{"id":212249,"date":"2025-04-23T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gut-toxin-may-be-a-critical-piece-of-the-puzzle-behind-the-rise-in-early-onset-colorectal-cancer"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:03:28","slug":"gut-toxin-may-be-a-critical-piece-of-the-puzzle-behind-the-rise-in-early-onset-colorectal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gut-toxin-may-be-a-critical-piece-of-the-puzzle-behind-the-rise-in-early-onset-colorectal-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Gut toxin may be a \u2018critical piece of the puzzle\u2019 behind the rise in early-onset colorectal cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-toxin-may-be-a-critical-piece-of-the-puzzle-behind-the-rise-in-early-onset-colorectal-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gut toxin that\u2019s been linked to colorectal cancers for more than two decades may be contributing to the sharp rise of the disease in younger people, according to landmark research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. A number of species of harmful gut bacteria \u2014 including certain strains\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gut toxin that\u2019s been linked to colorectal cancers for more than two decades may be contributing to the sharp rise of the disease in younger people, according to landmark research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. A number of species of harmful gut bacteria \u2014 including certain strains\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}