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“Like the house committee investigationâ€�
like the preceding 45-led years
since the escalator descent
into the madness of the infant king,
like the faulty re-emergence
in fits and starts from
the miasma of disease and its wake,
the level of stress
the prevalence of anxiety
moment to moment, day to day
was immense and incessant�
seemingly unbearable—so great
I thought so many times I could not
continue to withstand it
sustain it and yet
and yet it had to be done.

One insane venture
accomplished.
Lessons learned, both
exquisitely beautiful and exquisitely
painful.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer we stand to the epidemic threshold for any new virus that probes us as a possible route to greater evolutionary success.”
― David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

“We are, perhaps, too much in the habit of thinking of death as the culmination of disease, which, regarded only in itself, is an evil, and a terrible evil. But I think rather of death as the first pulse of the new strength, shaking itself free from the old mouldy remnants of earth-garments, that it may begin in freedom the new life that grows out of the old. The caterpillar dies into the butterfly. Who knows but disease may be the coming, the keener life, breaking into this, and beginning to destroy like fire the inferior modes or garments of the present? And then disease would be but the sign of the salvation of fire; of the agony of the greater life to lift us to itself, out of that wherein we are failing and sinning. And so we praise the consuming fire of life.”
― George MacDonald, David Elginbrod, Volume 3

“Of course the disease was not your fault, " Mr. Hornbeam said more softly. "But we choose how we respond to life's misfortunes.”
― Julie Klassen, The Sisters of Sea View

“Cancer is Everywhere
I see cancer everywhere
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I see people carefully examining
Food labels and ingredients,
But cancer is everywhere�
There are those jogging and those running,
There are those spending hours at the gyms�
And those increasing the amounts of veggies and fruits in their diets,
But cancer is everywhere, everywhere�
There are those totally cutting sugars and fats
Those taking multivitamins and other supplements,
But cancer is everywhere…everywhere!
Many no longer have time to smile or greet others
For they are occupied with eating more parsley and tomatoes
Or perhaps increasing their intake of
Blueberries, blackberries, or broccoli,
But cancer is everywhere�
You see them replace their water bottles and cookware
With others made from non-cancerous materials,
But cancer is everywhere�
Cancer cases are almost higher than
Refugees and alienation
Higher than human cowardice, compromise, and conspiracies�
Cancer cases are about to reach the levels
Of human fear of confronting the ugliness of what’s happening in the world�
I see everyone pretending
That what’s going on is none of their business
Just to stay afloat
To avoid getting cancer,
But cancer is everywhere
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[Original poem published in Arabic on October 30, 2022 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“Disease itself is both a culmination of what came before and a pointer to how things might unfold in the future. Our emotional dynamics, including our relationship to ourselves can be among the powerful determinants of that future.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“Long COVID is believed to be related to Mitochondrial Disease.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“In the past few years he had become conscious of the burden of his own body. He recognized the symptoms. He had read about them in textbooks, he had seen them confirmed in real life, in older patients with no history of serious ailments who suddenly began to describe perfect syndromes that seemed to come straight from medical texts and yet turned out to be imaginary. His professor of children’s clinical medicine at La Salpêtrière had recommended pediatrics as the most honest specialization, because children become sick only when in fact they are sick, and they cannot communicate with the physician using conventional words but only with concrete symptoms of real diseases.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The truth on a based of lie is a deadly disease of society.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It is impossible to have both the disease and life. The people who laugh at your dreams and want to stop you from achieving your goals are diseases. You either cut them off from your life or you will have no life. There is no joy in being surrounded by contaminated souls in hell. People make choices but this planet does not offer you more than two - life and death. Personally, I'd rather have a whole empty beach on a beautiful Greek island for myself than all the friends who laughed at my dreams with me.”
― Dan Desmarques

“This gentle man had recently changed his job but he was still holding a grudge against his old company. This grudge was coming out in the form of skin infection.

Diseases always start at a mental level first wheter it is thyroid, cancer or diabetes. We only get to know when it starts harming the physical body. When you deprive your emotional body of soul food these problems will appear in your body. The next time you have any of the negative feelings, ask yourself the question as to how you can correct it. Your brain can bring heaven to earth if you ask yourself questions such as:

1. Why do I have anger towards anyone?
2. Why am I not happy?
3. What is bothering me?
4. How can I live a happier life?
5. Can I solve the core issue of my heart?

