Food and Colon Cancer: Gut Bacteria to Genetics
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We know that foods such as hot dogs, sausage and bacon can cause colon cancer. The science is irrefutable. But what about gut bacteria?
Dr. Alan Desmond returns to The Exam Room™ podcast to explore the connection between gut health and the risk of colorectal cancer. The UK-based gastroenterologist also talks with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll about a study where Americans and residents of rural parts of Africa swapped diets for two weeks and the immense change that occurred with their cancer profiles.
Plus, Dr. Neal Barnard discusses the way in which scientific advances are enabling doctors to more accurately calculate a person's risk of cancer based on their diet.
The doctors also answer viewer questions as Chuck opens The Doctor's Mailbag.
- Do vegans and vegetarians need to be screened for colon cancer?
- Are processed plant foods as unhealthy as processed meat?
- Why does having Crohn's disease and IBS raise the risk of colon cancer?
- And many more!
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Dr. Alan Desmond
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Chuck Carroll
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Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Dr. Neal Barnard
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | researchers took some African-American volunteers and they took some volunteers living in rural |
| 0:05.6 | Africa and they did a diet swap after two weeks of eating okra and tomatoes with maize |
| 0:12.4 | meal and lentils and bananas and African potato salad. |
| 0:16.1 | The Americans Coleratel Cancer Risk Profile plummeted. |
| 0:20.1 | Well hello there and welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:33.6 | Committee. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen or a view or a download wherever |
| 0:43.0 | it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:45.5 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:51.1 | Following the death recently of actor Chadwick Boseman, the world is again being reminded |
| 0:56.7 | of the unforgiving nature of colorectal cancer. |
| 1:02.4 | The disease claimed the actor's life at the tender age of 43. |
| 1:08.1 | And so in his honor today we will be exploring colorectal cancer with two experts on the |
| 1:16.8 | subject. |
| 1:18.3 | Gastroenterologist Dr. Alan Desmond and our own Dr. Neil Barnard. |
| 1:24.9 | Now we know that foods like hot dogs and sausage and bacon process meats. |
| 1:31.5 | We know that they can cause cancer. |
| 1:34.7 | There is irrefutable evidence to that. |
| 1:38.8 | These are facts that are very much well known. |
| 1:42.8 | Especially over the last decade or so. |
| 1:47.0 | But what is not talked about nearly as much is the role that gut microbiome and gut bacteria, |
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