because cancer is more likely to be cured if it's less advanced when treatment's begun this
is why it's critical that cancer be discovered early on cancer is the number two killer of
people worldwide it's a threat to you it's a threat to me and it should be taken seriously
hey wellness warrior i'm dr zyrowski and the top 10 warning signs of cancer are signs and
symptoms that we have to watch out for let's dive in and first talk about a fever and this is one of
the first warning signs and the thing is is that certain characteristics of reoccurring fevers can
foretell a possible cancer connection you should pay particular attention if the fever happens
mostly at night if you have no other signs of infection so you don't have a virus you don't have
a bacterial infection but yet you have a fever this is something you want to watch out for or
if you're experiencing night sweats and before we move on any further i do want to mention some of
the warning signs of cancer are pretty general they're vague changes that don't necessarily
help a doctor pinpoint any particular cancer but their presence can help direct doctors to
do a physical an examination proper blood work in whatever is necessary to either exclude or confirm
a diagnosis of cancer let's jump back into the warning signs and this one here is enlarged
lymph nodes now mostly in the enlarged lymph nodes will happen in the neck okay and swollen lymph
nodes can also be a sign of a very particular type of blood cancer called lymphoma so if you
start to notice that you have lumps around your neck and it doesn't quite make sense why you're
having these issues once again you're not sick from a virus you don't have a bacterial infection
you're not sick in any way but yet you have enlarged lymph nodes you want to get these checked
i find it all the time on the patients that i'm working on it's like uh enlarged lymph nodes
let's get these checked now as we're talking about cancer we often hear cancer described in pretty
much very vague terms and nobody really knows what cancer is right we know it's a disease we know
it's awful we know that it's killed so many loved ones in our lives but what is cancer cancer is
characterized by the development of abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and have the ability
to infiltrate and destroy normal body tissues and this is why it's so dangerous cancer often has the
ability to spread throughout your body and cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world
cancer is estimated to take many years to develop and i think this is a very important point cancer
just doesn't happen overnight many people think well you're healthy one day and the next day you
get checked and you have cancer no it's estimated by many experts that it can take 10 15 even 20
years to develop cancer in your body and so one of the ways this would develop is it first starts
with a chronic inflammatory issue for instance and if you're not aware of whether or not you
have inflammation in the body this is something you should get checked in fact you could even use
a simple at-home inflammation test that you will be able to determine if you're having cellular
breakdown which is linked to inflammation i'll put a link in the description below so you can
learn more about that but it's very inexpensive very easy to do now next on our list is if
you are having persistent pain persistent pain is a very common sign of potential cancer pain that
keeps you up all night pain that is chronic in nature and no matter what you seem to do
it doesn't go away let's say you change the position that you're in you roll over in bed and
that pain just never goes away now we can look to bone cancers they cause problems like this tumors
even brain tumors that cause chronic headaches we just have to be aware if there's chronic pain
that doesn't make sense in our body let's go ahead get this thing checked because it could be a sign
of cancer now the next common warning sign is unexplained weight loss now without trying almost
half the people who have cancer lose weight okay so if you lose weight and it doesn't make sense
you're not dieting you're not calorie cutting you're not doing anything to lose weight and you
just keep losing weight this is an alarm it's often one of the signs that gets noticed first
cancer steals food from healthy cells and deprives them of nutrients and it can lead to weight loss
now just like we talked about cancer being this vague term and it's like well what is it well the
other thing that seems to be very vague when it comes to cancer in this discussion is what causes
it right well when you look around as to what causes cancer you pretty much can come across
everything is going to cause cancer and that's one of the reasons it's so frustrating well toxic
exposures is definitely i think one of the top ones and i'm going to talk about just a couple
of the top things associated with cancer so toxic exposure so for instance if you're smoking all day
long it's pretty obvious that you are probably going to face cancer at some point in your life
right however the not so obvious ones would be like pesticides from the foods that you're eating
cleaning chemicals the chemicals in your clothing the chemicals that you're coming across all day
long your body's not designed to be a chemical removal factory right it's not designed to just
sit there and remove chemicals harsh chemicals that are made in a lab all day long right our
bodies are designed to detox but not to that level so we have to watch out for this so we have like
pesticides all over our foods and our rain water everything pharmaceuticals in our water so we have
to really watch out for the toxins now the next thing that is highly associated with cancer is
the over consumption of sugar i talk about all the time how the average person consumes 125 pounds of
sugar it's devastating and nothing feeds cancer quite like sugar it's been shown in multiple
studies that when you go and basically inject sugar into a cancer cell it goes nuts if you
inject sugar into a tumor it grows rapidly so we have to make sure that we're cutting sugar out of
our diet in every way possible and the other thing that we can do is lower our carbohydrate intake
because if you're unhealthy these carbohydrates are all basically going to turn into sugar anyway
and then do everything we can to improve our immune system health because the reality is
is that we have cancer cells in our body all the time it's just that like i literally have cancer
cells in my body right now but my body is keeping them in check it's keeping everything balanced
it's okay because my body is fighting them off and getting rid of them whereas when you're unhealthy
