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Endometrial cancer doesn't always make
headlines, but for women, it's one of
the most important cancers to
understand. In the United States, it's
now the most commonly diagnosed
gynecologic cancers. Cases have risen by
more than 50% since the 1990s. What on
earth is going on? Is it hormones? Is it
diet? Is it stress? Is it inflammation?
Using your body's own immune system to
jack it up, to ramp it up, to be able to
help your body fight cancer. It's almost
the most natural way you can think of
fighting cancers. A study looking at 200
patients with cancer found that those
people who responded all had and the
people didn't respond well to
imunotherapy and we're missing it. This
one bacteria actually has a powerful
beneficial effect by helping your body
respond to imunotherapy to tackle
cancer. The main drivers for cancer. 90
to 95% of cancers are due not to
genetics actually are caused by
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>> Endometrial cancer doesn't always make
headlines, but for women, it's one of
the most important cancers to
understand. In the United States, it's
now the most commonly diagnosed
gynecologic cancer. So, it's a cancer of
the reproductive system. Now, decades
ago, like when I went to medical school,
doctors once regarded endometrial cancer
as a good cancer, meaning that it was
considered to be slow growing, usually
occurred after menopause, and oftentimes
was caught early. But that's not the
case anymore. Endometrial cancer is a
increasing cancer, and it's gotten more
deadly. In fact, cases have risen by
more than 50% since the 1990s. And now
it's showing up in womens who are
decades younger than before. Sometimes
in their 40s and even in their 30s. What
on earth is going on? Is it hormones? Is
it diet? Is it stress? Is it
inflammation? Or is it something else
entirely? Today, I'm going to explore
what science is revealing about
endometrial cancer. Who's at most risk?
the latest important treatments and how
you can help your body defend itself to
prevent endometrial cancer. You ready?
Let's go. First, let's talk about the
endometrium. All right? Because you need
to understand that to understand
endometrial cancer. The endometrium is
the lining of the uterus. All right? And
endometrial cancer is a cancer that
arises from that lining. Normally the
endometrium is a part of the woman's
body once they reach reproductive age
because that lining forms every single
month grows and it thickens through a
process called angiogenesis. Angio blood
blood vessels genesis how they grow.
This lining of blood vessels grow inside
the uterus in order to prepare the
uterus to accept a fertilized egg for
pregnancy. And this lining would if
there's a pregnancy will develop into a
life support system for the baby growing
in the womb. And if there's no pregnancy
then every month the uterus the woman's
body will shed that endometrium at the
end of every month. And that's what
happens during menration. Okay? You're
shedding out that lining that
endometrial lining. So what is actually
going on? Well, over decades of hormonal
cycling, right? So you think about it
from teenage years into your 20s and 30s
and 40s. This is decades now until you
get menopause. Those cells are
regenerating themselves thousands of
times. Now, most of the time the problem
of growing new endometrium, shedding it,
uh growing it again actually is
something that is tackled naturally by
the hard wiring in the reproductive
tract. The process is usually pretty
smooth. The endometrial grows and it
sheds. Everything runs normally
smoothly. But if there's a disruption,
disruption of hormones, if there's
inflammation, if there are toxic
exposure, including to carcinogens, if
there's DNA damage of the cells in that
endometrial lining, well, those insults,
those mistakes can cause DNA mutations.
And DNA mutations to the endometrium can
lead to cancer of the endometrium or
endometrial cancer. That's what we're
talking about today. So, how would you
know if endometrial cancer was present?
Well, actually, it's kind of a silent
cancer. uh it can let you grow silently
for a long period of time. You may not
know it until there's bleeding, but
there are symptoms that every woman
should not ignore because it could be a
sign. For example, in younger women,
bleeding between periods or unusually
heavy periods or any bleeding at all
after menopause can indicate that
there's something going on in that
endometrium. Okay. Other symptoms that
might be a signal that there's a problem
going on, pelvic pressure, bloating,
especially in sort of the lower abdomen
in a pelvic area. Pain during
intercourse or unexplained fatigue or a
super low blood count, anemia that your
uh regular primary care doctor might
detect. Those are actually potential
clues that something's going on down
there in the reproductive tract uh that
needs your doctor to help you check it
out. Now in most cases what a doctor
would do is a quick history and a
physical exam and if there's enough
concern quick office biopsy by a
gynecologist can usually spot the
problem right and when you catch
indometrial cancer early like most
cancers it's more likely that you're
going to be able to get it treated
successfully. Early detection almost
always leads to a better more successful
outcome. Okay. Now earlier I mentioned
that the cases of endometrial cancer are
rising and the question is why? Why is
this uh rate of of this cancer rising?
