obesity is the cancer but insulinli also activates all of these networks that i talked about before thatnging the way these are ones scientists use the word downstream insulin activates them in the same way that a mutation would. it causes them to keep taking the nutrients. it's a natural hormone. we all need it. we have insulin resistance, this condition where it's elevated all the time then you will have 24 hours a day far more signaling than you ever wanted and it could be activating these cancer pathways. once the mutation arises, you can think of it as a pathway that responds to insulin. once it arises it's even more sensitive to insulin and microscopic cancers that might appear all the time just being wiped out, the immune system keeps them alive. 1 of the things in my book is to suggest cancer used to be a fairly rare disease and maybe that's because insulin resistance was fairly nonexistent and you see cancer and diabetes and obesity in the late century so it's clear that cancer is tied up in these metabolic diseases ofs obesity and diabetes. i don't think that's controversial. i