A brief interview-style YouTube #shorts where McCall McPherson asks an expert about rising cancer rates in younger people. The respondent attributes increases (notably colorectal cancer) to lifestyle factors: sedentary behavior causing metabolic disease and inflammation that promote mutated precancerous cells, and frequent eating (lack of fasting) suppressing autophagy that would otherwise clear damaged cells.
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It has doubled in the younger population under 50 in the last 30 years.
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Because the reality is cancer is on the rise in young people in our country, probably even the world. But at least certainly the stats in America are. This is becoming a concerning issue at a younger and younger age. I'm curious why you think that is, and what are some of the mechanisms that are creating those, this construct for us?
Cancer rates are rising rapidly in the younger population. I mean, colorectal cancer incidence has doubled in the younger population under 50 in the last 30 years. One reason is lifestyle. We are very sedentary. We don't move. And that's really important because when you're very sedentary, that lends itself to metabolic disease. And metabolic disease causes inflammation. Inflammation creates a breeding ground for cells to be erroneously replicated, I. E. Creation of more mutated precancerous cells. And if you keep doing that, at some point, your immune system is going to fail to kill all of them. And that's when tumor can be born. The second reason is we eat too often. We, we don't fast. Amen. For the vast majority of human civilization, we lived in periods of feast and famine. Famine is important. Famine is important because during famine, your body kicks off processes like autophagy, which means self eating. When those processes occur, it cleans up sort of mutated cells, pre cancerous cells, dysfunctional cells, and that is an important process and set of processes that we inhibit and interrupt by constantly feeding ourselves. And that also lends itself to cancer.
