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to join forces and cooperate rather than to divide at each other's expense.

So in the process of that happening, those two cells came together or three or four cells, they basically said together we're better than alone.

But there were actually social compacts and contracts that at the genetic level were being formed between all of these cells.

And so as things got more and more complex

more and more complex contracts were formed to the point at which what could happen is that any one of the breaking of a complex contract could actually then initiate a cascade that becomes cancer.

So rather than we thinking of cancer as being a forward progression in evolution, it's actually another way to think about it is that it's a devolution back to the core fire of the desire to divide.

And so by breaking the contracts, by breaking the controls on the system, cancer is allowed to blossom.

So the problem is that every tissue type, whether your lung or brain or whatever, has a whole different ecosystem of contracts that have been formed.

Right.

And so there's no one-size-fits-all drug that will kill off all cancers because the contracts are different.

It's not like you can bring in a lawyer and fix agricultural contracts versus maritime or whatever.

So that's the – you have to –

Have a flexible enough mindset because if you get stuck in this, it's a forward evolution as opposed to that it's a breaking of contracts.

You might miss out on an opportunity for how to develop a therapy or a drug that would help people.

I honestly don't know, so I don't want to opine and have half my colleagues send me emails tomorrow scolding me.

Probably there hasn't been the right kind of study yet.

And if there is not, there should be.

I mean, certainly any hormonal imbalance is not a good thing.

I mean, you imbalance the metabolism of the system and you can... I mean, so for instance, back to my specific disease with MIF, there's all kinds of things like N-acetylcysteine.

Betaine, all these other drugs that are out there for longevity.