Fighting cancer with exercise

Bob Butler, the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, once declared, “If exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.” Now, almost 50 years later, scientists have discovered that it’s powerful medicine in the battle against cancer -- even in its late stages.

Australian researchers have been exploring the anti-prostate-cancer benefits of high-intensity aerobics. They discovered that over six months, guys with prostate cancer can boost the level of tumor-growth sup pressing proteins called myokines that are produced by skeletal muscles by doing 34 minutes daily on a stationary cycle. And in their most recent research, the researchers found that in patients with incurable cancer, the exercise-induced production of these tumorfighters prolonged survival.

For all cancer patients, the researchers suggest that 20-plus minutes daily of high-intensity aerobics accompanied by resistance training best maintains the anti-tumor effects. But it is my hope that you can avoid cancer altogether using my Greatagereboot.com program.

-- Do aerobic and resistance exercise regularly. Manage stress with a posse, purpose and play.

-- Take an after-dinner walk and spend less Tvtime.

-- Get vitamin D and omega-3s (from 4 ounces of salmon daily) and a half a multivitamin-multimineral twice daily.

-- Ask your doc about taking low-dose aspirin (2x daily with a half glass of warm water before and after).

-- Avoid diabetes, midlife obesity, high blood pressure and hearing loss, along with not smoking and make a lifelong commitment to education.

Then you’ll radically reduce your risk for cancer, as well as dementia and cardiovascular disease.