New information on preventing cancer & preventing prostate cancer....
Today's Post: Tuesday, 11-10-2009
We’ve posted many times on ways to prevent all cancers and on ways to prevent prostate cancer.
But both are such dangerous diseases both to your life and health AND to your quality of life, when there is new and useful information on these subjects, I like to post it and add some of the other information we’ve already posted for those who haven’t yet seen it.
The original news story that I read that regular exercise reduced the risk of getting prostate cancer was welcome news. But there are so many reasons to get regular exercise, I didn’t rush to post about it. Many if not most of you already get regular exercise for one of its many other benefits.
A. However, two new pieces of information came to me recently in my health emails.
1. Since the unaggressive form of prostate cancer can often safely be ignored and treating it often does more harm than good, though it’s certainly desirable to prevent that form of it, it’s far less critical than preventing the aggressive form of prostate cancer that has to be completely and quickly treated or it will kill you and make you suffer too.
The exciting news is that the missing piece of the study in the report I originally saw is that regular exercise is even more effective at preventing the aggressive form of prostate cancer than it is the less aggressive form!
In his email last Thursday, 11-5, Dr. Robert Wascher posted a well done essay on the study showing that regular exercise tested as preventing prostate cancer.
The study was just published in the Journal of Urology.
After statistical adjustments were made for other known prostate cancer risk factors such as age, race, bodyweight, prostate specific PSA levels, and family history, the men who did regular exercise most days, had a 65 percent lower risk of prostate cancer when compared to the men who got none.
And, even less regular exercise was found to make it 86 percent less likely in those men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer at all that their cancer was the aggressive kind.
That means that the men who did regular exercise most days got quite a bit fewer prostate cancers and even then, those who still got prostate cancer were far less likely to get the aggressive and dangerous kind. That means their protection from the aggressive form of prostate cancer from exercise was quite strong
Dr Wascher did point out that the study did NOT examine other activities health oriented people who exercise also often do that are cancer preventive such as staying away from tobacco smoke and eating cruciferous vegetables. (My examples, he just stated the overall point.) So the exercise might have had help from such other actions regular exercisers tend to take.
However, since exercise tends to reduce excess body fat and slow aging -- & both of those effects directly help prevent cancer, I suspect strongly the exercise itself was the primary cause of this effect.
2. Even more interesting, it seems a study has also been done that shows that vigorous exercise is effective at preventing ALL cancers.
Dr Al Sears had this one in his email this morning.
He found that vigorous exercise done for shorter periods of time was more effective in helping people lose fat than doing longer sessions of steady state cardio. Since people are short on time and want to lose excess fat, that is very valuable to know.
He then developed a teaching method to help his patients, many of whom were not yet doing any exercise at all, to build up safely to doing vigorous exercise that he named PACE.
(His website is www.alsearsmd.com .)
(You can build up gradually to vigorous exercise in other ways, such as jumping rope or doing progressive strength training of course.)
I had heard similar information from other sources. And the finding that vigorous exercise of even a few minutes, as in one or two, done several times a week, helped lower high blood sugar and HBA1C readings, lends some real force to demonstrating this effect is real.
But the same effect may also prevent cancer.
In his email this morning, Dr Sears includes that a study newly published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine which studied men in Finland over 16 years found that high intensity exercise cut their risk of getting any cancer in half.—AND that the higher the intensity of the exercise, the lower their risk of getting cancer.
(The study title was "Intensity of leisure-time physical activity and cancer mortality in men, " Not only does that suggest that men in this study who got regular vigorous exercise were less likely to get cancer, the study may also have found they may have been less likely to die from any cancers they got.)
So the bottom line is that both doing some moderate exercise several days a week and doing some really vigorous exercise a few times a week or doing both will prevent cancer and prevent the most dangerous kinds of cancer possibly even better – including prostate cancer.
Dr Sears has measured the amount of improvement in delivered oxygen from doing vigorous exercise and found that it is extremely effective. And in his email today, he suggests that it is this extra oxygen which helps your body fight off cancers or kill them so early you never really contracted them.
He may well be right. But it’s also true that your immune system has several components that kill off and get rid of dangerous cells, bacteria, and viruses such as killer cells (which may use the extra oxygen) and macrophages that simply swallow them up and escort them out. And, since these are transported in the blood, increasing your circulation and the percentage of your cells it gets to clearly also helps your immune system become more effective.
The key, other studies have found, is to rest or slow to a much lower pace in between sessions of vigorous activity enough that you avoid overtaxing your immune system.
