The TRUE Cause of Aggressive Breast Cancer?!
Plus, a simple way to lower your risk
If we want to win the war on cancer, we have to win the Battle of the Bulge.
Being overweight or obese increases your risk of 13 different types of cancer—and accounts for 40 percent of all cancers!
We’ve known for years that the connection exists, but we haven’t understood exactly why.
A recent study has given us a big piece of the puzzle—especially when it comes to breast cancer.
Obesity and type 2 diabetes increase the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women.
Researchers recently discovered that it could be because type 2 diabetes can corrupt fat cells, causing them to deliver a “payload” of metabolic information that triggers breast cancer cells to become more aggressive.
In other words, fat cells trigger aggressiveness in breast cancer cells.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that obesity causes cancer, but that it could make it more likely to grow and spread.
The researchers specifically studied the impact on fat cells on breast cancer, but they noted that the effect would likely be the same for ANY cancer.
Of course, this latest discovery isn’t the ONLY factor that links obesity and cancer.
Fat cells also change numerous hormones, metabolites, cytokines, and tissue structures that can contribute to cancer growth.
Maintaining a healthy weight won’t guarantee that you won’t get cancer.
But it can go a long way toward lowering your risk.
That’s good enough for me.
