#032 Does Meat Consumption Cause Cancer?
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Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 28 January 2017
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Summary
Does meat consumption cause cancer? Or, put another way… does avoiding meat help prevent cancer?
If you aren't already savvy to the topic, this may sound more absurd than it should. Here's why: there have been many, many, many correlative studies that have found that higher meat consumption is associated with a significantly higher risk of cancer and cancer mortality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello ladies and gents. Today is a brief topic focus podcast centralizing on one question. |
| 0:06.4 | Does eating meat cause cancer? Question mark. Exclamation point. Question mark. |
| 0:11.6 | Exclamation point. Or put another way. Does avoiding meat help prevent cancer? |
| 0:18.4 | I have heard this question in some form now probably close to a couple hundred times. |
| 0:23.8 | Meat is a bit of a polarizing topic. If you aren't already savvy to the topic this may sound |
| 0:29.5 | a bit more absurd than it should. Here's why. There have been many many many correlative studies |
| 0:36.9 | that have found that higher meat consumption is associated with a significantly higher risk |
| 0:41.1 | of cancer and also cancer mortality. With such a relationship showing up not once but multiple times |
| 0:47.9 | across multiple studies it's actually a legitimate concern. Sure the data is correlative |
| 0:54.5 | but it does at least become a bit harder to dismiss the relationship out of hand altogether |
| 1:00.6 | when it keeps popping up over and over. So where do we go from here? If we're ever to get a real hold |
| 1:06.4 | on what's going on we need to start asking ourselves what the mechanism is. Noticing a pattern is |
| 1:12.0 | just the beginning. The next step is to try to figure out what is actually driving the relationship. |
| 1:17.6 | In 2016 a study came out in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled Association of Animal and Plant |
| 1:23.4 | Protein Intake with All Cause and Cause-Pacific Mortality. This study was the largest population |
| 1:29.6 | study to date and while it's still held with the pattern mentioned a moment ago specifically |
| 1:34.4 | finding that a high intake of meat from animal sources was associated with a higher mortality rate |
| 1:40.7 | and cancer mortality rate. A more careful analysis within the paper revealed something interesting. |
| 1:47.5 | This pattern only held up for participants with at least one other factor associated with an |
| 1:53.4 | unhealthy lifestyle like being obese or being a heavy consumer of alcohol or having a history of |
| 1:58.7 | smoking or being physically inactive. Meat consumers that were healthy by not having any of these |
| 2:04.5 | aforementioned unhealthy lifestyle factors did not have a higher mortality rate or higher cancer |
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