I absolutely agree with this advice today.
I also think it will be terrible advice in 15 years when we have a huge data set of healthy scans + longitudinal interventions.
Both can be true.
Jason Ryan (@jasonryanmd)
Whole body scans in asymptomatic people won't save lives overall. They will mostly find benign incidentalomas that cause anxiety for otherwise healthy people. Many of us have benign growths that mimic cancer but are harmless. These will be discovered leading to unnecessary panic and additional testing that causes harm.
If you want to live a long healthy life, skip the scan and instead go the gym and eat a salad.
— https://nitter.net/jasonryanmd/status/2067639995892953502#m