Welcome to our most CONTROVERSIAL episode yet! We address “Turbo cancer” (idk what’s specifically meant by this still but I outline the likely/historical geneses behind these cases), inflammation issues, central dogma basics, mRNA vaccine tech, the rise of the microbiome and its importance for health, and the likely (yet boring) underlying sources of the rising cancer diagnoses among Millennials and younger Gen X patients. We’ll cover what stages and “bombs” were set decades ago. I wish that I had more time to keep going, so maybe we’ll do a part 2 since this is a big, complicated story worth telling, even if the statistically likely ending is sadder and less exciting than most accounts.

We’ll break down the shifts in Biology, social media’s ability to spread stories and fear, and the best steps to remain healthy (mostly common sense).

I totally forgot to mention microplastics (and nanoplastics) by name in the end of the episode. Consider them some of the most villainous contaminants!

Sung 2024: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00156-7/fulltext

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Check out my new show where I interview my MSU students about their stories and successes in “Degrees Between Us”! It’s a video show, so the YouTube link might be easiest: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnwMyklYPGa-Q7rn4W73K_f5jk_szGFRf&si=h_9PWi1jwHGm4mo2