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Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by loudtieblahblah »

NiceWayToDoIT wrote: post #193

> "All the money in the world can’t buy you perfect health, and it is crazy how many just ignore it. Small changes to diet and physical activity can go a long way in improving health." This is so confusing for me, with the sense of helplessness, so she saying small change to diet or physical activity, and that she was healthiest person in world but still got sick, so what is the point than ?! I mean you can do everyt…

overabumdmace of protein could certainly be at play.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611156/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91dVi6W6N4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg6tvKxS9FE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RMUFOvcUB8

People think they're healthy bc they're doing what fitness gurus or "smart sounding" pro-PUFA types like you see a round here on HackerNews all the time, say.

Want to prevent cancer?

Fast on a regular basis.

Eat Nrf-2 activators (cruciferous veggies) , drink green tea, make tumeric a staple, a diet heavy in fruits and veggies should be the staple of your diet.

And keep inflmattory omega6s low in your diet.

But the biggest thing is fasting to keep mtor/igf-1 unactivated

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by Gatsky »

catchclose8919 wrote: post #204

This is one of the things where it matters more how healthy/unpolluted your environment is . I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution ser…

The effect sizes of carcinogenic (or potentially carcinogenic) environmental risk factors are small compared to the very high baseline risk of getting cancer over the long lifetimes we are blessed with. Some cancers, like prostate cancer, don't have any proven environmental or lifestyle risk factors.

Consider smoking - the exposure of the lungs to cigarette smoke is very high and very consistent compared to almost all other environmental exposures which are also generally less carcinogenic.

The key question is - are cancers getting more common without a good explanation [1], and if so which ones? The answer is that upper gastrointestinal cancers do some to be getting more common. These are plausibly due to dietary changes and/or obesity. Personally, I think ingesting huge amounts of added sugar, particularly fructose, is the potential unifying culprit.

[1] Many cancers are increasing in incidence because of better screening and detection. Breast cancer is a good example. Other cancers like leukaemia or pancreatic cancer couldn't even be reliably diagnosed 100 years ago, so obviously they are more common today.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by suyash »

no1lives4ever wrote: post #128
lormayna wrote: post #77

As usual correlation don't imply causation. My uncle was a professional national level runner, he was the healtier person that I know: he ran several kilometers every day, ate correctly, no drinking, no smoking, sleep at least 8 hours/day, etc. He died from cardiovascular problems. This not means that a correct and healty lifestyle is not going to reduce the risk, but it's not the only factor.

The former captain of the Indian cricket team, Sourav Ganguly, recently suffered a heart attack while he was exercising. He was lucky that he was able to get prompt medical attention and recovered. But he was a fit professional athlete who was used to exercise from a young age and even he suffered from cardiac problems.

Don't forget Shane Warne, he was on a healthy juice diet but still died of heart attack.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by catchclose8919 »

goodpoint wrote: post #256
catchclose8919 wrote: post #204

This is one of the things where it matters more how healthy/unpolluted your environment is . I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution ser…

> I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution seriously, and stuff like PFOAs that are still used round, without having it be totally overshadowed and drowned in noise by the "fight climate change" crowd or the "extinction rebellion" nutcases. Most of the people you called "nutcases" are protesting against exactly the pollutants you described.

OK, I agree I'm not that informed about ER, probably I've only heard of some of their more misguided actions, maybe even overemphasized by their enemies.

...but their name and their most used description doesn't help either: first words you read are "climate change" and "biodiversity loss". No organization can focus on everything, and if they've chosen to focus on that, then from my pov. they're not focusing on what I care about most: engineering and sustaining environments (natural or artificial or hybrid...) that maximize HUMAN health & lifespan in economically sustainable ways.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

Gatsky wrote: post #272
catchclose8919 wrote: post #204

This is one of the things where it matters more how healthy/unpolluted your environment is . I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution ser…

The effect sizes of carcinogenic (or potentially carcinogenic) environmental risk factors are small compared to the very high baseline risk of getting cancer over the long lifetimes we are blessed with. Some cancers, like prostate cancer, don't have any proven environmental or lifestyle risk factors. Consider smoking - the exposure of the lungs to cigarette smoke is very high and very consistent compared to almost al…

>Some cancers, like prostate cancer, don't have any proven environmental or lifestyle risk factors.

Prostate cancer is associated with contracting STD's:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15988645/

Conclusions: This meta-analysis provides evidence of a higher rate of prostate cancer in men with a history of an exposure to gonorrhea, HPV, or any STD.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

bobthepanda wrote: post #88
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like planes need more radiation protection. A thick heavy lead shield would be best.

thick and heavy are generally counterproductive to flying.

You shouldn't fly at all because of the increased exposure to the solar radiation at high altitude, better taxi on the ground.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by suyash »

codetiger wrote: post #101
shmde wrote: post #49

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?

Exactly, who cares who's wife she is. Steve Jobs was one of the richest in the world but still died of cancer fairly young unfortunately. It's a deadly disease that affects millions every year and unfortunate thing is that we still don't have a guaranteed cure.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by jll29 »

First of all, I'm sorry to learn the author got cancer; I wish her all the best and continued strength.

Many contributors have already made good suggestions how to reduce the risk of getting cancer, or how to deal with it; but I found most posts quite _technical_.

Speaking in general terms, cancer is not a disease like a common cold. The human body sooner or later is bound to decay, which pretty much starts once one is fully grown, and mutations get less often corrected by the wonderful repair processes our bodies are equipped with. Occasionally, mutations lead to uncontrolled growth of malign tissue, some incidents of which are bound to lead to death, others not.

And while it is absolutely a good idea to life healthily and to take care of one's physical and emotional well-being, one should also never deny that we are all mortals, and cancer as well as traditional diseases can and eventually will wipe any individual out. I am at peace with that, for we need to make space for the next generation (only adding people to planet earth would not be sustainable, as resources are scarce - imagine nobody would ever die). Being on this planet for a limited time period makes it more important to make the right choices, because we have only one life.

Because it is a statistical process, we can forecast how many are affected, but not which individual, and everyone can try to minimize one's chances to be affected, but this does not mean they will live forever. And it's not just cancer, there are many ways one may pick the unlucky straw: it is not widely known, but the number of people who die from a heath attack in their 20s is significant. Make the best of every minute you have, and live it as if it were your last.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by soco »

JMS2021 wrote: post #136
Findecanor wrote: post #42

Earlier 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…

UK here for context. We only have to fast for 12-24 hours prior to the colonoscopy. You can drink water or plain tea (no sugar, cream or milk). They offer "gas and air" mainly. You don't even have to have that. You are fully awake during the procedure, laughing at the live HD video feed from inside you on the big screen. You can be fully anaesthetised but that's very rare here in the UK. After the appointment, it's a…

In Switzerland it's 4 days restricted diet (zero fibers etc), a day fasting with liquids or sugar, and strong laxatives the evening before and the morning of the action. You sleep (aka pass out for like a blink) during the intervention then wonder at your incredibly clean pipe on TV. 5 years later you come again if they found and removed something, otherwise after 10.
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