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There is an emerging link between COVID-19 and long-term DNA damage. They noted this group was under-vaccinated so were possibly more likely to have contracted the virus, and also more than once.

But this story could be about more recent environmental pathogens like micro-plastics that trigger inflammation and auto-immune responses that progress into disease and/or cancer. Cancer rates in that generation is markedly higher than for previous generations at that age, and not just a case of better detection but hospital admissions and death.

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id also guess that the average millennial and gen z have had a sedentary lifestyle for longer than the other age cohorts

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Personally, I find they are more health-conscious and likely to do some sort of exercise.

They may not have had the free-roaming childhood of many Gen-Xers where you spent all day out riding bikes and playing ball games in the street, but they seem more aware of the risk of sitting at an office job through the day, and then sitting in front of the TV in the evening.