Back to episode — Episode 2701 CWSA 12/26/24
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alone. So if you're looking for just that thing, it'll spot all your cancers. 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 c…
← Previous segment →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 physical process, which is you're attaching something to cancer cells that probably works in animals and people because they did it with animals and we attach it to cancer cells with people for imaging, so that part works. The only thing we really need to know is if they shoot this near-infrared light into a human, will it go deeply enough? And they seem to be thinking it would. And would it cause any problems that we're not aware of? But it apparently is very isolated to just the cancer cells.
And here's the more exciting part. You're probably aware that cancer is one word that describes a whole bunch of things. So if you came up with a cure for one kind of cancer, probably it wouldn't work with any other kind of cancer. But if this little chemical is used for imaging of any kind of cancer, and I'm guessing it is, then this process would cure any kind of cancer. Now apparently it doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's really close and it cured like half of the rats of cancer entirely. So you know I always tell you all these maybe there's a cancer cure and there's a new chemical and there's a new pill and there's a new whatever. But this is the first one where I look at it and I go, I would bet on this. I would actually place a bet that once they go through the human testing, that this one works if it worked on animals, which it did. So maybe good news.
Meanwhile, science warns us that Tylenol may induce risky behavior. If you take Tylenol, it might turn you into a criminal or make you overeat or take drugs or punch your spouse. Now I don't know if I believe this. Remember, studies of this nature might be wrong. I don't know, half the time. So have you ever noticed it? I feel like it's something I would notice because I've taken Tylenol enough that if something happened that was out of my ordinary baseline, I feel like I would have noticed. But I've never noticed. So apparently it makes you less afraid of consequences. So I feel like that would be useful. I can think of lots of situations where you might be worrying a little bit about consequences of something. It's like I might get embarrassed if I go to the party or you know what happens if I slip and fall. But
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maybe you could take a Tylenol and it would make you stop worrying. Now that's not medical advice. Assume that anything that comes out of my mouth about medical advice is a bad idea for you to copy. But if it really does induce risky behavior, which is very close to not being afraid of things that you shouldn't be afraid of, I wonder if you could game that to find some use from the fact that it h…
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