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Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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Are you trying to make the counter point that sugar and highly processed foods are healthy? There's lots of good science and history (! I guess that's just a bunch of anecdotes though) which demonstrates their ill effects. Sometimes, a fact has been asserted widely enough that we stop requiring sources, even at HN

More that he's critical of the thought process you've applied. You're conclusions are correct, so no one should be critical of that :)

Wasn't me, but sure

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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I feel like there has been a great increase in mental health issues: anxiety, depression, etc., especially among youth. I don’t recall these being major issues from when I was a youth in the late 80s and early 90s. I’m told that I’m wrong and people just didn’t talk about it so I wasn’t aware of it. But even amongst close family members and friends it wasn’t a thing. Now, I’ve seen some claim it is the post 9/11 worl…

> but I have to wonder if there is some chemical we are exposed to more that might be causing mental disorders in addition to early onset cancers.

It's always easy to point the finger at a single cause, but the reality is that it's a series of factors that together act like a sophisticated, compound "attack" to the psyche:

- Social media weakens your self-confidence and makes you feel in a constant state of inferiority, i.e. your present self.

- The "post 9/11 world" you mention, is simply a result of a general worsening of Western political relations over time, which are becoming especially evident recently. That state of turmoil weakens your sense of stability and security, making the future look bleak - i.e. your future self.

- Further blows for the knockout: climate change, pollution / micro-plastics / rising costs of living, etc.

I'm actually surprised depression, anxiety and other mental disorders aren't more common...but perhaps they will be.

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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I feel like there has been a great increase in mental health issues: anxiety, depression, etc., especially among youth. I don’t recall these being major issues from when I was a youth in the late 80s and early 90s. I’m told that I’m wrong and people just didn’t talk about it so I wasn’t aware of it. But even amongst close family members and friends it wasn’t a thing. Now, I’ve seen some claim it is the post 9/11 worl…

Puberty coming on ever earlier is my pet theory for what's causing this.

It might come in a way that's uneven. An adult set of sexual characteristics and drives without the corresponding development in executive function must be difficult.

Add to that the sudden arrival of sexual characteristics and attention at an age where our culture has no scripts and rituals with which to handle them. Kids must feel like adrift aliens, within the world and within their own bodies.

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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Just adding a bit about the subject at hand: I am convinced the cancer epidemic is due to us grossly misusing our biological equipment: we are meant to feast & fast, and not have insulin's anabolic effects constantly activated. Fasting is crucial for "system maintenance", via autophagy (self-eating of damaged cells). Average person constantly stimulates insulin with following the advice of eating small meals often, w…

I've done fasting for a while. It's not the panacea that it's touted as. I was a pretty religious (figuratively) 16 hour fast person. I have several years of bloodwork to show marginal if any changes to baseline. In some cases, for example with blood sugar, there's a small window where insulin actually spikes during a fast. I had several unusual blood sugar readings if I took them around the 15 hour mark along with o…

Are you sure you weren't just under-eating calories when you fasted? Just checking.

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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Free radicals in the water table. Pollution in general. Plastic in the rainwater. Doesn't just affect nature. Backs up up the water table, from ocean to river from the slums to the hills. Good that we're doing it less and less, in some respects. Pollution is poison. Although there is always some. Even very primitive societies eg in the Amazon Basin pollute a bit and after like ten years they move to a new place, and…

We can scale it to planets. We pollute this planet and then move to another, then another. Come back to Earth in 10 million years. The only small problem with that is that we are not that advanced to do it.

That's funny because Elon Musk in his capacity as a vehicle entrepreneur has not only advanced the expansion to Mars, by leaps and bounds, hey if before we could get a million people there now we can get 100 million, or if we could get 100 million now we can get everybody out. Leaps and bounds. Costs the same as a college degree to get a rocket into orbit, in fuel terms. Yeah like $200000, well that's only if you get a scholarship and the price of fuel doesn't skyrocket, but similar. Similar.

So what's contradictory is he also yes made good advances with batteries for cars (fixed everything honestly) but really got every other carmaker feeling real threatened right in the business model. A sensitive delicate place, you understand. He got everybody else putting eg 20 billion like Ford into researching electric cars, and partering up, making...making their thing, good cars too, but I would buy no other than a Tesla for a simple reason. Accidents. Fewer accidents is less pollution, yes Tesla allegedly pushes it as self-driving and sometimes it is (Elon gets lied to I saw it once), but really the really cool thing is an incredibly bad driver like me can drive a car while doing his best to pay attention together with the car's safety system. Not instead of. In tandem. Then you don't get all those cadavers filling up the graveyard which takes up land, no joke very expensive South SF...yes the human tragedy yes. But the media overlooks it like nothing so for purely the sake of argument I can focus on the pollution. Well maybe not, pollutes those people with something toxic, there's a debate in medicine eg punches are toxic, blunt force trauma is toxic. Think about that. Well then they're in the hospital for weeks, then the doctors pollute them perhaps [1]. Then, pollution, in the junkyard. Then, you need another car, pollution in the mines to purify the metal...lithium in Chile. So what's the ecological alternative?

