5 Ways to Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk (It’s Not All in Your Genes) by Joyce Knestrick, CRNP, FAANP

Cancer Women's Health
2 years ago

5 Ways to Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk (It’s Not All in Your Genes)

Many women spend much of their adult lives staring down breast cancer. The stats are alarming: one in eight will be diagnosed and every year 260,000 women join the survivor ranks to live a life forever altered by cancer. While genes play an important role in who develops breast cancer, your fate is not entirely out of your hands. Here are five ways you can actively lower your risk: 

  • Shed extra pounds. Post-menopausal weight gain has been linked to breast cancer. 
  • Get moving. Regular exercise can lower your risk by as much as 20 percent.
  • Cut back the booze. Three drinks a day increases your risk by 15 percent, and every additional drink adds another 10 percent.
  • Eat healthy. Diet accounts for 30 to 40 percent of all cancers, so eat the healthy stuff.
  • Quit smoking. Smoking increases risk, especially in younger, pre-menopausal women, so steer clear of even secondhand smoke. 

Just being a woman and getting older are the two biggest risk factors for breast cancer, but there are ways to fight back! Celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month by doing what you can to stay cancer free.

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Anne Marie Tarjan Robbins
There are herbs and foods that help reduce the risk too. For example, if you have too much estrogen, beet powder and broccoli srouts help. I dump a teaspoon of powder in my smoothies daily. I take brocco Max for the broccoli need. These two alone have made a huge difference for me with my cycles and have reduced the fiber cystic breast disease, something that increases the risk as well.

Finding out what your body specifically needs is hard. I’m thankful for a doctor who could barrow that down for me.
Anne Marie Tarjan Robbins
Here’s another article that supports this post.

For me, some of the suggestions I already follow and have seen good results.

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