Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Colon Cancer & Ultra Processed Food

27 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (YouTube video) discusses the rising incidence of colon cancer—noting cases increasingly occurring in younger adults and screening age lowered to 45—and attributes this trend to increased consumption of ultra-processed foods (including high-fructose corn syrup, seed oils, GM foods). He cites a study of over 45,000 people linking ultra-processed food consumption to higher colon cancer risk (especially in men) and issues a call to remove these foods from diets.

Questions this video answers

45 years old.

Over 45,000 people.

Since the late 1990s.

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Why is colon cancer on the rise? And it's happening younger and younger and younger. We've actually heard about this. They've moved the screening age for colonoscopies down to 45 years old. And we're actually seeing colon cancers, especially in men, now occurring in the 30s. What is going on and why is this happening more and more and more? This study looking at over 45,000 people's people actually answers this for us. Ultra processed food consumption is directly related with colon cancer, especially in men. And if you consume ultra sweet things, it's even a higher incident. Now. It's been happening since the late 90s. Genetically modified foods have entered our food system. We're having more processed and ultra processed foods, seed oils, high fructose corn syrup. Our entire food system has been inundated with these processed foods. And the result is kids are getting cancer, younger and younger. Colon cancer is occurring younger. We actually need to get these things out of our food system, out of our diet. How much ultraprocessed food is good? Well, how much cancer is good? The answer probably is none. We got to get out of our diets.