What about the poor class, working all day in bright sunny days?

Or maybe it’s related with so called healthy diet (of rich people)?

What if I (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed) tell you that soaking up some sunlight is incredibly essential for your health, and actually protects you from 16 different cancers.

Surprisingly, the sun can in fact lower your risk of developing cancers like prostate, colon, ovarian, lung, pancreatic, and (as recent studies have shown) breast cancer.

Ingestion of contaminated pork by malnourished youngsters who normally take protein-deficient vegetarian food regimen causes elaboration of beta-enterotoxin.

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Breast Cancer

The main reason is that UVB rays from the sun produce vitamin D, and evidence links vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk of breast cancer.

In a 2008 case-control study published in the journal Carcinogenesis, researchers found that post-menopausal women with low vitamin D in the blood had an increased risk of breast cancer.

The study observed breast cancer patients between the ages of 50 and 74. In total, 1,394 cases and 1,365 controls were used in the study. Another case-control study from 2014 suggested that less than an hour of sunlight daily could reduce breast cancer risk.

How Sunlight Breast Cancer Killer works?

As we know there is an anti-cancer link between vitamin D and breast cancer, but how?

The sunlight-induced vitamin D is thought to reduce the reproduction and spread of cancer cells, and increase the occurrence of mutated cell self-eradication.

Vitamin D has to be converted into 1, 25-dihydroxycholecalciferol in the liver and kidney in the presence of PTH. The 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol is the active product.

There are various forms of vitamin D. But, the most important one is vitamin D3 (also known as cholecalciferol).
Vitamin D3 is synthesized in the skin from 7-dehydrocholesterol, by the action of ultraviolet rays from the sunlight.

Activation of vitamin D3 occurs in two steps:

First step:-
Cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) is converted into 25- hydroxycholecalciferol in the liver. This process is limited. and is inhibited by 25-hydroxycholecalciferol itself by feedback mechanism.
This inhibition is essential for two reasons:
i. Regulation of the amount of active vitamin D .
ii. Storage of vitamin D for months together. If vitamin D3 is converted into 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, it remains in the body only for 2 to 5 days. But vitamin D3 is stored in liver for several months.
Second step:-
25-hydroxycholecalciferol is converted into 1,25- dihydroxycholecalciferol (calcitriol) in kidney. It is the active form of vitamin D3. This step needs the presence of PTH.

Role of Calcium Ion in Regulating 1, 25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol:-
When blood calcium level increases, it inhibits the formation of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol.
The mechanism involved in the inhibition of the formation of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol is as follows:
1. Increase in calcium ion concentration directly suppresses the conversion of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol into 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol. This effect is very mild
2. Increase in calcium ion concentration decreases the PTH secretion, which in turn suppresses the conversion of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol into 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol. This regulates the calcium ion concentration of plasma itself indirectly, i.e. when the PTH synthesis is inhibited, the conversion of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol into 1,25-hydroxycholecalciferol is also inhibited. Lack of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, decreases the absorption of calcium ions from the intestine, from the bones and from the renal tubules as well. This makes the calcium level in the plasma to fall back to normal.
Actions of 1, 25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol:-
1. It increases the absorption of calcium from the intestine, by increasing the formation of calcium binding proteins in the intestinal epithelial cells. These proteins act as carrier proteins for facilitated diffusion, by which the calcium ions are transported. The proteins remain in the cells for several weeks after 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol has been removed from the body, thus causing a prolonged effect on calcium absorption
2. It increases the synthesis of calcium-induced ATPase in the intestinal epithelium
3. It increases the synthesis of alkaline phosphatase in the intestinal epithelium
4. It increases the absorption of phosphate from intestine along with calcium.

A new study published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last year found that vitamin D compounds suppress the breast cancer stem cell population, which may inhibit breast cancer growth.

Basically, radiation and chemotherapy do not shrink the tumor or kill the colony; the cancer stem cells remains but now more violent, which can cause an aggressive cancer recurrence in the near future. The chemotherapy and radiation pretty much just make the cancer stem cells angry.

The breast tissue abnormality ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) was once considered cancerous, but is now believed to be benign. DCIS may also progress to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), which is a more serious breast cancer risk, though it may not develop into breast cancer.

Conventional therapy “radiotherapy, chemotherapy, lumpectomies, and mastectomies for DCIS and IDC cases” do not works but aggravate the disease.

However, the aforementioned study found that the vitamin D3 compound BXL0124 normalized the mammosphere cell culture system (in Homeopathy there are lot of cases cured by Calcarea Carbonica), which included non-stem cell breast cells and breast cancer stem cells.

Vitamin D compounds also repressed cancer stem cell properties, the pluripotency markers OCT4 and KLF-4, and the cell markers CD44, CD49f, pNFkB, and c-Notch1. Simply put, vitamin D3 gives cancer stem cells a run for their money.

Other Ways to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

Vitamin D3 may be a safe and effective alternative or complementary treatment to conventional breast cancer therapy. It is also considered a cost-effective preventative therapy against the recurrence of breast cancer.

Decreased dietary intake and/or absorption, certain malabsorption syndromes such as celiac disease, short bowel syndrome, gastric bypass, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic pancreatic insufficiency, and cystic fibrosis may lead to vitamin D deficiency. Lower vitamin D intake orally is more prevalent in the elderly population.

About 50% to 90% of vitamin D is absorbed through the skin via sunlight while the rest comes from the diet.

Twenty minutes of sunshine daily with over 40% of skin exposed is required to prevent vitamin D deficiency.

Cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D declines with aging. Dark-skinned people have less cutaneous vitamin D synthesis.

Decreased exposure to the sun as seen in individuals who are institutionalized, or have prolonged hospitalizations can also lead to vitamin D deficiency.

Effective sun exposure is decreased in individuals who use sunscreens consistently.

Individuals with chronic liver disease such as cirrhosis, hyperparathyroidism, renal failure and 1-alpha hydroxylase deficiency.

Increased hepatic catabolism.

Many allopathic medications such as phenobarbital, carbamazepine, dexamethasone, nifedipine, spironolactone, clotrimazole, and rifampicin induce hepatic p450 enzymes which activate degradation of vitamin D.6

Vitamin D3 supplementation ranges between $10.00 and $20.00, but the sunlight is free and readily available.

What are other possible breast cancer prevention methods?

Selenium and melatonin supplementation may exhibit anti-cancer effects. It is also wise to increase dietary factors, such as fiber, antioxidants, and omega-3 fatty acids (remember Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin), as part of a comprehensive breast cancer treatment plan.

Homoeopathy works by initiating the body’s inherent reaction, which then encourages the body to heal itself. The weak and brittle bones prone to fracture due to demineralization can be effectively strengthened with homoeopathic medicines.

There are many medicines like Alumina, Calcarea carb, Calcarea phos, Iodium, Phosphorous, Silicea, Rhus Tox, Arnica, Acid fluor, Symphytum, Sepia, Mezereum. Kali group of salts etc. to set right the imbalance in metabolism. Also, they can boost up immunity levels.