MOVE Challenge Week 4: Movement and Breast Cancer

HI Byte Wellness Fam!

How are you?

Can you believe these are the last few days of our 1-min MOVE Challenge?!

Great work!

If you’re one of the folks participating in the MOVE Challenge: keep it up.

**If you haven’t started yet, it’s not too late! You can text MOVE to 1(224)302-6224 during the challenge to follow along live with daily text message movement reminders and our last virtual workshop.

Or, sometime after October 2022, text that keyword to start the challenge on your own. **

Check the recording of our last MOVE Challenge workshop from this month:

In case you needed any extra reasons to keep moving after the challenge ends this month, check this: did you know that regular physical activity could lower our risk of developing breast cancer?

(You knew we had to spend some time talking about Breast Cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month).

There are at least 2 important connections between movement, us, and breast cancer

Can Frequent Movement Help Prevent Breast Cancer?

One study of over 95,000 post-menopausal women followed their physical activity levels and breast cancer status for 20 years. These researchers found that even 1 hour daily of brisk walking was linked to 10% lower chances of developing breast cancer of all types.

Can Frequent Movement Improve Breast Cancer Survival and Keep Breast Cancer from Coming Back?

One recent found that women who exercised more were around half as likely to be re-diagnosed with breast cancer after they had “beaten” an earlier diagnosis diagnosis.

These researchers examined more than one thousand women in the U.S. who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, then been determined in remission after having surgery/ and/or chemo/radiation.

Studies connect exercise to improved survival in metastatic breast cancer in a dose-dependent fashion.

More frequent and higher-intensity exercise was tied to lower risk of death following diagnosis with metastatic breast cancer that was HER2-positive.

Moral of the story? We don’t necessarily have to become gym rats to reduce our chances of developing breast cancer and to increase our chances of surviving a diagnosis. But, we do have to MOVE on a daily basis.

Don’t forget to think through the discussion questions this week.