The doctor explainsIf you sleep at least seven hours a day, you can prevent cancer, writes the Sözcü building. Ayşegül Chorukhlu, a specialist in biochemistry and anti-aging medicine, spoke about this in more detail.Discuss
More and more people around the world face cancer every year. Cancer can occur for a variety of reasons. Including due to poor quality sleep.
According to Dr. Ayşegul Corukhlu, healthy sleep is very important. A person's DNA, even if they don't have cancer, gets damaged all the time. Recovery of the body occurs mainly at night. The sleep hormone melatonin helps in this. It makes cancer cells work just like healthy ones.
Sometimes infected cells function at night in much the same way as healthy ones. Most often this happens with solid tumors: for example, with breast cancer. It turns out that such cells, as it were, work “in a part-time mode.” But why is this even happening? Why do these cells behave differently at night? As the expert emphasizes, it's all about sleep.
Even though melatonin is important for nighttime sleep, the production of this hormone is signaled in the morning. To do this, the body must produce serotonin, which at night becomes melatonin. In order for serotonin to be produced, a person must wake up in the morning with the sun's rays. And you need to contact them directly, and not through the glass. And the sooner this happens, the more chances for the formation of melatonin.
The raw material for melatonin is tryptophan. It can be found in turkey, bananas, dark chocolate, cocoa.
Any bright light can interfere with the production of melatonin. For example, from gadget screens. For example, if you woke up at night and looked at the display, then the level of melatonin in your body will then decrease by 40 percent. Also, with aging, the production of this hormone decreases.
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