Well, let's first look at what the risks
are for indometrial cancer. Most people
think about genetics when it comes to
cancer, right? Because there's been huge
awareness about the importance of doing
genetic screening for cancer and that's
a good thing. Uh and in fact for
indometrial cancer, there is one genetic
uh inherited cause for indometrial
cancer to know about and that's called
Lynch syndrome, Lynn Nch syndrome.
That's a genetic syndrome that weakens
the body's ability to repair uh any DNA
damage and of course that can lead to
certain cancer including colon cancer
and endometrial cancer. About 3 to 5% of
endometrial cancers are due to Lynch
syndrome. All right. And if you're a
woman and you carry this genetic
mutation for Lynch syndrome, the
lifetime risk of developing endometrial
cancer can be as high as 60%. That's why
if you were tested and you had uh the
gene mutation for Lynch syndrome, it's
worth talking to a genetic counselor
then to your gynecologist to talk about
what the options are for uh preventing
endometrial cancer in the future. Now
again, simple genetic testing can catch
this uh risk factor and then you can
actually go forward from there to figure
out what's the best thing. Now, if
anyone in your family has had a history
of colon endometrial cancer, especially
at a young age, it's worth getting
checked out for Lynch syndrome. However,
the vast majority of cases of
endometrial cancer are not inherited or
not genetic. That's because like most
cancers, the main drivers for cancer, 90
to 95% of cancers are due not to
genetics, which are only attributable to
5 to 10%, but actually are linked to
caused by the environment, diet,
lifestyle over many, many years. And
this is why it's possible that you can
take control over your own risk factors.
So again, let me repeat this. Only 5 to
10% of cancers are caused by genetics.
Whereas 90% of cancers are caused by
repeated insults from the environment
from diet and lifestyle. Right? And by
the way, these are the same things
environment, diet, lifestyle that are
also the underlying insults that cause
other things like obesity, diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, maybe even some
forms of dementia, neurodeeneration.
Now, what's at the heart of all of this
is inflammation that goes on in the
body. And inflammation, like in other
parts of the body, when it comes to
cancer, acts like gasoline being poured
onto a fire. It really causes the
disease process to flare up and actually
makes it a lot more aggressive. So, diet
and lifestyle that can reduce your risk
of endo of cancers and other chronic
conditions are important to know about
for endometrial cancer. Now, before I
talk about diet and lifestyle, there's
another thing you need to know when it
comes to endometrial cancer. that is
your gut microbiome, right? So, this is
where you know this field of uh healthy
gut bacteria is growing and percolating
and getting to almost every area of
health and medicine for uh understanding
disease. Turns out that there is a um a
part of the gut microbiome that is known
as the estrabal. Okay, estrabolom sounds
like estrogen and exactly that's what it
actually controls your hormones. Going
to come back to that in one second. So
your gut microbiome, 39 trillion healthy
bacteria living in your lower gut does
play a role in reproductive health and
in resisting cancer. Your microbiome,
healthy bacteria regulate your
metabolism, makes your body more insulin
sensitive to lower your glucose level.
Um, your gut microbiome raises your
immune shield so that your immune system
is better able to spot and destroy
cancers. And your microbiome also
influences your hormonal regulations in
your body. So when your uh gut bacteria
are in a balanced community, healthy
communities, good neighborhoods,
everything seems to function just fine.
