• manxu@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    We don’t know yet, but the article mentions it’s likely that the gut microbiome is involved, which means microplastics and food additives are unlikely to have much of an importance.

    There are plenty of pathogens that cause cancers, and the article implies something about our lifestyle or their own evolution has turned a formerly benign entity against us.

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      4 hours ago

      My bet’s on Long COVID. It’s been connected to so many other random medical issues popping up (including diabetes, low sperm counts, and early onset Alzheimers IIRC) that it may as well be connected to ass cancer as well.

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      22 hours ago

      I would assume food additives impact the gut biome, a casual search suggests as much. I wouldn’t rule out plastics either, though they are clearly more of an unknown.