Mental Disorders Can Cause Usule Cancer At A Young Age, Here Are The Facts

Illustration of mental disorders at a young age (Pexels/Andreapiacquadio)

JAKARTA - Cases of colon cancer or colossal cancer are increasing in the younger generation. This cancer is triggered by many factors, one of which is a person's mental disorder.

Citing the Daily Mail page, on Thursday, October 24, 2024, researchers from China's Sichuan University, found that an unstable mental condition could have an impact on gut health. When a person experiences continuous stress, a number of healthy bacteria living in the intestines slowly die.

Dead healthy bacteria will make cancer cells easy to develop. The development of colorectal cancer can occur more aggressively and more quickly.

These results were found among young people in the United States and Britain. Young people there aged 18 to 34 years experience high levels of stress including anxiety, which results in other diseases, including intestinal cancer.

In addition to unstable mental health, colon cancer or colorectal cancer can also be caused by eating patterns in young people that tend to be bad. Young people consume a lot of processed foods and energy drinks.

These foods and beverages can make obesity, disruption of bacteria in the intestines, and high blood sugar levels. Thus, eating healthy foods or real foods is highly recommended so that the risk of developing intestinal cancer decreases.

It should also be noted that the excessive use of antibiotics is thought to be a factor in the occurrence of colon cancer, because it disturbs the colony of healthy bacteria in the intestines. However, related to this, more in-depth research is still needed.