How To Slash Cancer Risks

How to Quickly Cut Your Cancer Risk and Avoid The Rapidly Growing Epidemic Of Modern Chronic Diseases!

Most people believe that cancer is just something that suddenly strikes us or someone we know.

It’s bad luck or bad genes…. That there’s little you can do about avoiding it, other than maybe not smoking which at this point should be a no-brainer super high priority.

If you’re still smoking, it’s best to quit now for health reasons.

But there are things you can do to significantly reduce (or increase) your risks.

In fact, there’s a way to cut your cancer risk virtually overnight.

You can do that by lowering your insulin level.

People who are in the highest 20% of insulin levels have a 62% higher risk of dying from cancer and a 161% risk of dying from gastrointestinal cancer.

Reference: Perseghin, Gianluca, et al. “Insulin resistance/ hyperinsulinemia and cancer mortality: the Cremona study at the 15th year of follow-up.“Acta Diabetologica (2012)

That’s an association, and doesn’t prove that high insulin causes cancer, but it highly suggests it.

Obesity and diabetes are associated with much higher cancer risk.

These two conditions are associated with so many health problems and high insulin levels may be a major part of the reason why.

Researchers did a mouse study (it’s hard to do some studies in people due to major ethical issues and other reasons including much longer lifespans in people versus mice) looking at just one variable, lowering insulin, without doing anything else.

Endogenous insulin contributes to pancreatic cancer development.

Reference: Anni M.Y. Zhang et al. Endogenous Hyperinsulinemia Contributes to Pancreatic Cancer Development, Cell Metabolism (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.07.003

Genetically engineered mice designed to have lower insulin have 50% fewer pre-cancerous lesions in the pancreas. Why?

• Cancer cells love insulin. It helps them keep up with their increased metabolic demands. Speaking generally, they don’t have the same capacity to burn ketones like other cells in our bodies.
• Cancer cells have a very high number of insulin receptors that allows them to access the sugar they need from the blood. This is important because cancer cells are more rapidly growing than many other cells in our body.

In today’s society, for most people they have high insulin levels all the time.

Our diets are loaded with sugar and grains (2 key parts of the standard diet that raise blood sugars very high) driving blood sugar up followed by higher insulin levels.

Being overweight is both the result of and contributes to higher insulin levels. This is important as more than 70% of adults are overweight or obese and kids aren’t lagging too far behind.

Not exercising because being sedentary leads to higher insulin levels than in those that exercise because exercise lowers insulin resistance.

Reducing Insulin Levels With Healthy Lifestyle Choices Is Very Worthwhile For People Wanting To Lose Weight, Improve The Health, and Wellness.

How can you reduce your insulin levels?

It comes down to a relatively simple few things that generally make the biggest difference.

The good news is that these are our habits, things we have complete control over.

The bad news is that habits can be difficult to change… BUT your health is worth it!

Lower Your Insulin Levels Through Lifestyle Choices.

You do that avoiding ultra-processed foods (think anything made with any grain, sugars, or vegetable oils), exercising, and another topic I will talk about at a later date, intermittent fasting.

Of course other things also effect blood sugar and insulin levels. These are also significantly under our control… including sleep and stress.

*Diabetics and others with highly specialized needs should be careful and work with a health care provider that understands lifestyle, diet, and what it will do to your medications because if you lower your blood sugars and continue taking high doses of insulin and other blood sugar lowering medications then you may have serious problems.