Cancer Prevention Through a Heallthy Lifestyle
Preventing cancer involves reducing risk factors and adopting healthier lifestyles. While no method guarantees complete prevention, the following evidence-based strategies can significantly lower your risk.
1. Healthy Diet: Eat
A diet rich in proteins, fruits, vegetables, and fiber. Eliminate processed foods, seed oils, and limit your intake of sugar and alcohol.
2. Maintain a Healthy Weight.
Obesity can impair your immune system by promoting chronic inflammation. Obesity is linked to cancers like breast, colon, and kidney. Aim for a balanced and regular exercise regimen to maintain a healthy BMI.
3. Physical Activity.
Engage in 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity, such as brisk walking, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity, like running or biking, per week. Exercise helps regulate hormones like cortisol (inflammation-causing), boosts your immunity, helps maintain a healthy weight, and reduces inflammation by improving blood flow.
4. Avoid carcinogens.
Limit exposure to environmental toxins, such as asbestos, radon, industrial chemicals, and heavy metals.
5. Manage stress and sleep
Chronic stress and poor sleep may increase the risk of cancer by weakening your immunity. Prioritize stress management, with exercise, prayer, and meditation, and maintain a healthy, positive attitude and self-image. Aim for 7-9 hours of sleep nightly.
6. Avoid Tobacco
Smoking and tobacco are linked to multiple cancers. Quitting smoking or never starting is critical. Avoid secondhand smoke.
7. Water Purification
We have a water crisis, which extends far beyond Flint, Michigan, with over 200 million Americans exposed to chemical contaminants, including lead, PFAS, and microplastics. Chlorination byproducts in treated water may increase cancer risks, while agricultural runoff containing atrazine can disrupt hormonal development at low exposure levels. What’s killing us now, whether it’s dementia, cancer, cardiovascular disease, or diabetes, is civilization itself.”
8. Sousop
Benefits for fighting cancer, rich in antioxidants, help neutralise harmful free radicals that contribute to cancer. Contains acetogenins, a unique substance that has shown potential in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. Boosts your immune system, is high in Vitamin C, critical for fighting off cancer, and reduces inflammation. Supports cellular health by aiding in the regeneration of healthy cells. Helps flush out toxins, supporting overall cancer prevention. I don’t use it to treat cancer because it is high in carbohydrates, although others do.
Barbara O’Neil on soursop
9. Cancer is affected by lifestyle
By not exercising, being under stress, having poor sleep, and eating ultra-processed food (sometimes food-like substances). Our bodies become increasingly less capable of utilizing oxygen to generate energy. Cells resort to fermentation, like cells in primitive life forms once did. This is the crux of the matter. When cells switch from oxygen to glucose (a sugar) and glutamine (an amino acid) to generate energy, they become cancer cells. The solution? Starving the tumor.
10. Get your biomarkers checked
The purpose is to look for early signs of future disease. This often starts with insulin resistance, leading to inflammation and eventually mitochondrial dysfunction, laying the groundwork for cancer. To be evaluated, sign up for a cancer follow-up appointment, and I will order the labs and review the results with you. When identified early, usually it is just behavior changes that are needed, which, when instituted, avoid chronic disease, medications, and preserve your health.
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Sleep quality and risk of cancer