Lower Your Risk of Cancer Now with These 3 Strategies

Did you know there are everyday practices that can reduce your risk of Cancer? Science can prove it. In a study published this week in the journal Frontiers in Aging, researchers propose a combination of simple strategies to help prevent the development of invasive cancers. But can these strategies be even more affective when combined? Hosted by Hank Green.

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[Grandunifiedcelery]

A combination of strategies that interact to lower your risk
1. Vitamin D
2. Omega-3
3. Exercise

[someonesomewhere]

Even if the study has flaws, exercising and getting enough nutrients necessary for your body to function properly can't be a bad thing. Maybe it won't necessarily save us from cancer but if will certainly help

[Kahlnen]

I am a Pathologist located in the US. I would take that study with a HUGE mountain of salt.
1) Invasive carcinomas develop from precursors that can take up to several decades to grow from a premalignant cell into invasive carcinoma. The effects of 'only' 3 years is pretty negligible when the precursor to the invasive cancer that developed during the study actually started growing 8 years before the study arose.
2) 'invasive cancer' is very nebulous and isn't actually specific enough to mean anything. There are THOUSANDS of different types of cancer, each with their own known and unknown predisposing causative agents. By saying 'invasive cancer' they're potentially lumping together melanomas (UV DNA damage) with conventional pulmonary adenocarcinoma (smoking), breast carcinoma of no special type (estrogen exposure and/or brca). These all are wildly different diseases. They are even less related to each other than carrots and celery are to poison hemlock. I honestly couldn't find a link to the study you are referencing in the description to look more closely at their claims, but I would be absolutely shocked if they were able to propose a suspected physiologic mechanism in how these findings affect such a wide variety of cancers.
3) splitting the study into so many different cohorts just reeks of p-hacking, especially when combined with how nonspecific 'invasive cancer' really is.

[clairep]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. They need to put more funding into researching prevention strategies.

[alexesteh]

I cannot help but think about the people who were in the control group whenever I hear about this kind of study.

[CompletelyNormal]

So vitamin D, omega 3, and exercise? Are you saying I should jog over to the fish market and buy some salmon?

[larkmacgregor]

There is no such thing as a cure for "cancer". We who do the research have known for a long time that cancers are all different, even cancers of the same type, like breast cancer, or prostate, or lung. Every one has multiple failures in various pathways that led to the cancers. Some pathways are more likely to fail than others, but that can change with genetic variation amongst people, environmental exposures, and random mutations. This is why some therapies work well for some patients, and fail completely for patients with seemingly the "same" cancer. Prevention in this case is worth a tonne of cure. So even if the verdict isn't in yet, there's nothing harmful here, and benefits beyond preventing malignancies. Go for it.

[nicholasheimann]

This is good, I would like to see more done incorporating proper nutrition and disease prevention.

[ALAPINO]

I'm middle aged now. PMHx of heart, blood, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Consistently, from my various battalion of medical practitioners, these are their recommendations to keep the cancer risk as low as possible, in order:
Don't smoke, Don't drink, Eat as well as you can, Keep fit.

Honestly, as I age, I struggle with a balanced diet and exercise. Not smoking and not drinking are both easy for me, but having cut all added sugars from my diet I have compensated by consuming more comforting foods.

Thankfully, spring's here and hiking season is easier to attend to.

I think it's safe to say we've all been touched by cancer in our lives. If you have people out there you want to be around for in the future, there are so many little things you can do to help mitigate cancer risks. If you're already healthy, maintenance is so much easier than krank-sacks like me.

A huge and often not spoken of component of illnesses like cancer is mental health and a support network. You don't possibly stick to your diet or take your medication if you have raging clinical depression or have no one you can count on for a little help.

(Yet still eats burnt to a crisp carbonite BBQ and chips) :P

[VaradMahashabde]

I mean Skyrim players knew all along : the True broken strategy is stacking the modifiers

[tomipontynen]

I am not trying to prevent cancer but I have some strategies
1. I am fully vegan, so naturally I am on methionine restriction. Cancer cells need methionine.
2. I am doing sprint running and walking a lot
3. There is a thought that Graviola in Spanish Guanabana may prevent cancer. I use it to prevent my eosinofilia which may destroy the lungs

[cerberus_red]

Talk about timing... I literally just had a loved one die of cancer an hour before this was posted...

[NS-hslt]

Combining prevention strategies is mind numbingly obvious. I'm glad they are testing it now but it should have been tested over the last 50 years. But there is little money in prevention 🤷🏻‍♂️

[artemiygolden]

Can you provide a link to the main study in question? I did not find it in the description

[GhostsOfThings]

It'd be nice to know what the exercise regimen they had people do was. Exciting stuff!

[Jasmine-fuqr]

the plaid shirt with the pocket patterns lining up is everything.

[darkhorseman]

Vitamin D is quite critical for DNA methylation. Aberrations in levels of vitamin D during pregnancy can cause certain types of Schizophrenia, due to methylation issues.

2:12 That’s Barcelona’s district of Horta-Ginardó (and maybe also the district of Nou Barris). The white and relatively tall prism-shaped tower is one of the buildings of the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital. The hill (or rather hills) fully surrounded by buildings are Turó del Carmel, Turó de la Creueta del Coll and Turó de la Rovira.

[alphatonic]

Exercise is free if you do calisthenics and walking/running which is really all you need. Screw gyms and their stupid expensive memberships.

[ddogthepimp]

More nutrition stuff would be amazing! It's so hard to find that stuff anywhere