“Cancer rates in millennials, Gen X-ers have risen starkly in recent years, study finds. Experts have 1 prime suspect.” Yahoo News recently reported this headline. Why would this be (wish I could insert an image of me scratching my head)? “Recent years” certainly might be a clue, but we should all be thrilled that “experts” have a prime suspect, because I believe there may be more than one suspect.
Sadly, these experts and I disagree on what might have happened to young people the past few years that would account for all these new cancers, but at least the experts have weighed in (pun intended). According to them, it seems that obesity is the cause of many thousands of new cases of cancer in younger people.
Experts aside, now let’s study what science says about obesity and perhaps that will help us all better understand both health topics reported in this article, cancer and obesity.
“Overall, the majority of animal studies and meta-analyses of human studies on the association between antibiotics and subsequent development of obesity are suggestive of a link between exposure to antibiotics, particularly early exposure in life, and the development of subsequent obesity as a result of alterations in the diversity of gut microbiota.”
Current Obesity Reports
Click to view Obesity Report on National Library of Medicine website
AND
“Many antibiotics prescribed in hospitals are unnecessary or inappropriate… In this analysis based on 7,947,270 individual participants from 25 observational studies, antibiotic use was associated with an 18% increased risk of cancer.”
Cancers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721461/
Could it be that “inappropriate” and “unnecessary” use of antibiotics are contributing to both obesity and new cancers in young people? I truly believe this is an important cause of all these new cancers.
The preponderant evidence derived from information reported over the last 10 years confirms that antibiotic exposure tends to increase cancer risk and, unfortunately, that it reduces the efficacy of various forms of cancer therapy (e.g., chemo-, radio-, and immunotherapy alone or in combination) (1).
I have long suspected that the gross overuse of antibiotics not only contributes to obesity, but to cancer as well. We now have evidence that supports my hypothesis. It’s important that you know this, because most doctors do not.
Sources
1. NIH National Library of Medicine
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