Back to episode — Episode 2701 CWSA 12/26/24
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ou know, Christmas Day I kind of relaxed a little bit, which is uncharacteristic. And if I relax, I do two hours of sleep and I'm like, I think it's time to get up. But it wasn't. Well, here's the good news. If you believe science and you think the news is telling you what's true, according to ScienceAlert, some scientists have figured out how to destroy 99% of cancer cells using vibrating molecu…
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But turns out that if they put that very same thing, which they're already putting into people for imaging, and they hit it with near-infrared light, which apparently can penetrate your body to some degree and then can get all the way into your bone, and if they heat it up a little bit and it's already attached to the cancer cell, it destroys the cancer cell. Now, it already worked in animals, so they don't have to wonder if it worked, and they don't have to wonder if that chemical is dangerous because it's a chemical that they already put in people for imaging. So that doesn'
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t mean it's going to work in humans, but if you factor in that it works in animals and it should be exactly the same mechanism 'cause it is, it's not like a drug where if you give somebody a chemo drug or something, a human would interact with a drug differently than an animal. So you can never know if your animal studies are going to translate. Usually they don't. But if what you're doing is a p…
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