KarlT
#197
I won’t argue against aspirin use, but people underestimate the risk, especially in older people where the risk of a brain bleed after a fall is 40% higher if taking aspirin.
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JuanDaw
#198
Your post is confirmed below:
What does blood in stool look like?
When you have blood in your stool, it can look a few different ways. You may have bright red streaks of blood on your poop, or you might see blood clots or blood and mucus mixed in with it. Your stool could also look dark, black and tarry. The color of the blood you see may be a clue to where it’s coming from:
Sometimes, rectal bleeding isn’t visible to the naked eye and can only be seen through a microscope. This is called occult bleeding. You may discover this type of blood in your stool if you have a lab test done on a stool sample called a fecal occult blood test. It’s a screening test for colorectal cancer.
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JuanDaw
#199
Dietary prevention:
https://www.ergo-log.com/every-10-g-carrot-reduces-chance-of-prostate-cancer-by-5-percent.html
It is an associational study, like most food studies are. It is a Chinese meta study.
The Chinese publication is a meta-study: the researchers used 10 previously published epidemiological studies for it. They found no indications of bias, which means that it was not only positive or only negative studies that had been published.
The Austrians posit another basis for the protection, apart from the usual suspects - carotenoids…
https://www.ergo-log.com/polyacetylenes-cancer-inhibitors-in-carrot-celery-parsnip.html
Their table shows the highest concentrations of falcarinol and falcarindiol actually come from parsnips, with celery a close second.
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Aspirin inhibits cyclooxygenase which creates prostaglandins. In other topics there are disscussions as to the benefits of prostaglandins.
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Dr. Attia talks about his colonoscopy and the questions you should ask your doctor.
Great information here.
On a personal note, I’d probably be dead already if I hadn’t had my first colonoscopy as each time I have one, they remove precancerous polyps.
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Ray1
#202
My cardiologist has me on low dose aspirin to reduce LPa. Although this has been shown to reduce LPa, I don’t think there is any outcome data yet for MACE with this approach. I am taking an 81 mg coated tablet every other day. We are hoping to get the most benefit without the side effects. Reduced colon cancer risk is a nice plus.
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In the study, researchers at Mass General Brigham looked at data from more than 150,000 people who were followed for at least three decades. They found that people who regularly ate two or more servings of yogurt a week had lower rates of certain types of colorectal cancer.
The study did not find a significant link between eating yogurt and overall incidents of colorectal cancer, but it did find a 20% lower rate of “Bifidobacterium-positive proximal colon cancer.” That type of cancer occurs in the right side of the colon and has been found to be deadlier than other types of colorectal cancer.
Long-term yogurt intake and colorectal cancer incidence subclassified by Bifidobacterium abundance in tumor
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2452237#d1e2237
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I love yoghurt and especially Greek yoghurt with peaches or blueberries. It’s a great desert to replace other sweets.
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Its my regular breakfast/lunch, zero fat, plain Greek yogurt with some fruit/berries (frozen/defrosted/fresh) and keto granola on top. Its great, highly recommend it.
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Beautiful, and I bet super tasty. Being paranoid, I don’t get so many nice things in life like this dish - because I’d worry about the dairy proteins potentially interfering with the berry polyphenols, so I always eat my dairy (kefir & yoghurt) hours away from berries and other polyphenol sources (and coffee/tea always straight).YMMV.
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Yogurt consumption and risk of mortality from all causes, CVD and cancer: a comprehensive systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of cohort studies
Summary: yogurt good for you
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Oh but you get satisfaction from denying yourself. I’m surprised you quit the CR which sounds like an endless source of pleasure from pain. I’m like that too but only with exercise.
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LOL, I quit CR for purely practical and social reasons 
. But it has had many permanent effects anyway. I automatically consider calories whenever confronted with food. Taste buds have been altered: I practically cannot enjoy almost any desserts, because they usually taste unbearably sweet… it’s a constant experience, where we buy some tempting looking dessert, cookies, chocolates, pastry whatnot, bring it home, take one bite, spit it out - inedible. Last night was an example, we brought some dark chocolate almond sea salt brittle from TJ’s. Had a piece after dinner as a treat, while watching a movie… couldn’t eat more than two bites - too sweet. Into the garbage it goes. Every week shopping trip, same story, “let’s try this one, looks tasty”, then, “too sweet”, garbage. Interestingly, when we travel in Europe, there are fewer of these problems, as the pastries over there are less sweet… but we’ve noticed that it’s changing and moving to packing it with more sugar as the trend to more sweet spreads all over the world and local recipes change. These days, it’s more Eastern Europe where the high sugar trend hasn’t penetrated much as yet, though alas it’s only a matter of time.
On a completely different note, that yoghurt study claims significant effects, which may be true, but the effect size is tiny, hardly worth making a fuss over. And btw. yoghurt is another thing that is being ruined with massive sugar, sigh. You always have to be super vigilant reading the labels, because the maniacal compulsion to stuff sugar into everything is relentless. I for one see no mystery why there is an obesity epidemic sweeping the world😢.
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LaraPo
#210
My breakfast is pretty much the same besides I put everything in a blender and instead of granola use organic cooked quinoa. I also add 1 broccoli floret and a spoon of cacao and spirulina in addition to red beets leaves and stems. It’s an amazingly delicious mixture to energize for the day.
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LaraPo
#211
Yes, you are right. It’s the reason that I make my own from 1% organic milk. Every morning I have a fresh batch. To make it I use different probiotic capsules.
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JuanDaw
#212
I take Siggi’s Icelandic skyr, plain, no fat. It has 19 g protein per serving for those interested in higher protein intake.
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Yes. The vast majority (if not all) of the polyps that I have had removed are from the left side of the colon or rectum. Thank goodness for colonoscopies!
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Ray1
#215
I made the mistake of buying a bag of dried blueberries at Costco. I figured a few in my oatmeal would be nice. The first bite was horribly sweet. Yuck. They coated the blueberries with even more sugar! Gotta read the labels.
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KarlT
#216
Tattoos as a risk factor for malignant lymphoma: a population-based case–control study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00228-1/fulltext
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