Research Suggests: Fatty Lumps (Lipomas) and Cancer are Connected to Nerve Injuries

For years I've written about two things that, on the surface, look completely unrelated. One is fatty lumps — lipomas — the soft, seemingly harmless-looking bumps that show up on so many dogs as they get older and why I don't rush to surgically remove them. The other is something bigger and more serious: the connection I've watched for two decades between collar pressure on the neck and cancer. I never planned to put these two topics side by side. But the more I sat with both, the more I realized they're not two stories. They're the same story, told at two different volumes. Every Lump is a Message. Most People Just Hear Noise When a dog develops a fatty lump, the instinct is to think of it as random. Bad luck. Something to remove and forget about. But after thousands of dogs and thousands of lumps, I stopped believing in random. I noticed something simple: lipomas don't scatter across the body evenly. They cluster. And more often than not, they cluster near a vertebra that is out of alignment and surrounding muscle that's tight, injured, inflamed. I think of an injured part of the spine like a black hole of the body. It sucks up the body's energy and reduces blood circulation. Ner...