Cancer patients are younger than ever — and this doctor knows why



Cancer was once a disease that was mostly reserved for older populations, but that’s no longer the case. Diagnoses of the disease have skyrocketed among young people in the United States in the past 10 to 20 years.

Functional integrative physician and medical director of Cancer Center for Healing and Center for New Medicine Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy has the answer as to why that is.

“There’s a study that shows the increase in specifically colorectal cancer for young people,” Allie Beth Stuckey tells Connealy. “It used to be that was a type of cancer reserved for very old people, really, all types of cancer used to be more just an old-person problem. But that’s becoming less and less true.”

Connealy knows that much of the answer lies in what we consume.

“They’re not eating the right foods. They’re eating foods with lots of chemicals and toxins and seed oils, and you know, most of them are probably deficient in vitamins and minerals,” she explains.

But it’s not just seed oils and toxins.

“Parasites, all bugs, can contribute to the scenario of cancer,” Connealy explains. “And so, American doctors don’t think you can have parasites, because we have this clean, sterile, society, right?”

“But of course not,” she continues, explaining that commonly consumed food, like sushi, contains parasites.

“It’s something that, you know again, is one of the contributing causes to cancer. So, you know, cancer isn’t just one disturbance. It’s the perfect storm that’s creating this chaotic environment,” she says.

Unfortunately, doctors in the American medical system aren’t trained to address problems at the source.

“Doctors are taught a very indoctrinated version of medicine,” Connealy says. “In medical medical you’re taught how the body works, then the pharmacology that you use on the diagnosis you’re making, and then you may need surgery in some cases if it’s a diseased organ.”

While doctors aren’t taught to address the food patients are eating or the toxins they surround themselves with, they also aren’t taught to address stress levels.

“I’ve never met a patient where the doctor told the patient they need to change their eating and they need to address their stress,” she adds.


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One-third of US adults don't get enough sleep, putting them at risk of serious health consequences



Americans are not getting enough sleep, which could have serious consequences for their health.

One in three American adults is not getting enough sleep — defined as seven or more hours a night — per a study recently conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Axios reported.

A press release from the CDC regarding the study states, "More than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, according to a new study in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report."

The press release continued to indicate that this study was the first of its kind and documented the sleep habits of Americans across the country.

It said, "This is the first study to document estimates of self-reported healthy sleep duration (7 or more hours per day) for all 50 states and the District of Columbia."

The study found that rates of "healthy sleep duration" were lower among Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, non-Hispanic blacks, multiracial non-Hispanics, and American Indians/Native Alaskans.

Non-Hispanic whites, Hispanics, and Asians tended to get more sleep.

Lower portions of adults reported getting at least seven hours of sleep a day in states located in the southeastern region of the country and adults in the Appalachian Mountains. These areas have the highest prevalence of obesity and other chronic health conditions in the country.

Reportedly, over time, not getting enough sleep on a regular basis can drastically increase a person's risk of experiencing heart disease, strokes, and cancer.

Medical research has also linked insufficient sleep to obesity, depression, anxiety, heart failure, and dementia.

Lack of sleep is also directly tied to increases in an individual's health care costs and poor job performance. Employees who do not get enough sleep are much more likely to be unfocused at work, miss work, or get injured while on the job.

The CDC's study even found that people who said they were unable to work or were unemployed had lower reported rates of healthy sleep duration than employed respondents did.

Healthy sleep duration was also highest among people who received at least one college degree.

Francesco Cappuccio, a heart health and sleep expert at the University of Warwick, said, "Sleep is not a dead state. It's like pressing the 'save' button on a computer"

While we sleep, our bodies repair tissue, organize our thoughts, and consolidate memory.

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National Guard soldiers booted out of Capitol, forced to sleep in parking garage



Several outlets confirmed Thursday night that thousands of National Guard troops sent to provide security for the inauguration of President Joe Biden were kicked out of the Capitol and other federal buildings the following day—with several hundred or more sent to the cramped quarters of a single parking garage.

What are the details?

Politico reported that thousands of soldiers were "forced to vacate congressional grounds" Thursday, kicked out of the buildings they had guarded for weeks with some banished and packed into the Thurgood Marshall Judicial Center garage.

"Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service," one Guardsman told the outlet. "Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed."

The New York Times confirmed the story, reporting:

Two Guard soldiers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that they had been given no explanation as to why they were being relocated early Thursday afternoon, and said that they were without electrical power, heat and adequate restroom facilities. One Guard soldier estimated that there were 1,000 of them sharing a single portable restroom stationed outside of the parking garage.

One soldier told Task & Purpose, ""There's one toilet for somewhere between 500 and 100 people, there's no water fountains or anything, no power strips to charge our radios and cell phones, which have been our primary mode of communication since we've been here. It's pissed a lot of dudes off."

He added, "It's f***ed up because it just shows how politicians really feel about the National Guard. Leaving our families for the last two weeks to come down here … it's certainly important and historic, but the day after inauguration you kick us literally to the curb? Come on, man."

Following the reports, Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) expressed outrage over the "disgraceful treatment" of the troops, and called for "accountability."

He provided an update soon after, tweeting, "[T]he troops who had been taking rest breaks outside and in parking garages on Capitol Police orders have been given an apology and are being moved back to the Capitol complex and Capitol Visitor Center."

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— Rep. Peter Meijer (@Rep. Peter Meijer)1611286731.0

What's the background?

Roughly 25,000 National Guard troops from across the nation were sent to the Capitol and cleared to use lethal force against fellow Americans in the face of any threat following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters.

Leading up to Inauguration Day, federal authorities vetted the service members in search of any "extremist views" or signals of an inside plot that might pose a risk to Biden or members of Congress. A dozen or so Guardsmen were removed from the security detail following the investigations.