This video, "Toxins, Cancer and Hormone Chaos," discusses how lifestyle choices greatly affect breast cancer risk and overall health. The speaker explains that most breast cancer cases are linked to diet, toxins, and stress, not just genetics. She emphasizes removing harmful elements like sugar, environmental toxins, and unnecessary medications, and adding beneficial habits like eating fiber-rich foods, exercising, getting enough sleep, and managing stress.
Key Takeaways
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Most breast cancer cases (90-95%) are linked to lifestyle factors such as diet, weight, toxins, sleep, stress, and exercise, rather than genetics.
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Sugar is a major culprit that raises insulin levels, increases inflammation, and is associated with imbalanced hormones and increased cancer aggressiveness.
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Environmental toxins, specifically xenoestrogens found in beauty products, household cleaners, and plastics, mimic estrogen and can stimulate cancer pathways.
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Eating a diet rich in fibrous vegetables, low-sugar fruits, olive oil, turmeric, and other spices, along with adequate protein and fermented foods, is crucial for building a cancer-resistant body and supporting gut health.
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Regular exercise (30 minutes daily) can significantly reduce breast cancer risk, especially for postmenopausal women.
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Maintaining an ideal weight, getting 8 hours of quality sleep, limiting alcohol, and managing chronic stress are important for cancer prevention and overall well-being.
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Avoiding dairy products, especially conventional ones, is recommended due to potential links with inflammation, gut microbiome alteration, and hormone-related cancers.
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Cooking foods at lower temperatures and avoiding burnt or fried foods helps reduce the formation of acrylamide, a harmful compound.
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Key supplements that can support breast cancer prevention include a good multivitamin, omega-3 oil with lignans, DIM/Indoplex, curcumin, medicinal mushrooms, and Vitamin D.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is hot in the news what's
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new in research or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better well I came across some
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research that I think is going to put a
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nail in the coffin on toxins as they
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relate to cancer especially breast
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cancer and hormone chaos breast cancer
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most common form of cancer among women
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and now it is showing up younger and
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younger most disturbing of all so if
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you're like a lot of us you're starting
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to look at your health care differently
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what conventional medicine is these days
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is emergency sick care not Health Care
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certainly not preventive care they're
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really doing not the important things
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for preventive health care and
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thankfully there's a lot of things that
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you can do totally in your control there
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are a lot of Basics I talk about in my
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book get out of hormone hell and I'm not
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just talking about the sex hormones I'm
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talking about all the hormones thyroid
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insulin melatonin cortisol the whole
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kitten Kaboodle of hormones that help us
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have a fantastic life not just one that
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you're getting by so today's topic is
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breast cancer prevention because it's
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epidemic these days in fact in the 1960s
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only one in 20 women were diagnosed with
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breast cancer now I mean it's like one
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in8 maybe less than that now so we got
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to get a handle on this among breast
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cancer Cas cases only 5 to 10% of those
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are related to genetic problems 90 to 95
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are attributed to Lifestyle factors diet
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weight toxins sleep stress
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exercise 90 to 95 that is something I
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can get excited about we got a really
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good shot at reducing our risk and you
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know this isn't just breast cancer I
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mean this is everything you know just by
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changing a few daily habits implementing
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a number of powerful simple things you
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know can prevent a whole bunch of Havoc
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over a lifetime and other good news is
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you know the same healthy habits to
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prevent a multitude of diseases that are
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on a rise in Western culture and we're
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getting really good about exporting that
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Western culture too so even parts of the
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world that have been very healthy are
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starting to feel the side effects of our
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diet so we have just developed a culture
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that is causing so many diseases and we
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just have to start changing that so you
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know why don't we hear more about these
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lifestyle risk factors and the only
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thing you hear about is early detection
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by then the horse is out of the barn how
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about we just close the barn door and
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keep the horse in so first of all what
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would I remove because it's you know in
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naturopathic medicine it's like okay we
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remove what is the biggest culprit so
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what would I remove
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toxins what is the number one toxin I
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would remove you're right sugar sugar is
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one of the most dangerous things because
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it raises insulin levels sugar is not a
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food it has no nutritional value so how
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can you call it a food it just is a
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feel-good addiction every time you eat
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sugar or foods that convert to sugar
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quickly you raise insulin levels
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increase inflammation increase
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igf1 all associated with imbalanced
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hormones and cancer
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aggressiveness put it bluntly and really
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honestly every time you eat sugar you're
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increasing your risk for breast cancer
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and increased
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insulin also means your body becomes
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really good at storing fat and studies
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show excess body fat increases the risk
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for breast cancer and the Vicious Cycle
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continues so as stated again and again
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and to quote Otto warberg from almost a
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century ago cancer cells love sugar and
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thrive in that environment so become
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proactive and prevent breast cancer you
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simply have to eliminate sugar and yes
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this means honey and maple syrup and all
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things
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sweet fruit a little there's got some
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Fiber in Fruit so we just need to limit
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fruit and not go crazy with
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juices another thing to eliminate big
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time environmental toxins
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xenoestrogens those are chemicals that
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look like estrogen to our body and
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stimulate cancer pathways xenoestrogens
