Millennials Facing Increased Cancer Risk Due to Lifestyle Factors

Imagine your body is like a house.

For a long time, we thought if a house got damaged, it was because the blueprints (your genes) were bad.

But doctors are now seeing that for many millennials, the house is getting damaged because of how people are living in it.

Things like eating lots of junk food, drinking too much alcohol, not getting enough sleep, and being stressed all the time are like constantly banging on the walls or leaving the water on.

These actions damage the house's parts (your DNA) over time.

Even using too much medicine, like painkillers or stomach aids, can sometimes cause problems.

These lifestyle choices are making it more likely for millennials to get sick with diseases like cancer much earlier than older generations did.