Prevention of breast cancer

How Can you Prevent Breast Cancer?

Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among in the world, and one in eight will develop it during her lifetime. Cancer rates are climbing uncontrollably, and costs are quickly becoming unsustainable.

The American Cancer Society widely encourages women to get mammograms, they do not do nearly enough to spread the word about the many ways women can help prevent breast cancer in the first place. Deodorant and bras, a healthy diet, regular physical exercise, and an effective way to manage your emotional health are the cornerstones of just about any cancer prevention program, including breast cancer.

 The following lifestyle strategies will also help to further lower the risk:

• Radically reduce the sugar/fructose intake.

Normalizing your insulin levels by avoiding sugar and fructose is one of the most powerful physical actions you can take to lower your risk of cancer. Unfortunately, very few oncologists appreciate or apply this knowledge today.

• Optimize your vitamin D level.

It should be over 50 ng/ml, but levels from 60-80 ng/ml will radically reduce your cancer risk. Safe sun exposure is the most effective way to increase your levels, followed by safe tanning beds and then oral vitamin D3 supplementation as a last resort if no other option is available.

• Maintain a healthy body weight.

This will come naturally when you begin to eat right for your nutritional type and exercising using high-intensity burst-type activities like Peak Fitness. It’s important to lose excess weight because estrogen, a hormone produced in fat tissue, may trigger breast cancer.

• Get plenty of high quality animal-based omega-3 fats

 such as those from krill oil. Omega-3 deficiency is a common underlying factor for cancer.

• Avoid drinking alcohol
• Breastfeed exclusively for up to six months. Research shows this will reduce your breast cancer risk.

• Watch out for excessive iron levels.

This is actually very common once women stop menstruating. The extra iron actually works as a powerful oxidant, increasing free radicals and raising your risk of cancer. So if you are a post-menopausal woman or have breast cancer you will certainly want to have your Ferritin level drawn. Ferritin is the iron transport protein and should not be above 80. If it is elevated you can simply donate your blood to reduce it.