Cancer Prevention Study With Alkaline Exercise and Rest

Alkaline exercise is good for more than just your waistline because it helps to remove dietary and metabolic acid that can make you sick, tired and fat.

A recent study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research suggests that regular alkaline physical activity can lower a woman's overall risk of a cancerous condition - but only if she gets a good night's sleep. Otherwise, lack of sleep can undermine exercise's cancerous prevention benefits.

"Greater participation in physical activity has consistently been associated with reduced risk of cancer incidence at several sites, including breast and colon cancers," said James McClain, Ph.D., cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute and lead author of the study. "Short duration sleep appears to have opposing effects of physical activity on several key hormonal and metabolic parameters, which is why we looked at how it affected the exercise/cancer risk relationship."

Even though the most medical savants do not know the exact mechanism of how exercise reduces cancerous risks. Some researchers believe that physical activity's effects on factors including hormone levels, immune function, and body weight may play an important role. According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Center, "exercise removes the acidic dietary and metabolic fluids that cause ALL cancerous conditions. Cancer is not a cell but a poisonous metabolic or dietary acid - a liquid that spoils the cells that make up our body tissues and organs. This is what causes cancer and exercise removes these dietary and/or metabolic acids through our sweat glands. By removing acids through exercise and then sweating be protect All the organs that sustain life. We prevent a cancerous condition through exercise."

The study examined the link between exercise and cancer risk, paying special attention to whether or not getting adequate sleep further affected a women's cancer risk.

Researchers assessed the association between physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE), sleep duration and incidence of overall, breast, and colon cancer in 5,968 women at least 18 years old with no previous cancer diagnoses. The women completed an initial survey in 1998 and were then tracked through the Washington County Cancer Registry and Maryland State Cancer Registry for nearly 10 years.

The results pointed to a sleep-exercise link. "Current findings suggest that sleep duration modifies the relationship between physical activity and all-site cancer risk among young and middle-aged women," he said.

Out of those 5,968 women, 604 experienced a first incidence of cancer, including 186 breast cancer cases. Women in the upper 50 percent of PAEE showed significantly reduced risk of overall cancer and breast cancer. Among women 65 or younger when surveyed and in the upper half of PAEE, sleeping less than seven hours a day increased overall cancer risk, negating much of the protective effects of physical activity on cancer risk for this group.

The next step, says McClain, would be to confirm current findings and investigate potential mechanisms underlying the interaction between sleep and exercise in order to better understand their roles in cancer prevention.

Research is expanding rapidly on the effect of insufficient and prolonged sleep duration on many health outcomes although few studies have examined the association of sleep duration with cancer risk. This novel study examining the interaction of sleep and physical activity suggests another future focus of research on health behaviors and cancer outcomes.

Dr. Young states, "getting adequate rest is alkalizing and critical in the prevention of any dis-ease, including cancer. When you couple an alkaline lifestyle, with an alkaline diet, with adequate alkaline rest (at least 6 hours for the alkalarian), with alkalizing nutritional supplements, drinking 4 to 5 liters of alkaline water at 9.5 and -150 to -250mV, and finally exercising one hour every day with plenty of sweating. This is the only way to incredible health, energy and vitality and the only way to ultimately prevent ANY cancerous condition."