Three things seniors can do right now to reduce their risk of cancer by over 60%

Cancer kills nearly 10 million people worldwide each year. Increasing age is the most significant risk factor for cancer. Other than recommending smoking cessation and cancer screening, including mammograms, PAP tests, colonoscopy, and PSA blood tests, very few efforts are made to reduce the risk of cancer in older people.

Researchers in Switzerland recently found that by taking tasking 2000 IUs of vitamin D3 and one gram of omega-3s per day, along with simple strength training exercises at home, people 70 and older could cut their risk of cancer by 61%. Vitamin D has been found to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Omega-3 fatty acids have been found to prevent normal cells from becoming malignant. And moderate exercise has been found to boost immunity and reduce inflammation.

Comments: To lower the risk of cancer even further, I recommend a low-methionine (i.e., vegan) diet as well as proper breathing. Chronic hypoxia (persistent lack of optimal tissue oxygenation) is a major driving force for cancer. Most people have habitual “over-breathing” or “hyperventilation” patterns at rest, such as chest breathing instead of diaphragmatic breathing, mouth breathing instead of nose breathing, and rapid and deep breathing instead of slow and shallow breathing. These abnormal breathing patterns lead to hypocapnia or decreased carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the alveoli (lungs) and arterial blood. This lack of CO₂ is harmful because it constricts blood vessels which leads to decreased perfusion of vital organs and, due to the Bohr Effect, impairs oxygen release from hemoglobin which leads to hypoxia. In a 2001 Ukrainian study, 120 women with metastatic breast cancer were found to have an average of only 22 mmHg or 2.9% of CO₂ in their exhaled air (normal is 40 mmHg or 5.3% at sea level). In the study, it was found that breathing retraining exercises reduced mortality in the women by nearly six-fold! It’s as if tumors are cries of the body for more oxygen. Fortunately, this can be dealt with by engaging in breathing retraining exercises using a device called the Relaxator™.

References:

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Cavuoto P, Fenech MF. A review of methionine dependency and the role of methionine restriction in cancer growth control and life-span extension. Cancer Treat Rev. 2012 Oct;38(6):726-36.

Paschenko, SN. Study of application of the shallow breathing method in a combined treatment of breast cancer. Oncology (Kyiv, Ukraine), 2001, v. 3, No.1, p. 77-78.