Why Does the Middle East Have the Lowest Cancer Rates in the World?

 Why Does the Middle East Have the Lowest Cancer Rates in the world?

Why do people in the middle east have some of the lowest rates of cancer if we compare this to the entire world?   What's conflicting about this?

Information is that they have a very low cancer rate but a very high consumption of sugar rate, and we know that sugar feeds cancer. 

So the question is how are they actually getting lower rates of cancer despite consuming so much sugar?

In fact, the middle east consumes more sugar than pretty much any other part of the world,  they have a lot of diabetes and they have obesity and they have other issues but cancer is on the low side.

If we take the average of how many people get cancer in the entire world, it's 198 people out of every 100 000 people who get cancer.

If we take a look at individual parts of the middle east we note that : 

In Saudi Arabia, 96 people get cancer out of 100 000.

Yemen has 97 people out of 100 000.

Oman 104, Qatar 107. UAE it's 107 and Kuwait is 116 people out of 100 000 people who get cancer.

If you live in these countries you have a much less risk of getting cancer to let's compare this with :

Australia: 468 people out of 100 000 get cancer they get first place in getting cancer. 

Number two Ireland is 374 people out of 100 000 people. The next one is Hungary 368 people out of 100 000 and then in the United States, 352 people out of 100 0000 people develop cancer.

So what is so unique about the Middle east?

• Fasting Ramadan. 

Ramadan is a religious fast that extends over the course of one month, just one month of the entire year. They're fasting right before sunrise to sunset, so they're usually eating before that and eating after that. 

So Ramadan is considered a type of intermittent fasting only for one month and produces a tremendous decrease in rates of getting cancer.

So why does fasting help with preventing cancer?

It starves cancer, there are between 10 and 50 times more insulin receptors in a cancer cell versus a normal cell.

What does that mean?

1. That means that cancer cells have a very avid or greedy hunger for glucose, because they have more receptors to eat glucose, so they diagnose cancer through a pet scan that identifies areas in the body that have a very high metabolism of sugar. So cancer loves sugar and when you're fasting you're not consuming sugar.                                                                                            
2. Number two autophagy:  Fasting stimulates autophagy which is a condition that helps to recycle old damaged proteins it helps to recycle old damaged things like damaged mitochondria and if we look at what cancer really is, it's damage to your mitochondria. The mitochondria then adapt their metabolic system to a different way of dealing with the energy for immense glucose. when you fast you kick in this autophagy and you're recycling damaged mitochondria which are going to decrease your risk for cancer.                           
3. The third thing about fasting is that when you fast you generate new immune cells that strengthen your immune system. Your immune system becomes stronger. You generate more killer cells that directly kill cancer cells and viruses, and you also stimulate more helper cells which indirectly help reduce cancer.                                                                     
4. Fasting is one of the best things to get rid of inflammation. Cancer tends to spread and migrate into areas of inflammation. So fasting is one of the most potent anti-inflammatories so it's going to reduce the risk of cancer being spread, also when you fast you increase the antioxidant networks of the body so these things that actually protect you against free radicals free radical damage like in the mitochondria are improved or enhanced when you fast so that's going to decrease the risk of getting cancer right off the bat. 

Fasting is one of the oldest therapies, even Hippocrates mentioned fasting quite extensively and he had an interesting quote: "to eat when sick is to feed the illness, so when you're ill you don't want to eat very frequently".

• The spices that people eat in the middle east :

Turmeric is loaded with anti-cancer properties and it's one of the best things to get rid of inflammation. 

Saffron has a certain phytonutrient that's very very anti-cancer. Cardamom anti-cancer properties, Nutmeg, Caraway, Cinnamon, and Coriander all have anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties plus on top of that certain foods that have additional anti-cancer properties: Black Seeds, Olive Oil, Sesame Seeds, and Dates. 

We don't recommend consuming dates if you're trying to lose weight or if you're doing the ketogenic diet but there are certain phytonutrients in dates that have anti-cancer properties. 

• Low tobacco usage for women in the middle east :

20% of the population in the world smokes, that's one out of every five people, yet if we look at women in the middle east in Iraq it's 3%, Yemen it's 9% compared to 20% worldwide and then we have Kuwait which is only 3%, Saudi Arabia2%. The UAE 0.8% of the entire female population in the UAE smokes that's very very insignificant compared to the worldwide average, and then we get Oman 0.7%.

It's an insignificant amount of women in that area of the world.

If we compare that to women in Chile, it's 40% that's more than two times the world average, and then Serbia is 41%, so smoking is definitely linked to cancer.

The risk of getting cancer if you smoke or chew tobacco is 22 times the risk compared to people that do not smoke or chew tobacco. 

25 of all cancers out there are caused by either smoking or chewing tobacco and there are 5 000 different chemicals in tobacco and 70 of them have a direct link to cancer just as a side note vaping also is linked to cancer of the colon of the lung because of the nicotine and other chemicals.

• Alcohol is prohibited in most areas of the middle east drinking :

Alcohol increases the risk of six different types of cancer. If you drink alcohol you're more at risk of getting cancer of the liver and also in the oral pharyngeal area which is the area in the back of the throat and also includes the back of the tongue and the upper roof of the mouth.

People in the middle east have the lowest rate of getting cancer in this area of the body. The areas of the world that have the highest risk of getting this cancer are western Europe northern Europe and North America.

The question is they're doing all these spices, they're fasting, they're not smoking as much and they're not drinking alcohol as much then why aren't these numbers even lower?

It's probably because they consume more sugar than any other area of the world, as well as more high fructose corn syrup, and cancer love sugar, it could also be linked to the obesity situation over 30 percent of the population is obese, and there's more risk of getting cancer if you're obese.

Also, they have very low vitamin D levels. In fact, 80% of the population is low in vitamin D, and vitamin D is very important in protecting someone against cancer and reducing the risk. And it just so happens that when you consume that much sugar you're going to also deplete vitamin D, and vitamin D is essential in keeping your immune system.

if you do live in the middle east what you should be doing is taking more vitamin D on a regular basis. Now that you know why the middle east has lower rates of getting cancer the next question is how can you potentially lower this even further.