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by tfwnopmt 24 days ago
Cancer is also inversely correlated with alzheimer's.

Phrased another way, egg consumption is correlated with cancer.

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Not necessarily. Looking before crossing the street is inversely correlated with getting hit by a truck. Getting trucked is inversely correlated with getting mauled by a lion (most places with wild lions are light on road traffic). Doesn't mean that looking both ways will increase your odds of becoming lion chow though.
I'm not sure what this strawman is going on about, but the cancer-alzheimer's inverse correlation is a well known phenomenon

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00442-1

alzheimers must be a byproduct of some process the body uses to fight cancer. thank you so much for sharing this article, it is the most interesting physiological discovery I've heard in a long time. next steps we need to identify whether this hypothetical anti cancer mechanism is selective or constantly active. the plaques were a dead end but not a dead end!!!