Contributing Factors to Cancer: Part 3 (Sedentary Lifestyle)

Yes, I know I said the next post would be about essential oils, but this one's been hanging around whimpering for attention so long, I either need to git 'er done or delete it. Since it's rather important information, I guess I'd better git 'er done.

I've already talked about some of the contributing factors to cancer. There's the post about Toxins (you can read about it here), and the one about Acidity (read about it here). Today let's talk about Sedentary Lifestyles. (This'll probably be a pretty short one because there's a book calling my name.) (snicker)

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If you're over the age of two, you have to have heard (a gazillion times) that exercise is good for you. But if you're like the huge majority of Americans, you still find it way more enjoyable to lounge around after a long day of work, watching a movie and munching on ___________ (insert your favorite salty/sugary snack). And isn't it lovely to kick off a lazy weekend by sleeping in Saturday morning? (Unless, of course, you have little kids who don't know how to sleep in, or older kids who have soccer/baseball/speech-and-debate events to which you are the taxi driver, or you've reached an age where sleep feels like work.)

But here's the thing:  Remember how cancer thrives in acidic environments? And remember how cancer cells are usually anaerobic (preferring to live without oxygen)? Well, it turns out that not only does exercise induce deep breathing -- which brings oxygen to all your cells, but muscle usage also burns off acidity. So it kills two birds with one stone.

No, make that three birds. Because there's also the whole lymph thing. Did I talk about that yet?  No? Well, allow me.

Ahem. 

One's lymph system is vital to one's health. You see, it plays a huge part in our immune system -- housing and transporting white blood cells at a moment's notice -- but it also filters and recycles institial fluid (the stuff between the cells, containing debris that's been ejected from the cells). Sort of like a car wash that recycles its water. The kicker is:  It has no pump. It depends on muscle movement to keep it circulating. 

So now imagine your lymph fluid, full of excreted garbage (sewer, if you will), trying to make its way up your body where it can be dumped into the subclavian vein on its way to the lungs and kidneys to be breathed/urinated out. Then imagine that you've just come into contact with the flu bug, and that same fluid is needing to rush white blood cells to your airways to kill off the nasty virus . . .  but you're sitting at your desk and then sitting in your car and then sitting in your recliner and then laying in your bed.  So the lymph fluid sits, too.

Know what happens to dirty lymph fluid that sits still? Yup, it becomes acidic. It's full of toxins, remember?

It so happens that breasts are made up of mammary glands, fatty tissue, and . . . wait for it . . . lymph  tissue.  We in America have been fed the crazy notion that women's breasts are very sexy but that they shouldn't jiggle. So we strap them down, push them up, squeeze them together for cleavage -- and if the breasts are especially heavy, we add an underwire for support, effectively choking the circulation of lymph fluid (and oxygen-rich blood) down to a trickle. So there it sits, stagnating and creating a perfect environment for cancer to begin and thrive -- acidic and anaerobic.

So . . .  imagine getting out of your chair right now and going for a five- or ten-minute walk. Or hopping on the rebounder for a few minutes. Or going skiing. Or ice skating. Or shooting some baskets. Or seeing if you can still ride a bike.  Imagine getting that vital fluid circulating so it can carry that gunk outta there!  

Okay, now stop imagining and do it. The book/movie/Facebook will wait for you.