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hi this is dr. young. in this video i'd like to talk about cancer prevention and you might be wondering why plastic surgery is related to cancer and what i'd like to tell you is that plastics and reconstructive surgery was born out of fixing people with cancers and other issues so it's definitely part of plastic surgery
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click the like button below and i've had a lot of experience doing reconstructive surgery including facial free flaps where i've taken a fibular bone like in your leg and i've put in the jaw or i've taken a radial forearm flap and i've connected the vessels to put in the throat that's something i did in training and i don't do that now.
plastic surgery is definitely related to cancer in some ways and what i do sometimes i do have patients that that have cancer and you know that's part of our lives and the people that we know and so today what i'd like to do is talk a little about cancer prevention because i think there's a lot of things out there that people don't know that
they're that they're still doing that could be causing cancer so i just really wanted to put this out there to help people so you can avoid getting cancer. so here we go in terms of cancer prevention tips one i want to talk about drinking there's a lot of studies that if you do excessive drinking in fact there is a
correlation between drinking too much and leading to more cancers but there are some fascinating articles where they show that one to two drinks tonight could decrease your risk for cancer as well as strokes and heart disease and how did that and and i thought that was fascinating why does drinking leads to a decrease in
some cancers. now cancers in the throat and the mouth area are equivocal. maybe there's some association to an increased risk of cancer in the head neck area. so that would tend to tell you to drink a little last like maybe one drink tonight. but they've shown that if you drink 1-2 drinks a night. you can decrease your risk for strokes heart
disease and cancer and so why does that leave the cancer reduction and i just that fascinated me and you know it's related to some of the things i've learned like for example i went into this lecture just out of the blue that had nothing to do with head and neck surgery and it talked about how blood flow can lead to to cancer. if you have decreased blood flow
you're more likely to lead to oxygen radicals that can lead to mutations in your dna that can lead to cancer so having more blood flow is important. so that there is some association with exercise in that regard which i'll be going into later. but drinking alcohol is like a chemically induced form of exercise and they thought about how it could be
antioxidant. it's related to the grapes and wines but now they found that any type of alcohol can have the same effect including shots beer wine etc. so my what i had thought is that it's related to being a chemically induced form of exercise. so drink one to two drinks a day and if you can just stick with one and know that if you drink three or four
more three or four or more than two drinks like three or more it actually reverses everything and it leads to an increased risk of heart conditions or cardiovascular conditions like strokes and heart disease and cancer so don't drink more than two drinks a day to prevent cancer. so there's a lot of studies on having a plant-based diet
leading to less cancer some of the studies show equivocal results but in general what i found through the american cancer society and other articles eccentrics that done the research for this is that having a plant-based diet leads to less cancer. processed meats lead to more cancers processed foods refined sugars. so there is some logic of
of those diets that are that are related to less processing the more natural they are the better there's even studies on grilled meats and grilled fish if you grilled too much and have too much fat that can lead to cancer and that might be kind of a downer because people love barbecuing but whenever you char something that
black is actually carcinogens so do within moderation i'm not saying not to do bbq but the less grilling you do the less charring you do the better now they also talked about plant-based diets and you might be wondering okay where's my protein and then you think okay if i take out my meats i don't have any more protein but the good thing is there's a
lot of protein in certain vegetables and some of the top ones include peas legumes like beans you can also have protein and kale spinach brussels sprouts lima beans those are all good sources artichokes so there are protein in in vegetables and also if you want to increase your
protein you can also get more nuts there's actually studies show that people who eat more nuts have a decreased risk for cancer so that's another thing that i thought was a now obviously smoking is a really important factoring in leading to cancer now i did a lot of head neck surgery you know in the past during my training etc
and there's a lot of studies on both smoking and drinking potentiating their separate effects they found that if you smoke and drink your risk of cancer goes markedly up so don't smoke first of all try to reduce your risk for secondhand smoke as well and don't drink too much to keep the drinks down to 1-2 drinks a night
now there's some really also fascinating studies on vitamin use and i just had this discussion with another patient who said that she had breast cancer and she goes i don't know why i got breast cancer i was just sitting in the room with her the other day talking we were doing consultation and she says i don't have it in my
family and and i don't know why and i said well let me just go through the same things that i'm going through with you right now about things to prevent cancer and she goes "you know i am a vitamin user. i use a lot of vitamins" and she didn't know she didn't know that vitamins can actually lead to cancer that that's the point that i want to
bring up there's a recent article out there where the national institute of cancer or the american cancer society looked at 20 different studies that looked into people who regularly take vitamins and they found that people who did take regular regularly take vitamins had an increased risk for cancer which i've heard a long time ago but now its even more
substantiated and one time i remember when i wasn't in usc university southern california i brought this up during the grand rounds discussion where i presented a patient and it's part of our learning process and i said yeah certain vitamins are associated with cancer and even my chairman was like whoa i didn't i didn't know that and he was shocked too and i tell
people i try to tell people that all the time when i meet people during my consultations that don't take too much vitamins because that can lead to cancer and and time time again people are just shocked about hearing that so also the other thing is i read through these articles i found an antioxidant if you take too much antioxidants that can lead