Basically horses, the original self-driving car, and very ecological.

Ford said if he asked people they'd say they wanted faster horses, that is what Tesla makes.

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[1] Change of subject: they did this to me twice, to figure out how to do poison you with no excuses, no loopholes, no fucking consent. Shut you up before you open your mouth. Wait wasn't it going to be just two vaccines and that'd be it? Shut up. Can I assay this vaccine? Shut up. Can I object on religious grounds? Ten years ago yes. Shut the fuck up. Like turns out I haven't met a single Covid death, not personally obviously, you neither, through an acquaintance only one, and he died because he went to a hospital, caught Covid in a hospital with an existing condition.

Yes I do know how to bitch down to social expectations under the threat of being labeled as a stereotype, or like I used to, sorry, I knew too much it was lobotomized.

Dude no excuses nothing don't take no for an answer (violers's slogan), oh there was an exception but you didn't qualify, learn to poison people on the schizos first, then the rest. Nazi playbook, literally. First they came for me man, they're coming for you now. Well didn't poison me twice, hundreds of times meaning two different pills, but second time, mostly dodged it. They provided no benefit and had serious side effects, second one required signatures for consent that were extorted out of 100% of the patients (Clozapine at Clínica Rayencura, full court press, tiered rewards in the Caribbean 10% you get a plane ticket 20% you get a hotel room 30% you get a boat ride to the secret island, shooting for that 100% consent, they got caught in fact biggest suit of its kind, not big enough did it again), doctors say first do no harm. No benefit just harm, poison.

Dude just read the consent form (consent is code for rape), then recognized the name, said Oh that Abbott wants me to take this pill? Fuck that. So second time around I was wise and dodged, only guy in the rehab to dodge obesity and immune compromise, it gives you AIDS ["Te da SIDA" -- Juan Luis Lorca Tobar, like July 2018], Abbott--which I'm dying to take to court. Dying to take that Abbott to court. This close to giving me AIDS? What an Abbott. But due to torture that is their fault in part as well, I by design can't properly communicate with any lawyer within the hour I get for free, who'll take the case and ride to victory fucking them in the Federal Circuit...dude my dream. Someday I will get my day in court, evidently not within 13 years, maybe not even 20 years, someday. Dude combination of the 6th and 13th amendment. I can justify with exact mathematics the shrink industry is treating me like a slave. And you know my code compiles.

Let that be known. That Abbott owes me money.

Hey, Abbott, abbot, cleric right there in the name. Like there's no hot guys studying sixty years to get their degree as a cleric. They get work, or, in the club, get worked, women jumping them nonstop, me too but I think my libido is very damaged again lobotomy. Cleric is a pervy career path basically, come on no partying til 35 and then crazy?

Women don't like doctors anymore, just like...eeegh. Yeah money yeah, literally blood money. And even then always beta. Alpha on the secret island? Yeah. Gray's Anatomy, yeah. Patrick Dempsey is handsome and an actor, as counterfactual as it gets, exact opposite career path, bleached his hair to look gray in fact. American Medicine subsidizes those shows for you to trust them.

There's good doctors too, that's why they call them good doctors, like dumb blondes, why not just say doctors, why not just say blondes? I was blond, still considered blond in the modeling industry I would say dirty blond. But when I was small? Blond. Smart as fuck. [And in general blondes are only dumb insofar as jealousy first, secondly loss of innocence ie sex diminishes their fairness depending on whom it's with chimeric DNA goes everywhere, yellow felt-tip pen. Finally it's a trait indicating youth, apart from that I] Proved it hardcore, under a psychiatric handicap, beat the secretly nationally-ranked shrink at chess. They had to let me out at that point, but it was a bullshit thing it was an illusion to torture their patients, all I have to do is win this game (which is impossible) and I'm free. Even if you win they won't let you out any sooner. Not a good doctor, not a dumb blond. You can see the before and after on http://fgemm.com, my whole history before during and after the torture ward, which had HN access isn't that a nice perk? Another patient who was a lifer said, "cuatro estrellas.". Four star hotel. Lindsay Lohan that's five stars, Hollywood rehab, there's one in Chile nobody said a word about, a rumor among my favorite people. Great food for one, not niggardly with the calories, number one, you'd think if they pretended to understand milligrams they would need to understand calories, nope. Should lose their degrees just for that. Cept for the anorexics.

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This where it gets interesting.

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So one killer strategy--you really want the shrinktalk I got for you? First off you will remain inside until either your sponsor runs out of money or you stop insisting you're sane. Dude you want to get out (not always better on the outside though), dude shut the fuck up if you want to get released. Just shut the fuck up. Stop saying you're not insane, never accuse more than one person, play dumb because they won't stop til you are dumb. Amnestic drug lobotomy.

