Bryan Johnson· Author
think about cancer maybe as an analogy there was Ice Age cancer we know this all mammals can get it it's neither uniquely human nor uniquely modern but the modern way of life greatly increases the kind severity and frequency of many cancers what this means is that there is some rationale to saying that cancer is a modern disease but what we really mean by this statement is relative to the normalized rates of cancer expected from Simply living a subsistance natural life is a biological creature on this planet the high rates of cancer today are a modern disease which is to say cancer is not a modern disease but the rates of it are