In this video:
00:37 – environmental toxins – another risk factor
01:15 – bad chemicals seeps into the water or food
02:14 – testosterone in males have dropped in the last 10 years
02:57 – how you expose yourself to environmental risk factors
04:10 – seeking medical attention is also important
Hi. This is Mark and Steve from TheDVCC.com and today, I’m going to give you another tip on how to reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Firstly, I want to apologize to the disparate in heights. I know we’re identical twins but fortunately I’ve had a growth spurts. So I hope it doesn’t cause you too many eye issues. But we’re going to give you some workable and actionable steps and my little brother here is going to come up with the next one.
Environmental Toxins as Risk Factors
Stephen: So one of the biggest risk factors for developing prostate cancer is actually environmental toxins, that is the amount of toxins you take in from around you. So that can be from food, it can be from water, it can be from drinking the way you drink your water from bottles and things. So one of the best tips that I can give you to really go a long way to helping minimize your risk of developing prostate cancer would be to have a look at how many toxins you’re actually exposed to.
How Does Use of Plastics Affect Your Health
So do you drink water from a plastic bottle that you leave in the sun that gets heated and therefore what happens is the BPA, the bad chemical seeps into the water and then mimics bad types of estrogens within your body. So it actually lowers the amount of testosterone you have and increasing the amount of bad estrogen you have, which raises your risk of prostate cancer.
Mark: Do you microwave food in plastic?
Stephen: Yes. So whenever you’re heating plastic…if you ever heat in plastic, that’s really, really bad for you. So microwaving, like Mark says, your plastic in a microwave is bad for you because it seeps into the food and you then therefore absorb that. Plastic that gets heated, like I said, goes into the water.
The Quality Of Water You’re Drinking
Also make sure that the quality of the water you’re drinking is good as well. One of the biggest thing that has happened over the last few years is that female pill has actually seeped into the water supply, so that every time you’re drinking from a tap, you’re actually getting a lot of bad types of estrogen, hormone-mimicking things that basically mimic the bad types of estrogen within your body and therefore increase your risk of prostate cancer.
The Alarming Rate of Prostate Cancer
Mark: Actually they say that testosterone in males has dropped, is it 30% in the last 10 years? And it has dropped another 30% in the 10 years before that and so basically we as men don’t have as much testosterone as our fathers who then didn’t have as much testosterone, naturally-producing, as their fathers and their fathers before. So imagine what our children if we ever have them are going to have. Generally, if they carry on as the norm, their testosterone would be a bit lot lower and that’s also one of the reasons that incidences of disease would be higher.
Stephen: Exactly. So prostate cancer, that’s why, is one of those such massive growing cancers. Also when you buy food…if you look, a lot of stuff are packaged in plastic. So have a look of how you’re exposing yourself. Also if you can, I know budget-wise it can be quite very expensive, but buy certain foods at least organic. So the thinnest-skinned fruits for example, you’re better off to buy them organic. If you have some big thicker things such as avocadoes and things like that, they tend not be as exposed to pesticides. But if you comment on the box below, we’ll actually be able to give you a list of the types of foods that if you can you should make a big effort to buy organic, such as coffee and strawberries and a few different other foods. So just comment in the box below, we would be happy to give you a list.
Have Yourself Checked By Medical Doctors
Mark: Also, I want to break through any taboos because I’ve known prostate cancer and that’s all important with men. Men are dumb. We’re stupid. We don’t check ourselves for prostate cancer. But do go to the doctor’s and get a check-up. Have you been checked up? It shouldn’t be a taboo anymore and we want to just give you as much as information as we can to help prevent it, but obviously seeking medical attention if you feel you need to get checked out, because obviously it’s also very important.
So speak to you soon, this is Steven and Mark from TheDVCC.com
