The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I love people to consider oral microbiome testing I I personally have a friend who we tested her oral microbiome and she was through the roof with f nucleatum pretty asymptomatic otherwise but f nucleatum is linked to increased risk of pancreatic cancer breast cancer and coloral cancer I mean we swallow 2,000 times a day and we know some of these bugs these bacteria they can live through the stomach acid and make their way down into the gut
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
Whole-body MRI screening in healthy adults produces more incidentaloma harm than cancer-mortality benefit.
Starting colonoscopy screening at 45 (vs 50) prevents enough early-onset cancers to justify the population cost.
Multi-cancer liquid-biopsy tests like Galleri detect early cancers at a stage that meaningfully improves survival.