Can regular exercise help reduce your risk of cancer? Here's 4 things to know.
Regular readers of my column know I'm always pounding the table about the many benefits of exercise to promote health and well-being. However, an often-neglected benefit is that regular exercise can help reduce the risk of cancer, including some of the many forms of breast cancer.
Here's what to know about how regular cancer can reduce the risk of cancer and why:
Can increased estrogen levels increase your risk of breast cancer?
In women, genetic and environmental factors can impact breast cancer risk, but a key factor is estrogen, a risk factor common to all women. Estrogen can feed and promote some breast cancers, which means having more estrogen in the body, especially over a prolonged period of time, increases your cancer risk. For example, early onset of menstrual periods and late menopause results in longer exposure to higher levels of estrogen. But as important, if not more so in today’s society, excess body fat can promote estrogen production, elevating the amount of estrogen circulating in the body to a dangerous level.
The risk of excess body fat is not limited to women and breast cancer. Excess body fat increases inflammation in the body. When fat storage cells are stuffed with fat, they can release chemicals that promote inflammation in surrounding tissues. That's bad news because inflammation is a driving force behind many serious diseases, including cancer. When inflammation is chronic, as occurs in obesity, there can be cell mutations and other disturbances that https://www.highrevenuegate.com/apv74im69y?key=0d9e0cacf0c55077e719381598b991f5 create an environment that increases the risk of cancer.
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