KevinMD May 31, 2024
The news is rife with articles about younger people getting cancer, heart attacks, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, and arthritis. We used to think of these as diseases of aging, but now we are finding high blood pressure and atherosclerosis in people as young as 20. The guidelines for colon cancer screening have been lowered to age 45 for people at normal risk. Experts can’t explain why this is happening. We can point to many factors like environmental toxins, lack of exercise, modern-day stress, lack of nutritious food, fast food, increased sugar and salt intake, microbiome changes, and viral infections. I suspect it is a combination of all of these, and more will be uncovered over time. But until that...
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