Your Doctor Says You're Too Young for This Cancer

Colorectal cancer is very common and it's now becoming the leading cause of cancer under the age of 50 and we're seeing it at earlier ages. So in most other cancers we are making progress when it comes to prevention and lowering prevalence but we're seeing more metastatic disease in younger individuals. — Most people — don't go to a gastronenterologist thinking I'm going to do nutritional work. They're thinking I'm bloated. I'm having reflux. — Most gastronurologists would say you're too young for colorectal cancer. It's probably just hemorrhoids. And then we realized it's not just hemorrhoids in a lot of people. Even if it's just rectal bleeding with wiping, I recommend a colonoscopy. What are some of those alarm signs? It would be unintentional weight loss. — Medicine isn't about disease prevention. It's about fixing a problem. — We need to stop telling people to just do it on their own. They're going to be doing on their own, but why not use tools in the toolbox to do two things? Make it a little bit easier and a little bit less painful. Why not? you realize that we are at the precipice of an entirely new landscape — of medicine. — I would say this has completely revolutionized healthcare. These medications are going to infiltrate every single field in medicine. So the first medication I have here is