You will get answers when you seek them.”
― Deepanshu Giri, Rituals of Happy Soul: A Self-Help Guide to Unlock Your Inner Power and Transform Your Life.

“Half man, half Randle McMurphy!”
― Steven Magee

“I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping from person to person or cow to cow or rabbit to rabbit. But leukaemia just sets up a malfunction in you that you can't survive. Nothing grows or thrives except tiny cell-size tumours inside your bones. No one knows what causes it. It's a genetic mutation that occurs when you're making jam or putting your kids in the bath. The advice is: don't smoke and eat more vegetables. That's the best they can offer, even now in 2020, never mind 1972. My mother did not smoke and was in the greengrocer's almost daily. What a pointless thing it is. And people say they don't understand why there are wasps.”
― Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

“Fiction and Non-fiction books about historical epidemics, medical mysteries, and all things disease.

These Books Will Kill You”
― erin allmann updyke, erin welsh

“Cancer if often referred to as a -disease of modernity-, suggesting that recent lifestyle and environmental factors are mostly responsible for this disease burden. However, comparative data on cancer prevalence suggests that the disease is evolutionarily ancient and has been a health issue for almost all multicellular animals.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Human societies can reshape many environmental components at rapid rates, including (but not limited to) migration into new ecologies/landscapes with novel pathogens and UV exposure, introduction to novel foods, inhaling carcinogens through smoking, pollution from industrialisation, increase in energetic consumption and demographic transitions that impact fertility rates.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Cancer is a threat to almost all multicellular species across the tree of life, and neoplastic formation has been a persistent selective pressure since the dawn of multicellularity.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“The term -stress- is almost always used to refer to a negative stimulus but increases in cortisol also occur during positive and beneficial experiences, such as mating and exercise. Cortisol serves other functions across the soma, including in energy metabolism. Therefore, accurately interpreting changes in cortisol levels requiere knowledge of context, perception and activity levels.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Once you have a body filled with nutritional deficiencies, you may be on a ticking time bomb to disease.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“The single thing most people can do to most improve their health is to cut the fat content of their diets.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally needed resourse and could not be wasted. Today this take-it-easy adaptation may lead us to watch tennis on television when we would be better off playing it. This can only aggravate the effects of excess nutrition. The average office worker would be much more healthy if he or she spent the day digging clams or harvesting fruit in scattered tall trees.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Except for professional athletes, dancers, cowboys, and a few other groups, most people in modern industrial societies have abnormally low energy expenditures. Workers sitting in swivel chairs or in driver's seats of cars or even pushing vacuum cleaners or electrically powered lawn mowers are being sedentary, and their leisure hours may be even more so.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar, and salt were in short supply through nearly all of our evolutionary history. Almost everyone, most of the time, would have been better off with more of these substances, and it was consistenly adaptive to want more and try to get it. Today most of us can afford to eat more fat, sugar, and salt than is biologically adaptive, more than would ever have been available to our ancestors of a few thousands years ago.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to prevent additional losses. Maladaptive extremes of anxiety, sadness, and other emotions make more sense when we understand their evolutionary origins and normal, adaptive functions.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by predators, threats of exclusion from the group, and opportunities for mating were frequent and important enough to have shaped special patterns of preparedness, such as panic, social fear, and sexual arousal. Situations that are best avoided shape aversive emotions, while situations that involve opportunity shape positive emotions.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Just as there are several components of the immune system, each of which protects us against particular kinds of invasions, there are subtypes of emotion that protect us against a variety of particular kinds of threats.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get you very far. A person with severe depression typically loses interest in everything -work, friends, food, even sex. It is as if the capacities for pleasure and initiative have been turned off. Some people cry spontaneously, but others are beyond tears. Some wake every morning at 4 A.M. and can't get back to sleep; others sleep for twelve or fourteen hours per day. Some have delusions that they are impoverished, stupid, ugly, or dying of cancer. Almost all have low self-esteem. It seems preposterous even to consider that there should be anything adaptive associated with such symptoms. And yet depression is so frequent, and so closely related to ordinary sadness, that we must begin by asking if depression arises from a basic abnormality or if it is a dysregulation of a normal capacity.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine