[warmcat]

I have been taking baby aspirin since I had a colon cancer scare after my doctor advised me to. After a lot of literature reading, daily low dose aspirin therapy seems to be a good way to take care of your health.

[Fomite]

The caveat for this is if some of your primary health risks are bleeding related, at which point it's counter-productive in many cases.

[bitwize]

Some doctors refer to salicylic acid as "vitamin S" because of its myriad of positive health effects.

[moritzwarhier]

I take 100mg almost daily myself, but some studies say that for people without a prior stroke, myocardial infarction or Angina pectoris it can even be harmful. [1][2]

According to most general physicians here in Germany I shouldn't be taking it as a person without said medical history.

I don't plan to continue taking daily Asprin when I have met my weight loss and exercise goals.

This new evidence for benefits with cancer patients is very interesting.

Studies like that are hard to judge as a layman, meta-studies even more so.

[2] found:

> Cancer was the major contributor to the higher mortality in the aspirin group, accounting for 1.6 excess deaths per 1000 person-years. Cancer-related death occurred in 3.1% of the participants in the aspirin group and in 2.3% of those in the placebo group

In addition there's the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803955

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221317791...

[jgrahamc]

What sort of "colon cancer scare" resulted in you taking baby aspirin?

[bzaidan]

Mesalazine aka 5-ASA is an medication used to treat ulcerative colitis, crohn's and co. It's molecule is very similar to Aspirin. In fact, mesalazine is basically a localised form of aspirin for the gut. That's the logic I see in my head

[doggodaddo78]

If you can reduce inflammation systematically through numerous holistic means, you probably are going to live longer and better.

My intuition says that excessive inflammation, mechanical wear, or other repeated injuries at any scale are cancer/death fuel.