Notes from You the Owners Manual

By Michael F. Roizen, M.D. & Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

The Anatomy of Cancer

While it’s one word cancer isn’t one disease. It’s hundreds of different diseases, all with different patterns of behavior and livelihood, and that makes it complex affliction to understand. Unlike a heart attack, which is similar to a fire or lighting strike to your home, cancer is more of a slow-growing problem - termites, mold, a crack in the foundation - that can eventually destroy your home.

You probably don’t know that you have cancer. That’s right every single person has had cancer cells in them. But in most cases, your body finds the cells, realizes that they’re foreign, and kills them right away-without your ever knowing that it happened.

Some cancer is caused by viruses that are contagious, like HIV. So in a way, you can catch cancer. You can’t swap cancer through blood stream, saliva, or germs, but in a roundabout way, you can pass along some of the organisms that could cause cancer. This is especially true for cervical and liver cancer, as well as some lymphomas.

The Birth of Cancer Cells

Cancer is all about subtle mutations in your genes that are busy reproducing cells for the day’s activities. This spectacular machinery, complete with accelerators for when you need more cells and inhibitors for when you need to slow down, occasionally loses a piece of gene. Then something in your normal functioning cell creates a genetic mutation that your immune system doesn’t recognize and isn’t able to react to. But this mutation process isn’t something that happens in isolation every once in a while. It happens all the time every person has some thing like 70 million cell duplications a day (that’s approximately the population of California, Texas and Florida combined). What happens during duplication? A strand of DNA has four letters in its coding, - A,G,C,T, When the cell duplicates, there’s a certain number of duplications that have typographical errors in the coding, meaning that the cell doesn’t recognize the code so it doesn’t know what function it’s supposed to perform. Imagine you’re typing a hundred - page document: you’re bound to make mistakes when you’re typing. But your cells don’t have a backspace button to erase their errors. So it a letter gets mixed up in the cell duplication ( a T becomes a U, for instance), it becomes an abnormal cell - a cell that your body doesn’t recognize as normal (just as your spell-checker wouldn’t know " fucniton ". When you meant to type "function"). The majority of these typographical errors die - thanks to your immune system - but some of these errors can slip under the radar screen and also can lead to cancer.

We get bad mutations in two ways, First , mutations come from mistakes in the cell - division process. Second mutations can occur when the DNA in a cell is damaged by an irritate like radiation or free radicals (those are a charged atom or a group of atoms that can damage cells, proteins, and DNA by altering their chemical structure). The damage from free radicals can be prevented by binding the free radicals with an antioxidant: perhaps the key function that antioxidants perform is to handcuff the free radicals, packaging them so that they can be washed out of the body through the kidneys, and preventing them from damaging or cells and chromosomes. In both cases, these mutations - if they don’t kill the cell or don’t get fixed - get passed on when a cell divides.

Your second protection from cancer is your immune system; The gene (called the P53 proof- reader gene if you’re ever trying out for jeopardy !) Reads all the other genes to find the typos. In people with cancer, those cancer cells turn off the P53 gene.

Cancer: The Live Longer Action Plan - Fight with Nutrients

More than 95% of the people with lung cancer have smoked or been exposed to heavy doses of second hand smoke, radon, or asbestos. Stop smoking and get toxic substances out of your life.

Vitamin D - 400 IU a day, if you are over 60 600 IU a day, is toxic to potentially cancerous cells. Tomato Products - Eat 10 or more table spoons a week of tomatoes or tomato paste w/olive oil or nuts. Selenium - garlic (fish) cod, herring, mackerel, and sardines, and Brazil nuts. Folate - 525 micrograms of folate to make cancer less likely. Vitamin C 500 milligrams 2X a day. 400 IU daily of vitamin E.

Cruciferous vegetables like Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower. Seven non-fried servings a week.

By now you know that we think aspirin should have an airport-or at the very least a building named after it, for all the good it can do. Just look at the stats: Taking 162 milligrams of aspirin a day can decrease the risk of getting colon cancer by 40 percent. And it’s only been shown to increase the risk of prostate cancer form two incidents in every hundred thousand people to four incidents per hundred thousand. Those benefits do not include its ability to prevent or reverse aging. Just taking that half of a regular aspirin (or two baby aspirin) can make the Real Age average of a fifty five year old 2.2 years younger. Take aspirin with a glass of warm water it’ll help dissolve the aspirin faster and decrease the risk of gastric side effects that occur when the aspirin lands directly on the stomach lining. Though we don’t know how aspirin decreases the incidence of cancer, we know that it dose.

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