Dr. Trisha Pasricha

That's how I explain it.

Some people start out life with five blocks stacked against them, and it only takes 10 to get cancer.

You, your aunt, may have started out with just one or two blocks.

And then suppose you eat a lot of processed meats every day.

There's one more block.

You grow up in a town where

where air pollution is really severe, there's another two blocks.

And then suddenly you've hit 10 blocks and somebody who's had other patterns of behavior, they're more sedentary than you, whatever it is, they never hit that 10 block threshold.

And it feels unfair.

It feels hard to imagine why, but it's simply because we're starting at different places.

And a lot of the risk factors for colorectal cancer in these cases that we've been seeing rising are

They start in our childhoods.

They start at a time when we may or may not have had that kind of control over our lives.

Yeah.

Like I said, that information that you get just by looking is like a report card on your health.

Your poop, just having a look and just thinking about that experience of when you had the bowel movement will tell you about the food you've eaten, the quality of the food that you've eaten.

It's going to tell you about inflammation and possibly infections or the kinds of inflammation that come from our environment and our food.

It's going to tell you about how the brain in your gut is working.

You're going to get information by asking yourselves, how often did I go in one day?

How did I feel when I went?