Posted on 01/28/2022 12:12:50 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Scientists have found that antibiotic use may increase the risk of developing colon cancer, potentially more so among younger people.
The study compared antibiotic use and lifestyle factors of those who had colorectal cancer and those who didn’t. Antibiotic use was found to be associated with the development of colon cancer.
The researchers also found antibiotic use was linked with an estimated 50 percent higher risk of colon cancer in people aged under 50, and an estimated 9 percent higher risk in those 50 and over.
Sarah Perrott adds: "We found antibiotic exposure was associated with colon cancer among all age groups.
Reasons behind this link are purported to be due to the impact of antibiotics on the natural diversity of bacteria within the gut microbiome, which can potentially lead to altered bacterial activity and interfere with normal immune function. This can lead to chronic inflammation and theoretically increase the risk of cancer.
Sarah Perrott adds: "Antibiotics can unintentionally induce gut dysbiosis, which may lead to permanent changes to the natural gut environment. This disruption to the gut microbiome may be what drives this increase in risk.
They also suggest that probiotic supplements could be useful to counteract the negative effects of antibiotics: "Probiotic supplements contain strains of live microbes and aim to improve or restore the gut microbiome. Although there is limited evidence so far, perhaps pairing an antibiotic with a probiotic drug could limit the incidence of gut microbiome dysbiosis, given that antibiotic exposure is often necessary and unavoidable."
Dr. Leslie Samuel said: "We are seeing more cases where people under 50 are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer—a disease traditionally seen in older people. Many do not have factors we might expect to see, such as diabetes, obesity, high alcohol intake and sedentary lifestyle.
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people engaging in risky sexual behavior are more likely to need antibiotics, and their behavior also puts them more at risk of certain cancers.
This is not exactly breaking new ground.
Exactly. Gotta replace the healthy bacteria killed off by the anti-biotics.
here’s an idea... limit your sexual partners to one and don’t put stuff up your butt. It’s an exit.
Do this and you need for antibiotics drops and your risk of many cancers also drop and all sorts of other amazingly good things happen and many other bad things don’t!
We just had an article citing the reduction in stomach cancer if you rid yourself of ulcers with antibiotics.
That was my first thought as well. Did researchers even control for sexual behavior?
Of course not, because that would be phobic and discriminatory.
He promised my skin would clear up by the time I was 25. Forty years later I'm still waiting.
After taking 1gr/day for 7 years for severe acne (18-25) I tried expoing to the Doc that was the reason I wasn't digesting anything (esp. dairy) and couldn't gain weight.
While he agreed that my digestive system was "underperforming", he dismissed the idea the antibiotics were a factor. ("Well, uh....there are no studies indicating that".....)
Lesson learned: If the doc hasn't seen a study, you can't possibly be right....
Yes, I've been taking enzymes ever since, but have determined probiotics are most effective.
Yep.
This sounds absolutely disgusting (and excuse me for bringing it up but it’s relevant) but homos have been found to have a completely different “gut biom” from normal people. They have abused that cannal so much and often with unnatual behavior and substances that it doesn’t function properly even on the microbiological level.
Correct, and probiotics are recommended after that treatment.
There’s much truth in each thing you mentioned.
Geez, how often are people taking antibiotics?
Quercetin is not only a good ionophore for zinc to kill viruses, but it also has numerous other helth benefits such as listed.
Quercetin regulates the balance of gastric cell proliferation and apoptosis to protect against gastritis. Quercetin protects against gastric inflammation and apoptosis associated with H. pylori infection by affecting the levels of p38MAPK, BCL-2 and BAX.May 6, 2017
Probiotics are much preferred over enzymes.
Bacteria continue without constant need to take more, once established.
If subjects received replacement of their own bacteria, then there was a positive effect, but off the shelf probiotics did nothing. I don’t recall how they tested the restoration of your own bacteria, but obviously that’s unlikely to be an option in real daily life.
There are probably occasions in which something herbal can cure an infection without the risks of synthetic antibiotics.
I recently learned that cloves are anti-bacterial and anti-viral.
When a meal is sitting in my stomach like a rock, I take the probiotics and I'm fine.
That's the only "study" I care about.
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