Surroundings that deliver copious chemicals and persistent stress - from the body's perspective, promote telomere lentghening. Since telomeres dictate the number of times a cell reproduces that leaves sick, cancerous, cells reproducing indefinitely. Exploiting the surroundings to reduce chemicals and stress reduces the body burden and encourages its defences to keep the telomeres short and cellular reproduction under control.
What can I do?
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Spend the hour before bed on low light, low noise, low demand activities
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Unplug electrical equipment and turn off wireless equipment before bed
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Keep the bedroom dark until morning - using red light where necessary
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Avoid penetrating chemicals in personal care products and sleepwear
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Eliminate noise entry and transfer between hard surfaces
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Recommended Reading - Books
The Sleep-Powered Wellness Workbook: Better Bedrooms for Better Sleep, by Angela Hobbs
Hobbs guides the reader through the 24 hour hormone rhythm revealing the many ways that a person's surroundings can be used to support it. A workbook packed with simple, inexpensive suggestions for making the bedroom more conducive to sleep.
Sleep-Powered Wellness: Better Bedrooms for Turbocharged Zzzz's, by Angela Hobbs
Hobbs discusses the impact that noise, wireless, light, electricity, chemicals and air pollutants can have on the hormones responsible for sleep and alertness.
The Definitive Guide to Prostate Cancer: Everything You Need to Know about Conventional and Integrative Therapies by Aaron E. Katz
Katz describes many of the things a patient can do to reduce the progression and recurrence of prostate cancer
Recommended Watching - Research TV
Exploring the use of Chinese Mint to stem the blood flow to canerous tumours