Health & Fitness
Learn About Cancer Prevention!
Free workshop on 2/27 will explore the link between inflammation and cancer and how you can live an Anti-Cancer Life!
Inflammation is a natural healing process that your body initiates in response to injury or infection. If you scrape your knee you might experience heat, redness and pain – these are the signs of localized inflammation – which often lasts just a few days.
Chronic inflammation is different – it’s persistent inflammation that doesn’t have noticeable symptoms and isn’t confined to a particular tissue - rather it may involve whole organs and systems (like your heart and blood vessels).
Your Body's Response to Stress
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Chronic inflammation is your body’s response to stress - whether from your diet, lifestyle or environment. Lack of sleep, excessive anxiety, environmental toxins – all contribute to low levels of chronic inflammation that often goes undetected for many years until disease finally emerges.
Damaged DNA
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Over time, the inflammatory process – which involves rapidly repairing cells and creating new ones – can increase the odds that cells will develop spontaneous DNA mutations. The inflammatory response may actually lower the body’s ability to detect mutations and mistakenly promote the survival of mutated cells. These mutated cells can go on to become cancer.
Inflammation is also believed to play a role in heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer’s and other diseases and this link remains a topic of ongoing research.
What You Can Do!
There are things you can do to dampen inflammation, making it much harder for cancers to flourish. Two key approaches are 1) eat more fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, olive oil, and fish and 2) exercise at least 3 times a week for 20 minutes or more. Come learn more tips at a free lecture sponsored by Eden Medical Center on Tuesday, February 27th from 6:00 – 8:00pm. Certified Holistic Cancer Coach, Gina Bowen, will provide you with tools for implementing anti-inflammatory lifestyle - including stress management, movement, mindset, mindfulness and more. The workshop will be held at 20101 Lake Chabot Rd, 2nd Floor, in Castro Valley and you can call (925) 933-0107 to register.
