Six cancers rising faster in younger adults than older ones

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Six cancers rising faster in younger adults than older ones - Feddit UK

Lemmy

  • colorectal
  • cervical
  • pancreatic
  • prostate
  • kidney
  • myeloma
I often wonder if Ultra-processed modern foods, and all these questionable ingredients are responsible for most of the increases in these cancers?
Anything that damages the gut microbiome. Ultra-processed foods are one of many things. Antibiotics may be the biggest factor.
While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it's gone you can't get it back. (Apr 2019)

The solutions require political action worldwide, but this issue is largely being ignored. Martin Blaser's "Missing Microbes" is a fantastic, extremely important, layperson-friendly introduction to this issue. Humans are holobionts, and we are extincting the human race via antimicrobial abuse...

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