Week Seven

• How sophisticated is our understanding of cancer?

In my opinion, our understanding of cancer is shallow and though many research is done and our understanding is improving, I think the fact that it is generally acknowledged as a disease that is extremely hard to conquer, makes our understanding of cancer more hard, because we are thinking it as such a phenomenon that is strange and hard to understand in the back of our heads.

• How does a TCM approach to cancer differ?

The way TCM approaches cancer differs greatly. TCM sees cancer as a way the patient maintains to be alive. The cancer was formed inevitably according to the patients' life styles as the great effort to live under the circumstances.

• Are our genes still being shaped by natural selection?

Yes. I saw on TV that certain tribes have eye vision that tops the ordinary human because they needed to for survival since they were relying their diet on hunted animals and needed the exceptionally good eye sight.