Every disease that medicine has ever named shares one mechanism: the body sustains damage faster than it can repair itself. Biological systems exist in highly specific, low-probability configurations surrounded by an astronomically vast space of non-functional alternatives. Continuous energy-dependent repair is the only thing preventing drift into dysfunction. When damage rate exceeds repair capacity, the system drifts. Medicine has named this drift by location — cancer in the genome, Alzheimer's in proteins, diabetes in metabolism, atherosclerosis in blood vessels — creating the illusion that these are independent diseases with independent causes. They are not. The process is one. The names are many. This paper derives that inevitability from first principles and generates falsifiable predictions that distinguish the framework from conventional disease-specific models
James H. Oliver (Thu,) studied this question.