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Night Shift Breast Cancer Risk - Second Nature Cancer Care

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 27, 2015 2:53:41 PM / by Dr. Isadora Guggenheim

Working the night shift raises the risk of breast cancer. Second Nature Cancer Prevention Care.

We know that the risk of breast cancer is linked to working the night shift as evidenced by numerous epidemiological studies. Why?

When your biological clock or circadian rhythms are disrupted due to chronic exposure to light cycle disruptions you can develop cancer. We know that exposure to light during sleep turns on your obeseogenes and increases your risk of obesity. 

In a recent mouse study light cycle disruptions caused earlier cancers to occur 8 weeks earlier in mouse breast cancer models and mice gained 20% more weight than controls. 

Our internal clock is related to certain associated health risks when it is disrupted. I see this with patients who frequently fly and cross time zones. They suffer with chronic jet lag. 

I recommend fasting on the day of travel and jumping into the new time zone rhythm when they land. They take Xymogen's ProbioMax DF without fail, Melatonin at bedtime and Immunotix 500. 

In 2007, The World Health Organization stated that "shift work is carcinogenic to humans."

So female flight attendants, night-shift nurses, doctors (E.R., surgery and Obstetrics) home health attendants, assembly-line workers, casino workers, police, EMS and T.V. and film entertainers are all at higher risk for breast cancer. 

When you stay up all night you eat differently, your intestinal microbiome flora changes and your vital organs adapt to new rhythmic patterns that don't always support sound physiology. You lose your opportunity to gain access to adequate vitamin D levels from natural sunlight. 

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We have great circadian rhythm protection protocols. We cover the basics and individualize your protocol based on your genomics. Clinical nutrition, the best supplements and I.V. therapies can correct your circadian rhythms. 

Does your company have a night shift? Let's schedule an end-of-the-night-shift seminar in the am to improve your employee's health. 

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Topics: Women's Health, Cancers

Isadora Guggenheim, ND, FNP, RN, MS, CNS, LMT, owner of Second Nature Naturopathic Care, LLC
For all appointments: Tel: 845 358-8385 Fax: 845 358-2963 drguggenheim@msn.com