Please for the love of fuck eat fiber. I was diagnosed stage 4 colorectal cancer at 43. Forty fucking three! That's two years before the begrudgingly updated recommendation to get screened starting at 45.
And make sure you're getting enough vitamin D. There's recent research linking insufficient vitamin D to colorectal cancer, especially in women. (I'm not sure if they meant only cisgender women. If you are a trans woman or were AFAB please make note as well.)
And in case this turns into a conversation about how no one who eats right needs supplements,
Lab results showed my vitamin D was one third the minimum.
Taking proton pump inhibitors long term (which I was, on doctor's orders) severely curtails your body's ability to absorb nutrients. Studies show that the body only absorbs one third of the vitamin D you ingest if you're on proton pump inhibitors. Interesting, in light of #1.
Being fat, which I am, also reduces the vitamin D in your blood, because vitamin D is fat soluble, so your fat absorbs a lot of it.
So, please eat fiber. Please eat veggies. Please eat probiotic foods and yes, probiotic supplements. Please make sure you're getting enough vitamin D.
And, interesting results from cancer studies, eating watermelon and okra regularly, as in once a week, reduces colorectal cancer risk.
And mushrooms have anticancer benefits. In Japan they use a mushroom extract in conjunction with chemo and it reduces the rate of recurrence.
Oh! And exercise activates the body's repair function. They think that's why exercise is associated with decreased cancer risk. Also a recent medical finding.
(I recently completed my course of treatment and had my colostomy reversal. I'm still waiting on the all-clear from my doctors but I'm hopeful. It was caught very late so. I'm scared for the future. But I'm still here.)
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