Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Cancer in Younger Generations

11 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD, explains why 17 cancers are rising in younger people, linking the trend to chemical exposure. Lifetime cancer risk in the U.S. jumped from 1 in 100 in 1900 to 1 in 2 today. Of 80,000 manufactured chemicals, only 1,500 have been tested for safety.

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1900: 1 in 100; 1990: 1 in 3; now: 1 in 2

About 80,000 manufactured chemicals exist; about 1,500 have been tested for safety

The Clean Home Guide (on the speaker's website)

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Younger people are getting cancer earlier and earlier. There's 17 different cancers that young people are getting more common. This just came out from the American cancer society. In 1900, the incidence of getting cancer in your life in America was 1 in 100. In 1990, it was 1 in 3. Now it's 1 in 2, and it's getting more and more common. What can you do about this? One of the big things is removing chemical exposures. We have a great resource on our website that actually pulls from the Harvard School of Public Health that walks you through how to have a clean house. It's called our Clean Home Guide. We also have some resources in our food guide to actually help you choose clean food again on our website. It's a great resource. It'll be attached here below as you can click on to get those resources. The other issue is just toxicity in our environment in general. Whether it's petroleum distillates, plastics, pesticides, glyphosate. I mean, there's over 80,000 chemicals that currently are manufactured in our country and we've only tested about 1500 for safety. If you want some general information about how to detoxify, we also have some great blogs on our website as well to help you clean your body to not become a statistic.