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I recently had a cancerous thyroid removed so I've been trying to learn more about it. In this article I learned that the incididence has been skyrocketing. The

I recently had a cancerous thyroid removed so I've been trying to learn more about it. In this article I learned that the incididence has been skyrocketing. The same chart has a flat mortality trend, confirming what my doctor said about this being one of the better cancers to have if you're going to get one. Some doctors want to stop calling the most common type a cancer and start calling it a non-cancerous neoplasm. But why the large monotonic rise in incidence? Are we somehow getting even less iodine in our food? I'm supplementing with it now, wish I started long ago. It could be part of the problem that we discourage salt consumption. Salt binds with halides like bromide and fluoride, which compete for iodine receptors. The same problem behind thyroid cancer may also contribute to the obesity epidemic by damaging energy metabolism via hypothyroidism. I almost hope so, since then my thyroid hormone replacement may help with weight loss. Or perhaps causation somehow flows in the other direction and obesity contributes to thyroid disease. And much of the increase may simply be from growing diagnostic scrutiny. Thyroid disease is very profitable for the healthcare industry. Treatments are effective for many and are usually life long. So there's great incentive all around to pay more attention to it.

piuantiderp 2y ago
Bread used to have iodine added, now it's bromine. Pools would sometimes use iodine, now it's chlorine. Then we have all the brominated flame retardants.. Progress Sorry to hear about your surgery. Do you link it to iodine deficiency or something else?
- delichon 2y ago
  It was part of a large goiter. The story I'm hearing is that the thyroid expands into a goiter for the purpose of capturing more iodine from the bloodstream, and a thyroid tumor is a growth defect of the goiter. It seems to be common to treat goiter and their tumors with iodine. But my surgeon made no association between the goiter, tumor and hypothyroid at all and she didn't even recommend iodine. There seems to be a lot of divergent opinion among the pros.
AtlasBarfed 2y ago
So to me, is it nefarious evil corporation pollution, or just lifestyle differences, or just better detection/treatment/knowledge of cancer variations? The biggest change from now to then is obesity which is an umbrella for lack of exercise/activity, sedentary jobs and leisure time, and a vast increase in corn syrup and caloric content in eating. Environmental factors beside nuke testing might be a near-hundred-years of ICE pollution permeating the entire world, microplastics, and other pollution. Vitamin supplements may also help tumor growth. Staying indoors, aside from the exercise impact, may reduce vitamin D production from sunlight which seems to inhibit cancers as well. But eating like crap, not exercising/being active, and being fat are all not-insignificant aspects to cancer. Exercise has dozens of ancillary health benefits that can tie into cancer incidence, sugar is rocket fuel for tumors, and obesity is directly linked to cancer. I honestly hope once EVs and alt energy permeate the energy production and transportation sectors if we see a huge decline in cancer rates a decade later.

piuantiderp 2y ago

Bread used to have iodine added, now it's bromine. Pools would sometimes use iodine, now it's chlorine. Then we have all the brominated flame retardants.. Progress Sorry to hear about your surgery. Do you link it to iodine deficiency or something else?

delichon 2y ago
It was part of a large goiter. The story I'm hearing is that the thyroid expands into a goiter for the purpose of capturing more iodine from the bloodstream, and a thyroid tumor is a growth defect of the goiter. It seems to be common to treat goiter and their tumors with iodine. But my surgeon made no association between the goiter, tumor and hypothyroid at all and she didn't even recommend iodine. There seems to be a lot of divergent opinion among the pros.

AtlasBarfed 2y ago

So to me, is it nefarious evil corporation pollution, or just lifestyle differences, or just better detection/treatment/knowledge of cancer variations? The biggest change from now to then is obesity which is an umbrella for lack of exercise/activity, sedentary jobs and leisure time, and a vast increase in corn syrup and caloric content in eating. Environmental factors beside nuke testing might be a near-hundred-years of ICE pollution permeating the entire world, microplastics, and other pollution. Vitamin supplements may also help tumor growth. Staying indoors, aside from the exercise impact, may reduce vitamin D production from sunlight which seems to inhibit cancers as well. But eating like crap, not exercising/being active, and being fat are all not-insignificant aspects to cancer. Exercise has dozens of ancillary health benefits that can tie into cancer incidence, sugar is rocket fuel for tumors, and obesity is directly linked to cancer. I honestly hope once EVs and alt energy permeate the energy production and transportation sectors if we see a huge decline in cancer rates a decade later.