The theory behind the ultra marathoners is that extreme distance running disrupts the epithelial layer and microbiome in the gut. Wouldn't drinking have similar effects?
That's news to millenials and the graveyard of craft breweries. I thought alcohol consumption is trending off for younger generations.
We're also talking about alcohol consumption. Only half of Gen Z can drink and none of Alpha.
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+millenials+heavy+drinker...
> For example, baby boomers are the generation with the most dramatic increase in harmful alcohol abuse. In contrast, Gen Z prefers the sober lifestyle as they are known to consume alcohol much less than any of their older counterparts, including millennials.
though I'm not sure they drank any more than the 2-3 generations that proceeded them.
Not younger than GenX/Baby Boomer? How?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/colorectal-cancer-keeps-risin...
> But that progress belongs almost entirely to people 50 and over. For people under 50, both incidence and mortality have been climbing. CRC is now the #1 cancer killer in men under 50.
You need to go to the 2nd screen "Split by age group"
I think a major factor is the increase in microplastics in our diets.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18777...
Also, hope that bidets may help with it in some way? Bidets supposedly reduce hemorrhoids.
That being said, I wish this was a normal page that scrolled. The click click click just breaks the web.
There is a noninvasive testing method called Shield but it is way too flawed to be reliable (with poor positive rates for malignant tumors)
- They had symptoms and wanted a screening, but their PCP repeatedly denied them a referral for like a year because they were "too young".
- They lied about family history after symptoms got worse and got their referral.
- They got the colonoscopy which came back clean, and then symptoms continued to get worse.
- Finally their doctor gave them a referral for an MRI.
Results were stage 4 CRC. The doctor performing the colonoscopy missed the tumor, which was tucked into the sigmoid (the bend in your colon), where he didn't properly inflate because he wasn't taking it very seriously. It had a thumb-tip sized protrusion inside the colon but had gotten huge on the opposite side of the colon wall. They fought it for 8 years after the diagnosis and over 100 rounds of chemo (!!!), were about to get a new procedure at Yale, in which the doctor told them to think of it in terms of "this really may be a complete cure", but it was canceled because of the Big Beautiful Bill.
If you have symptoms (even if you don't), don't let some fuckass Nurse Practitioner tell you no. They don't know shit and they let their egos get in the way when they have to deal with moderately informed patients advocating for themselves. This was preventable and tge medicap system failed them because both the PCP and the doctor performing the colonoscopy were not paying attention to what they were being presented with and saw only their own expectations.
Also...apparently doctors wanted to lower the screening age to like 35, but insurance companies fought it, so it's at 45.
E.g. a 45-year-old with a latent colorectal cancer who would previously not have been diagnosed early, but only late when they developed symtpoms, by which time they hit 50, would have counted as an incidence or a likely fatality, among the 50+ data. But if that same individual had been caught at 45, they would have counted as an incidence against int he under-50 cohort.
Earlier, better and more available screening alone will shift the data this way.
The web is best for me when experimental UX like this is tried out.
Though having to push out a huge fart at the request of the nurse while they stare at you when you wake up is a close 2nd.
Humanity seems to be getting this particular snake in its grip.
proee•1h ago
parl_match•1h ago
tekno45•1h ago
elric•1h ago
The marathon runners I know also seem to eat tons of junk food, they can get away with it from a weight perspective because a long run will burn it off, but it could have other consequences.
Point being: there's a lot about long distance runners that's quite different from other people.
reducesuffering•1h ago
inglor_cz•37m ago
We're not really optimized for this sort of extreme endurance and long-term development of serious pathologies is unsuprising.
greygoo222•13m ago
inglor_cz•7m ago
This pattern is quite old. Already ancient Egyptians suffered from civilizational diseases much more than hunter-gatherers, especially the richer ones (heart attacks, gout, cancer).
ZeeSee•1h ago