Seema is the wife of the founder of one of the biggest online stock brokerage firm called Zerodha.
How does it change anything in the article?
I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
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Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#102From a personal perspective, I feel that opening sentence. Genetics has had me have high blood pressure since I was 25, left handed, prostate, lung cancer in family. I put effort into low salt diets, exercise, monitoring, some small drugs, yet I know a lot of people who are significantly less healthy will outlive me. From time to time - I feel the pang of bitterness at that notion. It is 100% recognized, my overall d…
A lot of one's health depends on the environment. Moving to a different part of the world might be worth it:
https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease#the-global-dist...
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most common cancer: colon cancer, would be 95% preventable if only people got over silly notions about their butts and got a colonoscopy when they have reached age 45-50. Colon cancer takes a decade to develop from polyp to tumour. The main purpose of a colonoscopy is to find and snip any polyps there could be in the colon. Then you'd be safe from colon cancer for a decade or more. You would normally not feel muc…
I have to have colonoscopy every year since I was 18 because of risk factors. I agree it's much less awful than people think (and I especially agree that laxatives and liquid diet prior to it suck much more than the procedure itself). I never take sedation cause it doesn't really hurt and doctors say it's better to have feedback from the patient. I also have to do MRI every year and it's much more frustrating for me…
The first (and only) time I ever had a CAT scan was pretty awful because they didn't tell me exactly what to do.
I walked into an urgent care because I had severe back pain. They put me through a bunch of chest x-rays where they told me to inhale and hold my breath, then they bring me over to the CAT scanner and tell me to hold my breath when the light goes green. So I inhale and hold my breath. Then the tech comes out and tells me "did you inhale? don't do that, it ruins the results".
They decided not to re-run them because the odds I had something wrong even with those symptoms were apparently less than the odds of the additional CAT scan giving me cancer down the line. Certainly didn't help my peace of mind.
But the muscle relaxants and a proper desk chair seems to clear it up within a week so I guess they were right...
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#104As far as I can tell, cancer comes from worrying and mostly constant tension in your body.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#105seed oil and sugar are big contributors - haven't met anyone who avoids both
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#106Individually, a person can reduce their cancer risk with a few things like not smoking, and avoiding sunburns, etc. but that does not eliminate the risk of cancer. It's not a disease that primarily comes from unhealthy living. That said, there is a toooon of cancer that we can prevent as a society though better public health messaging and better environmental laws, such as creating housing and cities that ban cars, s…
One of my parents died recently due to cancer and I beg to disagree with your statement "It's not a disease that primarily comes from unhealthy living".
Perhaps not that scientifically savvy but this video presentation by a medical doctor does highlight the anomaly of the Middle East population that have significantly least mortality due to cancer, most probably because of their lifestyle and habit.
[1]Why Does the Middle East Have the Lowest Cancer Rates in the World:
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#107Individually, a person can reduce their cancer risk with a few things like not smoking, and avoiding sunburns, etc. but that does not eliminate the risk of cancer. It's not a disease that primarily comes from unhealthy living. That said, there is a toooon of cancer that we can prevent as a society though better public health messaging and better environmental laws, such as creating housing and cities that ban cars, s…
The most common cancer: colon cancer, would be 95% preventable if only people got over silly notions about their butts and got a colonoscopy when they have reached age 45-50. Colon cancer takes a decade to develop from polyp to tumour. The main purpose of a colonoscopy is to find and snip any polyps there could be in the colon. Then you'd be safe from colon cancer for a decade or more. You would normally not feel muc…
To scale whole population could just do ultra-sound for colon Polyps + CRP blood test. Then go from there.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#108As far as I can tell, cancer comes from worrying and mostly constant tension in your body.
Sorry, but this is just silly.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#109Seems relecant to put here. Intermittent fasting has been proven to significantly lower the risk of breast cancer in particular. There was a landmark study less than 2 years ago that hit the top page of HN. "Intermittent fasting once a week for 4 seeks cuts risk of breast cancer by ~40% " The jury is still deliberating whether it also lowers the risk of other forms of cancer. Hopefullt it does!
Do you remember the fasting schedule? Can you link to the article?
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#110Individually, a person can reduce their cancer risk with a few things like not smoking, and avoiding sunburns, etc. but that does not eliminate the risk of cancer. It's not a disease that primarily comes from unhealthy living. That said, there is a toooon of cancer that we can prevent as a society though better public health messaging and better environmental laws, such as creating housing and cities that ban cars, s…
One of my parents died recently due to cancer and I beg to disagree with your statement "It's not a disease that primarily comes from unhealthy living". Perhaps not that scientifically savvy but this video presentation by a medical doctor does highlight the anomaly of the Middle East population that have significantly least mortality due to cancer, most probably because of their lifestyle and habit. [1]Why Does the M…
I like the video
We’re still grasping at straws
Its nice that we have all these distinct populations to give clues to a broader solution, but there is still nothing to emulate, no rubric to follow, just a couple things to help you feel like you’re in slightly more control than you actually are
All these rates of cancer stats per capita are based on detecting the cancer, which we are notoriously bad at. It is either by happenstance or because its too late. We don't know how fast it grows, some practically overnight, some over decades. The delta changes as well. When detection methods get more personalized and better, I think the rates will go up dramatically while also providing the biggest chance at fixing and figuring out real prevention methods.