But when you have disturbed community,
call it dispiosis. This is when you have
bad guy bacteria that uh enter the
neighborhood. Whoops, there goes the
neighborhood and it and it disrupts the
good functioning neighborhood. You wind
up actually having more bad bacteria
than good bacteria. And some of those
bad bacteria in dispiosis can cause
problems including inflammation. Right?
part of the healthy microbiome called
the estrabolome helps your body process
and clear estrogen when it comes to
women. Now, think about it as an
estrogen recycling system. Reproductive
organs make estrogen. Uh the estrabal in
your gut, we now realize helps to
process and clear it out, making room
for the new estrogen that's actually
produced. So, extra estrogen is broken
down and eliminated. So, how does this
connect back to the gut microbiome?
Well, I told you the gut bacteria will
be helpful in regulating and and and
recycling extra estrogen, so it clears
it right out. But if you have dispiosis,
this is gut bacteria that's not
functioning in a good harmonious way,
not only do you have inflammation, but
you have disruption of the estab. And
when the estrabal is disturbed, and this
is all happening in your gut, the
bacteria that degrade and help the
estrogen to get recycled, they're not
functioning. They're compromised. All
right? And estrogen isn't degraded as
much and it builds up higher and higher
levels of estrogen. It sticks around.
Now, when you actually have higher and
higher levels of estrogen plus
inflammation and both of these are being
exposed at the level of the endometrium,
what do you think happens? Well, this is
thought to be a risk factor for
endometrial cancer. Increasing
inflammation, uh, higher levels of
estrogen. Now other insults that could
be coming from diet and lifestyle then
is a setup over a period of time for
increasing the chances that some of
those cells in the endometrium could
become cancerous. And that's why we now
be are beginning to think that a healthy
gut is important not just for lowering
inflammation and helping your metabolism
and helping brain health. The gut brain
access but in fact this gut hormone
access the estabome is really really
important for understanding some of the
underlying risk factors for endometrial
and other reproductive cancers as well.
So gut health is obviously important.
Come back to actually how to improve
your gut health. Before I do that
though, let's just talk about
treatments, right? Because I'm a
physician, so I think it's important to
talk to people about what the medical
approach is uh for endometrial cancer.
And the good news is that there are
treatments, but the treatments depend on
the stage of cancer, when it was
discovered, how aggressive or how much
widespread it's become. And in the
medical community, we sort of try to uh
partition off uh the stages of cancer
when they're uh discovered so we can
figure out what's the best way to help a
patient overcome their disease. So for
example, many of you will have heard
about stage one or stage two cancer.
This is earlier cancers basically where
the cancer is limited still you know
restricted to the organs where they
arise like uterus. All right and in
these situations where stage one or
stage two endometrial cancer surgery
which is usually a hysterctomy maybe
removing the uterus and maybe removing
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curative, right? just remove the uterus
and now you don't have any more uh
chance of getting uh endometrial cancer
and if there's anything there you remove
the whole thing out just the whole
kitten kaboodleoodle comes right out.
That's stage one and stage two. Stage
three is where the cancers spread to the
pelvic lymph nodes. The pelvis is you
know an area around the hips that whole
area of pelvis. Uh the uterus is right
in there and lymph nodes are where
cancer cells first tend to go, right?
Because the lymph nodes take um cells
and fluid right out from different
organs to try to reclans the lymphatic
tissue. It's a kind of a cleansing
system like a sewer system. Cancer cells
get washed out there. They get caught in
the storm drains of your lymph nodes and
then they stick there and they can grow.
Now surgery is still the best treatment
for stage most stage three endometrial
cancers because it's in the lymph nodes.
usually add some radiation to zap the
the cancers in the lymph nodes or maybe
some chemotherapy to try to clean up any
cancer cells that are sticking around
inside the lymph. That's stage three. So
we talked about stage one, stage two,
stage three and of course there's stage
four endometrial cancer and this is
where the cancer has spread not only
beyond the uterus but actually distant
organs like the liver or the lung or
elsewhere you know. Um, and by the way,
traditionally, and we still think this,
stage four cancers are, you know, really
regarded as serious advanced levels of
cancer. But until recently, we thought
usually stage 4 was effectively
untreatable. That's changing now because
today cancer treatment isn't just based
on the organ in which we started. We
don't just use chemo or radiation or
surgery. Now, we're actually beginning
to try to personalize the treatment for
the individual. Right? You've probably
heard of personalized medicine. Well,
personalized oncology is how we actually
really fine-tune the approach to the
cancer based on that individual. And one
way that we do this is by looking for
molecular fingerprints. Let me explain
how this is done. Basically, when you do
surgery or do a biopsy, you're going to
get a piece of the tumor out and you can
test that piece of the tumor that the
cancer for mutations and immune markers.
