> People who regularly took medication, such as beta-blockers, which impede parts of the nervous system, often had lower rates of cancer
This is not far away from backing up the link between long term stress and cancer.
This is not far away from backing up the link between long term stress and cancer.
Ames had become well aware that many micronutrient (vitamins and minerals) deficiencies are associated with chromosome breaks and cancer in humans, such deficiencies having caused DNA damage in rodents or human cells in culture. It had also been established that chromosomal breaks cause early aging. As a result Professor Ames proposed that DNA damage and late onset disease are consequences of a ‘triage allocation mechanism’ developed during evolution to cope with periods of micronutrient shortage.
Thus some forms are more related to lifestyle, while others more related to genetic inheritance.