Why Is Colon Cancer On The Rise?

Añadido: 2026-06-10

[00:00:00]The reason why colon cancer is increasing and even among younger adults is threefold. The first reason is our standard American diet. There are way too many processed foods in our diet. It is the flowers, it's the baked goods, it's also of course the inflammatory oils being used in these processed foods. We're talking about them now as seed oils, but it is all inflammatory deep fried foods. That is number one.

[00:00:28]The second reason is our environment.

[00:00:30]Our environment is loaded with man-made chemicals. When I wrote my first book, The Rain Barrel Effect, we knew that there was 77,000 man-made chemicals, especially in the United States, only about 8,000 in Europe. Now there are well over 120,000 documented man-made chemicals and now far more in Europe as well and around the world. So what happens is whether it's glyphosate or it's benzenes or it's parabens or it's microplastics, these things enter our body through our digestive system and they end up in this great area, which is your colon. This colon can become inflamed and that leads to the third reason, which is called gut dysbiosis. So, once we've eaten the wrong foods and we've gotten chemicals in our body, the inflammation creates a breeding ground for cancer. We get and get yeast overgrowth, bacterial overgrowth, we might have parasites, we might have H. pylori or different food sensitivities. This inflammation and damage over time can lead to cancer and that is why colon cancer is on the rise.

[00:01:29]The good news is this, you can do full body MRIs with no contrast, you can do annual blood work looking for potential colon cancer and even after the age of about 45 or so, you can do every 5 to 10 years a colonoscopy. Those are all ways that you're able to find colon cancer at the early stages and of course do things like a functional medicine detox, cleaning up the diet and improving your gut microbiome as needed with something like the SIBO protocol.