And looking at these mutations or immune
markers actually allow us to compare
what we find in the lab at the pathology
lab really to the toolbox that is
growing now of the right treatment for
your specific cancer. That's
personalized therapy. For example, we
know that some cancers um are driven by
hormones and hormonal therapy could be
actually the right solution. that's
matching. And by giving hormonal
therapies that interfere with the
hormones, sometimes you can actually
slow the cancer growth, especially if
it's fueled by estrogen. Other cancers
have a genetic mutation, for example, a
molecular signature like PI3 kynise or
her two. Might not have heard about
those. Maybe her two you've heard of.
Well, this is where when we find those
mutations, those telltale smoking guns
in the cancer, we're able to go over to
the toolbox and reach out for what we
call targeted therapies that are
directed exactly at the PI3 kynise or
her too, right? There's also
anti-angioenic therapies, which I've
been involved with, and these are
treatments that are not chemo, not
radiation, um, but they actually cut off
the blood supply feeding the cancer, and
it can be a really powerful way to
enhance the cancer treatments. Now
there's another really amazing pillar of
therapy called immunootherapy.
Imunotherapy it's got immune part of it
is exactly using your body's own immune
system to jack it up to ramp it up to be
able to help your body fight cancer.
It's almost the most natural way you can
think of fighting cancer is just to help
your own immune system scrub out the
cancer. This is not chemotherapy. All
right. Chemo basically just destroys
everything in this bath, including
cancer cells. Immunotherapy is waking
up, jacking up your own immune system.
And sometimes it's a medicine that is
given to stimulate the immune system. So
the immune system is kind of waking a
soldier out of bed to say, "Hey, we got
the enemy coming. Let's go out after
them and they go pick up their weapons
to go out after to hunt the enemy." Or
sometimes you take immune cells and you
grow them up and you supercharge them.
Then you give the immune supercharge
immune soldiers back to the the the
individual, the patient um in order to
be able to go off to fight the cancer.
So different ways of actually
approaching imunotherapy. But this is
really where the end of cancer is going
to be coming from is imunotherapy. This
has been a kind of a pipe dream for
decades. It was proposed many many uh
decades ago. Finally after a lot of
research and a lot of work we now
finally have imunotherapies. So I'm
telling you this uh for indometrial
cancer because it just I I want to just
communicate that there are many
different treatments. There's no
one-sizefits-all. And today,
oncologists, cancer doctors are trying
to individualize the treatments and
picking from all these tools in a
toolbox to match it to each person's
individual situation. So, the type of
imunotherapy I think I want to share in
this video are called checkpoint
inhibitors. All right, checkpoint
inhibitors. And basically, these this
type of immune uh therapy, checkpoint
inhibitors, pretty much just takes the
foot off the brake that the cancer puts
on your own immune system. So cancers
are pretty sneaky. They can figure out
how to actually, you know, make your
immune system uh screech to a halt and
avoid tackling the cancer. So these
checkpoints are exactly how tumors are
able to block your immune system. Like
so they send proteins called PD1 or PDL1
that basically tell the immune system,
hey, don't attack me. All right, leave
me alone. Then your immune system just
kind of keeps on going and it completely
ignores a cancer. Not what you want. You
want your immune system to go after that
cancer. So these proteins PD1, PDL1
essentially help a cancer become
camouflaged like put a cloak uh some
camouflage over the cancer. So they
avoid the immune detection checkpoint
inhibitors. Right now there's a there
are a growing number of checkpoint
inhibitors. You might have heard about
some of them. I'm just going to tell you
the names so you've heard it from me.
