THE SUCCINCT CORPORATE CANCER MYTH BUSTER (and 10 ways to reduce your chances of being 1 of 2 people who now contract cancer in their lifetime)
Alex Carter
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Work your ass off your whole life only to be smacked in the pancreas, prostate or liver by cancer?
Don’t know about you, but if there was a way I could prevent that, I’d probably want to know about it, right?
In the next 5 minutes I’m going to give you 10 takeaways to boost your odds of avoiding being 1 out of 2 people who now get diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime
Cancerous cells are always being created in the body.? It is an ongoing process that has existed for…
Well ever since day dot.
Naturally there are some parts of your immune system that are built as seek and destroy missiles and whose sole function it is to find these cancerous cells and eradicate them.
Only? in the 20th century did rates of cancer cases explode.
I remember watching TV adverts in the 90s, stating that one in seven of us would get cancer
Now when I’m watching commercials - it’s one in two?
What happened over the last 30 years?
Did we suddenly stop researching cancer?
Did investment drop?
There seems to be more focus and talk about it than ever before.
It doesn’t make sense
I’m going to burst a few bubbles here, so if you’re easily offended,?
Avert your eyes young maiden.
Despite what many people generally believe, cancer is not a mysterious disease that suddenly attacks you out of the blue, something that you can’t do anything about.
Equally it is not something that is going away any time soon
The cancer therapy market was valued in 2020 at approximately 158 billion dollars and in 2026 it’s forecast to be 268 billion dollars.
And I use therapy or treatment, because cancer is not something that we will cure long term
There’s too much money to be made on the treatment of it
Cure’s are short term and don’t make any money.? Treatment on the other hand lasts for years and years and makes a tonne of money.
Now this is where we have to be grown ups?
No one.? Not one single person is going to stand up and protect you from cancer, but you.
YOU have to take ownership.
Not your parents, not your husband, not your wife - YOU.
Once you decide this, there are quite a lot of things you can do to take back ownership.
Now I’m not pretending to be a doctor, so please don’t take any of this as gospel and if in doubt please speak to a registered medical practitioner?
What I’m presenting below is a basic view and understanding of a complex subject
But one that is based on years and hundreds if not thousands of hours reading in and around the subject of holistic health.
What I’m seeking to do is give you some clear tangible takeaways and the tools to reduce risks in your own lives.
So I'm going to put my cards on the table…
Cancer has definitive causes that your body can correct in many cases IF it has enough time.
Cancer tumours begin when more cancerous cells are being created than your overworked immune system can destroy
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Constant exposure to tens of thousands of man made chemicals through our food and water, increasingly strong electromagnetic frequencies in the form of Wifi, 5G etc, and increasing levels of consistent stress ALL lead to a more acidic environment in the body and an immune system that is far from optimal.
And at some point it stops being able to keep cancer cells in check.
I want you to stop at this point, wherever you are reading this and pause
Look to your left?
Look to your right
At least one of you is going to get cancer in your lifetime.
Let that sink in for a second?
No more ostrich, head in the sand
No more I’ll be one of the lucky ones
I want you to acknowledge the world you live in, what the data says and then make a decision to take conscious ownership of your own health.
It is not a game of roulette, as we incorrectly assume or have been told; prevention is the best antidote to boosting your immune system into a disease fighting machine.
Pay attention to your lifestyle habits, nutritional density, alkalinity, exercise and sleep and learn how to relieve and manage stress, optimise your hormones and get regular exposure to sunlight.
Here’s 10 practical things that you can do to reduce risk:
6. Switch your phone to Airplane mode or at least switch off 5G and Wifi when you sleep.? Your body is subject to 1 quintillion (that’s 10 with 18 0’s) more electromagnetic frequency now than just 10 years ago in 2010.
7. Get access to sunlight for at least 15 minutes each day to promote vitamin D production.? In winter months supplement with vitamin D3.? I get a number of my clients to go out and sungaze with the morning tea/coffee.
8. Keep lean and fit.? As we gain weight, we not only have an increased risk of developing cancer, but we also decrease the chance of successfully fighting any possible tumours that may establish themselves.
9. Get your hormones checked, balanced and optimised.? The homeostasis of your entire body is orchestrated by your hormones and when they fall out of balance, all the body’s protective functions are compromised and it may actually provide an enviuronemtn that promotes the establishment abd sporeas of some cancers.
10. This last one, there is only just the very beginnings of evidence to suggest and it’s at it’s really at the limit of what science can explain.? But the basic premise is that increased levels of stress or anxiety and other psychosomatic mental/emotional conditions can lead to some cancers.? If our thoughts trigger hormone cascades in the body, which in turn we label with feelings, when we do that consistently and get trapped in certain negative thinking/feeling loops - we biochemically condition our bodies and the internal make up can begin to change.? For me, I don’t want to wait for the full research to emerge here, but would rather take ownership and put in place structures; not to alleviate stress necessarily, but to help process/manage it in more constructive ways consistently.? I talk about doing this by implementing lifestyle changes like the 3 alarms (alarm to wake up, to stop work and to go to bed), by introducing boundaries into work that stop it from taking over by consciously choosing what your day/schedule looks like.? Some of these simple practices, in the 3-9 months that I coach clients for have had some pretty profound effects on their life.? I’m NOT saying that these cure cancer, far from it, what I am saying is that they help reduce cortisol and improve wellbeing, which has tend to show an inverse relationship in early studies to certain types of cancers.
If you'd like some guidance on further reading people to follow, please see the work of Dr. Mercola and Tyler Tolman.
Again - please note - I'm not a registered medical practitioner, so what I'm presenting here are my own views and knowledge accumulated over the years from reading widely in an attempt to provide you with information I deem important and valuable.
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Today at 17.30pm BST I'm going to be jumping in with client Amar Takhar to discuss how he built a wealthy body, built for the demands of modern day business on my new Reignite PRO programme.
He's gone from 'good' to being in the top 0.1% of corporate performers - holistically balanced across the board.
We will be discussing:
?? His take on successfully balancing multiple businesses, a young family and his health goals
?? Thoughts on what keeps people stuck at a certain level and how to avoid the infinite loop that so many professionals find themselves in
?? How he now performs better in ALL areas of his life, not just health & fitness
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2 年Great share man and definitely a few good reminders. 1 in 2 is shocking isn't it!