Chapter 441 Longevity
The four of them went out of the gate, boarded the carriage, and as the wheels turned, the vehicle slowly drove forward
Chai Chai looked out the window at the receding luxury mansion, and said with sincere emotion: "The world is impermanent."
"Um."
Li Leling nodded, "Treasurer Jin was born in a poor family. When he was a teenager, he carried rice on the wharf, set up a small stall on the street, started from scratch, and accumulated a huge fortune before he was appreciated by my Aye mother.
People often say that if he has a little bit of spiritual talent, with this will, perseverance, and blessing, he can become a great practitioner.
Unexpectedly, he would suddenly suffer from a terminal illness. "
After finishing speaking, she thought about it and hesitated: "By the way, is cancer really a matter of probability?"
"Um."
Li Ang nodded and said: "Cancer is essentially normal cells that mutate into bad cells. Bad cells divide uncontrollably and multiply continuously, affecting the functioning of organs and eventually leading to human decline.
Human cells are like the sands of the Ganges River, undergoing replication and division every day, and cell mutation will always occur.
Even if 99% of the bad cells are discovered and eliminated at the beginning, as long as a little bit of bad cells escape, it may develop into cancer.
It is similar to 'how can you not get your shoes wet when you often walk by the river'.
Assuming that a person does not work in dusty places such as mines, never stays up too late, drinks too much alcohol, eats too much pickled food, and is never exposed to the sun, he may still develop cancer throughout his life.
Some time ago, I visited patients of all ages in Chang’an City,
At the age of forty, the cumulative cancer risk is about 23%.
At the age of fifty-five, the cumulative cancer risk is about 6%.
At the age of seventy-four, the cumulative cancer risk is 21%.
By the age of eighty-five, the cumulative cancer risk was 36%.
In other words, if there is no other cause of death, then the average person has a one-third probability of suffering from cancer throughout his life. "
The probability of one-third is not optimistic anyway.
Li Leling asked: "Is there a way to cure it?"
"What is a radical cure?"
Li Ang asked rhetorically: "Humans continue to produce cancer cells every day, but these cancer cells are eliminated by the body itself.
In addition, even the most regular-shaped tumors can be removed by thread surgery.
There is no guarantee that no cancer cells will escape and become latent. Wait for a comeback in three, five, or ten years.
There is never a cure.
A more rigorous statement is to reduce the possibility of recurrence.
The sooner it is discovered, the sooner it is removed and the sooner it is cured. "
Speaking of the word cure, Li Ang paused.
Cancer cure methods include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, etc. Usually used in combination.
But at this stage, the only reliable drug he can think of is paclitaxel.
Paclitaxel is a natural anti-cancer drug isolated and purified from the bark of yew tree, which has a relatively serious allergic reaction to the human body.
Paclitaxel albumin nanoparticles with relatively mild allergic reactions and better effects can be prepared—firstly dissolve the paclitaxel raw material in an organic solution to obtain an oil phase;
Weigh bovine serum albumin and dissolve it in water, stir and heat to obtain an aqueous solution of albumin, adjust the pH value, add an organic solution to obtain an aqueous phase.
The whole process is cumbersome and complicated, and the precision requirements of the instrument far exceed all the medicines that Li Ang has prepared before. He does not have much confidence in whether it will be successful,
Even if it succeeds, the cure of cancer is still a matter of probability
Li Ang couldn't help recalling the words from Jun Qianzi that Ya Jiu relayed a long time ago.
If you let go of the use of alienated items, many problems in the world will no longer be problems.
The alienated objects collected by the Academy over hundreds of years are stored in the Dongjun Building. If Li Ang has enough authority to consult every kind of heterogeneous information and study the use of every kind of heterogeneity,
He can use the knowledge of other worlds in his mind to do many things.
For example, the information network throughout Yu State, the modern agriculture that can feed everyone in the world, and the cargo ship with a load capacity of 100,000 tons
Even in his lifetime, he will realize his desire to make every citizen of Yu State well-fed and clothed, the society fair and just, and the people live and work in peace and contentment
"Treasurer Jin is so rich, but he still cannot avoid birth, old age, sickness and death. Even great practitioners, very few people can live past the age of one hundred and twenty. Life is short, enjoy yourself in time. You should eat and drink, and don't forget to worry about things. "
Chai Chai said seriously: "Anyway, we're all out, why don't we go to the Red House for dinner?"
"This is your perception today?"
Li Ang rolled his eyes, and Chai Chai's head became bright as soon as he talked about eating - Li Leling was also in the car, if he went to the red building, he could go directly to the private room without queuing.
How good it is to use this shrewdness on study or practice.
Having said that, Li Ang stuck his head out of the car window, greeted the coachman, and let the carriage drive towards the red building in the east of the city.
"Great!"
Chai Chai clapped his palms happily, took out a roll of sliced hawthorn candy wrapped in oiled paper from his arms, picked up two slices and threw it into his mouth—hawthorn can help digestion and avoid eating too much later.
She was humming while eating candy, in a happy mood, her feet dangling back and forth, dispelling the dull depression in the carriage,
Li Ang, Li Leling, and Ouyang Shi looked at Chai Chai, with unconscious smiles on their faces.
Life is short, enjoy yourself in time. That's a good point.
Li Ang leaned against the window sill, resting his chin on his palm, looking out at the street scene through the occasional curtains. He smiled self-deprecatingly in his heart.
Sometimes I really hope that there are not so many memories in my mind.
It is precisely because of these materials that Li Ang feels that with greater ability comes greater responsibility, and that behind his "time travel" and "awakening", there is an inescapable sense of mission. Although he is only in his teens, his mentality is more like that of a few decades old.
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Li Ang suddenly thought of something, frowned imperceptibly, and Chai Chai's words echoed in his ears.
Even great practitioners, very few people can live past one hundred and twenty years old
Great Practitioner, Lifespan
Li Ang withdrew his arm pressed against the window sill, thinking quickly.
Thinking about it, it's really weird. A high-level monk like Senior Sister Sui Yi who can travel thousands of miles in one day and smash a castle with a single sword,
And monks like Jianquan, Lu Qingya, Xuegong Siye, and Cardinal Taihaoshan can directly change the celestial phenomena and terrain,
Even a medium-sized city can be destroyed if given enough time.
A great practitioner like this is essentially two kinds of creatures from ordinary people.
Above it, there are even existences at the level of Xuegong Shanzhang and Taihaoshan Cardinal.
Great practitioners concentrate thousands of great powers in one body, but throughout the ages and in the long history, no one can break through the limit of life span and break through the five declines of heaven and man.
The so-called longevity pills, elixir, tortoise's breath technique, and even the devouring qi and blood of the magic cultivator can't make people live forever, not even people who have lived beyond the age of one hundred and forty.
I have to say, it's really weird.
(end of this chapter)