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10/28/2025

My favourite Tip

Breast Health Challenge Tip #28:

Laugh deeply each day.

There are many physiological and psychological benefits to laughter. It strengthens your immune response, stimulates circulation, improves cardiovascular and respiratory function, reduces stress hormones, elevates pain threshold, and releases endorphins, serotonin and dopamine to enhance mental and emotional functioning.

Laughter really is good medicine! So what gets you going with a true, full-belly laugh? Jokes told by your children? A comedy skit? Goofy dogs? A funny book or movie? We'd love to hear your favourite prescriptions in the comments!

For further explanation on Tip 28, visit our blog at: http://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-28/

10/27/2025

TIP 27 OF 31 TOP TIPS to help reduce your risk of breast cancer.

Breast Health Challenge Tip #27:

Use pots and pans that are steel clad, enamelled, ceramic or cast iron. Avoid aluminum cookware and non-stick coatings. Do not consume canned food. 🚫

For further explanation on Tip 27, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-27/

10/24/2025

Tip 24 of 31

Breast Health Challenge Tip #24:

Practice dry brush massage, followed by a 3 minute cold shower. 🚿

Dry skin brushing has many health benefits, including:
•Improvement of your lymphatic circulation to help your body mobilize toxins and cleanse.
•Dead layers of skin are removed and pores go unclogged.
•Blood circulation is increased to the internal organs as well as the skin, which promotes oxygenation and healing.
•The body’s natural defences against the common cold are assisted, especially when used with the hot-cold shower technique.
•Muscle tone is assisted and fat deposits are more evenly spread.

Cold showers are also super beneficial... they promote:
•Increased oxygen absorption
•Increased carbon dioxide excretion
•Increased nitrogen absorption and excretion
•Increased tissue tone
•Increased white blood cell count and thus improved immunity
•Increased T-killer cells
•Increased phagocytic activity (toxin breakdown)
•Increased red blood cell count
•Decreased heart rate
•Heightened metabolism
•Slightly elevated cortisol and thyroid hormone

For further explanation on Tip 24, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-24/

10/21/2025

TIP 21 OF 31. PLEASE SHARE💕

Breast Health Challenge Tip #21:

Devote 10 minutes today to doing something you love. 💗

Feelings and thoughts neither cause nor cure cancer, but they do affect the health of your immune system and inform the well-being of the whole person. As you reshape your inner landscape with meaningful psychological and lifestyle changes, you can mobilize your own life force – whether dealing with a life-threatening illness, generally improving your health, or working toward a life of greater enthusiasm and zest. You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings, and can exercise choice in what you do and how you do it.

What will you do today? Choose joy!

For further explanation on Tip 21, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-21/

10/17/2025

Tip 17 of 31 Top Tips to help reduce your risk for breast cancer or its recurrence. Have you checked your breasts this month?

Breast Health Challenge Tip #17:

Practice breast self-massage or ask your partner to do it for you.

This is a great way of monitoring your breast tissue and understanding what feels normal for you (so that if anything changes, you can identify/monitor it and discuss with your doctor).

Breast self-massages also help with the movement of lymphatic fluid. The job of lymphatic fluid, or lymph, is to carry proteins, foreign particles, bacteria, viruses, and wandering cancer cells away from the fluid that bathes the body’s cells. However, lymph depends on our physical movements to pump it through our bodies, keeping things flowing and preventing blockages (i.e. swollen lymph nodes). When we exercise and/or perform a breast massage, we can support our lymphatic system in this way!

For further explanation on Tip 17, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-17/

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10/16/2025

Tip 16 of 31 Take a break.

Breast Health Challenge Tip #16:

Take a relaxation break every 2½ hours throughout the day for 3-20 minutes to help alleviate stress. 💛

Many women find themselves diagnosed with breast cancer after a long period of stress. Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system and can cause prolonged elevation in the adrenal stress hormone known as cortisol, as well as the hormone insulin. Stress impairs the function of the immune system, and activates molecules called cytokines that can increase inflammation. These physiological changes make us more vulnerable to cancer.

Meditate, curl up with a book, take a power nap, create or listen to music, do some yoga, make a nice meal for yourself, invite in opportunity for play, have a bath, spend some time in the forest. Be creative! Find what nourishes and nurtures you best!

For further explanation on Tip 16, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-tip-16/

10/15/2025

Tip 15 of 31

Breast Health Challenge Tip #15:

Remove outdoor shoes each time you enter your home, to reduce indoor pollutants. 🥾

Have you ever wondered what you might be tracking into your home on the bottoms of your shoes? Think about it. Outdoor pollutants (including pesticides and toxic metals, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, lead and arsenic, plastics and radioactive particles) can migrate inside on the bottoms of your shoes, from contaminated dust and soil, or from the wind.

For further explanation on Tip 15, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-15/

10/14/2025

Tip 14 of 31 top tips to help reduce your risk for breast cancer or its recurrence.

Breast Health Challenge Tip #14:

Pray, meditate or practice slow deep breathing exercises for at least 11 minutes before bed to increase melatonin levels.

In addition to being a powerful antioxidant, one of the functions of the hormone melatonin is to regulate cell division and multiplication. When the pineal gland is not functioning properly and melatonin levels are low, there will be increased cell division and multiplication and a greater likelihood of cancer. Often the lower the melatonin, the more advanced the cancer.

We can help to prevent breast cancer by keeping our melatonin levels high through an evening meditation practice. When we develop and practice a slow, meditative breath, night-time melatonin levels increase as the pineal gland responds with renewed vigour.

For a guided Kundalini Yoga meditation, plus further explanation on Tip 14, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-14/

10/13/2025

After a weekend of potential excess, with Canadian Thanksgiving, let's get back to the basics with Tip 13 of 31.

Breast Health Challenge Tip #13:

Eat 8 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. One serving = 1 cup of salad or 1/2 cup steamed vegetables or 1 whole fruit. 🍎🥑🫐

Feel free to share some of your favourite fruit/veggie-powered recipes in the comments!

For further explanation on Tip 13, visit our blog at: https://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-13/

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10/12/2025

Tip 12 of 31 top tips to reduce your risk for breast cancer..Did you know that here at Hand to Heart Being we offer Far Infrared Sauna sessions to help you detox from life?

10/11/2025

A few suggestions for pre and post Thanksgiving cleaning.

Breast Health Challenge Tip #11:

Replace chlorine-based cleaning products with non-toxic alternatives, such as baking soda and vinegar to clean either your sink, toilet, fridge, stove, floors and/or counters.

For further explanation on Tip 11, visit our blog at: http://mammalivefoundation.org/breast-health-challenge-tip-11/

Share far and wide with your community of mothers, daughters, and sisters. Don't forget to post with and so we can track how far around the globe it travels!