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ostermayer on Nostr: your colon cancer risk (and probabaly other cancer risks) are a product of your ...

your colon cancer risk (and probabaly other cancer risks) are a product of your microbiome diversity https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/86/7_Supplement/3993/779640/Abstract-3993-Artificial-intelligence-integrated. sticking with my thesis that we create cancer not through our genetic risk but from the environmental impact on our genetics.

Colorectal cancer rates in adults under 50 have been rising about 3% per year

High-fructose corn syrup and pesticides disrupt the gut microbiome

When fructose (especially high high-fructose corn syrup intake) exceeds what the small intestine can absorb (roughly a daily soda’s worth), fructose spills into the colon

Glyphosate and related agricultural chemicals act like low-dose antibiotics on gut bacteria. They preferentially knock out protective species (Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium) while sparing pro-inflammatory ones, reducing production of butyrate and other short-chain fatty acids that normally protect the colon lining.

Human genetics haven’t changed in 30 years, but the microbiome of someone born in 1990 has been marinating in fructose and pesticide residue since infancy in a way someone born in 1950 never was. If the microbiome is the mediator between modern exposures and tumor biology (as this study suggests) it helps explain why a cancer that used to belong to grandparents is now showing up in their grandchildren.