Now, this is a very interesting topic.
Why do people in the middle east have some of the lowest rates of cancer if we compare this to the entire world?
Let’s do a deep dive. Now, the other name for the middle east is west Asia. Now, what’s conflicting about this information is they have a very low cancer rate but a very high consumption of sugar.
And, please note that sugar feeds cancer.
So the question is, how are they actually getting lower rates of cancer despite consuming so much sugar?
In fact, the middle east consumes more sugar than pretty much any other part of the world.
Now, yes, they have a lot of diabetes and they have obesity and they have other issues but cancer is on the low side.
Now, if we take the average of how many people get cancer in the entire world. It’s 198 people out of every 100,000 people get cancer. Now, if we take a look at individual parts of the middle east.
Saudi Arabia: 96 people get cancer out of 100,000.
Yemen: 97/100,000.
Oman: 104/100,000.
Qatar: 107/100,000.
UAE: 107/100,000.
Kuwait: 116/100,000.
So, you can see if you live in these countries you have much less risk of getting cancer.
Let’s compare this with Australia: 468 people out of 100,000 get cancer. They get first place in getting cancer. Ireland is 374/100,000. The next one is Hungary 368/100,000 people and then the United States 352/100,000 people develop cancer.
So, what is so unique about the middle east?
Well, number one: fasting, i.e., Ramadan. Now, Ramadan is a religious fast that extends over the course of one month. Now, that one month is just one month of the entire year. They’re fasting right after sunrise to sunset. So, they’re usually eating before sunrise and eating after sunset. So, Ramadan is considered a type of intermittent fasting only for one month and produces a tremendous decrease in rates of getting cancer. That’s quite remarkable. So, why does fasting help with preventing cancer? Well, it starves cancer. Do you realize there are between 10 and 50 times more insulin receptors in a cancer cell versus a normal cell? What does that mean? That means that cancer cells have a very avid or greedy hunger for glucose because they have more receptors to eat glucose. This is how doctors diagnose cancer through a PET scan. A PET scan identifies areas in the body that have a very high metabolism of sugar. So, cancer loves sugar and when you’re fasting you’re not consuming sugar.
Autophagy: Fasting stimulates autophagy, which is a condition that helps to recycle old damaged proteins. It helps to recycle old damaged things like damaged mitochondria. And if we look at what cancer really is it’s damage to your mitochondria. When the mitochondria are damaged, the mitochondria then adapt their metabolic system to a different way of dealing with the energy for immense glucose. When you fast, you kick in this autophagy and you’re recycling damaged mitochondria, which is going to decrease your risk for cancer.
The third thing about fasting is that when you fast you generate new immune cells. You strengthen your immune system. Your immune system becomes stronger. You generate more Killer T-cells, which directly kill cancer cells and viruses and you also stimulate more Helper T-cells, which indirectly help reduce cancer.
Next point about fasting: It’s one of the best things to get rid of inflammation. Cancer tends to spread…migrate into areas of inflammation. So, fasting is one of the most potent anti-inflammatories. So, it’s going to reduce the risk of cancer being spread.
Also, when you fast, you increase the antioxidant networks of the body. So, these things that actually protect you against free radical damage like in the mitochondria are improved or enhanced when you fast. So, that’s going to decrease the risk of getting cancer right off the bat.
Fasting is one of the oldest therapies. Even Hippocrates mentioned fasting quite extensively and he had an interesting quote like “to eat when sick is to feed the illness”. So, when you’re ill you don’t want to eat very frequently. And he was considered the foundational father of medicine.
Spices: Spices that people eat in the middle east are themselves anti-cancerous. Turmeric: Loaded with anti-cancer properties and it’s one of the best things to get rid of inflammation. Saffron has certain phytonutrients that are very very anti-cancer. Cardamom anti-cancer properties. Nutmeg, Caraway, Cinnamon, and Coriander: all have anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties. Plus on top of that certain food have additional anti-cancer properties: black seeds, olive oil, Dill, Sesame seeds, and Dates. Yes, dates have certain phytonutrients that have anti-cancer properties.
Low-tobacco usage for women (NOT Men): If you actually add up the women and the men, the reduced weight of women using tobacco is so low in the middle east, it makes the whole average come way down. Take a look at this: 20% of the population smokes worldwide. That’s one out of every five people. Yet, if we look at women in the middle east, in Iraq, it’s 3%. Yemen it’s 9% compared to 20% worldwide. And, then, we have Kuwait, which is only 3%; Saudi Arabia 2%; The UAE 0.8% of the entire female population in the UAE smokes. That’s very very insignificant compared to the worldwide average. And, then we get Oman 0.7% compared to 20%. An insignificant amount of women in that area of the world smokes. Now, if we compare that to women in Chile, it’s 40%. That’s more than two times the world average. And then, Serbia is 41%. So, smoking is definitely linked to cancer. You already know that. In fact, the risk of getting cancer if you smoke or chew tobacco is 22 times the risk compared to people that do not smoke or chew tobacco. 25% of all cancers out there are caused by either smoking or chewing tobacco. And the other thing you need to realize is there are 5000 different chemicals in tobacco (in cigarettes) and 70% of them have a direct link to cancer. And just as a side note: Vaping also is linked to cancer of the colon and lung, because of the nicotine and other chemicals.
Alcohol: Alcohol is prohibited in most areas of the middle east. Drinking alcohol increases the risk of six different types of cancer. If you drink alcohol, you’re more at risk of getting cancer of the liver and also of the oral pharyngeal area, which is the area in the back of the throat and also includes the back of the tongue and the upper roof of the mouth. And it just so happens people in the middle east have the lowest rate of getting cancer in this area of the body. The areas of the world that have the highest risk of getting this cancer are western Europe, northern Europe, and North America.
All right, now, the question is: they’re doing all these:…Spices, they’re fasting, they’re not smoking as much, and they’re not drinking alcohol as much. Then why aren’t the cancer numbers even lower? Why they are not close to ZERO?
Well, it’s probably because they consume more sugar than any other area of the world as well as more high fructose, corn syrup, and cancer love sugar.
It could also be linked to the obesity situation. Over 30% of the population in middle east is obese and there’s more risk of getting cancer if you’re obese. Also, they have very very low vitamin D levels. In fact, 80% of the population is low in vitamin D and vitamin D is very very important in protecting someone against cancer and reducing the risk. And, it just so happens when you consume that much sugar, you’re going to also deplete vitamin D and vitamin D is essential in keeping your immune system very very strong. And then, one last thing is called polymorphism.
What is polymorphism?
It is a condition where the genetics or the genes are altered in a way that there’s kind of like a defect in the genes and there’s a higher ratio of people with this genetic defect in the vitamin D receptor. So, if your receptor is defective and you can’t absorb vitamin D as well for some reason, then you’re going to be low in vitamin D, in which case, if you do live in the middle east, what you should be doing is taking more vitamin D on a regular basis.
CURLED FROM: Quora| P. Singh
