What is CANCER and What Causes It? [Lifestyle and Environmental Factors:...

In today’s video, I’m gonna explain What is Cancer and What Causes It.  We’re often told that this is totally out of our control.  Is it?  Watch this video to find out.  I will discuss some very important lifestyle and environmental factors, including poor diet, toxicity, excessive stress, and many other factors that play a role in developing cancer.  The purpose of this video is to show you how to never get cancer, or at least drastically reduce your chances of getting cancer, by removing all of the potential causes of cancer that are in your control.  And for those of you who did get cancer, you’ll have a much better idea why, and know what you should do next.  I will be releasing another video about cancer very soon; I highly suggest you watch it when it’s out.  It’s about Natural Cancer Treatments, which include Cancer-fighting Foods and the overall best diet for cancer, Food Supplements for cancer, and alternative treatment options.  By the way, if you’re new to my YouTube channel, my name is Greta, and I’m an online nutritionist and a holistic health coach.  If you haven’t yet, consider subscribing to my YouTube channel for weekly videos about insulin resistance, detox, type 2 diabetes, all the other chronic health conditions, and improving your general health.  So, if you want to be healthy, you should definitely subscribe.  Many people receive a cancer diagnosis each day, with no clear explanation of why they get cancer.  It’s commonly seen as this inevitable disease with no clear cause.  People of all ethnicities and ages can get cancer.  We know that around 50% of people will get a cancer diagnosis at some point in their life.  That’s every 1 in 2 people.  It’s important to understand, what is cancer and what causes it so that we can prevent it and effectively treat it.  As with any other disease, to successfully treat it, we have to first understand what causes it.  Address the root cause, and repair as much damage as possible.  And then make sure it does not come back in the future.  And I’m not talking about conventional treatment, that doesn’t look into the cause, and only manages symptoms, gives you a quick fix, that might harm you in the long term.  I’m talking about treating diseases by getting to the root cause.  Functional medicine and holistic medicine are all about that.  Cancer is a multifactorial disease, that requires a holistic approach.  We have to look at all the different things that affect our health.  And, all the things, that compromise our health and make us more susceptible to getting cancer.  Before looking into cancer causes, what is cancer?  Cancer is a condition where cells in a specific part of the body grow and multiply uncontrollably.  Cancer develops when the body's immune system doesn’t work properly and these changes stay unnoticed.  Defective cells don’t die and instead grow out of control, forming new, abnormal cells.  These cells can form a mass of tissue, called a tumor.  Cancer can begin in one part of the body, and end up spreading to other areas.  This process is known as metastasis.  Now, What causes cancer?  I’ll cover everything from the energy supply for cancer, factors that weaken the immune system, to things that might cause excessive toxicity, and cause you cancer.  Some of the most common cancer causes include poor diet, with too much sugar and other refined carbohydrates.  Sugar weakens your immune system, promotes inflammation, and feeds cancer.  With No sugar in your diet, you are very unlikely to get cancer.  Most people tend to misinterpret what is sugar and what is a healthy diet in general.  You might think, well, I don’t eat sugar.  I don’t eat added white sugar, the most obvious one.  But your rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, breakfast cereals, and even oats, and other similar high carbohydrate foods, are broken down into simple sugar glucose.  Does this glucose feed cancer?  Yes, absolutely.  It is advised to get 50% of your calories from carbohydrates.  The only non-essential macronutrient.  Meaning, you don’t need to eat carbs, to have stable normal glucose levels.  That would certainly explain why so many people get cancer.  As mentioned earlier, It is estimated that 50% of people will get cancer at some point in their life.  Most of these cases could be prevented if everyone ate less carbs.  But it’s much more than that.  Then next, Excess protein in the diet can lead to cancer.  Excessive amino acids from proteins promote growth.  Amino acids, such as glutamine, are involved in pathways that feed cancer cells and provide building blocks for cancer cell growth.  We must eat the right amount of protein for our bodies, not too little, and not too much.  Excess protein triggers the mTOR pathway, which promotes faster aging, and cancer.  So, All the fitness people promoting low fat, high carb, high lean protein diet, will actually get you cancer if you listen to their advice.  All the protein powders, protein bars, and meal replacement shakes, promote cancer.  Also, all the junk food, GMO foods, artificial sweeteners, refined vegetable oils,  tons of food additives, pesticides, and herbicides.  If you look deeper at some of these food ingredients and chemicals, you’ll find that most of them are carcinogens.  They might say, you’re only getting a small amount of this carcinogen.  It’s safe.  But then, what about the accumulative effect of the highly processed food diet?  Most people eat a highly processed food diet, where around 60% of their calories come from either processed, or ultra-processed foods.  And that creates ideal conditions for cancer.  Basically, if you eat mostly processed foods, like pizza, bread, and crisps, they are loaded with toxic ingredients that make you very likely to get cancer, and your immune system not being strong enough to destroy these cancerous cells, allowing them to overtake your body.  Most of our calories should be coming from natural whole foods instead.  And it’s not only what you eat.  How often you eat also matters.  If you constantly eat throughout the day, you never stop digesting, you have elevated insulin, and you don’t give your body time to go into autophagy.  Which is self-eating.  When you don’t eat, your body has time to heal itself and renew all the damaged cells.  Your immune system can function a lot better.  Try to eat 2-3 times a day, with no snacking.  So, these are the dietary causes.  A bad diet feeds cancer, promotes inflammation, intoxicates you, weakens your immune system,  and prevents you from repairing the damage.  Diet is very important.  But there are other things that can cause excessive toxicity, and cause cancer.  Things like being exposed to something really toxic.  You might be exposed to something that switches off your immune system, making you more susceptible to developing cancer.  Something so toxic, that we will see a huge increase in cancer cases.  A lot of people will be diagnosed with cancer.  And those who previously were in cancer remission will have their cancers coming back.  It is extremely important to detoxify and strengthen our immune system so that we would have better chances of preventing cancer.  Also, it’s important to use natural skincare products, shampoos, cleaning chemicals, deodorants, and makeup.  We need to reduce our toxic load as much as possible.  Then, another possible trigger of cancer is too much stress.  Many people get cancer after a stressful life event, like losing a loved one.  Stress can weaken your immune system.  It was discovered by Yale researchers, that Stress induces signals that cause cells to develop into tumors.  That just shows how unhealthy it is to be exposed to chronic stress.  Make sure you find ways to relax and don’t allow your stress levels to get out of control.  Other causes of cancer include a weakened immune system, lack of oxygen in the cells, lack of antioxidants from the diet, maybe not getting enough protective plant compounds,  accumulation of toxic substances, such as heavy metals, exposure to radiation, and so on.  Now, I hope this video helped you to get a better idea, of what is cancer, what causes it, and how to prevent it.