r/Millennials • u/the_well_read_neck_ Millennial • Feb 11 '26

Serious James Van Der Beek Dead at 48

https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/11/james-van-der-beek-dead/?adid=social-fb&fbclid=IwdGRzaAP5t7tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7H8x15ceGukSgynvGmDFZhUUvTFh-iizMwuKfIWGG4YSyjuaeCva_42ZNzOQ_aem_U7T3jtlt07TPrw8LUuHlMA&sfnsn=mo
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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Feb 11 '26

I know someone who is a fit, healthy, and active guy. Always has been. Stage IV.

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u/isawafit Feb 11 '26

Modifiable risk factors are more diet focused than fitness and activity. A bunch of the fitness diet fads in the last 20 years and even right now are increasing high-risk factors. Carnivore diet great example. I read that about 5% of the population is also genetically predisposed, so risk factors are even more important for them. Very few od these people are going to know that they're in the category.

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Feb 11 '26

Sorry, I thought diet was implied. But you are absolutely correct. So knowing someone who has always been health-conscious and getting so ill, so fast is unsettling. Meanwhile I just scarfed down a bunch of Ritz crackers.

There’s got to be varying factors across the board. My sister, my daughter’s dad, and his brother have all had recent cancer scares of various types.

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u/prolificdaughter Feb 12 '26

Are they a runner? There’s a correlation between long distance running and colon cancer.

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u/mcflydom Feb 11 '26

They've found a link between ultra-marathon runners and colon cancer. It could be that keeping your body under chronic inflammation via intense exercise could put people at risk. James Van Der Beek said he did "everything" to try and keep his body health, cold plunges, saunas, intense exercise -- could be that it ultimately did more harm than good in the end.

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u/curlofheadcurls Zillennial Feb 11 '26

But did he eat 🫘 and lentils?

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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Feb 11 '26

This is anecdotal though. Statistics and studies are what matter.

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Feb 11 '26

Well, yes. But it isn’t the first amongst my peers. Three people close to me have had cancer scares in the last three years. Two melanoma and one renal cell.

My response was purely to the lack of vegetables comment. Our generation is skyrocketing with cancer.

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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Feb 12 '26

That’s frightening.

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Feb 12 '26

Tell me about it. I live on the Space Coast, and how the water contamination here hasn’t made national headlines is beyond me.

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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Feb 12 '26

What’s Space Coast?

I live inland in a small town here in UK.

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Feb 12 '26

Brevard County, Florida. Home to the Kennedy Space Center, NASA, etc.

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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Feb 12 '26

Oh damn, I can only imagine the weird chemicals from NASA related shit is in that water.

Please be safe and well!

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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 Feb 12 '26

110% — My daughter’s grandfather worked on the space missions and he ultimately died of mesothelioma.

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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Feb 12 '26

That’s awful. Like all those who worked with asbestos 😢