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I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is 100% correct.

• y-c-o-m-b 3y ago
  It's an ambiguous rant, that's why it's getting down-voted. No specific message. No sources. No data. Just an empty lecture on "listen to your body!", but no substance to explain how, why, what to do etc.
  • sdwr 3y ago
    The core steps to paying attention to yourself: - notice - fill in the picture - use it to inform your decisions For example, my oral health fluctuates based on what I eat. Too much sugar or sweet carbs, and my gums start feeling itchy and sore. Having that self-awareness helps, because when it starts becoming a problem, I can take corrective action, and fix my mouth before I get a cavity or lose gum tissue. Now, this is exactly what a dentist would say - brush and avoid sugar. What self-awareness helps with is knowing how much is too much! I'm not flying blind, I know what "good mouth" and "bad mouth" feel like.
    • SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
      Which works fine for something simple like "if I eat too much sugar I get a tummy ache". It's harder to do with something that is hard to detect, like pancreatic cancer, or a symptom that could be caused by a huge number of things, like feeling tired. The first problem is the one that's trying to be solved by the solution in the article.
      • sdwr 3y ago
        Yeah, that's a simple example. Pancreatic cancer would be at the other end of the scale: - it's internal - nobody really knows what their pancreas is supposed to do anyway Plus the normal problems with self-analysis: - distinguishing signal from noise - going around looking for a problem means overpowering whatever signal there was with conscious attention Still, I think someone with a stable routine, who has practice teasing out subtle signals, could pick up on something like that. Once you have enough experience with how your body "should" work, any deviation is noticeable.
        • SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
          At best they could determine something was wrong, maybe that they were tired more than they should be, and would have to go to a doctor for answers. I very much doubt anyone could go "Yup, I have pancreatic cancer." It's really hoping that someone could pick up very slight symptoms, and I don't think that they'll always be as apparent as you'd hope. It almost feels like victim blaming to say that if they'd just been more in touch they could have detected the barely detectable. Are there any examples of someone detecting pancreatic cancer early on their own?
• goosejuice 3y ago
  Likely because, similar the other thread about obesity, this article is referring to direct evidence of genetic changes rather than observation of ones differentials or symptoms. Just a guess, I know very little about this subject.
• bobmcnamara 3y ago
  Because they didn't read the article.