Obesity increases the risk of breast, colorectal, pancreatic, and liver cancer. The speaker explains how constant feeding and rising obesity rates are driving up cancer cases, with particular focus on the health crisis as of December 2020.
What we've lost, of course, is that balance between feeding and fasting, right? We've gone to a sort of feeding all the time model, which is not so good for growth because we all will, you know, you're always telling your body to grow more. And of course, if you have type 2 diabetes, which is becoming a huge, huge problem. So if you look at pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes in America, it's like it just skyrocketed over the last 15 years. And that too is a sort of massive, massive risk factor for the development of cancer. The World Health Organization actually classifies 13 different types of cancer as obesity-related cancer, so including breast and colorectal. So that's a huge- In prostate and colon, liver, pancreas. And interestingly, if you look at the types of cancer, so we've actually been doing really well for most cancers, over time as you track them through the years, most cancers are actually slowly declining, except those obesity related cancers. They're actually going up. So pancreatic cancer going up, liver cancer going up, all of these cancers are going up. And they're not rare diseases. So breast cancer, for example, is very, very common.