B. Here are some of the ways that we’ve posted on that help prevent all cancers and that prevent prostate (& possibly breast and ovarian cancers in women).
1. To prevent all cancers:
Avoid tobacco smoke,
avoid all unnecessary radiation,
avoid all use of pesticides and herbicides you can inside and outside your home,
avoid using room air fresheners that spray chemicals into the air you breathe,
buy organic fruit and vegetables as much as you can afford to do,
and,
eat as little fat from grain fed animals as you can by eating grass or pasture fed and organically raised or wild caught animal proteins or consuming the lowest fat versions of conventionally raised animals. (Pesticides and herbicides are bioconcentrated in the fat of animals fed grains that come from farms where they are used.)
Eat many kinds of vegetables on most days and several kinds of cruciferous vegetables each week.
If you begin to get too fat or are too fat, eat enough better and exercise enough more that you lose at least some of your excess fat.
And, take at least 2,000 iu of vitamin D3 a day and a curcumin or turmeric supplement daily. Doing this strengthens your immune system enough, particularly your macrophages, that they each have been found to protect you from all cancers AND Alzheimer’s disease.
Taking the supplements resveratrol and CoQ10 or its active version, ubiquinone, may also help.
And, drinking 8 to 10 cups a day of green tea or one or two cups plus taking a daily green tea extract supplement may also help.
2. To prevent prostate cancer and the aggressive form of it (* very possibly breast and ovarian cancers as well):
Do all or most of the things that prevent all cancers. They prevent these cancers also.
One source found that those who take 3 mg a day of boron had half the prostate cancer of those who do not.
And, of even more importance, men who ate at least one serving of either raw cauliflower or raw broccoli each week had half the risk of getting the aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Cooked broccoli or cooked cauliflower are still excellent foods for helping you lose or keep off excess fat and broccoli has carotenes that you may actually get more of from cooked broccoli. But they have been found to NOT have this protective effect against cancer. Heating the vegetables apparently destroys the cancer fighting substance.
Lastly, organic vegetables have more micronutrients than “conventionally” raised vegetables do. So eating raw broccoli or cauliflower that have been organically grown will have the most cancer protection.
Now we can add regular moderate exercise and regular vigorous exercise to both lists!
Today's Post: Tuesday, 11-10-2009
We’ve posted many times on ways to prevent all cancers and on ways to prevent prostate cancer.
But both are such dangerous diseases both to your life and health AND to your quality of life, when there is new and useful information on these subjects, I like to post it and add some of the other information we’ve already posted for those who haven’t yet seen it.
The original news story that I read that regular exercise reduced the risk of getting prostate cancer was welcome news. But there are so many reasons to get regular exercise, I didn’t rush to post about it. Many if not most of you already get regular exercise for one of its many other benefits.
A. However, two new pieces of information came to me recently in my health emails.
1. Since the unaggressive form of prostate cancer can often safely be ignored and treating it often does more harm than good, though it’s certainly desirable to prevent that form of it, it’s far less critical than preventing the aggressive form of prostate cancer that has to be completely and quickly treated or it will kill you and make you suffer too.
The exciting news is that the missing piece of the study in the report I originally saw is that regular exercise is even more effective at preventing the aggressive form of prostate cancer than it is the less aggressive form!
In his email last Thursday, 11-5, Dr. Robert Wascher posted a well done essay on the study showing that regular exercise tested as preventing prostate cancer.
The study was just published in the Journal of Urology.
After statistical adjustments were made for other known prostate cancer risk factors such as age, race, bodyweight, prostate specific PSA levels, and family history, the men who did regular exercise most days, had a 65 percent lower risk of prostate cancer when compared to the men who got none.
And, even less regular exercise was found to make it 86 percent less likely in those men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer at all that their cancer was the aggressive kind.
That means that the men who did regular exercise most days got quite a bit fewer prostate cancers and even then, those who still got prostate cancer were far less likely to get the aggressive and dangerous kind. That means their protection from the aggressive form of prostate cancer from exercise was quite strong
Dr Wascher did point out that the study did NOT examine other activities health oriented people who exercise also often do that are cancer preventive such as staying away from tobacco smoke and eating cruciferous vegetables. (My examples, he just stated the overall point.) So the exercise might have had help from such other actions regular exercisers tend to take.
However, since exercise tends to reduce excess body fat and slow aging -- & both of those effects directly help prevent cancer, I suspect strongly the exercise itself was the primary cause of this effect.
