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Dr. Florence Comite

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

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Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

You golf too much and you don't wear a hat.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

You don't put on sunscreen.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

So there's a balancing act there, Mike, and you can't make a general rule about it.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

Not 100%, even BRCA.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

When you measure BRCA, I'll give you my family history as an example of breast cancer as well.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

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.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

And in fact, it's only 1% of breast cancer.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

And so being exposed to toxins in the environment increases your chances of cancers, any cancers, colon cancer, stomach cancer.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

Taking an aspirin a day actually reduces your risk and there's evidence for that.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

You take an aspirin, a baby aspirin a day or 81 milligrams or even 281 milligrams and

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

you can reverse your risk after several years of a lot of midline cancers, pancreatic, prostate, you name it, there are several.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

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.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

And yet breast cancer runs in my mother's family.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

A lot of cancer runs in my mother's family.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

My mother was one of eight children.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

She lived till 102.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

She was exposed to a lot of stressors in her life because she's European.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

So she lived through the Holocaust.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

And as a result, every member of her family had cancer and a lot of breast cancer, a lot of my cousins.

Something You Should Know
Why You Hate Uncertainty & The New Science of Living Longer

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.