It is said that very few people have an original thought, which explains why it is so easy to emulate human thought with the mimicry of chatbots. They are spewing back words and phrases they abstract from ingesting far more words of text than any human, a process that resembles teaching for standardized testing.
I have an original thought: crappers cause cancer. This is subtle and complex, but thirty years later all the additional evidence suppports the logical chain of this theory and no one else has published it, so chatbots can't conceive it - or any Wikipedia authors for that matter, since it contradicts assmuptions of the entire medico-industrial cpomplex.
All plants selectively extract mineral elements from soil, and every species has an unique signature of affinities. This selectivity is one of the major energy and informatic requirements of plant life. Nature does not waste, so this is a very good indication of internal workings.
I was developing and testing closed loop aeroponic greenhouse systems which recycle fertilizer, and discovered that plants mainly needed Nitrate. Everything else seemed to come from an initial dose of hydroponic fertilizer and tap water, which was also added to replace evaporation. Boulder tap was very low in mineral content and the known plant nutrients were negligable so I discounted it at the time, and occasionally would add a little Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium salts as dozens of species flowered, fruited and grew three to ten times faster than in soil.
My next project was market research for a proprietary industrial biomimicry process that could separate Uranides and Lanthanides to E-6 or better in a single pass. An Internet search for Rare Earth Element applications pulled up an Agricultural Research Service database compiled by Dr. James A. Duke which allowed searching for plant species by the mineral content.
Running through the lists for the highest concentration of Lanthanides, a pattern immediately jumped out - ALL of the known anti-cancer plant species were near the top of the list for one or more Lanthanides. This could not be random, and yet no biological function for these elements was known, and their presence or absence was not believed to affect crop health nor yield.
I leapt to an intuitive answer based on my experience feeding plants more intimately than any other human in history: these plants use Rare Earth Elements as co-factors in reactions to synthesize anti-cancer compounds as their role in a mammalian support eco-system.
However, growing crops for cash (or tithes) means that the elements are not returned to the soil, and urbanization which depends on food imports and sewage exports would cause the surrounding soil to deplete of these elements and then cancer would rise. Sure enough, the epidemiology of cancer followed the installation of flush toilets by some decades. The longest lasting civilizations have been in river/groundwater basins fed by large scale weathering of rocks in the headwaters, so that trace mineral are restored annually.
Of late, rivers have been diverted to prevent flooding and expand irrigation. This breaks the link of anadromous fish who grow in the ocean with a full ration of mineral elements, and then swim upstream to spawn replenishing the mineral balance of soils upstream with their sea salted bodies. This explains not only the rise in cancer, susceptability to viruses and bacteria, it also explains the drastic drop in nutrient density of vitamins, bio-flavenoids, anti-oxidants and immuno-support complexes in the modern food chain. Current produce in US market shelves is typically lacking 75% to 100% of these nutrients relative to when we first measured them, which in turn was quite a ways down the time line of urbanization, crop sales, and municipal sewage systems which flush the vitality of our soils and essential human health ingredients to the sea.