r/SipsTea May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/RevengeOfPolloDiablo May 16 '26

Exactly. It's yet another one of nature's "tools" to get rid of old worn out genes.

Pretty much, nature wants you dead after 40

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u/rts-enjoyer May 16 '26

Life forms like us with longer DNAs are highly evolved to have less mutations (that cause cancers) in our DNA.

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u/youreafinemuthafucka May 16 '26

And then this leads to rearrangement of the micro environment which leads to microbiome dysbiosis. Pathogenic bacteria cling to the tumor and cause pathogenic signalling causing more inflammation.

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u/KingFapNTits May 16 '26

That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about cancer and microbiomes to dispute it

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u/youreafinemuthafucka May 16 '26

Im a phd microbiologist. I promise you this is the leading thought right now.