I noticed on youtube an excellent podcast called Target Cancer , hosted by Sanjay Juneja, about all the latest technologies and treatments for cancer, and decided to review two of its episodes which I find particularly important and informative, the one in which a guest was Jason Fung: The Surprising Link Between Intermittent Fasting, Diabetes, and Cancer. Dr. Fung Explains - Part 2 , and the one in which a guest was Michael Levin: Fixing cancer cells and Immortality . To me, there is no doubt about which of the two questions mentioned in the title of this essay is more important, it is cancer, however, the connection between them increases the importance of the other too. To an untrained eye in this issues, to which the existence of this web site may also come as a surprise: https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/ , let me sketch that connection. In his exposé, Dr. Fung uses this table to compare traits of three categories of living agents: The last row raises the question, i