Ep 12 - HEALTH HACK: How Does My Diet Affect My Chances of Breast Cancer?

In this episode of Health Hacktivators, Dr. Alka Patel talks about the impact of food on our chances of getting breast cancer.

A study of over 30,000 women showed a 60% reduction in the risk of getting breast cancer by following five guidelines from the American Institute of Cancer Research. One of the guidelines is to eat more plants and fibre, with at least 25 grams of fibre a day leading to a reduction in breast cancer risk.

Additionally, Dr. Patel discusses the benefits of antioxidants in stopping DNA damage, for example an apple a day can reduce the chances of breast cancer by 24%. On the other hand, high temperature cooking of meat releases heterocyclic amines which increase the susceptibility to breast cancer by damaging DNA. Hence, Dr. Patel suggests a transition to a plant-based diet to reduce the risk of breast cancer. To help with the transition, she provides a simple 5-4-3-2-1 rule of thumb to track fibre intake.

 

In this episode you’ll hear about:

  • How what you eat affects your chances of cancer

  • The three P’s of cancer

  • Why you should eat more fruit and vegetables

  • How to track your fibre intake

  • How to fuel up your fibre intake

 

To read the blogs that accompany the show and for even more focused health hacks, head to https://dralkapatel.com/blog/

Do you know your LQ? Find out how high your lifestyle ranks. Take the LQ test to find out your score here: https://dralkapatel.com/lq-test/

 

Discover A Hidden Health-Hacking Code That Unlocks Your Phenomenal Potential for an Outstanding Healthspan, Lifespan and Wealthspan.

Find out what most other Doctors don’t tell you, with cutting-edge health-hacktivating advice from Lifestyle Medicine Doctor, GP and Longevity Expert Dr Alka Patel.

Featuring candid conversations with celebrities, influencers and industry icons, hear the real-life stories of what it takes to be healthy, wealthy, and wise in today’s world.

It’s time to join the Strategic Self-Care Revolution and experience the profound effect this will have on your personal and professional success.

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Dr Alka Patel

Meet the doctor leading a strategic self-care revolution. A lifestyle medicine physician, GP and longevity and biohacking expert, Dr Alka Patel is here to help her clients live longer, more successful lives. But her interests don’t just lie in the length of people’s lives. As much as anything else, Alka wants the entrepreneurs, executives and experts she works with to experience exceptional health and the many benefits that come with it.

With a mission to help one million people reach their potential for a one-million-hour life, her practice is grounded in the principles of Longevity, Impact, Vitality and Energy. In other words, it’s time to L.I.V.E!

Alka is also the podcast host of the shows ‘Health Hacktivators’ and ‘The Lifestyle First Podcast’ and a multi-award-winning speaker and TEDx speaker with her talk ‘Health is a Verb, Not a Noun.’ And she is taking her message to the masses. The message? That, by blending innate intuition with transformative technology, we can hack our health.

The result is age reversal and an optimised lifestyle, led by cutting-edge, data-driven health and bio hacks. With her personalised, precise and proactive support and insights, Alka’s clients and her tens of thousands of followers achieve healthier lives that create wealthier businesses. Lasting habits, elevated productivity, optimised metabolism, enriched sleep and rest, and better emotional regulation are just some of the means by which she ensures people reach this optimised work-life synergy.

This emphasis on synergy is at the very core of the treatment and personalised care she offers through her longevity concierge. As a result, she has proved to countless impact-driven people that no system in the body works alone, hurts alone, or heals alone.Those that Alka works with use data and devices to make health decisions with precision using a unique method she calls unlocking your Health Hacking Code.

This includes analysing bio-data unique to her client’s personal biology, physiology and neurology through cutting-edge cellular level testing of biological age, metabolic biomarkers, gut health analysis, hormone profiling and DNA analysis as well as using state-of-the-art health technology such as continuous glucose monitors, fat-burning metabolic metres, wearable heart monitors, light based devices and sleep tracking devices. By helping people reverse their biological age, Alka helps them look, feel and become 10 years younger in just 10 weeks.

Her own biological age is 30 years younger than her chronological age - and yours can be too!

https://www.dralkapatel.com
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