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I read advice on reddit, Epic Shrinktalk, dude said 1) take shit and 2) ask if you're making progress. Dude playbook for May 12, 2012, right there! That was literally it! I owe him royalties...let me pay them by divulging the following. I took some shit (better than taking on a whole gang) and I asked if I was making progress. And I had signed in myself, that's when they roll out the red carpet if it's legit. Now I know if you're eg a psychiatrist considering treating me reading this you'll be like...the fuck? But bear in mind, lobotomized into divulging compulsively, lost my shit after the final third time of abduction, and second, come on doc you watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. You're a doctor, or a good doctor? White horses are not horses, as the Ancient Chinese, School of Names, said. Genius.

I've had much more than my share of good doctors, I'm a lifer. I didn't look under a rock, I did a rock census. I know there's 950-998 psychs in Chile. I know what they can do and what they can't. I know the system. I bought the Law Book and read as far as I could, well like any book if there's five words you don't understand on the first page it's beyond your level. Fifteen laws broken in my gainst. OK, so here is something I did understand:

If you like the medication (depends on the medication, Risperidone you don't have to) but if it's controlled pretend you hate it. Opioid? Say you're constipated. Oh stimulants uh, can I get something for my stomach ache with that? Do I have to take this pill every day, I'm getting sick in my throat...How do I swallow that down, like what yoghurt to mix it with? Research and complain about the side effects...dude literally swapping pills in the rehab, one man's trash is another man's treasure--outside the rehab, because inside there's no private property. Inside? One man's poison is another man's cure. We hated our shit. We were both flushing it. We wanted the other guy's. So trade. But like better than a trade, absolute gift in both directions. No yuck from saliva dude fuck it, did not care. This is coercion, this is Hell, get fat if you're uninformed because you didn't read this post. Dude your gut wis sticking out like a horse.

And this is the right forum to talk about this.

Look it all up, it's on http://fgemm.com

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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The result of misguidance from health professionals, big food & big pharma marketing. Not acknowledging that health is largely a result of lifestyle choices, and that pharmaceuticals are mostly ineffective and often harmful. And now for the specifics: - lies/bad science about meat (particularly red meat) being unhealthy - lies/bad science about cholesterol & saturated fat being unhealthy - not attacking sugar and pro…

> bad science... > I say this for experience... > It checks out for me... Glad you've managed to avoid the pesky allure of bad science with your anecdotal approach!

If a doctor says to you ' you have hypertension because you've been eating pizza for dinner last 5 years' .

Do you ask them to provide you with proof directly linking your pizza eating to hypertension? Would you just ignore their advice for lack of proof?

No one will be able to provide you direct link between 'lifestyle choices' and chronic disease at an individual level.

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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> Cancer is easily explained from an evolutionary optimization perspective Anything that "easily explains" cancer should be thrown right out as unscientific. Cancer is many diseases, many of which are profoundly different from the others in both mechanisms of action and causes. I kindly ask that you don't use such confident sounding language, either deluding yourself or others into believing your statements as true,…

> Anything that "easily explains" cancer should be thrown right out as unscientific.

Thank you.

As someone who's recently lost a loved one to cancer, I've lost count of how many times I've wanted to choke people for coming out with these "simple cancer theories".

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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Getting an air quality monitor was enlightening and terrifying. My child’s room (which unfortunately doesn’t have great ventilation) would sometimes hit 4000 ppb VOCs, which I tracked down to some of her stuffed animals…

Can you recommend a product?

I have an older generation Awair. It’s a little expensive but I like it.

I also have a couple different Austin Air purifier models. Also expensive but seems to work well.

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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Sleep deficient seems to be connected to some cancers.

Daily walking a lot seems to really be a key to longevity. Also to be healthy enough that you can ignore the pharmaceutical companies extensive and endless product line. Often you're just trading one problem for another, or just trading short term risk for long term risk or vice versa. And also have the mental strength to want to go on living with health problems. If you're in Canada and you get to old age, and up in an institution. Be prepared to be offered Euthanasia. 3% of Canadian deaths were that way last year.

Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

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My guess: Environmental toxins, antibiotic use and poor diet leading to loss of microbiome diversity/dysbiosis and consequential disruption to the body’s homeostatic processes.

How to really take care of the microbiome?

Sandor Ellix Katz has some fantastic books about fermentation. Really, really suggest checking them out.

One thing that stuck out to me was when he talked about the relationship between people and their environment. How health is not in a vacuum, but in constant negotiation and collaboration with the world around you. He uses this to suggest fermenting things yourself, to engage in this process with the microbes in your environment. It's easy and fun!

Here's a 6 minute video where Katz talks about fermentation, and walks you through a basic process, in a beautiful and rustic kitchen I still dream about getting to cook in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77hU3zR-fQ

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