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are also called environmental toxins or
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endrin disrupting chemicals
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edc's researchers know this scientists
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know this why don't we hear about this
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you know well I'm here to tell you these
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estrogen impersonators are a thousand
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times more powerful than your own
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biological ones so we got to stop
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slathering them on health and beauty
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products they have a lot of them besides
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that they have colar they have parabens
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they have phalates falahi
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xylene household cleaners yeah that's
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another environmental environments or
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indoor environments are two and a half
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times as polluted as outdoor air
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so many of our cleaners that we use here
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in the states are banned around the
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world and they're linked to cancer
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hormone disruption lung damage and a
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whole lot more next thing unnecessary
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medications all medicines have to pass
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through the liver and they can burden
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the liver as well as the kidneys High
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use of acetaminophen is rapidly
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overtaking alcohol as the number one
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cause for liver disease and liver
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transplant
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work with your physician to minimize the
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amount of medications you've got to take
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and then finally
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Plastics compounds in Plastics plastic
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wraps the lining of metal cans and even
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paperboard containers like your coffee
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cup that you get at the drive-thru yeah
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they're lined in plastic and all leech
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compounds that disrupt the endrin system
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there was this interesting study where
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they did biopsies of breast tissue of
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healthy
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women and the intervention was simple
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they only switched out Beauty and
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personal care products that contained
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parabens phalates and phenols the result
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was astounding in just 28 days they
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retested and researchers saw a sign
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significant reduction in several breast
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cancer gene
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expression huge just in 28 days we can
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turn off those genes that can promote
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breast cancer I could go on and on but
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really know that diet and lifestyle
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factors are the most important thing and
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really good news is they're in your
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control you have the power to prevent
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breast cancer
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eliminate sugar kick this kick the
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toxins out and you're removing a lot of
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the triggers okay now I'm going to focus
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on other key science-based strategies to
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prevent breast cancer that are ignored
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or overlooked and have a profound effect
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but are
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underappreciated in the development of
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cancer of course diet you know me I got
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to say diet it's number one role in
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building a body resistant to cancer or
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any cancers for that matter or
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protecting your heart or protecting your
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brain or protecting your liver I mean
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you just choose what you want to protect
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but it all comes down to eating a lot of
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fibrous vegetables and you know you can
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have a couple servings of fruit every
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day but that's a huge step in building a
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resilient body and and the diet doesn't
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have to be perfect to be healthy you
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know start by making a couple changes
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removing a few things and adding in some
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others I love fruits and vegetables
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because they're high in antioxidants and
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over
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25,000
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phytonutrients that are powerful so
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you've got spinach and leafy greens high
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in glycolates you've got blueberries and
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other other low sugar berries that are
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high in
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proanthocyanins and you have the cfer
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vegetables that have the sulfurane in
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there you've got walnuts that are high
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in omega-3 you know that that is a
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powerful one too so then you have olive
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oil olive oil olive oil oh my gosh rich
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in so many antioxidants and
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anti-inflammatory compounds really
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really important as U prevention of
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breast cancer love that olive oil sweet
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potatoes other colorful vegetables
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turmeric you know it's my unabashed
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favorite spice but I think everybody
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should use it and other spices you know
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turmeric extract curcumin the BCM 95 my
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favorite has been shown to decrease
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tumor size and fight breast cancer
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according to researchers circumin
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modulates
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carcinogenesis the beginning of cancer
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and through every single cycle
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of where it matures so proliferation
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apoptosis inessence and cancer spread
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and building blood vessels curcumine
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yeah we love it another thing fiber up
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we love fiber that's going to do a lot
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not just for digestion but for overall
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gut health it feeds the gut microbiome
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and those little creatures in there that
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outnumber Us by a whole heck of a lot
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really are talking to ourselves and
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turning on Pathways that are good
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turning off ones that are bad so you can
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also increase your fermented foods like
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pickles and things like that they really
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help to
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detoxify high levels of estrogen garlic
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green tea and also having plenty of
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protein at every meal you know every
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time I turn around they're talking about
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protein these days so 30 G with each
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meal we're talking probably 5 6 o at
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every meal make sure it's organically
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raised and pastured clean uh if it's
