[grumpy-de-sre]

Colon cancer is an interesting one, Hank Green [1] recently covered a new paper [2] that showed a massive reduction in colon cancer risk for folks that engaged in moderate, regular, exercise. The authors speculated that mechanical stress leading to increased shedding might play an important role.

Weirdly enough that's the same mechanism hypothesized to play a partial role in why breast feeding is also associated with a reduced cancer risk.

Fascinating, weird, stuff.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXSX93mvg8

2. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760

[lm28469]

imho if you don't exercise regularly and don't eat clean you're asking for troubles and simply can't complain about your health. The vast majority of people seem not to care until they get a serious diagnostic, by that time you can barely mitigate the issue. It certainly isn't a silver bullet, but at least it stacks the odds in your favor.

[Sammi]

But that's haaard. Can't I just do the easy solution instead? Don't you have a pill I can take or something?

Aldous Huxley was correct, we truely are amusing ourselves to death. The new meta glasses are really scaring me.

Sorry for the doomerism. There's lots of other stuff to be optimistic about. Maybe this is just an evolutionary filter. Those that fit into these new circumstances will survive.

[lm28469]

We managed to convince my almost 70 years old father in law, he dropped 30+ kilos in two years. He could barely walk without getting out of breath, now he walks 20-30k steps a day, every day. We got rid of his cardiologist who kept telling him to take pills because his symptoms were just due to old age... Now he needs half the pills, and the ones he still has to take are much lower doses.

No idea if it'll have an impact on his lifespan but it definitely bought him years of health and changed his day to day life

[braebo]

Executive dysfunction is one son of a b**

[grumpy-de-sre]

I mean as long as you don't put systematic barriers in the way of doing the right thing, eg. missing sidewalks and food deserts.

[philipallstar]

A food desert is defined as food still probably closer to you than a lot of people had in Huxley's day.

[amanaplanacanal]

The rate of poverty and starvation globally was massively higher in Huxley's day.

[philipallstar]

Globally yes, but not US-style food deserts.

[uwagar]

well india has such low cancers and people there dont exercise much.

[missedthecue]

There are a lot of weird health statistic anomalies around the world. For example, the 11% of US adults are smokers compared to 17% in Japan and 25% in Spain. But both Japan and Spain have a lower lung-cancer incidence rate than Americans (Spain is much lower than both!)

[nradov]

Is the rate of cancer actually low or are a lot of cases never formally diagnosed? People in India might not "exercise" much in terms of going to the gym or running but they might still be physically active in other ways.

[uwagar]

word of mouth spreads really fast in india. if people are dying horrible deaths of a disease, and cancer sufferers seem to die horribly, it would be known. things like tuberculosis and leprosy became well known. AIDS too. but cancer seems like a disease of the first world.