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Now, have you ever wondered what this trend is about so much colon cancer in young people?

Now, you'll see on TV that this is true, and it is, and you see the answer to this on TV is we're now

recommending that younger and younger people get colon cancer screening that's

the wrong message folks the message is holy cow why are so many young people

developing colon cancer?

Not that we ought to screen people in their 20s for colon cancer.

We need to let people know why they're getting it.

And that's why today we're going to talk about butyrate,

an incredible inhibitor of colon cancer cell growth.

Now, if you've read my books, you know I love buterate.

I've talked about it in the energy paradox, in unlocking the keto code,

and my new bestseller gut check.

So, butyrate is a short chain fatty acid that's made primarily in our colon

by buterate-producing bacteria. Now, what most people are unaware of, we assume that all the

cells in our body need to have oxygen delivered to them to live,

and they need to have glucose and fat and proteins to live, except for the lining of the colon.

These cells are called colonocytes, but interestingly enough, 90% of everything they require to eat is buterate.

They don't need oxygen.

They don't need sugar. They don't need sugar.

They don't need protein.

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