Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Cowsheds & cancer

An academic whose name I am afraid I did not catch said on last night’s Am I Normal? On Radio 4 that only 10% of our cells are human, the rest are bacterial.

Which made me wonder if tall people are likely to have more than their fair share of cells of bacterial origin, & therefore to be disproportionately at risk of cancer in all parts of their body?

On a more cheering note the same expert said that exposure to cowsheds in the first 2 ½ years of life reduces immunity problems dramatically, so I don’t have to put my faith in osteporosis.


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