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Epigenetic fingerprints link early-onset colon and rectal cancer to pesticide exposure
Also: Get your butts scoped, yall.
They don’t just detect cancer, they prevent it by removing precancerous growths before they become a real problem. (You could say they nip it in the butt.)
A day of annoying colo prep is so much better than fighting cancer.
Unfortunately, the oldest millennials are just now at colonoscopy age.
Preventive colonoscopy is looking like it's going away.
It has a record of high false positives, and current poop tests are far more accurate (than they used to be).
Docs are now leaning toward only do colonoscopy if there are test results indicating it's needed.
I had one this year (45). The procedure itself is nothing. They zonk you out, you wake up in another room. You have to bring a driver. Not even sore or anything after, and I felt finenbasically right after.
The bitch is the prep. It tastes like ass. I tried, many things, well, Gatoraid, I think maybe some broth, cooling it, etc. Its sooo gross.
At some point you get to the point where you drink and basically 30 seconds later its coming out the other end.
But try not to let that discourage you, you will live after. Also, FWIW, I didn't finish mine, once it seemed to literally come right out clear, at like 2 AM, I just stopped. I think I did one and another half.
This doesn't adequately describe how fucking foul it is. You're right, though, that the goal is to basically drink as much as you can without puking so that you can borderline shit yourself to death.
It definitely does not. Also, it never gets better. If anything it gets somehow worse.
Like the first round I mixed with gatoraide a d got though fairly quickly.
The second I could barely do sips. And tried adding more flavors and it did not help.
Drinking so much at once with nothing else also does not help.
Then why didn't we seem that in prior generations when we were a LOT more indisciminate?
Hell, DDT was still being used for mosquito control in the 60's, and we routinely blanketed large swaths of land - with people in it - in the 70'a with who-knows-what.
We stopped that in the mid 70's.
There's something else at play. Like maybe the low fat diet nonsense that started in the 80's, and the lack of "roughage" as my grandparents called veggies.