You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
But by the end of the first trimester, one out of everything 50,000 cells in mommyâs body are from her soon-to-be son or daughter. As her pregnancy develops, weâre looking at one out of every 1,000 of the motherâs cells as coming from baby â and about 6% of her DNA in her blood plasma comes from her child too.