ostermayer on Nostr: in medicine it is always enlightening to find natural controls. the Amish population ...

in medicine it is always enlightening to find natural controls. the Amish population serve as a human control --- but from a genetic standpoint, chimps serve as a control as well.

chimps in captivity have an approximate 2% cancer incidence yet share 99% similar genetics as humans. either that 1% genetic difference accounts for all of the increased malignancies in humans or humans have done something to themselves that create all of the malignancies that plague our modern health.

many will say that we get cancers because we live longer but captive chimpanzees live twice as long (15+ years more) than wild chimps so their lack of cancer is eye opening.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1382208/