Study after study shows a major decrease in risk of certain cancers when a person exercises — we’re going to talk about why.
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Differents between normal cells and cancer cells
Normal cells and cancer cells are very different:
- A normal cell uses a lot of oxygen, but a cancer cell doesn’t have to use oxygen at all.
- A normal cell also has a lot of mitochondria, and a cancer cell doesn’t.
- A normal cell has a limited lifespan, whereas a cancer cell can live forever.
- A normal cell is triggered to die, and that trigger comes from a byproduct of using oxygen called ROS. ROS is a reactive group of chemicals that influence the body and react to the body.
- Cancer cells have a deficiency of ROS, but normal cells have an abundance of ROS. The more oxygen you can give your cells, the more ROS you will have to trigger apoptosis (cell death).
Causes to help potentially prevent cancer
This is one reason why things that lower oxygen enhance cancer — like smoking, an infection, or inflammation. Chronic stress and high glucose also cause lowered oxygen.
Research has shown that certain synthetic antioxidants can increase the risk of cancer. Could it be that the chemicals in synthetic antioxidants lower oxygen and therefore lower the apoptosis in cancer cells? It is possible.
It’s crucial to understand this concept because there are things you can try to help potentially prevent cancer or slow things down if you have cancer.
One of the biggest things that will increase oxygen and ROS is exercise. Exercise can increase your oxygen by 10 to 20 times and ROS by 1000 times.
Exercise also improves your blood sugars and insulin resistance, which can decrease the risk of cancer. If you exercise outside, you’ll get vitamin D and infrared light. Both have been known to decrease the risk of cancer.
Exercise will also increase the number of mitochondria to produce more oxygen and ROS. Lastly, exercise will help improve your immune system to help you fight cancer.
Besides exercise, one of the best things you can do to help fight cancer and potentially prevent cancer is to get on the correct diet.
I would get a benign lump in my breast aspirated annually. I was worried because my grandmother had breast cancer. I then read somewhere that the more oxygen that your body takes in decreases the likeliness of cancer and that exercise is the best way to increase oxygen to the body. I began exercising regularly and the lump never came back.
Wow. So happy for you! What kind of exercise specifically do you do?
What about deep, powerful breathing exercise? Does that really raise alkalinity levels in the body or help to prevent illness? I love doing them and seems to oxygenate me I just wonder about some of the claims.
I agree I been doing wim hofethod for a over a year every single day breath work 3 4 times a day and my life has gotten so much better in so many ways, everyone should be doing some sort of breath work it’s most natural cure. Inhale threw the nose exhale out the nose works best not mouth
I was diagnosed with childhood brain cancer in August 2013, when I was a blue belt in Taekwondo. (I turned 10 in a hospital the next month.) I’m now 18 and testing for my third-degree black belt in a year or two. Even if exercise doesn’t keep my tumor from growing, it’s nice to know there’s a possibility.
mostly cardio using Jilliam Michaels tapes
I have proven this to be true: exercise vs. cancer.
Hard as hell, but I worked for UPS as a seasonal worker, and it really helped my body.
I need to keep active, and I haven’t. I need to get active again