How Nature Has Already Beat Cancer | Carlo Maley | TEDxASU

Did you know that elephants get much less cancer than humans, despite being 100-times larger? Often times, solutions to the toughest questions in medicine can be found in nature. Dr. Carlo Maley, an evolutionary and cancer biologist, discusses how nature has already beaten cancer, and the possibility of using those methods in humans.

Dr. Carlo Maley applies tools from evolutionary biology and ecology to tumors in order to understand and prevent the evolution of malignancy and therapeutic resistance.

While interested in all cancers, Dr. Maley currently works on Barrett’s esophagus, acute myeloid leukemia, lung cancer, and breast cancer. In this work, his team uses measures of the rate of evolution in the tumors to predict which patients will develop malignancy and succumb to their disease. He is also working on novel approaches to prevent the evolution of resistance and transform cancer from an acute disease to a chronic, non-lethal disease. His team is working on comparative oncology to discover how large long-lived organisms like whales and elephants are able to prevent cancer much more effectively than humans.

[elisegoose]

b.s.! My grandmother took aspirin for years and developed lung cancer. Animals in nature don't get cancer because they live according to their true nature.... they don't cook their food, eat fake food, don't worry about money or relationships or care what they look like! They don't feel sorry for themselves or hate others. They move their bodies and get fresh air and sunlight daily! They don't do sedentary work for 8 hours a day, and they definitely don't worry about finding a cure for disease!! They do what they want, when they want according to the ebb and flow of nature - they are authentic!

[robecampa]

Elephants don't eat sugar, definitely, no refined foods, move all day long and probably have periods of fasting all year around!

[iwnunn]

The only other animal that seems to get the most cancer is dogs, maybe cats. We on occasion feed them what we eat. Correlation?

[matsfreedom]

Doctors use therapies that big pharma researches, produces, teaches, and pays them to use on their patients. It's all about money, first and foremost. Good doctors are as trapped in this system as their helpless patients. But there are doctors, however few and far between, that know how to kill many cancers. The body does the real work, with the proper dietary intake and suplimentation. Western medicine has its place, but it is behind the curve. Fasting kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. Ketones kill cancer cells, while sugar feeds them. A strong immune system fights cancer, while chemotherapy destroys the immune system. A diet high in veggies and lacking in processed food helps one avoid cancerous cellular growth. Thanks to the Internet for providing a venue for so much valuable informatiin.

[outdoormatt]

Just completely forget to mention that all those animals eat natural diets.

[SamFreedom]

ELEPHANTS don't illegally dump chromium-6 on their neighbors.

[jsmyth]

This comment section is really encouraging. You guys rock. I'm so proud of humanity. We're really waking up. No more lies.
LOVE YOU!!! ;*

[Jack-hyzq]

The keto diet has drastically reduced my chronic inflammation. Aspirin has many adverse side effects, and in order to take aspirin regularly, you have to take proton pump inhibitors which in turn have serious side effects. A diet without sugar and minimal carbohydrates solves the inflammation problem with no adverse side effects.

[msmarauder]

I wish they'd put all this energy in natural foods and herbs@

[LR-jenn]

Whales and elephants just haven't been bombarded with Roundup yet.

[tigertoo]

It's amazing how these guys giving these presentations are acute in avoiding the elephant in the room. DIET!!

[richardf]

We've already found many ways of suppressing cancer. The food and drug industries would have to change dramatically to institute the changes.

[brianrichards]

I'm really grateful that there are scientists passionately working to pry open evolutionary secrets in order to reduce suffering. Personally, I am vegan in expectation that a well nourished body, mostly free of environmental toxins and processed "foods" will be able to withstand cancerous assaults on my system. Also, apparently populations who drink a lot of green tea are more resistant to cancer, so that might be an interesting avenue to explore.

[denise]

Stress is also a huge factor in cancer and impairs the body’s immune system and ability to fight problems.

[EGMAG]

Sometime cancer develops real quickly , other times over decades . The pace of the cancer growth and its strength, depends on the overall metabolic circumstance & health of each individual at the onset !

[benjaminkwingwalidman]

What Dr. Maley never dicusses is that Elephants, Rhinos, Giraffes all eat an abundance of green vegetables. Quite intresting to think about when you know some about some of the biological effects off these vegetables.

[michaelcope]

Cancer is higher in humans than in elephants because of our "extreme" environment. So that's all the: food, drinks, drugs, toxic exposure and other lifestyle factors that a human experiences; such extremities are seen less in elephants. If someone makes a big deal about it, I will reference all this, but I really can't be bothered right now.

[cliffsurtees]

I have been taking asprin in small amounts, every day, for twenty years, after I read an article in a science magazine. I am now 70 years old and in full health. I have cost the health service zero apart from a rock climbing accident a couple of years ago.

[johngiegler]

Apoptosis is also a common metabolic process in humans.

[E-Kat]

I must've missed the bit about aspirin but just to let you all know my husband had nearly died because he was taking half an aspirin every day, prescribed by his doctor! It has damaged the lining of his stomach and had caused him to be sick with blood. Sitting outside the resuscitation room for an hour was then the most awful thing in my life!
Do not take aspirin as a preventative measure!!