Most diseases are preventable, but medical attention these days is mostly on the treatment of disease, and not enough emphasis is given on how to prevent disease.
Here are a few important lifestyle suggestions to reduce the risk of prostate cancer:
- Enjoy physical activity of 30 – 45 minutes daily
- Enjoy 7 – 8 hours of sleep, preferably between 10 pm and 6 am
- Maintain a waist circumference of below 95 cms – fat tissue produces estrogen and thus it is important to lose any excess weight
- Reduce your intake of fructose, sugar and processed foods
- Intermittent fasting as a way of life – encourages the body to rely on fats more for energy than carbohydrates
- Eat a variety of white, green and yellow vegetables each day (juicing also good)
- Two-thirds of ones plate should be plant material, with never more than one-third animal material
- Increase the intake of healthy fats (avocados, nuts, olives and olive oil)
- Drink lots of water throughout the day
- Maintain a healthy, impermeable gut wall – 80% of our immune surveillance occurs here
- Limit alcohol intake to no more than two drinks per day
- Give up smoking
- Find ways of taming your stress levels
- Cherish and sustain personal relationships
- Daily intake of omega-3 rich oil with sufficient levels of EPA and DHA
- Check your vitamin D status – increase your levels through sun exposure, and if necessary, a suitable supplement in addition
- Check your vital health markers annually – in particular, your ferritin, your uric acid, and levels of inflammation
- A regular physical examination of the prostate, in addition to PSA levels