2. Even more interesting, it seems a study has also been done that shows that vigorous exercise is effective at preventing ALL cancers.
Dr Al Sears had this one in his email this morning.
He found that vigorous exercise done for shorter periods of time was more effective in helping people lose fat than doing longer sessions of steady state cardio. Since people are short on time and want to lose excess fat, that is very valuable to know.
He then developed a teaching method to help his patients, many of whom were not yet doing any exercise at all, to build up safely to doing vigorous exercise that he named PACE.
(His website is www.alsearsmd.com .)
(You can build up gradually to vigorous exercise in other ways, such as jumping rope or doing progressive strength training of course.)
I had heard similar information from other sources. And the finding that vigorous exercise of even a few minutes, as in one or two, done several times a week, helped lower high blood sugar and HBA1C readings, lends some real force to demonstrating this effect is real.
But the same effect may also prevent cancer.
In his email this morning, Dr Sears includes that a study newly published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine which studied men in Finland over 16 years found that high intensity exercise cut their risk of getting any cancer in half.—AND that the higher the intensity of the exercise, the lower their risk of getting cancer.
(The study title was "Intensity of leisure-time physical activity and cancer mortality in men, " Not only does that suggest that men in this study who got regular vigorous exercise were less likely to get cancer, the study may also have found they may have been less likely to die from any cancers they got.)
So the bottom line is that both doing some moderate exercise several days a week and doing some really vigorous exercise a few times a week or doing both will prevent cancer and prevent the most dangerous kinds of cancer possibly even better – including prostate cancer.
Dr Sears has measured the amount of improvement in delivered oxygen from doing vigorous exercise and found that it is extremely effective. And in his email today, he suggests that it is this extra oxygen which helps your body fight off cancers or kill them so early you never really contracted them.
He may well be right. But it’s also true that your immune system has several components that kill off and get rid of dangerous cells, bacteria, and viruses such as killer cells (which may use the extra oxygen) and macrophages that simply swallow them up and escort them out. And, since these are transported in the blood, increasing your circulation and the percentage of your cells it gets to clearly also helps your immune system become more effective.
The key, other studies have found, is to rest or slow to a much lower pace in between sessions of vigorous activity enough that you avoid overtaxing your immune system.
B. Here are some of the ways that we’ve posted on that help prevent all cancers and that prevent prostate (& possibly breast and ovarian cancers in women).
1. To prevent all cancers:
Avoid tobacco smoke,
avoid all unnecessary radiation,
avoid all use of pesticides and herbicides you can inside and outside your home,
avoid using room air fresheners that spray chemicals into the air you breathe,
buy organic fruit and vegetables as much as you can afford to do,
and,
eat as little fat from grain fed animals as you can by eating grass or pasture fed and organically raised or wild caught animal proteins or consuming the lowest fat versions of conventionally raised animals. (Pesticides and herbicides are bioconcentrated in the fat of animals fed grains that come from farms where they are used.)
Eat many kinds of vegetables on most days and several kinds of cruciferous vegetables each week.
If you begin to get too fat or are too fat, eat enough better and exercise enough more that you lose at least some of your excess fat.
And, take at least 2,000 iu of vitamin D3 a day and a curcumin or turmeric supplement daily. Doing this strengthens your immune system enough, particularly your macrophages, that they each have been found to protect you from all cancers AND Alzheimer’s disease.
Taking the supplements resveratrol and CoQ10 or its active version, ubiquinone, may also help.
And, drinking 8 to 10 cups a day of green tea or one or two cups plus taking a daily green tea extract supplement may also help.
2. To prevent prostate cancer and the aggressive form of it (* very possibly breast and ovarian cancers as well):
Do all or most of the things that prevent all cancers. They prevent these cancers also.
One source found that those who take 3 mg a day of boron had half the prostate cancer of those who do not.
And, of even more importance, men who ate at least one serving of either raw cauliflower or raw broccoli each week had half the risk of getting the aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Cooked broccoli or cooked cauliflower are still excellent foods for helping you lose or keep off excess fat and broccoli has carotenes that you may actually get more of from cooked broccoli. But they have been found to NOT have this protective effect against cancer. Heating the vegetables apparently destroys the cancer fighting substance.
Lastly, organic vegetables have more micronutrients than “conventionally” raised vegetables do. So eating raw broccoli or cauliflower that have been organically grown will have the most cancer protection.
Now we can add regular moderate exercise and regular vigorous exercise to both lists!
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