One of them is called Pembbrismab.
Pembbrismab. The other one's called
Nevolamab. Okay. Basically what these
checkpoint inhibitors do imunotherapies
they turn off the cancer's cloaking
device they target and inhibit um PD1 or
PDL1 right so now once the camouflage or
the cloaking system is turned off all of
a sudden your immune system can see
clearly there's a cancer there and what
do they do they go and attack the cancer
kind of like uh guard dogs going after
uh a criminal right so now this is not
just true for indometrial cancer it's
actually true for any type of cancer but
we're talking about endometrial cancer
and I can tell you that checkpoint
inhibitors this this type of
imunotherapy has been used effectively
uh in some people who have endometrial
cancer right so why am I telling you all
this because if you are cancer patient
with endometrial cancer or you know
somebody who's dealing with endometrial
cancer what I always tell people is that
very important today for the patient
cancer patient to ask their oncologist
or cancer doctor following question can
I get an imunotherapy What do I need to
do to figure out if I can get an
imunotherapy? Have you checked my tumor
for markers like PD1 or PDL1 that might
make reveal that my tumor can respond to
a checkpoint inhibitor? Very, very
important. You don't want to actually go
to that kind of a oncologist who
basically just does the box check on
chemo because that's what they're used
to. You really want to connect with your
oncologist to engage them in this very
exciting area that the future of
successful cancer therapy is coming
from. Right? We're beginning to see it
all around us, but a lot of oncologists
are still not using them the way that
everyone's going to be treated with
imunotherapies in the future. Now,
obviously, I'm not giving medical
advice. Uh, I'm here as a physician to
really to give education to help give
you information that can empower you so
that you can work with your own doctor
to be able to ask these important
questions. But I'm just telling you,
imotherapy is one of those treatments
that you can't afford not to ask your
oncologists about. All right, let me
kind of boil it down for you in a way
that I think you're going to remember.
Cancer. How do we used to treat it?
Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy kills cancer.
Also kills a lot of other healthy cells
as well. Chemotherapy kills cancer.
Imunotherapy heals the patient.
Chemotherapy kills the cancer. Okay,
immunotherapy heals the patient and
restores them to health. Big difference.
This is something that you really want
to know about is imunotherapy. Now,
there's something I want to loop back on
and that's gut health. Because it turns
out that if you're getting imunotherapy
for cancer like these checkpoint
inhibitors like Pmbrismab or Nvolomab,
you want to make sure that your gut
microbiome is in good shape. Your gut
microbiome has should be in good shape,
a healthy bacteria so that your body can
respond properly to imunotherapy like
these checkpoint inhibitors because
research has shown clinical studies have
shown that people with cancer getting
imunotherapy respond better when they
actually have a healthy gut microbiome.
In fact, if they've got uh healthy
bacteria, one of them is called
acromancia mucinophila. Okay, some of
you may have heard me talk about this
before. A study looking at 200 patients
with cancer found that those people who
responded all had acromancine. The
people who didn't respond well to
imunotherapy they were missing it. All
right. So this one bacteria actually has
a powerful beneficial effect by helping
your body respond to imunotherapy to
tackle cancer. Now acromancy is also
what we call a keystone bacteria that
helps you um have a good metabolism. It
uh helps your body become insulin
sensitive. Can even help your body
produce GLP-1. uh that satiety hormone,
right? That that can cause weight loss
as well. But in this case, we're talking
about cancer. What we found is that
having this acromancia can help your
body respond to imunotherapy. Very, very
important. Okay. So, how do you know if
you've got acromancia? That's question
that I sometimes ask by people. Well,
you got to get your gut microbiome
checked. You should ask your oncologist
and your regular doctor if they can help
you order a gut microbiome test. You got
to ask them. All right. Now, most
doctors are not yet familiar with
microbiome testing, but maybe if you
have a functional doctor or functional
oncologist, they will have one. All
right? They will have a test that
they've used before. If your doctor
isn't able to help you, all right, uh it
is possible for you to do the research
yourself online and order a gut
microbiome test yourself. All right?
