DOCS TALK SHOP

29. Your Birth Year, Latitude, and Bedtime? Weird Cancer Risks No One Talks About.


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In this episode, we uncover the strange fact that 11-year solar cycles shape your health, including your risk of cancer and autoimmune diseases. 

I'll admit this sounds like astrology. Or science fiction. 

It isn't.

Statistics show that the number of sunspots during the year you were born  shortens your lifespan, on average, by more than a decade. 

And sunlight affects us in other strange ways. You may also be surprised to learn that living on the far western side of your time zone, or simply eating supper 8 PM compared to 6 PM, is associated with an increased risk of cancer.

This episode also covers

  • why your cancer risk rises as you live farther from the equator (it's not all vitamin D)
  • how changing your bedtime each night--by less than an hour!--quietly raises your risk of early death
  • why your hospital room window determines how fast you heal

You’ll hear surprising data, real patient stories, and practical takeaways you can implement tonight. 

Want even more? Find out how muscle size correlates with brain size. (Yep.)

And if you want your exercise to actually build muscle, Dr. Gordon tells you the best time of day to get moving.

Dawn Lemanne, MD
Oregon Integrative Oncology
Leave no stone unturned.

Deborah Gordon, MD
Northwest Wellness and Memory Center
Building Healthy Brains

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