and your immune system isn't working correctly these cancer cells can actually flourish and
they become uncontrolled by the body's regulatory systems now next warning sign to watch out for is
fatigue okay now if you're chronically tired all the time and even rest doesn't help this
is something you have to really watch out for cancers like leukemia are associated with this
and even cancers that are associated with blood loss right let's say that you have bleeding
from the colon bleeding from the stomach and what will essentially happen is that you'll end up with
anemia okay and this is when you lack healthy red blood cells and have reduced oxygen carrying
capacity in the body therefore you're fatigued all the time so everybody has a little bit of
fatigue in their life at some point right you didn't get enough sleep kids kept you up all
night work has been stressing you out fatigue exists but the type of fatigue i'm talking about
is chronic fatigue that absolutely won't go away despite all the efforts to fix it right and you're
sleeping well at night everything is like hunky dory in your life but yet the fatigue persists
this is when we want to be careful now next thing we want to watch out for this is a warning sign is
changes in your skin color or even changes in the color of a mole on your skin your skin can also
be a huge clue as to whether or not you're suffering from some sort of cancer if your
skin gets darkened if it turns yellow red itches you know you start to get like hair growth in a
random spot unexplained rashes these can all be a sign that you're dealing with some sort of cancer
in the body so watch out for that just always pay attention to your skin your skin's your largest
organ and it can tell you a lot about your health so healthy skin equals healthy internal organs
now another warning sign we want to watch out for is sores that don't heal so if you have spots that
bleed and they won't go away and you you know are doing everything you can to fix it this is often
a sign of skin cancer and if you're dealing with like an oral cancer you might not necessarily have
some sore on your skin but you could have them in your mouth so if you're somebody who's like
smokes chews drinks a lot of alcohol then you're definitely a higher risk for this type of thing
now what do we do about all this right because it's it's nice to know the warning science
we have a basic understanding as to what happens and and why cancer happens right but what kind
of proactive measures can you take and this is important because we want to defend ourselves from
cancer we don't want to necessarily always want to be on the defense however we want to be more on
the offense right we actually want to be actively participating in preventing cancer in our lives so
what can we do first thing we could do is practice intermittent fasting okay this is powerful because
fasting has been shown to clear out cancerous cells from our body and so doing like 16 and 8
intermittent fasting a 48 hour water fast that type of thing is very powerful for fighting
off cancer there's one expert who wrote a book on how you can actually fight cancer naturally
and he said hey look if you do like multiple long-term fast like three-day fasts a year
this is enough to fight off cancer so that you can live cancer free now intermittent fasting
long-term fasting is powerful but the other thing we should do is focus on going sugar-free do not
feed cancer in your body the food that you put in your body is essentially what your body becomes if
you eat junk food you end up with junk health okay so go sugar free so that you're not in a position
where you're feeding cancer focus on boosting your immune health okay make sure that you have
adequate vitamin d in your body i can't believe how many people are deficient in vitamin d i go
and i do blood work on individuals and when we get that blood work back it's like oh my
gosh your vitamin d is let's say around 15 and it should be somewhere around 65 on the chart
okay so vitamin d is a very simple thing that you could do in order to optimize immune system health
but also make sure that you're increasing your antioxidant intake it's very important now the
other thing that we can do is get regular exercise when we get regular exercise it's shown time and
time again it dramatically reduces your risk of disease so make sure that you're exercising
these are some of the top things that you can do just eat healthy good whole foods exercise
get proper immune support these things will help fight off cancer now let's talk about another
sign a warning sign of cancer and that's cough or hoarseness that just doesn't go away so a cough
is a very common sign of like lung cancer and hoarseness in your voice may mean that you have
cancer somewhere in your throat or even your thyroid gland and thyroid cancer is like really
high on the list of probable cancers so we want to make sure that we're always paying attention
to that and then we also want to look for unusual bleeding in the stool or urine okay this is
another common sign that can show up and cancer can make blood show up where it shouldn't be
so blood in your stool is a symptom of maybe colon erectile cancer which is another very
probable cancer today and tumors along the urinary tract and also cause blood in your urine so watch
out for just strange bleeding around your body now also here's another common sign you want to watch
out for this is loss of appetite or nausea okay if you all of a sudden aren't eating and you don't
feel the need to eat and you're just nauseous all the time and this just shows up out of nowhere
this is a very common sign that your body is sick in fighting something okay tumors release hormones
for instance that distort your body's perception of hunger making you feel full when you're not
okay so we have to make sure that we're paying attention to these signs now whenever you have
symptoms like any of these ones i just mentioned show up it's very important that you go to your
doctor and you get the proper testing we don't need to sit at home and panic and freak out and
watch this video go oh my gosh i have i've had these before right sure you've had them but did
they go away are they chronic does it make sense were you sick when some of these things happened
you had a virus like let's not blow anything out of proportion but if you're having these and it's
not adding up these different symptoms is not adding up it's time to get tested it is so much
easier to focus on prevention than being in a very emotionally driven state where you
are forced to make very harsh decisions on your health because you never took care of yourself
so be proactive and if you like this video here i think you'll really like this one over here