to cancer too so moderation is huge don't take too many supplements in fact i would not even suggest taking too many vitamins or any vitamins at all just have a good balanced diet you're going to get plenty of anti-cancer substances which i recently found my yogurt and grape peel so a plant-based diet is huge void vitamins and
and antioxidants in excessive amounts so a really important part of reducing cancer is exercise. in fact they even found that if you do leisure exercise it reduces your cancer risk even if you're the same weight which is amazing and the trying to figure out why that is and but there's there's 13 cancers that are associated with a decreased risk of
cancer based on the fact that you exercise and that includes colon breast endometrial throat liver stomach kidney and leukemia are related to exercise meaning that if you increase your exercise you will have a decreased risk in those cancers and they also even showed head neck cancers rectal and bladder cancers were also decreased in
people who exercise so make sure you exercise that's going to help prevent cancer now what i also again bring up the fact of positive attitude positive attitude has definitely been shown to help in some many different factors they have shown that endorphins which are the positive hormone in your body has beneficial effects to your
white blood cells and all sorts of things and make sure white blood cells which fights off infections and cancers work better and there's a lot of studies on heart disease that have shown that people who have a positive attitude are more likely to recover from a heart attack prevent heart attacks and all sorts of things. i did a recent snapchat
on stress and holidays and they found that stress can lead to heart attacks why does it do that well lead to cortisol release which can eventually lead to the fight-or-flight response it can vasoconstrict your vessels leading to more heart strain i even discovered that stress is part of the evolutionary thing where when you get in a fight and you get
stressed and you get cut your body wants the clot to prevent blood loss so you can survive so stress induces a pro clotting state meaning that if you have to just vasoconstriction in your heart or your body more strain in your heart and you also have a more likelihood of clotting you're more likely form a clot in your heart that will be to a heart
attack so decrease your stress levels and part of that is increase your positivity watch a happy movie avoid stressful situation as much possible or learn some emotional meditation effects you know watching a comedy is important to bring more endorphins in you. you know instead of a stressful movie so watching comedies are really important
as well obviously avoiding sun is really important you know sun can lead to be these thymidine dimers in your skin cells that basically cause your dna to bind onto a different dna and that's how the the sun can lead to cancers in your skin and there's a lot of interesting facts about skin cancer that i can go into more detail but you can also write me as well
obesity is also associated with cancer you know in it on top of not having a lot of exercise apparently they've done studies in mice to show that certain mice who are obese are less likely to to put out this anti suppressing hormone called guanylin which eventually leads to epithelial changes in your colon and
rectum which is the lining of the colon and rectum so obesity by itself can lead to cancer so they also talk about certain viruses leading cancer and i've definitely learned that during med school there's certain like epstein-barr viruses that can actually lead to mutations in your cells that lead to some type of leukemia lymphoma
so getting in with immunized is really important so getting immunized for hepatitis and even human papillomavirus human papilloma virus associated with cervical cancers and also head and neck cancers in fact i know someone that has throw cancer and he believes it's from having oral sex so make sure to get vaccinated from human papillomavirus so
avoid radiation if you can if you don't have to get radiation don't do it decrease your number times you get radiation from doing dental exams as well ct scans a new study that that showed that if you get a ct scan childhood you're going to have increased an increased risk for leukemia and brain cancer if you have a ct scan and
childhood in that next decade so avoid and i here also sorts of stories oh i got these oral cancers cause i got a lot of x-ray exams you know by my dentist when i was younger so avoid radiation lastly i want to talk about avoiding environmental toxins now sometimes you can't avoid everything in your life you might as well live in a sterile
environment like that kid in the bubble but if you know this you can kind of avoid things now i had a family relative that had lung cancer and we're trying to figure out why he didn't have this in his family history but he did have paint a painting company or some paint in his in his business that eventually led to have him having
cancer so avoid avoid certain environmental toxins like asbestos benzene aromatic amines and pcbs there are poly chlorinated biphenyls now where do you find benzene benzene is found in detergents adhesive glues paints inks dyes and gasoline so make sure to avoid those things service stations are also associated with benzene so obviously you
can't avoid all those things but don't eat paint chips don't sniff glue all those things have benzene in it and can lead to cancer aromatic amines are also carcinogens and they are also found in some of the things like perfumes dyes and they find aromatic amines in grilled fish and and meats so if you do a lot of grilling that's also tends to be more
cancer-causing and again i mentioned that back earlier on that you should know you don't have to avoid bbq but just kind of cut down on too much grilling actually the part that's grilled that really dark part are carbons that are charred and those are part of the portion that can lead to cancer so if you want to reduce your carcinogens
decrease that risk of taking that charred part and polychlorinated biphenyls are found in the same things inks dyes etc in fact contaminated water evaporated contaminated water can also lead to more polychlorinated biphenyls for example the great lakes anyways thank you for watching
i i wanted to bring up cancer prevention because i talked about a lot with my patients and it definitely applies in my life and it applies and all you know everybody's lives no one wants to get cancer so i thought this was going to be really beneficial because i talked about it again with my patients all the time and i just want to do something that can
benefit people more in general because a lot of people don't know so some of these things so anyways thanks for watching and leave me a comment or email me if you go to my website you can email me it goes straight to me and i'd love to hear from you thanks we would love to have you subscribe to our youtube channel we're the beauty
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