20/12/2025
Bowel cancer is no longer an “older person’s disease.”
Australia has a bowel cancer epidemic striking the 20's to 40's.
Young people are dying from it.
Because misdiagnosis delays treatment.
Australia is not alone — this is happening globally.
Miles a 23yo was mistakenly diagnosed with Crohn's.
Crohn’s is devastating — but Crohn’s is not cancer.
They require completely different treatments.
Miles, died because aggressive bowel cancer was missed.
Forwarned is fore-armed.
The strongest defence we have right now against bowel cancer is
🧡 DIET
🧡 MOVE YOUR BODY
🧡 LOWER CHRONIC STRESS
No extremes.
No perfection.
Just consistent, realistic choices.
What actually helps:
🌿Cook wholefoods, veggies, legumes, clean meat, fish, simple breads.
🌿 Low sugar drinks & foods- high sugar causes insulin-like growth factor and cell proliferation meaning it feeds cancer.
🌿Limit or avoid alcohol,
🌿 No smoking, and va**ng
🌿 Limit ultra-processed packet foods, learn to cook again it's not hard (including “easy” frozen meals, frozen chicken kievs)
🌿 Limit processed meats there are low or no preservative salamis and hams sausages, bacon. but you look for them.
🌿 Cut back severely on fast food - it’s industrial waste pretending to be food
🌿 Watch emulsifiers (e.g. Polysorbate-80 / E433, E472.... ) from Ice Cream to prescription medicines and bread it's in it.
know your numbers: they damage the gut lining
🌿 know your numbers nitrates, emulsifiers, pfas in the plastics our food is wrapped in.
🌿 Choose real bread with short ingredient lists - emulsifier, preservative and cultured grain free
🌿 Eat vegetables daily. resistant starch feeds protective gut bacteria. Veggies, veggies, veggies. Qld Health standard id's 5 serves.
If you include some lentils beans chickpeas it's really easy.
🌿 Eat legumes (soaked or pressure-cooked) lentils beans chickpeas etc. Learn to cook recipes with this.
🌿 Avoid seed oils: systemic inflammation and oxidation in cooking. Use pure cold pressed olive or avocado oil. Not blended olive oil.
🌿 exercise small amounts x 5 times a week. Build up to 30 mins start with five or whatever you can do build the habit.
🌿 limit your life stresses as best you can what you can't limit proactive LEARN to stress less about those unchangeables.
Stress responding is mostly a learned behaviour - the triggers our built-in autonomic nervous system that's designed to keep us safe.
Get trauma therapy if that's what's driving it.
The gut drives your immune system, inflammation levels, mental health, and cancer risk.
We don’t yet know every trigger.
But we know enough to act.
Do what you can, while you can.
Share your cleaner food options.
It's worth the effort to have a healthier life and to share with younger people so they actually get to live their life.
Get started today.
You don't have to go all Sparta and eliminate everything and have cold showers in spend 23 hours in the gym.
Do you need to start and start small enough that you'll do it tomorrow in the next day.
The body will only respond to that not a couple of weeks.
