Peter Attia· MD
and the resistance costs something um you know to be able to deal with a toxic uh pesticide or toxic drug you know you have to have the molecular machinery necessary to deal with it you have to be able to repair your mecha your your dna if it's if it's damaged you have to be able to pump it out which is what a lot of them do i mean there's a number of different mechanisms but all those mechanisms have a cost it doesn't necessarily have to be a big cost but uh but but and and in the cost-benefit ratio when you've got a lot of this drug around those guys are clearly that you know the the benefit greatly outweighs the cost but when there's no drug present the the then the cost does not uh it does not outweigh the ben i'm sorry the benefit does not away the cost and so now the guys that are not resistant don't have to carry that machinery around with them are more fit