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I would disagree and make the important distinction that many chemo treatment recipients get very thin.

Like saying "I don't have time to take a shower, because my bath takes an hour"

It's interesting that a side effect of pretty much every treatment for cancer is nausea, weight loss, etc. Almost like reduced nutrient absorption is the main mechanism by which the treatments work.

Since most cancer treatments target fast-replicating cells and the gut is lined with such cells I think you have the arrow of causality backwards in this case.

Obviously I am saying the standard explanation is the one with the causality backwards.

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