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>>>DR. DAVID A. MARGILETH: On multiple occasions, I have shared with you the importance of exercise,
not only before but during and after the treatment for breast cancer. And so I am often asked
by my patients, “Gee Dr. Harness, do you have any suggestions about how I go about
exercise and what’s the proper approach? I don’t want to hurt myself in the process.”
Well clearly, depending on what stage you are at in the treatment of your breast cancer,
you need to be working with your breast cancer specialist, perhaps with people in the physical
medicine department at the hospital that you are working with, etc. So you do need guidance
locally. But I want to offer a link here at BreastCancerAnswers.com of a program that
I have had the opportunity to review from a very credible source that I’d like to
recommend and will provide the link to this doctor’s site that gives you a really lovely
overview of how to approach exercise, how to sustain exercise, and how much exercise
you should be doing. I am pleased to provide a link to Dr. Moshe Frenkel. He is an MD.
He is a board-certified family physician who actually founded the first integrative medicine
clinic at the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. He has recently returned, as I understand,
back to Israel but he has granted BreastCancerAnswers.com permission to link to his overview. Now,
I have got the overview here and I don’t want to go through it in great detail but
I just want to sort of highlight it a little bit. Number one recommendation is that you
choose something that you enjoy. How about dancing? How about walking? How about getting
outdoors? What is it that you like? The pure movement and doing it on a sustained basis
is what’s really important. Next step is to start slow, particularly if you are
recovering from your surgery or just getting over your chemotherapy, or you are just getting
over your radiation therapy, you want to start slow. The hard part is keeping it going. One
of the things in talking to exercise coaches through the years, I think an important factor
here is to work with somebody. Create a body of power, somebody like this to work with
you and help you and keep you going because hey, let’s face it, we all want to stop
at times, no matter how committed we are to exercise, but the bottom line is start slow.
Break it up and do fun things, but remember you are not going to do this on a sustained
basis. Think of your activities and monitor them in some way. Probably a good analogy
here is like climbing a mountain. You are not going to climb into the top of the mountain
in one day. You are going to lay out steps along the way. Also, figure out ways how
to reward yourself as you are making progress along a sustainable life-changing health exercise
program for you. And also, don’t beat yourself up if you miss a couple of sessions for whatever
the reasons. And then, of course, the bottom line out of this is ‘Gee, how long should
I exercise for?’ So on this wonderful outline, the link that we have given you, Dr. Frenkel
has got guidelines about, as an example, walking. Try and find that average pace of about 3
point miles per hour and during an average week, try and get in 150 minutes. And then
going down jogging and swimming and dancing. He goes through all of these different kinds
of fun exercises and gives you some guidelines. So, here I think is a good link to something.
I have reviewed it. It’s coming from a very credible source. As one of the famous companies
says – ‘Just do it’. Hi, I am Dr. Jay Harness and I want to share
with you important information that I believe that every newly diagnosed patient with breast
cancer needs to know.
I am a breast cancer survivor.
I am a breast cancer survivor.
I am a breast cancer survivor and I want every woman to know about personal life, breast
cancer treatment and the genomic test – a test that helps guide a woman and her doctor
to the best treatment options for her.
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