7 Easy Ways to Help Prevent Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is not caused by a single risk factor. Invasive breast cancer happens when a personal cocktail of risk factors gets mixed up in a woman’s body and enables breast cells to become mutated and /or stirs up mutated cells to grow in uncontrollable ways.
Since only 10% of breast cancer is due to genetics, 90% to 100% of breast cancer is probably preventable. Know Breast Cancer has researched existing strategies for real breast cancer prevention and compiled them into 7 easy ways to help prevent breast cancer.
7 Easy Ways
#1 — Take 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily
New research indicates that keeping Vitamin D3 blood serum levels at 40-60 ng/ml makes it difficult for breast cells to mutate, the first step in the development of cancer. Most individuals currently have dangerously low D3 levels. As more women raise their vitamin D levels with supplementation and additional sun exposure, the U.S. should experience up to a 75% reduction in breast cancer deaths and a 40-50% drop in annual invasive breast cancer incidence. Read more about vitamin D - Vitamin D Products
#2 — Avoid birth control and estrogen replacement drugs if over 40
Taking birth control drugs can double or triple a 40+ year old woman’s risk of developing breast cancer; especially if she has used a pill, patch or ring for five, ten, twenty years or more. Taking hormone replacement (ERT) drugs can increase your risk by 26%. Find another way! Read more about estrogen.
#3 — Use safe hair straightening and conditioning products
African American and other women whose mothers used strong estrogen-based hair straighten ers and conditioners, and body creams when they were in utero, along with children and teens who use these hair and skin products, may face higher risks of developing breast cancer in their 20’s 30’s and 40’s. All women should use safe body care and home cleaning products throughout their lives to minimize exposure to the chemical and animal hormones found in these products. Read more about safe hair products
#4 — Know about mammograms and find safer alternatives
Evidence mounts that annual mammograms actually increase the incidence of breast cancer by aggressively treating non invasive and invasive cancers that may go away on their own or may never grow further, while too often missing deadly cancers. Two alternative early detection methods are thermography and breast massage as a method of self examination. Read more about mammograms and alternatives. - Alternative Products
#5 — Filter water for drinking and bathing
Use filtered water to keep your body free of cancer-causing chemicals including chemical, animal and human hormones that are often found in municipal water supplies and well water. Read more about filtered water. - Filtered Water Products
#6 — Eat low estrogen foods and manage estrogen levels
Foods that contain protective phytochemicals or phytoestrogens, such as miso, tempeh cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, are the best things a woman can add to her diet to prevent breast cancer. To limit exposure to excess strong or irritating estrogens, avoid foods that contain harmful hormones: e.g. milk that contains the rBGH growth hormone, and meat and poultry that contain added hormones. Drinking rBGH milk can raise a pre-menopausal woman’s risk of developing invasive breast cancer 7-fold. Read more aobut estrogen.
#7 — Detox from alcohol, sugar and cigarettes
Use exercise, meditation, massage, sports and other stress- reducing methods to help lower the amount of alcohol, sugar and/or nicotine you allow in your body. Drinking less than two glasses of wine, beer or other alcoholic beverage each day can reduce the risk of a first or second breast cancer by 20% to 90% depending on your age and prior breast cancer status. Stopping smoking can reduce breast cancer survivor’s risk by as much as 120%. Keeping blood sugar and insulin levels normal decreases a breast cancer survivor's risk of a second diagnosis by 150%. Read more about detoxing. - Detox Support Products
Moving to a Prevention Lifestyle
Now that you know our 7 easy ways to help prevent breast cancer, you can begin to make changes to your lifestyle to decrease your risk of breast cancer. Remember, breast cancer is caused by a combination of factors. The easiest and most important defense is to take Vitamin D to prevent cancer from forming in the first place.
Move to a healthier lifestyle that incorporates as many of our 7 ways as possible and you'll be on your way to a cancer free life!