El ejército de Costa Rica | Marianne Hütt | TEDxPuraVida

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in costa rica we have almost 70 years of

not have an army

however, we have been fighting a war

in which more than 300 thousand have died

Costa Ricans that war the war

against cancer cancer is a

terrible disease that can take

our strong with him life

many of us today here we have been

touched by cancer

some in a more personal way than

others

some have been patient others we have

had a close relative affected by

the hotel time the cancer simply

touched someone we love very much but

what I can tell you from me

experience is that there is no feeling

more frustrating than the impotence that

do not feel at such a diagnosis so much

so I’m almost 10 years old now

I dedicated my life to studying cancer

how is how to treat and today I come

here to tell you a little bit what

that you have already learned because I feel in the

bottom of my heart that the way in the

that we fight against him

whatever our position may be

change positively

if we only understood better

enemy that we are facing

but what good does cancer do

cancer is uncontrolled growth

of cells the cells can reach

form is what is called a tumor

tumors can arise in any

part of the body and can expand from

From one place to another

when this happens from the so-called goals between

more grows and more spreads

more puts our health in check because

cancer is conquering resources of

vital organs until finally ending

with them

Today I want you to imagine that the body is

the world k organs are country and every

cell is a person each country has

an army and that army grows from

normal way

On the one hand soldiers are recruited and another

side some die in battle and this

keep a balance but imagine that

that balance between chaos that

exercised he turns against his

own country and a war was unleashed 20

this phenomenon is the essence of cancer

there is a model developed by the

last name scientist or see what

there was the general characteristics

of cancer

today I am going to base on his model and

tell them my own version of him that

It consists of six characteristics each

these characteristics of those that

I’m going to win today they ‘re going to be transforming

healthy cells and making it malignant and

all healthy cells where

originate tumors have two types of

genes to one we call activators of

growth and other suppressants in

Cancer

these genes fail and these failures are

those that are transforming and acquiring

these characteristics

clear that these failures can arise

from different reasons

in some cases we can inherit in

General damaged or prone to failure

other failures can be caused by

external factors such as the

sun exposure

the smoked or as my partner says in

the bad eating

however the vast majority of them

they happen in a random way but good

so what is the most important thing is

know about these genes when they start to

fail these genes is begins to occur to

emerge the phenomenon of the army

opponent

then they begin to fail axis of

growth and the

recruitment of soldiers in such a way

that there is no limit how many soldiers

can recruit this army

In addition, each of these soldiers goes to

go through strategy training

military that will teach not

only to defend and attack but

also to camouflage and this is going to

allow him to survive better in the

field and also that the defenses go

natural body as if it were not enough

when enjoying these soldiers

they stop aging and they become

immortal and this allows them to

fight indefinitely and the more

big and stronger is doing this

army better your shield is made of

resistance to weapons more

traditional as a result of

recruitment of survival of the

immortality and this resistance the

soldiers number grows in such a way

drastic that begins to surpass the

population size

and with this military overpopulation

they unleash 12 in a very

important for this rest of the

characteristics

one of them is the lack of space and the

another one of the little availability of

resources therefore this army

is obliged to build days and

channels

in the same way that the

cancer when building access arteries and

veins supplied to other resources

which in this case are nutrients and how

cancer is smart

these days also work as a way

especially for transport with

ends of invasion

then the invading soldiers enter

for these days and channels and they spread

all over the body and little by little they go

creating settlements and that is what

we call it goals but well I think that

of all urbina important question is

how we fight such an army

of dynamic there are all kinds of weapons

for battles some that are

specific and others that resort to the use

of brute force

an example in those weapons is the

chemotherapy and chemotherapy in

come to the whole body with the intention

to aggressively reach all those

cells your soldiers and opponents

infiltrates in the body

and of course the most important of all this

it is so to cause but how and

when is a more important question

and for that as he says he is his we have

that studying the enemy and doing is

precisely what we do the

scientists

we have

tools to study the enemy in

the lab and through recreating to

small scale different scenarios

we can get valuable information

about its strong and weak flank

the final goal is to propose strategies

creative military either using weapons

that exist in the market or generating

new battle weapons and good clear

that there are advantages and disadvantages

it depends on how and how

we do and that’s why we always try

avoid the use of brute force weapons and

good mainly here that I came to

play an important role bioethics

because from our experiments

We can design strategies that have

as a top priority

the global welfare of the patient

that’s why the field of research and

the new generation of treatments

nowadays it focuses on developing

more specific weapons and good here what

that you can see is a picture of one of my

battlefields today what are

seeing are growth curves of my

enemy in this case ovarian cancer

in the gray line you can see the

normal growth and a cancer tumor

of ovary but when we use our

treatment can see that not only

the tumor stops growing but it

keeps localized the weapon that we are

here is the weapon that we are

developing today in the 100 pesos dish

after many years of training

abroad

I came here to work with a group

extraordinary scientists

to develop precisely this type

of strategies and good are going to

ask what it is that makes it special

to be here we are using first the

team that is developing it and

second

we are good

we discovered a molecule that acts very

similar to what a sniper is

this one is small is precise and it is

smart and can tackle several

flanks causing very little loss

collateral to be small note not

can be in all its channels and ways

that creates reach and so can marry

channel 160 metastatic

precise attacks only the genes that

they activate the growth of cancer and

this way we remove him from the city the

growth of tumors and is

smart because it is disarming the

cancer shields making it more

susceptible traditional weapons and good

until what I dedicate myself to him and I know

I’m not alone fighting in this

battle with me and other scientists

patient and family doctors and

we fight with science medicine value and

love and now I want to ask you

you are the one who said that costa rica does not

I had an army

Thank you

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