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fish make sure it's ocean caught and
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eggs eggs are high in coling so those
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are really good to keep that immune
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system just perking along don't eat
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conventionally raised meat if you can
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avoid it and avoid processed Meats so
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there you go number one is diet and
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about those processed meets they're
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being closely associated to the increase
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the sharp
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increase risk and what we're finding
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young people are getting colon cancer at
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an astonishing rate so no process meets
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okay next thing I'm going to do going to
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recommend
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exercise study show 30 minutes every day
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can reduce your risk by 20 to
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60% especially postmenopausal so ladies
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strap on those shoes and let's get going
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number three is weight maintaining an
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ideal weight the more overweight a woman
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is the greater her risk let me
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personally invite you to my 90day weight
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loss for Life program that is the same
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program that's evolved and gotten better
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since I think 2001 I love it and we
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reverse aging at the same time okay
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number four sleep great night's sleep
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equals less risk aim for about eight
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hours of quality uninterrupted Sleep
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Number Nine alcohol limit alcoholic
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drinks increased alcohol load means your
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liver can't metabolize
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estrogen and that has been shown to
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increase breast cancer risk number six
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stress talked about that last week
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chronic stress levels we've all seen it
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people who are under a lot of stress
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stress get sick studies connect stress
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levels with increased breast breast
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cancer risk so whether you up for
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meditation yoga deep breathing I love
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the Box breathing the 478 or whatever
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other stressor you just got to you got
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to get the stress under control take
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time to laugh long and often play
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develop a positive attitude optimists
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live longer and suffer from fewer and
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less severe diseases and are much
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healthier than pessimists okay and
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improve the way you talk to yourself
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this is tough but the Cure is to become
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aware of your selft talk and then
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just
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consciously reframe
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it I could go on and on here but I
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really do feel it is important as
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healthy diet and a toxic free
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environment you got to get the toxins
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out of your mind too just out of there
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okay number seven avoid Dairy yeah if
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you're going to have it limit it to once
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a week and conventional Dairy contains a
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lot of additives that alter the
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composition of your gut microbiome cause
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inflammation plus some research that
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shows Dairy is related to a higher risk
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of mortality after breast cancer
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diagnosis and it's also related Dairy is
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associated to
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all sorts of hormon related cancers so
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Dair is perfect for calves and that
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helps calves grow quickly due to all the
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growth hormones and most cows are milked
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800 times a year much of the time
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they're pregnant with even higher
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hormones so okay number eight cook foods
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at lower temperatures and avoid burnt
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foods do not fry your Foods French fres
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fries chips
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cakes cereals crackers everything you
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eat
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frying baking broiling roasting creates
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acry amide so that acry amide is
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something you want to avoid so cooking
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at lower temperatures is a much better
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way to go okay now in a nutshell there
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are a few supplements that I
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love my good multivitamin o n it's got
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the methylated bees it's got iodine it's
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got cenum got everything in there as a
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multivitamin I've not found a better one
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a day second thing omega-3 fish or flax
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oil with lignans lignin have been
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researched to be a powerful tool in
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estrogen metabolism number three dim dim
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or indoplex from cruciferous vegetables
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really helps with the estrogen detox
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number four circumin with BCM 95 love it
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number five medicinal
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mushrooms turkey tail RI Corps motaki oh
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my gosh so good lots of research on them
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even working synergistically with
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tamoxifen number six vitamin D need to
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get a lab level of about 60 so that can
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be 2,000 IU a day it can be 10,000 we're
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all different you got to get tested so
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there are so many things that um can
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really help and I have to put a plugin
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here for my heavenly cleanse that I
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developed it contains a lot of nutrients
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that support detox you know I designed
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it to take 10 days at the beginning of
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every season to help the body stay ahead
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of the toxins so there it is in a
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nutshell doable and practical tools I
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think you'll find that we all need to be
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aware of and start implementing at any
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stage we can remember progress not
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Perfection and when it comes to cancer
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or really Optimal Health we're all in
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this together we can all learn and help
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each other so if you've got some helpful
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information please share it with me and
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someone you love thanks for listening to
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Toxins, Cancer and Hormone Chaos
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Jul 24, 2024
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This puts the nail in the coffin on toxins as they relate to cancer, specifically, breast cancer and hormone chaos. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women and is now showing up in younger and younger women- most disturbing of all.