by him and took on the diet and ended up in the hospital with pancreatic problems. pancreatic cancer killed steve jobs

[pvaldes → agumonkey]

yep, animals use medecines also and some poisons target cells growing faster. Good point.