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Hi, I'm Melissa Goodman, holistic nutritionist, and welcome to the Ever Forward Radio.

39% of U.S. men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.

I'm jumping here, but 39%, to me, that's not

that far from half. So almost half of men and women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer

in their lifetime. Why? Well, I think there's a lot of reasons. I mean, I think that stress,

number one, we live in a fight or flight mode.

And when you live in a fight or flight mode, your immune system is compromised consistently

because you're constantly pumping out adrenaline and cortisol. And that's when, you know,

you're just, you can't digest your food. Your digestion shuts down. You know, you're not

going to be sleeping that well because of the cortisol levels. You're just like toxins in the food, toxins in the food. You know, you're not going to be sleeping that well because of

the cortisol levels. You're just like toxins in the food, toxins in the water, in the air.

I mean, there's just like the toxic load is really enormous. I think that we're, you know,

like getting viral issues and bacteria and like fungus in our systems that are like taking over.

We're getting heavy metals that we don't test for usually.

And the mold, you know, you talked about a little bit earlier.

I mean, there's so much that we're fighting off that our body every day can't fight it off as well.

And I just think we're not eating as healthy too. We're not

eating real food. We're eating packaged processed food. So we're not drinking enough water. We're not hydrated.

We're not drinking really high quality water. We're not drinking. We don't have minerals in our

water to be able to absorb the water. So we're really hydrated as well. I just think we're not

sleeping enough. I mean think we're not sleeping

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