Be sexier, less fat, and prevent prostate cancer....

Today's Post:  Thursday, 6-14-2012

There are a number of ways to do each one separately.

A.  First, here’s two ways to do each one -- all from that one method alone!

1.  Regular vigorous exercise on most days of every week causes or helps cause all 3 effects.  (You get the best results from doing both some strength training and some interval cardio each week.)

Such exercise causes your body to release growth hormone and testosterone. And, it slows aging and increases blood circulation.  It also lowers your stress levels and increases your ability to withstand stress. It lowers your risk of most cancers, particularly if you eat fruits and vegetables high in antioxidants and take antioxidant supplements too.)  People who do such exercise even early on develop better self-esteem.  They begin to be and stay more proactive and optimistic.  They feel sexier, they feel better, and they tend to look better and become nicer to be around.  That’s a great combination.

If you eat right, stop eating fattening foods, and do such exercise and add some sustainable calorie restriction AND do such exercise you can lose excess fat and keep it off.  Studies show people who do each of these lose enough fat they feel sexier.  Not only that, this combination is what people do who lose fat they keep off.  There are multiple ways that regular vigorous exercise is essential for doing this.  It isn’t sufficient if you fail to eat right; but it IS a key component that makes fat loss go faster, get better health results, and be sustainable enough you keep the fat off.

And, there are now studies showing that doing regular vigorous exercise helps prevent cancer directly.  (Such exercise slows aging which helps keep your immune system strong. And it causes your body to express genes that directly turn cancers off or slow them down.)

2.  From the vitamin D Council email newsletter recently I got this:

“Prostate cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer among men over the age of 75. And, prostate cancer has been one of the most researched topics in vitamin D! Researchers were initially interested in the two when they observed that sun exposure decreases the risk of prostate cancer.

But since then, research has come along much further. Just this past year, a team of doctors discovered that 4,000 IU/day helped men with low-risk prostate cancer, lowering their Gleason score and number of “positive cores.”

….Finally, vitamin D boosts testosterone levels! In a randomized controlled trial, 3,300 IU/day of vitamin D increased testosterone levels by 30-40%. In men, testosterone is important for reproduction tissues like the testis and prostate, and it's also important for key masculine features like increased muscle, bone mass, and the growth of body hair.”

So, that means that if you get regular vigorous exercise, eat antioxidant foods and take antioxidant supplements, AND take 3,000 to 5,000 iu of vitamin D3, your testosterone will be higher AND your risk of prostate cancer will be significantly less. 

You get all 3 effects.  Your libido will be higher.  More of you will be lean weight as strong bones and strong muscles. And, any weight loss you do will be mostly to all fat and the fat you take off will likely stay off.  And, you get two kinds of cancer and prostate cancer protection from both the exercise and the vitamin D3.

B.  Other ways to do these three things:

1.  Some other ways to boost testosterone include taking a supplement called tribulus.

It also helps if your level of “free” or bioavailable testosterone is high.  It seems that eating raw cruciferous vegetables prevents pollutants that mimic estrogen from lowering your free testosterone. So your effective testosterone goes up.  But separate studies show that eating raw cruciferous vegetables prevents cancer.  And eating raw cauliflower or broccoli florets each week or several times a week cuts your risk of the aggressive form of prostate cancer in HALF!

In addition, eating such vegetables helps you feel full, get the anticancer effect, get several other kinds of nutrition including the antioxidant vitamin C.  And, it does all this with close to zero calories.  And that means that eating such vegetables makes fat loss easier and easier to sustain so the fat stays off!

2.  Stopping as close to all intake of both regular and diet soft drinks and refined grain foods and high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and oils high in omega 6 and all oils that have been hydrogenated is big key to fat loss. Cutting back excessive sugar intake also helps.   You become LESS hungry.  You waste far fewer of the calories you take in, so you can eat MORE of the foods that protect your health and keep you well and still lose fat and keep it off.

Instead, eat a version you like of the DASH II diet or the Mediterranean diet with some extra nonstarchy vegetables and health OK protein foods.

The regular vigorous exercise and the increased testosterone increase muscle mass which burns at least 3 times the calories that the same weight of fat burns.  AND a recent study found that extra testosterone also removed belly fat!

3.  Besides these things from the regular vigorous exercise to the optimum intake of vitamin D3 to the raw cruciferous vegetables, there are several other ways to prevent cancer and most kinds of cancer.

Avoid tobacco smoke and tobacco products you put in your mouth!  Thirty per cent or more of ALL cancers are caused by smoke and/or tobacco products you put in your mouth.  That’s a huge chunk right off the top.

Smoke from a hot flame has several kinds of cancer creating compounds and most people today use lighters which have this effect.  Many of those compounds are also in cooler smoke. But recently news came out that tobacco also contains a radioactive element, polonium, so if you breathe tobacco smoke or put tobacco in your mouth or nose, that gets into your blood stream which goes everywhere in your body.  This can cause cancer anywhere in your body and too often it does. 

Avoid the tobacco smoke and tobacco products and you avoid all that!

Another key way to prevent cancers that has been proven to work is to either eat foods with curry spice that contains turmeric and black pepper or take curcumin from turmeric supplements along with a bit of black pepper once a day.  (I do both.)

The neat thing if you do this is you get four bonus health effects!  Your LDL cholesterol goes down.  Your level of chronic inflammation goes down.  So your heart health protection is better. And it also prevents Alzheimer’s disease! 

In summary, it IS quite doable to be sexier, less fat, and much less likely to get prostate cancer or any other cancer.

Now you know some of the methods that do this.