Cancer prevention

Tonight on Nurse Maureen's Health Show podcast, we're talking about a virus that is incredibly common, yet surprisingly misunderstood, human papillomavirus, or HPV, and its connection to cervical cancer.

New national research conducted by Merck Canada and Ipsos highlights some concerning gaps in Canadians' understanding of HPV, cervical cancer prevention, and screening.

HPV causes nearly 100% of cervical cancers, yet the survey findings suggest many Canadians remain unaware of the virus's connection to cervical cancer and the screening options available to help detect disease early.

While cervical cancer can often be prevented through vaccination and detected through screening, these tools can only be effective if Canadians understand their risk and know how to take action.

convincing enough? Absolutely.

The survey found that awareness of the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was particularly low among younger adults between the ages of 18 and 24.

Do you have any ideas on how we can better educate young people about HPV, vaccination, cervical cancer prevention without creating this unnecessary fear or stigma?

I think it's proactive public health campaigns.

Well, Dr. Peter Michalos, give us your answers.

Well, John, living longer also involves prevention, and cancer prevention is one of the biggest issues.

For example, smoking in European women is rampant right now, and they used to have some of the lowest cancer rates in the 1950s, and now they have some of the highest cancer rates for lung cancer in the world.

So that's why part of living long and prospering and anti-aging is catching cancer early because early intervention, early diagnosis means a higher chance for a cure.

I'm looking over your shoulder, Beat Cancer Daily.

Am I right in imagining that's like a cancer prevention type of book?

It's actually like a daily devotional.

Mm.

I'm your host, Dr. Kevin Schultz, and today we're gonna talk about the big C, cancer.

The intent of the podcast today, as is often the case, is to take a very scary topic and give you real hope and practical, actionable takeaways that you can apply into your life right away, and be sure to stick around to the end, where I'll simplify the action steps for cancer prevention.

Now, obviously, this is a very challenging topic to discuss, and it's very challenging to really even scratch the surface in a short podcast.

So my intention today is not to tackle every cancer protocol out there, because there's a lot of them, and it's certainly not to dive into chemo and radiation and surgery.

This is also why the ketogenic diet has been shown to be amazing for fighting many other diseases as well.

Because if you rob the body of bad sugar as a fuel source, you lower inflammation, you lower blood sugar, and you raise oxygen levels in the tissues and allow the body to go into a state of healing.

You also don't want cancer cells, which can adapt, by the way, to different environments, to settle into one primary fuel pathway, which is why rotating nutritional approaches from a healthy whole food diet with a focus on high mineral content, leafy greens, and eating the rainbow to an occasional 30-day healthy keto diet a couple times per year can be very beneficial for cancer prevention.

So now for somebody that has already got cancer, they may need to do the keto diet longer or more often.