Peter Attia· MD
as you know cancer develops as we talked about earlier by acquisition of mutations now the cell starts healthy it gets the first mutation and then ultimately gets to be a cancer which has tens of thousands of mutations those happen uh over time right years generally um many of those mutations are present many of the 10 000 are actually present in all cells of the tumor even though they're not driving the cancer just because it's the history the the evolutionary memory of that cancer right that the cell that ultimately was able to continuously divide has already had these ten thousand mutations from the precursor process and so once it then gets the final mutation that lets it divide forever it keeps all those to other ten thousand mutations