Dr. Florence Comite
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You golf too much and you don't wear a hat.
You don't put on sunscreen.
So there's a balancing act there, Mike, and you can't make a general rule about it.
Not 100%, even BRCA.
When you measure BRCA, I'll give you my family history as an example of breast cancer as well.
First of all, BRCA and other genes like it, which run in every ethnicity, but BRCA tends to be more common in Ashkenazi Jewish population.
And in fact, it's only 1% of breast cancer.
And so being exposed to toxins in the environment increases your chances of cancers, any cancers, colon cancer, stomach cancer.
Taking an aspirin a day actually reduces your risk and there's evidence for that.
You take an aspirin, a baby aspirin a day or 81 milligrams or even 281 milligrams and
you can reverse your risk after several years of a lot of midline cancers, pancreatic, prostate, you name it, there are several.
But if you go back to breast cancer, I have a deep genetic study of my body and my twin sister too, which is obviously the same.
And yet breast cancer runs in my mother's family.
A lot of cancer runs in my mother's family.
My mother was one of eight children.
She lived till 102.
She was exposed to a lot of stressors in her life because she's European.
So she lived through the Holocaust.
And as a result, every member of her family had cancer and a lot of breast cancer, a lot of my cousins.
The good news there is that the kinds of cancer we have and the genes I have has shown that I don't detox well, meaning I can't take care of environmental toxins.