live well to prevent breast cancer georgia tetlow, md
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Live Well to Prevent Breast Cancer
Georgia Tetlow, MD
Agenda
• Philadelphia Integrative Medicine• Factors in your control• Overall goals
– Strengthen the immune system– Reduce inflammation– Reduce free radicals– Reduce DNA damage that leads to cancer
Disclosure/Disclaimer
Nothing to disclose– Supplement sales only benefit educational
programs!
Disclaimer• Website and webinar offer information is
not medical or psychological advice or treatment
Georgia Tetlow, MD
• Graduate Fellow, University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
• CEO, Founder of Philadelphia Integrative Medicine
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine Thomas Jefferson Medical College
Georgia Tetlow, MD
• Yoga Teacher for 20 years• Mindfulness teacher
Mission
Philadelphia Integrative Medicine offers a comprehensive approach to health and healing which recognizes the whole person and champions self-care for health, illness recovery and prevention through education, inspiration and empowerment.
Return to Art of Medicine
• Mind, Body and Spirit• Fight cancer, but focus is on
health and returning to health• Power of life style choices!
– Understand root causes
Cancer: Factors Within Your Control
• Smoking• Weight control/Exercise• Diet
– Fruits/vegetables, alcohol, best fats, certain cancers: hormones in beef and milk
– Green tea
• Omega 3 Fatty Acids (November 2012 webinar)
• Vitamin D—get tested! Many people deficient!• Keep immune system healthy—emotional and
spiritual health
Factors in Your ControlPresident’s Cancer Panel, 2010
• Minimize toxicity in food, house and garden products, toys, medicines and medical tests
• Filter tap water, store water in stainless steel, glass or other containers to avoid exposure to BPA and other plastic components
• Buy produce grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers, or wash it thoroughly
• Antibiotic-free and hormone-free meat and avoid processed, charred and well-done meat
Diet: Vegetables and Fruit
• How to get enough?• Antioxidants…
Antioxidants
• Reduce inflammatory and toxic cell mediators– NFkB, Il-6, Il-8
• Donate electrons to electron-deficient free radicals– Neutralize them!– Cells and DNA protected, help prevent
cancer
Your Plate
Your Plate
• No one food ingredient– Broccoli/cabbage family
• Cancer risk reduction• Choose foods that allow you to have a
healthy weight– Overweightincreased risk of breast cancer– Overweightmakes recovery harder
• 5 or more servings of vegetables and fruit daily
Your Plate
• Whole grains• Low fat—fish and nuts, rather than fried
foods• Eat vegetables!
– Supplements may not reduce risk– Need more studies
• Green tea• Organic food• Vitamin D and calcium
Fruits and Vegetables: Juice Plus
Fruits and Vegetables: Juice Plus
Breast cancer prevention: 1 drink daily or less
Type of fat is important...
• Cook with Olive Oil • FISH OIL (Omega 3’s fatty acids)
– modulate estrogen metabolism, estrogen receptors
– 2-3 grams total daily, with food– mercury/toxin free– many benefits– thins the blood, ask you doctor if right for you
Fish Oil Slows Tumor GrowthHardman, J. Nutr. 132:3508S-3512S, 2002
Mind-Body Interventions
• Mindfulness
Mindfulness literature
• Witek-Janusek, et al (2008). Effect of mindfulness based stress reduction on immune function, quality of life and coping in women newly diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 22(6), 969-981.
• Carlson, et al (2007). One year pre-post intervention follow-up of psychological, immune, endocrine and blood pressure outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in breast and prostate cancer outpatients. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 21(8), 1038-1049.
Mindfulness Literature II
• Carlson, et al (2004). Mindfulness-based stress reduction in relation to quality of life, mood, symptoms of stress and levels of cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and melatonin in breast and prostate cancer outpatients. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29(4), 448-474.
• Tacón, et al (2004). Mindfulness-based stress reduction in women with breast cancer. Families, Systems, & Health, 22(2), 193-203.
Mindfulness
• Reduction in acute and chronic anxiety• Less emotional reactivity• Greater happiness and peace of mind • Increased empathy—for self and others• Enhanced creativity• Heightened perceptual clarity• Enhanced self-actualization
Cancer: Factors Within Your Control
• Smoking• Weight control/Exercise
– Diet• Fruits/vegetables, alcohol, best fats, certain
cancers: hormones in beef and milk• Green tea
– Omega 3 Fatty Acids (November webinar)
• Vitamin D—get tested! Most people deficient!
• Keep immune system healthy– Self-care, mindfulness
Why Integrative Medicine?
• Patient at the center• Addresses the full range of physical, emotional,
mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences
• Personalized strategy that considers the patient’s unique conditions, needs and circumstances
• Health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”*
*Constitution of the World Health Organization — Basic Documents, Forty-fifth edition, Supplement, October 2006.
Upcoming!
• If registered, we’ll send you the recording
• November webinar: Heal Your Guts with Omega 3 Fatty Acids! – Friday, 11/30, 12-1pm– TO REGISTER:
http://www.philly-im.com and click on events!
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Broccoli!
“Integrative medicine honors the innate ability of the body to heal, values the relationship between patient and physician, and integrates complementary and alternative medicine to support the organism and facilitate healing.”
---Victoria Maizes, MD
Executive Director
University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
“Integrative medicine addresses the root causes of illness and suffering. These root causes involve many aspects of a person’s life, including the physical, but also the psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual dimensions as well.”
--Dean Ornish, MD Founder and Director of the Preventive Medicine Research Center