This is an area where honestly the
general public is ahead in some cases
than doctors, but fortunately, you can
actually order your own gut microbiome
test. Uh so that's one thing you can do
to find out if you have acromancia. You
should just make sure the test will
actually look for acromancia. So you can
do some research is make sure those the
the company will actually reveal whether
you have acromancia or not. You can also
take a probiotic called acromancia. Uh
there's a pendulum acia probiotic that
is very very high quality. I have uh
studied it myself in cancer patients.
This probiotic will raise acromancia
levels and it's available and it does
improve acromancia in the gut. All
right. So if you want to support
acromancy gut, you can take a probiotic
in order to amplify what you might your
gut might naturally have. And what you
can also do is to eat foods that support
acromancia and gut health in general.
Now specifically for acromancia, this is
the bacteria that loves to feed on
natural mucus called mucin in your gut.
So if acromancy eats a mucin, what you
kind of foods that you eat that can
actually make your gut secrete more
mucin will grow more acromancia. And so
the foods that will do this are the ones
that have polyphenols called
elagitanins. So which foods are those?
Pomegranates, dried cranberries,
conquered grapes. These are the foods
that will nurture acromancia by giving
uh your gut the stimulation to create
more mucin. So acromancia will feed on
it more. You'll have more microbes,
healthy gut bacteria around. So what I'm
just telling you now is you can use food
not just uh as medicine, but food and
medicine. Diet can improve your gut
bacteria which can improve your immune
system which can improve your
imunotherapy right this is food and
medicine not either or but working all
together and this is why question of hey
what should I be eating to help my body
respond better to fighting cancer is a
really really important one and it's
something that your oncologist should be
willing to actually have a conversation
with you about no longer is it just well
you know just make sure you eat whatever
so you don't lose weight now we're
beginning to realize there are specific
foods that will have specific
polyphenols that will support your
body's own anti-cancer defenses. So,
they're not drugs. They're not as
powerful as drugs, but they actually
support, it's a tool in the toolbox so
that you can prevent your body from
getting weaker and you can make it
stronger. All right. Now, lifestyle is
also important. Uh so, you want to make
sure you do things like get better
sleep. Uh you want to actually lower
your stress levels. Uh and um you want
to exercise, right? These are all things
that actually have been shown to improve
outcomes and make people respond better
uh to treat well. Now I want to tell you
one other thing that's a little tip that
I learned when I was in medical school.
I had a mentor who is a gynecological
oncologist and he told me way back when
he basically once told me we were on
call one evening uh and we were walking
it was happened to be a quiet few
moments and he said to me no woman
should ever die of endometrial cancer.
And I looked at him like what? And he
said, "Well, it's because if a woman has
finished having children, she could
actually have a hysterctomy to remove
the uterus and now you'll never develop
endometrial cancer." So, I've always
remembered that as kind of like a common
sense thing. I know it's a big deal to
have a hysterctomy, but you know, hey,
this is especially if you've got a
genetic risk or family history of
endometrial cancer, a hysterctomy is
something that you should probably talk
to your gynecologist about uh to see if
that might be one of the options for you
to have an elective hysterctomy, remove
the uterus, and now you'll never have
endometrial cancer. Obviously, a highly
personal decision. I can't offer medical
advice. It's something that you really
need to be able to talk with your doctor
about. So, diet, lifestyle, the right
medicines, that maybe surgery. So, back
to my favorite thing, which is what do
we do to eat to beat cancer? Well, here
are some pro tips for you uh that you
might be able to just jot down someplace
and carry with you next time you're
going to the store. Number one, eat more
plants, colorful vegetables, fruits,
beans, lentils, uh whole grains.
