Page 48 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 24

Health & healing

THE TRUTH ABOUT
CANCER

Originally published by Mũkũyũ,
December 20, 2023.

he human body is billion cells are replaced the next generation of cells as
made up of trillions of every day as some last as little part of you is discarded. You

Tcells. Like every single as 3 days to about 120 days. are perpetually transforming
celled creature a cells life is In 80 to 100 days, 30 trillion slowly by slowly into a new
sometimes just a few days and will have replenished—the person.

is replaced by new cells. The equivalent of a new you. The information or blueprint
old are either turned into food that allows the cells to know
for the new ones The replacement mechanism, how to make copies of
for those who did themselves without making a
some biology mess of the encoded memory

in school, is of the cell is contained in a
through protein called Deoxyribose
cell Nucleic Acid or DNA. This

division, two strand spiral contains all
meaning the information needed for all
that the functions necessary to be
there undertaken within the cell. Any
damage in the DNA sequencing

results in an error in the
replication process.

The bad guys who run amock
and do all the damaging of
DNA are called Free Radicals
which are unstable molecules
that are by products of normal

or excreted as cell metabolism and toxins
waste. On average about 330 is a carryover of material to that are introduced through

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