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i wasn’t claiming professional researchers didn’t know something, so not sure where you are pulling that from. i guess the mechanism correlating weight and can
by whimsicalism 2y ago
i wasn’t claiming professional researchers didn’t know something, so not sure where you are pulling that from.
i guess the mechanism correlating weight and cancer is more complex than “more cells more cancer”, but the correlation is still well measured and i assume a reason why physical exercise would anti-correlate as well
e: also my understanding was non-adipose cell count was also correlated as weight
- anon84873628 2y agoOf course there is a correlation. You were proposing an "obvious" explanation for it based on relative cell counts, which "obviously" is not correct if you consider the nature of the tissues involved.
- whimsicalism 2y agoOh definitely. It wasn’t clear from my above comment, but I acknowledge that bit was definitely wrong and will eat crow for that. I guess the main thing I was trying to say was that we know obesity is correlated with cancer and I thought we had some understanding of the mechanism behind that, so my guess is that physical exercise is just the inverse of that mechanism?