Cancer exploded because we bathed the entire population in petrochemical exhaust.
Diesel engines, jet fuel, gasoline, benzene — all Group 1 carcinogens — became ubiquitous in the 20th century. Every highway, every airport, every port, every city bus, every idling truck. Nobody escapes it. You breathe it at school, at work, in traffic, in your neighborhood.
The timeline matches perfectly. As fossil fuel combustion scaled up through the mid-20th century, cancer rates followed. Not because people suddenly started eating badly or living longer — but because the air itself became carcinogenic.
It's not a mystery. It's not complicated. The most well-documented carcinogens on earth were pumped into the air everyone breathes, every day, for 80 years.
And it gets almost no attention — while billions are spent telling people to wear sunscreen and eat more vegetables.
As u/TaQo wrote, it's been explained as a deficiency of the body's ability to manage its electrical energy, due to deficiency of raw materials. Cancer is the body's way of salvaging functional cells that would otherwise lose function due to lack of energy, as it takes an underpowered cell and splits it in two: one cell keeps optimal power while the other cell becomes a non-functioning dumping ground. The cancer cell provides no benefit by itself, except that it allows the remaining cell to continue its function by concentrating the needed resources.
If the underlying resource issue isn't fixed, more and more cells will split in this way. Cancer doesn't reproduce by itself, but instead is created by semi-healthy cells in an effort to save themselves. Cancer spreads because the underlying conditions affect more and more parts of the body the longer they go unsolved. The long-term solution is to revitalize the blood, not with electricity, but with electrolytes that allow cells to manage their own electrical needs.
You can track cancer incidence in the population to many things including air pollution, and because all toxic burdens tax the body they'll eventually all cause cancer, but one of the best correlations is to the medical advice to reduce salt intake. All salts are electrolytes, and your body needs them.
I don't know a single source that outlines this well, but The Body Electric cited by TaQo is a good place to start.
Well said, thanks for the added information fren.
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