How to Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk Without Obsessing Over Everything
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Why are breast cancer rates rising in women under 50?
Hi friends, I am so glad you're here. Well, apparently men think about the Roman Empire all the time. I don't know if you guys remember that trend online. For women, I'm pretty sure it is breast cancer. It's one of those things that's always somewhere in the back of our minds. A friend is diagnosed, a mammogram reminder pops up, you hear another story about a woman who was too young, or you're like me and you watch a documentary about how harmful plastics are and you completely spiral, whatever it is. I'm always wondering if I am doing enough and paying attention to the right things or worrying about the wrong ones. That's what this conversation today is. So important. Joining me is Dr. Eleanora Taplinski, a leading medical oncologist and author of Beyond the Pink.
She spends her days treating women with breast cancer and helping them make sense of an overwhelming amount of information. Today we're separating the headlines from the evidence and exactly where you can make meaningful changes. Before we get started, if you have a moment to leave a review, it helps us out so much and also helps us find our guests. Our whole team would really appreciate it. All right, let's get into my conversation with Dr. Taplinski. Doctor Chaplinski, nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. We're gonna go through a few things as an oncologist. Would you or wouldn't you? Okay. Doctor Chaplinsky, as an oncologist, would you drink a few glasses of wine every week?
Not every week, maybe once in a while as a celebratory thing.
So how many times?
I would say limit to less than three drinks per week on average if you're choosing to drink. Okay, that's fair.
Heat food in plastic containers.
No. Don't recommend heating food in plastic containers, all that plastic exposure can leach into the food.
How long have I been doing that? Use nonstick cookware.
I try not to use older nonstick cookware or anything that's been chipped or cracked or damaged. More modern day cookware tends to be a little bit safer, but if you want to be safe, just eliminate and switch to something else.
What would you use
instead? Um ceramic, glass. Wear shoes in the house. No. Um, you're just tracking in all that dirt from the outside. We're all guilty of it. I'm super guilty. Drink from plastic
water bottles regularly.
So I try to avoid single use plastics whenever possible, but it's not always possible and that's okay. Live near a golf course. So Лец єс. But if you're living next to a golf course, there's concern for pesticide exposure. So making sure and that can get into groundwater and share drinking water. So making sure you are test testing your water quality as well as kind of knowing where when they're spraying that golf course so you can stay away.
Wear regular deodorant.
Yes. Deodorant has not been shown to increase breast cancer risk. If people feel more comfortable wearing aluminum free products, that's absolutely fine.
But if you have aluminum, is it okay? It is okay, I do. Use microfiber towels to clean your house.
Yes, but I'm actually changing my thoughts on this one because I have recently learned that they are they have contained plastics and that's not really safe. So I'm actually thinking about switching. What do you switch to? I think I've heard oh cotton cloths.
Burn scented candles in your home.
I love a good candle. But um, you know, there are some concerns with what's in the candle and so I do recommend if you are gonna burn them, use do it sparingly, maybe use fragrance free and do it in a well ventilated area. Filter your drinking water. Know the quality of your drinking water, know what's in it, and then you can filter as needed. Feel reassured
by a normal mammogram alone.
I would say I would feel encouraged by normal mammogram, but I would make sure you're still understanding your breast cancer risk, which I know we're gonna get into, and knowing your breasts and what feels normal for you.
Want to know if you have dense breasts.
One hundred percent. Dense breasts make it harder to spot a cancer on a mammogram and can increase breast cancer risk.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why are breast cancer rates rising in women under 50?
0:05–4:26
2
How does alcohol consumption affect breast cancer risk?
4:26–14:46
3
Why are dense breasts a concern and how should screening be adjusted?
14:46–27:04
4
What does the science say about plastics, PFAS, and other environmental exposures?
27:04–37:56
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