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There are a ton of systems built into living organisms that handle regulation and repair. These systems make us incredibly robust to many different types of insult. We don't build our systems like that, unfortunately humans are incredibly stupid and short sighted so we need to work harder to build robust systems. That's on top of the fact that nature has had such an incredibly long time to build these regulatory and repair systems


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When I say that we are fragile I mean that we physically are.

One Mike Tyson's punch in my face and there's a good chance I'll suffer grave damages or worse.

An hippopotamus would probably not even feel it.




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