Doctors Are Harnessing The Power Of Gold To Treat Cancer
Ancient Chinese alchemists and modern cutting-edge medical doctors have one thing in common: the belief that humanity has been using gold for the wrong purposes. Rather than using it for currency or making it into jewelry to flaunt wealth, we should be using it to heal ourselves and cure cancer. In the second century A.D., during the Han dynasty, a Chinese alchemist known as Wei Boyang wrote: “Gold is the most valuable thing in all the world because it is immortal and never gets rotten. Alchemists eat it, and they enjoy longevity.” Nearly two thousand years later, the most precious metal in the world is being used as part of a cutting-edge approach to prolong the lives of cancer patients. Smithsonian reports: Though they didn’t quite capture the details, Wei Boyang and other ancients who associated gold’s long-lasting luster with good health were surprisingly prescient. Gold’s immortality—the fact that it doesn’t interact with most compounds and thus doesn’t corrode—makes it essentially nontoxic to the body. This characteristic gives it huge potential value in medicine, for mundane procedures like dental fillings and, in the era of nanotechnology, for diagnosing and treating deadly diseases. “There are an enormous number of people using gold [...]
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