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Genetic mutations may explain the mechanism of how cancers keep growing, but they do not explain the fundamental question of why these genes mutated. The SMT fails because it is entirely inward-looking, toward our genes, instead of outward-looking, toward the environment. But so many different environmental attributes obviously affect cancer risk. The seed is important, but the soil matters more.
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Jason Fung (The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery (The Wellness Code Book 3))