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10 ways to avoid cancer
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
The life of a modern person passes under difficult conditions of exposure to many carcinogens, which we are unable to eliminate. Therefore, it is not surprising that every year the number of people dying from cancer grows like a snowball. The only way to avoid this is to change yourself and your lifestyle.
Cancer is the other side of the coin of technical progress. Data from statistical analysis and scientific research indicate that cancer is the scourge of modern civilization.
Scientists Rosalie David (Manchester, UK) and Michael Zimmerman (Pennsylvania, USA), having studied fragments of Egyptian mummies and medical papyri, came to the conclusion that ancient Egyptians rarely suffered from cancer. Having studied the remains of thousands of mummies, scientists were able to detect only indirect signs of colon and rectal cancer in isolated cases. According to scientists, cancer incidence is the fruit of modern civilization.
To leave no chance for cancer cells, use several principles, change yourself and your lifestyle.
- Drink clean water and natural juices
Natural spring water is one of the best sources of fluid replenishment in the body. Structured by nature itself, it has powerful healing potential. Fluorinated or chlorinated water flowing through pipes cannot compare with it. Natural fruit or vegetable juice is rich in bioflavonoids and other nutrients that energize us and prevent tumor growth.
- More fresh fruits and vegetables.
Needless to say, fruits and vegetables have everything necessary to protect us from cancer. Antioxidants and other beneficial active components of nature's gifts create unfavorable conditions for oxidative stress and cancer growth. For example, cruciferous vegetables containing sulforaphane have powerful anti-cancer potential.
- Physical activity
What doesn't move, dies. Physical activity is a prerequisite for health and longevity. A study presented by the American Institute for Cancer Research indicates that physical activity corresponds to lower levels of inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein, which is associated with the development of certain types of cancer.
It is also well known that strong, trained men get cancer less often. Scientists from Karolinska University (Sweden) as a result of twenty-year clinical observation of several thousand normal healthy men found that men who had higher strength indicators had a much lower risk of getting cancer compared to men who did not train.
- Spend more time in the sun
Vitamin D is becoming more well known, thanks to new research confirming its anti-cancer properties.
While this goes against some dermatologist recommendations, it does make sense. Vitamin D is becoming more well-known, thanks to new research confirming its anti-cancer properties. Scientists at the State University of New York at Albany exposed breast cancer cells to a powerful dose of vitamin D. As a result, the cancer cells died within days of exposure to the “sunshine vitamin.”
- Breathe fresh air
Ionized air has a powerful antioxidant effect. The largest number of aeroions is contained in mountain air.
The atmospheric air we breathe carries electric charges on the particles of molecules. Aeroions charge the blood, increase immunity, help to prolong youth. Ionized air has a powerful antioxidant effect.
- Mind control
Improving consciousness plays an important role in fighting cancer.
Improving your consciousness plays a major role in fighting cancer. By changing your worldview, you change your external situation. Practice qigong or meditation to cleanse yourself and avoid the negative effects of stress.
During stress, our body releases the hormones cortisol and adrenaline into the blood. Long-term or chronic stress exposes our body to the constant action of these hormones. During meditation, significant biochemical changes occur in the body: the level of cortisol decreases, on average, by 46%. It has been proven that self-improvement practices improve health and prolong life.
- Give up bad habits
People who are under the control of bad habits have launched a program of self-destruction in their bodies.
It can be said that this is an axiom. Drugs, alcohol abuse, smoking are the shortest path to physical and spiritual death. People who are in the grip of these habits have launched a program of self-destruction in their body.
- Avoid using a microwave
Eating food altered by heating in a microwave oven is linked to cancer. Microwaved water does not even bring life to plants.
Cook food traditionally. Many experts suspect that eating food altered by heating in a microwave oven is associated with cancer. As a result of vibrations and friction, molecules and cellular systems are destroyed, structural isomerism occurs. Microwaves have a negative effect on genetic information, weaken the electrical potentials on cell membranes. Radiolysis products appear on a large scale.
Food with transformed compounds and radiolysis products forces our body to adapt and switch to emergency energy supply mode. Cells are forced to switch from normal cellular respiration to anaerobic energy production by fermenting glucose. Anaerobic fermentation of glucose promotes the survival and prosperity of cancer cells.
Microwave cooking can cause the formation of d-nitrosodiethanolamine, a known carcinogen. Radiation can also transform some amino acids found in milk and grains into carcinogens or biologically inactive isomers. Even very short exposure times convert plant alkaloids into carcinogens and free radicals.
- Electromagnetic dirt
Long-term exposure to even low-level electromagnetic radiation (like mobile phones) can cause various cancers.
Long-term exposure to even low-level electromagnetic radiation (like mobile phones) can cause various cancers, impair immunity, promote the development of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, heart disease and many others.
In 1956, with the advent of television in Australia, scientists found a rapid increase in cancer in people living near broadcast towers. In 1998, researchers at the National Cancer Institute reported that the risk of leukemia was significantly higher in children whose mothers used electric blankets during pregnancy and in children who used hair dryers, played video games, or were frequently near television.
- Avoid chemicals
Our environment is teeming with hundreds of thousands of chemicals. We know that some of them are highly toxic. But what's even scarier is what we don't know. Most of these chemicals haven't even been tested for their long-term effects on human health.
Avoid foods grown with pesticides, fungicides, herbicides. Beware of toxic food packaging, insect repellents, toxic personal care products (lotions, hand sanitizers, cosmetics), plasticizers like bisphenol-A, hydrocarbons (gasoline, fuel), toxic drugs and pharmaceuticals, adhesives, dyes, formaldehyde, chemical adjuvants in vaccines, and thousands of other chemicals.
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