Cancer Dietitian Battling Breast Cancer Finds Hope in Fasting and Diet | Dr. Kristi Funk and Alison Tierney, RD
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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Your Cancer Risk Is Going Up, Dr. Funk?
Dr. Funk: The cumulative damage of your DNA mutations is getting outpaced by the acceleration of that damage, right? When you're younger, you have more cellular immunity, more defenses against mutation and you have less cumulative exposure to like UV damage to the skin so you get melanoma,. You don't have that much exposure to the sun when you're 10 years old or even 30 as compared to 80 where you then end up with that cigarette paper skin," he says. "Your cells are aging, your telomeres are getting shorter and your ability to rejuvenate and repair on a cellular level is getting less functional"
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