Dr. Logan Spector

Which, you know, rises a lot after age 50.

And they're maybe not thinking about the early life, what we call antecedents, you know, the beginnings.

But for a lot of cancers that even occur in, you know, older people,

there are hints that they start much earlier than that.

And in fact, like it surprises a lot of people, but there's an association between your birth weight and like a woman's risk of breast cancer or a man's risk of prostate cancer.

And it's also true for colon cancer.

And you might say, what, what does that mean?

And yeah,

Uh, we, we don't exactly know, but there's a couple of possibilities, you know, um, one is to get to a bigger birth weight.

You just need to have more cells, right?

Uh, cancer always starts in a cell or a group of cells that get that mutation.

All right.

And they can, they can, uh, go along without turning into cancer for decades, right?

But if you have a mutation while you're in utero, while you're a fetus, you have a lot of growing to do.

And so if that mutation happens early, it can expand.

And then you have a large part of your colon or your prostate or whatever tissue that's at risk for transforming, we say it.

That moment when it tips into cancer, that's called transformed.

And, you know, so really beginning from birth, like healthy life, healthy diet and exercise are important.

And now I have kids and my son, who's almost six, I think he eats nothing but quesadillas and, you know, chicken nuggets.

And we've tried really hard for him to, you know, love broccoli.