Polyphenols and dietary fiber will feed
your gut microbiome. better gut
microbiome, lower inflammation, tips the
odds in your favor of better health and
takes away inflammation that can
actually fuel cancer. Cruciferous
vegetables are also really great. You
know the ones that you would find the
greens, right? Broccoli, Brussels
sprouts, kale, arugula, the they
actually have um bioactives called
sulforophanes that actually are cancer
starving, anti-androgenic, immune
boosting. Uh they help your lower
inflammation and they improve your
metabolism. say all kind of foods tip
the balance in your favor. This is what
I want you to know. Soy and legumes, all
right, tofu, edamame, they contain
isoflavones like genine that actually
can block human estrogen. They don't
cause a problem, they actually block the
problem if there's too much estrogen
around. Um, and they also starve cancer
by cutting off the blood supply. And
then healthy fats, right? Rather than
use saturated fats uh for cooking for
example, try using a healthy fat like
extra virgin olive oil which has
monounsaturated fatty acids is loaded
with polyphenols. The extra virgin part
will frontload those polyphenols into
you. That's what gives a peppery taste
when you have a really really good high
quality olive oil and I I love it and
it's something that is you know tastes
great and is also good for your body and
also helps lower inflammation in your
body which then helps to lower your
cancer risk. And then there's green tea
and coffee. Two of my favorite
beverages. The tea contains kakans,
polyphenols. And coffee contains
chlorogenic acid, another polyphenol.
Both are antioxidants that protect DNA
against damage. Remember I told you
cancer is associated with DNA damage
mutations. Also lowers oxidative stress
that can cause more DNA damage. And both
the kakans and tea and chlorogenic and
coffee are anti-angioenic and cancer
starving as well. Now, there are a
couple of things that you should cut
from your diet. All right? Number one is
ultrarocessed foods. No surprise there,
but you know those things in the middle
aisle of the grocery store, in a box, in
a can, in a tin, in a bag that have
20ome ingredients and you can't uh
pronounce or have no idea what the
function of these ingredients are. Or
people have also said if your
grandmother wouldn't know what to do
with these ingredients in her kitchen,
it's probably the food is probably an
ultrarocessed food. Well, look, these
additives, that's a key thing. These
additives can cause inflammation in the
body. Artificial preservatives,
artificial coloring, artificial
flavoring, you get it. And when you get
inflammation, that actually can stoke
cancer growth. That's why you should cut
down as much as possible ultrarocessed
foods. Okay. Now, the other thing you
want to do is to think about uh cutting
out soda. Soda uh regular soda has a lot
of sugar in it. Okay. That actually been
shown to increase the risk for
inflammation uh and other chronic
diseases including cancer. And diet
sodas have artificial sweeteners and
those have been shown to mess with your
gut microbiome. Remember we go back to
the beginning that healthy gut bacteria
ubiosis healthy balance. You start
messing with that that healthy balance
you wind up having disbiosis. And don't
forget I told you about the estabalone
where the healthy gut bacteria help to
recycle and take down extra levels of
estrogen. So you don't want to be
messing with that. So, I would say cut
down on your ultrarocessed foods, cut
down on your uh sodas, both regular and
diet. Okay. Couple of things that you
should know about lifestyle. Exercise
can improve your immune system. Very
important. If you want to use your your
own immune system to tackle endometrial
cancer, listen, even a 30-minute walk
after dinner, which anybody can do, it's
worth it. And by the way, if you walk
after dinner, you're going to sleep
better, too. And if you sleep better,
you'll actually have less stress and
your gut microbiome will actually
recover better when you're sleeping
deeply. Stress management also really
important. Now look, having a cancer
diagnosis is very very stressful. There
are things you can do like breathing
exercises, like yoga, like exercise that
can actually help you lower your stress.
And even social interactions, right? Uh
being with friends, getting positive
feedback, laughing, you know, doing
things that are joyful, what, however
you can manage it, those are all stress
lowering. So endometrial cancer, very
serious cancer, treatable when caught
early. If it's caught later, well, you
got to actually pull out all the
different tools in a toolbox, including
these personalized ways of looking at
targeted therapies to take out your
specific cancer, including imunotherapy
to jack up your own immune system and
unleash your own health defenses to go
after the cancer. Remember, you got to
actually uh get your body in good shape.
You got to optimize your gut microbiome.
Eat good foods, polyphenols, dietary
fibers. Use foods as medicine, foods and
medicines to conquer disease and so you
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